Samuel Sinyangwe
@samswey
Black Activist. Data Scientist & Policy Analyst. Stanford Alum. Creator, Police Scorecard | Mapping Police Violence | http://PoliceData.org [email protected]
The Mapping Police Violence organization just released a new data platform documenting over 1,000,000 cases of police use of force nationwide across 58% of the U.S. This is the largest public database of its kind, explore the data at policedata.org. Here’s what the data…
Fewer than 1% of police officers who kill people are convicted of a crime. Then when they *are* convicted, police get more lenient sentences than civilians who are convicted of the same crimes. mappingpoliceviolence.us
The Justice Department’s civil rights unit asked a federal judge to sentence a police officer convicted in the killing of Breonna Taylor to one day in prison and three years of supervised release nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/…
Got the most votes
How the fu*k are you an elected official?
Republicans are so desperate to keep Americans from voting them out in the 2026 midterms, they’re drawing Texas congressional maps with a kaleidoscope.
Under one of the proposed Texas redistricting maps, driving around Houston’s outer loop would mean crossing a congressional district border 8 times.
It’s been said before but it’s still really funny that a country of people with some of the easiest lives on earth voted to elect the candidate that ran on shutting down all the universities and work from home jobs to send everyone back into the coal mines
It's going to be illegal in the USA for a girl child to have short hair. But yeah, trans people are the problem.
jesus christ
This is reminiscent of footage of the KKK in the American South.
At 3am, israelis storm the village of Fakhit in Palestine on horseback: they violently assault a young girl & her mother on their own property
I’m against black people dividing themselves into any further subgroups. Yall wanna play “us vs them” when it’s everybody vs us already.
You have no soul if you root for this shit.
Concerns grow for detained immigrants as at least 10 have died in ICE custody since January 1st. This includes deaths from Krome Detention Center where detainees in June formed a human “S.O.S.” sign in the yard.
Among the 300 largest metro area housing markets, these 110 markets are seeing falling home prices on a year-over-year basis resiclubanalytics.com/p/housing-mark…
Republicans do all the things they falsely accuse Democrats of doing. The conspiracies, the corruption, the backroom deals. But then they redirect and distract their supporters to hate Black and brown people about some meaningless nothing made-up story every time they almost get…
JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News execs | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
100% means it’s a question that should be asked again.
‘Don’t you dare say that again!’ Kristi Noem snaps at reporter over ICE question
The historical record will show this nation, with one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, refused to incarcerate a rich white man convicted of 34 felonies. Instead, they allowed that man to become president while any other nation on Earth would’ve locked him up.…
In the last 15 years over 30 democracies have successfully prosecuted leaders who violated their constitutions
Yes, a lot of homes in Europe don’t have AC. But they also don’t even put ice in the drinks at most restaurants. The concept of cooling the air or water isn’t there, I guess.
Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that."
Louis Armstrong’s visit to Congo was used by CIA station chief Larry Devlin and other U.S. intelligence officers as a smokescreen for a coup. A thread 🧵
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ended key support for Black farmers and will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged,” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination capitalbnews.org/usda-ends-dei-…
“State contracts related to Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial detention facility in the Florida Everglades, appear to have disappeared from the state's public contract database.”
On Tuesday, Orlando lawmaker Anna Eskamani accessed the contract documents on the website. The next day, they were gone. miaminewtimes.com/news/is-florid…
A quarter of the four million newly freed Black Americans died of illness and starvation between 1860 and 1870. Yet our schools do not teach students about this tragedy allyfromnola.medium.com/how-one-quarte…
1. BREAKING On April 24, @elonmusk's Neuralink falsely self-certified as a "small disadvantaged business" on a federal filing, a designation that qualifies the company for preferential treatment as part of a racial and ethnic diversity initiative.
🚨 JUST IN: TRUMP HAS LAUNCHED AS MANY AIRSTRIKES IN FIVE MONTHS AS BIDEN DID IN 4 YEARS. Source: @Telegraph