In the news today: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is instituting new policies that will seek jail time only for the most serious offenses. That's consistent with research showing that incarceration for minor crimes is both expensive and ineffective—but the city's police commissioner is furious. A lawsuit accuses Facebook of abetting a murderous insurrectionist group with algorithms that effectively work as recruitment tools for those groups.
New CDC director Rochelle Walensky caused outrage in a television interview in which she called it "encouraging news" that the "overwhelming" number of omicron deaths were in people who were "unwell to begin with." Disability activists slammed Walensky for the statement, which appeared to brush off the high pandemic risks being faced by disabled Americans.
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New CDC director Rochelle Walensky caused outrage in a television interview in which she called it "encouraging news" that the "overwhelming" number of omicron deaths were in people who were "unwell to begin with." Disability activists slammed Walensky for the statement, which appeared to brush off the high pandemic risks being faced by disabled Americans.
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