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111 Former G.O.P. Officials Back Harris, Calling Trump ‘Unfit to Serve’ | The signatories of a letter endorsing the Democratic vice president included former members of Congress, defense secretaries
octopus_ink 13 hours ago • 100%
Magas, anime butterfly meme, "Is this the deep state?"
Newsoctopus_ink 16 hours ago • 100%
OTOH they did delete all those Jan 06 text messages so I no longer regard them as objective in the performance of their duties.
Androidoctopus_ink 16 hours ago • 97%
Everyone seems to, except major phone manufacturers. 😡
octopus_ink 16 hours ago • 100%
She'll probably be happy to take it. She achieved her goal, like a good soldier.
octopus_ink 17 hours ago • 100%
“Still a man, he hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest” -Paul Simon
I think you need to heed your own advice based on how this discussion has gone.
octopus_ink 17 hours ago • 100%
I don’t see this being examined in any objective and scientific way.
What would be scientific would be to allow women and their doctors to evaluate those risks together and make the decision without Republican lawmakers continuing to try to insert themselves in between. Sorry if that's too emotional.
I'm also quite sure there are scientific journal papers that cover this. I feel like you are expecting an awful lot from an article about a specific event on politico.
It is literally the highlighted quote in the article: “we actually have the substantiated proof of something we already knew—that abortion bans kill people.”
For someone who complains about others not being objective, I find it unexpected that this is what you would quote to support this assertion by you:
using a sample size of 1 as evidence of an epidemic
octopus_ink 1 day ago • 100%
and the perception that no women die from legal abortion procedures.
I don't know anyone who has edit: [ever expressed] that perception. Anecdotal I know, but I'm skeptical it's a common belief among adults of voting age.
using a sample size of 1 as evidence of an epidemic
I don't see that word, nor any language that conveys that impression in the article.
I do see this:
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
That seems pretty straightforward and unsensationalized to me.
octopus_ink 1 day ago • 100%
On the one hand, you have some women dying of complications arising from an elective procedure that they chose to have, based either on medical necessity or other factors. On the other hand you have a woman in need of medical care that she wished to have, and was denied, due to her reproductive autonomy being denied, then dying as a result.
Yet you have a hard time distinguishing what makes these things different?
octopus_ink 1 day ago • 100%
octopus_ink 1 day ago • 100%
I mean, hasn’t it been pretty clear for at least a year now that this is the plan.
Memesoctopus_ink 1 day ago • 100%
In that hypothetical I think my comment would stand either way.
octopus_ink 1 day ago • 100%
Fair point! I'd love to see the reaction of my maga neighbor with his handwritten signs about what morons and traitors Harris voters are.
Actually, it would probably involve violence or vandalism so I'd rather not. But, if I believed he would keep his hands and bullets to himself...
octopus_ink 1 day ago • 100%
Why wait?
octopus_ink 1 day ago • 100%
I'd love for that to be so, but I think centrist dems are OK with status quo, nothing progressive, already. An influx of "conservative democrats" isn't going to move the needle in a good way.
Again, sincerely hoping to be proven wrong, that's just how I read it.
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 98%
Raise your hand if you think this will result in meaningful consequences of any kind.
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memesoctopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
Interesting, thank you!
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
Serious question because I am math-challenged.
What things are we able to quantify by finding the square root of a negative number aside from square roots of negative numbers?
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
Seriously WTF is up with this?
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
Also innocent Haitian immigrants were attacked.
https://haitiantimes.com/2024/09/11/haitian-immigrants-in-ohio-under-racist-attacks/
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
I can't believe so many people are describing it that way. It's clear there are plenty who will still vote for them.
I just see this making the Democrats even more conservative since the few non-batshit Rs will start looking that way and the leadership will try to woo them. (as they already are)
Progressives and actual leftists are going to be less represented, not more.
At least that's my gloomy take. I'd love to be talked out of it.
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
You don't put bourbon in it or nothin'?
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
He shouldn’t have access to sharp objects, nonetheless a firearm, or be fucking Sheriff. He’s a danger to his community.
So, par for the course with US law enforcement.
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
Unless the figure has been changed, it was even less than that.
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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."
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FBI flagged as 'major government contractor' questions why Harris isn't being assassinated
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
My bad.
But those damn Tesla shareholders...
A Boring Dystopia
14 pages of dead babies
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
There might be an updated version at the visualizing palestine website. I was happy when they updated it to add the current conflict, but that was months after it started...
A Boring Dystopia
14 pages of dead babies
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 97%
They had it coming! Should’ve picked a different place to be born.
They certainly should have! Poor kids. (I didn't miss your sarcasm, just adding to it)
Look what the older Palestinian kids have had to endure:
politics
Calls for J.D. Vance to resign after he admits that he 'created' pet-eating story about immigrants
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
No one who voted or will vote for him gives a shit anyway though, so the only way he's going to go is if R does the right thing which, we know how that will play out.
politics
Marjorie Taylor Greene admits she shared false info about Harris 'whistleblower' car crash
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 57%
I agree with everything you typed, but not so much the picture. I really think that body/looks-shaming Loomer is not a good look for us. There's plenty to attack her on without attacking her looks.
politics
Marjorie Taylor Greene admits she shared false info about Harris 'whistleblower' car crash
octopus_ink 2 days ago • 100%
I thought she was waiting to be tapped for VP honestly.
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 100%
Obligatory -
FUCK YOU ANDREW JOHNSON!
politics
FBI flagged as 'major government contractor' questions why Harris isn't being assassinated
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 100%
And the worst part is SpaceX is a private company: no public shareholders to keep Musk in check.
Not like the Tesla or Twitter shareholders are doing much good anyhow.
THE POLICE PROBLEM
Indiana police have dogs that sniff specifically for cash at the US’s 2nd biggest FedEx hub, then they simply keep the money
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 100%
Sure, but "sending cash is risky" is different than "if you send cash police will legally steal it."
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 100%
Plonk.
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?
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 100%
Well, if you're going to move the goalposts that far from "most men are fascists" (which was throwing out the baby with the bathwater in the first place) what even is the point of discussion?
Good day to you.
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 100%
Most men vote republican
Most men who vote vote republican.
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 100%
Even if you and I disagree slightly on the meaning (I suspect my definition is more colloquial than yours) - I definitely agree with you that it's applied slapdash against far too broad a segment of society.
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 100%
Here on Lemmy leftist means communist to some people, but liberal means corporatist Democrat to me.
Progressive or leftist is what I call myself depending on context. If I'm among a group that will immediately think I mean communist, then I stick with progressive.
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 100%
most men are fascist
I mean, citation fucking needed.
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 90%
Why do all their jackets look three sizes too big?
I mean, something has to counterbalance their headwear.
octopus_ink 3 days ago • 100%
That's nuts, I didn't know that!
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.
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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.
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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.
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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. > >
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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.
theintercept.com
denvergazette.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19313916 > A retired Aurora police sergeant faces criminal charges for raping his daughter and continually sexually assaulting her and his two adopted daughters, but he remains free from custody while his ex-wife is in jail for objecting to court-ordered reunification therapy meant to repair his relationship with two of his sons.
www.interviewmagazine.com
>JODIE: The reason it has been difficult for the United States to understand the Palestinian side is not only because of the media but because colonialism is in our history. We can’t face the fact that colonialism is wrong and that it steps on a lot of toes and hurts a lot of people.
www.nbcnews.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19720479 > >“I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences,” Harris said. “And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19444083 > If someone asked me what the theme song was for 2020 as I watched videos day after day of cops abusing protesters and bystanders, this is undoubtedly the only choice. Came up on shuffle last night and immediately took me back.
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If someone asked me what the theme song was for 2020 as I watched videos day after day of cops abusing protesters and bystanders, this is undoubtedly the only choice. Came up on shuffle last night and immediately took me back.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18629062 > According to the debate, they had their reasons. But still -- when one hundred and eighty six nations say one thing, and two say another, you have to wonder about the two.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18608380 > **A former Kansas police chief who led a [raid last year on a weekly newspaper](https://apnews.com/article/marion-kansas-newspaper-raid-aca057365ea3925328a69acd615c9893) has been charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of persuading a potential witness to withhold information from authorities when they later investigated his conduct.** > > The single charge against former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody alleges that he knowingly or intentionally influenced the witness to withhold information on the day of the raid of the Marion County Record and the home of its publisher or sometime within the following six days. The charge was filed Monday in state district court in Marion County and is not more specific about Cody’s alleged conduct. > > The raid **sparked a national debate about [press freedom](https://apnews.com/article/marion-county-record-kansas-newspaper-raid-f1e49c4e542ddb3cf19c9ca02a0a21fb)** focused on Marion, a town of about 1,900 people set among rolling prairie hills about 150 miles (241 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City, Missouri. Also, newspaper Publisher Eric Meyer’s mother, who co-owned the newspaper and lived with him, died the next day of a heart attack, and he blames the stress of the raid.
theintercept.com
**Lots more good stuff with citations in the article, but this bit really ties it all together:** The right-wing obsession over racial demographics becomes obvious in the “pro-natalism” movement, which advocates for conservatives to have more children to take control of society. The mission of the movement is “to build an army of like-minded people, starting with their own children, who will reject a whole host of changes wrought by liberal democracy,” according to a fascinating recent story in Politico. For the right wing, pro-natalism means looking for every possible means to increase the white percentage of the nation’s population. Through this lens, it’s not hard to see why Republicans remain virulently anti-immigration and strictly opposed to abortion. Those two issues may appear unrelated, but in fact Republican positions on both stem at least in part from white demographic fears. Republicans want to halt the rise in the nonwhite population by curbing immigration. At the same time, they hope their abortion bans will boost domestic birth rates — staving off white demographic decline. They also want to ban contraceptives and no-fault divorce, forcing women to stay in marriages and have more children. The Republican Party’s white nationalism is often justified in religious terms, since much of this agenda designed to enhance white power stems from the party’s Christian fundamentalist base. Along with Protestant evangelicals, the Republican religious base now includes fundamentalist Catholics, who stridently oppose abortion.
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Each time the name of a new victim of police violence enters the public lexicon—Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and now Sonya Massey—there are questions about the officer’s response. How could that officer have mistaken a cellphone for a weapon? Why did that officer shoot someone who was running away? Did that officer really have to shoot so many times? One answer to all these questions is that officers are trained to see the world as threatening and to respond accordingly.
reason.com
www.citybureau.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18412897 > Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240808114434/https://www.citybureau.org/newswire/2024/8/6/migrant-day-laborers-home-depot-off-duty-chicago-police-security-lawsuit
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