When school staffing has one teacher per forty or so students? Yeah.
That said, I still think these measures are stupid and punishing the group for society's failure to fund and staff our schools appropriately, but I can understand why teachers often support them.
"Not enough of you ungrateful assholes voted for genocide, the end of stimulus checks, corporate subsidies, more police funding, etc., so now you all can rot in hell while we go on speaking tours of fancy universities where everyone will tell us how brave we are."
Oh but I'm sure forcing these 800,000 people to list their names, identifying information, and residential locations with federal immigration agencies to qualify for this program in the first place won't have any negative consequences /s
"Sensitivity to justice? That is a problem that must be cured." - what capitalism does to a mf-er
You know you can delete your posts, right? You could spare us your idiocy if you were actually sorry for it.
I don't think we're the only land of hypocrisy out there (like, listen to Russia talk about how they're the real protectors of human rights, or China say other countries are threatening their national security, or Mexico complain about cartel violence while letting their police do whatever they want, or Israel do so much shit I don't know where to start), but, yeah, a lot of us are brainwashed as hell, and our government is completely full of shit whenever it's scolding anyone else about human rights, international law, the climate, etc.
i find it beyond funny that we support israel because 'they were there first', but if you mention that maybe the american indians should rise up and take their country back you get very different responses.
Yep, and also the fact that there's such a vocal anti-migrant movement here after almost all of our ancestors in immigrated here is completely absurd
Yeah, actually that's a really important point, plus between the insane amounts of essentially anonymous propaganda that's been unleashed on us through Citizens United and all the state government voter suppression laws that were allowed by Shelby County we've really only been a quasi-democratic society at best for most of this. Americans aren't uniquely terrible people compared to the citizens of any other country, we've just got some incredibly shitty rich people who ran the table on political power.
e; forgot to rest of my thought
Hard disagree, Republicans wouldn't do so much voter suppression bullshit if it didn't have any effect. People who don't vote are almost always being oppressed in a variety of different ways.
And this isn't even the first clown shitshow of a government we've voted in this century
Really, governments should make and moderate their own social media services, the basic concept is a great communication medium for everything from like reporting potholes to promoting blood donation drives to quickly sharing updates during emergency weather situations etc., the kinds of basic citizen service stuff governments should be doing, but when profit notices creep in we get all this data harvesting and Skinner-box algorithmic manipulation that ruins things
As in "anything more than the none they have now"
Like, I assumed it was obvious Palestinians (and other humans) should all have all the human rights, my point is even suggesting Palestinians should receive any kind of humane treatment under any circumstances (something far below the minimum of what we should be demanding) will probably get banned by fb
Hypothetically that should go for any crime, but I should stfu myself before I give some bastard grounds for a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge
From a (theoretically) less biased source
Though Huffman and Advance Auto Parts are based in Wake County, Huffman faces an interstate charge because Salesforce, the company that maintains customer messages for Advance Auto Parts, only has data centers in Arizona and Virginia, not North Carolina, the complaint states.
There's no good reason why local authorities couldn't handle this but the feds went out of their way to take this case and send out a press release about it because they really want the plebs to know they will come down on you like the wrath of a god if you even think about upsetting their favored people
Makes sense if the writers live in LA and they have to live with this situation
Bans on paper mail are ineffective at reducing the supply of contraband in prisons. What they do is deprive people of contact with their loved ones.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250110125117/https://solitarywatch.org/2025/01/08/in-texas-prisons-digital-mail-further-isolates-those-in-solitary-confinement/
“This is not a border story—it’s a national story.”
>Imagine this scenario: Department of Homeland Security agents storm a meatpacking plant in the South, a show of force in the largest workplace raid in a decade. Rounding up workers, they target those who appear to be Latinos, without regard for citizenship. They don’t ask for documentation until hours later. > >A worker, overcome by fear, makes a run for it and is tackled by immigration agents, with one putting a boot on the worker’s neck for over 20 seconds, as a video of the encounter shows. > >You don’t have to imagine this as some far-flung dystopian scenario that could happen in Trump’s second term because it happened during his first, in Tennessee in 2018. > >... > >In private conversations with The Bulwark, employees within major newsrooms from ABC News to NBC News, Univision, and the Washington Post expressed doubts as to whether the media is ready to meet this moment. > >One veteran NBC News journalist described concerns that the network’s mass deportation coverage would focus on b-roll of immigrants at the border, when the story will largely unfold in the interior of the country: from meatpacking plants to the cities and communities where they live. > >“When we keep showing the border, we show that we don’t get it,” the source said. “Stop showing just the border—show churches, show schools, show hospitals.” > >“We’ve done a poor job of covering immigration, historically,” Enrique Acevedo, a top Univision talent who interviewed Donald Trump and hosted both the incoming president and Kamala Harris for network town halls during 2024, told The Bulwark. “Most news platforms in the U.S. have focused on what happens at the border and done very little to understand the complexities of immigration coverage. Covering the border to explain our immigration crisis is like covering an ER to explain the COVID pandemic.” > >Acevedo added a warning: “This is not a border story—it’s a national story that will have economic impact on entire industries, from food processing to meatpacking plants in Iowa and Nebraska far away from the border. It’s a story about how communities will be ripped apart, with an undocumented community that is overwhelmingly Mexican.” > >“The humanitarian catastrophe that deportations will undoubtedly lead to is a story we’re not prepared to cover.”
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250110124814/https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-media-isnt-ready-for-trumps-mass
The Appeal contacted 38 facilities that may have air quality issues, possible evacuations, and power outages amid the LA fires.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250110123733/https://theappeal.org/los-angeles-wildfires-fires-threaten-prisons-jails/
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.
Archived at https://archive.is/1NxfC
An email circulating among law enforcement officials in Cincinnati signals that private contractors are taking Trump's deportation threats seriously.
>“It will involve escort duty on an aircraft to various countries to offload the human cargo and turn them over to authorities on the ground,” wrote Donald Albracht, the retired FBI agent who sent the email. > >Albracht, whose LinkedIn page identifies him as the CEO of ASIT Consulting in Overland Park, Kansas, said in the email that he was sharing the job opportunity on behalf of retired FBI agent Ray Holcomb. > >Holcomb is the president and managing director of 1st Watch Secure, a private security and risk management firm based in Delaware, according to the firm’s website. Albracht’s email said Holcomb needs to find a “stable” of personnel willing to do the deportation work before a government contract could be obtained.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250110122323/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/01/09/trump-immigration-private-firm-wants-ex-cops-to-aid-deportations/77579953007/
The raid under consideration would target immigrants allegedly living in the U.S. illegally at a workplace in the metropolitan Washington area.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250110122111/https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/trump-raid-undocumented-immigrants-washington-dc-high-profile-rcna186780
But I bet "Palestinians should have some human rights" will still be a problem
Wherever they can afford to
Recent Justice Department reports on police abuses in Memphis, Louisville, and other cities suggest eschewing crime suppression policing entirely, rather than tinkering with its machinery.
>Actors throughout Memphis’s criminal legal system know that MPD officers do not feel particularly constrained by what is legal. One prosecutor told the Justice Department that some MPD supervisors do not review arrests and might not even have the training to recognize whether probable cause exists. A judicial commissioner told the Justice Department that they must “often” remind officers that probable cause is needed to conduct a search or an arrest. A judge expressed frustration that MPD officers are sometimes unable to articulate probable cause in their arrest reports. The Justice Department writes that judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys all raised concerns about MPD’s “over-reliance on ‘high-crime areas’ as a justification for stops.” > >Put more colloquially, Memphis police conduct a lot of bogus stops and searches, and everybody knows it. Nichols’s killing is an extreme example of the consequences of this stop-and-search policing approach, but the report makes clear that unnecessary violence is all too common and that people in some Memphis neighborhoods are subjected to degrading, dehumanizing detentions and searches every day.
Bolding added, archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250109131854/https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/crime-suppression--policing-and-excessive-force-at-the-memphis-police-department
Big-city mayor, prosecutor, and sheriff elections this year could carry high stakes for policing and punishment.
Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/PHcW4
Peter Newton has a hearing set for later this month, during which he is expected to plead guilty to reduced charges and receive a probationary sentence, according to a recent court filing.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250109131532/https://vtdigger.org/2025/01/07/proposed-plea-deal-would-bring-no-jail-time-for-ex-addison-county-sheriff-in-sexual-assault-case/
A mass casualty event last spring lays bare the state’s backward approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent substances.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250109131513/https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-war-on-drug-users-austin-overdose-disaster/
Far far far from a new problem with Virginia prisons. Red Onion "was the model for and is practically identical to Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap" which had this documentary film made about it that documents all sorts of abuse and awful stuff.
Oh, and one of the principal planners of this system ended up getting hired by the federal government to consult on prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003, prisons which ultimately ended up including Abu Ghraib.
Like when Biden said he wanted a ceasefire but kept sending Israel weapons anyway?
The spike in deaths coincides with multiple federal probes into prisons and jails across Georgia.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250108131601/https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/clayton-county-jail-deaths/
Gov. Reeves said Louisiana's infamous Angola prison under Burl Cain went from "beatings to Bible studies." What has he done for Mississippi's prisons?
>Four years later, despite the remodeling, Health Department inspections reflect that conditions at Mississippi prisons have improved, but plenty of problems still exist. > >Inspection reports show that water continues to leak from the ceiling at Parchman prison when it rains. Some showers harbor mold, some toilets don’t work, and some sink spigots are broken. > >... > >Johnson said staffing remains a challenge. “Until we take seriously the need to dramatically alter the staff-inmate ratio at the proper levels by substantially reducing the number of people in our prisons,” he said, “the risks of violence remain quite high.” > >Mississippi needs to take a hard look at reducing the prison population because “we’re not going to be able to hire our way out of the problem,” he said. “People will take less money not to work at a prison. They’re not attractive jobs.” > >The fact there hasn’t been an explosion of violence over the last five years can make people complacent when in reality such violence could return when a substantial number of people are crammed into a small space with “limited supervision, limited exercise and limited participation in programs that improve the quality of life,” he said.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250108131030/https://mississippitoday.org/2025/01/06/holding-have-mississippis-prisons-turned-a-corner-on-their-gruesome-past/
Across the country, educators described widespread anxiety about President-elect Donald J. Trump’s promises to deport immigrants and what it could mean for their students.
>If immigration agents arrive on the doorstep of a New York City public school, principals have been told what to do. Ask the officers to wait outside, and call a school district lawyer.
Archived at https://archive.is/5wWiJ
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
> * A Freelance Vigilante: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell his family or friends. The Future of Militias: He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors and government attorneys. Experts say that militias could have a renaissance under Donald Trump. A Secret Trove: He sent ProPublica a massive trove of documents. The conversations that he secretly recorded give a unique, startling window into the militia movement > > * The Future of Militias: He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors and government attorneys. Experts say that militias could have a renaissance under Donald Trump. > > * A Secret Trove: He sent ProPublica a massive trove of documents. The conversations that he secretly recorded give a unique, startling window into the militia movement.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250108121022/https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole
Forty-eight Democrats joined Republicans in supporting legislation that aims to deport more migrants charged with nonviolent crimes, a first salvo in a broader crackdown.
>Forty-eight Democrats joined Republicans in supporting legislation that aims to deport more migrants charged with nonviolent crimes, a first salvo in a broader crackdown.
Archived at https://archive.is/spHhp
Last May, my organization, the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, published Raiding the Genome, a new report exposing the massive DNA collection program being run by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We found that over the last four years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) took DNA from over 1.5 million people. This is nearly 50 times the number of samples they collected in all preceding years combined, an increase of around 5,000 percent.
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Whoever was president during that timeframe must have been a real piece of shit to ever let this get off the ground in the first place
New York’s attorney general has appointed a special prosecutor in the death of a man who was beaten by state corrections officers.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250106121408/https://apnews.com/article/new-york-prison-death-prosecutor-brooks-e886304c1a5a4d6284482378c63053e2
The Clinton-era law created a separate, unequal justice system for prisoners, placing obstacles in their way before civil rights claims can be heard court.
Archived at https://archive.is/75Z1d
Archived at https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/27/police-abuses-women-homeless-doj-investigations/
Some local officials see President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations as an answer to their budget woes.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250106121054/https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/04/donald-trump-police-immigration-deportation
Since 2018, readers and listeners sent KFF Health News-NPR’s “Bill of the Month” thousands of questionable bills. Our crowdsourced investigation paved the way for landmark legislation and highlighted cost-saving strategies for all patients.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20241220132915/https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/bill-of-the-month-surprise-medical-bills-crowdsourced-investigation-npr-sunset/
