Jerry Iannelli
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Wrote about how four years of “Fund the Police!” did zero for the Democrats except legitimize GOP talking points, depress Dem voter turnout, hand Trump a well-funded police state, and make the world a crueler, more violent place. An abject failure.
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‘Fund the Police’ Backfired—and Gave Trump More Power Than Ever
Democrats spent the last four years running away from police reform and instead chanted "fund the police." They lost.
https://theappeal.org/fund-the-police-backfired-2024/
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Just a heads-up, the last version of
@theappeal.org
that existed is no more. Some folks seem to be doing some new stuff with the IP, but me and most of the remaining staff are gone. Not sure what their plans are but leaving that to them to explain.
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Bolts
5 months ago
Women detained in Philadelphia say they banged on their cell doors for hours pleading for medical attention, but nobody responded. On Tuesday, voters approved a ballot measure to bring more oversight over what's happening in the local jails:
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Philadelphia Measure Would Bolster Oversight for the City’s Deadly Jails
On May 20, Philadelphia voters will choose whether to create an independent body to investigate dangerous conditions that have plagued the city’s jails for decades.
https://boltsmag.org/philadelphia-jail-oversight-board/
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Steven Godfrey
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Lily Batchelder
6 months ago
The President just effectively signed a statement that he is committing a crime, violating a criminal statute enacted with overwhelming bipartisan majorities (it passed 96-2 in the Senate). Here is the law and his post. 1/3
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Partner just tried to write “Fyodor Dostoyevsky” using text-to-speech and it called him “Theodore Dubstep”
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David Roberts
6 months ago
Trump's nominee for surgeon general is a Fox News contributor who has been lying about her credentials. It seems her medical degree is from some shady Caribbean school.
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Trump's surgeon general nominee, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, faces scrutiny over credentials
President Trump and his nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, have made claims about her certification and schooling that appear to be misleading.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-surgeon-general-nominee-dr-janette-nesheiwat-credentials/
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The Appeal
6 months ago
BREAKING: Trump’s Department of Justice has cut all funding to the national Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center, according to a letter obtained by The Appeal.
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Trump DOJ Defunds National Prison Rape Resource Center
A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has defunded the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center.
https://theappeal.org/trump-doj-defunds-national-prison-rape-resource-center/
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This is indeed the undoctored image still up on Google Maps, FYI
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Feels like focusing on criminal records kinda misses the point, which is just that the administration wants to do ethnic cleansing
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One thing is certain: We are about to experience truly unseen of levels of Apes being Gone. All of them, perhaps
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James Hell Brooks
7 months ago
Check r/buyitforlife, buying stuff that lasts instead of the cheapest thing you can find on Amazon/at Marshall's is best practices regardless of this really is the end of American economic hegemony.
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Don’t love that a key conservative belief is that “the New Deal was bad and World War II was what actually saved the US economy”
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Call me naïve all you want but I’m still kinda floored his plan is *just* “tariffs.” Like I assumed he’d at least try some sort of conservative-approved manufacturing tax-break scheme or something, but he’s somehow actually dumber than I thought possible
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Ryan Broderick
7 months ago
So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.
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“They’re calling it the barrel with suspenders, folks. Barrel with suspenders. You keep hearing it! I said we should call it Trump Barrel but they said it sounded too close to Trump Bindle, which you people love so much already!”
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Psyched to check my phone in the bread lines soon and find out Depression 2 was caused by a 19-year-old intern named Fart_King using an AI chatbot to write policy
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Can’t stop laughing at how bad Cory Booker’s speech backfired, he talked so long that no one’s ever gonna go back to re-listen to it or pull clips from it
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So the plan seems to be make imports prohibitively expensive to force companies to build infrastructure using those prohibitively expensive imports
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑
7 months ago
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: community organizer and
@indivisibleskagit.org
member Lelo Juarez was detained and is being held by ICE. We join Indivisibles across Washington, immigrant activists, and WA electeds in demanding his immediate release:
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Joel S.
7 months ago
Germany is boycotting Israel's conference on combating antisemitism because the Israeli government invited too many neo-Nazis. (
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August J. Pollak
7 months ago
Okay I'm really sorry everyone but what point during any of the like 10-12 fucking years the left has been warning you about the mainstream attitude on foreign policy and civil rights of Democratic Leadership was this supposed to surprise you. We sent you a boat, we sent you a helicopter
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Joshua Erlich
7 months ago
if don't you think this is coming for you, whether as a progressive or as someone with a green card or as a jew or a muslim or genuinely anyone this administration does not favor, i don't know what to tell you at this point
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Asawin Suebsaeng
8 months ago
Based on multiple interviews with sources in and outside of the Trump administration and also written communications reviewed by Rolling Stone
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This is fucking insane
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8 months ago
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
8 months ago
Story:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Justice Department office that prosecutes public corruption slashed in size, sources say
Only a fraction of the Public Integrity Section’s employees — roughly a half dozen — will remain in an office that, until recently, had dozens of employees.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-office-prosecutes-public-corruption-slashed-size-so-rcna195928
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
8 months ago
NEW: The Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department is essentially being disbanded, three sources tell NBC News. It will shrink down to a fraction of its size and become a non-litigating section.
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8 months ago
Some health centers that halted gender affirming care, kept doing nonconsensual surgeries on intersex kids to make them gender-conforming, even though the UN has condemned them
19thnews.org/2025/03/hosp...
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Hospitals that paused youth gender-affirming care continued controversial intersex surgeries, group says
Intersex advocates say that they have been shut out of the conversations about gender and health, even as a recent executive order has far-reaching consequences for intersex kids.
https://19thnews.org/2025/03/hospitals-intersex-surgery-gender-affirming-care-youth/
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Osita Nwanevu
8 months ago
This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.
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Nikki Baszynski
8 months ago
"Data obtained by
@theappeal.org
shows that more than 75 percent of the misconduct incidents in NLEAD, the federal police misconduct database Trump deleted this month, were generated by prison and border guards."
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NEW: We obtained a summary of the 5,200 federal police misconduct incidents Trump deleted earlier this month. Turns out 75 percent of them stemmed from Customs & Border Protection and Bureau of Prisons employees.
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Trump’s Deleted Police Misconduct Database Was Full of Prison and Border Incidents
Trump deleted NLEAD, a federal police misconduct database. Data show it was mostly full of border and prison incidents.
https://theappeal.org/nlead-trumps-deleted-police-misconduct-database-full-of-prison-and-border/
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Rafi
8 months ago
The goal isn’t establishing a coherent worldview. Rather it’s to obfuscate the fact that she has none, and instead operates on an impulsive need to be acclaimed as a contrarian luminary, regardless of what she’s actually being contrarian about
www.discourseblog.com/p/why-is-bar...
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Why Is Bari Weiss Carrying Water For Nazis?
The author of "How to Fight Antisemitism" seems pretty okay with explaining away the right's embrace of the sieg heil salute.
https://www.discourseblog.com/p/why-is-bari-weiss-carrying-water
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Can someone who's even more brain-poisoned than me explain how he looped Italians in here
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Had to check myself that this was real, what’s uh, going on with Chris
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Kim Kelly
8 months ago
fucking evil
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US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/visa-ban-transgender-athletes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Finished playing Avowed, really enjoyed it & found the criticism surrounding it bizarre—I feel like it’s the exact sort of mid-size, AA game that doesn’t get made anymore & industry critics seem to be clamoring for? It’s not perfect but I had a blast playing it personally
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PISS_SHITTER
8 months ago
elon musk using IVF and CRISPR to ensure all of his children are male and then one transitioning to female boiled his brain so much he ends society as we know it is like the ultimate expression of family being the oldest kind of empire for the most pathetic kind of humans.
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Jessie Gender
9 months ago
I know cruelty is the point but… man this one is just especially ghoulish. They say they’re doing this to “protect the kids” but it’s always been so painfully obvious what the truth is. The want trans kids to die, to disappear, to be erased.
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Luis Paez-Pumar
9 months ago
lmao never change Philly
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Dan McQuade
9 months ago
Fox Sports must take me to the empty, rainy alley where Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady called the Super Bowl from. I need to know more about it. Does it give off Final Fantasy 7 vibes in person, too? That is just one of many questions I have.
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I Want To Go To The Wet, Empty Alley Where Kevin Burkhardt And Tom Brady Called Last Night’s Game | Defector
Last night Fox Sports unveiled a new graphics package, as companies tend to do for the Super Bowl, and I pretty much liked it. The main thing to notice was the score box—minimalist, clean, not too dis...
https://defector.com/i-want-to-go-to-the-wet-empty-alley-where-kevin-burkhardt-and-tom-brady-called-last-nights-game
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Look, I’m happy about it, but it is *very* surreal having the Eagles be America’s favorite team for once. Very used to you hating us all!
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Osita Nwanevu
9 months ago
"We obviously can't do anything" is not a tenable response to a crisis brought about by actors using every lever at their disposal to do things no one thought they could do.
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Prison Journalism Project
9 months ago
"A gynecologist at a California prison sexually abused people in custody for years, subjecting them to 'horrific, sadistic' mistreatment under the guise of medical care, according to a lawsuit filed by six women this week." Story via
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California prison gynecologist accused of ‘horrific’ abuse of patients in lawsuit
Class action also alleges prison officials knew of Dr Scott Lee’s abuse of incarcerated women for years, but did not act. This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/california-prison-gynecologist-abuse
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David Dayen
9 months ago
NEW from me: Why has Patrick Soon-Shiong touted RFK Jr repeatedly and run interference for him at his paper, the LA Times? Maybe because his biotech company has 3 applications pending at the FDA, whose parent agency Kennedy is about to be running.
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L.A. Times Owner Has Financial Motivations for Boosting RFK Jr.
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s biotech firm is preparing three applications needing approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-02-05-la-times-owner-financial-motivations-boosting-rfk-jr/
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Sam Biddle
9 months ago
Please please please do not start using FOIA systems as a form of protest. No one outside of a handful of FOIA officers at most will ever see it, and it'll just clog things up for anyone actually trying squeeze valuable information out of the government.
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Brian Merchant
9 months ago
aaaand now it all makes sense
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Matt Pearce
9 months ago
if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
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Kat La Ronde
9 months ago
Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.
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525-Lb. Bear Discovered Under Evacuated Altadena Home Too Fat to Tranquilize: 'Not an Option'
An Altadena, Calif., man was shocked to discover he couldn't return to his home — which he evacuated due to the Eaton fire — because a 525-lb. bear had nested in the crawl space under his house. It to...
https://people.com/525-pound-bear-discovered-under-evacuated-altadena-home-8784121
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