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Adam Wall@johnnyhk.bsky.social |
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Artist, woodworker. Fresno, California.
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The Washington Post
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The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.
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Paul Krugman
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Seems worth noting that the Republican platform makes a big deal out of fighting crime and inflation, both of which have been plummeting
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Kevin Elliott
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Seeing even this small snippet put in plain language is just devastating:
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Mark Chadbourn
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More on that “peace” agenda. Medvedev: “Even if Ukraine surrenders the territories we claim and renounces NATO aspirations in exchange for a peace deal, sooner or later we would still have to put the nail into the coffin of Ukrainian statehood and return the rest of the country’s lands to Russia”.
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Gabriel Malor
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5th Cir., 2-1, holds that George Floyd protesters that were "subdued" by PepperBall rounds did not sufficiently plead that City of Dallas should have known about the officer's propensity for violence bc his 19 prior incidents were not sufficiently similar.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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ProPublica
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Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas leads the nation in funding for crisis pregnancy centers. The system is meant to help growing families, but it’s riddled with waste and lacks oversight, a ProPublica and CBS News investigation found.
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Hemry, Local Bartender
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Chris Geidner
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A lot has happened in this past week, but don't forget that Neil Gorsuch and the rest of the conservatives said cities can criminalize needing a blanket in the cold.
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ProPublica
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The NYPD Commissioner Responded to Our Story That Revealed He’s Burying Police Brutality Cases. We Fact-Check Him. Commissioner Caban identified no inaccuracies in our investigation but instead argued it was unfair and that he’s “in compliance” with the guidelines. Our reporting shows otherwise.
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Don Moynihan
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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Radley Balko
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Jesus. Automated enforcement advocates really underestimate the potential for abuse with these cameras. The amount of information they collect is staggering, as is the ability to piece it all together to meticulously track individual people.
reason.com/2024/07/01/s...
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Bethany Albertson
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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.
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Elizabeth Spiers
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This is my late grandfather—a decorated member of the 82nd airborne and 1st gen Mexican immigrant. We have the same nose, eyebrows that stop at the arch, and resting “smile”. Can’t help but think he wouldn’t be safe in a Trump admin
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Radley Balko
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We've now reached 200 death row exonerations. Meanwhile, the state with the most (Florida) is pushing to limit appeals, carry out executions more quickly, allow death sentences from non-unanimous juries, and impose the death penalty for crimes other than homicide.
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ProPublica
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The NYPD restored more than 2,000 missing discipline records to its public database of uniformed officers, weeks after ProPublica revealed data reliability issues. But it also removed case numbers, making future oversight more difficult.
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Adam Wall
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Turns out, Democracy dies while you’re numbing your mind.
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ProPublica
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Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Vouchers School choice advocates are intent on expanding the availability of vouchers to fund private education at the expense of public schools, but rural residents of these targeted states are putting up some of the strongest resistance.
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ProPublica
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NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban has prevented the cases of 54 officers from going to trial in his roughly one year in office — far more than any other commissioner, according to an analysis of Civilian Complaint Review Board data.
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Lars Maischak
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Interviewing @sethcotlar.bsky.social tomorrow, Friday, June 28th, 5-6 PM Pacific. Streaming live at kfcf.org, and on the air at 88.1FM in Fresno and surroundings.
We're talking about Seth's research on the Oregon Republican Party and it's far-right transformation since the 1970s.
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s. e. smith
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Heads up to California renters that security deposit laws are changing as of July 1, when a deposit for an unfurnished rental cannot exceed one month's rent except in some specific circumstances. More details here:
oag.ca.gov/system/files...
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s. e. smith
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Firefighting is incredibly taxing on mental health, and firefighters with PTSD from their work are struggling to access workers' compensation.
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ProPublica
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New York City’s Police Commissioner Edward Caban has repeatedly used a little-known authority called “retention” to prevent officers accused of misconduct from facing public disciplinary trials. Victims are never told their cases have been buried.
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
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As RBG wrote at the time: “Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet”
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Tim Onion
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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it
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Kevin M. Kruse
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She has more backbone than a lot of national leaders
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ProPublica
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A must-read thread from ProPublica's @lisalsong.bsky.social about the mirage of "advanced" plastics recycling ⤵️
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Laura Helmuth
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Delightful conversation with a photographer who entered a real photo into an AI contest.
"I was hoping that if it won, it would show that nature still outdoes the machine in terms of creativity and beauty and fascination." 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... by @parshallison.bsky.social
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s. e. smith
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'since Eric Adams took over, rent increases have been approved every year' why call it a rent board when it's more like a landlord's game
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The Washington Post
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A Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions unleashed a conservative attack on corporate efforts to achieve diversity. Despite rising tensions over diversity, equity and inclusion programs, about 6 in 10 Americans said they are a “good thing” for companies.
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Adam Wall
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Nothing like pretending the deportation of 20 million people wouldn’t come with huge public expense, or detrimental relationships with every country that receives deportees. I mean, the only thing coherent about his position is that he seems excited about hurting millions of people for money.
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Adam Wall
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About how many people are on the other side of that coin? You know the ones who didn’t win the algorithm lottery on top of being good at their actual job.
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Chris Ingraham
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It's funny that economists are devoting years of study to answer vexing questions like "does giving people money make it easier for them to pay bills."
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The Washington Post
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The Phoenix Police Department routinely uses excessive force and discriminates against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, part of a broader pattern of unconstitutional policing in one of America’s largest cities, according to a Justice Department report released.
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Greg Sargent
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Starting to think calling this a "conspiracy theory" is a fundamental error. It creates the impression that MAGA personalities are in the grip of some sort of massive delusion, as opposed to consciously manufacturing a pretext to jail Dems as part of a deliberately, knowingly constructed plot.
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NPR
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Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the material for its low cost and disposability.
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United Farm Workers
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Blanca shared this from where she was working in CAs almonds yesterday. Temps reach 108°. #WeFeedYou #Calor
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United Farm Workers
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Maria is picking blueberries near Arvin CA. She earns by how many pounds and buckets she can pick in a day. Sometimes the field quality is good but other times she barely makes enough to cover her expenses. #WeFeedYou
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connectpoliticditto.
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I would simply invent health insurance that also includes your eyes and teeth
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C Hanna
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ProPublica
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Texas AG Ken Paxton Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets Paxton has repeatedly used laws that are meant to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and LGBTQ+ groups.
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Matt Novak
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World Central Kitchen: "Ongoing attacks have forced us to pause work at our main kitchen in Rafah and relocate many of our community kitchens further north."
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CJ Ciaramella
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Florida already passed one of these buffer-zone laws earlier this year. Arizona passed one a couple years ago, but it was so poorly drafted that the state AG and legislature declined to defend it in court and let it get enjoined into oblivion.
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Adam Wall
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Still don’t understand the logical jump from “my neighbor said something gross or abhorrent” to “I will fly the nation’s flag upside down at my house.”
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The Washington Post
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More than 160,000 student loan borrowers are now in line to have their balances canceled, bringing the total amount of debt forgiveness allowed under the Biden administration’s policies to $167 billion, the Education Department announced Wednesday.
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United Farm Workers
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Strawberries smell sweet, but the work sure isn’t. We hear so many stories about bosses who motivate thru fear.
“The challenge isn’t the tough, bent over nature of strawberry work, but the injustices we experience." - Francisco
Please help: ufw.org/strawberries... #WeFeedYou
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Seth D. Michaels
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you don't have to think the status quo is good to acknowledge that it can very easily get meaningfully worse
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The Washington Post
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Trapped volunteers call on the U.S. to stop sending weapons to Israel, as the closure of the Rafah border crossing cuts the flow of food and medical supplies.
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ProPublica
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We’re investigating what happens when cities remove homeless encampments and take belongings from the people living in them.
If you’ve experienced homelessness — or work with people who have — we want to hear from you.
www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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United Farm Workers
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America shared a pic of her & her coworkers planting watermelon by hand in Turlock CA. These seedlings will be covered while still young to protect them from insects. Once rooted the plants take about 3 months to produce a hearty watermelon suitable for a summer snack. #WeFeedYou
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