octopus_ink 7h ago • 90%
octopus_ink 7h ago • 100%
musk is all in. He either goes to prison or trump wins.
If trump has proven anything, it's that wealthy Republicans can get away with literally anything in this country. Musk isn't going to prison, and I doubt he'll even see a courtroom over this.
octopus_ink 15h ago • 88%
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octopus_ink 15h ago • 90%
However, Spring said after the plea hearing that she did not believe Rosing was remorseful.
Yeah, I can look at that mugshot and tell she's not. Glad (and surprised) she got actual punishment.
Edit: I'm making the assumption that's the reflection of a bright orange jumper I see at the bottom of the photo, and the typical blandly colored cinderblock wall in the background.
octopus_ink 1d ago • 100%
A family member has received what we regard as spam texts with political polling questions. She doesn't reply to any of them. One of them said, after asking her if she would vote for Harris, (paraphrasing) "If you don't reply, that counts as a No."
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I don't know if it's polling fraud or garden variety phishing stuff, but it's something.
octopus_ink 2d ago • 100%
Heh, I had a similar feeling.
octopus_ink 2d ago • 100%
Well you'll love this then. My first exposure to Lin-Manuel Miranda...
octopus_ink 2d ago • 100%
Obgligatory it was actually flavor aid.
Sorry, the compulsion was just too strong... 🙂
Edit: I see that extra g. I'm leaving it.
octopus_ink 2d ago • 100%
You've proven to me that it's time to read the books again. I was wondering about this very thing (OP) just a week ago.
octopus_ink 3d ago • 100%
I feel like that's the mugshot of a man saying, "I have my reasons, and I'd do it again."
octopus_ink 3d ago • 100%
octopus_ink 3d ago • 100%
Yes, yes I can.
octopus_ink 4d ago • 77%
That's OK. If it gives a few more people one more reason not to vote Jill Stein, I'll take it.
octopus_ink 4d ago • 100%
You should probably block this community if it bugs you, or you could be in for a bad time. From the sidebar, at the very top no less:
octopus_ink 4d ago • 84%
And she's inviting the actual right into the party. So now we can have our conservative party and our batshit crazy party. No need to even talk about progressive policies! Yay!
Somehow R destroying themselves resulted in a loss for the left. R just gets to join D and it's all good, high fives and hugs, despite who they voted for and supported since 2016, despite their continued assault on the queer community, despite their rampant overt bigotry and racism.
octopus_ink 4d ago • 66%
He was running against Dr. Oz. So yeah, still better.
octopus_ink 4d ago • 100%
The first rule of usenet.
octopus_ink 4d ago • 100%
Been thinking this thought a lot lately. IIRC he was a decent man and likely would have been a decent president - but god forbid he get a little excited at a rally. Meanwhile, Trump has proven that literally nothing he could do or has done would change the mind of his voters. He could start and end every speech with a Howard Dean scream, and no one would even bat an eye.
(And I seem to also recall hearing that the isolated microphone of his scream that we've all heard a hundred times did not reflect how it even sounded at the event.)
octopus_ink 5d ago • 100%
Sure you can, you don't need my permission. Will they be disingenuous questions or actual questions? :)
octopus_ink 5d ago • 66%
Oh look you you can almost speak your point non-disingenuously after all.
You can think whatever you like of Angela Davis, that's not for me to decide (and despite multiple comments from you, I'm still not sure what that is), I just wish you wouldn't have tried so hard to coyly imply instead of stating it. Thanks for almost coming out and making a plain point.
As for me,
"On June 4, 1972, after 13 hours of deliberations, the all-white jury returned a verdict of not guilty."
Edited later to add: The original press release seems to be gone now, but here is what is claimed to be the revised release, and an article on the same topic. https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/polizei-dortmund-greta-gewaltbereit-100.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-politician-calls-greta-thunberg-102611513.html
www.cnn.com
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/43424862 > Police in a majority-Black Mississippi city **discriminate against Black people, use excessive force and retaliate against critics**, the Justice Department said Thursday in a scathing report detailing findings of an investigation into civil rights abuses. > > The Lexington Police Department “has created a system where officers can relentlessly violate the law” in one of the poorest counties in America, according to the Justice Department. Investigators found **police also sexually harassed women and kept people behind bars for minor offenses because they couldn’t afford to pay fines**. > > “Today’s findings show that the Lexington Police Department abandoned its sacred position of trust in the community by routinely violating the constitutional rights of those it was sworn to protect,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19963910 > JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers [tortured two Black men](https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-goon-squad-sentencing-6d0fb2b195ec319411a2ee2333b5f5d6) in a racist attack that included beatings, repeated use of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in the mouth, officials said Thursday. > > The Justice Department will investigate whether the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department has engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force and unlawful stops, searches and arrests, and whether it has used racially discriminatory policing practices, according to Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke. > > Five Rankin sheriff’s deputies pleaded guilty in 2023 to breaking into a home without a warrant and engaging in an [hourslong attack](https://apnews.com/article/rankin-mississippi-deputies-civil-rights-brutality-2c2154e67cc6cd3b9a28cb16686f2a5c) on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. A sixth officer, from the Richland Police Department, was also convicted in the attack
reason.com
Medina offered two puzzling excuses for leaving his camera off. He "cited intermittent conversations with his wife, who was a passenger in his unmarked patrol vehicle at the time of the collision," Ortiz says. "He claimed there was a right to privileged communication between spouses, which specifically exempted him from mandatory recording requirements." But the relevant policy "does not provide for nonrecording based on spousal privilege." Even more troubling, Medina said he "purposefully did not record because he was invoking his 5th Amendment right not to self-incriminate." Since "he was involved in a traffic collision," he reasoned, he was "subject to 5th Amendment protections."
eu.indystar.com
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13349939 > cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13145612 > > > (edit) Would someone please ship some counterfeit money through there and get it confiscated, so the police can then be investigated for spending counterfeit money?
www.propublica.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19678700 > The New York Police Department has tossed out hundreds of civilian complaints about police misconduct this year without looking at the evidence. > > The cases were fully investigated and substantiated by the city’s police oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and sent to the NYPD for disciplinary action. They included officers wrongfully searching vehicles and homes, as well as using excessive force against New Yorkers. > > In one instance, an officer punched a man in the groin, the oversight agency found. In another, an officer unjustifiably tackled a young man, and then another officer wrongly stopped and searched him, according to the CCRB. > > The incident involving the young man was one of dozens of stop-and-frisk complaints the NYPD dismissed without review this year — a significant development given that the department is still under federal monitoring that a court imposed more than a decade ago over the controversial tactic.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20031755 > My personal entry point to LL Cool J - and I think best song on his best album. > > There's a remix that actually *has bells*, but I thought I should go with the one most will have heard.
My personal entry point to LL Cool J - and I think best song on his best album. There's a remix that actually *has bells*, but I thought I should go with the one most will have heard.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20031449 > I have the unpopular opinion that aside from a couple specific songs I've been lukewarm to every LL Cool J album later than *Radio* (which was such a banger), but this is so eyebrow-raisingly off the path of what I tend to expect from LL Cool J that I had to post here. > > I literally came blind to this new album, and just before hitting play I thought - well unfortunately I can predict I'm not going to get any hard social commentary like from dead prez or etc... > > 30 secs later it felt like that thought had personally offended him. Track 1 no less. > >