Oh boy, let me tell you about pay-for-stay.

At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt - AP News (2022)

Essentially, that already happens. They get charged for rent. And food. And medical care. And whatever else can be charged.

The great thing about Florida is that the people voted to give them the right to vote back after prison but Republicans in the state’s Congress hated that and did everything they could to stop it.

While voting rights CAN be restored, they ensured that the process to accomplish it was a Byzantine maze that could not be navigated. I don’t just mean it’s hard, I mean it’s impossible because some of the requirements can’t be met (eg they can’t pay all court costs if the government doesn’t know, or won’t say, the amount owed).

Fuck the will of the people I guess.

“Price said she learned police had visited the home at least five times within the past year. “The landlord even told [police] she had new tenants,” she said.”

They knew and they went for it anyway. Typical.

A probable boost in popularity. Wouldn’t be the first time violence elevated someone’s profile. What happened when Republican Greg Gianforte body-slammed a reporter.

In February, far-right settlers went on a rampage in the West Bank town of Huwara torching dozens of houses and cars. Following the violence, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for Huwara to be “wiped out”.

Hmmm, I wonder what happened to the people rampaging in the town.

Israel’s military called the settler attack on this Palestinian town a ‘pogrom.’ Videos show soldiers did little to stop it

The IDF said in a statement to CNN that dozens of Israelis had “desecrated Palestinian property” and “acted violently against Palestinian residents” on February 26, but only several were arrested. All were released without charges.

Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) took a fresh look at the convictions in 2021 and found that prosecutors "suppressed information from the defense that another individual may have had access to the murder weapon and this individual had knowledge of or was involved in the murder; that another homicide detective provided false testimony at trial about the investigation into this individual…

Paul Worrell was one of the detectives involved in getting the confessions, the DA’s office said. He “is known to the court for a pattern and practice of eliciting false confessions dating back to at least 1992.” Several of his other convictions have also been vacated.

How about they also go after the other cops, the ones who lied at trials instead of the just the one who lied AND sexually assaulted suspects to get false confessions, and the prosecutors who lied about not having evidence that would help defense attorneys. That would be one of the big steps in getting justice for people who improperly convicted.

Not surprising, Netanyahu was facing fairly large protests against his authoritarian actions before the war started. Protests against Israel’s judicial overhaul kick off at Supreme Court a day before crucial hearing. This was 11 September 2023, just 3 weeks before the war escalated.

Case said that Jackson saw the group outside the Flagler Tavern and had waited with his knife open for two minutes before approaching them.

Jackson was shown in security video holding a knife behind him before the fight outside the Flagler Tavern.

Jackson testified and claimed the stabbing was unintentional.

Yup, totally unintentionally stabbed someone after waiting for them, with a knife out and ready, and starting another confrontation.

That sounds like we should follow Congress’ stock trades for our own benefit. I bet there’s a tracker out there since all that is supposed to be public information.

Feds Investigating Drug-Planting Allegations Involving NYPD Officers

Seems to be a problem throughout the New York LE community. Hell, maybe it’s a problem in a lot more places than just New York.

Almost, they realized they were one of the ones being made fun of. To them, The Boys “went woke.”

Let’s also remember that one of the first things Republicans did in 2017 was remove a check on people with mental health issues from purchasing firearms. Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses (NBC News 27Feb2017)

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This entire article is full of awful things but this is just nightmarish

In 2019, Angela Zorich received a $750,000 settlement from St. Louis County, Missouri, after her 4-year-old pit bull Kiya, was shot by a SWAT team during a no-knock raid over an unpaid gas bill.

Here’s an article about this specifically.

Police Agree To Pay Woman $750,000 After Raiding Her House and Killing Her Dog Over an Unpaid Gas Bill

It turns out that code violations can result in a no-knock raid by SWAT in St Louis County, your dog getting killed, your children getting held at gunpoint, and your son threatened with getting 3 shots for speaking at all while a gun is pointed directly at his head.

What the actual fuck.

I found this interesting article when trying to understand why he’s doing what he’s doing with Twitter. What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? - NBC News

On the day that public records revealed that Elon Musk had become Twitter’s biggest shareholder, an unknown sender texted the billionaire and recommended an article imploring him to acquire the social network outright.

Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the 3,000-word anonymous article said, would amount to a “declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire.” The sender of the texts was offering Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, a playbook for the takeover and transformation of Twitter…

The text messages described a series of actions Musk should take after he gained full control of the social media platform: “Step 1: Blame the platform for its users; Step 2: Coordinated pressure campaign; Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks; Step 4: Deplatforming.”

That pressure campaign is against the Anti Defamation League which Musk has been trying to do.

So I guess he’s doing it all for far right adulation.

Similar story here. I work away from home for months at a time and I got locked out of using it on all my devices. Fuck Netflix.

What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter?

Well, he is kinda following a random message he got from an unknown person:

The three texts were sent on April 4, 2022. In the nearly 18 months since then, many of the decisions Musk made after he bought Twitter appear to have closely followed that road map, up to and including his ongoing attacks against the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit organization founded by Jewish Americans to counter discrimination.

The text messages described a series of actions Musk should take after he gained full control of the social media platform: “Step 1: Blame the platform for its users; Step 2: Coordinated pressure campaign; Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks; Step 4: Deplatforming.”

Seems he’s killing it to get cheers and adulation from the far right.

Is it actually culture shock or is he just glad that it’s so familiar?

What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? - NBC News

The three texts were sent on April 4, 2022. In the nearly 18 months since then, many of the decisions Musk made after he bought Twitter appear to have closely followed that road map, up to and including his ongoing attacks against the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit organization founded by Jewish Americans to counter discrimination.

The text messages described a series of actions Musk should take after he gained full control of the social media platform: “Step 1: Blame the platform for its users; Step 2: Coordinated pressure campaign; Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks; Step 4: Deplatforming.”

The messages from the unknown sender were revealed in a court filing last year as evidence in a lawsuit Twitter brought against Musk after he tried to back out of buying it. The redacted documents were unearthed by The Chancery Daily, an independent legal publication covering proceedings before the Delaware Court of Chancery.

The wording of the texts matches the subtitles of the article, “The Battle of the Century: Here’s What Happens if Elon Musk Buys Twitter,” which had been published three days earlier on the right-wing website revolver.news.

He’s following a stupid right wing plan to screw it up. It’s all on purpose.

Airbnb, in a statement, said the legislation will not alleviate the housing crisis but instead will take money out of people’s pockets, inflate the cost of accommodations for visitors and decrease tourism revenue.

My eyes rolled so hard they popped out of my head