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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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On His Way Out, North Carolina Governor Expands Support for People Leaving Prisonboltsmag.org An executive order directs state agencies to improve reentry services and fix a broken system that failed me and thousands of others released from prison into homelessness each year.

NEW: North Carolina's governor issued an important executive order earlier this year that expanded access to services and assistance for people leaving prison. A writer explains in Bolts why this is so essential — both to help people, & to boost safety: boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

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Federal authorities have charged the suspected leader of an Eastern European-based neo-Nazi group with harboring plans to have an associate dress up as Santa Claus and hand out candy laced with poison to Jewish and minority children in New York City.

Alleged neo-Nazi ‘murder cult’ leader accused of plot to poison childrenwapo.st The Georgian national was charged with scheming to have an associate dress up as Santa to hand out poisoned candy to Jewish and minority children in Brooklyn.

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As someone not from New York City, I do find it odd that the Mayor routinely describes it as a hellhole that can't even keep its residents alive, much less provide basic services, and reaffirms his commitment to keeping it that way. Seems a suboptimal choice for a Mayor.

Mayor Eric Adams, asked by a reporter about the lack of air conditioning at migrant shelters during a heat wave, says, "Every day New Yorkers don't have air conditioners. We make do." He recommends paper fans and says his mom told him to put his head in the refrigerator. —Emma G. Fitzsimmons, NYT

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I really think (or hope) that Dobbs has made people believe these guys actually intend to do what they say they want to do

a lot of project 2025 is new, but a lot of it is old too. like abolishing the department of education, a mainstream republican goal for at least the past 30 years. they have always been this monstrous, they’ve just lost their shame

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“Every $1,300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” Bike-lanes are a sound public health investment. www.reuters.com/article/busi...

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Jiaai Zeng Died Weeks After Starting Work at an Oklahoma Marijuana Farm. His Family Wants Answers.www.propublica.org Thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers suffer abuse and exploitation in a U.S. marijuana underworld dominated by Chinese mafias. A human rights advocate says: “They have not escaped the darkness of C...

"After she toiled in awful conditions, the employers refused to pay her first month’s salary. She stopped working in protest, so they drove her out into the desert and abandoned her at a gas station, officials said."

Officials have encountered many abuses on Oklahoma marijuana farms: bosses who threaten, beat and sexually assault workers, steal their wages, confiscate their IDs, restrict their movements, and force them to work in dangerous and squalid conditions. www.propublica.org/article/mari...

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In fact, try to imagine that you are mid-level in a drug cartel. You have decided to use undocumented immigrants to smuggle your drugs across the border, but they died of dehydration, and now there are a lot of vultures and coyotes nodding off with blissful expressions somewhere in the desert.

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If YOU were the head of a drug cartel, would you use people who faced all these dangers to smuggle your drugs? Of course not. You're not stupid. You would use US citizens, whose passage across the border is likely to be much smoother.

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We will also probably hear a lot about undocumented immigrants smuggling drugs. Most drugs are smuggled by US citizens, which makes sense when you think about it. Undocumented immigrants are often seized by CBP. Sometimes they die en route. Sometimes they are forced back into Mexico.

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When America sends its people to itself, we're not sending our best. We're sending people that have lots of problems, and we're bringing those problems with us. We're bringing drugs. We're bringing crime. We're rapists. And some of us, I assume, are good people.

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Here's a study of incarceration rates, from last January. Guess who is incarcerated at a lower rate than citizens? ranabr.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/file...

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Here are rates for some of the more serious crimes. -- If we want to deport people who are likely to commit crimes, this data suggests that we should start with citizens.

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Here are crime rates for different groups, by immigration status. Note that the rates for undocumented immigrants are not just lower across the board; they're less than HALF the rates for citizens in every category except traffic violations.

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Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texaswww.pnas.org

In preparation for tonight's speeches about Safety, which Republicans think has something to do with immigration, some data. First, a study of crime rates in Texas from 2012-18. Why Texas, you ask? It requires reporting and breaks arrests down by immigration status. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Milwaukee man dead after being shot by 5 Ohio police officers near RNCwww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

are they seriously going to try to Spartacus this

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel now says that FIVE Columbus police officers shot and killed the homeless Black man well outside the RNC security perimeter. Columbus Police say the shooting took place within the officers' assigned "operational zone."

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Heard a loud boom earlier today? A meteor traveling at around 34,000 miles per hour burned up just before noon about 29 miles above Midtown Manhattan, NASA confirms. www.thecity.nyc/2024/07/16/m...

A Meteor Burned Up 29 Miles Above Midtown Manhattan, NASA Sayswww.thecity.nyc Some residents of Brooklyn and Staten Island heard a loud boom Tuesday morning sparking alarm, while city officials scrambled to identify the cause.

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Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

Not only a mile from the arena, but across the freeway that bisects that part of town and forms an enormous physical barrier

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

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RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

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"Doherty said... that her former manager failed to pay her insurance premiums, which prevented her from receiving medical care that she alleged would have helped her to detect the cancer earlier... In the lawsuit, Doherty said that the breast cancer spread in 2014 when she was uninsured."

Here’s What Shannen Doherty Shared About Living With Cancerwww.prevention.com The actress was 53 when she died

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RNC official: Nothing in our platform says we won't ban abortion nationwidewww.motherjones.com “Don’t let anybody tell you there’s not protections for pro-life,” top Republican Ed Martin said on his radio show last week.

this was always obvious, but it’s nice of RNC officials to make it explicit

RNC platform writer Ed Martin confirms on a radio show that invoking the 14th Amendment is a proxy for nationwide ban: “There’s not as many words describing it, but there’s protection under the Constitution, that life is protected" via @motherjones.bsky.social

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It’s kind of impossible to describe the feeling of horror and despair I experience when walking through a crowd of hundreds of people in a busy NYC subway seeing that 99% of them do not care if they permanently disable or kill me, but I can at least be clear that I fucking hate them in return.

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I’m pretty nonchalant about the healthy people who choose to play Covid roulette at restaurants and karaoke, but if you’re not masking during a Covid wave in places high-risk people should otherwise be able to safely access— and especially places we *have* to access— I want you to know I hate you.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that if a father possesses a sufficient interest in Tradition, then his daughters are going to be in for a Bad Time.

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I had a dream I basically wrote Jane Austen style romance novels but about shtetl Jews

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Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86apnews.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.

Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86. apnews.com/article/buxt...

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Wagatwe Wanjuki

across class, gender, and ethnicity kenyans are like, no, this is wrong and unacceptable. period.

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this is kind of bleak, but it's interesting to be in Kenya and see people discuss police brutality without ever blaming the victims. there isn't a contingent of loud white people saying Black people deserve it. and it's a relief and allows folks to be focused on the true enemy

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Amazon Prime Day causes workplace injuries, Senate probe findswww.washingtonpost.com The Senate HELP Committee probe found that the company’s annual Prime Day sales event, which takes place this week, is “a major cause of injuries” for the workers.

Amazon’s annual Prime Day sales event, which starts Tuesday, has been a “major cause” of warehouse worker injuries, finds a year-long Senate investigation into workplace safety at Amazon, released by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

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