The problematic articles varied in authorship and subject matter, but many shared a common feature
By speaking about her past, Judith Godrèche speaks about sparking a fresh #MeToo wave in a country that has long avoided the issue of sexual abuse.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240519141036/https://deadline.com/2024/05/judith-godreche-moi-aussi-metoo-france-interview-1235907596/
“It feels a bit off-balance,” said Rogowski, who went on to point out that children already have many other damaging freedoms online where they are more exposed to danger and not protected.
So, there's a chance something could be getting lost in translation and I don't know the context here, but just taking this article's description at face value,
[Paraphrasing], "Kids can voluntarily be exposed to explicit content on the internet, so why do we need guardians around when I act creepy towards them (it's my job, no really)" seems like both a tellingly weird rant trigger for this guy and first line of argument in defense of it
e; I should have kept reading the article,
For Rogowski, though, the efforts now made in Britain are in danger of inhibiting creativity. His scenes in Bird involve several small children and teenagers who are depicted in situations of social neglect and even imminent harm. “It’s true that Andrea is very careful and respectful, but it would have been great sometimes if there was a bit more trust – and I think that’s a cultural thing,” Rogowski told the industry journal Variety this weekend. “We are so scared nowadays to expose our kids to maybe a swear word – which is ridiculous, because we allow them to use social media and YouTube.”
Ok, yeah, so maybe spoilers for the movie Bird (I haven't seen it but I've read a few things about it now), but it seems like this actor plays an abusive father figure type, and I could kind of imagine how doing that work would have you running into these regulations a lot and they might get kind of annoying, but a) they are there for a really good reason b) if I was your publicist I'd be writing a profanity filled resignation email right now, because you just created a PR headache for yourself
That all said, I think this guy is more dumbass than creep at this point
This comment has the sort of broken cynicism and utter indifference to our shared humanity you normally only see in CNNs coverage of foreign wars
They think he'll be good for them, so they lie and say he'll be good for us
Yep, and this is all also applies to the Republican party as a whole
Thank you for the sincere and thought out reply, that was honestly really refreshing.
I'm really, truly, glad for your people and that they're doing better and doing more good in the world, and very much believe that's exactly what healthcare can and should do for people and society. However, I know one person who spent years dealing with medical debt because their insurance basically did a bait and switch (hospital was in network but the doctor wasn't), probably a dozen who spent years at jobs they hated because they needed the insurance, and one person who worked in healthcare and basically had to switch jobs and move to a different specialty because having to fight insurance companies for her patients and losing those fights was destroying her mental health.
Also - and this feels kinda petty and I'm sorry if it comes off as disrespecting your story but I've just gotta say - I'm pretty certain dental coverage isn't mandated for employers under the ACA, or for adults on state Medicaid plans. So, though the ACA certainly may have helped or played a role in the people you know getting dental care (like, some states do provide dental, and there's probably matching money or a grant or some other mechanism somewhere in the ACA to support that), it didn't do it alone, and there's all too many people who don't get that treatment because they have a lousy employer plan and/or live in a red state.
And my problem with the ACA is that it really serves to lock a lot of these problems in and just completely neutralize any political will to change them. Beyond shoveling money at health insurance companies, it's made them a central player in healthcare policy, both through their lobbying work and through the kinds of influence they're more able to exercise over healthcare providers (e.g. what health insurance will and won't cover determines what departments get what kind of staffing, let alone the impact it has on what individual providers can and can't do). The deeper these things set in to our various bureaucratic and political systems the harder it becomes to even imagine another way to do things because the administrative and intellectual resources to do all the nifty gritty detail work of healthcare are owned outright or deeply intertwined with this inefficient and unjust market system.
Also, there's a deeper historical conversation to be had about how the politics of 2008-10 played out, and how bank bailouts and the ACA both gave Tea Party assholes material to work with, but frankly I don't have the mental energy to disentangle that from the fact that straight up racism and lies did a lot to propel them. Like, to discuss that 2 year period properly really would take a whole book, but the harm that was done to this country by the 2010 election and the census and gerrymanderings that came after it is really hard to overstate, and I really think that the mishandling of policy and messaging around the foreclosure crisis and healthcare reform by Democratic lawmakers really set the stage for that disaster.
That all being said,
If we survive November, we’ll meet back up and hassle the newly-electeds together
Hear hear, that's something I'll look forward to while holding my nose and filling out my ballot. Good luck to you and your people, whatever may come.
Thank you for this, I need these occasional reminders to not treat pro-Biden trolls like human beings
Because a lot of what the claim as success is a half measure at best and actually makes things worse in a lot of instances. For example, thanks to the ACA we now have more people giving health insurance companies more money than ever before, money they use to lobby and lock in their political advantages, but meanwhile lots of insured people are still being crushed by healthcare costs because the insurance they get is crap.
But, just to prove I'm not just a Democratic party/Biden hater -
e; actually, nevermind
Yeah it did help some people?
It helped insurance companies. The uninsured rate is super low these days but tons of people still can't afford premiums and our of pocket costs and skip healthcare anyway
with some Democrats being very conservative
And whenever people try to call out conservative Democratic party members for screwing things up they get shouted down in comment threads just like these
In the Spring of 2021, The Biden administration reinterpreted the American Rescue Plan Act so that local and county governments could give the COVID recovery money Congress has approved to their police departments for basically anything
In the Summer of 2021, The Biden administration approved Memphis' plan to use $13mil on various "public safety" initiatives
In the Fall of 2021, the Memphis PD used their influx of funding to create the SCORPION Unit
In January of 2023, officers from the unit beat Tyre Nichols to death
Perhaps we all should do better when it comes to caring about the physical safety of marginalized people
Also, their much touted climate change bill is almost entirely just handing out money to wealthy for profit companies (including fucking oil and gas companies for carbon capture programs that probably won't work) and hoping they do good things with it, instead of just prohibiting them from doing bad things like we should be doing
He could have descheduled it entirely with the exact same process that rescheduled it, but Biden still wants it to be illegal federally because it's a great tool for cops, border guards, human resource departments and other shitheads to fuck with people they don't like and preserving that kind of crap is a through line for Biden's whole career back to the 70s
Odds on when this guy murders someone else?
Don't know when, but I can already see one of the quotes that will run in that future news story,
During Perry’s sentencing hearing last May, the prosecution asked that he be sentenced to at least 25 years in prison. They highlighted a stream of racist and inflammatory social media posts Perry wrote prior to the shooting and the defense’s own analysis of his mental disorders and mindset.
“This man is a loaded gun ready to go off on any perceived threat that he thinks he has to address in his black and white world and his us versus them mentality,” a prosecutor said.
And he's being released just in time for Pride Month, during an election year, and while Israel/Palestine protests are ongoing. It'll be amazing if he doesn't hurt someone else.
Revelations in the documents released as part of the settlement in Penebaker v. Hitt, a civil lawsuit against false electors in the 2020 presidential election.
>In March, our team at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection—along with our co-counsel at Law Forward and Stafford Rosenbaum, LLP—settled Penebaker v. Hitt, a historic lawsuit brought by two Democratic Wisconsin electors against the ten individuals who fraudulently cast ballots for Trump and Pence, as well as two lawyers associated with the Trump Campaign. One of them was Chesebro himself, who already faces a public and legal reckoning for his role in the plot. The other was James Troupis, a top attorney for the Trump Campaign in Wisconsin who, until recently, had escaped significant national scrutiny. > >As part of our settlement agreement, we obtained thousands of emails, text messages, and other records from the defendants, including many from Troupis and Chesebro themselves. These documents, all of which are posted publicly, provide new revelations about the development of the false electors scheme, which should guide public understanding of this element of Trump’s multipronged attempt to nullify his defeat and unlawfully retain power. > >[Editor’s note: The Wisconsin documents are now integrated into a comprehensive timeline of the false electors scheme.] > >This article explores three major themes exposed by the settlement: (1) the role of James Troupis; (2) the earlier-than-understood origins of the plot, just days after the election itself ; and (3) the design of the underlying scheme. > >First and foremost, these documents show that without Troupis, there would not have been a false electors scheme. Troupis leveraged his connections inside Trump’s orbit to operationalize Chesebro’s ideas. Second, the timeline presented by these documents shows how the false electors scheme was hatched much earlier than previously believed by close observers and continued in earnest through the violent insurrection on January 6th. Third, these documents make clear that the scheme was not—as now alleged by Trump’s defenders—a contingency plan in case courts overturned election results. On the contrary, this was a premeditated effort to use fraudulent slates of electors to introduce uncertainty and chaos into the Joint Session, no matter what the courts ruled. To put it simply, the new information obtained as a result of the Penebaker litigation shows that the false electors scheme was not just a lawyerly subplot to a haphazard coup attempt; rather, it was the centerpiece of Trump’s well-orchestrated pressure campaign to dismantle democracy.
[Some links within omitted]
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240517123222/https://www.justsecurity.org/95670/wisconsin-lawsuit-false-electors-documents/
And I'm pretty sure they'd be willing to compromise on the taxes part of that
crank hog shid pant an gobbless
Getting people to click with a lying headline and then giving them the truth after you've gotten their webtraffic is horrible journalism and corrosive to civil society
Oh for sure, a Republican probably wouldn't have even got investigated for the stuff Menendez did. His corrupt ass can go right to jail, but that (R) immunity card is a way bigger problem for our country than anything he did.
Except this is all bullshit because whenever the border guards want to they just declare the official points of entry closed and force people to cross irregularly so they've got a legal fig leaf for denying them their rights and skipping straight to deportation
Sure, the federal government should be providing more anti-poverty resources generally to city county and state level governments, we've chronically underfunded those services for a long time and have a lot of deficits to make up there. What we don't need is that dogshit legislation and these executive orders that essentially just give money to border patrol to harass and brutalize desperate people and try to make our immigration courts into even more of a rubber stamp for xenophobic bullshit than they already are.
Also, Eric Adams is a lying rat bastard who's had it in for the homeless and poor people for decades, so anything coming from nyc.gov about the teeming masses yearning to breathe free shouldn't be taken at face value.
They get worse every time they lose elections because they're able to sell their voter base on all the "we need to do these horrible things to win" arguments. Step one of solving our problems is electing shitty Democratic lawmakers, step two is primarying them for failing to do what they campaigned on (with community organizing and mutual aid throughout these two steps and just as a general ongoing thing).
A lawyer for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is blaming the politician’s wife for his legal problems. Avi Weitzman told a jury at the start of Menendez's corruption trial on Wednesday that the Democrat wasn’t aware his spouse had taken gifts from a trio of businessmen.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240516123211/https://apnews.com/article/bob-menendez-bribery-trial-gold-bars-fdf63f49d335ad70f0e6c8bc7aab52e5
The powerful Laredo congressman is indicted for allegedly acting as a foreign agent for Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank in exchange for at least $600,000 in bribes.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240516123010/https://www.texasobserver.org/henry-cuellar-indictment-bribery-azerbaijan-mexico/
Only Congress can resolve the Dreamers’ legal limbo.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240516122707/https://www.thebulwark.com/p/passing-the-dream-act-has-become-a-nightmare
The announcement of visa restrictions and sanctions against Nicaraguan organizations reflects the White House’s concern that a surge of migrants could threaten President Biden’s re-election.
Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/KeixE
Biden administration officials say the increased help from Mexico in slowing migration is proof their relationship with Mexico is more productive than Trump's approach.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240516122520/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/mexico-stopping-three-times-as-many-migrants-as-last-year-rcna146821
Related, https://web.archive.org/web/20240515183712/https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251378746/tiny-desk-contest-2024-winner-announcement
Domestic violence murder rates are at an all time high, but advocates are concerned they may not be able to keep providing the services communities depend on due to major funding issues.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240515121430/https://www.wxpr.org/community/2024-05-15/four-years-after-losing-funds-for-supporting-black-lives-matter-a-domestic-violence-shelter-worries-about-their-future
In 2023, the Hotline received a record-high 17,972 contacts for requests for shelter, up 45% from 2022. But advocates say the state is not equipped to meet the increased demand.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240515115937/https://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-domestic-violence-hotline-deluged-with-calls-hindered-by-lack-of-shelter-beds/e7d0a319-389f-4baf-b4b9-dc3da1cded9d
A handful of Texas jails have issued electronic tablets to inmates. Counties can make money off their use.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240515115928/https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/13/texas-prisons-jails-tablets/
Hundreds of counties around the country have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profits. One mother said, of two years without seeing her children, “It broke our bond.”
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240515104635/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/the-jails-that-forbid-children-from-visiting-their-parents
A spokesperson said the health ministry in Gaza is tracking two separate death tolls – an overall death toll and a total number of identified fatalities.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240514004418/https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/13/middleeast/death-toll-gaza-fatalities-un-intl-latam/index.html
The laws on guns, abortion, and so much more don't have to be like this.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240510115543/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/originalism-ate-the-law-what-now.html
Yes, people do go to to jail for gag-order violations in New York
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240510115607/https://jentaub.substack.com/p/locked-him-up
"This is copaganda, designed primarily to provide the mayor with political cover, but then also to show off the military might and alleged professionalism of the NYPD."
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240510120905/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/nypd-sizzle-reel-student-protests/
In NH YDC trial, the jury awarded David Meehan $18 million in compensatory damages and $20 million in enhanced damages. But the state AG aims to use a law to reduce that to just $475,000.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240510115215/https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-05-09/judge-wont-reconvene-jury-after-disputed-verdict-nh-youth-ydc-abuse-case
Gov. Brian Kemp has signed legislation that makes additional changes to Georgia’s election laws ahead of the 2024 presidential contest in the battleground state.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240510114447/https://apnews.com/article/georgia-kemp-voting-challenges-changes-aa1fd9b62c7bcdd430c24dc439f8a728
The military relies on noncitizens to fill its ranks. No one is sure how many are later banished from the country they fought for.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240510114335/https://thewarhorse.org/us-military-fills-ranks-with-noncitizens-then-deports-them/
Two Alabama women spent more than a year trying to reclaim vehicles they owned, which the police had confiscated after arresting their drivers on drug charges.
Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/CNrKS