Five Quick Links for Monday Noonish

An Incomplete History of White Election Violence. "No, my friends, America is not 'better than this.'" [theroot.com]

An analysis of how police misconduct complaints are handled in Philadelphia. "Not only are the investigation and findings processes more dismissive toward Black complainants, they are more punitive toward Black officers." [pudding.cool]

Great interview with Zeynep Tufekci about her remarkable run of articles and analysis about the pandemic (specifically about masks, aerosols/ventilation, and dispersion/k value). [medscape.com]

Howard Hughes Medical Institute has paid a six-figure sum to the Henrietta Lacks Foundation intended as reparations for the continuing experimental use of cells that were taken from Lacks without her permission. [nature.com]

Because people vote (not land), most election maps are very misleading. (We talk about this every four years and yet the media keeps on using these deceptive maps.) [nytimes.com]

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