a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely by being unaware of its content.
[From the article] “If the Sheriff’s office (or the state) wants to enforce the copyright in the image, it can probably do it,” Mr Rub added. “Copyright infringement can entail various sanctions, including the profits that the infringer, meaning the Trump campaign, gained as a result of the infringement.”
Would this fall under the “Son of Sam” law?
Meaning he can’t profit off of his own crimes?
Means that the picture is the property of the people of the Georgia county.
The money actually belongs to them.
“Taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the bill for multi-billion-dollar companies like Fox News when they get caught selling malicious lies that are damaging our democracy,” Whitehouse said in a statement. “There is nothing ‘ordinary and necessary’ about lying to the American people.”
The Denying Expenditures for False Accusations with Malicious Effect (DEFAME) Act would apply to defamation payments worth over $500 million from companies that have made over $10 billion in revenue, and could cover defamations that require proof of “actual malice,” as the Dominion lawsuit was centered around.
Stepping down is not going to let him off the hook
House Republicans unveiled a [PDF WARNING] budget blueprint
on Tuesday that proposes trillions of dollars in federal spending reductions over the next decade, specifically targeting Medicaid and federal nutrition assistance for steep cuts.
[Opinion]Reads like a Blank Check to taxpayer funds
They want fascism. They want murder. They want suffering. They want theocracy & authoritarian rule.
That’s just the first stage of what they want. They don’t believe in science. They want all educated people to be
That’s just the first stage of what they want. They don’t believe in science. They want all educated people to be marched into the fields. They want Jews, POC, and anyone else they don’t like to live in misery and poverty. They want the death penalty for trans people existing. They want abortion outlawed. They want young mothers to die.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Pol Pot wanted the same.
Hitler wanted the same. Wake up.
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" On his 100th birthday, Marine and World War II veteran Carl Dekle said he loves his country and that's why he's worried about the future of America. During an emotional interview, he said he worries future generations won't have the same opportunities he had, despite having to fight and watch his fellow countrymen die on the front lines "
basically fox news using this stunt against progressive values.
They came back from world war 2 didn’t complain about shit, and even paid some of the highest taxes that Americans have done, but only to have some kids to fuck it up for all of us. Thanks baby boomers. I’d be upset as fuck like him.
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I felt it in my, I’m not sure what it was, but I was thinking it’s about time for all the acorns to drop. Sure enough, this morning one bounced off my incapacitated vehicle. I knew it was time to go and find em. I got handfuls last year but I didn’t know what I was doing and became an accidental grub farmer. This year, I got five so far and they all floated. I almost cried. I found one good Acron last year and I just checked on it and killed it due to negligence and lack of oxygen. It smelled like alcohol when I opened the container without enough breathing holes. I basically killed my only viable seed last year even though I set a reminder for about every three days and kept telling myself I’ll check tomorrow. Life got in the way. Just trying to manage. I stopped writing and became lost in a defeating pattern, but I kept moving, I needed to keep moving, I just didn’t know where to go cause I’ve had options taken away from me over the past few years. This year I was hit on five different fronts at the same time, more if you count that I didn’t know who to talk to about my problems. For example: Some guy punched me in the face with the back of his hand at full force and tried to deny it the moment my face was bleeding (we were supposed to be on a date). He said he’d call me a cab (service car) then didn’t and I walked home crying in the dark a few miles. I called some guy named Andrew (he works at a golf culb) and stayed with me on the phone until I got home safe. Thank you for being there for me that night.
Anyway, I’m not sure what I’ll do with my acorns today. I wish I could facilitate a healthy environment for my babies to grow but I killed most of them by not watering them at all or over watering and not having enough sunlight(My spider plants and aloe vera). I couldn’t keep them alive but at least my dog hasn’t suffered much due to the trauma I’ve been inflicted with and I’m sure I inflicted trauma on others about it (by simply writing about it). Some people can’t be bothered to be troubled with other people’s problems if they’re not personally suffering.
Uploaded: 13:45 September19th - Originally Written: 17:52 September 17th, 2023
I like to call it Gen Mech but most people wouldn’t understand what I was talking about it if I said that out loud.
I was in the Air Force, a Surgical Technician (Surg Tech) and once I got to my first duty station I did C Sections and spent most of my days in Central Supply fighting over colostomy cameras and instrument sets to clean. I found a list and started a traveling women’s softball team that got locally sponsored for gear and uniforms. Anyway, I forget how long I was there but once I found out the closest I could get to Iraq was Germany I got kicked out. I thought my life was over. I did a stint at a Motorcycle Dealership selling clothing and accessories but I didn’t make enough to support myself. I tried being a civilian surg tech in a Catholic Hospital and I got fired for being late three times just before my probationary period ended (imagine being human and working through the trauma). I never got fired before and I thought my life was over. I forget how I found him or maybe he found me but I met with an Army Recruiter that got me into a Unit that was deploying soon. During my time waiting to go to Iraq I worked three jobs at a time and still didn’t make enough to support myself and live on my own.
I worked at a non union Electrical Company as a Supply Supervisor. I ordered all the parts for rough-ins on brand spanking new mountain development houses, vastly big houses (to me anyway). When electricians needed something that didn’t come with an order sometimes I had to drive 4 hours one way to get that out to the electricians. Most of my mornings started before the sun would rise cause I had to drive over an hour to work while my father lived 5 minuets around the corner and he wouldn’t let me live there, his second wife Fran never liked me and found a way to get both my sister and I out of the house when we were children. Anyway, I had unlimited overtime and my boss Frank would get in by 5 am most days so it motivated me to get in early and stay late. They wouldn’t let me work with the electricians when some of them kept calling out being unable to get to the worksites due to snow. They all knew I was going to become a generator mechanic and deployed when I was hired. I didn’t get anything in writing but I thought they were going to help me learn more about the trade that didn’t involve working in the office, stripping wire, ordering/delivering parts. I had company credit card, a phone, the sweeting work van and I walked away because they wouldn’t let me learn hands-on. The day I quit my boss tried to make me face breakers on the shelves in the office warehouse, which didn’t really need to be done - truly stupid busy work - I realized no one was going to respect me to become more than the person they trusted to file permits in the middle of Center City Philadelphia all by myself. I filed permits wherever they needed it done too. I got to climb on scaffolding a few times in South Philly, they were doing a renovation and I was fucking hooked. I wanted to stay there and not go back to the office after dropping off recess lights and wiring or some stupid GFCI face plates that were white instead off off white or something.
I worked as a delivery driver at an auto parts store, I helped customers on the phones and in the store. Battery replacements, windshield wiper replacement, planograms, end caps, returns, core returns, gapping spark plugs for like $8 dollars an hour. I worked weekends from open to close. I worked some weeknights after the Electric Company. I worked with mechanics ensuring they received the correct part and if they didn’t I had to make multiple trips and some of these mechanics were shady as fuck. My father was so mad at me, I introduced him to a mechanic who gave him a good price on 4 tires and the mechanic bait and switched him when he went in for the work (meaning he gave him different tires than agreed upon). I asked my boss for a raise after working there for (I think) around 7 or 8 months, he told me he could give me ten cents more an hour. I had to make sure he wasn’t joking first but I quit on the spot due to how insulted I was. This person and the other manager lady trusted me with deposits to the bank on my own. This was right before I was about to deploy, I never wanted to see the again if I was going to make it back.
Between the Electric Shop and deploying I worked as a supply technician for Hospitals. At least two but I covered another one when they needed help. It was apart of the Frankfort Hospital System, I don’t even know if they’re in business anymore. The hospital I worked at the most had 13 or so units and my job entailed going floor to floor, unit to unit, checking all their stock inventory - taking notes - supplying what I came with and making sure I had more of what they needed next time I did my rounds. I picked up soiled sheets - biohazards - replaced with clean fresh ones, staged the bins for pickup. Was the person who delivered the laughing gases and whatnot to anesthesia locations. Sign off on receiving the containers and ensured they went to the correct places. I went to each nurses station and asked them if they needed anything. Had to carry a pager and listen for codes over the intercoms. My job involved being responsible for the crash cart. Which if you don’t know what that is its the cart that holds a whole bunch of instruments and drugs to keep someone alive in the event of dying. One day this lady crashed like 3 or 4 times and they kept bringing her back. I don’t know who it was but when I walked into work that day it could have easily what I’ve been eating for since working there. Codes don’t happen all the time but when they do, I felt comfortable being the person on the spot with the stuff. I don’t think I quit that place but perhaps I moved on? I forget what happened there. I try not to burn bridges but usually they decay from neglect on both ends. I try to reach out but I have found my letters go unanswered.
Beyond a doubt, I can say being a generator mechanic for the 1st 111th Infantry out of Norristown, PA was the most difficult job I’ve ever had and I worked at a plumbing company that got mad at me for trying to encourage people to solve their own problems on the internet when the customers were having the worst possible moments in their life. Absolute emergencies.
Anyway, when I joined this National Guard Unit, I was under the impression that I would deploy soon and with the people I met with every month. This was not the case.
I had already made friends and knew at least five other people who worked with generators . There was tons of cross trained people in HVAC, Light wheeled vehicles, an entire motor pool full of outdated tools and wealths of knowledge. The “Good Old Boys Club” was strong with these people, in Philadelphia nonetheless.
Schooling: I went to a “Gentleman’s Course” which lasted two weeks with a Physical Fitness evaluation to pass. I graduated third in my class but I was second during the first half. I played Horseshoes until the sun went down after class during the second week and slacked off in homework.
end of part 1
17:52 September 17th, 2023
Operation Barbarossa can be argued the turning point in WWII, (from the wiki - paraphrased at best if not copied directly) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies.
It was the largest land offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants taking part
Code-named after Frederick Barbarossa ("red beard"), a 12th-century Holy Roman Emperor and Crusader, put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union to repopulate it with Germans
The German Generalplan Ost aimed to use some of the conquered people as forced labour for the Axis war effort while acquiring the oil reserves of the Caucasus as well as the agricultural resources of various Soviet territories, including Ukraine and Byelorussia.
Germany’s ultimate goal was to create more Lebensraum (living space) for Germany, and the eventual extermination of the native Slavic peoples by mass deportation to Siberia, Germanisation, enslavement, and genocide.
In the two years leading up to the invasion, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed political and economic pacts for strategic purposes. Following the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, the German High Command began planning an invasion of the Soviet Union in July 1940 (under the codename Operation Otto).
The offensive marked a massive escalation of World War II, both geographically and with the Anglo-Soviet Agreement, which brought the USSR into the Allied coalition.
The operation opened up the Eastern Front, in which more forces were committed than in any other theatre of war in human history. The area saw some of history’s largest battles, most horrific atrocities, and highest casualties (for Soviet and Axis forces alike), all of which influenced the course of World War II and the subsequent history of the 20th century.
The German armies eventually captured some five million Soviet Red Army troops. The Nazis deliberately starved to death or otherwise killed 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war, and millions of civilians, as the "Hunger Plan" worked to solve German food shortages and exterminate the Slavic population through starvation.
Note The Holodomor, also known as the Great Ukrainian Famine,[b] was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
As early as 1925, Adolf Hitler vaguely declared in his political manifesto and autobiography Mein Kampf that he would invade the Soviet Union, asserting that the German people needed to secure Lebensraum ('living space') to ensure the survival of Germany for generations to come.[40] On 10 February 1939, Hitler told his army commanders that the next war would be "purely a war of Weltanschauungen ['worldviews']... totally a people's war, a racial war".
On 23 November, once World War II had already started, Hitler declared that "racial war has broken out and this war shall determine who shall govern Europe, and with it, the world".[41] The racial policy of Nazi Germany portrayed the Soviet Union (and all of Eastern Europe) as populated by non-Aryan Untermenschen ('sub-humans'), ruled by Jewish Bolshevik conspirators.[42] Hitler claimed in Mein Kampf that Germany's destiny was to Drang nach Osten ('turn to the East') as it did "600 years ago" (see Ostsiedlung).[43] Accordingly, it was a partially secret but well-documented Nazi policy to kill, deport, or enslave the majority of Russian and other Slavic populations and repopulate the land west of the Urals with Germanic peoples, under Generalplan Ost.
English: Master Plan for the East), abbreviated GPO, was Nazi Germany's plan for large-scale ethnic cleansing, extermination and genocide of Slavs, Eastern European Jews and other ethnic groups categorised as "Untermensch" in Nazi ideology.[3][1] The plan was intended to be the precursor for a programme, which would involve the colonisation of Central and Eastern Europe by German settlers, after the elimination of national identities of various Slavic peoples.
The Nazis' belief in their ethnic superiority pervades official records and pseudoscientific articles in German periodicals, on topics such as "how to deal with alien populations".
While older histories tended to emphasize the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht", upholding its honor in the face of Hitler's fanaticism, the historian Jürgen Förster notes that "In fact, the military commanders were caught up in the ideological character of the conflict, and involved in its implementation as willing participants".[41] Before and during the invasion of the Soviet Union, German troops were indoctrinated with anti-Bolshevik, anti-Semitic and anti-Slavic ideology via movies, radio, lectures, books, and leaflets.[46] Likening the Soviets to the forces of Genghis Khan, Hitler told the Croatian military leader Slavko Kvaternik that the "Mongolian race" threatened Europe.[47] Following the invasion, many Wehrmacht officers told their soldiers to target people who were described as "Jewish Bolshevik subhumans", the "Mongol hordes", the "Asiatic flood" and the "Red beast"
Nazi propaganda portrayed the war against the Soviet Union as an ideological war between German National Socialism and Jewish Bolshevism and a racial war between the disciplined Germans and the Jewish, Romani and Slavic Untermenschen.
Untermenschen definition: a person considered racially or socially inferior.
An 'order from the Führer' stated that the paramilitary SS Einsatzgruppen, which closely followed the Wehrmacht's advance, were to execute all Soviet functionaries who were "less valuable Asiatics, Gypsies and Jews"
Einsatzgruppen Definition: Einsatzgruppen[a] (German: [ˈaɪnzatsˌɡʁʊpm̩], lit. 'deployment groups';[1] also 'task forces')[2] were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The Einsatzgruppen had an integral role in the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish question" (Die Endlösung der Judenfrage) in territories conquered by Nazi Germany, and were involved in the murder of much of the intelligentsia and cultural elite of Poland, including members of the Catholic priesthood.[3] Almost all of the people they murdered were civilians, beginning with the intelligentsia and swiftly progressing to Soviet political commissars, Jews, and Romani people, as well as actual or alleged partisans throughout Eastern Europe.
Six months into the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Einsatzgruppen had murdered more than 500,000 Soviet Jews, a figure greater than the number of Red Army soldiers killed in battle by then.[51] German army commanders cast Jews as the major cause behind the "partisan struggle".[52] The main guideline for German troops was "Where there's a partisan, there's a Jew, and where there's a Jew, there's a partisan" or "The partisan is where the Jew is".[53][54] Many German troops viewed the war in Nazi terms and regarded their Soviet enemies as sub-human.[55]
After the war began, the Nazis issued a ban on sexual relations between Germans and foreign slaves.
Slaves definition: Forced labour under German rule during World War II:
The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (German: Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.[2] It was a vital part of the German economic exploitation of conquered territories. It also contributed to the mass extermination of populations in occupied Europe. The Germans abducted approximately 12 million people from almost twenty European countries; about two thirds came from Central Europe and Eastern Europe.[1] Many workers died as a result of their living conditions – extreme mistreatment, severe malnutrition and abuse were the main causes of death. Many more became civilian casualties from enemy (Allied) bombing and shelling of their workplaces throughout the war.[3] At its peak the forced labourers constituted 20% of the German work force. Counting deaths and turnover, about 15 million men and women were forced labourers at one point during the war.[4]
There were regulations enacted against the Ost-Arbeiter ('Eastern workers') that included the death penalty for sexual relations with a German.
Ostarbeiter (German: [ˈɔstˌʔaʁbaɪtɐ], lit. "Eastern worker") was a Nazi German designation for foreign slave workers gathered from occupied Central and Eastern Europe to perform forced labor in Germany during World War II. The Germans started deporting civilians at the beginning of the war and began doing so at unprecedented levels following Operation Barbarossa in 1941.
They apprehended Ostarbeiter from the newly-formed German districts of Reichskommissariat Ukraine, District of Galicia (itself attached to the General Government), and Reichskommissariat Ostland. These areas comprised German-occupied Poland and the conquered territories of the Soviet Union. According to Pavel Polian, over 50% of Ostarbeiters were formerly Soviet subjects originating from the territory of modern-day Ukraine, followed by Polish women workers (approaching 30% of the total).[2] Eastern workers included ethnic Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, Russians, Armenians, Tatars, and others.[3] Estimates of the number of Ostarbeiter range between 3 million and 5.5 million.[2]
By 1944, most new workers were under the age of 16 because those older were usually conscripted for service in Germany; 30% were as young as 12–14 years of age when taken from their homes.[2][4] The age limit was reduced to 10 in November 1943.[2] Ostarbeiter were often the victims of rape, and tens of thousands of pregnancies due to rape occurred.[5]
Ostarbeiter often received starvation rations and were forced to live in guarded labor camps. Many died from starvation, overwork, bombing (they were frequently denied access to bomb shelters), abuse, and execution by the German overseers. These workers were often denied wages; when they did get paid, they received payment in a special currency which could only be used to buy specific products at the camps where they lived.
Following the war, the occupying powers repatriated many of the over 2.5 million liberated Ostarbeiter.[6] Those returning to the USSR suffered from social ostracism.[citation needed] American authorities banned the repatriation of Ostarbeiter in October 1945, and some of them immigrated to the U.S. as well as to other non eastern-bloc countries. In 2000 the German government and thousands of German companies made a one-time payment of just over € 5 billion to Ostarbeiter victims of the Nazi regime.
00:13 am September 17th, 2023
My last surgery was set up and I don’t know who did scheduling but I should never have been lead surgical technician, the lady that did all my sutures and sponges should have taken that spot while explaining what she was doing because that’s how my preceptor taught me every step of the way, from day one. She did the surgery first with the surgeon and explain why she did, what she did. Highly effect, if you ask me. Someone must have had too much confidence in me during the last surgery of the day and threw me into absolute chaos, which I am not accustomed to constantly but know how to manage in the best way possible.
As I was same day surgery at the time, this surgical suite where I scrubbed into was down the hallway, someplace I had never been before. I remember green titles along the wall instead of the bright white Same Day Surgery walls that I scrubbed down everyday, after every surgery we need to clean down the entire room down. I can assure you, I have been taken advantage of and I don’t want to see others to suffer the same fate as me.
I miss my job. I miss health care and I’ve been involved with so many aspects of except direct patient care. I’ve done medical billing and got patients MRI acceptances through being on hold for who knows how long, looking back on being on hold the health care companies. I assisted doctors in administrative positions getting their licensed renewed and booking travel accommodations for Continued Medical Education. I was the Assistance to President of a Sports Medical Clinic and personally took care of literally anything he asked for that involved to reading his living will and he trusted me to organize his personal files and resume. It was like 30 pages long due to the fact he wrote extensively how stretching provided physical health with aging. He worked with the New York, Boston, and who knows how many marathons, the Olympics, the head doctor with the Special Olympics in New Jersey. Dr Richard Levandowski was an honor to work for.
Some people look at fractals and see endless repetition, I see endless solutions and possibilities.
17:08 September 12th, 2023
You could work in surgery and it’s not enough you’re not the surgeon, no one will care.
You can learn how to anticipate everything before the doctor asks for it but my last surgery I worked with people I never met before in a surgical suit I had never been in. I was the lead surgical technician in a cardiothoracic surgery, with another tech who loaded my sponges and needles and manned my table.
The surgery started with cracking a man’s rib cage open, he was teaching/mentoring another new surgeon who was on the other side of the operating room table. It’s tight close quarters so you can imagine how space is at a minimum in the surgical suite. As I watched from the end of the table close to my instrument table and second tech, with almost his entire body inside this man’s chest cavity the surgeon nicked the pulmonary artery about 30 minutes into the operation. The moment he nicked it the asked for a sponge, I never worked with this doctor before and I didn’t understand his accent when he asked for it but the second tech behind me did and had it ready to go. Everything happened so fast and we gained like two more surgeons who took over. What should have been a 1.5 - 2 hour surgery which turned into a blood transfusion and 5 hour hours later. I was there for the first 4 and was told to scrub out an hour before they closed up. I never lost my counts but the second tech tried to get me to break before I had all of them in order.
I’m pretty sure this wasn’t her first rodeo but I was fed to the wolves constantly at this hospital. I loved my work, what I did (even though I hated the medium I worked in; blood, needles, people don’t smell too good on the inside and you’d be surprised out comes out of people) and where I lacked in interpersonal skills I know I more than made up for them in my technical abilities.
4:52 pm 09/10/2023
It doesn’t have to be Black History month to learn about Black History. The following links and quotes are to serve as the most fundamental facts I can provide. The victims below had lives, families, loved ones, children, jobs, dreams, ambitions and even if they weren’t perfect people, perfect victims, they deserved the due process of law. They deserve to be alive today.
Due process includes […] provisions ensuring an accused person a fair and public trial before a competent tribunal, the right to be present at the trial, and the right to be heard in his or her own defense. Due process includes both the right to a fair trial and the right to an effective remedy.
No one deserves to die over walking with some candy, trying to sleep in their own homes on their time off, or for approaching an officer to ask for help after a car accident only to be shot to death.
Without watching the news or reading about US History, some people don’t comprehend the extent of what black people have had to rise above since the emancipation proclamation of 1863. Down south, white people that were well to do, former slave owners and the ones that lived in poverty didn’t like seeing black people trying to better themselves. White people made clubs and organizations to target blacks and generally anyone who didn’t agree with their small minded, exclusionary, hateful ideology. There were no social safety nets for the disadvantaged. Prior to the Atlanta Compromise, which could have provided more representation but people like Booker T. Washington (Booker Taliaferro Washington )
Because of his influential leadership, the timespan of his activity, from 1880 to 1915, has been called the Age of Booker T. Washington. Nevertheless, opposition to Washington grew, as it became clear that his Atlanta compromise did not produce the promised improvement for most black Americans in the South.
held more sway over public opinion, having more ties in the African American Business and Education Communities instead of W. E. B. Du Bois. Keeping the working class divided is one of the oldest tricks in the play books. It’s a logical fallacy of Argumentum ad crumenam, or just trusting that the speaker is rich, “they obviously knew what they were talking about”… What you forget is the second part: “to get more money into their own pockets”.
I’ve read people say the police are supposed to protect property and that made sense to me as a small child because I had a grandfather who was a traffic cop, before traffic lights existed. In my brain, I saw this as a good public service that helped the community. As I got older, calling or interacting with the police became a terrifying event. There’s now a new emergency hotline 988 for mental health crisis in the US.
My family didn’t make it to America until just the beginning of WWII but it’s worth learning about what happened before you were born, helps to keep up while you’re alive too.
Breonna Taylor, 26 years old RIP
Breonna Taylor, an emergency room technician who dreamed of becoming a nurse, buying a house, and starting a family was asleep in bed with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shortly after midnight on March 13 when Louisville police officers executing a search warrant used a battering ram to break down her door.
Ms Taylor was killed in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13 March 2020 by plainclothes police who were executing a "no-knock" search warrant.
Clifford Glover, 10 years old RIP Date: April 28, 1973
At 5 a.m. on April 28, 1973, 10-year-old Clifford Glover was shot when he decided to join his stepfather for some work on a weekend and his stepfather was stopped by two undercover officers
Claude Reese, 14 years old RIP
Reese[…] was shot in the head about 10 P.M. Sunday in a dimly lit courtyard that separates the building where he lived, 457 Powell Street, and an adjacent building at No. 471, where he and some other boys had been cleaning up a basement room in preparation for a birthday party.
Randy Evans, 15 years old RIP
a 15-year-old boy from Brooklyn, NY who was shot and killed by NYPD officer Robert Torsney on November 25, 1976. Evans was a ninth-grader at Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn at the time of the shooting. On Thanksgiving Day 1976, responding to a report of a man with a gun in the Cypress Hills housing projects, Officer Torsney encountered a group of youths. After a brief conversation, Torsney shot one of them, Evans, point-blank in the head for no reason.
Yvonne Smallwood, 28 years old RIP
a Bronx woman, died Dec. 9 while in police custody, six days after being arrested in a dispute over a summons issued to her boyfriend. While police said Smallwood attacked them, her boyfriend and another witness said they saw police kick and beat Smallwood, who died from a blood clot.
Amadou Diallo, 23 years old RIP
In the early hours of February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo (born September 2, 1975) was fired upon with 41 rounds and shot a total of 19 times by four New York City Police Department plainclothes officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss.
Sean Bell, 23 years old RIP
Sean Bell was shot in New York City, while unarmed, by police officers in the borough of Queens on November 25, 2006. Three men were shot when a total of 50 rounds were fired by New York City police (NYPD) in both plainclothes and undercover. Bell was killed on the morning before his wedding, and two of his friends, Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman, were severely wounded.[…]
Bell was studying to be an electrician
Oscar Grant, 22 years old RIP
Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco, BART Police officers detained Grant and several other passengers on the platform at the Fruitvale BART Station. BART officer Anthony Pirone kneed Grant in the head and forced Grant to lie face down on the platform. Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant. Grant was rushed to Highland Hospital in Oakland and pronounced dead later that day. The events were captured on multiple official and private digital video and privately owned cell phone cameras. Owners disseminated their footage to media outlets and to various websites where it went viral.
One of the first police shootings to be captured on cell phone, millions saw BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle fire a single, fatal gunshot into Oscar Grant's back as the 22-year-old lay face down on the train station platform.
Trayvon Martin, 17 years old RIP
Trayvon Benjamin Martin (February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) was a 17-year-old African-American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic American. Martin had accompanied his father to visit his father's fiancée at her townhouse at The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford. On the evening of February 26, Martin was walking back to the fiancée's house from a nearby convenience store. Zimmerman, a member of the community watch, saw Martin and reported him to the Sanford Police as suspicious. Several minutes later, an altercation happened and Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in the chest.
Jordan Davis, 17 years old RIP
On November 23, 2012, Jordan Davis, a black 17-year-old high school student, was murdered at a Gate Petroleum gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, by Michael David Dunn, a white 45-year-old software developer, following an argument over loud music played by Davis and his three friends, in what was believed to be a racially motivated shooting.
Aiyana Jones, 7 years old RIP
Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones (July 20, 2002 – May 16, 2010) was a seven-year-old African-American girl from Detroit's East Side who was shot in the neck and killed by police officer Joseph Weekley during a raid conducted by the Detroit Police Department's Special Response Team targeting a suspect in the apartment a floor above Jones' on May 16, 2010.
Eric Garner, 43 years old RIP
Pantaleo then placed his arm around Garner's neck and wrestled him to the ground. With multiple officers pinning him down, Garner repeated the words "I can't breathe" 11 times while lying face down on the sidewalk. After Garner lost consciousness, he remained lying on the sidewalk for seven minutes while the officers waited for an ambulance to arrive. Garner was pronounced dead at an area hospital approximately one hour later.
John Crawford III, 22 years old RIP
The killing of John Crawford III occurred on August 5, 2014. Crawford was a 22-year-old African-American man shot and killed by a police officer in a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, near Dayton, while he was holding a BB gun that was for sale in the store.[1][2][3][4][5] The shooting was captured on surveillance video […]
The shooting was captured by the store's security video camera.[16] Crawford was talking on his cell phone while holding the BB/Pellet air rifle when he was shot to death by Williams.[17] The video shows the officers fired almost immediately after entering the store and sighting Crawford holding the BB gun. From the video, it is unclear whether officers gave verbal commands, and whether Crawford was shot before or after he reacted to the officers.
Mike Brown, 18 years old RIP
IMichael Orlandus Darrion Brown[18] (May 20, 1996[19] – August 9, 2014) graduated from Normandy High School in St. Louis County eight days before his death, completing an alternative education program.[20] At the time of his death, he was 18 years old, 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 meters) tall, and weighed 292 pounds (132 kilograms).[9] He was an amateur rap musician who posted his songs on the popular music-sharing site SoundCloud under the handle "Big'Mike."[21] He was two days from starting a training program for heating and air conditioning repair at Vatterott College technical school.
Tamir Rice, 12 years old RIP
On November 22, 2014, Tamir E. Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy, was killed in Cleveland, Ohio, by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old white police officer. Rice was carrying a replica toy gun; Loehmann shot him almost immediately upon arriving on the scene. Two officers, Loehmann and 46-year-old Frank Garmback, were responding to a police dispatch call regarding a male who had a gun.[3][4][5] A caller reported that a male was pointing "a pistol" at random people at the Cudell Recreation Center, a park in the City of Cleveland's Public Works Department.[6] At the beginning of the call and again in the middle, he says of the pistol "it's probably fake."[7] Toward the end of the two-minute call the caller states that "he is probably a juvenile", but the dispatcher did not relay either of these statements to Loehmann and Garmback.
Walter Scott, 50 years old RIP
On April 4, 2015, Walter Scott, a 50-year old black man, was fatally shot by Michael Slager, a local police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina. Slager had stopped Scott for a non-functioning brake light.[1][2] Slager was charged with murder after a video surfaced showing him shooting Scott from behind while Scott was fleeing, which contradicted Slager's report of the incident. The racial difference led many to believe that the shooting was racially motivated, generating a widespread controversy.
Freddie Gray, 25 years old RIP
On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Jr., a 25-year-old African American, was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department over what former prosecutor Marilyn Mosby claimed was his legal possession of a knife.[2] While in police custody Gray sustained fatal injuries and was taken to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.[3][4] Gray died on April 19, 2015; his death was ascribed to injuries to his cervical spinal cord.[4]
Sandra Bland, 28 years old RIP
Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop.[1][2] Her death was ruled a suicide. It was followed by protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death and alleging racial violence against her.
Corey Jones, 31 years old RIP
Corey Jones (February 3, 1984 – October 18, 2015) was shot to death by police officer Nouman K. Raja, while waiting for a tow truck by his disabled car, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.[1][2][3]
Raja, who was in plainclothes and in an unmarked white van, approached Jones, who was waiting by his disabled vehicle on a highway exit ramp.[4] Within seconds, Raja fired six shots at Jones, striking him three times.[5] After the shooting, Raja falsely claimed to investigators that he had identified himself as a police officer and shot Jones in self-defense; both assertions were disproved by an audio recording of the fatal shooting
Jones attended Christa McAuliffe Middle School in Boynton Beach, Florida, where he played the French horn. His entire family was musical, and played instruments at home and at church.[9] Jones graduated from Santaluces Community High School in Lantana, where he played football.[10] Jones then graduated from the University of Akron with degrees in business administration and music. He worked as a youth mentor at My Brother's Keeper, a nonprofit organization that helps African-American youths.[8]
Jones worked at the Delray Beach Housing Authority for eight years. He was an inspector/assistant property manager, a job that involved inspecting housing units to make sure they were livable. The position also required assisting tenants and landlords with communication.[11][12]
Jones also worked part-time as a drummer.[13] He played in a band at his church, the Bible Church of God in Boynton Beach, where his grandfather, Sylvester Banks Sr., is a bishop. He also played with a band called Future Prezidents with bandmates that included Boris Simeonov and Mathew Huntsberger.[8]
Tyre Nichols, 29 years old RIP
Mr Nichols, a 29-year-old father, died in hospital three days after being pulled over and beaten by police.
Execution style killing from people in positions of authority with weapons letting their emotions cloud their judgements. The saddest part is that all races disproportionally target Blacks, African Americans, People of Color today. This man in a wheelchair was deprived due process on more than one occasion. A store owner should be able to report a robbery in their own store and not get accosted.
The cause of this problem is rooted in cognitive biases. Broadly speaking, bias is a tendency to lean in favor of or against a person, group, idea, or thing, usually in a way that is unfair. Biases are natural — they are a product of human nature — and they don’t simply exist in a vacuum or in our mind’s — they affect the way we make decisions and act. The biggest killer of police now is covid. I think all of our priorities have been misdirected for a long time.
I was reading an article last month about Larry Kushner and this man’s words gave me some hope. If we keep fighting for people like Pamela Price, this country just might stand a chance to make it.
In Conclusion:
We as a Nation must address the racial injustices, the discrimination and barbarity of how our police interact with us, human beings, your neighbors, our electricians, our Emergency Medical Technicians, our Musicians. All of the world keeps trying to emulate the United States today, maybe we could all take a page out of other countries deescalation practices
It bears repeating, slavery never ended it goes by a different name today, all over the world. The few or one percent might have a whole bunch of currency advantage while over 60% of the population lives paycheck to paycheck. Your job tethers you to them through Health Care, if you even have that benefit. Your School Loans are backed by Securities (the rich make money off of them) while about one trillion of taxpayer dollars were blindly distributed, poorly recorded and forgiven through PPP Loans.
The southern states made it illegal to be poor, could make more money off of strong black men who were given longer sentences to be sent off to work camps, made pennies (if anything at all) on the dollar for whoever the prisons rented them out to. Because of prison slave labor, this made the union workers labor worth less. In the country with the highest gross domestic product, with the highest for-profit prisons the systemic racism bias cannot be ignored. No education begets Poverty begets our own meat grinder, begets organs for crimes.
I'm not a black person but had cops point their weapons on me as I had a cell phone in my hand, the difference between me and the people listed above is that I'm alive today and I can tell you about their stories. I don't know enough and white people should never be considered the authority on Black History. I'm here to learn and listen.
Posted: 12:33 AM 2/5/2023
I heard this song in a store the other day and I wanted to argue with it. From an economic standpoint, if someone were to “have all the money in the world” this economy would collapse upon itself and be functionally nonexistent. Here are some some reasons why I think our current ideas of economic models are based on returns for only the top earner and the history of why we’re unable to maintain this disparity without enormous shifts in wealth distribution.
For a strong, healthy economic model to sustain itself, you’d want to pump more wealth in the smaller local economies to bolster the larger overall percentage. By disadvantaging people by race and now area code creates fragile ecosystems, old boom towns from the industrial revolution into the golden area of post WWII production factories have become desolate. Once thriving communities become bust after the earth rich mineral resources stop producing (who cares how they were stripped from the earth or why bother capping off wells, those who leave the earth this way should be criminally prosecuted, they’re actively killing people), once the assembly is outsourced overseas we are left with ‘once in a lifetime’ economic crisis one after the other and each time the already parasitic, disgustingly wealthy continue to try to churn human capital to their own advantage. They cannot sustain themselves if they continue to destroy the massive percentage of society that holds them up.
The Top down trickle theory of economics was a lie bought and sold by the Regan era administration further pushed as a strong talking point throughout both Bush administrations. It’s not sustainable to continue to keep corporations on welfare with tax breaks, bailouts for stock buybacks and incentives to keep their employees underpaid (thus the employee is on welfare and if they make just a few dollars more all their benefits are taken away. They can’t afford health care nor is it provided if they keep your hours just below ‘full-time’ or education and they sure as hell didn’t get a 6 figure PPP Loan forgiven) when the poverty threshold hasn’t been updated since 2012. It really is amazing to see so many corporations with consecutive year breaking profits with turn around layoffs during a pandemic that never stopped since the end of 2019.
We could go further and address how politicians have been strategically laying the frame work since 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act which granted a central bank economic oversight of the country, who have been undercutting the financially disadvantaged through intentionally shoring up hedge funds, Wall Street, J Po printer go brrrrr. Now without cash in hand, interest rates continue to rise making it almost impossible for first time home buyers to enter the market.
To touch back on the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, congress was held after the majority of the senators had left for the holiday break at the end of the year. Few remained to hold a limited number session of congressmen to cast a vote. Under the cover of darkness, fly by night, over 100 years ago, we find ourselves trying to recover from “Trumpism”[*] but faced with the same challenges of Politicians lining their pockets with kickbacks from Corporations through strategic means of voting or not voting which is going to hurt our economy more, their political votes are hollow attempts to obstruct progress. All Republicans stand for is destroying our Democracy through any means possible and far too few Democrats, Manchin should be kicked out of the party including Santos from, if that is his real name. Santos should be extradited for his crimes in Brazil. Far too few democrats are fighting for worker rights, human rights, trump should be in prison instead he’s financing Arizona election deniers. Convict this seditious criminal and let’s move on. There is way too much work to be completed moving forward to leave this on the back burner. The Republican party said they’d stop paying his legal fees if he ran for president again and last I read he may have gotten the paperwork in but miraculously his lawyer keep missing the deadlines to delay and postpone the judicial process.
[*]About one hour in the video Mark Blyth is a supporter of deregulation in terms of Uber, this video is six years old. He has since changed his stance on this topic.
Updated 01/29/23 3:45 pm est
Republicans are trying to pull the same maneuvers they used 2014 with the debt ceiling.
In the end, House Speaker John Boehner gave up efforts to link the measure to a provision repealing a cut in some military pension benefits.
Rebublicans have been against veterans for years, they are lying to anyone whom they tell that they support them.
Their use of identy politics continues to divide us, distracting from the real issues from today, including gun control and excessive use of force by polic officers against citizens in the United States.
Everybody even I have bad days. Sometimes the sun doesn't come out, you must try to find your own sunshine within where you can, while you can. You matter and you are important. Thank you for being here today.
To kick some things off, I’ve been waiting a while and had so many idea about what I was going to write about this year, last year I didn’t want to feel like I was paying lip service to anyone with hollow or empty words. I want people to know I’m working as diligently as possible, for someone who sticks to their guns that’s been written off a million times it feels like, I can’t stop churning out what’s going on the wheelhouse of my brain.
I wanted to start off with obvious police brutality because it’s in everyone’s faces everyday. I wanted to start off with the 15th Admendent and how every woman in the world wishes they had their voting rights solidified, codified into the constitution. I wanted to talk about so many different things that probably don’t make sense right now, but this brain of mind doesn’t stop, can’t stop.
Let’s start everything off from the beginning. Where this country all began… https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/gkn5hj/til_the_city_of_philadelphia_which_was_where/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/george-washington-used-legal-loopholes-avoid-freeing-his-slaves-180954283/
So George Washington had a plantain which consisted of at least 5 farms, fisheries, he didn’t want to pay tax on tea. I think we can all agree, Mount Vernon was a global venture of fruitful profits worth standing up for (I try to never hate on someone). Good thing he knew how to lead, thanks to the British. We can all tip our cap to the man who took teeth from his own slaves (JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, this is beyond fucked up), how fucked up is that. I’m not asking a question. For prosperity's sake I think it is beyond fucked up to take anything from someone, without permission. I even try to ask permission to touch people before I do.
George Washington was the general people needed where none was to be found and from what I read so far, as much as I don’t like him, knew how to get a military in tip top shape starting with vaccines. Smallpox was rampant, Imperialist brought disease to Native Americans. Intentionally or not, people got sick and Washington had the foresight to understand your troops can’t move forward while trying to recover from diseases. Since moldy bread, polio almost got eradicated, the antivax crowd wasn’t ignorant enough. Their hateful anti-science rhetoric damaged children and possibly adults for decades. They had to let their kids go into general population to test vaccines. Good on your faith in nothing except Facebook posts.
Right now the leading cause of death for children in the United States is Covid. I wonder who hasn’t gotten the vaccine. For every child that dies from Covid, over 700 adults dies.
I’m really upset and trying to be a better person. Going forward, with the world the way it works, it’s best to try to be everything, everyday. Listen, I love you (I hate you) calm down and let’s get down to brass tasks.
Posted: 11:40 PM 1/30/2023
This is taking longer than expected for me to publish my next blog. I have some personal events going on as well. Please bear with me, it will be worth the wait. (I hope)
Posted: 7:34 PM 2/3/2023
You're not even paying me* for this so please no complaints. I'm trying my best.
Note: This is taking so long due to not having enough source material to reference that isn’t obviously bias. Of course the the FCC fairness doctrine was repealed in 1987 which introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.
* No amount of money could make we work faster but writing that helped me light a fire under my own ass
Isn’t so cryptic anymore. It’s opaque with paper trails that can’t be deleted from systems no matter what the government tells you. I mean, unless you’re one of the new CEOs of SnapChat. You should look into what that guy is capable of, apparently.
Corporations have been coercing people to pay more for less. Less service, less value, and just mostly treating everyone like they’re not worthy of something better in life. Seems to me as if “ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ”
Supply chain management. During the pandemic, some jobs were more important than others. Public services, grocery store workers, nurses were all considered Heroes with incentive to keep going to work for more money. The employers took those incentives away. Worth noting that people and companies were hording valueable supplies for people to do their work safely. Nurses worked in trash bags to provide the best service they could, now they're experiencing unsafe work environments. The patient ratios are unsafe. If your employer is trying to make to do unsafe practies, email the facts to the manager, to yourself with notes about everything that's going on. Go above the chain of management. You don't deserve to work in a unsafe work environment.
In a society that worships and value money, we’re doing poorly. No health care, no benefits or hours from work to justify, if you’re being abused at work all you can do is try to leave and find some place better or try to go out on your own. At least, that has been my personal experience. You could be the best damn employee and your reward for excelling in your position is being given more work and no pay to commensurate it.
I had two forms of health care which are beyond substandard where I am not allowed to have to voice or say in my health care,(I have been banned, have a male doctor to ask me able my male sexual truama and stop me mid sentence to say "not all men" then perscibe me a non formulary SSRI for ADHD) I'm not sure what's going to happen in March. Food Stamps are going to end for millions of Americans. I live below the poverty line. For the last seven years, I have had to figure out how to live on my own. I don't have family or friends. Some people are nice to me on the internet and some mean people dogpile on me for saying something they don't like. I'm not here to hurt you. I'm only trying to help you.
Published: February 11th, 2023 6:45pm
The pandemic isn't over even though the governemnt says it is.
So many children are dying of heart related problems while their governemnt officals, the people who were supposed to be their leaders, forced them into small enclosures, like animals, and they all got sick from Covid.
does any one remeber the G7 summit where they met on a beach that year
And governments won't feed students. Lunch debt can cripple a child if the parnets can't afford to keep them fed.
Get a donkey for protection against coyotes
I need to get the send compulsion out of my system
It was fun
I felt good, hitting send over and over and when reddit didi it to me,,,, they throttled me
I’ll just use my own website.
So anyway, some guy asked me to marry him last month.
I had to block him the second he stated he just wanted me to work for him, he wanted cows, I needed goats. We were not syncing up.
There’s chickens for laying, but he wanted beef. I’m not here to judge anyone. I just knew we weren’t going to work out.
How could a twenty five year old know what he wanted from an old lady like me, I wondered. I’ve had guys lie they were older to have sex with me but never has anyone wanted to express long term relationship stuff.
Just before I met the twenty five year old, I met a 22 year old and he said if he introduced me to his family it would appear as if I’m grooming. I don’t understand the age limit unless it’s for smokes or alcohol or weed or owning a gun or viewing porn.
The absolute world doesn’t make sense to me.
Posted: 7:12 PM 2/8/2023
This is taking longer than expected for me to publish my next blog. I have some personal events going on as well. Please bear with me, it will be worth the wait. (I hope)
Posted: 7:34 PM 2/3/2023
You're not even paying me* for this so please no complaints. I'm trying my best.
Note: This is taking so long due to not having enough source material to reference that isn’t obviously bias. Of course the the FCC fairness doctrine was repealed in 1987 which introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.
* No amount of money could make we work faster but writing that helped me light a fire under my own ass
I thought I had a few more days, I have a problem leaving things to the last minute. I was on jury duty this month and to say it stressed me out is an understatement. I had no one to talk to about this. I got the letter before this month happened and I knew if I said something wrong, I could jeopardize my possibility of helping someone. The last time I had to go, children were being abused. I held back tears once the case was explained to us. I was honest when they asked us if anything would keep us from being able to preform our duties. Sometimes I have problems sitting still and stuff like that but I’d do anything in my ability to be an impartial person on the jury if I were selected for trial. It is difficult for me but I won’t let that get in the way of my Civic responsibilities.
It’s supposed to be Black History Month next is Women’s month. The most influential women in my life were women of color. My kindergarten teacher, she may have sent me to the timeout table every day but she was kind, patient and when she spoke while reading us books or teaching us letters, everyone loved to listen. To say that it was difficult for me to sit still when I was child would be an understatement.
My Drill instructor(s) in Bootcamp. She, (They, there were more than one but mostly one lady was in charge of us) wasn’t big or tall but absolutely scared the move with a sense of purpose into us. I’ll never forget how we got off the bus, lined us up, the first night in the dorms, the uncertainly of organization. I thought we were going to get yelled at the whole time but our drill instructors took the time to help us understand some basic concepts about taking care of ourselves and our environment. You’d think everyone’s parents would know how to teach their kids this but that’s not the case.
Posted: 11:43 AM 2/28/2023
To say I have been phycially ill this month is an understatment.