I’d simply ask you to consider that any internet regulation backed by the guys who want to inspect the genitals of every high schooler in America before they send them off to the evening shift at the factory isn’t really about protecting “the kids.”

If there were a court opinion tailor-made to give me an aneurism, this is it. The MS Court of Appeals acquitted a cop convicted of manslaughter, overruling a jury. The court found insufficient medical evidence linking the cop slamming a guy’s head into asphalt with the guy’s death two days later.

BREAKING: Tesla did a whoopsie at their Fremont factory and polluted a bunch of water (pretty bad) and they can't keep it contained to their property. Levels of major pollutants massively over what's legal. Huge mess, no surprise.

Link below is to a PDF.

www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/getfile?file...

Blockbuster story from AP – prison labor powers the biggest brands in the U.S. food business and fast food chains. Target, Walmart, Aldi, Burger King are involved and many more. Two years of reporting by the Pulitzer-winning team of Robin McDowell and Margie Mason.

38-year-old man is arrested for failure to show up at court, is put in jail on pretrial detention for months. Police withheld his HIV medication until he grew sick, lost the ability to walk on his own, and was sent to hospice where he died.

Hundreds of copies of newspapers in a Colorado town were stolen a day after the paper published a story about an alleged rape at the police chief’s house

We are in the middle of the second-largest COVID surge of the pandemic. This decision is not based on science, it’s based on worker exploitation.

play video games or make out with somebody. anything else today is illegal

Billionaires are essentially citing the 14 word pledge but it’s gauche to call out their obvious racism so 1000s of people look for hypocrisy or inconsistency instead of plainly stating what’s happening.

"This was not Shelton’s first fatal shooting. On 11 June 2020, the deputy killed Michael Thomas, 61, also while responding to a call for potential domestic violence...It was weeks after George Floyd’s murder"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

there is no 'theft' at self checkout, it is simply unpaid labor claiming its wages

A Los Angeles county sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 27-year-old woman who had called 911 to report that she was under attack by a former boyfriend, officials said.

Records show the deputy had killed another person in similar circumstances 3 years ago

Alex Villanueva, the former sheriff of Los Angeles, oversaw a string of deaths & a mountain of abuse scandals before losing last year. Now he wants a seat on the powerful county board he clashed with.

One of the critical elections this spring:

And not a peep from the media outlets who spent more than a week focusing on colleges and uncritically promoting Stefanik as an objective critic.

The complicity in validating right wing antisemitism is shocking but not at all surprising.

“The next morning, officers found Shane unresponsive from an apparent suicide attempt. Joe’s suit alleges that the jail’s medical providers—employed by the for-profit company NaphCare—failed to render lifesaving care and neglected his medical needs throughout his incarceration.” People are dying now

If you don’t all go and vote for this lego mineral display set I will have no choice but to sign everyone on Bsky up for more dem fundraiser texts.

Cops in Waltham, MA have shut down the city for TWO DAYS for a police funeral - and forced the schools to close at short notice because the cops commandeered the school buses for the event!

We need to stop putting up with this madness.

www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/p...

A grand jury has decided not to indict the Mississippi officer that shot an 11-year-old boy in the chest during a domestic call

Wild that people still are not understanding the intense Zionist indoctrination many evangelical Christians grow up in. Israel is so important within that culture, and the view is that all Jews must support it. I don't get how this isn't registering for people left of center.