Highly recommended. Includes an account of his death: found unresponsive and tinged blue, hanging from a bedsheet; an alarm was hit which included radio calls, there was an attempt at CPR and an hour later he was pronounced dead.  Pulls together multiple sources and a chronology of facts; very detailed on the suicide watch, the reasons he was removed from the same, and the reason he wasn't checked at the time of the hanging.

There are better ways of doing social justice work.

Guest op-ed by Loretta Ross @ NYTimes.com, Aug. 17 Ms. Ross, an expert on women’s issues, racism and human rights, is a founder of the reproductive justice theory.

[...] Recently, someone lied about me on social media and I decided not to reply. “Never wrestle with a pig,” as George Bernard Shaw said. “You both get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” And one of the best ways to make a point is to ignore someone begging for attention. Thanks, Michelle Obama, for this timely lesson; most people who read her book “Becoming” probably missed that she subtly threw shade this way.

by Rachel Siegel, Abha Bhattarai & Heather Long @ WashingtonPost.com/Business, Aug. 17

American consumers are increasingly propping up the global economy, an enduring source of strength that is helping keep the United States out of recession and drawing a sharp contrast with the rest of the world.

But as a number of signs point to a possible downturn in the United States, economists are growing more skeptical that consumers will continue to open up their wallets as freely. A failure to do so could hasten the arrival of the first U.S. recession in a decade.

I noticed it yesterday. One example from today:

By Av Anders Ydstedt @ svensktidskrift.se, Aug. 16, in English

An Interview with an American in Stockholm

Sweden is tossed about in the American political debate, being used as example of both a socialist but democratic paradise and as a “politically correct” suffocating state. This past year Sweden – and certain Swedes – has attracted the attention in the US, and the nation is often described as caught up in rapid political change.

The Pay-to-Play saga continues: