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Nov 12 2021
News
Why Albuquerque’s latest experiment in policing doesn’t involve officers
As cities wrestle with how to reform policing to reduce the use of lethal force, Albuquerque has created a new kind of responder on the streets. It sends behavioral specialists to deal with calls that involve emergencies like mental health issues and homelessness.
It’s early October, and perhaps the busiest week of the year in New Mexico’s largest city. Hundreds of hot air balloons dot
Christian Science MonitorJun 20 2021
Analysis
Instagram Is Still A Hotbed Of Anti-Vax Propaganda
Getting vaccinated against the coronavirus makes your body magnetic, one post warned. Another, citing the “World Hoax Organization,” claimed the COVID-19 vaccines have gone through “fuck all tests for safety and effectiveness.” A third suggested Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci tried to “kill everyone with a Plandemic.” Others pushed similarly baseless nonsense.
I came across each of these
HuffPostMar 08 2022
Analysis
Why some Republicans are turning against the death penalty
It’s rare for a politician to admit they were wrong. But Jean Schmidt will own up to this: She used to support the death penalty.
In 2001, Schmidt was an Ohio state representative when the legislature debated ending the use of the electric chair. Schmidt, a Republican, argued on the house floor that even if the electric chair was on the way out, the death penalty was still necessary as
VoxOct 30 2020
Opinion
Why Oil Must Remain Part of Our Future
Oil is not going anywhere. It’s in the jeans you’re wearing, the phone you’re holding, and the chair you’re sitting in. Even if it were possible to eliminate oil usage, this implies the discovery of other equally capable resources. The old adage “If it can’t be grown, it must be mined” comes to mind.
Further complicating things is the fact that reducing demand for oil in one area does
Guest Writer - RightOct 27 2020
News
Judge: US can’t replace Trump in accuser’s defamation suit
President Donald Trump’s request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit, which alleges he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, was denied Tuesday by a federal judge.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan came after the Justice Department argued that the United States — and by extension the American people — should
Associated Press Fact CheckSep 09 2020
News
Bill Barr Says Insulting a Rape Accuser Was Part of Trump’s Official Duties
ON TUESDAY, the Department of Justice moved to replace President Donald Trump’s private legal team to defend the accused rapist in a defamation suit brought by author E. Jean Carroll. Last year, Carroll credibly accused Trump of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.
In a predictably putrid response, Trump denied the assault, claimed (falsely) to have never met
The InterceptSep 02 2019
News
Black lawyer, white killer, and the principles of US justice
Tampa attorney Theresa Jean-Pierre Coy marched into America’s identity wars knowing she risked being called an opportunist, and perhaps even a traitor to her race.
After all, prosecutors described her client Michael Drejka as a “parking lot vigilante” – an angry white man who shot and killed an unarmed black man during an argument over a handicapped-reserved parking spot.
Christian Science MonitorJan 13 2021
Opinion
Europeans Recognize Trumpism for What It Is
Lucky are the foreign ministers of very small, very consensus-driven countries, for those who play their cards right sometimes get to hold office for many years. One of the luckiest card players out there is Jean Asselborn, the amusing polyglot who has been the foreign minister of Luxembourg since 2004. Although his country is tiny (population 613,000), the longevity of Luxembourg’s top
The AtlanticSep 18 2021
News
In Submarine Deal With Australia, U.S. Counters China but Enrages France
President Biden’s announcement of a deal to help Australia deploy nuclear-powered submarines has strained the Western alliance, infuriating France and foreshadowing how the conflicting American and European responses to confrontation with China may redraw the global strategic map.
In announcing the deal on Wednesday, Mr. Biden said it was meant to reinforce alliances and update them as
New York Times (News)Sep 16 2021
News
France Is Outraged by U.S. Nuclear Submarine Deal With Australia
France reacted with fury on Thursday to President Biden’s announcement of a deal to help Australia deploy nuclear-powered submarines, calling it a “unilateral, brutal, unpredictable decision” that resembled the rash and sudden policy shifts common during the Trump administration.
The angry words from Jean-Yves Le Drian, the foreign minister, in an interview with Franceinfo radio,
New York Times (News)