Today, a prosecutor announced that Georgia State Patrol SWAT troopers Brylend Myers, Jerry Parrish, Jonathan Salcedo, Mark Lamb, Ronaldo Kegel, and Royce Zah will not face charges for killing #StopCopCity protester Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Terán on Jan. 18.
@UnicornRiot "“The state is setting themselves up for a bigger fall when they fail,” activist Charley Tennenbaum, who is one of those indicted on RICO charges, told Unicorn Riot, “which I still believe is the ultimate outcome of the state’s legal fight.”"
Yup. Complete overreach and they will lose big time.
YouTube shorts is frustratingly inconsistent. Most of my videos get decent amounts of views and then the algorithm stops pushing them and then they die. But randomly I'll have shorts I posted a year or more ago just start going viral for no reason. I've never had a short go viral when it was posted, it's always randomly a year or so later.
"A staggering number of young people have sworn to me, “I would never touch fentanyl. I would never use fentanyl. I’m doing Percocet. I know this because this guy I bought them from is a friend of mine. He would never betray me like that. He would never deceive me.”
Then they come up negative on the regular drug screen, but the expanded comprehensive test shows nothing but fentanyl.
@SwiftOnSecurity A friend who does intake at drug rehab in Vegas says they get a lot of construction workers who thought they were doing coke to keep working. But it was cut with fentanyl and so they’re dual-addicted
Does Mitch McConnell have a family? Does anyone love him enough to talk with him about... the finite nature of life. The preciousness of hours, minutes seconds?
How from dust we all have come and to dust we shall all return?
He could be petting some kittens. Listening to the sound of a child's laugh-- Dude really wants to die in front of us holding a pen mid-way through signing a bill that forces orphans to work in coal mines or something.
A white supremacist nearly shot up an HBCU today and ended up killing three Black people but I can barely find any discussions about this going on in the fediverse. This is what I'm talking about.
Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. Ben McKenzie with Jacob Silverman
Actor Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman were suspicious of cryptocurrency long before it cratered, and the arrests happened. They extensively document the fraud and criminality. This is must-read.
Earlier, also essential, book on crypto scams by @davidgerard
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain. David Gerard
The book concludes with:
"Everything to do with cryptocurrencies and blockchains is the domain of fast-talking conmen. If anyone tries to sell you on either, kick them in the nuts and run."
A Georgia high school student who stormed the U.S. Capitol, assaulted a police officer and sat in a Senate floor chair reserved for the vice president was sentenced on Wednesday to one year in prison.