I wish this headline made it clear that these agents have not been able to force her to delete her post, not to minimize how deeply fucked up this is but just to show people that it is possible for regular folks to tell these fascist cunts "no"

My hypothesis is that the rise in distracted driving was just as bad in European countries but they have safer infrastructure that limits cars' speed and otherwise protects pedestrians, and I think that could be tested by looking at the rates of car crashes overall in Europe (if those went up at the same time as the US without a corresponding rise in dead pedestrians I think that'd suggest their infrastructure is the difference)

This doesn't read like AI to me, it actually does connect its thoughts together and builds an argument narrative

That said, it is really awful human writing that has some cringey phrasing choices and the kind of grammar/sentence structuring I'd expect from a text to speech derived unedited stream of consciousness, I'm just not getting AI vibes off of it

Related news story from 2024 (arc)

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has issued its latest legal guidance today on the way States should treat asylum-seekers who arrive at their borders in an irregular way.

Under Article 31 of the Refugee Convention, States are prohibited from penalizing asylum-seekers and refugees merely because they have entered a country irregularly, if they meet certain requirements.

This is owing to the fact that many flee life-threatening situations and may have no other available means to seek safety. In addition to a dearth of legal or safer pathways to seek asylum, many may face impediments in accessing or retrieving essential documentation during their flight.

The US isn't a signatory to that treaty because we have a shithole government, but reputable government organizations that aren't run by monstrous assholes have been really clear on what should be patently fucking obvious (if someone is fleeing for their life you get them to safety first and worry about their fucking paperwork later)

It was a state trial

Nope, just quoting from the above article (bolds added),

On Tuesday, Elizabeth was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison ... Their attorneys announced their intention to appeal, but many supporters are doubtful that anything short of a presidential pardon from a future administration would free them.

It's shit like this one minute and then bawling your eyes out over Sniper Wolf talking growing up as an orphan during the second Iraqi-Kurdish war the next

Also, it passed with a veto proof majority, so unless he's able to brow beat Republicans into switching their votes when he sends it back to them it's a done deal

Assuming you're a privileged white person with an employer who is willing to fill out paperwork and vouch for you with the government before they've even hired you and aren't trying to stay permanently

I appreciate the optimism and recognize that people going through shit need to hear that kind of thing, but the fact is that immigrating anywhere is way way tougher than it needs to be, and lots of people won't be able to at all because they were born in the wrong country, or just don't have the money or connections required.

I'm not saying that anyone who's trying to make the journey should give up, I'm saying that all of the rest of us should be demanding our rulers make this less of a struggle

They need to be on the lips of anyone who wants the Democratic party's nomination for president, immediately preceded by "I hereby pledge on my first day in office to immediately pardon"

Yeah, organizing a bunch of people and getting them all behind the same candidates to disrupt a well entrenched political machine is an accomplishment, but I think the real story here is that that bunch of people that are still furious with Jeffries' and AIPAC's genocidal bullshit and all the terrible effects they've had on our politics, and Mamdani is just in the right place at the right time to seize on that anger and make it productive

This bill is becoming law whether he supports it or not. It's also quite popular (with everyone who is not in Private Equity).

I don't buy any Private Equity whining about this, all they need to do is spin up a few corporate shells and they'll be able to keep each one of them under the limit on single family home ownership, but they'll still be cashing subsidies for construction and enjoying the gutting of environmental regulations that came with this

The real housing reform we need is more public housing on the market owned and administered by municipal or state governments, anything short of that is just going to be putting money back into the pockets of the land barons

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“He was also having trouble hearing, asking people to repeat questions they had just asked,” Haberman and Swan wrote. “Joint press conferences with world leaders were more often held in the Oval Office than in the East Room, in part because the acoustics were better, and he didn’t have to stand for an hour.”

And while the president has always been known for speaking his mind, “whatever thin verbal filter he had in the past was gone,” the book continued. Some of Trump’s aides began saying privately that for the first time he was beginning to seem old to them.

“Those who spent time with him could see the signs—the moments of fatigue, the cupped hand behind the ear,” according to Haberman and Swan.

The book also sheds new light on a symptom the Daily Beast has long reported on: his bulging ankles, which his doctors have said is the result of chronic venous insufficiency.

The condition occurs when the legs don’t pump blood properly back to the heart.

According to Regime Change, Trump was upset about the press coverage of his “cankles” and demanded that his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, address it during one of her media briefings.

Seems like everything else in this article is just Trump and his cronies whining about the news accurately reporting on his appearance and behavior going downhill

A security notice sent out Monday said that the exposed data included employee’s full AI prompts and transcriptions, performance data, and even private conversations. The leak allowed the data to be accessible to any employee inside the company.

Meta said it’s investigating the incident and confirmed it paused the program, but maintains it’s keeping a lid on things.

“We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards, and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we’re pausing it while we investigate,” a spokesperson told outlets.

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So they say it was exposed but nobody ever accessed it? Not all that spectacular imo, this could just be a bullshit cover story for them to kill this stupid program without having to admit they're terrified their employees might revolt

That gets you out of the US temporarily but that won't get you permanent status

don't have a totally jacked up body

Good thing fascists are always so nice to disabled people /s

No, I think their complaining and lobbying is a bullshit pretense to keep everyone talking about this legislation that doesn't solve the problem (and creates a few new ones) instead of talking about policies that would actually do something

Huh, every single state court system does things differently so maybe there was no limit in your case, but there is definitely a limit in federal trials, see Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 24, part (b) here - https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_24 (arc)

Healthcare worker (allegedly) charges insurer for treatment that never happens and they go to jail, insurer charges policy holders premiums for treatment that never happens and people get promoted

Yeah, also maybe explains a bit about the guilty verdicts in the first place - I bet every single one of those prospective jurors got rejected and the prosecution didn't have to spend any of their challenges to do it because being opposed to ICE meant they were "biased"

The court ruled that the guards were likely in the wrong

That's just empty language, not any kind of ruling with legal force behind it

the man had to sue them in state court because the prison had never received federal funding

TIL the first amendment has no effect if you're transferred to the wrong state prison

In 2020, near the end of ‌a five-month prison sentence for drug possession, Landor was transferred to the Raymond Laborde correctional center in Cottonport, Louisiana.

There, Landor reminded officials that the New Orleans-based fifth US circuit court of appeals had ruled in a 2017 case that Louisiana’s policy of cutting the hair of Rastafarians violated the 2000 law. Landor even handed over a copy of that ruling, but a guard threw it in the trash, according to court documents in the case.

Landor was then handcuffed to a chair, held down and shaved.

So the majority opinion is that a state agency can willfully violate a federal law but federal judges can't do anything about it. If that sounds stupid and racist to you that's because it is.