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8·20 minutes agoYeah, it would’ve been nice if the headline could have mentioned which states, thanks for quoting this
Also, it always
baresbears repeating how mean-spirited, selfish, and shamelessly hypocritical the Republican party is -Unlike the 2020 election, when Republicans opposed pandemic-related changes such as expanded mail-in voting, both parties are encouraging new rules to help people vote.
One possible reason for the GOP’s change of heart: In North Carolina — a swing state that’s particularly key to former President Trump’s pathway to victory — 8% of eligible voters are in counties impacted by Hurricane Helene.
Those include many voters in rural, Republican-leaning areas.
The Harris campaign forgot (again) how every single Republican is a scumbag and actually went out of their way to highlight Tillis’ statement calling out misinformation, which predictably blew up in their faces
I feel like the ultimate goal really should be getting people to a place where they’re not going to commit further crimes and harm their communities again, and I don’t think just trying to punish people into that is effective. More often than not punished people just sink further into their own misery and keep pushing out and hurting others.
That all being said, I do think the experience of helping a community like this could be a positive one that could actually improve people’s behavior in a lasting way. Minus the coercion and the life threatening conditions, I support volunteering opportunities for prison inmates.
Gives you an idea of how much they try to not spend any money at all on inmate care, those clothes are probably over fifty years old
The President Called all the Artists by Micah Sommersmith
I have learned from experience not to trust in my ability to communicate clearly online, so sometimes I overdo it to make sure
Cool, this independent nonprofit that utilizes unpaid volunteers and just happens to run with the US government’s blessing is totally sufficient, we definitely don’t have a blatantly obvious need for an actual government agency with paid staff and legal standing to advocate for migrants when local/county/state officials are being assholes that this token gesture is just an attempt to paper over or anything /s
Yeah, this feels like validating a toxic business model when they should be dismantling it
Sorry, but I’ve gotta disagree. Even in things you might just call “reporting”, there are always choices that have to be made in what facts a journalist chooses to include or exclude and whose claims of facts get examined and complicated for the readers and which are just taken at face value and repeated, and journalists should be pushed to make those choices in an intelligent and responsible way.
e; added words to flesh out the same basic thought
And in an unusual step, Sheriff Mike Chitwood of Volusia County, Fla., this week posted pictures and videos of an 11-year-old who was charged in a fake school shooting threat, part of a pledge to take a tough stance on the wave of threats.
That’s counter productive in a couple of ways
Not only is this sheriff’s publicity stunt harmful to children, but it also risks fueling contagion around both threats of violence and actual school shootings. It’s also vindictive. At a news conference last Friday, Chitwood said, “Every time we make an arrest, your kid’s photo is going to be put out there and if I can do it, I’m gonna perp walk your kid so that everybody can see what your kid’s up to.”
This is exactly the kind of law enforcement message that reporters should examine and challenge, rather than mindlessly repeat.
If this was a recent wave, I bet it was just the end of the summer and some kids just desperately not wanting to go back to school for whatever reasons
The article beneath the headline actually says
Johnson then put one hand around Joyner’s neck and took out his service weapon, putting the barrel of the Glock-22 to Joyner’s temple.
FWIW, headlines and subtitles usually aren’t written by the journalist bylining the piece, they’re typically handled by an editor who supervises a bunch of journalists reporting out a bunch of different stories and decides which to publish when (or, more likely, which to forward on to a committee of more senior editors who will decide which of those to publish and when).
So I’d bet an editor read through this story in about 90 seconds and then just said something like, “‘Glock 22’ obviously isn’t going to tell the average reader anything because I don’t know what that is, so let’s just say ‘revolver’ because it’s all the same to me. Now, on to the three dozen other stories I need to review because my bosses keep cutting our staffing and I’m doing three people’s jobs.”
In other words, an editor of a magazine that explicitly advocated for white supremacy in the 50’s and 60’s let the mask they’ve since put on slip for a second
This would explain why their governor is still on record saying he’s going to vote for Trump. I bet he doesn’t mind having an excuse to send a bunch of state troopers and surveillance tech into a city during an election year either.
6·27 days agoCampaigners say further physical and mental harm could be inflicted under Labour home secretary Yvette Cooper’s plan to increase deportations to 2018 levels – with a goal to remove thousands of migrants and refused asylum seekers by the end of the year.
I hate how many people seem to be fighting for this title
Speaking to CBS, DeWine said: “This is something that came up on the internet, and the internet can be quite crazy sometimes.
It didn’t just come up “on the internet” you cowardly shit stain, it came out of the mouth of the presidential candidate you said you’d be voting for
Close, but she’s not being sued, she’s actually being criminally prosecuted on six felony charges
Isn’t that fucking special.
In-fucking-deed it is
What are they going to do about the bad cops?
They all already got a variety of punishments (generally not harsh enough imo, but their conduct runs all the way from rigging an intramural athletic competition to driving drunk with a loaded firearm, so it’s a bit of a complicated picture and worth reading the full article for those details). She was looking them up after the fact so the prosecutor’s office she works for now (Los Angeles county) didn’t call on them to testify in court (or, if they had to call them for whatever reason, so her office knew to let defense attorneys know about this as theoretically required under the Brady opinion (but exactly what things are Brady material and what can be ignored is something attorneys will be fighting over until the end of time and something I believe LA county and the CA attorney general have argued over in recent history)).
That sounds more like how people have always used social media (e.g. bragging about any accomplishments they can, hiding any difficulties they’re going through, etc.) and how US based marketers have always used American Dream bullshit to pressure people into spending themselves into debt than any kind of coordinated foreign disinfo campaign to me
Beyond that, the fact that “people can come to the US and find prosperity and stability” is a lie seems to be the bigger underlying problem here
Help I’m being oppressed! /s