It was also a really good and safe space for discussing trans stuff

“Solidarity” is a four letter word for some people

“Look, is it even really work saving the planet if I don’t get to create a market and show everybody else how much smarter I am than them?” - liberals (actually)

Like - damn CestUnPeuSorcier finally saw Savannah get her master’s good for them

Ah, sure, that makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain your thinking!

The guy making that tweet does not appear to be a journalist, and for the source for this he linked to this article on Just the News, who I’ve never heard of before and, based on another article from the same author on their home page that looks like it’s trying to spin a lot of evidence free allegations about Biden being involved in a bribery scheme with Ukraine as evidence that Biden actually was involved in a bribery scheme with Ukraine, does not seem like a good source

The Independent is a solid publication with a good track record of truth telling though, so I don’t doubt this story (and thank you for posting it!), but these links look like some grifters trying to legitimize themselves by hopping on to a real news story while it’s hot

Hell yeah, I’ll never not be mad that our garbage justice system let him skate for this long, but it’s great to see he’s getting one step closer to the jail/prison cell where he belongs (though I’m just going to get mad all over again when they give him lenient bail; also, where’s the felony murder charge for pushing a violent coup that was the proximate cause of multiple deaths?).

Honestly, biggest surprise for me is seeing the Independent of all places get this scoop. They’re a fine publication, but they’re pretty U.K. based and not even as big as something like the Guardian, and normally when anything leaks out of DC circles it goes to NYT WaPo or PBS/NPR, so it’s weird to see them get this news.

Kind of spendy and maybe too absorbing, but I’ve found that the Android version of Dead Cells is a great way to kill anywhere from a little to a lot of time and the touch screen controls work surprisingly well (tho you’re definitely going to want a controller for any of the higher difficulty runs)

If that AI isn’t open source, it will start spreading nasty rumors about you and making plans with your friends without inviting you unless you pay $14.99 per month and upgrade your “friend” level account to the “good friend” level (“best friend” accounts will refuse to talk to law enforcement about you and pretend to be various references on your resume for job interviewers)

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For sure! I can’t seem to turn it up now, but I first found out about this guy through an interview with this DJ/producer when he said something along the lines of “My parents played Esquivel for me when I was a kid and I wanted to find a way to make that kind of a vibe in the 21st century,” so shout out to Camilo Lara for helping spread good music

Now do the real culprits at the top on down.

100% this, every official who tried to submit fake electors slates to Congress is in on this coup and they all ought to face prosecution imo

Fair enough. I’m definitely more of a pessimist, but I hope you’re right here.

Based on white supremacy and myths of American exceptionalism

(For real tho, that quote is spot on and really puts things in perspective)

I definitely love it in theory, but I wonder if that’s what we’re really seeing here. In each of the sentencings this article discusses the judge gave out way less than what prosecutors were going for, and that was more or less the theme of another article I posted about this.

Discussing plans to commit crimes in publicly visible places like this is a bad idea

… advocates have also criticized police involvement in implementing Adams’ directive in light of numerous instances of people in a mental health crisis being killed or seriously injured by NYPD officers. Adams, a former police captain, has responded by saying patrol officers would hand off cases of someone in crisis to others on the force “who have a deeper training than the surface training that an everyday police officer would.”

But the training materials, publicly disclosed here for the first time, indicate that any uniformed member of service has the authority to unilaterally decide someone needs to be brought involuntarily to a hospital because of the inability to care for one’s self.

Beth Haroules, director of disability justice litigation for NYCLU, said the presentation also seems inconsistent with city officials’ pledge to provide police with in-depth training on the “unable to meet basic needs” standard and a refresher on crisis communication strategies. Between the slides and the video, which overlap significantly, patrol officers appear to be receiving no more than 25 minutes worth of a refresher.

Yeah, this wasn’t the best framing for this discussion. I think there’s something to be said about the awareness she gets and how it’s a little frustrating to read media coverage that acts like we’ve never sent a mother to prison before and don’t do it all the time to poor people, and frankly I’ll jump on any opportunity to raise the “I don’t want to live in a country that routinely violates human rights in its prisons” discussion, but the headline might have overreached a bit.

I mean, I once worked at a gas station and never robbed the place, where’s my credit?

The vast majority of women in the US prison system are mothers. Nearly 60% of women in the country’s prisons have minor children, and so do 80% of those who are in jail. A large number of them have not even been convicted of a crime, but can’t afford to pay bail. They are overwhelmingly poor, women of color, and disproportionately Black—they couldn’t be more different from Holmes.

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