The 33-year-old Watts, who had not shared the news of her pregnancy even with her family, made her first prenatal visit to a doctor’s office behind Mercy Health-St. Joseph’s Hospital in Warren, a working-class city about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Cleveland....
Our legal system has historically been often leveraged disproportionately against black folks. That may or may not be the case here, but perhaps the author thinks so.
It's OK, he probably learned some quality life skills from the experience. /s
The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is intensifying his efforts to de-emphasize racism in his state’s public school curriculum by arguing that some Black people benefited from being enslaved and defending his state’s new African American history standards that civil rights leaders and scholars say misrepresents centuries of U.S. reality.
“They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” DeSantis said on Friday
The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him, she said....
The lawsuit argues that the city is violating its own ordinance by not allowing the Office of Police Oversight to access internal disciplinary files of officers.
Thurau's nationwide examination of decades of lawsuits involving Tasers, also called "Conducted Electrical Weapons," found the devices were used on a disproportionate number of children of color and children with disabilities....
She was sitting in her car before dawn last month when a uniformed police officer in Las Cruces, New Mexico, accused her and her passenger of trespassing, then shouted commands laced with the F-word at her and threatened to arrest her, “tase” her and make her life “a living hell” if she didn’t comply with his plan to...
“Listen to Elijah’s words,” prosecutor Jonathan Bunge said as police body camera video was played. “When Elijah is on the ground handcuffed, he’s saying over and over and over again, ‘I can’t breathe. Please help me.’”...
Vaping works wonders because with custom mixed juice you can dial back the nicotine content to barely anything over time, then eventually to 0. In the meantime you just keep using it the same way.
Having done this myself, you'd be amazed how quickly you start going "WTF am I doing this for?" after that final step to 0.
There seems to have been a coordinated attempt to stomp out the idea of vaping as a smoking cessation tool, but given how relatively cheap and easy it can be, it's hard for me not to pull out my tinfoil hat when I wonder why that was.
I tried cold turkey, gum, patches, wellbutrin, and probably other methods I've forgotten about over decades. With vaping it was a no brainer.
Not saying these other methods may not also work but I feel like technology has handed us the obvious solution, and while many ex-smokers have figured it out, seemingly no one else has.
Three words would pretty much guarantee trumps failure (or whoever ends up on the ticket if the ballot and continue), and would be more inline with the core value of being inclusive. The three words are “all lives matter”.
BLM had an implied "too" at the end. All lives matter was coined explicitly by folks who couldn't understand that (or chose not to understand it) and is a racist dogwhistle. So what you are saying is dems should incorporate racist dogwhistles so they can get the same voters Trump gets with his racist dogwhistles?
A big ass chunk of trumps cult-like zealotry support is simply because he’s saying it’s ok to be white… He is, ironically, picking up the slack that Dems created by vilifying those three words.
I'm white, and I'm even old, and I can't begin to wrap my mind around folks who insist that any path other than ignoring what we've done in this country against various minorities, or pretending those problems are solved, is somehow an attack on being white.
I go outside every day and interact with countless people of different ethnicities, and never feel it's not OK to be white. And I damn sure don't understand why "Black Lives Matter" should make me or anyone feel differently. Except for bigots, I get why it bothers those people.
No sir, I do not want the people you are saying we should court, and I see no upside to appeasing them. What will they come for next? We know what they will come for. They will come for anything they perceive as helping any group they aren't a part of.
The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers....
Researchers still can’t answer the big question: Are those nanoplastic pieces harmful to health?
“That’s currently under review. We don’t know if it’s dangerous or how dangerous,” said study co-author Phoebe Stapleton, a toxicologist at Rutgers. “We do know that they are getting into the tissues (of mammals, including people) … and the current research is looking at what they’re doing in the cells.”
What liberal bias? [His] media research suggests it's another right-wing myth (www.salon.com)
What we see here is dramatic evidence of asymmetrical partisan indoctrination in the news media — and it's primarily a right-wing phenomenon.
Black Ohio woman criminally charged after miscarriage underscores the perils of pregnancy post-Roe (apnews.com)
The 33-year-old Watts, who had not shared the news of her pregnancy even with her family, made her first prenatal visit to a doctor’s office behind Mercy Health-St. Joseph’s Hospital in Warren, a working-class city about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Cleveland....
But muh bootstraps!
Jack Smith Has Set a Trap for Trump (statuskuo.substack.com)
And it’s based on his “advice of counsel” defense
Cop Explains How It Feels To Live Every Day In Fear Someone Might Record You Brutalizing A Civilian (www.theonion.com)
Whipping scars of a former Mississippi slave, US Civil War, 1863
Bar owner is arrested after St. Louis police officer crashes into his business (www.seattletimes.com)
Sorry folks, this didn't look paywalled for me when I posted it....
Exclusive: A Prominent Election Rights Lawyer Is Calling Out Atlanta’s Voter Suppression on Cop City Referendum (www.motherjones.com)
The Elias Law Group is supporting the Vote To Stop Cop City Coalition.
Alabama police officer caught on video using stun gun on handcuffed man: ‘Do you want it again?’ (www.al.com)
The Reform police officer is on leave while authorities investigate the weekend arrest.
A mother reported her son missing in March. Police kept the truth from her for months. (Spoiler: Run over by a cop.) (www.nbcnews.com)
The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him, she said....
Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday (www.theverge.com)
From the article:...
Austin hasn't allowed more police oversight, despite voter approval. Now it's getting sued. (www.kut.org)
The lawsuit argues that the city is violating its own ordinance by not allowing the Office of Police Oversight to access internal disciplinary files of officers.
"They tortured him"; police used Taser on special needs teen for breaking window before shooting him (www.cbsnews.com)
Thurau's nationwide examination of decades of lawsuits involving Tasers, also called "Conducted Electrical Weapons," found the devices were used on a disproportionate number of children of color and children with disabilities....
I haven't needed this yet today, but I'm sure it's coming.
Last few days are the least functional kbin has been for me since the July exodus. Just me?
Just curious if it's somehow got to do with anything on my end. I'm generally desktop-only, firefox-only.
A grandmother was fatally shot in her car by an officer. It’s not his force’s only deadly encounter under scrutiny (www.cnn.com)
She was sitting in her car before dawn last month when a uniformed police officer in Las Cruces, New Mexico, accused her and her passenger of trespassing, then shouted commands laced with the F-word at her and threatened to arrest her, “tase” her and make her life “a living hell” if she didn’t comply with his plan to...
Elijah McClain said 'I can't breathe' 7 times as he was lying handcuffed on the ground, prosecutor says (www.nbcnews.com)
“Listen to Elijah’s words,” prosecutor Jonathan Bunge said as police body camera video was played. “When Elijah is on the ground handcuffed, he’s saying over and over and over again, ‘I can’t breathe. Please help me.’”...
Maryland roommates claim police detained them at gunpoint for no reason and shot their pet dog: "No remorse" (www.cbsnews.com)
The roommates claim officers unnecessarily shot their pet dog, a boxer mix named Hennessey, which was left paralyzed and ultimately euthanized.
Hook an old FPS gamer up. Anyone else fondly miss "assassin mode" from Soldier of Fortune (2000)? (en.wikipedia.org)
I have never played another FPS that had a mode like this, and it was so damn fun and self-balancing....
New Treatment Shows Promise for Helping Veterans With PTSD Quit Tobacco (researchinenglish.com)
GOP Sen. Says He Could Have Beat Up Hearing Witness if Not for ‘Political Correctness’ (www.rollingstone.com)
Sen. Markwayne Mullin blamed “political correctness” for the uproar over his attempt to fight a witness during a Senate hearing.
What Biden Needs to Tell Us (www.nytimes.com)
A presidential vision for a positive-sum world of innovation and peace.
Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water (www.nbcnews.com)
The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers....
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate (lemmy.world)
Martin Luther King