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8·1 day agoThe article beneath the headline actually says
Johnson then put one hand around Joyner’s neck and took out his service weapon, putting the barrel of the Glock-22 to Joyner’s temple.
FWIW, headlines and subtitles usually aren’t written by the journalist bylining the piece, they’re typically handled by an editor who supervises a bunch of journalists reporting out a bunch of different stories and decides which to publish when (or, more likely, which to forward on to a committee of more senior editors who will decide which of those to publish and when).
So I’d bet an editor read through this story in about 90 seconds and then just said something like, “‘Glock 22’ obviously isn’t going to tell the average reader anything because I don’t know what that is, so let’s just say ‘revolver’ because it’s all the same to me. Now, on to the three dozen other stories I need to review because my bosses keep cutting our staffing and I’m doing three people’s jobs.”
In other words, an editor of a magazine that explicitly advocated for white supremacy in the 50’s and 60’s let the mask they’ve since put on slip for a second
This would explain why their governor is still on record saying he’s going to vote for Trump. I bet he doesn’t mind having an excuse to send a bunch of state troopers and surveillance tech into a city during an election year either.
6·5 days agoCampaigners say further physical and mental harm could be inflicted under Labour home secretary Yvette Cooper’s plan to increase deportations to 2018 levels – with a goal to remove thousands of migrants and refused asylum seekers by the end of the year.
I hate how many people seem to be fighting for this title
Speaking to CBS, DeWine said: “This is something that came up on the internet, and the internet can be quite crazy sometimes.
It didn’t just come up “on the internet” you cowardly shit stain, it came out of the mouth of the presidential candidate you said you’d be voting for
Close, but she’s not being sued, she’s actually being criminally prosecuted on six felony charges
Isn’t that fucking special.
In-fucking-deed it is
What are they going to do about the bad cops?
They all already got a variety of punishments (generally not harsh enough imo, but their conduct runs all the way from rigging an intramural athletic competition to driving drunk with a loaded firearm, so it’s a bit of a complicated picture and worth reading the full article for those details). She was looking them up after the fact so the prosecutor’s office she works for now (Los Angeles county) didn’t call on them to testify in court (or, if they had to call them for whatever reason, so her office knew to let defense attorneys know about this as theoretically required under the Brady opinion (but exactly what things are Brady material and what can be ignored is something attorneys will be fighting over until the end of time and something I believe LA county and the CA attorney general have argued over in recent history)).
12·8 days agoWhen you are charged as a juvenile your records are expunged upon turning 18
A lot of people think this but it isn’t true. In Georgia (and most other states) you have to ask a judge to expunge your record and they have to give the prosecutor’s office an opportunity to respond before the judge can decide if the person with the juvenile record has been rehabilitated and their record should be expunged. There’s nothing automatic about the process.
That sounds more like how people have always used social media (e.g. bragging about any accomplishments they can, hiding any difficulties they’re going through, etc.) and how US based marketers have always used American Dream bullshit to pressure people into spending themselves into debt than any kind of coordinated foreign disinfo campaign to me
Beyond that, the fact that “people can come to the US and find prosperity and stability” is a lie seems to be the bigger underlying problem here
tl;dr, the local racists get big mad and protest a bit while the reasonable make arrangements and gather supplies, and then the migrants settle in and life moves on like it was all never any big deal to begin with (because it wasn’t)
Then it should be a very simple matter for her campaign to put out a statement expressing her support for Khan and Gensler
The Harris campaign didn’t provide a comment for this story.
there’s a lot who sense their interests are diametrically opposed to the CEOs who’ve spent billions lobbying congress.
The donor class is willing to spend a lot of money to break those people and convince them that they’ll only ever get oligarchic bullshit or the blatant incompetence and violent bigotry of Republicans from their government
I bet these donations were at least implicitly contingent on being publicly announced like this
Seriously, it’s truly infuriating how much money there is to be made beating children in this country, but at least another one of these trauma factories is getting exposed and probably going to be shut down
This is something that needs to be said about all Republicans. Their party’s been indulging in fascist politics since Goldwater ran on opposing the civil rights act six decades ago, but we keep pretending there are decent people with the intellectual capacity to serve in office who identify as Republicans anyway for some reason. The uncomfortable but simple fact is that there are only idiot Republicans who don’t realize their party’s continued existence is a threat to the country and evil Republicans who do, and neither should be in any kind of government office ever.
471·14 days agoUnfortunately the US Department of Justice says they agree because they are (yet again) bending over backwards to protect right wingers from being held accountable for their actions to harm our country
9·19 days agoNot the most evil bastard in history, but I think the world would be a vastly different and better place if Klemens von Metternich died young.
he did.
*organized labor forced him to do.
Also, I imagine they would look for ways to deny benefits to transgender veterans, veteran survivors of sexual assault who got discharged under corrupt circumstances, and other veterans they dislike for hateful reasons
If this was a recent wave, I bet it was just the end of the summer and some kids just desperately not wanting to go back to school for whatever reasons