“It feels a bit off-balance,” said Rogowski, who went on to point out that children already have many other damaging freedoms online where they are more exposed to danger and not protected.
So, there's a chance something could be getting lost in translation and I don't know the context here, but just taking this article's description at face value,
[Paraphrasing], "Kids can voluntarily be exposed to explicit content on the internet, so why do we need guardians around when I act creepy towards them (it's my job, no really)" seems like both a tellingly weird rant trigger for this guy and first line of argument in defense of it
e; I should have kept reading the article,
For Rogowski, though, the efforts now made in Britain are in danger of inhibiting creativity. His scenes in Bird involve several small children and teenagers who are depicted in situations of social neglect and even imminent harm. “It’s true that Andrea is very careful and respectful, but it would have been great sometimes if there was a bit more trust – and I think that’s a cultural thing,” Rogowski told the industry journal Variety this weekend. “We are so scared nowadays to expose our kids to maybe a swear word – which is ridiculous, because we allow them to use social media and YouTube.”
Ok, yeah, so maybe spoilers for the movie Bird (I haven't seen it but I've read a few things about it now), but it seems like this actor plays an abusive father figure type, and I could kind of imagine how doing that work would have you running into these regulations a lot and they might get kind of annoying, but a) they are there for a really good reason b) if I was your publicist I'd be writing a profanity filled resignation email right now, because you just created a PR headache for yourself
That all said, I think this guy is more dumbass than creep at this point
As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians....
In the Spring of 2021, The Biden administration reinterpreted the American Rescue Plan Act so that local and county governments could give the COVID recovery money Congress has approved to their police departments for basically anything
In the Summer of 2021, The Biden administration approved Memphis' plan to use $13mil on various "public safety" initiatives
In the Fall of 2021, the Memphis PD used their influx of funding to create the SCORPION Unit
In January of 2023, officers from the unit beat Tyre Nichols to death
Perhaps we all should do better when it comes to caring about the physical safety of marginalized people
He could have descheduled it entirely with the exact same process that rescheduled it, but Biden still wants it to be illegal federally because it's a great tool for cops, border guards, human resource departments and other shitheads to fuck with people they don't like and preserving that kind of crap is a through line for Biden's whole career back to the 70s
Also, their much touted climate change bill is almost entirely just handing out money to wealthy for profit companies (including fucking oil and gas companies for carbon capture programs that probably won't work) and hoping they do good things with it, instead of just prohibiting them from doing bad things like we should be doing
It helped insurance companies. The uninsured rate is super low these days but tons of people still can't afford premiums and our of pocket costs and skip healthcare anyway
with some Democrats being very conservative
And whenever people try to call out conservative Democratic party members for screwing things up they get shouted down in comment threads just like these
Because a lot of what the claim as success is a half measure at best and actually makes things worse in a lot of instances. For example, thanks to the ACA we now have more people giving health insurance companies more money than ever before, money they use to lobby and lock in their political advantages, but meanwhile lots of insured people are still being crushed by healthcare costs because the insurance they get is crap.
But, just to prove I'm not just a Democratic party/Biden hater -
Thank you for the sincere and thought out reply, that was honestly really refreshing.
I'm really, truly, glad for your people and that they're doing better and doing more good in the world, and very much believe that's exactly what healthcare can and should do for people and society. However, I know one person who spent years dealing with medical debt because their insurance basically did a bait and switch (hospital was in network but the doctor wasn't), probably a dozen who spent years at jobs they hated because they needed the insurance, and one person who worked in healthcare and basically had to switch jobs and move to a different specialty because having to fight insurance companies for her patients and losing those fights was destroying her mental health.
Also - and this feels kinda petty and I'm sorry if it comes off as disrespecting your story but I've just gotta say - I'm pretty certain dental coverage isn't mandated for employers under the ACA, or for adults on state Medicaid plans. So, though the ACA certainly may have helped or played a role in the people you know getting dental care (like, some states do provide dental, and there's probably matching money or a grant or some other mechanism somewhere in the ACA to support that), it didn't do it alone, and there's all too many people who don't get that treatment because they have a lousy employer plan and/or live in a red state.
And my problem with the ACA is that it really serves to lock a lot of these problems in and just completely neutralize any political will to change them. Beyond shoveling money at health insurance companies, it's made them a central player in healthcare policy, both through their lobbying work and through the kinds of influence they're more able to exercise over healthcare providers (e.g. what health insurance will and won't cover determines what departments get what kind of staffing, let alone the impact it has on what individual providers can and can't do). The deeper these things set in to our various bureaucratic and political systems the harder it becomes to even imagine another way to do things because the administrative and intellectual resources to do all the nifty gritty detail work of healthcare are owned outright or deeply intertwined with this inefficient and unjust market system.
Also, there's a deeper historical conversation to be had about how the politics of 2008-10 played out, and how bank bailouts and the ACA both gave Tea Party assholes material to work with, but frankly I don't have the mental energy to disentangle that from the fact that straight up racism and lies did a lot to propel them. Like, to discuss that 2 year period properly really would take a whole book, but the harm that was done to this country by the 2010 election and the census and gerrymanderings that came after it is really hard to overstate, and I really think that the mishandling of policy and messaging around the foreclosure crisis and healthcare reform by Democratic lawmakers really set the stage for that disaster.
That all being said,
If we survive November, we’ll meet back up and hassle the newly-electeds together
Hear hear, that's something I'll look forward to while holding my nose and filling out my ballot. Good luck to you and your people, whatever may come.
In March, our team at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection—along with our co-counsel at Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum, LLP—settled Penebaker v. Hitt, a historic lawsuit brought by two Democratic Wisconsin electors against the ten individuals who fraudulently cast ballots for Trump and...
Daniel Perry, a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, was released from prison Thursday after he was pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott....
Don't know when, but I can already see one of the quotes that will run in that future news story,
During Perry’s sentencing hearing last May, the prosecution asked that he be sentenced to at least 25 years in prison. They highlighted a stream of racist and inflammatory social media posts Perry wrote prior to the shooting and the defense’s own analysis of his mental disorders and mindset.
“This man is a loaded gun ready to go off on any perceived threat that he thinks he has to address in his black and white world and his us versus them mentality,” a prosecutor said.
And he's being released just in time for Pride Month, during an election year, and while Israel/Palestine protests are ongoing. It'll be amazing if he doesn't hurt someone else.
An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case....
Getting people to click with a lying headline and then giving them the truth after you've gotten their webtraffic is horrible journalism and corrosive to civil society
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Oh for sure, a Republican probably wouldn't have even got investigated for the stuff Menendez did. His corrupt ass can go right to jail, but that (R) immunity card is a way bigger problem for our country than anything he did.
Many DACA recipients have been able to carve out precarious but productive lives over the last decade, becoming doctors, engineers, nurses, and working in myriad other critical professions, including as essential workers during the COVID pandemic. The time to legalize their status is long overdue, but it has become even more imperative with Trump’s threats to set up detention camps across the country before removing millions of undocumented people if he becomes president again.
Dreamers will be an easy target. Because they are already registered with the federal government, Dreamers will be among the easiest to find in a mass roundup of illegal immigrants, and they’re unlikely to get favored treatment in a new Trump administration.
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Thank you bipartisanship worshipping moderates of the Obama administration who assured us Republicans weren't all soulless monsters, this is a very cool and not at all predictable turn of events /s
Sure, the federal government should be providing more anti-poverty resources generally to city county and state level governments, we've chronically underfunded those services for a long time and have a lot of deficits to make up there. What we don't need is that dogshit legislation and these executive orders that essentially just give money to border patrol to harass and brutalize desperate people and try to make our immigration courts into even more of a rubber stamp for xenophobic bullshit than they already are.
Also, Eric Adams is a lying rat bastard who's had it in for the homeless and poor people for decades, so anything coming from nyc.gov about the teeming masses yearning to breathe free shouldn't be taken at face value.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240516122520/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/mexico-stopping-three-times-as-many-migrants-as-last-year-rcna146821
PERALTA: ... This big caravan left from Tapachula, which is a city near the Guatemalan border, on Christmas Eve. Some of the migrants had spent months in southern Mexico, hoping that authorities would give them permits to move through the country. They were frustrated, so a good 5,000 of them started walking north to pressure the government. And Tuesday it looked like the government had caved. The government started sending a bunch of buses over and told them, we'll take you to a nearby town and process you, so get on the buses. But it wasn't long before the migrants found out that immigration officials were lying about where they were sending them, and authorities also started separating families, so the migrants started trying to get off the buses, and it was chaos. Let's listen to Gabriela Fernandez Rivero, who was separated from her boyfriend.
GABRIELA FERNANDEZ RIVERO: (Through interpreter) We have no idea where they're taking us. We have no idea what they're going to do. They don't give us any answers.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Speaking Spanish).
PERALTA: That man at the end is shouting, they're separating kids. He was angry. He was calling immigration authorities killers.
FADEL: Do we know what ultimately happened to those people?
PERALTA: I mean, this caravan of migrants has been a headache for the president of Mexico. He said President Biden called him to tell him that he was worried about how many migrants were crossing the U.S. border. And Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he had taken care of it. And now what was a very visible migrant caravan is no more. That woman and a good 2 or 3,000 migrants were put on buses, and they ended up in a bunch of little towns across southern Mexico. We managed to track down a group that was left in a tiny town near Tuxtla, and I found Maria Isabel Tovar, who was desperately looking for her son. He had just turned 18, and she says the bus that they were on made a sudden stop, and authorities told her son to get off, and they told her to stay on. Let's listen.
MARIA ISABEL TOVAR: (Speaking Spanish, crying).
PERALTA: And she's been traveling for months from Venezuela. It's been so hard, she says - traveled through so many countries, and just to lose my son this way. I don't know, she keeps repeating. I don't know.
FADEL: I mean, is this normal to move migrants, separate them this way?
PERALTA: It is. And it gives you a glimpse at Mexican immigration policy. What authorities are doing is trying to make it harder and harder for migrants to reach the border within the U.S. And migrants rights advocates here say that the U.S. has actually managed to build a wall on its southern border, and they say that that wall is Mexico.
Except this is all bullshit because whenever the border guards want to they just declare the official points of entry closed and force people to cross irregularly so they've got a legal fig leaf for denying them their rights and skipping straight to deportation
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I'd rather hear the "Trump is worse" arguments than listen to people try to gaslight us into believing Biden's been good, at least "Trump is worse" is true
They get worse every time they lose elections because they're able to sell their voter base on all the "we need to do these horrible things to win" arguments. Step one of solving our problems is electing shitty Democratic lawmakers, step two is primarying them for failing to do what they campaigned on (with community organizing and mutual aid throughout these two steps and just as a general ongoing thing).
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They were getting large donations from the police department, and the police department stopped donating because of their support for BLM.
It's actually a bit more complicated than that. From the article,
Then, Jacob Blake was shot by police seven times in Kenosha, prompting the statewide coalition of advocacy agencies Embrace is a part of to signal their support for police reform and Embrace to release an anti-racism statement.
In response, the local law enforcement groups, which had been close working partners, pulled out of collaborative groups and the Sheriff of Barron County resigned from Embrace’s Board of Directors.
Katie Bement is the Executive Director of Embrace.
“He notified us that he would no longer support the organization or advocates for our services when survivors called 911 and he contacted other departments within our service area across county lines and told them to stop working with us too. And they did,” explained Bement.
They had been receiving $25,000 annually from the Barron County Department of Health and Human Services, but that was cut after Embrace released their statement.
“There were a lot of attempts to try to figure out, kind of, how to repair those relationships and get the funding returned,” explained Bement.
“We didn't think that we could do this work without the criminal legal system, without being aligned with the criminal legal system,” she said.
She explained that Embrace and local law enforcement agencies had spent years developing collaborative programming that Embrace didn’t want to see crumble.
Some of the 14 law enforcement agencies in the area still refer survivors to Embrace, but that’s the extent of their relationships.
Just to be clear about that, it wasn't just this organization, lots of domestic violence shelters and support orgs across the country lost federal funding recently when Congress cut the budget for the Victims of Crime Act. Like, here's another news story from South Carolina all about that same problem playing out there,
Actually, it was a county health department that pulled its funding in response to the pro-BLM statement and law enforcement outcry. Police departments had been participating in "collaborative programming" with this organization (not sure if that's just trainings or something else) and stopped doing that.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240515115937/https://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-domestic-violence-hotline-deluged-with-calls-hindered-by-lack-of-shelter-beds/e7d0a319-389f-4baf-b4b9-dc3da1cded9d
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The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated on May 6 that over 9,500 women and 14,500 children had been killed in Gaza....
The clarification comes after the UN humanitarian agency OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) published a report on May 8 with revised data regarding the number of Palestinian casualties in the war. The UN agency in its report reduced the number of women and children believed to have been killed in the war by nearly half.
The number was reduced because the UN says it is now relying on the number of deceased women and children whose names and other identifying details have been fully documented, rather than the total number of women and children killed. The ministry says bodies that arrive at hospitals get counted in the overall death count.
UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told a daily briefing at the UN that the health ministry in Gaza recently published two separate death tolls – an overall death toll and a total number of identified fatalities. In the UN report, only the total number of fatalities whose identities (such as name and date of birth) have been documented was published, leading to confusion.
According to Haq, the ministry published a breakdown for 24,686 fully identified deaths out of the total 34,622 fatalities recorded in Gaza as of April 30. The fully identified death toll comprises of 7,797 children, 4,959 women, 1,924 elderly, and 10,006 men, the UN spokesperson said, citing the Gaza health ministry.
The health authority in Gaza noted that the documentation process of casualties’ full identification details is still ongoing, Haq added.
Two officials from the Palestinian Ministry of Health have told CNN that although the ministry keeps a separate death toll for identified and unidentified individuals, the total number of people killed remains unchanged.
The total number of dead also does not include the approximately 10,000 people who are still missing and trapped under the rubble, the officials added.
Marty "Big Iron" Robbins released a song in 1966 called "Ain't I Right" that said people who came down to southern towns last summer to show people a new way of life were actually a bunch of secret Communists who didn't care about America and just wanted to sow discord.
Some context: in the summer of 1964, a bunch of civil rights activists went down to southern states to register people to vote for an event called "Freedom Summer," which led to them being harassed by local police and eventually at least 3 of them being murdered by the KKK. This was a huge headline dominating story that made the American mainstream actually start paying attention to the civil rights movement and start looking at how bad racism in the south had gotten, so Robbins was totally reacting to and trying to push against that change in popular opinion when he released that song.
If Books Could Kill did a fantastic podcast episode a while back that dove into how completely fucking stupid the 2023 backlash to Target and Bud Light both were and how mainstream media really helped them along by refusing to report it with any depth or detail
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Judith Godrèche Launched A New Wave Of #MeToo In France, And Now Brings Her Survivors Film ‘Moi Aussi’ To Cannes ( deadline.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240519141036/https://deadline.com/2024/05/judith-godreche-moi-aussi-metoo-france-interview-1235907596/
Trying to predict human ingenuity is hard ( lemmy.world )
CNN political commentator Alice Stewart dies ( www.cnn.com )
Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58....
German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors ( www.theguardian.com )
Cast member of Palme d’Or contender shot in Kent says the high number of chaperones and intimacy coordinators on set was over the top...
Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president's backers say he shares faith, values ( apnews.com )
As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians....
Rudy Giuliani served with Arizona ‘fake electors’ indictment during 80th birthday bash in Palm Beach ( nypost.com )
When Both Sides Ignore the Working Class. ( lemm.ee )
bUt BoTh SiDeS dA sAmE ( lemmy.world )
Lawsuit Brings to Light New Revelations About 2020 Fraudulent Electors Scheme ( www.justsecurity.org )
In March, our team at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection—along with our co-counsel at Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum, LLP—settled Penebaker v. Hitt, a historic lawsuit brought by two Democratic Wisconsin electors against the ten individuals who fraudulently cast ballots for Trump and...
Gov. Abbott pardons Daniel Perry for 2020 fatal Black Lives Matter protest shooting after recommendation from pardons board | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
Daniel Perry, a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, was released from prison Thursday after he was pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott....
At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display ( www.nytimes.com )
An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case....
North Carolina's protest crackdown now includes a ban on N95s ( www.motherjones.com )
Morehouse College might halt graduation ‘on the spot’ if there are disruptions when President Biden speaks ( www.cnn.com )
Lawyer opens defense of US Sen. Bob Menendez in his corruption trial by blaming his wife ( apnews.com )
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‘You are the best El Jefe!’: Henry Cuellar’s Alleged Brazen Foreign Bribery Schemes ( www.texasobserver.org )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240516123010/https://www.texasobserver.org/henry-cuellar-indictment-bribery-azerbaijan-mexico/
Passing the DREAM Act Has Become a Nightmare ( www.thebulwark.com )
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Biden Seeks to Curb Flow of Migrants From Nicaragua With New Restrictions ( www.nytimes.com )
Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/KeixE
Mexico is stopping nearly three times as many migrants as last year, which helps the U.S. ( www.nbcnews.com )
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The Philharmonik "What's It All Mean?" (2024 NPR Tiny Desk Winning Entry) ( piped.video )
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Four years after losing funds for supporting Black Lives Matter, a Wisconsin domestic violence shelter worries about their future ( www.wxpr.org )
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Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline deluged with calls, hindered by lack of shelter beds ( www.wbez.org )
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When Texas jails issue tablets, it comes at cost for inmates and families - A handful of Texas jails have issued electronic tablets to inmates. Counties can make money off their use. ( www.texastribune.org )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240515115928/https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/13/texas-prisons-jails-tablets/
Hundreds of counties around the USA have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profits ( www.newyorker.com )
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UN says total number of deaths in Gaza remains unchanged after controversy over revised data ( www.cnn.com )
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UN cuts estimate of women and children killed in Gaza by 50% ( www.click2houston.com )
The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated on May 6 that over 9,500 women and 14,500 children had been killed in Gaza....
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Target will only sell Pride Month collection in some stores after backlash in 2023 ( abcnews.go.com )
How Originalism Ate the Law: America is captive to a legal theory that dictates our laws on guns, abortion, and so much more. We need to act. ( slate.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240510115543/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/originalism-ate-the-law-what-now.html
Locked Him Up - Yes, people do go to to jail for gag-order violations in New York ( jentaub.substack.com )
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The NYPD's new sizzle reels aren't just dumb. They're dangerous. ( www.motherjones.com )
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Judge won't reconvene jury after disputed verdict in NH YDC abuse case ( www.nhpr.org )
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