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A very interesting article arguing that it was not in fact the atomic bombs that caused Japan's surrender.  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Interesting argument indeed.

However, surely some research must have been done back in the day on the thinking of those in power in Japan?

Assuming the author's opinion is correct, did every single one of those involved toe the line and, forever more, falsely promote the decisiveness of the atomic bombings?

Has there been any revisionism in Japan?

I don't know the answer to any of these questions.  I had always thought the second bombing was sheer malevolence, given that the Japanese surely would have surrendered just to avoid a second bombing.  But not if this author is correct.   

A very interesting article arguing that it was not in fact the atomic bombs that caused Japan's surrender.  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I'd imagine the white privilege point is that one privilege white people have is to call the police to come to their home without worrying that the arriving cops might think the resident is  the intruder.

Yeah. That post you just quoted has done it for me.

[Prosecutors appealed the ruling twice, calling the two a danger to the community. A federal appeals court sent them back to jail on Friday]

OK, fine.

After Mr. Mattis and Ms. Rahman spent more than two days in jail, a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn released them each on $250,000 bond to home confinement with GPS monitoring, describing the allegations as "one night of behavior."

Prosecutors appealed the ruling twice, calling the two a danger to the community. A federal appeals court sent them back to jail on Friday, pending the outcome of their bail appeal.

This just gets funnier.  You're complaining about articles not being in the Times, then complaining about specific paragraphs not being in the articles that, it turns out, are in the Times, all the while not actually having access to the part of the Times site behind paywalls.

You're right, a national newspaper has only dedicated two full articles about a story that wouldn't even be newsworthy if the two individuals weren't lawyers. Two full articles, on separate days , while a global pandemic, and a domestic crisis rage. What absolute bias to not devote every single day to a minor sub plot.

Finally, Republican claims of US voting fraud established...

Chauvin illegally voting in Florida.

https://twitter.com/TooMuchMe/status/1268986246338134016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1268986246338134016&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultimateknicks.com%2Fforum%2Ftopic.asp%3Ft%3D60000%26page%3Dlu%23newunreadpost

Might work too if they just get rid of the racist murderers and their enablers.

Not likely of course, but here's an interesting article on a city that did just that (and then started a smaller less aggressive police force).  https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/what-happened-to-crime-in-camden/549542/

Wow!

Camden used to be notorious, a basic no-go area 15 years ago. If what the article says is true, it does offer promise.

I see a reference in there to DeBlasio and the ending of stop-and-frisk. Come to think of it, there hasn't been much word of that lately at all, after all the doomsday predictions up until a year or two ago. It was resurrected for a few weeks last Christmas after a young female student was killed by young black teenagers outside Columbia University in a robbery gone wrong, but little since.

Yeah, between that and the budget cuts to LAPD, there might be hope of rethinking policing.

Not likely of course, but here's an interesting article on a city that did just that (and then started a smaller less aggressive police force).  https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/what-happened-to-crime-in-camden/549542/

Bad idea to alienate your base.

White House bricks story, um, constructed..

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/04/white-house-forced-retract-claim-viral-videos-prove-antifa-plotting-violence/

What does it mean to fantasize about a small group of people starting over after a natural disaster mean?   Does watching a disaster movie count? 

Trump would just pardon him anyway.