In a statement, Brooklyn Councilmember Lincoln Restler pointed to the contrast between the dcpi’s staffing surge and Mayor Eric Adams’s cuts to other city services, including hundreds of layoffs in the Department of Buildings. “It’s stunning to see the nypd Communications Department more than double to 86 staff while so...
Only one out of four immigrants had a lawyer among the 211,096 persons whose cases were backlogged in Chicago as of December 2023, according to TRAC....
One American is dead and another was left begging for his life after a botched coup was stopped in its tracks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)....
“It feels a bit off-balance,” said Rogowski, who went on to point out that children already have many other damaging freedoms online where they are more exposed to danger and not protected.
So, there’s a chance something could be getting lost in translation and I don’t know the context here, but just taking this article’s description at face value,
[Paraphrasing], “Kids can voluntarily be exposed to explicit content on the internet, so why do we need guardians around when I act creepy towards them (it’s my job, no really)” seems like both a tellingly weird rant trigger for this guy and first line of argument in defense of it
e; I should have kept reading the article,
For Rogowski, though, the efforts now made in Britain are in danger of inhibiting creativity. His scenes in Bird involve several small children and teenagers who are depicted in situations of social neglect and even imminent harm. “It’s true that Andrea is very careful and respectful, but it would have been great sometimes if there was a bit more trust – and I think that’s a cultural thing,” Rogowski told the industry journal Variety this weekend. “We are so scared nowadays to expose our kids to maybe a swear word – which is ridiculous, because we allow them to use social media and YouTube.”
Ok, yeah, so maybe spoilers for the movie Bird (I haven’t seen it but I’ve read a few things about it now), but it seems like this actor plays an abusive father figure type, and I could kind of imagine how doing that work would have you running into these regulations a lot and they might get kind of annoying, but a) they are there for a really good reason b) if I was your publicist I’d be writing a profanity filled resignation email right now, because you just created a PR headache for yourself
That all said, I think this guy is more dumbass than creep at this point
As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians....
In the Spring of 2021, The Biden administration reinterpreted the American Rescue Plan Act so that local and county governments could give the COVID recovery money Congress has approved to their police departments for basically anything
In the Summer of 2021, The Biden administration approved Memphis’ plan to use $13mil on various “public safety” initiatives
In the Fall of 2021, the Memphis PD used their influx of funding to create the SCORPION Unit
In January of 2023, officers from the unit beat Tyre Nichols to death
Perhaps we all should do better when it comes to caring about the physical safety of marginalized people
He could have descheduled it entirely with the exact same process that rescheduled it, but Biden still wants it to be illegal federally because it’s a great tool for cops, border guards, human resource departments and other shitheads to fuck with people they don’t like and preserving that kind of crap is a through line for Biden’s whole career back to the 70s
Also, their much touted climate change bill is almost entirely just handing out money to wealthy for profit companies (including fucking oil and gas companies for carbon capture programs that probably won’t work) and hoping they do good things with it, instead of just prohibiting them from doing bad things like we should be doing
It helped insurance companies. The uninsured rate is super low these days but tons of people still can’t afford premiums and our of pocket costs and skip healthcare anyway
with some Democrats being very conservative
And whenever people try to call out conservative Democratic party members for screwing things up they get shouted down in comment threads just like these
Because a lot of what the claim as success is a half measure at best and actually makes things worse in a lot of instances. For example, thanks to the ACA we now have more people giving health insurance companies more money than ever before, money they use to lobby and lock in their political advantages, but meanwhile lots of insured people are still being crushed by healthcare costs because the insurance they get is crap.
But, just to prove I’m not just a Democratic party/Biden hater -
Thank you for the sincere and thought out reply, that was honestly really refreshing.
I’m really, truly, glad for your people and that they’re doing better and doing more good in the world, and very much believe that’s exactly what healthcare can and should do for people and society. However, I know one person who spent years dealing with medical debt because their insurance basically did a bait and switch (hospital was in network but the doctor wasn’t), probably a dozen who spent years at jobs they hated because they needed the insurance, and one person who worked in healthcare and basically had to switch jobs and move to a different specialty because having to fight insurance companies for her patients and losing those fights was destroying her mental health.
Also - and this feels kinda petty and I’m sorry if it comes off as disrespecting your story but I’ve just gotta say - I’m pretty certain dental coverage isn’t mandated for employers under the ACA, or for adults on state Medicaid plans. So, though the ACA certainly may have helped or played a role in the people you know getting dental care (like, some states do provide dental, and there’s probably matching money or a grant or some other mechanism somewhere in the ACA to support that), it didn’t do it alone, and there’s all too many people who don’t get that treatment because they have a lousy employer plan and/or live in a red state.
And my problem with the ACA is that it really serves to lock a lot of these problems in and just completely neutralize any political will to change them. Beyond shoveling money at health insurance companies, it’s made them a central player in healthcare policy, both through their lobbying work and through the kinds of influence they’re more able to exercise over healthcare providers (e.g. what health insurance will and won’t cover determines what departments get what kind of staffing, let alone the impact it has on what individual providers can and can’t do). The deeper these things set in to our various bureaucratic and political systems the harder it becomes to even imagine another way to do things because the administrative and intellectual resources to do all the nifty gritty detail work of healthcare are owned outright or deeply intertwined with this inefficient and unjust market system.
Also, there’s a deeper historical conversation to be had about how the politics of 2008-10 played out, and how bank bailouts and the ACA both gave Tea Party assholes material to work with, but frankly I don’t have the mental energy to disentangle that from the fact that straight up racism and lies did a lot to propel them. Like, to discuss that 2 year period properly really would take a whole book, but the harm that was done to this country by the 2010 election and the census and gerrymanderings that came after it is really hard to overstate, and I really think that the mishandling of policy and messaging around the foreclosure crisis and healthcare reform by Democratic lawmakers really set the stage for that disaster.
That all being said,
If we survive November, we’ll meet back up and hassle the newly-electeds together
Hear hear, that’s something I’ll look forward to while holding my nose and filling out my ballot. Good luck to you and your people, whatever may come.
In March, our team at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection—along with our co-counsel at Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum, LLP—settled Penebaker v. Hitt, a historic lawsuit brought by two Democratic Wisconsin electors against the ten individuals who fraudulently cast ballots for Trump and...
Daniel Perry, a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, was released from prison Thursday after he was pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott....
Don’t know when, but I can already see one of the quotes that will run in that future news story,
During Perry’s sentencing hearing last May, the prosecution asked that he be sentenced to at least 25 years in prison. They highlighted a stream of racist and inflammatory social media posts Perry wrote prior to the shooting and the defense’s own analysis of his mental disorders and mindset.
“This man is a loaded gun ready to go off on any perceived threat that he thinks he has to address in his black and white world and his us versus them mentality,” a prosecutor said.
And he’s being released just in time for Pride Month, during an election year, and while Israel/Palestine protests are ongoing. It’ll be amazing if he doesn’t hurt someone else.
An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case....
Getting people to click with a lying headline and then giving them the truth after you’ve gotten their webtraffic is horrible journalism and corrosive to civil society
Oh for sure, a Republican probably wouldn’t have even got investigated for the stuff Menendez did. His corrupt ass can go right to jail, but that ® immunity card is a way bigger problem for our country than anything he did.
Both Prisons and the Public Rely On Incarcerated Writers (prisonjournalismproject.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/prisons-and-public-need-incarce…
California blew it on bail reform. Now Illinois is showing it works. (www.latimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/illinois-bail-reform-works
ShotSpotter Showdown Set in Chicago Amid Fierce Debate Over Value of Gunshot Detection System (news.wttw.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/shotspotter-showdown-set-amid-f…
Arrested. Injured. Suspended. These Six NYC university students say they'll keep protesting. (www.npr.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/pro-palestinian-protests-studen…
The NYPD's Public Relations Staff has More Than Doubled in the Past Two Years (nysfocus.com)
In a statement, Brooklyn Councilmember Lincoln Restler pointed to the contrast between the dcpi’s staffing surge and Mayor Eric Adams’s cuts to other city services, including hundreds of layoffs in the Department of Buildings. “It’s stunning to see the nypd Communications Department more than double to 86 staff while so...
In Chicago's Immigration Court, One of the Largest in the US, Only One in Four Have an Attorney (www.injusticewatch.org)
Only one out of four immigrants had a lawyer among the 211,096 persons whose cases were backlogged in Chicago as of December 2023, according to TRAC....
US-Congolese father killed while his son begs for his own life alongside Maryland cannabis dealer after bungled coup to overthrow DR Congo President (www.dailymail.co.uk)
One American is dead and another was left begging for his life after a botched coup was stopped in its tracks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)....
Judith Godrèche Launched A New Wave Of #MeToo In France, And Now Brings Her Survivors Film ‘Moi Aussi’ To Cannes (deadline.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/judith-godreche-moi-aussi-metoo…
Trying to predict human ingenuity is hard (lemmy.world)
CNN political commentator Alice Stewart dies (www.cnn.com)
Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58....
German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors (www.theguardian.com)
Cast member of Palme d’Or contender shot in Kent says the high number of chaperones and intimacy coordinators on set was over the top...
Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president's backers say he shares faith, values (apnews.com)
As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians....
Rudy Giuliani served with Arizona ‘fake electors’ indictment during 80th birthday bash in Palm Beach (nypost.com)
When Both Sides Ignore the Working Class. (lemm.ee)
bUt BoTh SiDeS dA sAmE (lemmy.world)
Lawsuit Brings to Light New Revelations About 2020 Fraudulent Electors Scheme (www.justsecurity.org)
In March, our team at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection—along with our co-counsel at Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum, LLP—settled Penebaker v. Hitt, a historic lawsuit brought by two Democratic Wisconsin electors against the ten individuals who fraudulently cast ballots for Trump and...
Gov. Abbott pardons Daniel Perry for 2020 fatal Black Lives Matter protest shooting after recommendation from pardons board | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Daniel Perry, a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, was released from prison Thursday after he was pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott....
At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display (www.nytimes.com)
An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case....
North Carolina's protest crackdown now includes a ban on N95s (www.motherjones.com)
Morehouse College might halt graduation ‘on the spot’ if there are disruptions when President Biden speaks (www.cnn.com)
Lawyer opens defense of US Sen. Bob Menendez in his corruption trial by blaming his wife (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/bob-menendez-bribery-trial-gold…