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When ICE raided Newark
Deportation thugs
raided Newark and
arrested
over 500 people,
including US citizens as well as unauthorized immigrants.
They questioned a US citizen veteran and doubted the validity of his
discharge papers. I wonder if he was, perhaps, Hispanic — could they
have disbelieved him because of his race?
Will we find people put in deportation prison for days, or longer,
because they did not have their papers at the time of the raid?
(Later): Indeed, they checked only
people
who looked Hispanic.
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RFK Jr., Sec. HHS confirmation hearings
An irrational zealot like RFK Jr. as head of the Department of Health
and Human Services would have many methods available to
wreck
public health in the US, and as a follower of
the bully, he would
threaten them.
RFK Jr. is now trying to
pretend
he was never anti-vax.
This shows that his views on issues are calculated opportunistically,
which means he might do anything whatsoever if it seems profitable.
He is not fit to be in charge of anything.
Phone your senators and tell them this.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Urgent: Medicare, Medicare, Social Security
US citizens:
call
on Congress not to let
the Muskrat destroy
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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UK agencies cancel chatbots
UK agencies that support the public were supposed to use chatbots to
talk with people seeking help, but they
canceled
several because they
don't work reliably.
It is a nice thing that they had the decency to cancel these, rather than
forcing them on people.
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| 4:37a |
Bulgarian border thugs blocking rescuers
Bulgarian border thugs
are accused
of blocking rescuers from reaching
migrants who were freezing to death at the border with Turkey.
That constitutes murder, it seems to me.
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Water companies in England us Greenwashing playbook
*Water companies in England
"use
greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm."*
Privatizing water services was a terrible idea which has had only bad
effects. It is very disappointing that Labour is not getting rid of
them.
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| 4:37a |
Deportation thugs arrested Navajos
Deportation thugs
arrested
Navajos, who are US citizens.
It seems that anyone who does not carry government identification
is in danger.
It is not a crime in the US to go out and about without ID cards. But
the wrecker
is turning the US into the sort of country where anyone
can be arrested for not carrying one. This is a terrible attack against
our freedom.
Advice to "carry such proof all the time" does not address that wrong.
Though having it may help you protect yourself from attempts to
block you from voting.
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| 4:37a |
Stretching the definition of "terrorist"
A crazed young man with no specific political goal or views murdered
several children. The government
wants
to label such people as
"terrorist" although that stretches the definition of "terrorist" to
the point of meaninglessness.
Terrorism means violence (or threats of violence) against
noncombatants for some cause (regardless of which cause). That is a
coherent concept, so terrorists thus labeled on the basis of that
definition have something important and clear in common.
But once you include people who engage in violence for no specific
reason, the set becomes so broad that it ceases to be coherent.
Some cops want
those murders to be declared terrorism because it would
allowed them to question the suspect for longer.
They advocate stretching the word "terrorism" to be arbitrarily stretchable.
That would make the word entirely meaningless.
Should they have been allowed to question that suspect for longer? I
have no opinion on that; I am not sure what the possibilities are.
But if the UK would like to give cops more time to investigate certain
kinds of suspects, it should do this in a way that avoids causing
collateral damage to the word "terrorism".
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| 4:37a |
Labour retreats from tax increase on rich
Yet again, Labour
retreats
from a planned tax increase on the rich
in response to their threats of pushing back.
The right way to respond is with a counter threat. One idea is a
special tax on income from British business that goes to non-taxed
stockholders?
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| 4:37a |
Arrest warrants for Taliban leaders
*[International Criminal Court] chief prosecutor
seeks
arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women.*
I did not know the ICC had the ability to prosecute crimes like this.
Bravo!
I imagine that this step will make the election-riggers in the US hate
the ICC even more, but since they already hate it as hard as
they can, I doubt they can escalate their hostilities.
Islamic law is cruelty and injustice to women (and also sometimes to
men).
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| 4:37a |
Spending of big oil on politicians
*Big oil spent
$445m in last election cycle to [politicians]
report says.*
A lot of this spending was on helping to influence (or fool) the public
to vote for them.
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| 4:37a |
Heuristically detecting automated insurance coverage denial
A new computer program
heuristically
detects medical insurance's
automated denials of coverage.
This implies an arms race. I tend to suspect the insurance companies
will win, that it will be easier to fool whatever the detection program
looks at than to overcome its disguises. What is really needed is
to change the laws or structure of the insurance system.
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Climate crisis beached Brazil's floating communities
*The year the rainforest dried up: how the climate crisis
beached Brazil’s
floating communities.*
Not long ago, scientists
warned
that global heating and deforestation
were going to eliminate the rainfall that keeps the Amazon rainforest
in existence. The death of so many trees will cause a big shot of
greenhouse gases that will hasten climate disaster world-wide.
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