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  • North Carolina parents arrested for letting their kid walk to the store. On his way home, he was killed by an SUV. The parents were charged with manslaughter.

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  • I wasn't referring to crime rates at all, just the dangers of American traffic infrastructure. And in that context I'm not interested in comparing the rates of traffic injury/death over the past X years but with other developed countries.

  • North Carolina parents arrested for letting their kid walk to the store. On his way home, he was killed by an SUV. The parents were charged with manslaughter.

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  • The primary issue isn't that American children are less capable but that American neighborhoods are unsafe. In many suburban developments in the United States it isn't safe to walk to anywhere of interest (excepting the neighboring houses). Residential areas are often separated from commercial and recreational areas by high speed automobile traffic lanes with little-to-no pedestrian infrastructure.

  • Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. In other words, they are losing money on every user.

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  • That's not capitalism, that's a market.

  • The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday it will offer student loan forgiveness to new ICE agents

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  • My guess is that the benefits only pay out after you've been employed a certain number of months or years. So if you get fired for incompetence you probably won't get the benefit, or you'll be required to pay it back.

  • Delta regional jet pilot apologizes to passengers for ‘aggressive maneuver’ to avoid a B-52 bomber

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  • If I had to venture a guess I'd say it was probably the tower at nearby Minot AFB. Perhaps the commercial flight's approach took them over the bases' airspace or something.

  • Trump threatens to cut off New York City funds if Mamdani ‘doesn’t behave’

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  • The problem is that federal income taxes are generally paid directly by employers to the federal government. It's not clear by what mechanism states and/or cities might withhold them.

    It's true that the State of New York, and NYC are both large employers, so hypothetically I guess they could refuse to collect income taxes from their employees on behalf of the federal government, but certainly the IRS would still hold the individual taxpayers responsible for those taxes at the end of the year.

  • ‘Ticking time bomb’: ICE detainee dies in transit as experts say more deaths likely

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  • The cruelty is the point.

  • NY Court Ruling Will Force Retired Workers Into Privatized, For-Profit Medicare Advantage Plans

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  • In New York the "Court of Appeals" is the highest state court, higher than the New York "Supreme" court. It's just a weird naming thing.

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  • I heard a saying once (I cannot remember the provenance) that could be paraphrased like: "The liberal is someone who is for all movements except the current movement; against all wars except the current war."

    There are two important points:

    1. Every major movement in history has incorporated elements of violence;
    2. Which movements we retroactively consider as violent is determined by sociological consensus.

    For example, the American civil rights movement is today considered by people to have been largely non-violent. However at the time the movement's opponents definitely thought of, and portrayed it as a violent enterprise.

    Opponents of a movement will always portray that movement as violent. The status-quo consensus perspective on historical protests is written by the victors. Therefore, the hypothesis that "non-violent" protests are more likely to succeed than "violent" ones is self-fulfilling. When protest movements succeed we are less likely to consider them "violent".

  • "The road to authoritarianism": Tim Walz says the time for "sternly worded letters" is over

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  • I was chastised by a random person at my local protest for joining in a chant of "Fuck Donald Trump".

    Many of these people are still so attached to the idea of civility politics that they don't even want anyone to curse.

  • Pope Leo's First US Bishop Calls on Priests to Escort Asylum Seekers to Court: 'People of Faith Stand with Immigrants'

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  • In the John version of the story, he "drives" them out of the temple with a whip. It's difficult to reconcile that with a total pacifism.

  • Pope Leo's First US Bishop Calls on Priests to Escort Asylum Seekers to Court: 'People of Faith Stand with Immigrants'

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  • Pacifist

    Did I misread the part when he kicks the shit out of the money changers?

  • Andrew Cuomo Wants to Get Away With All of It

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  • That's because they'd rather have a serial sex pest than a s̸̼̹̼͂͐̚ò̵̳͇̝͍̲̪̥͎̆͆͋͊͘͜ͅc̵̡̤̰̳͙̱̰̞̟̈́̈́͝i̶͕͕̹͆̃̈́̽͗̓ḁ̶̯̠̳̅͌̿̋̈́̐͠͝l̶̡̟̮͕̖͉̪̺̇͗ḭ̵͎̲̇ş̶͙̱̼̮̮̼̜̮̃̄́͒̐̒͗̚t̴͙̏̌̈́̎̃̀̀͋͝

  • Locked Removed

    This is — and I cannot stress this enough — a real government website

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  • It's a $5M gold card visa program. I don't think they've made any details about the scheme public yet.

  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom is floating a federal tax boycott

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  • I don't know how they could implement this across the private sector, but the State of California has a quarter million employees for which they could probably stop sending tax withholdings to the feds.

    According to this random site I found Googling, it's around $230M every month.

  • LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It

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  • I am saying that:

    1. the vast majority of violence perpetrated at these demonstrations is done by law enforcement
    2. if cops wanted people to stop throwing water bottles at them they would stop trampling people with horses and shooting reporters with rubber bullets
    3. framing these demonstrations as "violent" only serves the narrative of the right

  • LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It

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  • It's textbook manufacturing of consent

  • LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It

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  • They will say that regardless of how much violence protesters actually do. Purity testing demonstrations only makes the situation worse by allowing the right the ability to dictate the narrative.

  • LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It

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  • As an additional point to add to yours, every single political protest movement in history has included violent elements. It's unavoidable. When these political "moderates" start pearl clutching about some windows being broken or whatever it is an attempt to de-legitimize the entire movement, and draw the focus away from the actual source of the majority of violence, the cops (including ICE).