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Photo shows basement white bathroom toilet and tiled floor with 8 foot Black Rat Snake wrapped around the base of the toilet with mouse glue traps stuck to its body.

I know Baltimore twitter is no more but, I need to scream into the ether because wtf am I doomed to have a snake bloom in my basement every spring for all eternity?

Goon Squad Hearings Reveal Culture of Violence in Mississippi Sheriff’s Office Former deputies said they saw brutality as a way to rise in the ranks of a department that celebrated violence against people suspected of crimes.

Six law enforcement officers were sentenced to prison this week for torturing people in Mississippi. Their cases revealed a disturbing pattern of violence in a sheriff's department that encouraged deputies to use extreme violence in policing.

The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?

In months, Israel produced what the New Yorker calls the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees ever in history in its genocide.

Headline of linked article “Tennessee deputy found dead after making first arrest, patrol vehicle recovered from river” which fails to mention a second death occurred in the vehicle

MEIGS COUNTY, Tenn. -- The body of a Tennessee deputy was found Thursday after he went missing following his first-ever arrest. His patrol vehicle and the body of the woman he arrested were also recovered from a river, authorities said. Meigs County Deputy Robert "R.J." Leonard's remains were being taken to a medical examiner's office. Leonard's vehicle was pulled from the Tennessee River earlier on Thursday, in an area on the border of Meigs and Hamilton counties, officials said. A body believed to be that of the female arrestee has been recovered from the backseat of the vehicle, according to Hamilton County Sheriff Austin Garrett.

One of the deputy's last communications was a text to his wife that said, "Arrest," Johnson said. "His wife texted back and said, 'That's good' or 'That's great,'" Garrett said at a press briefing earlier on Thursday. "We know that his phone did not evidently receive that text."

Alternate headline:

Innocent woman is killed by rookie cop suspected of texting and driving; officer also dies

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“In 2002, Meredith Berkman sued the manufacturer of the nutritionally dubious snack Pirate’s Booty for $50 million because its label claimed it was ‘Good For You.’ When pressed to defend its claims, the company’s founder insisted the snack bags were making a different assertion altogether: it’s not that Pirate’s Booty is good for you—but rather, hey man, ‘good for you!’ for livening things up with some Pirate’s Booty. I think about the difference between these two statements a lot when I think about polyamory.”

amazing. we have reached the end of the “I think about this constantly” construction

Slavery was Legal.

Colonialism was Legal.

Jim Crow was Legal.

Apartheid was Legal.

Legality depends on who has power and the kinds of laws they pass to preserve their own privileges and bigoted views. Legality often has nothing to do with justice.

The New York Times is not well.

Evidence based policy is being thrown out the window and Black children will be brutalized and imprisoned as a result.

Have no doubt - this will lead to another generation of mass incarceration and make public safety worse not better.

If the aim of the bill was to swiftly deliver services to youths in need, adding time onto probation will not achieve that, Balis said, but it will increase the probation population.

Juvenile justice reform was introduced last week in Maryland less than 5 days notice of hearings.

Will repeal reform that state spent 6 years developing in a deep, deliberate process.

Is that good governance? Are moral panic?

(Answ: moral panic)

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They also question whether data was used and if conservative media narratives and public perception influenced politicians’ first draft.
Baltimore political organizer Dayvon Love said processing kids through the juvenile justice system should not be the way children get access to services.

Rovner isn’t the only advocate to say the bill was rushed and written without input from policy experts. Critics argue it will fail to improve public safety and needlessly pull more children into the legal system.

“In an effort to crack down on the most serious crimes, this bill instead focuses attention on youth charged with misdemeanors and young children,” Rovner said. “It also avoids the use of diversion, which is likely to have better outcomes than formal court involvement.”

Juvenile justice bill will funnel more kids into the system without addressing root causes, critics say All sides seem to agree that children should be held accountable and receive services quickly, but there’s a difference of opinion about how that happens.

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The NYPD has clarified that the victim is not a migrant. And in true NYPD fashion, they have given HIM a summons for disorderly conduct while not taking any apparent action against Sliwa’s gang. apnews.com/article/guar...

Stavros come get yr cousin.

Cecilia Gentili – NYC Trans Oral History Project The New York City Trans Oral History Project is a community archive devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of trans histories.

In 2017 I did a long oral history interview with Cecilia Gentili on her on the extraordinary and brilliant life. The interview affected me deeply, reshaping my understanding of so much. Devastated to just learned she has passed away. bit.ly/3w3uauZ

But Maryland is about to reverse *moderate* juvenile reforms and send MORE kids to adult prison.

Scenes from a dying web News at the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 5PM Pacific.

"It is clear that there is no platform coming to save journalism. And there are an increasingly large number of platforms who seem intent on killing it" www.platformer.news/arc-search-q...

I will tell your children what you did, how you voted.

They will know who you are.

14 yo kids still play hide and seek.

No 14 yo belongs in any prison, lay alone and adult prison.

Maryland sends hundreds of children to adult jails and has sentenced thousands of Black children - as young as 14 - into the adult prison system.

COMMUNITIES TRANSFORMING POLICING FUND GRANT PROPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS DEADLINE: Friday February 23, 2024 at 3pm Eastern Time/12pm Pacific Time Haga clic aquí para ver en español ABOUT THE COMMUNITIES TRANSFORMING POLICING FUND The Communities Transforming Policing Fund (CTPF) is a donor collaborative launched in 2017 that supports local grassroots organizing groups led by and for communities most impacted by deadly and discriminatory policing practices. CTPF supports groups to build power, increase police accountability and transparency, end criminalization, build community-based safety strategies, erode the power of police associations, and shift power and resources away from policing to communities. The Fund values and resources work that addresses the immediate harm caused by state violence and systemic changes that result in transformative safety responses. ABOUT THIS FUNDING OPPORTUNITY CTPF is now accepting proposals from Monday, January 22 - Friday, February 23, 2024. All applicant

• Have an explicit, demonstrated commitment to racial, disability, and gender justice that is reflected in the organization's mission, leadership, staffing, and work. • Work includes a power-building and leadership-development strategy that centers those most impacted by policing. PRIORITY CONSIDERATIONS Groups that are: • Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)-led organizations; • Led by individuals directly impacted by policing and the criminal legal system; • Disabled-led organizations and/or organizations organizing with the principles of disability justice • Trans or Gender-Nonconforming-led organizations. • Not receiving significant support from national foundations and generally have budget revenues of $750,000 or less; Serving communities in historically underfunded geographic areas such as the South, rural areas, U.S. Territories, etc. And working on: • Campaigns focused on shifting power and resources from policing to communities to create public safety; • Developing non-

organization's records. TIP: This email address is the one we will use to communicate with you if we have questions, which sometimes require immediate response. 2. Existing Users: If you have previously applied for a Borealis grant, please log in to the application using this portal link: https://borealisphilanthropy.my.site.com/grants and enter your username and password. If you forgot your password, click "Can't access your account" to reset your password. If your organization applied for a grant in the past and you do not have a username and password, please contact the grants team at grants@borealisphilanthropy.org. 3. Accessing the application and eligibility quiz: Eligibility Quiz. All prospective applicants must first take an eligibility quiz to access the full proposal application. The eligibility quiz is based on the listed eligibility criteria. Please note that eligibility to apply for the grant does not guarantee a successful grant proposal. CTPF will not be able to support

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Cowards.

Lying, sniveling, cash grabbing, cowards.

I will tell your children about what you did.

When they are grown, they will know who you are.

Maryland - any thoughts on SECU vs MECU?

During the call, counsel for De Oliveira explained that he did not own or have access to a laptop or desktop computer and was instead attempting to review the entirety of the Government’s discovery on a handheld tablet. Id. The Government then offered to lend him a laptop computer to facilitate his review. Id. Counsel for De Oliveira accepted the offer, and on November 1, 2023, the Government hand-delivered a computer to him. Since then, whenever De Oliveira’s counsel has raised technical issues with viewing specific Trump Organization CCTV files, the Government has promptly assisted with resolving these inquiries, providing tips and examples, and offering to set up calls as needed. See ECF No. 252 at 2 n.1.

is it a bad sign if your defense counsel in a major federal criminal trial doesn't own an actual computer?

How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism | Washington Monthly The collapse of the news industry is not an inevitable consequence of technology or market forces. It’s the result of policy mistakes over the past 40 years that the Biden administration is already ...

“Every billionaire is a policy failure,” the line goes. Read this for an in-depth explanation of how the gaudy fortunes of Larry, Sergey, and Zuck prove that point.