You know it's going to be bad when every public official is saying "plz don't riot when we release a video of police murdering an innocent person 👉🥺👈"
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I will never understand why blocking recourse for victims of egregious government abuse is seen by many as a prudent political position.
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Hochul, at the Albany PD station, says she opposes efforts to repeal qualified immunity for police.
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A year ago, I wrote about a 93-year-old woman who fell behind on her property taxes. So the government seized her home, sold it—and *kept the profit.*
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear her case. But there are many stories like hers, and they'll shock you. A thread.
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NEW: Killings by US police reached a record high in 2022. Data reveals:
•1 in 3 victims was fleeing
•majority were routine encounters turned deadly, incl traffic stops, mental health calls, no crime alleged
•major surge in killings by sheriff depts
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New from : Part 2 of an astonishing investigation into a new junk police science, 911 call analysis.
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Thread: Last year, police arrested a Texas mom. They put her in jail. She lost her job.
Her alleged crime: Leaving her teen daughter home alone.
There are a surprising amount of disturbing cases like this that fly under the radar. Let's talk about them.
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What was the “celebration restaurant” your family ate at when you were a child that you didn’t realize was not, in fact, a 5-star establishment until you became an adult?
Ours was CiCi’s Pizza.
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NEW: World Cup Daily, Day 25. They just don't care. Qatari World Cup organizers don't even hide their apathy over migrant worker deaths, including the most recent one.
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There will be a mountain of attention on this -- far too early to know how he died, but Grant Wahl (a wonderful soccer writer) had just published a piece about migrant deaths in Qatar and drew attention for the reaction by security guards when he tried to wear a pride shirt.
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NPR can confirm the death of longtime soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl). He died today in Doha, Qatar while covering the Argentina-Netherlands World Cup quarterfinal. Story to come.
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Paul Whelan begged your father merely to tweet about him in 2019. When I profiled Elizabeth Whelan and her efforts to free her brother a few months later, the Trump White House did not so much as acknowledge my requests for comment. theatlantic.com/politics/archi
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The Biden Admin was apparently worried that their DEI score would go down if they freed an American Marine.
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Trump slams trade with Russia, saying, "Why wasn’t former Marine Paul Whelan included in this totally one-sided transaction? He would have been let out for the asking." Begging the question then of why Trump didn't free Whelan, who was imprisoned in 2018 during Trump's presidency
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People posting AI art of themselves like
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Setting my fantasy lineups in Week 1 vs setting waiver claims in Week 12
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There’s a not insignificant portion of the American public that believes its big cities are lawless war zones because they live in a right-wing media bubble that wants them to believe this.
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Elon is mad about a 30% App Store cut they openly state but took $50K from people for a Roadster deposit that never shipped
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The town of Mesa, Arizona, will pay $8 million to the widow of Daniel Shaver, an unarmed man shot by police while crawling on his hands and knees toward them
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Apparently cops are forcing people to hand over metro cards and credit cards to check for “fare evasion.” This happened to my friend on an .
“86th st and 2nd ave. There were traffic cops at every bus entrance and they wouldn’t let people off”
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naturally the police tackled and arrested the hero veteran and locked him in a police car for an hour
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Translation: We stole what may have been someone’s life savings—potentially ruining his life—for no tangible public safety benefit. And then we acted like that was heroic.
It’s legalized larceny, & it’s routine.
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Mom has 8 yo walk 1/2 mile home. Cops called. One asks: "Would you do this again?"
"I said, 'I don't know,'" recalls Wallace. "That's when the cop replied, 'Okay, I'm going to have to arrest you.'"
He proceeded to handcuff her in front of the kids.
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Insane we tolerate this from a country we provide massive amounts of military assistance to
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Was this episode of House of the Dragon directed by Quentin Tarantino? 👀
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A Gingerale will cure ailments of the body and a Dr Pepper, ailments of the mind and spirit.
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It's amazing how quickly anti-democratic practices were normalized in WI. It took less than a decade.
Here, the GOP Senate refuses to give the Dem Governor's appointees a hearing, holdover GOP appointees refuse to leave, and the GOP state supreme court says all of this is fine.
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18 months after terms expired, GOP appointees to Wisconsin's technical college board continue to serve and deny Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' appointments (via @KellyMeyerhofer) jsonline.com/story/news/edu
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Really important to know that cops have been stealing more from people than thieves have for years now
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One of the most repulsive things about the criminal legal system is how hard it works to protect wrongful convictions.
I wrote about how there are many more Adnan Syeds that we’ll never know about.
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If this is a chefs arm you're about to eat the best tacos in your life. If this is a cops arm you're never gonna see your family again.
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The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that it's up to citizens to refuse to cooperate with police if they want to protect their Fourth Amendment rights against search & seizure
Yet this police officer literally shot a boy who asked "why" when police told him to get out of his car twitter.com/kendallybrown/
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An NYPD cop accurately reported wrongdoing by his supervisors, so they raided his home, hauled him to the hospital in cuffs, and held him there for SIX DAYS under false claims he was having a "psychiatric emergency." When the ordeal ended, the hospital sent him a bill for $7,185.
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5.) In one high-profile example of police manipulating crime data, the NYPD detained a fellow officer in forced psychiatric hospitalization for six days after he blew the whistle on the department's efforts to artificially lower the crime rate. nytimes.com/2012/03/16/nyr
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Lmao so true
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So funny to throw one of the few remaining groups on her side under the bus like this twitter.com/jk_rowling/sta…
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We really do get more stupid with each passing year
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BREAKING | Hurricane #Ian brings catastrophic storm surge to Naples, Florida with water moving into houses. Social media channels show residents SWIMMING in the surge in their houses.
DO NOT DO THIS. You don't know what may be in this water, including chemicals!
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*Florida* taxpayers are funding DeSantis' continued presidential ambition stunt to (TBD if unlawfully) transfer immigrants from *Texas* to other parts of the country
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Gov. DeSantis tells @LizCrawfordWTSP that he can't confirm whether Florida is sending flights of migrants to Delaware right now.
He goes on to defend the use of FL taxpayer money in the process of sending migrants from Texas to elsewhere "It's made more of an impact" :
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the adnan case shows that if prosecutors commit ten different types of obvious misconduct to throw you in jail for life, and a dozen people devote their lives to helping you, and publicize your case to millions around the world, maybe you can be set free 23 years later
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Severance and it isn’t close
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Who should win best Drama Series at tonight’s #Emmys?
Nominees:
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SUCCESSION
STRANGER THINGS
SQUID GAME
SEVERANCE
OZARK
EUPHORIA
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YELLOWJACKETS
SUCCESSION
STRANGER THINGS
SQUID GAME
SEVERANCE
OZARK
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SCOOP: Nuclear weapons to vaporize the earth tomorrow.
In an exclusive from her new book, Maggie Haberman reveals that three years ago, Vladimir Putin told her he planned to destroy the world on September 13, 2022
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Jimbo Fisher should be giving a cut of every paycheck he receives to Jameis Winston
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Kevin Sumlin's first 50 games at Texas A&M: 36-14
Jimbo Fisher's first 50 games at Texas A&M: 35-15
Homelander would have loved to be the main character in Barbarian
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