Mastodawn

MikeHuck Jan 14, 2023

david roberts Jan 13, 2023

Just your regular reminder that "firearms recently became the number one cause of death for children in the US, surpassing motor vehicle deaths and those caused by other injuries." Kids are shot & killed in the US at 7X the rate of our nearest competitor.
https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/

Child and Teen Firearm Mortality in the U.S. and Peer Countries

Firearms were responsible for 20 percent of all child and teen deaths in the U.S. for both 2020 and 2021, compared to an average of less than 2 percent in similarly large and wealthy nations. This …

KFF

MikeHuck Jan 8, 2023

Remember when Facebook realized they were over the hill and did the exact same thing as Ron Artest - just changed their name to Meta? That was weird as fuck.

MikeHuck Jan 5, 2023

NLAWScametovisit Jan 4, 2023

Trump's endorsement of Mccarthy comes only now, once McCarthy has finally lost more elections than he has.

MikeHuck Jan 5, 2023

Drew Harwell Jan 4, 2023

Another Black man falsely accused of a crime and arrested because of a bad facial recognition search. Fourth or so we know about; probably many more we don't. Arrested while driving to a family Thanksgiving and kept in jail for 7 days, even though he'd never been in the same state as the crime scene

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/jpso-used-facial-recognition-to-arrest-a-man-it-was-wrong/article_0818361a-8886-11ed-8119-93b98ecccc8d.html

JPSO used facial recognition technology to arrest a man. The tech was wrong.

Technology has given police vast reach to compare the faces of criminal suspects against a trove of mug shots, driver’s licenses, and even selfies plucked from social media.

NOLA.com

MikeHuck Jan 5, 2023

[REDACTED]™, Instance Migrator Jan 4, 2023

Basically the story of the new majority...

#GOP #McCarthy #politics

MikeHuck Dec 30, 2022

mvario Dec 30, 2022

Andrew Tate's Clever Plan To Move To Romania So He Could Rape Women Freely Faces Jail-Shaped Obstacle https://www.wonkette.com/andrew-tate-s-clever-plan-to-move-to-romania-so-he-could-rape-women-freely-faces-jail-shaped-obstacle

#PizzaTate

Andrew Tate's Clever Plan To Move To Romania So He Could Rape Women Freely Faces Jail-Shaped Obstacle

To be fair, he also said he's not a rapist when he said that, so, you know.

Wonkette

MikeHuck Dec 30, 2022

Jim Swift Dec 30, 2022

.@ad_mastro: Do Androids Dream of Electric Stoves? https://www.thebulwark.com/do-androids-dream-of-electric-stoves/ via @bulwarkonline

Do Androids Dream of Electric Stoves?

Or how I started worrying and then learned to love my new range and oven.

The Bulwark

MikeHuck Dec 30, 2022

mvario Dec 30, 2022

People Are Being Sent To Prison For 'Sounding Guilty' On 911 Calls https://www.wonkette.com/people-are-being-sent-to-prison-for-sounding-guilty-on-911-calls

#ACAB #DemilitarizeThePolice #DefundThePolice #End1033Program #EndNoKnockWarrants #EndStopAndFrisk #EndQualifiedImmunity #EndAssetForfeiture #VoteProgressive

People Are Being Sent To Prison For 'Sounding Guilty' On 911 Calls

The latest 'junk science' to curse American courtrooms.

Wonkette

MikeHuck Dec 30, 2022

Mark Copelovitch Dec 30, 2022

Reminder that the fact we’re getting Trump’s tax returns <seven years> later than the historical norm for presidential candidates - while he still remains completely free to participate in national politics without any legal or political consequence for the seditious conspiracy - highlights nothing so much as the total inability of our media and our political system to deal with a far right authoritarian party.

MikeHuck Dec 30, 2022

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Philip Bump Dec 30, 2022

A reminder. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/28/another-fox-news-driven-target-likely-gop-probes-looting/

Another Fox News-driven target of likely GOP probes: ‘Looting’

The ranking member of House Oversight — and its likely next chair — appeared on “Meet the Press” to promise a variety of investigations, including a Fox favorite.

The Washington Post