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North Carolina Republicans create "secret police force"

This includes the private residences of subcontractors and contractors who run businesses out of their homes

Even more crazy is that you can't tell anyone you've been raided, including seeking or talking to legal counsel.

So you technically are denied legal counsel if you are targeted by a blatently unconstitutional search.

And it's legal for them to destroy any incriminating records that they want at any time.

Unlimited power to target whoever they want and no legal recourse.

Welcome to Germany 1935.

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Georgia Judge Rules Cameras Will Be Allowed in Courtroom if Trump Indicted

Definitely mixed feelings.

I really hate the idea of giving him any platform to try to turn the trial into a reality shit show. The worst thing that you can do with an attention seeking child is to give them attention.

The flip side is transparency. The more transparency, the less opportunity for outright lies about the process. No amount of truth and reality will matter to the kool-aid chuggers, but there are still some with one foot still in reality.

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ELI5: RICO

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) laws. These were originally made to go after organized crime bosses.

Crime bosses will have layers of minions directly committing crimes. This lets the boss say it wasn't them. RICO provides laws to go after an entire criminal organization, including the bosses who direct the minions to commit crimes.

They are using the law in the Trump case because many of the direct crimes were done by minions. If they can prove that there was an organized series of crimes that were under the direction of boss Trump, they can hold him accountable for the crimes of the organization.

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Texas worker accused of being on drugs was actually dying of heatstroke

had a recorded internal temperature of 109.8F

This guy was almost 110 and they were trying to pour water on him to cool him.

Your can have seizures at 105 and 108 is permanent brain damage territory.

What they need to do is sue for $100M not $1M.

A few headlines of companies suffering big financial losses can convince companies to do the right thing more than some law with a $10k fine. Companies will always do what is less cost/risk. You have to make the cost/risk of employee deaths more.

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More dog owners are questioning vaccines like rabies after COVID

The truly ironic thing is that the fact that vaccines worked so well at eliminating so many horrible diseases is why these chuckle fucks don't think that they need vaccines.

If they never saw a loved one killed or permanently fucked up from disease it must not exist or it's no a big deal. They are completely oblivious to the fact that vaccines are the reason why they never saw the suffering and death first hand.