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ICE thugs pounced on a man right there in the US Federal courthouse in NYC, mere minutes after his immigration case was dismissed

Holy shit. Goon squads. They don't even identify themselves??

Imagine a hypothetical scenario where a group of random citizens gang up on an ICE agent during their Sunday stroll and handcuff them, and throw them off a bridge somewhere, handcuffs still on.

How would a sheriff know that they aren't ICE agents themselves? Or are we going by skin colour?

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Can we have links to more reputable, known news sites please? Never heard of that one. Here's the BBC.

Russia's military blamed the blast on ammunition which had detonated after the storage building caught fire due to a "violation of safety requirements".

Huh, I suppose maybe a drone-sized violation?

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Office duel

One of my most satisfying moments was when my manager's manager asked me, over a highly populated slack channel, why I had installed an unreviewed external plugin with 6K+ lines of code, to deliver on a simple requirement.

I replied with "?", and a print screen from the logs showing he had installed that plugin a few months back. "I used what was available".

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Goldman was beaten by progressive challenger Brad Lander in New York's 10th congressional district in a contest that laid bare the party's divisions over the Israel-Gaza war.

Lander has accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. Goldman, a two-term incumbent, was backed by pro-Israel groups.

What is going on in America? Sane politicians?? In this day and age?!

Please don't give me hope...

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That photo with a judge hurrying along and the graffiti besides him was an absolute masterpiece, I didn't think it could be toppled, and yet now we have this bad attempt at washing it away that not only didn't hide it, it made it dark and grim...

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[UPDATE: fake] They made his car "cease & desist"

This is a good case to battle the shit out of Tesla in court and set a landmark verdict on the "you buy but don't own" abuse.

Usually this would however require that courts are capable of reaching proper verdicts, that the government actually cared about the people, that consumer protection agencies had any footing etc. Alas, all of them are infiltrated by the big capital corporations.

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World rejoices as MAGA boxer Jake Paul finally beaten senseless

The BBC article covering this "boxing" match is awesome. You can tell right from the title that the journalist wasn't amused:

Joshua and Paul earn riches but deliver budget sporting spectacle

The plot played out in the ring was lifeless - a slow, joyless watch that would have struggled to earn even a charitable rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

And the ultimate irony is that this spectacle has provided one of Joshua's biggest paydays and, in all likelihood, his largest television audience.

With seconds remaining in the fourth round, referee Christopher Young perhaps spoke for viewers around the world when he pulled the fighters together and urged them to engage.

Directing his comments at Paul, he said: "Fans didn't pay to see this crap."

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City of Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

Smarter design and better enforcement

Street design has also played a key role. Pedestrian and cycling infrastructure has been significantly upgraded in recent years. In addition, cooperation with traffic police has intensified and more traffic cameras and automated enforcement systems have been introduced.

"Public transport in Helsinki is excellent, which reduces car use, and with it, the number of serious accidents," Utriainen noted.

Yep, that would do it.

Especially road design (for example avoiding those deadly 4-way intersections the US loves so much) as well enforcing speed limits around danger areas like schools, and most importantly, reduce the number of cars by providing better alternatives...

An impressive feat.

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What the actual fuck.

You took their reply and twisted its meaning completely then you put it in quotes as if somebody had actually said that.

And then you complain about fallacies and brain-dead discourse? Oh the sweet, sweet irony...