How are we doing, nationwide, in ending homelessness?

The map from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness  uses 2015 data. To find out how Connecticut is doing, see the most recent Point In Time count, here.

Here’s what happens when you gut the Voting Rights Act

You can read more here.

Mapping police violence

Check out this map. It’s chilling.

Hey, where’re the white women at?

(I’ve wanted to use that as a headline for maybe years.) Check out this interactive map that shows where the diversity is — and isn’t. (My own Connecticut county is 65.8 percent white. Yours?)

Check out where homelessness is ending

You can read more here, from CityLab. As the text says: Don’t celebrate yet. And thanks, Kimberley, for the link.

And then there was no more capital punishment in CT

The state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Connecticut’s ban-lite on capital punishment is unconstitutional. From America’s Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper: The 4-3 decision effectively removes 11 convicts from Connecticut’s death row and overturns the latest iteration of the state’s death penalty, a political compromise effective April 2012 that barred death sentences going forward but …

WHAT?!?! Can’t hear you.

Check this out, a coast-to-coast picture of noise from the National Park Service. And thanks, Leftover, who dwells where the noise is a deep, deep blue.

Before you run for President:

Maybe you should check this map and see if adultery is illegal in your state.