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The youth program that introduced Birchmore to the officers is among hundreds of such chapters at police agencies around the country. Created by the Boy Scouts of America decades ago, law enforcement Explorer posts are designed to help teens and young adults learn about policing....
In the past decade, the Pentagon tried to tame its massive health care costs by pushing medical care, especially for family members, into the private sector....
Yeah, if you dig into the details it's just a bunch of giveaways to private for profit businesses, again. Nothing about public housing or even rent assistance.
If their asshole land developer buddies can't make a buck off of it liberal lawmakers have no interest in addressing homelessness. We need actual progressives for any kind of economic justice to happen.
That's definitely part of it, but I think this is also about locking in marijuana illegality as long as they possibly can. Schedule I was never going to last, but they're hoping this will kill the political momentum for just descheduling it altogether so cops can keep using it as an excuse to harass people they don't like.
Probably not, all of the hardcore Biden supporters I've met on this website are just utter scum who will never admit to anything no matter how obvious it is, like how this obviously could have been done at any point but was saved for an election year, or how rescheduling it instead of just descheduling it entirely keeps it federally criminal and breaks campaign pledges he made in 2019 and 2020
Best thing you can do is just try to leave some truthful information where some people might see it and ignore the replies
A First Amendment lawsuit brought by journalist Brittany Hailer has forced Allegheny County to revise policies that previously barred its jail employees and contractors from speaking publicly and with members of the news media about matters of public concern without permission, changes that could result in more accountability...
I would strongly urge you to reconsider. After speaking to people on this website about politics, I completely understand wanting to punish smug moderate assholes for being completely shitty to vulnerable communities over and over and over and over and over again while handing out billions in tax credits for their corporate buddies,
But I have watched this dynamic play out of you a number of times now, and when Democratic candidates lose elections it only makes those dumbass moderates louder and more powerful within the party. A bad day for them is when we have super majorities in both houses and legislature and all the sudden they are out of excuses for why they can't do the things they ran on. After that primaries will start.
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Tyson Foods dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, threatening critical ecosystems, endangering wildlife and human health, a new investigation reveals....
Prosecutors said Monday they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury....
Absolutely should have been, but the Biden administration has decided trying to appease racist douchebags is the way to go with all of their policies towards migrants and asylum seekers so don't hold your breath on that one
Well, they'll probably get another shot at it anyway, because this rancher seems delusional and violent as hell so he's probably going to kill some more people before too long
In real life, Kelly also seemed to see himself as a grizzled hero in the Clint Eastwood mold, doing battle against a criminal enterprise. Three weeks before the shooting, he texted a friend, “OVERUN WITH DRUG CARTEL. AK GTN A LOT OF WORK.” A week after that, he exchanged messages with his son Matt:
Alan Kelly: 33 DRUG RUNNERS THIS WK…AK 47 HOT.WANNA B BACK UP?
Matt Kelly: Nope ✋. Be careful.
Alan Kelly: CAREFUL IS NOT AN OPTION. IT IS EITHER FIGHT OR RUN AND IM TO OLD TO RUN. MOM IS L NL [locked and loaded] ALSO.
Kelly seemed baffled, at times even wounded, that law enforcement saw things differently. Investigators found no drugs or weapons on Cuen-Buitimea’s body. In his backpack, he’d carried cans of tuna, tissues, and extra clothing, including a hoodie that read “Treat People with Kindness.” He also had a radio on his belt—evidence that, according to the defense team, he’d possibly served as a scout or a guide. A photograph on his phone showed him standing on a ridge with binoculars around his neck. Larkin and Lowthorp spun this into lurid theories involving rip crews, cartel hits, and fentanyl trafficking. The prosecution offered a countervailing archetype: Cuen-Buitimea as a man seeking, as they repeatedly put it, “the American Dream.”
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When Ramirez eventually testified, through a court interpreter, he painted a picture of migration that was more muddled, and less cinematic, than the attorneys’ narratives. In the course of several years, he had illegally crossed into the U.S. eight or ten times, paying around twenty-five hundred dollars on most occasions. Once, in lieu of the fee, he’d carried marijuana with him. Each time, he’d been caught and deported back to Mexico. Last year, he and Cuen-Buitimea decided to make another attempt, with the goal of settling in Phoenix and getting roofing and construction jobs. They joined a group led by a man Ramirez knew only as El Cholo. They crossed into the U.S. without incident, but after an hour and a half of walking through the desert they encountered the Border Patrol. As the group scattered, the two men stuck together. When Cuen-Buitimea and Ramirez paused to catch their breath, Ramirez heard shots, then saw his friend fall. He ran back across the border into Mexico. “I was throwing up because I was so nervous,” Ramirez testified. “I was vomiting and vomiting and vomiting.”
Pretty much, the generation of old fucks that have a vice grip on both parties absolutely hate millennials and Gen Z, that's why so many of them are demanding college administrators send police after campus protests and are threatening to withhold donations over them even though it should be totally obvious that doing so only makes the protests bigger, but there is a downright compulsive need to "put those damn kids in their place" among a lot of the 50+ year old crowd
Oof, gotcha. I would say call blocking and getting some kind of agent/publicist/distributor with very humorless attorneys on retainer could counter all that, but I can definitely understand not wanting to deal with all those headaches.
Just saying, if you do ever make something like this I would probably buy a copy. Good human level story telling is entertaining and captures facets of our real lived histories that get lost otherwise.
Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's...
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After this dude has been caught in like half a dozen lies on behalf of Israel in the last few months, who believes anything he has to say about anything?
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There are thousands of voters like Mr. Dupree across Georgia and the country, those experiencing homelessness who are able to vote with the proper identification. They receive election related-mail at shelters, relatives’ addresses, temporary locations or P.O. boxes, and the vast majority vote in person....
As the Supreme Court weighs whetherDonald Trump is shielded from prosecution for acts committed while president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposes Trump’s view of absolute immunity.
Thank you for this, updated my comment. I totally deserve a small bit of hate here because that was a disservice to people who need alt text and screen readers, but for whatever it's worth a) learning to format things properly for screen readers is just something I still need to learn (and if you could point me towards a good resource for that I would definitely be interested), b) I was reacting to a comment that had been in here earlier (seems to have since been removed) that was claiming to be a transcription but changed the actual text of the OP, so I really just wanted to get something more accurate in here, but I should have said that was my best attempt at a transcription instead of just saying it was one.
Donald Trump‘s inner circle doesn’t expect the Supreme Court to go along with his extreme arguments about executive power in the immunity case before the justices. But what the high court does now is almost beside the point: Trump already won....
If they even think for a second about trying to organize any kind of violent crime they'll have FBI informants and surveillance all over their lives faster than they can say January 6th
It's a waste of time criticizing organizations that are beyond being reformed like the Republican party is. The Democratic party can and must do better and should hear about their screwups, the Republican party just needs to be rendered irrelevant entirely and doesn't need to see it coming.
Prosecutors said Thursday that Donald Trump again violated a gag order in his hush money trial, as the criminal case resumed on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court weighed whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions taken during his time as president....
Yeah, the way the Biden administration drug their feet on prosecuting him and his supporters because they didn't want to appear "partisan" really was an inexcusable dereliction of duty that needs to be discussed more if we manage to survive this year with a semi-functional democracy intact. Certain factions of the Democratic party have been excusing and normalizing criminal and traitorous actions by Republicans going back to the Vietnam war era because that's a lot easier than ripping this corruption out root and branch, and that is directly responsible for the degradation we've seen from Nixon interfering in Vietnam peace talks, to Reagan interfering in Iranian hostage negotiations, to W stealing an election, and now most recently Trump trying to steal an election.
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Yeah, it really sucks that we have people like crime bill Joe Biden and registered republican Merrick Garland running things at the federal level right now because they made their careers out of emulating these Republican shitbags and still are (e.g. all the funding Biden has thrown at police departments that have kept on brutalizing people, Garland dragging his feet on charging Trump for as long as possible), but at least there are some people in state governments attempting to treat this traitorous conspiracy like it should be
In an order issued today, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said that the hand-written notes of prosecutors from a 31-year-old murder case “constitute strong evidence that, in prior decades, prosecutors from the [Alameda County District Attorney’s] office were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically...
When an individual prosecutor shits all over the Constitution's guarantees of equality before the law, and they take efforts to conceal those actions, that is a knowingly bad act and an individual who deserves some accountability
When those actions stay covered up for over three decades because nobody in the system bothered to get a second plants at any of this, that's a system that deserves some accountability
e; like, I personally am a big proponent of needing more empathy and compassion within our system, thought for the type of person who that argument doesn't connect with, I think there's a very strong "We fought a civil war and certified a constitutional amendment to deal with crap like this, don't reopen this Pandora's box" argument to be made
have been active participants of the injustices of the court system for centuries
This much is true and it is important to talk about to keep is from repeating history's mistakes
They benefit just as much as white men if not more
There are countless instances of sexual assault and domestic violence that cops and prosecutors have swept under rugs for decades that argue against that really strongly imo. Being victims of oppression doesn't excuse participating and upholding oppressive systems, but if we're going to tell the whole story let's tell the whole story.
Armored police clear Pro-Palestinian encampment on Tulane's campus in New Orleans, Louisiana ( www.nola.com )
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January 6 rioter Derrick Evans could return to the Capitol—as a congressman ( www.motherjones.com )
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In This Police Youth Program, a Trail of Sexual Abuse Across the U.S. ( www.themarshallproject.org )
The youth program that introduced Birchmore to the officers is among hundreds of such chapters at police agencies around the country. Created by the Boy Scouts of America decades ago, law enforcement Explorer posts are designed to help teens and young adults learn about policing....
Pentagon's reduction in military medical costs is criticized as going too far ( www.npr.org )
In the past decade, the Pentagon tried to tame its massive health care costs by pushing medical care, especially for family members, into the private sector....
There's so much more that could be on that list ( lemmy.world )
White House considers welcoming some Palestinians from war-torn Gaza as refugees ( www.cbsnews.com )
After decades of inaction, states are finally stepping up on housing ( www.vox.com )
US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say ( apnews.com )
Journalist’s lawsuit forces Allegheny County in Pennsylvania to revise jail policies ( www.rcfp.org )
A First Amendment lawsuit brought by journalist Brittany Hailer has forced Allegheny County to revise policies that previously barred its jail employees and contractors from speaking publicly and with members of the news media about matters of public concern without permission, changes that could result in more accountability...
As border debate shifts right, Sen. Alex Padilla emerges as persistent counterforce for immigrants ( apnews.com )
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Immigrant with disabilities repeatedly assaulted by deputies at Calhoun County jail in Michigan, civil rights groups allege ( www.metrotimes.com )
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6 months after Illinois ended cash bail, jail populations are down as courts settle into new patterns ( www.chicagotribune.com )
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Myth of 'superhuman strength' in Black people persists in deadly encounters with police ( apnews.com )
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What George Kelly’s Mistrial Says About How We See the Border ( www.newyorker.com )
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Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes ( www.theguardian.com )
Tyson Foods dumped millions of pounds of toxic pollutants directly into American rivers and lakes over the last five years, threatening critical ecosystems, endangering wildlife and human health, a new investigation reveals....
Incarcerated trans women won sweeping prison reforms in Colorado. It could be a model for other states. ( 19thnews.org )
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Prosecutors say they will not retry an Arizona rancher accused of murder near the US-Mexico border ( apnews.com )
Prosecutors said Monday they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury....
Young adults have issues ( lemmy.world )
Florida ‘callously’ strips healthcare from thousands of children despite new law ( www.theguardian.com )
Governor Ron DeSantis’s challenging of a ‘continuous eligibility’ rule has booted over 22,000 children off insurance since January...
What's your most dumb trekkie moment? ( sh.itjust.works )
I'm yet to do my first one if this post dosen't count, so I'm learning here.
[not a meme] anyone I should add? ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
I'm sorry if this is not the best place for this, I couldn't think of anywhere better to ask about it...
US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports ( www.reuters.com )
Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's...
Do Columbia's pro-Palestinian protests resemble the ones against the Vietnam war? - "...actually, we were much more disruptive" ( www.npr.org )
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Blinken tells CNN the US has seen evidence of China attempting to influence upcoming US elections ( www.cnn.com )
Migrants indicted in Texas over alleged border breach after judge dismissed charges ( apnews.com )
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‘We’re not going to stop’: Protests continue at the University of Minnesota campus ( www.mprnews.org )
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Boston police forcibly remove pro-Palestinian tent encampment at Emerson College; more than 100 arrested ( www.bostonglobe.com )
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Homeless Georgians Could Face Hurdles to Voting Under New Legislation ( www.nytimes.com )
There are thousands of voters like Mr. Dupree across Georgia and the country, those experiencing homelessness who are able to vote with the proper identification. They receive election related-mail at shelters, relatives’ addresses, temporary locations or P.O. boxes, and the vast majority vote in person....
What Being Trans in Prison Is Really Like - Amid a wave of anti-trans legislation, and the violence that often follows, four people share their experiences in the criminal justice system ( www.themarshallproject.org )
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Mitch McConnell Breaks With Trump on Absolute Presidential Immunity ( www.thedailybeast.com )
As the Supreme Court weighs whetherDonald Trump is shielded from prosecution for acts committed while president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposes Trump’s view of absolute immunity.
Congregation ( lemmy.world )
Team Trump Is Ready to Lose the Supreme Court Immunity Case. They're Celebrating ( www.rollingstone.com )
Donald Trump‘s inner circle doesn’t expect the Supreme Court to go along with his extreme arguments about executive power in the immunity case before the justices. But what the high court does now is almost beside the point: Trump already won....
Net neutrality rules restored by US agency, reversing Trump ( www.reuters.com )
Wait, what? They're only just now doing this?
New York prosecutors in Trump's hush money trial say former president continues to violate gag order ( apnews.com )
Prosecutors said Thursday that Donald Trump again violated a gag order in his hush money trial, as the criminal case resumed on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court weighed whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions taken during his time as president....
How States Are Investigating and Prosecuting the Trump Fake Electors ( www.lawfaremedia.org )
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Alameda County prosecutors allegedly excluded Black people and Jews from death penalty juries ( oaklandside.org )
In an order issued today, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said that the hand-written notes of prosecutors from a 31-year-old murder case “constitute strong evidence that, in prior decades, prosecutors from the [Alameda County District Attorney’s] office were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically...