I still think we should vote for them but unless they actually pursue policies that take away the ability of Republican state governments to oppress people were all just going to be some dumb sad assholes in November 2032 because President Buttigieg lost to Elon Musk after four years of getting jack shit done

Anonymously, I wouldn’t put it above them to find some excuse to mess with you for making their Daddy Trump look bad

If it’s not Medicare for All then they’re not serious

Also, for every incident that gets a story written about it, assume there are a half dozen or more that don’t

I don’t see how this is furthering separation of church and state when they can still just replace this church with another more obedient one

Paying a billion dollars to the state government of Texas and getting out of being forced to make any changes to their products is just the continuation of mobster shit tho

Soon “Our health supplements are the only ones that have been clinically proven to reduce the reported symptoms of radiation sickness, made from only the finest saw dust and snake oil etc.”

This is not to say what they’re trying to do is not dangerous. This is to say they are weaker than they want us all to think

Exactly, resistance is not only necessary, it is possible, it’s just much harder to see that second truth right now

Yeah, police have a ton of latitude when they decide who to press which charges on and who they just let go with warnings or whatever, choosing to throw child endangerment at this girl is just straight up trolling

I don’t know for sure if they’re all anti-vax, but there are definitely some problems with the kinds of medical professionals prisons often hire

(I could swear I saw a ProPublica article within the last month about how state prison systems all across the country hire doctors who got disciplined or lost their licenses in other states but I can’t seem to find it now, so here are some slightly older articles or ones that focus on specific states, but this is definitely still a current problem and not one that just happens in one state or another)

“Many state hospital, prison doctors without medical licenses” (arc)

“Disgraced doctors, unlicensed officials: Prisons face criticism over health care” (arc)

“Nearly one-third of doctors working in Wisconsin’s prisons have been censured” (arc)

“When Prison Nurses Must Choose Between Guards & Patients: In dozens of cases, medical personnel in NY prisons were accused of covering up beatings — some under pressure — and rarely faced punishment.” (arc)

That is the protocol in Utah for firing squads, but not South Carolina

As for why Mahdi’s body showed two wounds from the execution rather than three, a doctor noted in the comments section on the autopsy commissioned by the state that “it is believed that” two bullets went through one wound. Whereas in Utah, not all members of the state’s firing squad shoot live bullets, in South Carolina, the rifles of all three shooters were supposed to be loaded with ammunition.

The two wounds on Mahdi’s body were described in the autopsy as being almost exactly the same size. Pathologists who reviewed the report expressed doubt that two bullets went through precisely the same, small hole.

“I think the odds of that are pretty minuscule,” Wigren said

(Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250509155025/https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5389846/firing-squad-south-carolina-death-penalty-execution)

Also, it’s arbitrary and capricious - this is hitting everyone in the prison, regardless of their sentence, just because they happen to be incarcerated at the wrong place and time

True, but it only happened after these journalists confronted the DA’s office with the results of their investigation. The DA says they had no idea this guy was a nazi, but if that’s true then their hiring and vetting process has serious problems, and I doubt those are going to be addressed in a meaningful way.

Verdi and Rey say they have shielded their grandkids from the severity of Gentile’s current situation in South Georgia, where he is clad in an orange jumpsuit and fighting to remain in the country. They told the children that he had to leave on an urgent trip.

“They ask, ‘Where is my daddy?’ And we can’t tell them, ‘Daddy is in jail,’” Verdi said.

“We had to lie to them because we don’t want to hurt them,” Rey added.

Absolutely deranged scumbag behavior, voting for Trump is bad enough but lying to children in your care to protect your own fragile egos from what you’ve done (that “we don’t want to hurt them” is self serving bullshit whether they’re consciously aware of it or not) is even worse. Those kids are going to go to school and they’re going to hear what really happened to their father from one of their classmates, probably in the most traumatizing way possible, all because these fucking sorry excuses for caregivers didn’t have the backbones to admit what they’ve done.

Yeah, the fact that the prosecution did the absolute bare minimum

Over about two-and-a-half days, prosecutors moved quickly, calling only five witnesses, including Mills, a medical examiner and Nichols’ mother, RowVaughn Wells.

and the judge allowed in irrelevant evidence

For the first time, the defense introduced evidence of items that investigators found in Nichols’ car

didn’t make their jobs any easier, but yeah I don’t know how any reasonable jury could’ve done what they did

Just because he may be pushing eugenics for somewhat sympathetic reasons tied to his own adverse childhood experiences doesn’t make him pushing eugenics any less dangerous

LaFavers said she was changing some settings on her phone to make sure there’s never another surprise delivery candy crush at home.

C’mon guys, that joke was easier than taking credit card information from a single parent

They updated that dateline since this was posted to

Updated 5:07 AM CDT, May 7, 2025

I think this article was initially “Murdoch family member sues other Murdoch family members” back when the suit was initially filed last year and now we’re just getting to the first hearings in it today

Besides that, their actual business model is about as close to mutual aid as mainstream American society gets outside of libraries. Give what you can, but all are welcome to watch.

Actually, it’s the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and independent members stations who choose to syndicate NPR and PBSs programming who decide that