He's going to pull a Mr. Burns and block out the sun so as to induce demand for his fake sun, even though he doesn't believe induced demand is a thing
The new prime minister has also spoken in favor of raising the retirement age, so it's even more confusing
He'd provide much-needed age balance to the ticket, but they would never
Truthout: Kansas City Tenants Launch National Rent Strike to Demand Federal Rent Cap
Tenant unions protesting dismal living conditions at two apartment complexes in Kansas City, Missouri, have voted to withhold rent on October 1 if their demands are not met — the opening salvo in what organizers say is the first coordinated rent strike aimed at pressuring federal regulators to cap rent increases and protect tenants from abusive corporate landlords.
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The Tenant Union Federation said tenants organizing in North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, South Carolina, Kentucky, Montana and Illinois are preparing to join the picket line and vote in the coming weeks on withholding rent from corporate landlords that similarly benefit from federally guaranteed financing.
The "underground metropolises" could be damaged or unsafe in some way, perhaps due to the pager / walkie-talkie explosions.
Senior foreign affairs correspondent Iago Iagoson reports that China and Iran "are now making the beast with two backs."
For anyone who's not familiar with the reference. It's as genocidal as you'd expect.
Deuteronomy 11:26 - 12:3 (New International Version)
26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse— 27 the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; 28 the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known. 29 When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses. 30 As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal. 31 You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there, 32 be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.
Chapter 12 These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land. 2 Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. 3 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.
It seems like the NYT is really ramping up anti-Iranian rhetoric lately. 26 articles (including some round-ups) since Sept. 18 have used the phrase "Iran-backed." Almost every article that even mentions anyone in the Axis of Resistance uses the phrase "Iran's proxies" or "Iranian proxies." This was not happening even a month or two ago. ("Iran-backed" is all over, yes, but "Iranian proxies" and its variants were mostly absent from the paper all summer.)
I can't get Google Trends to stop bugging out on me, but I wonder if this is the case for other State Department mouthpieces or if this is a NYT-specific editorial decision.
The target of the strike was Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, according to two Israeli and two American officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence. It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Nasrallah was in the buildings when they were hit.
20:17: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was speaking with his Israeli Security Minister as the operation was ongoing: Pentagon
20:16 The United States did not have advanced warning of an Israeli strike in Beirut: Pentagon
20:08 Senior US officials denied Israeli claims that "Israel" notified the US minutes before the strike in Beirut, telling Axios they had no prior warning
The envisioned changes would make it much harder for officials to end the partial asylum ban by tweaking the threshold at which it would be deactivated.
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Under the changes, however, the asylum restrictions would only deactivate if the seven-day average stays below 1,500 for 28 days. It would also include more migrants in the deactivation trigger's calculations. Currently, crossings by non-Mexican unaccompanied children are excluded. The updated calculations would include all unaccompanied children.
Naturally the article goes on to accept all sorts of false premises about immigrants, refuses to examine the ways in which Biden and Trump have violated international law (beyond some token, detail-free quotations from the ACLU), and never once uses the word "refugee" or asks why people might want to flee their homes.
Yeah - the article says "for the dozen states, including Texas and California, where sports gambling is still illegal, the solution is simple: change nothing," but because of these apps, it's trivially easy for Californians to gamble on sports.
Tablet is as deranged as it gets. They also print explicitly pro-genocide Kahanist articles.
They're so mad at him for outgrowing their shitty magazine:
Within the failure Coates sees in the magazine article that launched him toward fame lie strata not only of guilt but also, it seems, of searing anger. Thinking back to when he wrote it, he remembers himself as a journalist all too willing to tread tactically and tactfully at the “hallowed and lauded” and white-led publication that gave him a platform, and all too ready to conform to what he believes is the governing Israel-friendly outlook of the mostly white media world.
Later they 
Baruch Goldstein. 
no punishment for effectively performing a state execution of a mere shoplifter
Since 2017, at least 87 people across the country have been killed after police officers rammed vehicles they were pursuing, often at extremely high speeds, a Chronicle investigation found.
Nearly half of those who died — 37 people, including seven children — were not the fleeing drivers. Instead, they were passengers or bystanders. In Tifton, Ga., a grandmother was killed when a fleeing car deliberately struck by police careened into her front yard.
Astounding cruelty
The wreck that killed Lakita Davis started with 5-hour Energy drinks and paper towels.
A clerk at a Dollar Store in Jonesboro, Ark., told police she saw Davis leave without paying one evening in October 2020. Davis, 35, drove away with her daughter, her daughter’s boyfriend and her stepson in a silver Honda Civic.
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Moments later, Middlecoff sped toward Davis at more than 120 mph and deliberately rammed her car. The Civic veered off the road and flipped, landing on its hood.
“Crawl out, or you’re gonna get dog bit!” ordered Chris Shull, an officer with the Jonesboro Police Department, a K9 by his side, according to dash-camera and body-camera footage and documents from Jonesboro and Arkansas State Police.
“Driver, can you crawl out?” another officer asked. Davis didn’t answer.
Standing nearby, Shull said, “I gotta say, that was my first pursuit that was legit and justified, like, fit policy. That was awesome.”
Minutes later, Shull announced Davis was dead — and blamed her family.
“Congratulations, y’all just committed homicide, y’all just committed murder,” he told the passengers: Davis’ 18-year-old daughter, Octavia Jackson, who lay on a stretcher with bone fractures; her stepson, Octavius Moore, 15; and her daughter’s boyfriend, Taccorion Golden, 20, who broke his leg.
Isn't there also a statue of Ronald Reagan in Tbilisi?
>It wasn’t so much what she said. It was how she said it.
>“Israel has a right to go after the terrorists that are Hamas,” Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters on Aug. 10. It was a standard line, used many, many times by officials seeking to defend Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.
>But watch the video of the moment: Her discomfort is obvious. She raises her hands, palms outward, as if to say, Look. “I mean, Israel has a right …”—and she pauses.
>“… to …”—her hands circle in the air, as if she’s searching for adequate words for the situation.
>“… go after the terrorists that are Hamas,” she finishes at last. She sounds deeply exasperated. “But,” she adds—and now her hands are clasped, her words fluent—“as I have said many, many times: They also have, I believe, an important responsibility to avoid civilian casualties.”
>These are the same words President Joe Biden himself has used many times to condemn civilian deaths, even as his administration has shoveled money to the Israeli war machine and provided diplomatic cover for its leaders. The difference is largely in Harris’ tone.
>“Sometimes, it’s the music and not the words,” says Jeremy Ben-Ami, director of the advocacy group J Street, which supports Palestinian self-determination. “I think there’s a real sense that this is not just lip service, but she really means it, and I think that comes across.”
Sadly, the article goes on to say that "subtle signs might not be enough" for people to believe she means the opposite of what she says. "Harris may be singing their tune, but they might not hear her."
>Judge Delays Trump’s Sentencing Until Nov. 26, After Election Day
>The decision by Justice Juan M. Merchan means voters will be left in the dark about whether the former president will face time behind bars.
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>“This is not a decision this court makes lightly but it is the decision which in this court’s view, best advances the interests of justice,” Justice Merchan wrote in the four-page ruling, which noted that “this matter is one that stands alone, in a unique place in this nation’s history.”
>The judge appeared eager to skirt a swirl of partisan second-guessing in the campaign’s final stretch. A delay, he wrote, “should dispel any suggestion that the court will have issued any decision or imposed sentence either to give an advantage to, or create a disadvantage for, any political party.”
>Electing Judges in Mexico? It’s a Bad Idea.
>But, consistent with his systematic attacks on checks and balances, his project to elect judges could lead to the death of democracy in Mexico.
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>Ms. Singh is a professor at Stanford Law School and the executive director of the school’s Rule of Law Impact Lab. Ms. Garcia is an expert adviser to the lab.
https://law.stanford.edu/rule-of-law-impact-lab/#slsnav-our-focus :
>Democracy is in decline around the world. Governments elected to power with populist agendas are increasingly adopting authoritarian tactics. There are striking similarities in the methods deployed to subvert democracy. These methods typically include compromising electoral integrity, undermining judicial independence, and quashing free expression and dissent. The Stanford Law School Rule of Law Impact Lab studies and uses legal tools to counter core threats to democracy and to promote democratic renewal worldwide.
Incredible
Excerpt
>In his role as a founder and CEO of the new firm, Wohl uses the name “Jay Klein,” according to the former employees and emails obtained by POLITICO. Burkman uses the pseudonym “Bill Sanders,” the former employees said.
>LobbyMatic, whose website does not list any company leadership, temporarily signed up at least three brand-name clients: Toyota, consulting firm Boundary Stone Partners and drug company Lantheus, according to two of the former employees.
>Running their new firm under pseudonyms appears to be the latest instance of shady behavior by a pair of convicted fraudsters who’ve become infamous in Washington for various schemes. Now, they are seizing on public exuberance around the promise of AI to transform the workplace — in this case, on K Street.
>Two of the former LobbyMatic employees resigned after learning of Klein and Sanders’ true identities, while the other two learned only after they had left the company. The first worked for LobbyMatic for only a month, and the other three worked for the company for several months.
>“Jay/Jacob was out of touch with reality,” said one of them. “Working for them you knew you were never getting the full story and were often left trying to find the truth. If I had to sum up my work experience for them, I would describe them as living with their head in the clouds and in a false reality.”
Jenin Jenin - The full movie Directed by: Muhammad Bakri About Jenin massacre committed in April, 2002 by the Israeli army of occupation
The film was a pretty great allegory of what it must have been like to be an Uncommitted delegate at the DNC.
>Nearly 200 water faucets in Oakland public schools had levels of lead that exceeded district standards, sparking outrage among staff who criticized district officials this week for failing to immediately notify school communities about results found earlier this summer and spring. It’s unclear how long students were exposed to the tainted taps.
>Out of the 1,083 faucets and fountains tested, nearly 83% fell below the district’s limit of 5 parts per billion, or ppb, meaning they were safe, but 17% were above the limit. Federal standards are more lenient than Oakland’s standards, at 15 parts per billion, but 70 taps in the districts also failed to meet that requirement, in some cases by a wide margin.
Music video by Sons Of Kemet performing Your Queen Is A Reptile. © 2018 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. http://vevo.ly/t1HFGp
Worth another listen on this, the day of Harris's coronation.
>One connection stood out: While Dr. Shuren regulated the booming medical device industry, his wife, Allison W. Shuren, represented the interests of device makers as the co-leader of a team of lawyers at Arnold & Porter, one of Washington’s most powerful law firms.
>Dr. Shuren signed ethics agreements obtained by The Times that were meant to wall him off from matters involving Arnold & Porter’s business. But it's not clear how rigorously the ethics agreements were actually enforced. His wife’s law firm refused to provide a list of clients — and the agency had no legal authority to require it, said Michael Felberbaum, a spokesman for the F.D.A.
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>But safety issues multiplied on his watch. The most urgent F.D.A. recalls of devices that can cause serious injury or death have ticked up, to nearly 100 so far this year, from 29 in 2012, the first year such measures were tracked in an agency database. In March, a heart device was recalled after 49 deaths were linked to a specific concern.
>Reports of device-related injuries soared to 900,000 in 2023, up from about 190,000 in 2012, according to Device Events, a company that makes F.D.A. data user-friendly for subscribers.
His wife represented Theranos, as well as a breast implant manufacturer whose products were linked to a "rare form of lymphoma."
Adams is saying this a false allegation because the plaintiff "has a history of filing lawsuits." Imagine trying this as a criminal defendant. "Your honor, I don't remember assaulting this particular person, and in any case the District Attorney has a history of prosecuting people."
Wishing a very !do-not-do-this to Eric Adams and his bootlickers at the New York Times.
Popular shadow library LibGen appears to be struggling with technical problems. Regular book downloads stopped working last weekend.
Note - libgen.rs still works for downloads on Mirror #2. But nothing new is being uploaded. Get 'em while you can, or try annas-archive.org .
>Popular shadow library LibGen appears to be struggling with technical problems. Regular book downloads stopped working last weekend and remain unavailable. The reason for the issues are unknown but, for now, internal troubles at the site seem more likely than a copyright-related enforcement action.
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>Starting last weekend, regular LibGen downloads suddenly stopped working. The outage suggests that there’s a problem with the storage servers, but there’s no official explanation.
>The lack of communication doesn’t come as a complete surprise. A few months ago, the site already appeared to have some internal struggles. The person in charge of the site’s coding has reportedly been ‘inactive’ for a while.
>This personnel issue may explain the database errors and technical trouble that resulted in broken functionality a few months back. It may also explain why new torrents are not being added on a weekly or daily basis. Presently, the latest torrent archive on the site dates back to April.
I promise this is true. Will answer what I can without giving away too many clues about the athlete.
Edit: @JoeByeThen@hexbear.net is the winner of this thread, meaning he has paper-scissors-rocked his way to victory over an Olympic gold medalist.
!visible-disgust I hate Adam Gopnik.
>Championed most effectively by Angela Y. Davis’s “Are Prisons Obsolete?” (2003), the cause may seem no more realistic than the defund-the-police movement that sang so loudly four years ago, at a cost to progressive candidates.
>Indeed, in a political moment like this one, worrying about the niceties of progressive reform at all may appear as self-distracting as a beachgoer worrying about sandcastle architecture as the sea pulls back on the brink of a tsunami.
Oh, fuck you.
>It is also Du Boisian, it must be said, in the way that it gravitates toward class and economic explanations for phenomena not always well suited to them. Davis and others insist that the real villain of mass incarceration in the U.S. must be late capitalism or neoliberalism. In truth, we could empty our prisons tomorrow, and Apple and Google and Amazon and the rest atop the high heap of American enterprise would scarcely notice.
Writer for magazine whose logo is a fop with a monocle really hates class reductionism for some reason
>Products from prison labor may slip into the supply lines, but corporations, as a rule, would prefer that they didn’t, since this results in more bad publicity than profit. Inmate labor tends to be done in the service of prisons themselves or government clients like state D.M.V.s. (There’s also the private-prison business, but it’s a shrinking one and houses a small fraction of the incarcerated population.)
The free market would never allow slave labor! !i-love-not-thinking And, hey, did you know that private prisons are irrelevant because they don't have the market valuation that Apple does?
>There are, in any event, a great many free-market countries in the world, and very few are marked by overstuffed prisons. Mass incarceration remains a distinctively American problem. On the other hand, plenty of anti-capitalist societies have turned to mass incarceration—we speak of the “American Gulag” in honor of another, and nobody looks to Pyongyang for models of penal enlightenment.
There are more incarcerated people per capita in the United States than there were in any non-WWII portion of the gulag's existence. And those incarcerated have a lower life expectancy. (Right? I need help verifying this; I think it's a combination of two studies rather than a single unified study.) EDIT: See this post by @Awoo@hexbear.net
>Pre-capitalist societies lacked mass imprisonment, but then—what with all the beheadings, beatings, and banishments—the people they considered criminals weren’t around long enough to be imprisoned.
As usual, the experiences and practices in indigenous cultures are ignored, because the arc of history is a semicircle that only includes Europe. !international-community-1!international-community-2
>Sered’s points are sometimes vitiated by the weight of her pieties; her prose suggests someone constantly looking over her shoulder, like a driver going well below the speed limit but still glancing back nervously in fear of a traffic stop, or, anyway, reproach from a captious political ally. What sin might this next sentence commit?
Any problems with the prose of this book must be because of cancel culture!
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Reminder that Adam Gopnik wrote a book about how sad he is that his daughter has better politics than he does. : "A specter is haunting the straight white liberal sixtysomething American dad—the specter of his damn socialist kids. A generation that grew up eating Cold War propaganda with their cornflakes confronts one in which socialism regularly outpolls capitalism, and it’s happening across the breakfast table. New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik’s new book, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism, is a manual for the dad side, a work of rousing reassurance for open-minded men who are nonetheless sick of losing political debates to teenagers whose meals they buy."
Hundreds of Vietnamese civilians died at the hands of American soldiers, but Lieutenant Calley was the only one found guilty.
@UlyssesT@hexbear.net got another one? (Calley died in April, but it wasn't reported until today.)
!crab-party , but many decades too late
