gAlienLifeform

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 284 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Please, marginalized people get more explicitly threatening crap said to them all the time and people rarely get arrested or charged for that. She's being charged because the system wants to make an example out of her. The judge basically said so himself at the bail hearing,

"I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point," the judge said.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 103 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Meanwhile, because she's black in Texas prosecutors are still trying to throw Crystal Mason in prison for an actual innocent mistake from all the way back in 2016 - https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/civil-rights-attorneys-urge-court-to-uphold-crystal-masons-acquittal-in-fraud-case/3684918/

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 90 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department's data systems.

The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.

"We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications."

Implications? This sound like an ongoing hack right now

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 86 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Yeah, I hate Joe Biden as much as anyone who knows his history on criminal justice issues should, but his mistake here was one of negligence.

The real problem here is

federal authorities verified that their offenses were nonviolent

Like, how was this nonviolent? This judge participated in a scheme to kidnap children and if they or their parents resisted they'd have violence inflicted upon them, just because that violence was being done by police officers and the kidnapping was to a jail cell instead of a brothel shouldn't change anything, but the system can't help but give a judge the easy white collar criminal treatment

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 77 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, this feels like validating a toxic business model when they should be dismantling it

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 75 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Sure is a weird coincidence how we've had recessions after the last 3 or 4 Republican presidents /s

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 64 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A redundant efficiency department with no direct way to make changes, it's like nominating a sex trafficker to be the attorney general or something

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago (5 children)

He wants them to create housing immediately, as if building things like apartments doesn't take time.

He says that occasionally, but that's not really what he wants, he just wants homeless people gone out of sight and out of the minds of his donors and their customers. If they disappear into housing that's fine, but he's ok with other solutions too so long as they happen now now now

Los Angeles County, in particular, has become a frequent target of Newsom’s ire. The governor again criticized the county on Thursday for delaying implementation of a law that expands the criteria for people to be detained against their will.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 55 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Sounds like they didn't hear he was involved until they'd already been trafficked

From the Wired article linked within,

One of the canvassers, who was flown in from outside the Midwest, tells WIRED they had no idea they would be knocking on doors in support of Trump or that the subcontractor they were working for was part of Elon Musk’s voter-turnout operation through America PAC.

“I knew nothing of the job, or much of the job description, other than going door to door and asking the voters who are they voting for,” says a door knocker who was one of the people in the back of the van and who is requesting anonymity because they signed a nondisclosure agreement. “Then, after I signed over an NDA, is when I found out we are for Republicans and with Trump.”

The door knocker adds that they had “overheard my supervisor and a few others mention Elon Musk” by name, marking the first time they had heard of the billionaire X owner’s involvement.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago

Two people with knowledge of the matter said on Friday night that 17 inspectors general had been terminated; a third person said on Saturday morning that the figure was at least twelve. A White House spokesman would not comment for the record, and did not respond to a request for a list of those who had been terminated.

The confusion is the point, it's not incompetence it's tactical obfuscation and a bit of emotive "how dare these peasants ask us to explain ourselves"

Also (from another article)

The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires the president to give both houses of Congress reasons for the dismissals 30 days in advance.

In any sane country these inspectors would be showing up to work on Monday with court orders slapping Trump down in hand to start working on investigations into why exactly Donald Trump wanted to fire them so badly

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

And this isn't even the first clown shitshow of a government we've voted in this century

 

Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month bans physical punishment in private schools while reiterating a prohibition on the practice in public schools implemented 30 years ago.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240822113447/https://apnews.com/article/schools-corporal-punishment-paddling-discipline-54591cd8826079a2a6c22e083612abd9

 
 

As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed from the Department of Justice’s website.

[Link added]

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250128115857/https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/january-6-justice-department-database/index.html

 

When police arrested Richardson in 1998, he was facing the death penalty. Afraid of potentially putting his life in the hands of a white jury in the South, Richardson, who is Black, took a guilty plea for involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in state prison. Claiborne, who is also Black, took a plea deal on a misdemeanor charge, as an accessory to Richardson’s crime.

But after outcry over what Gibson’s family viewed as a lenient sentence, federal prosecutors brought additional charges against the pair, accusing them of selling crack cocaine and murdering a police officer during a drug deal gone wrong.

In 2001, Richardson and Claiborne went to trial in the federal case. A jury found them not guilty of Gibson’s murder, but guilty of selling crack. In an unusual move, federal judge Robert Payne sentenced Richardson and Claiborne to life in prison using “acquitted conduct sentencing,” a legal mechanism approved in a 1996 Supreme Court ruling, which allows judges to sentence defendants based on charges for which they were acquitted.

Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zjFXZ

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