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Links 7/5/15

Posted on the 07 May 2015 by Cathy Leaves @cathyleaves
Politics: 
The Onion summarizes
Hillary Clinton is talking about race and justice and addresses incarceration rates:  "It’s time to change the era of mass incarceration. We don’t want to create another incarceration generation." - and the New York Reviews of Books about the silence of Judges when it comes to the issue of mass incarceration.
Bookforum with a selection of links about the situation in Baltimore and Ta-Nehisi Coates about growing up there.  
Bernie Sanders is running for President, as are very many Republicans.
The different targets and goals of ISIS and Al Quaeda.
An art project featuring Laura Poitras, Ai Weiwei and Jacob Appelbaum.
The Intercept on the NSA's capabilities of text-to-speech conversion when listening in on phone calls - creating searchable documents of all phone calls. 
Pop Culture: 
A beautiful essay about how Virginia Woolf's tribute to her mother in To the Lighthouse

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