Breonna Taylor’s ghost would like a word.
Seriously, her boyfriend was arrested (but acquitted) for returning fire in their home when police had no lights, no sirens, and no bullhorn.
This officer’s advice does not apply anywhere that no-knock warrants can still be obtained.
The neighbors heard 22 shots. Most of that could have been a pray-and-spray tactic by the homeowner.
Teacher here. I have had exactly one coworker whom I would trust to carry a gun at school, and he would refuse to do it. Not to mention the possibility that a student (or group of students) could overpower a teacher and take their gun.
“More guns in schools” is not the answer.
This. Times 1000.
Kids aren’t born with internet-connected devices in their hands. Adults give devices to them and then walk out of the room.
Would you let the average internet poster or YouTuber babysit your kid? Because that’s literally what you’re doing.
I grew up in the '80s and '90s. My mom did her best to pay attention to the shows/movies I was watching, the books I was reading, the music I was listening to. And up until I was about 13, it was all very tightly controlled. It’s still possible to have that kind of oversight, but it’s more work than a lot of parents are willing to do.
I live outside the US now, and most of my elementary-school students have parents who very tightly control their screen time and actively monitor their usage. The kids have sports training, dance classes, and other activities that get them out in the world. It’s very, very different from the kids I used to teach in the US.
Donald Trump: I’ve never heard of Project 2025. I don’t know what it is. I’m not a part of it.
Also Donald Trump: Appoints Project 2025 authors to high positions in his administration, signs a ton of Project 2025 policies as EOs on Day 1.
This is the correct answer. Notice that they have no compunction about punishing parents who secure gender-affirming care for their trans kids, but there has been zero discussion of holding parents responsible for their kids’ internet usage.
Far-right groups in the US have been crying “Big Brother” about everything for years because their whole plan has been to create a surveillance state where to gather information about dissenters. Every accusation is a confession with these people.
I have definitely worked jobs where I know more than the IT department, and that’s scary.
So … wait for the EU to outlaw this practice as price gouging, then use a VPN to appear to be buying from the EU?
In some places in the US (I’ve never lived in NY, so I’m not sure if it applies there) when you file as an independent candidate, you have to produce a petition with a certain number of signatures with your paperwork.
This generally limits the number of crazy uncles who can appear on the ballot.
Instructions unclear; now I look like Nicolas Cage.
You jest, but I can assure you that alligator is delicious.
My cousin got acupuncture treatments for alpha gal a couple of months ago. She went out for a steak after her last session and wound up in the hospital.
I was raised in the Assemblies of God, and I’m fairly sure that I knew an age-appropriate definition of adultery by kindergarten. Something along the lines of “breaking your marriage vows by being in a romantic relationship with another person.”
I definitely knew the actual definition of abortion by kindergarten because my church had fucked-up priorities.
This is exactly as reasonable as any recipe review I’ve ever read. Which is why I stopped reading recipe reviews.
Which honestly seems to be an overwhelming majority of people.
Tech companies took a pretty good predictive text mechanism and called it “intelligent” when it obviously isn’t. People believed the hype, so greedy capitalists went all in on a cheaper alternative to their human workers. They deserve to lose business over their stupid mistakes.
This was my assumption. Or maybe witchcraft.
Actual journalists tend to avoid anything that appears partisan. Their job is to report the news, not to deliver commentary.
And a 20-year campaign by Republicans against mainstream journalists has left them in a position where even straight factual reporting is considered biased by 50% of voters.
I agree that someone should follow up with these people and get them to really consider how their politics are affecting their own daily lives. But that really needs to be dealt with by pundits and talk-show hosts instead of reporters.
That, and the fact that there just aren’t as many undocumented immigrants in the US as Trump and his advisors have claimed. So to stoke fear they need to keep the numbers up. Any innocent, law-abiding, legal residents caught up in their net are acceptable collateral damage (in their view).
One can only hope that in 50 years, Trumpism and mass deportations will be a short-lived historical anomaly like McCarthyism and the Red Scare.
How is a city spending $200k per homeless resident and still not providing them with housing?
That’s more than 8 years’ worth of rent/mortgage at $2k per month. And even longer in a more reasonably-priced home.
I understand there are more expenses than just rent, but I also understand that it’s nearly impossible to get a job if you don’t have a permanent residence. If we’ve got a homelessness crisis that includes working families, why wouldn’t the states want to help those families?
A rent/mortgage assistance program seems like it would do a lot more long-term good than simply “cleaning up” encampments.