Our trans friends, family, and neighbors deserve better than indifference when they are being targeted for extinction. Project 2025 and even the Republican Party Platform specifically include language targeting trans people and making them scapegoats.
The DeSantis administration is now threatening to arrest TV station executives for running ads supporting the abortion amendment he dislikes. This is the kind of thing you'd expect to read about in Russia. And it's not the first time. www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/10/16/d...
Last week, when Hurricane Milton was pounding on Florida, a story broke that didn’t get much attention … at least not in Florida. The headline in the Orlando Sentinel read: “Florida’s threat of cri…
I haven't seen it often remarked upon, but it seems a good time to remind folks that it'd be really great to *not* have Trump as president during another potential pandemic, this one being bird flu.
Swelling cans and flour worms are things of the past. And it's so great. Can we maybe, just maybe, please not bring back food poisoning?
The increasing number and size of food recalls is really starting to unnerve me. Modern food processing and safety is a technological miracle. But something is failing. Fund goddamn food inspections, please. news.yahoo.com/10-mi...
A recall of nearly 10 million pounds of meat issued last week by BrucePac has affected brands like Dole and stores like Kroger across the U.S.
For autistic people, wage theft is the absolute norm. You're more likely to have your job expand far beyond its description, to voluntarily take on unpaid labor, to be persuaded by appeals to empathy for coworkers who'll be affected by you saying no, etc
I wish that shocked me. I had to remind one of our current state supreme court justices that a person is not guilty until they have been convicted. Just being accused doesn't count. A short time after that, I watched as another defense lawyer had to make the same reminder to the same justice.
A judge here, at one of those quasi-social get-togethers where defense attorneys get face time with judges, told a bunch of defense attorneys that once a defendant has been indicted, the burden shifts to the defense attorney to prove them innocent. This is a sitting judge on the criminal bench.
/6 THAT is the motherfucking system that people like Thomas and Alito think produces results so reliable, so unshakable, that they should be treated as inviolate and it should be seen as extremist to question them. That is FedSoc justice.
Did I tell the story of a local prosecutor and the Fifth Amendment? Local prosecutor called a bunch of represented people before the grand jury investigating the entity they worked for. When they took the Fifth, he told them, one at a time, they weren’t allowed to do that and had to answer. /1
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