\n\tAs 2015 Sees A Record Number Of Documented Transgender Murders, A Glimmer Of Hope <\/span><\/strong>
http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2015\/11\/20\/3724165\/trans-day-of-remembrance-police-reporting\/<\/a><\/p>\n Sure wish we had better data on hate crimes—do you think there a glimmer of hope though?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n How did I miss it when demographers raised the top for their definition of middle class?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Pew used what I knew and now the twilight zone and<\/span>:<\/p>\n Hillary Clinton's Strange Definition of "Middle Class"<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/11\/hillary-clinton-middle-class<\/a><\/p>\n What world is she in if not ours?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since we’re taking mega-moolah, how about this type of making money:<\/span><\/span> How Prison Reform Could Turn the Prison-Industrial Complex Into the Treatment-Industrial Complex<\/strong><\/span> http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/how-prison-reform-could-turn-the-prison-industrial-complex-into-the-treatment-industrial-complex\/<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n Would this be an improvement if it happens?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I find I learn from hearing things from different perspectives so I share a comedian who is probably new to you:<\/span><\/span> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=httoVsQYiAo<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes I think my muse, my inspiration has vanished…yet somehow tidbits emerge which I hope will inspire you to commentary. I just finished with being disconnected since the modem Comcast provided me could not handle software they rolled out just as I was cross posting yesterday's post to Care2 so am trying hard to catch […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Middle](\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/files\/2014\/12\/FT_14.12.16_middleIncome.png\")
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\n\tThe private prison industry is exploiting prison reform efforts by shifting from brick-and-mortar carceral facilities to outsourced social services.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n\t“Azhar Usman performs polished standup at the Muslim Funny Fest 2015 at Comic Strip Live in NYC. Tackling a hacky premise–Muslims in airports–he manages to make it fresh and insightful.”<\/p>\n