Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man.

Now We Know Police Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage.
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We obtained the NYPD’s full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers.

The records provide a rare window into how exactly a police department examines its own after a shooting.

#NYPD #NYC #Police #Shooting #Transparency #CriminalJustice

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-kawaski-trawick-killing-investigation-questions?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Galactic collisions result in a billion-year gravitational dance, as shown in this captivating supercomputer simulation. The simulation depicts the collision of two spiral galaxies and is complemented by actual images of galactic collisions at various stages captured by Hubble.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers
Source: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30686
#Astronomy #Space #Universe #AltText4Me

Weirdly, Mario is canonically Muslim, as evidenced from these pictures Nintendo released in 1996 as part of a set of quiz cards.

Salam alaikum, Mario.

One of the things that made Twitter so powerful was its ability to amplify calls for grassroots activism— it's time to see if Mastodon can deliver the goods, too: if you want to help send the message that fascists should not be given a national platform to spew their hateful rhetoric: open Apple News (or your Android equivalent) and block the *CNN Politics* channel

Please boost for reach

“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born #OTD in 1900. She used quantum mechanics to decode the spectral lines of stars and deduce their elemental composition, concluding they are mostly H and He, and was the first woman to be made full professor and department chair at Harvard.

Image: Harvard Observatory

"Were the UK government facing serious and widespread civil unrest, and the prospect of a popular uprising, would its "secret" technologies be anything to worry about? How would it be possible to organise effective resistance against a close-to-omniscient state adversary?"

Full article:

https://libera.site/item/9937a9e8-77fa-4769-a52f-ec27f118470d

#SurveillanceState #CivilLiberties #MilitaryOccupation #PolicingBill #OnlineSafetyAct

For people still on the “Democrats suck at messaging train”, please read this article. Dan Pfeiffer knows more than you.

Then look at the fact that CNN is giving Donald Trump a huge platform. Then look at how the legacy media carries Republican messaging around every day. On the economy, on crime, on human rights.

Then try and do better. I’m usually a nicer person, but enjoy a block if this is too hard for you.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/why-do-democrats-suck-at-messaging