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I hope he sues the shit out of them. And that we put an end to these cameras once and for all
Maurice Walters says he was pulled off a family cruise in handcuffs and arrested for a crime he didn't commit after police wrongly linked his car to a chase using a Flock camera image. He spent about 12 days in jail before being released on bail, and prosecutors later dismissed the charges. We cannot allow surveillance technology to become a shortcut that bypasses due diligence and destroys innocent lives.
🎥: Business Insider
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GM announced a plan to do $20 billion in share buybacks... and the United Auto Workers is justifiably very upset. UAW President Shawn Fain condemned the buyback as "outrageous."
The union says 4 out of 5 autoworkers at GM lack pensions or retiree healthcare and says that the money should benefit workers.
Profits generated BY the workers are being funneled AWAY from the workers and straight to Wall Street instead of basic long-term retirement safety nets. And let's not forget how US taxpayers funded GM's $50 billion bailout.
At $20 billion, this buyback authorization is roughly 27% to 28% of GM's entire market cap. This is one of the largest share buyback mandates in Detroit's history.
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50 years ago, the Attorney General went to prison for covering up the criminal actions of the President of the United States. Watergate's fallout led to the building of a wall of independence at DOJ that lasted half a century. That wall has been shattered by Trump's people.
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Nine FBI agents investigated the classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago. Kash Patel fired all nine.
He told Congress it followed "internal investigations."
Their lawsuit says there weren't any. Someone's lying to Congress, and I’d bet it’s not the agents.
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While voting in Tennessee, this happened to Dolly Parton's sister.
Listen up, y'all. Take as long as you need to and make damn fucking sure your vote is cast correctly.
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He drove his wife to one of the best hospitals in America for a planned caesarean. A routine one. Her second.
Charles Johnson watched her blood collect in a catheter bag for ten hours while he asked for help.
Kira Johnson died at 2:22am.
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, 12th April 2016. Kira Johnson was 39. She spoke five languages, raced cars, ran marathons. The caesarean was scheduled. Everything about it was routine.
Her son Langston was delivered at midday.
By the afternoon her husband could see blood in her catheter. He told a nurse. He was told they would check.
He asked again. And again. A CT scan was ordered and then not performed. He has described being told, at one point, that his wife was simply not a priority right now.
He stood in a corridor for ten hours asking people to look at his wife.
They took her back to theatre just after midnight. There were three litres of blood in her abdomen. She died shortly after.
Her son Langston was twelve hours old.
Charles Johnson has spent the decade since as one of the most effective advocates in American maternal health. He founded 4Kira4Moms. He has testified before Congress. The federal Black maternal health legislation introduced in recent years carries work he pushed for.
He talks about one thing more than any other, and it is not the medicine.
It is the ten hours. He was standing right there, in the building, awake, articulate, asking. And it made no difference at all.
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To be clear: the Republican guest said Abdul El-Sayed goes to bed in "Bin Laden's jersey" and CNN host Dana Bash said nothing, not a word of condemnation of her Republican guest - only the Democratic guest Guy Cecil pushed back, on his own.
At the end of the segment, Bash said she "appreciated" the Republican guest coming on. Is it because she shares his bigoted view of El-Sayed being a Bin Laden sympathizer?
Either way, it's insane how normalized the Islamophobia has become on mainstream cable news.
CNN's ‘Inside Politics’ panel on Wednesday blew up when former NRSC director Jason Theilman echoed Louisiana GOP Senator John Kennedy, saying that when El-Sayed “goes to bed at night, it looks like he’s sleeping in Bin Laden’s jersey,” which was followed by brief outrage from Dana Bash and former DSCC director Guy Cecil.
At the end of the interview, Bash thanked Cecil for freaking out and telling the Republican, “you’ll apologize later,” and said, “I think it was important what you said.”
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Jon Stewart: “Mike Rogers holds a special place of disdain in my life. This guy was a real pain in our ass in 2010, we were trying to get the Zadroga Act for 9/11 first responders and he was a particularly obstinate, oh that’s just a New York problem, he voted against it all while talking about how much he respects the heroes of 9/11 and I’m a patriot and it was all bullshit”
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🚨A 44-year-old Indiana Trump supporter, Jason Slyger, has been arrested by Noblesville police in a child predator sting.
Police say detectives posed as kids aged 13 to 15; five men were arrested. Slyger is charged with child solicitation and human trafficking.
Slyger shared memes on Facebook to demonstrate his hostility towards child predators. One 2020 post falsely links Epstein to a “list of pedophiles” that contains only Democrat-names. Another reads “Sex with a minor → It’s R*PE! Call it R*PE!”
The man who positioned himself as an anti-p*dophile activist has a lot of explaining to do.
