Good morning one and all to another absolutely incredible day! The sun is out and the links are fresh!
House Speaker Johnson Delays Sending DHS Secretary Mayorkas Impeachment Articles to Senate
We’re Now Spending More On Debt Interest Than Defense
Judge Orders Witness Names to Remain Secret in Trump Classified Docs Case
Biden Could Be Left off Alabama’s General Election Ballot if Key Deadline Is Missed
Amendment to end warrantless surveillance up for vote as FISA renewal bill moves to House floor
Media Admits Mail-in Voting Not as Secure and Reliable as They’ve Claimed
U.S. prosecuted criminal COVID fraud cases totaling $2 billion in losses, DOJ report says
I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust
Arizona Supreme Court Upholds 1864 Law Limiting Nearly All Abortions
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
And soon we’ll be spending more than entitlements…. Yay!
Morning, Banjos! Morning, all… enjoy the sunshine where you have it… the Sky Wolf didn’t eat the sun this time around! 😉
For some reason, that brought this saying to mind:
“Americans pay for far more government than they get, and they get far more government than they need,”
Debt leverages everything, I guess.
“Why don’t you fake rob this store, and I will fake stop you.”
Should be “fakin’” instead of “fake”
So, no right to face your accuser if you’re unpersoned?
The National Security exception to the Constitution continues apace.
The two words that didn’t exist before 1947.
Charged with victimless ‘not a crime’
Special prosecution just for him everyone else assured
Cant post bond as bonding companies are catch-22’d out.
Cant present a defense
Secret witnesses
Judge makes verdict a foregone conclusion before trial
Has the CJ system done one single legal action against him yet? They have made a joke of themselves destroying rule of law.
I’m going to screenshot this post.
Of course not. Even though we’re constantly told that taxbux only make up a tiny insignificant fraction of NPR’s budget, it mustn’t be cut off.
No country with government funded media can be called anything but corrupt.
Biting the hand that feeds you is dangerous to the biter? Noooooo………….
ALOL.
The fact that journalismists can live with themselves, not to mention project an unshakeable air of sefl-righteous self-regard, just demonstrates that you don’t hate them enoough.
Consider that 3 in 10 score is HIGHER than CNN/NYT’s score.
Wikipedia tells me that the NYT is the most reliablest source of all reliable sources.
Local billboards tell me that the #1 Trusted News Source is the Epoch times.
Trusted… by whom?
Trusted by all goodthinkers.
That’s a batting average that’ll keep you in the major leagues for your entire career!
That idiot still cannot see how much damage NPR has done. And it ain’t just trust.
He’s been with them for 25 years. That’s a lot of codependency to build up.
Let the piling on begin!!!!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/juan-williams-responds-editors-charges-npr-bias-insulated-cadre-people-who-think-theyre-right
When you think Juan freaking Williams is MAGA-adjacent, you should probably consider the possibility that your brain is broken.
Yeah, Trump may have accelerated the rot, but it was already very deep already.
Obviously they can’t have any problems. It must be that racist wipipo math trying to tircknologize them.
Their bias is so obvious that even they know that they’re doing it.
Of course they know. It’s deliberate. I fully expect they require a political statement before hiring – like colleges are doing now. And hospitals. And….
“Of course they know. It’s deliberate.”
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended. The road they have taken only leads to one place. There is no excuse for what they have done and deserve heapin’ helpin’s of the consequences.
NPR should never have existed in the first place.
Slum: He is just now coming out because their sins are too big and too obvious to hide anymore. Fuck him. He gets credit for being a mendacious asshole, that’s all. Everyone in the media knows about their past transgressions….covering up for monsters and scum, yet they keep doing it.
They have the utilitarian ‘gotta crack a few eggs’ view. Individuals are just means to an end.
Just like I can they see the trail of broken eggshells going back and disappearing into the mists of time and no omelet in sight. There was never any omelet, never any intention of creating one. Fuck the mendacious cunts. As pointed out already no matter how much you hate them it isn’t as much as they deserve.
I know, y’all are thinking “Dont sugar coat it, tell us what you really think.”
I’m willing to extend a bit more grace and credit him with acting in good faith.
Is he? Or is he preemptively surrendering because he sees the cops breaking in the door?
You gotta give the guy credit for calling this out – even if we think it’s obvious, he sounds like a lone voice at NPR.
He still works there, so I can’t imagine the amount of shit he’s going to get for daring to publish with the wrong-thinkers at The Free Press.
I thought this was totally wild:
Why does NPR have any contract with the Cartel?
So much this. We should be supporting not shitting on the guy for recognizing an issue and trying to improve his workplace and journo in general. Whatever his slant, if he is pushing for more diversity in thought and objectivity at an institution that seems to have purged all who are not of the body, then I give him my respect.
“Welcome to the party pal”
Disclaimer:
I have been known to listen to NPR and PBS in the past and give credit to PBS and NPR for a lot of my early life exposure to things outside of my little corner of the world. I don’t think they should be taxpayer funded to maintain their existence.
I used to listen to them a lot, but at some point it just became impossible.
“Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump.”
So it’s still Trump’s fault. I’m surprised he didn’t find a way to blame global warming, too.
And he thought the endless tongue baths of Obama were just fine?
Sorry, Uri, but your long journey to self-awareness has barely begun. Keep at it, champ!
A quarter century is a long time to spend at a place, especially one with a culture of self-regard. So far the EIC has responded to this with a “NYET! Radio station is fine!” I am curious exactly how long it will take for Uri and NPR to come to a “respectful and amicable parting of the ways.”
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243755769/npr-journalist-uri-berliner-trust-diversity
And of course, reality (when it’s not white supremacist math that is) has a liberal bias:
<blockquote.Others questioned Berliner's logic. "This probably gets causality somewhat backward," tweeted Semafor Washington editor Jordan Weissmann. "I'd guess that a lot of NPR listeners who voted for [Mitt] Romney have changed how they identify politically."
Similarly, Nieman Lab founder Joshua Benton suggested the rise of Trump alienated many NPR-appreciating Republicans from the GOP.
Jesus H Tiddy Fucking Christ, talk about missing the plot.
It’s quite deliberate. There are things right in front of your face that you must-not-notice, in order to sustain the illusion.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair
I think he does have a point that the GOPey RINO wing of the party that hate Trump with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns are likely NPR listeners.
The Liz Cheney mud faps?
I have to admit – this formulation always cracks me up. That the people who have been life-long Republicans are RINOs. GOP-e sure, that makes sense, but considering Trump is still a 90s Democrat despite the Republican label (hey, isn’t that the definition of a RINO?).
What makes Mitt Romney not a 90s Democrat?
Romney-care in MA? Remember how much the Democrats delighted in telling us how Obamacare was modeled on that?
I guess we’re sort of agreeing to the same idea that RINO is a meaningless term. Is a Republican someone who opposes the Democrats or constantly folds to their wishes? Michael Malice’s line that conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit is apropos.
I see people as ends in themselves. Institutions exist to serve the best interest of individuals.
I see individuals as means to ends. Individuals only exist to further the interests of institutions.
With those two at opposite ends of an axis I imagine there is a nice, perfect bell curve in between. I am what one might label an ‘outlier’ on the first point listed.
“I guess we’re sort of agreeing to the same idea…”
Violent agreement is a Glibs tradition.
Michael Malice’s line that conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit is apropos.
No one is more conservative of SocSec as it is than a progressive. Sometimes the label obscures more than it reveals.
So….. move the convention up? Make it clear that the convention is for show and just certify PPP as a candidate early?
Trot out whatever crap they were going to do to kick Cracky’s Dad off the ballot a little early so they can certify who they’re actually going to run?
Or just say AL and OH are lost causes anyway, we don’t care? We’ll make up for it in our swing states with fortification!
Weird, weird election cycles these days — I guess that’s what comes of not actually running campaigns because you’re tired of pretending democracy matters (while prog-jecting that onto the Stupid Party).
“We got the best kickbacks from this venue for that date”
Put “Democrat Nominee, whoever he/sue is” on the ballot.
Seriously, though, unless the convention is being held the week before the election, how is it too late?
There are clearly defined statutory deadlines that are not secret and haven’t been changed recently.
If you can’t figure out how to make up your mind before that, you don’t belong on the ballot. This isn’t like the secret “All names you’ve gone by” requirement not listed on the Ohio forms, this is “Just show up on time” level of responsibility.
It may only take a week (these days) to print and distribute millions of ballots with the right names on them, but of course now you need time to mail all the junk mail ballots and give plenty of time for them to be harvested.
Plus, somewhat more seriously, a hard deadline a few months in advance reduces the chances for shenanigans with swapping candidates in and out, etc. and theoretically gives the voters (to the extent they matter) time to figure out which one is the least bad.
Look! A UDP!
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1777675396701708330
Unidentified Droopy Penis?
Unidentified dangling phenomenon
Look! A UAP!
https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1777477784350155182/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1777477784350155182¤tTweetUser=dom_lucre
You know… regardless of what’s in the Patriot Act, whatever set up FISA in the first place, etc…. that procedure is unconstitutional on its face if anyone bothered to read the Bill of Rights. Similar logic as “shall not be infringed means “Issue only to my friends, background checks on every bullet, red flag checks to take them away if we decide you dislike the government…”, I know.
Oh, and I just can’t find myself getting excited because we’ve seen this “end FISA, end the surveillance” too many times now. They’ll bluster about it — maybe a few will vote for it… but most of them will happily continue to give the IC whatever they want, bolstering the rest of the country’s thoughts that they’re all just compromised as hell.
I’ve seen the dance, the particular ones doing the moves no longer interest me.
Since the IC already has kompromat on congresscritters, it’s only fair they get it on the peons too.
Thanks, Epstein! And now P-Diddy, too!
Fault the Church Commission – they could’ve burnt the FBI to the ground and salted the earth, but they believed reform was possible.
But without the FBI, which bureau will investigate federal crimes?
federal crimes
Well, if we take the Constitution at its word, there is no police power – sooooo…
Oh, sorry, I thought they were supposed to be investing crimes committed by the federal governemnt.
That’s my argument. We have the Secret Service, US Marshals, ATF, DEA, Border Patrol, Homeland Security, and I’m sure I missed a few. All redundant. The only unique thing the FBI does is political persecution.
But see, this time they are on the right side of history, so it’s them and the angels! All good, man, all good.
So just about like every other recent high tech weapon in the US arsenal?
https://www.wsj.com/world/how-american-drones-failed-to-turn-the-tide-in-ukraine-b0ebbac3?st=qxur8ei1o5os1pk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Let me guess, they didn’t have the least understanding of electronic warfare basics?
“We encrypted the signal, what went wrong?”
“They jammed all our frequencies with a bunch of noisy random data the cheap reciever couldn’t sift through.”
“We designed it for a battlefield where the F-22s and F-35s take out all emissions sites first! What do you mean that won’t always happen?”
At this point, what the DoD really needs is to badly lose a war.
Russia’s military is hopelessly inept! And a clear and present danger to the world! And staffed with alcoholic conscripts! And has highly advanced weapons!
And has an economy smaller than Canada! And interfered in the 2016 election!
Mr. President, we cannot allow a contradictory propaganda gap!
As boogeymen go all of the money in the world cant buy a better one than Russia.
Commercial systems are not allowed to encrypt or evade EW. They are required to behave nicely and predictably in the spectrum they are allowed to operate in.
Got a reference for that?
And if you’re designing for a warzone, why would you stick to such a rule?
These were commercial products and no I don’t have the FCC regs handy. But 20 years in dealing with military radios and why we don’t just use commercial products (or, god forbid, we actually do).
2003-2004 cheap commercial radios and GPS devices were ubiquitous among the US Army in Iraq. Soldiers just had families send them over. What worked against a technologically unadvanced enemy won’t work against more of a peer enemy.
EW is a huge part of the present and future battlespace. We need a light and efficient procurement system- and we got DoD instead.
I am uncharitably envisioning taught-to-be-fragile Millennials and Zoomers in Silicon Valley actually thinking they can design something that can handle being shot at. I wonder how much of the code was written to deal with PTSD and trauma?
It wasn’t even shot at from the sounds of it.
Did the rooskies broadcast deadnames at the drone?
So… stale DNS entries?
Handshake? Ableist otherizer!
NAK!
NAK!
stale DNS entries
Nice one.
It was the victim of electronic bullying and chose to run away.
“There’s no place like 127.0.0.1. There’s no place like 127.0.0.1.”
If it sends a signal, it can be tracked. If it gets a signal, it can be hacked. Signals can be spoofed and jammed. Codes produced by machines can be broken by machines.
visual aid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIbgOqQqFc
Here endeth the world’s shortest lesson in cryptography and electronic warfare.
NPR Guy: I’ve become a visible wrong-thinker at a place I love!
Me: What a shame. Have a seat and let me tell you about what I’ve been through.
Listen bub, are YOU an award-winning journalismist? Didn’t think so.
In case you actually thought Wall St and DC didn’t really collude.
– JPMorgan and BlackRock were among firms in contact with a BLS economist for CPI details, raising concerns about data access fairness.
– The “super user” email list facilitated exchanges on CPI computations, including shelter and used cars categories.
– The BLS aims to restore trust after an email mistake suggested unequal information access, emphasizing public data security and fairness.
https://super.news/en/articles/2024/04/09/jp-morgan-black-rock-in-bls-cpi-data-super-user-controversy
Good news is they plan to “restore trust”.
The stock market is rigged. The best an individual investor can do is buy and hold for decades, or buy after the trough and sell before the peak, following what the “big guys” do.
As it’s been part of my career for decades I won’t go that far. I can, however, tell you what parts individuals should avoid.
“what parts individuals should avoid”
Equities?
“The BLS aims to restore trust after an email mistake suggested unequal information access”
Clearly, the mistake was that the untermenschen somehow found out.
Precisely.
Bait for Bro and others with a (legitimate) distrust of Big/Establishment science. Could also be spun as sour grapes by a loser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8
Interesting note on the ability of the ancient Greeks to reach the Polynesian islands – ancient Egyptians likely did have contact with territories as far away as Australia. They had boomerangs which they called the foreigner’s weapon. Not to go into the Gosford Glyphs which would be awfully difficult to fake.
I think if you question people around here, you would find plenty of distrust of big science in parts and the parts where they are most trusting is going to be where they are most ignorant. The more knowledgeable in an area, the more distrust you’ll find.
Einstein said you don’t need 100 scientists to disprove him. Just a single fact that he couldn’t account for. That’s real science.
When it comes to the areas of “science” I’m most critical of, it’s the opposite and those who attacked me the most here go along. If you can’t account for, say, Polynesian DNA showing up only in South America dating back to 13,000 BC with your current hypothesis on the movements of ancient people, their interconnectivity, and their technology level, you can’t just ignore that evidence. Your theory is wrong.
Sorry, 11,000 years ago.
Pacific currents wash maerials up on the west coast of the Americas from pretty much anywhere if left adrift.
We know that a population arrived and some of them lived long enough to make an impression. What is up for debate is whether there was any intentional repeate voyage, which the age of the last introduction of Polynesian genetic material indicates that there wasn’t constant contact. The most probable scenario is a trade convoy or colonization flotilla missed its intended island destination and ended up carried to the American shore, with no successful attempt at a return voyage.
Sorry that was the more recent one.
The 11kya event could just as easily have been a land migration from a group (population Y) closely related to the common ancestor of the polynesians. They are not particularly widespread, and finding the data from your cryptic references wasn’t easy.
UCS, if you think it’s more likely that a large migration crossed over land from Siberia all the way down through Canada and America and Mexico to reach the Amazon while leaving no traces anywhere else, then sure. It’s technically possible to explain another way.
The simplest answer, the one that actually fits the evidence best, is that they crossed by sea. The researches who initially found the DNA link believed it must have occurred this way. It’s only the archaeologists who insist that the technology didn’t exist who maintain it must have happened by land.
Except, you know, the DNA evidence indicates that the migration was fairly large, UCS, coming from the Polynesian islands and Australia. And it shows up nowhere in North or Central America. And the archaeologists don’t even attempt to explain it this way, but instead insist that it was a land migration through Siberia and land bridges that somehow left no traces over the other territories those people would have needed to cross.
I posted an article on this back during the initial debate. The researchers who found the DNA evidence asked archaeologists if it was possible they could have gotten their by sea as the DNA evidence indicates, and the archaeologists said no. They had to contort the evidence to fit their theory.
“Fairly large” yet has so small a footprint that it could not be.
North America also has a void in the genetic history because native tribes are extremely resistant to being tested. We can’t actually associate human remains in the ground to current populations because of that lack of data and laws that assume oral assertions of association lead to a lot of them not getting tested as tribes tie it up in threatened litigation the moment bones show up.
We don’t know the route Population Y took, we don’t know if successive waves slaughtered their way through previous inhabitants or intermarried.
They had to contort the evidence to fit their theory.
SCIENCE!
I still don’t know what you mean by “Polynesian DNA.”
But the idea that science requires equipment or abilities beyond the reach of the ancients is just bogus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDYvvEcIbo
Unfortunately the guy does make a positive statement about government funding and Big Science, but still a good example how two Greeks without telescopes or even modern numerals figured out the sizes and the positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun.
All you need to reach any non arctic/antarctic coast is an outrigger canoe.
These rot easily, so their exact date of invention is uknown. The oldest dugout canoe is early paleolithic, and it’s a marvel it survived long enough to be found. I’m quite miffed that all traditional migration theories ignore the use of simple boats Yet acknowledge humans reached Australia in numbers over 55kya. Australia didn’t have the benefit of a land bridge.
You can do a lot with simple tools. Modern tools just make it easier.
And I fail to comprehend how someone could be confused by what is being communicated. If you aren’t being deliberately obtuse, it’s a form of autism I’m unfamiliar with.
South Americans share DNA/common ancestors with aboriginal and Polynesian populations.
We have pockets of people showing evidence of two or three distinct admixture events, none of them as widespread as you imply with your wording.
Ok, UCS. Meanwhile, the researchers are left asking the same questions I’m posing to you:
https://www.science.org/content/article/earliest-south-american-migrants-had-australian-melanesian-ancestry
You don’t have to believe it was necessarily by sea. You simply have to admit it’s a very real possibility. A very real possibility that modern archaeological paradigms don’t account for.
I’d obviously go further and suggest that the sea route simply fits the evidence the best, and that it’s completely wrongheaded to try and evade asking the basic question of whether they could have crossed by sea.
I’m not arguing it’s impossible. In fact, our actual positions are probably closer than the tone of the discussion would imply.
It doesn’t help that the coastline from that time is just plain gone underwater. A lot of missing data from a classic human habitat.
What, exactly is Polynesian DNA? What makes DNA distinctly Polynesian as opposed to Human or Pacific Region inhabitant or “Black hair/straight hair/epicanthic folds.” And more importantly what is the degree of variance* that distinguishes “Polynesian from “Not Polynesian.” Unless you’re claiming that Polynesians can’t take blood donations, or organ transplants from non-Polynesians, then you MUST be talking about some sort of… what? SNP? Specific allele?
The fact that you don’t know what you’re talking about is what keeps me from taking your recommendations seriously. Even more important is that asterisked part, which is what was used all the freaking time by the pseudoscience grifters of the ’60s and ’70s (and occasionally today when they talk about “X ancient site being ‘aligned with’ (+/- whatever arbitrary value I need to make this claim true) Y ancient site (or Andromeda galaxy or whatever.)”
It’s a shorthand for a collection of alleles and y-chomosome and mitrochondrian DNA strains which are indicative of a particular line of descent found in polynesia.
We possess the ability to associate DNA with particular subgroups, which in turn originate from and are associated with particular geographic regions. I don’t think anyone would say that what 23 and Me does is total hogwash, that saying your ancestry is from regions X, Y, and Z is on par with phlogiston. I’m kinda with Bro on this one – “Polynesian DNA” is shorthand for “DNA that is associated with people originating from the South Pacific”.
In fact, it looks to me like the dispute isn’t about whether people from Polynesia set foot in the Americas in pre-Colombian times. The only argument is how they got here.
I get it, Bro’s Firster schtick annoys some people, but when he breaks character, it worth a read.
Except, without knowing exactly what you mean by “X DNA,” You have no way of distinguishing between:
1. People from Area X went to location Y
2. People from Area Y independently developed the same DNA characteristics as people in Area X
3. People from area Z had descendants that settled in areas X and Y
And if you’re a partisan of one of those particular schools you can used evidence of either of the other two to “prove” the one you favor.
The argument via grammar is even worse for establishing descent, since #2 is incredibly common.
With the number of data points involved, you don’t get situation 2. We’re not talking a handful of visible external traits.
There is some mechanism by which they determine the time since last common ancestor. I don’t understand the mechanics of it, but the timing of #1 and #3 can both be identified. Assuming the methodology I don’t understand provides the information it is purported to.
No. This all matches what my father (and uncle, for that matter) were saying back in the sixties and seventies. Both were PhDs with tenure or tenure track, both were exposed to the BS and either left academia (my uncle), or retired as early as possible, disgusted with the state of universities.
Paul want a cracker?
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I’ve been told by Joe that inflation is down!
Strongest recovery ever!
this is fine
Won’t it be a wonderful thing when the US Government has to hold a bake sale to pay for its debt interest, and the DoD gets all the money it needs?
I was listening to an Art Bell episode from 2004 on the economic problems facing the country. The analyst he had on spoke about the debt and the numbers being thrown around seemed quaint. He somewhat predicted the housing bubble collapsing and the price of oil being on a permanent upward trajectory.
It’s my recollection that this was all predicted when the DNC started fucking around with their primary schedule, but they thought they could simply bulldoze through.
Well, now that Biden’s not popular, it’ll get noticed more. He’ll still get on the ballots because of special pleading.
Yeah they’re quite certainly counting on getting on Alabama and Ohio just by virtue of the courts having abandoned the whole “…nation of laws…” thing. And they’re probably right, and it will be one more example of rubbing everyone’s noses in it.
I don’t actually think that was the plan, though. Sounds like plain administrative incompetence. You’d really think that an org as big and well-funded as the DNC would have some hard-core and competent managers/administrators to keep all their ducks in a row, and not be foolish enough to staff THEIR OWN org with DEI hires in critical roles. But maybe not…
It took the Soviets almost losing WWII to remove political commissars from the Red Army.
DEI hires are more like zampolits than commissars. Not directly in charge, no, but “we need to talk about that new policy you’re proposing…”
It’s possible that Sheila Jackson Lee and others say stupid things on purpose to get attention. That idea violates Hanlon’s razor though.
If there are stupid voters, then it follows there will be stupid politicians.
Eh, there was the “Stray Voltage” concept back during the Golden Age of Obama. I don’t see how it would apply here (though if it was used successfully I wouldn’t (but I can’t believe SJL could engage in any kind of subtlety.))
Makes sense if you view politics as a sport. I’m assuming Lee is operating under the assumption her media coverage will be treated like basketball fouls where often it’s not the initial foul being highlighted but the reaction. So she can say stupid shit and nobody notices but react to it and you’re an evil white racist picking once champion for Black Americans.
NPR – National Propaganda Radio. The name says it all.
I prefer “National Pinko Radio.”
Easy, the Republicans are threatening to level the playing field.
That was my thought too.
“We’re Now Spending More On Debt Interest Than Defense, Report Finds”
So we’re finally giving the MIC the finger and ending foreign intervention? Right?
#1 SS/MC, a fairly distant #2 Interest and #3 Defense/Intel
Pretty sure that just those 3 are enough to keep the budget in deficit.
“Prove my humanity”?
What the fuck now?
Sounds like something a Lizard Person would say.
No one will accuse you of having any self awareness.
Damn, he got me.
Mag dump mayhem
Newly released bodycam footage reveals the mayhem that unfolded in a residential neighborhood when Chicago police fired as many as 96 bullets toward a man during a traffic stop, killing the 26-year-old and raising questions about whether officers used excessive force.
While a preliminary investigation suggests the driver opened fire on officers first, his family and attorneys question why plain-clothed officers swarmed Dexter Reed’s car with guns drawn and fired dozens of shots at him.
The fatal encounter happened in the city’s Garfield Park neighborhood on March 21. Several graphic bodycam videos were released Tuesday by Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability.
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Dozens of gunshots are then heard in rapid succession.
Other bodycam videos show at least two other officers firing toward Reed from across the street in the residential neighborhood. Both of those officers paused to reload their guns.
After the barrage of gunfire ends, Reed’s body is found lying face down behind the vehicle.
“He started shooting at us,” an officer said in one of the videos.
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“Preliminary reports indicate that this incident began when five Chicago Police officers assigned to an 11th District tactical unit engaged in a traffic stop of Dexter Reed, Jr. for purportedly not wearing a seatbelt,” the Civilian Office of Police Accountability said in a statement Tuesday.
Trained professionals.
Five officers? In a single squad car (as you would expect for a traffic stop)? Was it a clown car with lights and siren?
Ya more to that ‘it was for not wearing a seat-belt’ or at least I hope.
I’m going to guess an “anti-crime” unit, cruising around in a van.
You will be shocked, shocked I say, to learn that such units have previously been caught doing all sorts of illegal things. Almost like they were some sort of gang.
Modern day highwaymen with funding from the local barons.
We are not a gang – we got badges!
Well, in other cities, perhaps, but surely not in Chicago.
Remember the Night Riders in Oakland?
More and more traffic stops start with a call for backup.
For officer safety.
Racist of course, but he could have just complied with the police. I believe the guy was a convicted felon and probably already known to the cops.
The one video I saw sure looks like he shot at the cops first. Not that it will matter any more than George Floyd dying of an overdose.
The cops need some serious marksmanship training.
There’s the media slamming Joe and in the bag for Trump, again!
So, reality has a Trump bias?
Look even Hamas wants Trump!
You know if we didn’t have the stupid winner-take-all at the state level, say if that was just the two Senatorial votes at stake, and ALL of the Congressional electoral votes were by district – we’d be pretty close to a popular vote basis. So I’d rather see Nebraska-style all over instead of CA/TX.
Did you hear? Nebraska is moving towards Winner Take All.
I’d have to double-check where the legislation stands at the moment, but last I knew, there was no significant roadblocks to its passage and implementation.
Right because the fucking Republicans don’t want to concede that one electoral vote.
“Dexter was pulled over for failing to wear his seat belt. Now this leaves many, many questions,” attorney Steven Hart said. “Why were tactical officers jumping out of an unmarked police car with their guns drawn for a simple traffic violation of not wearing a seatbelt?”
It was a mob hit.
I remember when the seat belt laws were first passed, they pinky-swore it would only be a secondary offense and you’d never get pulled over for it.
And income tax is just for the super-rich people.
And car registration is just for the super-rich car owners.
And gun registration is just so we can track down criminals.
Good morning, good morning!
I’m freshly returned from my little road trip out to Indiana for some eclipse-watching (awesome!), followed by watching the first basketball game in twenty years that I’ve cared about (not awesome.)
And I just was awarded my blue belt in BJJ on Saturday, so that was pretty cool.
It’s been a good long weekend. Now I need another one.
Excellent. I took a few days’ off for the eclipse as well. Looked great just from my house. It was oddly relaxing, like watching the 4th of July.
My Dad and I found a good viewing spot at a rest stop on I-65, just north of Columbus, IN. The weather was perfect. And yeah, it did have a bit of Independance-Day-picnic feel to it. Might have been a midwestern thing.
Child abuser
Ebony Parker, a former elementary school assistant principal in Virginia where a six-year-old student shot his teacher, has been indicted in the case.
A special grand jury in Newport News, Va. has charged Parker, 39, with eight counts of child abuse, records unsealed Tuesday show.
She was charged on March 11 with child abuse and reckless disregard for human life, a class six felony, according to records.
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Under state law, a parent, guardian or person responsible fore the care of a child under the age of 18 who willfully or due to “willful omission” permits serious injury to the life and health of a child and is “so gross, wanton, and culpable as to show reckless disregard for human life” is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
Sounds like an innovative application of law, but after that Michigan case, it’s open season on aiders and abetters.
Doesn’t VA have a “safe storage” law? Why the stupid federal charges instead of that?
As for Parker, maybe everyone wants to criminally sacrifice her to moot the civil case from Zwerner?
this is why you’ll never see federal marijuana laws go away. The ability to selectively prosecute people is too valuable.
So much for hoping for nuclear winter. Climate change – there really isn’t anything it can’t do!
Turns out that nuclear deterrence is founded in white privilege. I had no idea.
Welp, I guess to overcome our white privilege, we need to have global thermonuclear war, or something.
Tragic
Tennessee Senate Republicans passed legislation Tuesday that would allow public K-12 teachers and school staff to carry concealed handguns on school grounds — despite vocal protests from Covenant School families, their supporters and others seeking stricter gun-control measures.
The measure passed in a 26-5 vote that fell along party lines. Discussion over the bill halted as a group of around 200 gun-reform advocates voiced their opposition in the Senate gallery. Several were holding signs, and the crowd reacted by snapping their fingers in support or hissing in dissent as Senators debated the bill. Some spoke out during the early parts of the discussion.
After repeated warnings about disruptions, Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, called for state troopers to clear the gallery. He permitted a group of mothers of Covenant School students to stay, saying they had not caused a disruption.
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Beth Gebhard, whose son and daughter attend the Covenant School in Nashville, said her children were there last spring as a shooter killed three 9-year-olds and three adult staff members. She watched the Senate proceedings Tuesday with tears in her eyes, alongside several other mothers of students at the school.
She staunchly opposes the bill. She said her children, 9-year-old Ava and 12-year-old Hudson, survived the shooting because of well-trained teachers and police officers doing their job. She can’t imagine a teacher having to also deal with confronting a shooter, especially one armed with an assault-style rifle.
“A handgun will do nothing against that,” she said. “If what had happened on March 27 had gone down the way that it did with a teacher armed with a handgun attempting to put the perpetrator out, my children would likely be dead.”
Millions for tribute, not one penny for defense.
“A handgun will do nothing against that,” she said. “If what had happened on March 27 had gone down the way that it did with a teacher armed with a handgun attempting to put the perpetrator out, my children would likely be dead.” Depends on who has the handgun, wouldn’t it? If I couldn’t handle one psychopathic teenager with a Kel-Tec Sub-2K with my carry pistol, I’ve been doing something very wrong this past twenty years…
I swear I remember a young man with a handgun taking down a shooter armed with a rifle in a mall, from 40 freaking yards away.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR_5Ht69xCo
And someone more literarily inclined than me needs to let me know what genre this is — a piece of commentary disguised as something else entirely which will be completely unrecognizable to people without background knowledge of the event being commented upon.
“As mothers of survivors, all we can do is continue to show up and keep sharing our stories and hope that eventually they will listen to them and take our advice,” Alexander said. “We have real experiences in these tragedies. We are the ones who have been there, experienced this and lived through the aftermath of it.”
Teach our children to be helpless.
Being a bystander is not ‘experience’. Sorry to take away your reason for living, Alex…
I mean, they weren’t even bystanders. Just relatives of bystanders or victims.
How DARE you infringe on David Hogg’s business!
Easily, that’s how. Easily and with great enjoyment.
They now plan to turn their attention to the House version in an attempt to make some headway. Alexander said they’re deeply concerned parents could be kept in the dark about whether or not there is a firearm kept in their child’s classroom.
“That’s a pretty difficult thing as a parent, not to know who your child is going to be around that’s going to have a gun,” Alexander said.
Don’t you trust teachers? I guess you believe that gun is going to escape and kill your babies all on its own.
To be honest, I don’t trust teachers. Mostly because a lot of them are insane.
This legislation is purely symbolic, of course. No schoolmarm is going to jump through all the hoops of an “enhanced carry license,” because for all their faults, they have the self-awareness to know that they shouldn’t be trusted with anything more lethal than one of those huge round pencils that they give to kindergarteners.
“Ford will update the engine control software to include fuel injector leak detection and install a drain tube, NHTSA added.”
Nothing like fixing flawed hardware with a software Band-Aid and “drain tube”. Ford keeps its reputation alive!
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-recall-over-40000-vehicles-us-nhtsa-says-2024-04-10/
I, for one, am excited about having raw gasoline dripping on my engine. That’s just good engineering.
Paging Mr. Dean
Mom endures ‘intensive’ chemo after terminal diagnosis that left her saying goodbye — only to find out she never had cancer at all
https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/lifestyle/mom-given-months-to-live-endures-aggressive-chemo-but-never-had-cancer-at-all/
I get the pathologist made a mistake and corrected it, but like when and how? Like mid treatment the nurse practitioner is just surfing the chart and goes, “Uh oh. One second!”.
Somewhere, a contingency fee lawyer is heartily laughing.
Despite the fact that it was the hospital’s fault, Monk says she was unable to get any of the bills dismissed.
You’d think someone in either Legal or Public Relations would have looked at this and said “we need to get in front of this to minimize damage.”
“We provided the services being billed for.”
Right up there with billing for the bullet used in the execution.
Yeah, that was always the first thing we would do – write off the bills. Not doing that is just stupid.
My guess is bad ID of the autopsy sample, which means somebody other has undiagnosed cancer. A double whammy!
holy shit
From Hell’s heart I stab at thee
Letitia James has put further pressure on Donald Trump regarding his civil fraud case by requesting that certain documents now be examined.
In a letter sent by her office on April 9 to Judge Arthur Engoron, the New York attorney general argued that documents held by Allen Weisselberg, a former executive in the Republican’s real-estate empire, should be examined for possible fraud despite the discovery process and the trial being over, as Weisselberg has since said he committed perjury during the case.
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The letter from James’ office said Weisselberg’s admission to perjury should be grounds to reexamine the documents. “The Court has inherent authority over any actions that would undermine the integrity of its proceedings,” the letter said.
“Mr. Weisselberg has admitted that he perjured himself during discovery and the trial in this action. The Court is well within its authority to determine if Defendants and their counsel facilitated that perjury by withholding of incriminating documents,” it continued.
“The potential failure to properly produce documents in a legal proceeding relevant to the valuation of Mr. Trump’s triplex plainly falls within the ambit of her authority, and certainly within the power of this Court to safeguard the integrity of its own proceedings,” the letter said.
Meanwhile, a court has rejected the paperwork for Trump’s $175 million bond because it could not verify the financial backing of the insurance company that posted the bond.
The court has given Trump and the insurance company, Knight Specialty Insurance, until April 15 to show financial backing for the bond.
If they do not, James can begin enforcement proceedings against Trump’s properties by seizing his assets.
Ahab, in the bathtub, with a harpoon.
” Trump CFO, 76, is sentenced to five months in Rikers Island for the SECOND time: Distraught Allen Weisselberg is led off in SWEATS for lying under oath about Donald’s Manhattan penthouse value ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13292683/trump-cfo-allen-weisselberg-jail-rikers.html
OFFS!
I would think harpoons would make James nervous.
“Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s child Fin, 15, is seen for the first time since debuting their new name as they meet their mother at a nail salon”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13291903/Jennifer-Garner-Ben-Affleck-child-fin-seen-time-new-name.html
Funny how having Hollywood parents causes gender dysphoria.
Seems fishy.
Did it during grandpa’s funeral. So selfish.
Seraphina also died that day?
“Biden’s crackdown on forever chemicals: ‘Historic’ new rule will force utility companies to strip cancer-causing toxins from tap water – and HALF of American homes are affected
But water utilities took issue with the rule, saying treatment systems are expensive to install and that customers will end up paying more for water….
Utility groups warn the rules will cost tens of billions of dollars each and fall hardest on small communities with fewer resources. Legal challenges are sure to follow.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13292489/Biden-sets-limit-dangerous-forever-chemicals.html
Still, no idea how “forever” chemicals can be inert and reactive at the same time.
Because SCIENCE!
Though I could hypothesize a mechanism by which they catalyze a different response from enzymes or otherwise interfere with reactions without actually reacting directly.
inert and reactive at the same time
CLYMUT CHANGE!!!
And he could only do this now? And now suddenly it can be done without Congress passing new legislation? I’m just so confused…
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/10/biden-border-executive-order-immigrants-asylum-limit
He’s “going to try”. Then fail and blame Trump.
Getting the announcement out now that the door will be closing in the future.
Devastating
The law that prosecutors used to charge the men was passed after the collapse of energy trading firm Enron in 2001 and crafted to limit accounting corruption. But the charge was used to prosecute some January 6 rioters in place of charging sedition or insurrection violations.
The legality of using the obstruction charge has mostly been upheld by January 6 trial judges, but two judges, one Trump-appointed, have argued that it applies only to tampering or destruction of evidence.
In 2021, one of those federal judges, Randolph Moss, said the government could face a “constitutional vagueness problem” if it could not articulate to the courts how the charge distinguished between obstruction of Congress and ordinary trespassing.
If the supreme court decides the obstruction charge was not suitable for the January 6 rioters, the decision could also affect the election interference case against Donald Trump.
Retired US district judge Thomas F Hogan, who passed sentence on 26 January 6 defendants, told Georgetown law school students earlier this year that if the supreme court rejects the use of the law it “would have a devastating effect on the prosecution side” of January 6 prosecutions that didn’t involve violence.
This could delegitimize our show trials!
The picture of Confederate flag is a nice touch.
“2. We are unafraid to say plainly that US democracy is facing a unique historic threat. Instead of obsessing over who’s up and who’s down in the polls, our journalists are acutely focused on the stakes of this election: the fact that the fate of our democracy and our planet are on the line.”
OK, then.
Fortunately, this won’t get sorted out until too late to matter.
“Hairy-chested transgender mayor Raul Ureña who favors low-cut dresses faces recall after pride flag-raising ceremony where woman screamed ‘He’s not a woman!’
The city’s population of about 38,000 is largely made up of mostly Democrat voters – but from the 2016 to the 2020 election, Republican voters increased from under 10 percent to almost 27 percent.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13292781/raul-urena-transgender-mayor-calexico-california-faces-recall.html
“Hairy-chested transgender”
People who fancy themselves serious individuals voted for that freakshow to have power.
We must protect democracy.
Undermine confidence in the system?
The early release of some convicted Jan. 6 rioters ahead of a pivotal Supreme Court ruling could wreak havoc on the legal system, according to a new analysis.
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Should the justices shut down the statute, it could prove drastic, Hsu concludes, and points to a comment from retired U.S. District judge Thomas F. Hogan.
“A full rejection by the court ‘would have a devastating effect on the prosecution side’ in Capitol attack felony cases that don’t otherwise involve violence,” Hsu wrote.
We cannot permit the corrupt politicization of these cases to be acknowledged. People might get the wrong idea. They might begin to suspect we’re not entirely honest.
“A full rejection by the court ‘would have a devastating effect on the prosecution side’ in Capitol attack felony cases that don’t otherwise involve violence,” Hsu wrote.
He says that like it’s a bad thing.