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“All uses of force have been more than exemplary,” Bovino stated in a recent deposition. He is, as Judge Ellis has stated, lying. Bovino personally threw a tear gas canister in Little Village. He claimed in a sworn deposition that he was struck in the head by a rock before throwing the canister, and when videos showed no rock, admitted that he lied about the event. When shown video of himself tackling peaceful protestor Scott Blackburn, Bovino refused to acknowledge that he tackled the man. Instead, he claimed, “That’s not a reportable use of force. The use of force was against me.”

“I find the government’s evidence to be simply not credible,” said Judge Ellis in her November 6th ruling. “The use of force shocks the conscience.”

The US secret police invasion of Chicago has been a tragedy that we should all be ashamed of. We should be trying to stop it any way we can.

If the far-right succeeds in its project, when your wife gets sick you won’t be able to afford a doctor. Your kids or grandkids won’t be able to get an education. Should you become successful in business they will force you to pay bribes. These people believe in extraction, not growth. Their goal is to subjugate, to dominate, to force everyone beneath them into a life of precarious insecurity.

If you can make it past the title, this is an excellent picture of where the tech industry and tech culture were in the past compared with where it is now.

The German lender is looking at options including shorting a basket of AI-related stocks that would help mitigate downside risk by betting against companies in the sector.

That’s probably ok when your backers start mitigating their upcoming losses. I think they teach that’s a healthy economy signal in business school.

“The sandwich kind of exploded all over my uniform,” Lairmore said. “It smelled of onions and mustard.”

This horror show did not move this stone cold jury.

Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.

This is Facebook just squeezing as much as possible out of their audience that they think will stick around forever. Please get yourself a new place to share updates online so your friends and family won't get roped into this garbage while they're trying to see pictures of your cats or whatever. Yes, it's a hassle but we all have to walk away from this dumpster fire.

The Trump administration immediately appealed that order and earlier court decisions that required it to make at least partial payments to the SNAP program.

Just your regular reminder that this Republican administration works tirelessly to make people suffer.

Federal Reserve quietly pumped $125 billion into the U.S. banking system over five days, marking its largest short-term liquidity move since the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. On October 31 alone, the Fed injected $29.4 billion through overnight repurchase agreements (repos), allowing banks to trade U.S. Treasuries for cash to ease funding stress.

That's probably fine. This is the only reporting I've seen on this beyond folks chatting on social media. Nothing to worry about I suppose.

The metaphor of Trump crushing a portion of the White House as he aims bulldozers at democracy itself is almost too obvious to note. But it’s not just a symbolic parallel: both are rooted in the same indifference to what these American institutions mean to Americans and to America. Both are rooted in Trump wanting to treat those things as his own and now feeling empowered to do precisely that.

Seeing the White House demolition has been surprisingly painful.

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.”

But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced.

Kavanaugh ignored the entire history of law enforcement as it exists in reality.

The dress-up “dismantles their narrative a little bit,” Jack Dickinson, also known as the “Portland Chicken,” told Willamette Week. “It becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.”

Tactical frivolity.

We don’t need to cherry-pick the remarks of a college group chat, which is essentially what this is, given that most attendees received a college degree within the last two decades.

The hateful, racist, antisemitic “young” Republicans are not having persistent youthful indiscretions. This is the Republican party. And this is a not-very-funny satirical article that packs a punch.

Jury nullification, also known as jury equity or as a perverse verdict, is a decision by the jury in a criminal trial resulting in a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law.

hmm, interesting idea to read up on.