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Mike Bennett

@mrhonorama.bsky.social

Lawyer (State Appellate Defender), CHIRP Radio DJ (Sat. 9AM-Noon CDT at https://chirpradio.org), music & sports geek, politically aware, aging jock. http://habloennui.blogspot.com/

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Mike Bennett@mrhonorama.bsky.social · 2d ago

Alex Eala with the third set bagel to upset Jessica Pegula in DC and win her first WTA title! Eala now has the ranking points to move into the Top 20 for the first time. She's one of the biggest stories in tennis for two years running.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d ago

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

Community Engagement and Public Safety: Evidence from Crime Enforcement Targeting Immigrantst By FELIPE GONÇALVES, ELISA JÁCOME, AND EMILY WEISBURST* We study the role of victim reporting in the production of public safety. We examine the Secure Communities program, a crime-reduction policy that involved police in detecting unauthorized immigrants and increased deportation fears in immigrant communities. We find that the policy reduced the likelihood that Hispanic victims report crimes to police and increased offending against Hispanics. The number of reported crimes is unchanged, masking these opposing effects. We show that reduced reporting drives the offending increase and provide the first elasticity of offending to victim reporting in the liter-ature, calculating that a 10 percent decline in reporting increases offending by 7.9 percent. (JEL J15, K37, K42)
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 4d ago

Cheryl Reeve offers thoughtful reaction to WNBA anti-trans rallies: ‘Do they understand actually what the real problems are?’

The Indiana Fever are in the midst of a road trip, and the WNBA team has been attracting a certain group of followers wherever they go. Following Sophie Cunningham’s comments that she wants to protect “young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men,” a small group of supporters against transgender participation…

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Mike Bennett@mrhonorama.bsky.social · 6d ago

One advantage of the white-and-orange WNBA ball: When the Sky's Carrington stripped a Sun player, you could see the rotation on the ball that was consistent with an all-ball steal (and confirmed on replay).

Mike Bennett@mrhonorama.bsky.social · 7d ago

Just got word that Skylar, who is at a fine arts camp in Michigan (started last Wednesday, we take them home on Sunday) has a low-grade fever. I'm just so bummed out about that. Sky is there for musical theater, which is their primary passion.

Mike Bennett@mrhonorama.bsky.social · last wk.

This is clearly theatrics because no serious person could support a would-be lead prosecutor who would enter into a deal granting permanent immunity from the investigation into criminal activity.

Nicole LaFond@nicolelafond.bsky.social · last wk.

Cornyn has remained unconvinced, demanding that changes be made to the settlement agreement in writing in order to secure his vote. But Republican senators’ “undecided” theatrics are often little more than that — and even supposedly ardent demands from Cornyn have appeared flexible:

Eric Fell@ericfell.com · 2w ago

The post-credits scene of EBENEZER reveals the "what day is it" boy to be Oliver Twist, launching Phase 1 of the Dickensverse.

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m hard pressed to come up with any single thing that has been studied as much as vaccines & autism (vaxx safety in general), or as debunked as a link between vaccines & autism. But even more striking is how these people clearly think autism is worse than your child getting a disease or even dying

Alicia Ault@aliciaault.bsky.social · 2w ago

CDC has updated its vaccine safety pages. Now says: "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." Whoa #EpiSky #pediatrics #NeuroSky #PsychSky