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There’s also a simple reason Harris might be reluctant to discuss the expiring Trump tax cuts: She’s promising to keep most of them. ...
With little coming from the candidates themselves, pro-business groups are trying to fill in the blanks for voters — and for members of Congress either facing re-election or simply unacquainted with the tax code’s intricate details themselves.
a) I truly cannot emphasize enough how much I despise both of our political parties
b) At least once every twenty four hours since I've listened to it, I've seen at least one news story that makes me think of this interview the Know Your Enemy podcast did with the authors of "The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics" and how I need to get around to reading that book
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If you really think you're the subject of a criminal investigation and think there is some utility in engaging with it before it comes to you, retain a criminal defense attorney and let them start making phone calls and sending letters
queenseagle.com
>Justyna Rzewinski, who recently left her job as a social worker with Correctional Health Services, the agency that provides healthcare to the city’s detainees, told the city’s Board of Correction during its monthly meeting on Tuesday that the Department of Correction frequently “deadlocks” detainees with mental illness inside cells as a form of punishment. > >The alleged practice, which the DOC did not confirm or deny on Tuesday, would appear to be a violation of the BOC’s rules that govern the rights of detainees on Rikers Island, a jail complex where half of the incarcerated population has been diagnosed with a mental illness. Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/0982c
www.vitalcitynyc.org
>New York City’s jails are in a state of perpetual crisis, documented over many years in a steady flow of reports on the violent and inhumane conditions inside for both people in custody and people working in the facilities. Violence, unmet needs, sexual abuse, mismanagement, and the unsanitary and decrepit nature of the buildings themselves have all featured prominently in the news, in our own reports, and in the reports of the federal monitor overseeing the jails as the result of Nunez v. City of New York and Benjamin v. Maginley-Liddie, among many others. The entrenched nature of these problems is now in stark relief as the judge overseeing the Nunez case has ordered the parties to begin developing a proposed structure for a federal receiver. Appointment of a federal receiver to take over control of the jails is an extraordinary measure, and the fact that New York City is the closest it has been to one in its history is a marker of both the seriousness of the problems and their resistance to change. > >Yet while we know things are bad, the picture of conditions in the jails remains woefully incomplete. The information that does exist is fragmented — held in different locations, sometimes by different entities, which often conflict with one another. While there are exceptions, much of it is made available only in PDF format, making it much more labor-intensive to identify trends, and there are often inconsistencies in when it is made available. And, of course, some information becomes public only when it makes it into a monitor or news report, which makes it less likely that it will be tracked consistently. > >With all of that said, here we present a picture of conditions in the jails as we know them: Who’s being held, what it’s like to be inside, and who’s responsible for oversight. Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/UBCUX Incidentally, this article comes from a whole special issue this NYC based magazine did recently devoted to Riker's Island - https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/issues/inside-rikers-jails-can-be-safer-and-more-humane
www.invw.org
>Unlike most states, Idaho lacks regulatory oversight of local jails. Sheriffs and jail commanders set their own standards. Annual inspections are voluntary, scheduled months ahead of time, and the sheriff’s association conducting the inspections is exempt from the state’s public disclosure law. > >If jails fail the inspections, there’s nobody who can force them to comply. > >Results of the voluntary inspections, obtained by InvestigateWest, offer a grim picture of the current state of many Idaho jails. All of the jails that failed inspections this year were overcrowded, understaffed or both. Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/eZJYs
apnews.com
>Standing in the North Carolina woods, Chris Arthur warned about a coming civil war. Videos he posted publicly on YouTube bore titles such as “The End of America or the Next Revolutionary War.” In his telling, the U.S. was falling into chaos and there would be only one way to survive: kill or be killed. > >Arthur was posting during a surge of far-right extremism in the years leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He wrote warcraft training manuals to help others organize their own militias. And he offered sessions at his farm in Mount Olive, North Carolina, that taught how to kidnap and attack public officials, use snipers and explosives and design a “fatal funnel” booby trap to inflict mass casualties. > >While he continued to post publicly, **military and law enforcement ignored more than a dozen warnings phoned in by Arthur’s wife’s ex-husband about Arthur’s increasingly violent rhetoric and calls for the murder of police officers. This failure by the Guard, FBI and others to act allowed Arthur to continue to manufacture and store explosives around young children and train another extremist who would attack police officers in New York state and lead them on a wild, two-hour chase and gun battle.** > >Arthur isn’t an anomaly. He is among more than 480 people with a military background accused of ideologically driven extremist crimes from 2017 through 2023, including the more than 230 arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection. Bolding added, archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/OOU0a e; added a final period to the AP's headline because it looks weird without one
www.texastribune.org
>The Texas Supreme Court late Thursday halted the execution of Robert Roberson hours after it was set to take place, capping a flurry of litigation filed that same day by Texas state lawmakers in a last-ditch gambit to stop the state from killing a death row inmate they believed was most likely innocent. > >The order was a stunning 11th-hour victory for Roberson and for the state lawmakers who opposed his execution and turned to novel legal maneuvers in an effort to buy him more time. > >The stay arrived in response to a separation-of-powers conflict touched off by a group of Texas lawmakers when they subpoenaed Roberson the night before he was set to be put to death. The unprecedented step sought to give the man a final lifeline after a series of court rejections left him on track to become the first person in the country executed for allegedly shaking a baby to death. Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/k8EPU
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Well shoot, it loaded the article for me, but try this one instead - https://archive.is/ZXQXe
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If we had a functioning federal government, the answer would be because the EPA required it and failing to follow environmental regulations could lead to them being prosecuted for child endangerment
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"Imposing any kind of environmental regulations in businesses would destroy the entire economy, concludes team of economists paid by those businesses. Coming up next - are you doing enough to protect your family from dangerous toxins in our environment? We'll tell you what a dumb and lazy piece of shit you are, after these ads!"
www.wxpr.org
>The [Environmental Protection Agency] has set a 10-year deadline for most utilities to replace lead service lines, but omitted requirements for schools to replace the water fountains or plumbing that have lead components. Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/F5qXx
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He also wrote that Netanyahu will pay any price at the expense of the public in Israel, provided that his rule does not fall "and therefore, to the horror of it, there is no chance that the war will end in the foreseeable future. Neither voluntarily nor according to logic. Its continuation forever is the only barrier that will prevent his personal catastrophe.
Yep, the ongoing war is delaying a corruption trial against Bibi where I think he could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison, so he's going to keep this war going forever if he can
www.wired.com
>Global Intelligence claims that, using only open source data—public information that doesn’t require a warrant—and a suite of more than 700 algorithms, its Cybercheck system allegedly can geolocate an individual in real time or at a specific time in the past by detecting the wireless networks and access points the person’s “cyber profile” has interacted with. The company’s founder, Adam Mosher, has testified under oath that the process is entirely automated, requiring no human intervention from the time an investigator enters basic details about a case into the Cybercheck portal until the time the system produces a report identifying a suspect and their location. > >If the technology works as advertised, then Global Intelligence is selling police departments previously unknown surveillance capabilities for as little as $309 a case that rival the open source tools used by national spy agencies. But a WIRED review of investigations involving Cybercheck from California to New York, based on hundreds of pages of court filings, testimony, interviews, and police records, suggests Cybercheck is a much less effective tool—one that has provided evidence in high-profile cases that was either demonstrably incorrect or couldn’t be verified by any other means. Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/sXQ6m
boltsmag.org
>Tens of thousands of Nebraskans who’d been blocked for months from registering to vote regained ballot access on Wednesday, though with little time to act before the November election. > >The block was lifted by the Nebraska Supreme Court, which ordered state officials to immediately comply with two related laws—one from 2005, and another passed this spring—that allow people to regain voting rights after completing their felony sentences. The court’s ruling on Wednesday reversed the actions of Nebraska’s Republican secretary of state, Bob Evnen, and attorney general, Mike Hilgers, who together in July abruptly declared both laws unconstitutional and blocked Nebraskans with past felony convictions from voting. > >The court’s decision means that nearly 100,000 Nebraskans who’d already regained voting rights over the last two decades because of the 2005 reform law, only to see their rights thrown into question this summer, are once again unambiguously eligible to cast a ballot. It also allows approximately 7,000 Nebraskans who were enfranchised by the law adopted this year to finally register to vote. > >Justice Lindsey Miller-Lerman, who ruled with the majority, criticized Evnen and Hilgers for attempting such a massive rollback of voting rights right before a major election. “Why now?” she wrote. “Why not take the opportunity to challenge the laws long ago with available remedies, rather than creating uncertainty at this time?” > >Voting rights advocates celebrated the court’s decision but they remain outraged at Evnen and Hilgers for the confusion and delays they created. The timing of the court’s decision gives advocates little opportunity to help people who might be confused about their voting rights because of Evnen and Hilgers: It came just two days before the Oct. 18 deadline to register to vote online. The cutoff for people to register in person is next week, Oct. 25. Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/4p3Qh
theappeal.org
>The state of Mississippi no longer has much of a case against Tasha Shelby. Almost 25 years ago, Shelby was convicted of a murder that almost certainly never happened. Prosecutors said she had shaken to death Bryan Thompson IV, her fiance’s two-year-old son from a previous relationship. > >But the case has since fallen apart. In 2015, the medical examiner who helped convict her recanted his testimony. Last year, a juror from her trial said he now believes Shelby is innocent. And the theory under which she was convicted—Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)—has been largely debunked. Symptoms associated with SBS can be caused by, among other things, illnesses, injuries sustained during childbirth, and short-distance falls. > >To coincide with National Wrongful Convictions Day, Shelby’s legal team mailed an amended clemency petition to Gov. Tate Reeves and sent a copy to District Attorney Crosby Parker, Shelby’s attorney, Valena Beety, told The Appeal. Neither the governor nor prosector’s office responded to messages from The Appeal. > >Beety says they last submitted a clemency petition in 2022 but did not receive an answer from the governor. Reeves has not yet granted any clemency petitions, but Shelby’s team hopes he’ll change course. Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ULtK5
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So no, the police dog can't sniff out abortion pills, instead a dirty cop either signaled his dog to the behavior, or the copy is straight lying about what the dog did.
You're not wrong, but that reality didn't stop a warrant from being issued or those envelopes from being opened
Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/h6QtG
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I don't expect any politician to speak against an issue that a majority of the public supports
This is way too simplistic and totally misunderstands the power of political leaders in democratic societies to shape public opinion. Like, the only real explanation for why public opinion on migration tanked is because Democratic lawmakers realized after 2020 that talking about ICE and CBP's deeply institutionalized problems made Biden look bad instead of Trump, so they stopped sticking up against them when more border problems inevitably came out and started blaming those on the migrants instead and the opinions of Democratic party voters followed.
then we have the Republicans trying to ban abortion. I guess we'll see how that works out for them
Reproductive healthcare is more restricted than it's ever been in my lifetime and there's no indication that we'll be overturning the court rulings that made that happen anytime soon. Also, all these political campaigns are sucking up all the donor dollars that reproductive healthcare funds still really need.
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Makes sense when neither of the two major parties is willing to speak against it. If Harris made opposition to draconian treatment of migrants a consistent part of her campaign those numbers could change, but Democratic politicians only try to lead on issues their donors care about and just weather-vane themselves into Republican-lite irrelevance on everything else.
www.washingtonpost.com
Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/lycuo
www.themarshallproject.org
Andrew Ciolli was in charge of the penitentiary at Thomson in Illinois for one year, before he moved to lead an even larger and more high-profile prison complex in Florence, Colorado. An internal investigation by the Bureau of Prisons conducted last spring found that some staff at Florence used excessive force in violation of policy, and Ciolli, as warden, should have stopped it — but didn’t. Investigators referred him for disciplinary action. But he’s now landed a role as the director of the bureau’s Management and Specialty Training Center, which provides leadership training and specialized instruction across the agency. Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dGNFh
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There are more than three things
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Not everything that is worth discussing has a source. Abstract ideas and hypothetical scenarios (among other things) have their places in rhetoric and communication.
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I mean, lawsuits are still one of the best ways for regular people to hold powerful entities accountable, so I'm super leery of anything that purports to stop "frivolous" lawsuits. I think the real underlying problem here is we're expecting a for profit company to do the right thing in a market environment where doing the right thing isn't the most profitable course of action. What we need to do is change the market environment or find someone that's not a for profit corporation to do the right thing (both admittedly easier said than done).
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A lot of people who think they're saying "[actual fact]" are really just stating "[subjective opinion]" and call any criticism of their opinions "[incoherent rage]"
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If the Wikipedia page on expungement is accurate there is some sort of process where it will get sealed from public view after a certain amount of time has passed.
I do agree if this is a one off thing it shouldn't haunt the rest of her life, especially given the fact that we're talking about a thirteen year old who was a victim of (at best) extremely negligent caregiving.
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Conservatives when a criminal justice system is punishing someone they don't like: "Blood for the blood god!"
Conservatives when someone's held accountable for a hate crime: "What has happened to our humanity?!"
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Last month, several Democratic groups circulated a memo warning that Trump is peeling off support among those constituencies. The memo concluded that underinvestments in digital communications with those groups was a major problem.
But it turns out that a good deal of this angst was directed at Future Forward in particular. Democrats familiar with internal party communications say that the PAC—which is widely viewed as a conduit for powerful White House adviser Anita Dunn to exercise influence over party messaging and resources—is operating from too traditional a mindset. The PAC, they say, favors ads on broadcast television aimed at broad audiences—when reaching young and nonwhite voters requires a more targeted digital approach because their media sources have grown so fractured.
Switching to Harris really starting to feel like throwing a new coat of paint on a car with a rusted out frame
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when its not important
It would be grounds for his impeachment if we had a sane government
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Everyone should keep being reminded of this every time Brett makes a ruling. America's judicial system is illegitimate until he's dealt with.
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Yeah, the federal government changed their rules just in time to make sure Trump can't be sentenced for something our supreme court decided he should be immune for, but meanwhile in this case
The innocence claim centers around three pieces of evidence... [one of which is] a photo lineup [that was] administered to a 9-year-old witness.
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The photo lineup, meanwhile, did not appear in the case files of the county prosecutor, state police, or county police, according to the investigation by Herring’s office. The lineup was referenced during the federal case against Richardson and Claiborne, indicating that federal agents had a copy of it. Richardson’s counsel said they obtained the lineup through a public records request to federal investigators.
During the May hearing, the confusion surrounding the lineup led to conflicting interpretations by Richardson’s legal team and state prosecutors.
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There is one individual who might be able to clear up the confusion around the lineup: ATF agent Michael Talbert, an architect of the 2001 federal case against Richardson and Claiborne. But Talbert did not testify at the May hearing because the federal government declined to make him available, citing his busy schedule.
Ultimately, Sussex County Circuit Judge William Tomko decided not to allow the photo lineup to be admitted as evidence.
“You’re not going to apparently ever be able to get the federal government to assist you with regards to establishing these documents, but that’s the unfortunate position that you’re in,” said Judge Tomko. “I can’t help that.”
Though Talbert did not testify at the May hearing, he spent an entire day in the courtroom watching proceedings.
“I am not permitted to ask questions of Agent Talbert because the federal government has refused to make him available, though he’s clearly available to testify,” said Hensley.
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You would think, but the article makes multiple mentions of "state prosecutors", so I think this is Virginia prosecutors bringing charges under federal law in Virginia courts
e; or rather, this is an appeal of a case brought that way
