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This is what police do. One of the first pieces of advice I got when I started doing criminal defense was to bring a camera with me when I picked up new clients in lockup so I could document any injuries the police caused during the arrest.

5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure They're pushing for more funding to find effective treatments. Researchers are finally starting to make headway but have a way to go.

“[M]any patients with long COVID have yet to find meaningful recovery. Around 6% of adults in the U.S. — or roughly 18 million — are estimated to be living with the damaging aftermath of catching the virus…. And it's not a thing of the past — new patients are still showing up in doctor's offices.“

More than one-third of individuals with COVID-19 experience long COVID Long COVID remains a globally persistent condition, with a pooled prevalence of 36% worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for follow-up studies and policy responses.

“Long COVID remains a globally prevalent and persistent condition, with a pooled prevalence of 36% worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for follow-up studies and policy responses to address its long-term impact.”

As an AFGE member, I can tell you that it has been doing virtually nothing to protect our interests. And that was before our national leadership adopted the republican’ rhetoric and advocated we give up this fight for nothing in return. This is just more salt in the wounds.

Sanders has always been kind of retrograde and protectionist on immigration policy. I just can’t understand why he would choose now of all times to look for points of agreement with trump, especially by making a demonstrably false claim about the Biden administration’s immigration record.

If you publicly lecture a COVID casualty by saying they are “cooked“ because they continue to speak up about the devastation COVID has inflicted, I think you should expect to be called a “COVID denier.”

Sanders praises Trump, slams Biden on border: ‘You’ve got to have borders, period’ Sen. Bernie Sanders said Trump “did a better job" than Biden on the border during a podcast, breaking with Democrats and calling for a secure border “period."

Did the democratic party just send out talking points?

“Sanders praised President Trump’s immigration policy during a recent appearance on The Tim Dillon Show, saying Trump ’did a better job‘ securing the border than President Biden and urging Democrats to return to enforcement-focused policy.“

The senate republicans are in charge of the rules of the senate, which they could vote to change at any time and do away with the 60 vote requirement for legislation.

The idea that ‘liberals believe they’re leftists’ only applies when Donald trump is serving as president. Obama legitimized ICE, hired violent thugs like Tom Homan, and perpetrated a brutal mass deportation campaign, all with the overwhelming approval of liberals and democrats across the US.

Who specifically are the self described leftists defending ICE?

Wouldn’t a unified front with absolutely no ’purity tests’ include people who support authoritarianism?

Liberals/leftists defending Platner act like he‘s a long-standing ally (or as Branko puts it a “left populist“) who has earned the right to a second chance. In reality, he’s just a guy with questionable judgment and no track record aside from working for the US military and a private mercenary.

The worst part about this story is that the school leadership was completely unrepentant and said the AI did exactly what it is supposed to do: alert them to potential threats.

I have an alternative policy proposal: when the democrats are next in the majority, they should require ICE to take off their pants and underwear before conducting enforcement actions. I think that would do far more to deter their aggressive behavior than making them take off their masks.

My local just sent its members a news story from 1981 about the PATCO strike failure to discourage us from engaging in any direct action.

The discourse around Platner is odd. The liberals/leftists defending him act like he‘s a long-standing ally who has earned the right to be given a second chance. In reality, he’s just a guy with questionable judgment and no track record aside from working for the US military and a private mercenary.

This well trained ICE officer was one of Obama’s favorites. I wonder what ever happened to him?

What is stopping every Democratic commentator, congressman, news outlet from screaming about it in unison? Why isn’t the Democratic Party try to shape the public discussion instead of endlessly whining about hypocrisy?

It drives me nuts when people assume everyone who lives in a rural area is a trump voter. I grew up in a rural area and the vast majority of adults I knew simply didn’t vote because they thought both parties were irredeemably corrupt and only served the interests of rich people and corporations.

I'd argue that a "rational assessment of the threat environment" should take into account that COVID has killed and disabled millions of people and is still wreaking havoc all across the country. To me, wearing a mask in public spaces to prevent that from spreading further is the LEAST you can do.

You think it is irrational to take basic precautions in order to avoid catching and/or spreading an infectious virus that has already killed and disabled several million people worldwide?

I work in the federal disability system and I see new applications with COVID listed as a disabling impairments all the time. Just yesterday I reviewed a case in which a woman contracted COVID in 2022 and has been dealing with severe respiratory and neurological symptoms ever since.

The republicans ran the Willie Horton ad in 1988.

This was published in August. The firings started the moment trump took office.

That weird, because Israel has been kidnapping and murdering Palestinian civilians (including children) since 1948 with impunity. It‘s long forgotten now, but Hamas call for an international investigation into what took place on Oct. 7th and the Israeli occupation that incited it but Israel said no.

That is literally a lie the Israeli government made up to justify their ongoing campaign of mass murder. However, Israel has kidnapped and killed THOUSANDS of Palestinian children, both before and after Oct. 7.

That is an odd question given everything I laid out in my previous posts. It’s like asking ‘was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising effective?’

I will say that Oct 7 and its aftermath was far more effective at delegitimizing the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine than the Great March of Return.

For example, from 2011

“Israel on Sunday began preparations for the release of some 477 Palestinian prisoners who will be freed in exchange for captive soldier Gilad Shalit…. The swap deal is a public relations victory for Hamas vis-a-vis the Palestinian National Authority....”

Unfortunately kidnapping Israeli soldiers and citizens has historically achieved better results than nonviolent protests and appeals to international legal institutions. How was the Great March of Return met? Heinous and extreme violence from Israel and silence from its western allies.

a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a wall that says acn ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a wall that says acn

"Let's do the fucking news“