Hamilton County could soon get 'conviction integrity unit' to address wrongful convictions CIUs are usually made up of an independent prosecutor, a paralegal, and an investigator, who are part of a county prosecutor's office.

Hamilton County (covering Cincinnati) could soon get Conviction Integrity Unit to address wrongful convictions: local12.com/news/local/h...

Immigrant Workers Didn't Invade the U.S. They Were Recruited As aggressively as the U.S. pursues immigrant enforcement, it has also invited and recruited immigrant workers.

it's particularly sickening that the US is committing atrocities against immigrants given that it has historically invited and recruited immigrants as a desired labor source. Irvin Ibarguen wrote about this for Made by History. time.com/7334455/immi...

Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.

The foreign-born fraction of the US population was 15% in 1890, and in 1910. America thrived.

That fraction is 16% now.

The difference is that in 1890/1910, >96% of immigrants were from Europe or Canada. Today that's less than 10%.

It's best to be honest about one one is actually afraid of.

they are very shady

Tennessee Williams, 1944 - George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), photographe américain, célèbre pour ses nus masculins, portraits d’artistes et photos de mode. Reconnu pour son style artistique et élégant, il reste une figure majeure de la photographie du XXᵉ siècle.
#TennesseeWilliams
#GeorgePlattLynes

One of the reasons I think it’s also essential to not call the boat strikes “war crimes” but “crimes against humanity,” is that it emphasizes that Trump and Hegseth are acting extra-constitutionally and are not entitled to any shield from the courts. This systematic murder of civilians is illegal.

this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.

Sabrina Carpenter's post yesterday calling the White House video "evil and disgusting" is in record-setting ratio territory: 1.3 million likes (20x more than WH's), 177,000 reposts, 83 million views

BREAKING: All House Democrats have signed our discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits.

That makes 214.

We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.

The therapist in Ordinary People.

AI, Therapy, and the Digitally Extended Self: A Comprehensive Psychodynamic Exploration Artificial intelligence is reshaping mental health, intimacy, and the very idea of what it means to relate to others. This is a consolidation and expansion of my Substack series on AI and Mental Healt...

Check out my latest long read where I’ve pulled together my thinking over the last few months comprehensively into one place - including links to the latest research and resources to pursue further;

www.aaronbalick.com/post/ai-ther...

wonderful essay

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

Gun dealers are major source of trafficked firearms • Oklahoma Voice Licensed gun dealers are a major source of firearms that end up illegally trafficked, according to a new analysis using federal data by the research arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates…

Licensed gun dealers are a major source of firearms that end up illegally trafficked, according to a new analysis using federal data by the research arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates for stricter gun laws.

US government backs Bayer bid to curb Roundup claims Solicitor-general’s backing lifts hopes of reducing litigation, pushing up German group’s shares

The corruption in this case is manifest, and exactly what Bayer was banking on. www.ft.com/content/255f...

Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...

Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...

This is critical. I don’t expect our failing POTUS to get it, but Pete & officers should.

Related: Abandoning locals who assisted US missions for years, at risk of their own lives & those of their families, is bad for US security. No matter how many times we’ve done it.

I want Admiral Bradley to know that I admire him greatly and will support him completely, and if he could just lie on the pavement for a minute longer, I need to put this bus in reverse and then into drive just one more time.

I'm glad I stopped posting on X A year ago, I abandoned my account. It was the right thing to do.

It has now been a year since I stopped posting on X. For @spitfirenews.com, I wrote about watching the platform I loved become a conduit for the worst extremism I've ever witnessed. I don't regret leaving. In fact, I wish I'd left even earlier.
spitfirenews.com/p/x-bluesky-...

all glory to our costco overlords

Right on!! Glad I got me a Costco membership.

Yep, I think you are right.

one thing being lost in the U. of Oklahoma discussion: this has been a longterm project, going back decades (hey, even to the Scopes trial, and earlier) that gets at the fundamental tension in the existence of institutions of "higher learning" in fundamentalist Christian states like Oklahoma -

Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.

Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough

Oscar Wilde, who died on this day 125 years ago (30 November 1900, in Paris).

"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."

(Conversation with André Gide in Algiers, quoted in a letter by Gide to his mother, 30 January 1895)

#TheNRAIsATerroristOrganisation

Born OTD in 1874 Sir Winston Churchill; and in 1508 Andrea Palladio. Here, Churchill's painting of a Palladian bridge. Serendipity!

Ooof.

This paragraph was written by Gunter Grass. He was looking back at the 1930s from the perspective of 1983. We will do the same some day and come to a similar conclusion about Trump.