I mean, if they really want to support these people they need to neutralize the violent troopers who are harassing hurting and killing them. Hot cocoa is a nice gesture, and a lot of important things start with nice gestures, but it can’t end here.

I wonder if the FBI had to give him another $50k in cash to get him to say yes to this

Well that’s epistemological ephemera for ya

For legal reasons I find the depicted scene relatable only in a metaphorical sense

Thank you for symbolically resonant content!

At least then you know it’s not a “you” problem

“In our conversations with stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem, we are aligned on what’s important, and that’s learning from the past and winning the future,”

And you’re showing that commitment to learning from the past by refusing to have a conversation about it.

“Here’s our North Star: does this help us win? If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”

Being dishonest and refusing to engage with your voters does not help you win.

Yeah, this is probably exactly as far as their thinking goes at this point, but given how he gutted nuclear safety regulations a few months ago (arc) I think there’s a reasonable chance we could get our own Chernobyl out of this mess

Also, probably goes without saying, but for fucks sake is this nakedly corrupt, dude is basically changing the rules of Roulette mid-game and then putting all his chips down on 23 because he just has a good feeling about that one suddenly

[says that out loud in American English]

Yeah this all checks out

Another comment in this thread has a link to a source confirming the die is real, doesn’t mention the pillar tho

I am sort of amazed that between Charles Dickins and other serialized writers’ zeal for selling stuff and the Goths’ tendency to love superstitious parlor games somehow nobody in 1800s era ever managed to come up with a tabletop storytelling dice game (at least that I’ve ever heard of)

Actually, it’s even worse than that, the FDA clown is saying some children have died, not may have. The author just ignores all of that to so he can get on his “you ivory tower academics are too close minded!” soap box.

Also, just going from the quotes in the article, it seems like this author is attacking an argument nobody is actually making. This article says we can’t dismiss the possibility that this could happen, but the FDA is saying it already definitely did happen and the researchers are saying it didn’t, which is a whole different conversation and all the currently available evidence points to the researchers being 100% correct about it.

This is not to say what they’re trying to do is not dangerous. This is to say they are weaker than they want us all to think

Exactly, resistance is not only necessary, it is possible, it’s just much harder to see that second truth right now

Yeah, police have a ton of latitude when they decide who to press which charges on and who they just let go with warnings or whatever, choosing to throw child endangerment at this girl is just straight up trolling

I don’t know for sure if they’re all anti-vax, but there are definitely some problems with the kinds of medical professionals prisons often hire

(I could swear I saw a ProPublica article within the last month about how state prison systems all across the country hire doctors who got disciplined or lost their licenses in other states but I can’t seem to find it now, so here are some slightly older articles or ones that focus on specific states, but this is definitely still a current problem and not one that just happens in one state or another)

“Many state hospital, prison doctors without medical licenses” (arc)

“Disgraced doctors, unlicensed officials: Prisons face criticism over health care” (arc)

“Nearly one-third of doctors working in Wisconsin’s prisons have been censured” (arc)

“When Prison Nurses Must Choose Between Guards & Patients: In dozens of cases, medical personnel in NY prisons were accused of covering up beatings — some under pressure — and rarely faced punishment.” (arc)

That is the protocol in Utah for firing squads, but not South Carolina

As for why Mahdi’s body showed two wounds from the execution rather than three, a doctor noted in the comments section on the autopsy commissioned by the state that “it is believed that” two bullets went through one wound. Whereas in Utah, not all members of the state’s firing squad shoot live bullets, in South Carolina, the rifles of all three shooters were supposed to be loaded with ammunition.

The two wounds on Mahdi’s body were described in the autopsy as being almost exactly the same size. Pathologists who reviewed the report expressed doubt that two bullets went through precisely the same, small hole.

“I think the odds of that are pretty minuscule,” Wigren said

(Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250509155025/https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5389846/firing-squad-south-carolina-death-penalty-execution)

Also, it’s arbitrary and capricious - this is hitting everyone in the prison, regardless of their sentence, just because they happen to be incarcerated at the wrong place and time

True, but it only happened after these journalists confronted the DA’s office with the results of their investigation. The DA says they had no idea this guy was a nazi, but if that’s true then their hiring and vetting process has serious problems, and I doubt those are going to be addressed in a meaningful way.

Verdi and Rey say they have shielded their grandkids from the severity of Gentile’s current situation in South Georgia, where he is clad in an orange jumpsuit and fighting to remain in the country. They told the children that he had to leave on an urgent trip.

“They ask, ‘Where is my daddy?’ And we can’t tell them, ‘Daddy is in jail,’” Verdi said.

“We had to lie to them because we don’t want to hurt them,” Rey added.

Absolutely deranged scumbag behavior, voting for Trump is bad enough but lying to children in your care to protect your own fragile egos from what you’ve done (that “we don’t want to hurt them” is self serving bullshit whether they’re consciously aware of it or not) is even worse. Those kids are going to go to school and they’re going to hear what really happened to their father from one of their classmates, probably in the most traumatizing way possible, all because these fucking sorry excuses for caregivers didn’t have the backbones to admit what they’ve done.