NEW: DOJ finds that Georgia's prison system violates the Eighth Amendment, showing "deliberate indifferen[ce]" to pervasive violence and a failure to protect inmates, including LGBTQ+ people, from sexual abuse. www.justice.gov/crt/media/13...
I find it striking how in the aftermath of Helene, libraries are providing crucial community services like free wifi while cops are guarding stores with rotting food from potential "looters" instead of serving and protecting people. Worth considering how we spend local funding.
The second sentence makes a lie of the first. If they were attacking Hezbollah targets, they wouldn't have killed almost 100 children. They're bombing civilians!
Israel continued its heavy strikes in Lebanon on Sunday, saying it attacked dozens of Hezbollah targets. More than 1,000 people, including at least 87 children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon in the past two weeks, health officials said. Stay tuned for live updates.
More than 1,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in the past two weeks, officials said, as Lebanon braces for a possible ground invasion.
Man, I know it's not as juicy as the Eric Adams stuff, but the Lexington, MS police department (SHOUT OUT TO MY HOMIES IN HOLMES) is getting the results of a DOJ investigation released today and it's NUTS. Cops have fined the 1.5k people in town 1.7 million dollars. An average of $1,200 EACH.
I've been quiet about this publicly out of respect for my colleague who was going through a legal process, but now that she has spoken on the record, I am sharing it here.
Maura Finkelstein was terminated from Muhlenberg College following a pressure campaign that seized on an anti-Zionist Instagram repost.
Pretty much a Ron Swanson quote, when asked whether he endorses the mayor
Ok grandpa, sure, now let's get you to bed
“Adjusted for inflation, total US military aid to Israel stands at $251.2 billion. This amounts to nearly two Marshall Plans worth of military aid.”
