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gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

“The prosecutors get away with it, and this is murder, this is attempted murder. If you try to kill a person and you know he is innocent, and you try to think execution dates to murder him, that is attempted murder.” - man who should have gotten $15 million

gAlienLifeform OP , 7 months ago

You’d think, but brown overseas lives are pretty worthless in our halls of power unfortunately

On a related note, sure is weird how every time we have a big war there’s a noticeable uptick in racist bullshit a couple of years after (WWI preceded a resurgence in the KKK, WWII preceded all the church bombings and other crimes of the civil rights era, Vietnam preceded Reagan giving his campaign kickoff speech at the site of a famous lynching and all the stuff that happened in the 80s and early 90s, the War on Terror preceded Trump, etc.). It’s almost like putting a lot of people in situations where they think they have to dehumanize and kill the residents of countries they’re occupying has lasting impacts the people with power refuse to reckon with or something.

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

“Really?! Every single conference room already has a meeting scheduled?! You guys, I told you I was gonna meet with the reporter today, and he just called and said he’s on his way, and I just… Y’know what, fuck it, ju- just give me those fuckin chairs…”

“Mr. Minicucci, are you crying?”

“No! No, that’s a stupid quest- you’re crying! Butt munch… sniff”

Soon

"Tom, I’m more than frustrated and disappointed…

(on a serious note, fuck Boeing, they’re literally a bunch of murderers who made piles of money and have never been properly held to account for the hundreds of people they killed, but I saw that picture in the article and couldn’t not imagine this)

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

According to the complaint, Statton learned she was pregnant in early 2023 and soon began experiencing severe pain and nausea. Doctors in Oklahoma eventually told her that she had a partial molar pregnancy, which left untreated could cause hemorrhaging, infection, and even death.

“However, providers told Jaci that they could not provide an abortion until she was actively crashing in front of them or on the verge of a heart attack,” the complaint stated. “In the meantime, the best that they could offer was to let Jaci sit in the parking lot so that she would be close to the hospital when her condition further deteriorated.”

If federal law saying hospitals can’t just let pregnant people die doesn’t apply here, when the hell would it apply?

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

Plenty of blame to go around

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

Except when you put those quotes in context, it’s clear the “they” being referred to in the beginning is the Biden administration

But in the 18 months since Roe fell — a period during which dozens of women have come forward with harrowing stories of medical care denied because of abortion bans — the Biden administration has only publicly announced one case, involving a patient who had sought care in Missouri and Kansas, where it determined that hospitals had violated the law in denying an abortion. The rejection of the Oklahoma complaint, a decision that was delivered to Statton in October, shocked abortion rights advocates and left them frustrated that the Biden administration was not following through on its promise to strongly enforce the law when it came to abortions.

“Jaci’s case is the perfect example of how it appears they are actually applying EMTALA in what could be charitably described as the narrowest sense,” said Rabia Muqaddam, a senior staff attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights, who worked with Statton on her complaint. “It’s not just frustrating. It’s inexplicable, frankly.”

Seems like they’re entirely right to blame the Biden administration here for not following through on pledges to hold red state healthcare systems to federal law when there’s also things like this going on

Biden officials also confirmed one additional case that the administration had determined violated EMTALA involving a woman who presented at two different hospitals in Florida with a life-threatening pregnancy condition in December 2022. In that case, first reported by The Washington Post last year, doctors said they were unable to treat the woman under Florida’s abortion ban, which outlaws abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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While abortion rights advocates said they were glad to hear of a second EMTALA action, they questioned why the Biden administration would issue these previously unreported warnings in secret.

“In our view, true accountability requires the public and other hospitals to know about these violations,” Muqaddam said.

Other patients with high-profile cases that might have qualified under EMTALA had never heard of the federal law and had no idea their hospital could potentially be held responsible for their treatment. Of the seven patients contacted directly by The Post, or through their lawyers, only two said they were aware of any kind of state or federal investigation into their case, and neither had been informed of any violation.

[Bolding added]

Really seems like there’s a lot more the administration could and should be doing here

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

It’s the nurses’ fault for not telling their doctor bosses to go fuck themselves, it’s the doctors’ fault for not telling the hospital admins to go fuck themselves, it’s the admins’ fault for not telling state lawmakers to go fuck themselves, it’s state lawmakers’ fault for passing horrific laws that call for this kind of medical malpractice, and it’s the administration’s fault for not telling hospital admins and state lawmakers to go fuck themselves

Like I said, plenty of blame to go around here

e: now with apostrophes

e2; and completed sentences!

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

Definitely not saying it’s not the Biden admin’s fault, just saying they were the last in a line of terrible decisions here

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

This is the main reason why a lot of conservatives are conservatives, because fundamentalist morons who are scared out of their minds by benign things like blue hair and nose rings are super easy marks once you get all the regulators and teachers and anybody else who might call out your bullshit out of the way

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

Oh, but what more could you ask of him? He tried once and the Supreme Court said no, and that’s all he can do. Sure, when Trump wanted to ban Muslims from the country and the Supreme Court told him no he just changed one or two small details and issued the same order again and again and again until the Court gave up, but Biden couldn’t possibly do something like that here because it wouldn’t be very polite. You don’t want a rude president, do you?

/s

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

Greedy universities

Banks, thousands of other kinds of predatory businesses that prey on students: “Ha, yes, yes! ‘Geeedy universities,’ that’s the ticket!”

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

That’s quite literally what Biden is doing now [except for how he isn’t doing it at all and is instead occasionally dropping much smaller scale things that are mostly just implementing things that got passed years ago and hoping everyone forgets that he promised to help everyone]

lol indeed

gAlienLifeform OP , 7 months ago

Yeah, sure, when Bob Menendez got dragged into court he had over one hundred sitting Democratic lawmakers stand up for him, and what he was accused of doing was way more serious than just trying to overthrow the government /s

The Democratic party isn’t perfect, but you’re out of your mind if you think they’re anywhere near Republicans’ level

gAlienLifeform OP , 7 months ago

100%, I just want to spread the word on this one because even though the state is putting in some effort to find prisoners who qualify they’re still going to have to know they qualify and file some paperwork to actually make these early releases happen

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

“International law for thee, not for me!” - US

Under international law, countries have the right to claim sovereignty over areas of the ocean that lie beyond the 200-mile limit, as long as those areas are physically connected to underwater shelves that extend from continental masses. Sovereignty includes control over resource development.

But for the U.S., there is a catch: The U.S. Senate has not ratified the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the treaty under which such claims are adjudicated.

~

Of course if the Republicans win again the strategy just reverts to “drill baby drill”

Seems like that’s the plan already. Fta,

Crucially, this declaration… focuses on control over the seabed and its resources, including mining and research rights, as well as pipeline activities.

Worth noting that U.S. oil production hit a record under Biden in 2023

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

For real, the real kick in the ass here is it’s not just like the US withdrawing is going to make the situation any better, since Russia is trying to do the exact same stuff, and those assholes give even less of a fuck about anyone else than our assholes do

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

I wonder how much the opioid lawsuit settlements’ rules for drug distributors and pharmacists is driving this

The distributors use algorithms that cap the quantities of controlled substances a pharmacy can sell in a month. Before the settlement, pharmacists said, they could explain to a distributor the reason for a surge in demand and still receive medications past their limits. Now the caps appear to be more rigid: Drugs are cut off with no advance notice or rapid recourse. As a condition of the settlement, distributors cannot tell pharmacies what the thresholds are.

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But some doctors said that legitimate prescriptions were being caught in the dragnet, while pharmacists said they were declining to dispense some medications for fear of setting off triggers.

Distributors can investigate and resolve red flags if they are satisfied by a pharmacy’s explanation, but they can also stop supplying them with controlled drugs altogether.

Swept up in the scrutiny are college students far from home trying to fill their Adderall prescriptions, patients in rural areas where it is customary to drive long distances for medical care, and hospice providers that rely on local pharmacies for controlled substances instead of on a specialized supplier that would be exempt from the limits, The Times found.

Restrictions on controlled substances had already been ratcheted up for years, as concerns about abuse grew during the opioid epidemic. More recently, shortages of some drugs, such as Adderall, which is used to treat A.D.H.D., made those medications hard to get. The settlement with distributors appears to have tightened supplies even more.

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

e; I feel the need to preface this one - she’s claiming she had no responsibility here, but

a) we haven’t gotten the school’s side of it or any other independent confirmation,

b) the hearing board exoneration could just be a case of the school district not keeping good records and minding details of their teacher’s contracts and doesn’t really establish that this teacher didn’t exercise poor judgment and show poor character during this,

c) it seems really weird that this teacher had nothing to do with this collage, but also felt compelled to take it down herself when she saw it (instead of reporting it to the administration and letting them do what they will with it), and then just happened to be the person asked by the other teacher to serve as a union rep in the meeting that led to her suspension.

I could believe that the administration ignored a bad situation until it started to blow up and then went looking for a scapegoat and this teacher just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but with all these weird little details it does start to feel like more of a stretch.

Either way, my main point in making this comment was just to say the discussion about whether these nooses were racist or not is beside the point because everyone agrees they were dumb, the only dispute here is whether this teacher was or wasn’t responsible for them.

Anyway, my original comment starts on the next line -

Her claim is she didn’t do it -

Ms Jones Doering claimed in the lawsuit that she never created, displayed or assisted anyone in putting up “any racist collage.”

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The lawsuit states that on 6 February 2019, the Roosevelt Union Free School District was informed of the “offensive and racially infused” collage on display, but when administrators from the district visited and inspected the collage they “failed to remove it or instruct that teacher from removing it.”

Ms Jones Doering said in the lawsuit that the classroom where the collage was displayed was not hers, referring to it being in an “other teacher’s classroom.”

The suit claims that a day after, Ms Jones Doering entered the classroom to leave lesson plans there she “noticed the offensive nature of its content, and removed it from the classroom so that students and staff members are not exposed to it.”

She then allegedly placed the images in a locked cabinet in her classroom.

The next day, Ms Jones Doering was asked by the other teacher who allegedly had the collage in her classroom, to accompany her to a Human Resources meeting to represent her as her “union representative.”

However, following the meeting, they were both given letters of suspension and claimed the defendants “refused to provide any information regarding” this decision.

She claimed that the school district “falsely accused her of displaying the collage in her classroom, which is completely false and fabricated accusations,” the lawsuit said.

Ms Jones Doering also purports that she was accused of “interfering” with an alleged investigation into the collage by removing the offensive imagery and bringing “negative attention” to the school - which she claims was caused by tips to the media.

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Except the Fourth Eleventh Circuit went the other direction with an almost identical Florida school policy, so the question of “Is it ok under the US Constitution for schools to force transgender students to use a particular bathroom?” has a different answer depending on where you live, which is the exact kind of thing the Supreme Court is supposed to deal with.

e; Whoops, had the wrong court and wrong case. That’s been updated now, but for the record here’s the older case I had been linking to

courthousenews.com/11th-circuit-rules-florida-sch…

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

“Legal precedent would make it almost impossible for us to avoid standing up for a transgender person if we took this case and we couldn’t possibly have that.”

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

Turns out I linked the wrong Florida case, here’s the one I meant to post

politico.com/…/appeals-court-upholds-florida-high…

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

Ah, that was the wrong article looking at an older court case, here’s the correct and more recent one,

politico.com/…/appeals-court-upholds-florida-high…

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

The new agreement would provide smaller benefits than the monthly payments under the American Rescue Plan.

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Republicans were motivated to revive some expired portions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts for businesses. The deal includes expensing for research and experimental costs, restoration of an earlier interest deduction, an expansion of small-business expensing and an extension of bonus depreciation, according to a section-by-section summary released by the Ways and Means Committee.

So we’re gonna restart a bunch of Trump’s tax policies that made it easier for rich people to defraud tax collectors while only bringing back a fraction of the assistance we had been providing to children in poverty? What a great victory for the American people /s

gAlienLifeform OP , 7 months ago

Lots of places reported on the NYPD’s move to shut down the old office journalists had within the station that started all this (for example, here’s the NY Daily News rounding up a bunch of local papers’ reactions), but I haven’t been able to find anyone else talking about the contract journalists have to sign to use the new one, so I think this might just be too small scale to get very much coverage.

Fwiw, this story has been up a couple of days now and includes a link to a copy of a letter signed with an NYPD department name and email/phone number, if that was a straight up forgery I really think someone would have forced them to take it down by now (or at least issued some kind of statement saying that this isn’t NYPD policy)

Hell Gate is a definitely a smaller less known outfit, but if you look at their staff’s resumes they’re legit.

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

Yeah, it’s not just his supporters who will get hurt if he gets power again

gAlienLifeform , 7 months ago

I’d like to live in a world where that doesn’t matter