What pisses me off is that all the coverage seems to have very quickly forgotten that federal law requires that cops are supposed to subpoena reporters and newspapers, not get search warrants. But the police chief had his own axe to grind (the paper was investigating allegations he'd left his last job just before being fired for making sexist remarks) and just like ... broke the law. He also got to stay on the job for another two months after the raid because the county didn't want to fire him because of the separation clause in his contract and they didn't want to pay out. [There's no word on whether they actually did pay out when he finally left; I guess they'll find out when they publish the county budget. Given the way they've closed ranks against the newspaper, I strongly suspect they paid him off.]
The county has refused to turn over cell phone records, texts and documents related to the investigation: some percentage have mysteriously disappeared. Other communications were, contrary to state law, done on personal phones and the county has absolutely refused to try to get those into evidence.
The police chief was, of course, replaced by one of his buddy cops - one of the ones who raided the paper, the one who found the information on the paper's investigation into the chief and immediately called the chief over to go through the files, even though they weren't covered by the warrant.
The judge that signed off on the bogus search warrants, who apparently didn't realize she was helping break federal law and infringing on the first amendment, had the complaint against her dismissed.
The restaurant owner who the paper was investigating because she'd been driving without a license for 15 years due to a DUI, and who was trying to get a liquor license for her restaurant (and shouldn't have been able to because of the DUI) - the town council said they didn't have the authority to not give her one and gave her one.
As far as I can tell, the was no investigation into the County Attorney who should've validated the search warrants before passing them on the the judge. The interesting bit is that the County Attorney is the brother of the guy who owns the building the restaurant is in, and the owner of course wants the restaurant to have a liquor license so he can make bank. [It seems like drinking is extremely popular out there: the judge also has two arrests for DUI.]
The Deputy Mayor who was trying to find out if the bar owner should be eligible for a liquor license was ousted in the next election. The reporter at the Record who was not working on the restaurant owner story and who shouldn't have been approached by the cops at all - except she was working on the story about the police chief's sexist remarks so she was approached by the cops, her equipment seized including her personal cell phone, and she herself was injured by the cops - she had to leave the profession entirely because of the stress; she's no longer a journalist at all. Eric Meyer is still fighting, but he's lost his mother.
The Marion Record just won some very prestigious journalism award, which is nice, but doesn't really make up for the fact that the decent people in this story all seem to have lost things they valued, while the corrupt people here all seem to have come out with most of the things they wanted :(
I'm really glad I don't live in one of these small, corrupt, go-along-to-get-along small towns - and I'm also really glad that some of the people who do live there still do their best to do what's right.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday offered a justification after he was found liable for defaming two former Georgia election workers, Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman....
"We invite unions around the country to align your contract expirations with our own, so that together we can begin to flex our collective muscle [...]. It's important not only that we strike, but that we strike together."
The first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was convicted on Friday of charges that he interfered with police and obstructed Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory....
* insurrectionist, you effing cowards. Stop using the right's terminology, it only plays into their hands and helps minimize what they've already done and what they're planning to do.
Putin's sought ceasefire would mean Russia would keep the territories it illegally occupies in Ukraine, where the population is subject to abductions and summary executions. Ukraine laid out its 10-point "peace formula" in November 2022. One of the key points as a precondition for starting peace talks is the full withdrawal of...
Based on Russia's history these last few decades, they simply want time to peacefully digest their current bite before heading back to the table for more.
Oh, the loser who was on the Minneapolis city council for years before becoming mayor and then doing shit-all for a couple years before multiple cops in his city murdered George Floyd? The city that had so many civil rights violations that they're now operating under a consent decree? Why should I care what that guy says?
Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District was one of the places where Moms for Liberty lost big in the 2023 elections, with a right-wing school board majority swept out and replaced with ...
Texas-based True the Vote filed complaints [...] including one in which it said it had obtained “a detailed account of coordinated efforts to collect and deposit ballots in drop boxes across metro Atlanta” [...] When pressed to provide names of sources and other documentation, the group last year tried to withdraw its complaint. [When that was denied] attorneys for True the Vote said the group had no names or other documentary evidence to share.
So they fucking lied, tried to wriggle out of it when they were called out, and now they've admitted they have nothing? Fuckers need to be in prison, be permanently banned from anything to do with elections and politics, and have their own right to vote revoked.
I've been saying for years that the insanely heavy-handed politics of both Florida and Texas aren't an accident nor are they a miscalculation. They're a deliberate policy to drive out liberals, attract conservatives, and ensure that both Florida and Texas (and their precious, precious electoral college votes) remain red.
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...
You know how spez was bitching about how reddit never made a profit? Yeah, now we know why. You know what his compensation was last year? $193,000,000. Fuck that arrogant prick.
[...] a dearth of profit this late into its existence portends the lack of a real business model, suggesting it’s still not ready for public company life.
That's actually the thing that gets me about this whole situation. They don't create the communities. They don't create the content. They don't add comments. They don't upvote or downvote content or comments. They don't moderate their communities. They don't really respond to support tickets, and rely on other users to help others out. That's a lot people they don't have to pay.
Imgur was created because reddit refused to host native images. They refused to host native video. If you change or delete something, they only keep one version as backup. The vast majority of their content is text. Their storage and bandwidth needs should be comparatively minimal.
They've spent decades refusing to upgrade the user experience: RES has all the features reddit refused to make. The moderator toolbox has all the moderator tools reddit refused to make. The apps have all the features and all the disability features reddit refused to make. Their own app is something they bought from the original developer for a minimal amount of money - and then they made it worse.
What are they spending their money on? Reddit crypto was a failure. Reddit NFTs were a failure. Reddit streaming events (RPAN) was a failure. I'm sure they invest money into their April Fool's thing, but how much does that really cost?
higher education hasn’t done a great job of making every viewpoint feel welcome
That's fine, there are plenty of viewpoints that shouldn't be welcome in college - I can't flat earthers or 6000-year-history people passing geology, for example. The problem is that they have an entire generation of right-wing homeschooled kids who are being confronted by the unpleasant reality that their parents lied to them and did a shit job preparing them for the real world, and the parents are desperate for their charade (and their relationships with the kids they lied to) to continue for a few more years.
The nursing homes near me an absolute minimum of $7000 a month. The food is shite, you have to share a small room, and they're severely understaffed. All the profit goes to the owners and shareholders - and they make that profit by understaffing, under-caring, and under-providing. For-profit healthcare needs to die.
CEO's claim they deserve their massive salaries because they foresee, plan for, and successfully steer their companies through situations just like these. Sounds like a CEO problem to me.
The inscription reads right to left on all three lines. Starting with the bottom line the hieroglyphs translate as follows:
Duck: biliteral sign sA ("son")
Red crown of northern/lower Egypt: uniliteral sign n (preposition "of")
Reed leaf: uniliteral sign i
Senet game board: biliteral sign mn
Water squiggle: uniliteral sign n (phonetic complement, simply reinforces the reading of mn)
Seated man: determinative (word classifier, not read aloud)
Put together, you get his name sA-n-Imn, or Sienamun as the Met calls him. Translated literally, "son of (the god) Amun."
The first two lines note that Sienamun was not only a priest (Hm-nTr) but also an overseer of horses (imy-r smsmw).
A synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of increasing the cancer risk for the nearby majority-Black community in Louisiana told a federal appeals court it will have to shut down “likely permanently” if it’s forced to meet the Biden administration’s deadline to reduce emissions....
When the agency originally proposed tougher emissions limits, Denka had a longer timeframe to comply. But the EPA sued the company last year, finding the facility posed an “imminent and substantial endangerment” to the nearby community. [...] The company wants the EPA’s 90-day deadline put on hold and says the agency won’t consider lengthening that timeline until Denka sets out an emissions reduction plan, according to the filing.“ [...] (Denka) will need at least two years to plan, develop, test and install the controls required by the rule,” the company said in a court filing.
The EPA has been working on this rule since Biden took office. You knew it was coming, you just hoped there would be a change of administration before you had to comply with the ruling (so you wouldn't have to comply at all, which is also what you're hoping for with your current delay tactics). Sucks to be you - your lack of planning does not constitute my emergency, etc ....
I think it's more that "these people" didn't used to 'exist' in their world: Sexual minorities weren't talked about and were invisible for the most part. But since Stonewall and AIDS, LGBT+ people first decided and then learned not to hide themselves. Suddenly someone who you thought of as normal has 'become' gay. You obviously knew them well, it's not possible they were hiding something from you, and there's no chance your observations were incorrect - clearly, instead of you being wrong, something happened to them, something 'turned them gay' - it must have been the frogs, or music, or DnD, or something, it's just impossible you were wrong!
“I know there’s a ton of skepticism about Meta entering the fediverse — it’s completely understandable,” Cottle says. “I do want to kind of make a plea that I think everyone on the team has really good intentions. We really want to be a good member of the community and give people the ability to experience what the fediverse is.”
If I wanted Facebook shitposts and forwards from KlanMa, I'd've joined Facebook. And I don't believe Meta has good intentions, I believe they want to overwhelm the fediverse, and I believe they want to make money. Middle-manager Cottle and their team may have good intentions, but corporate certainly doesn't, and I certainly don't trust their users.
Entire Edition Of Newspapers Stolen On Day It Publishes Story About Rape At Police Chief’s Home (www.huffpost.com)
“It’s pretty clear that someone didn’t want the community to read the news this week,” said Ouray County Plaindealer co-publisher Erin McIntyre.
California governor vetoes bill that would have set a $35 cap for insulin (www.theguardian.com)
Bill denial for the prescription drug price cap called ‘a major setback’ for diabetics in the state
'I did it for my country': Giuliani justifies defaming Georgia election workers (www.rawstory.com)
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday offered a justification after he was found liable for defaming two former Georgia election workers, Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman....
The UAW's contracts deliberately expire April 30, 2028, so that they can leverage a possible UAW strike with any other strikes occurring on International Workers Day. (i.imgur.io)
"We invite unions around the country to align your contract expirations with our own, so that together we can begin to flex our collective muscle [...]. It's important not only that we strike, but that we strike together."
Jury convicts first rioter to enter Capitol building during Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)
The first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was convicted on Friday of charges that he interfered with police and obstructed Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory....
NYT: Putin open to ceasefire if Russia keeps occupied territories (kyivindependent.com)
Putin's sought ceasefire would mean Russia would keep the territories it illegally occupies in Ukraine, where the population is subject to abductions and summary executions. Ukraine laid out its 10-point "peace formula" in November 2022. One of the key points as a precondition for starting peace talks is the full withdrawal of...
Israel shuts down live camera facing Gaza under its restrictive new law (www.cnn.com)
Minneapolis mayor calls remote workers ‘losers’ who sit at home with a ‘nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop’ (fortune.com)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is trying a unique strategy to get remote workers to return downtown: insulting them....
Newly elected school board president sworn in on stack of banned [Central Bucks] (www.dailykos.com)
Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District was one of the places where Moms for Liberty lost big in the 2023 elections, with a right-wing school board majority swept out and replaced with ...
Ridgway man cited in newspaper theft case (www.ouraynews.com)
It wasn't the sheriff, the sheriff's son, or the sheriff's son's friends.
Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing (apnews.com)
A conservative group that claimed to uncover a ballot stuffing scheme in Georgia has told a judge it has no evidence to back up its allegations.
Florida men are taking over the GOP (www.politico.com)
The nation’s third-largest state has shed its swing-state profile and is now the home base of Donald Trump’s Republican Party
Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...
[Reuters BreakingViews] Investors will say “OK Boomer” to aging Reddit (www.reuters.com)
[...] a dearth of profit this late into its existence portends the lack of a real business model, suggesting it’s still not ready for public company life.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot. She is trying to wreck the GOP (www.foxnews.com)
*** Technically this is news from a far right-wing source. In reality it’s priceless comedy. ***...
Donald Trump selling Bibles sparks fury from Christians—"Blasphemous grift" (www.newsweek.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s latest venture selling Bibles has sparked the fury of Christians....
New Indiana law requires professors to promote 'intellectual diversity' to keep tenure (www.npr.org)
More details in TFA. Nice recipe for turning your state into an intellectual+educational backwater....
Despite surging demand for long-term care, providers struggle to find workers (apnews.com)
The hardest part of Culix Wibonele’s first job in long-term care was not getting injured....
Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom (electrek.co)
Egyptian priest's ring, gold, 664–525 BCE
Donald Trump is on the verge of another $1 billion Truth Social windfall (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump is on the cusp of scoring a major financial bonanza – at least on paper....
Louisiana chemical plant threatens to shut down if EPA emissions deadline isn't relaxed (apnews.com)
A synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of increasing the cancer risk for the nearby majority-Black community in Louisiana told a federal appeals court it will have to shut down “likely permanently” if it’s forced to meet the Biden administration’s deadline to reduce emissions....
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😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 (www.theverge.com)