Same couldn't be said about the shootings
Divorce is a decision that should be left up to the man. /s
They'll deputize rednecks to hunt 'illegals' (brown people) next.
Who watchesthe Watchmen? No one. We're on the authoritarian speedtrain.
A red state, in terms of state leadership
Probably met on Epstein's plane
The problem is that for some people, the only option is violence.
They kind of have to. There's no way they were going to get the original land back and this solution offers more land and opportunities to provide money for the people.
All land everywhere is stolen from someone by someone else and then by someone else. The US is just recent enough that we remember and try to be better.
There's a point of insanity here that most people miss: the property rights for the original piece of land are so mucked up that it's just easier to give them (more) land somewhere else.
How many BJs gets you a green card?
Worker's rights protect us all. We're in class warfare. People get too distracted by social politics and forget who the real enemy is: the rich.
“This might foreshadow what is happening in other states,” said Johns Hopkins public health researcher Alison Gemmill. “Texas is basically a year ahead.”
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35410900
It's just another grift
And Trump will take credit for it all and his idiot believers will eat it up.
Elizabeth Wolf, 42, was charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18630049
Emails from 2005 released by Cindy Clemishire show how megachurch pastor Robert Morris responded after she asked for “restitution” for sex abuse she says began when she was 12.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35266052
He was (he just resigned) a pastor at a megachurch in the most racist suburb of Dallas (Southlake).
They always go after employees who don't obey. Arbitrary decisions are made to crack the whip and remind employees that they're slaves to management. Just another reason why we need unions.
I know it's a Jay and Silent Bob reference. Probably before your time.
Damn I'm old...
More than a month after a news report revealed that the Combat Infantryman Badge Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wears on his lapel was revoked since he was never eligible for the award to begin with, the congressman refuses to take the pin off.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16822310
> More than a month after a news report revealed that the Combat Infantryman Badge Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wears on his lapel was revoked since he was never eligible for the award to begin with, the congressman refuses to take the pin off. > > Nehls' stubbornness has garnered growing criticism from veterans and others in the community of stolen valor researchers, who say the issue is simple: The rules for the CIB are clear, and Nehls did not qualify. > > "The veteran community is starting to get to the point now where there's no room for forgiveness at this point because now they see, ‘Hey, this wasn't an error. He's doubling down now,’" said Anthony Anderson, an Army veteran who runs Guardian of Valor and was instrumental in uncovering Nehls' revoked award. "He knows he didn't earn this award."
Dan Patrick pledges to emulate Louisiana with bill that would force public schools to display Ten Commandments
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16793518
"Alleged" exists until proven in a court of law. It's how the system is uilt to protect potentially innocent people from being slandered. The news has a responsibility to be neutral and that language is a necessary part of it.
We know that, but unless he's convicted in court he's still "accused." To say otherwise opens them to libel from the most litigious asshole in history
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18479087
> > Law firm Kirkland & Ellis brought multibillion-dollar cases to David R. Jones’s court, aided by a local attorney who lived with the judge; ‘Why did no one look into it?’
The Supreme Court has ruled against a California woman who said her rights were violated after federal officials refused to allow her husband into the country, in part, because of the way his tattoos were interpreted.
The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suspected antisemitic attack has sent shockwaves throughout France and thrust concerns about antisemitism to the forefront of campaigning for the country’s legislative elections.
A Nevada state court judge has dismissed a criminal indictment against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election, potentially killing the case.
The An family, who own and operate a dojo in Harris County, used their years of training and discipline to pin down an attacker until law enforcement arrived.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16767093
> The piercing scream, like a sound from a horror film, triggered taekwondo instructor Simon An to draw on his years of martial arts training. > > Around 4 p.m. Tuesday, shortly after the doors of his family-owned and -operated studio in Texas opened for evening classes, An and his father, his mother, his older sister and his younger brother heard shrieks coming from a neighboring business. > > The family of five, each with a fourth-degree black belt, run the Yong-in Taekwondo studio in Katy, outside Houston. They initially ignored the sounds, assuming they came from employees playing around in their break room. But then a piercing “final scream” prompted the family into action, A said. > > His family ran to the store and opened a door. There they found a man on top of a young woman with his hands “in [in]appropriate places” as she attempted to fend him off, A said. > > An’s father, Hong, yanked the attacker away by his shirt and pinned him to the ground. An’s sister, Hannah, grabbed the girl and rushed her out of the room while An and his brother helped subdue the attacker.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16725859
> Rule > > Alt text: a text post that reads: > Work in retail long enough, and you'll eventually realize the rules for dealing with Customers are exactly the same as dealing with the Fae: > - Avoid eye contact. > - Never reveal your full name. > - Accept nothing They offer you. > - Never verbally agree or disagree with anything They might happen to say. > - To apologize is to acknowledge a debt owed. > - Under no circumstances are you ever to thank Them. > - Remember that They are incapable of reading signs in human languages.
U.S., Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced new sanctions against members of La Nueva Familia Michoacana drug cartel, a notoriously violent group that wars for territorial control with a slate of other Mexican cartels.
The Supreme Court upheld the tax over a challenge backed by business and anti-regulatory interests.
Successful conservation efforts mean that the animal, native to Spain and Portugal, is now barely a vulnerable species.
Tech giant Nvidia is now worth over $3.2 trillion, with its dominance as a chipmaker making it the poster child of the artificial intelligence boom.
“Kinds of Kindness” is Emma Stone’s third feature collaboration with writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos, and they’re not done.
The Philippine military chief demanded Wednesday that China return rifles and other equipment seized by the Chinese coast guard in a disputed shoal and pay for damage in an assault he likened to an act of piracy in the South China Sea.
Flooding was left behind in Surfside Beach, Texas Thursday after the season’s first named storm, Tropical Storm Alberto, moved through.
U.S. and South Korean air forces held air drills over South Korea as tensions in the Korean Peninsula continue to escalate.
