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Biden Commutes 37 Death Penalty Sentences — Critics Call for More
  • there are 40* people who could receive the commutation, I don't think it's outlandish to suggest these people should also not be killed, if you believe in the death penalty fine, but Joe Biden is apparently a devout Catholic who at some point didn't believe in it so what's stopping him from commuting all the sentences

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/joe-bidens-big-reversal-on-the-death-penalty.html

    https://archive.ph/nMadH

    As a presidential candidate in 2020, Biden promised he’d be different. His official platform provided unequivocally, “Democrats continue to support abolishing the death penalty.” The Biden-Harris 2020 campaign website promised, “Biden will work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level, and incentivize states to follow the federal government’s example.” The position was bold, clear, and absolute.

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  • readsludge.com DOGE’s Ties to the Military-Industrial Complex

    While some progressives in Congress are pushing DOGE to cut the Pentagon budget, its ties to the defense contractor lobby are growing deeper.

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    electronicintifada.net After Israel destroyed her home, blind mother now lives in cemetery

    Yasmin Abu Namous and her daughters are all visually impaired and struggle to obtain food and water daily.

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    truthout.org Trump’s Debt Ceiling Power Play Is a Prelude to the Congressional Chaos to Come

    Ahead of the House speaker election, Mike Johnson is stuck between Trump and the hard right of the House.

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    www.commondreams.org Congressional 'Gerontocracy' Worries Resurface After Member Found to Be Living in Senior Facility | Common Dreams

    "American gerontocracy, on both sides of the political aisle, is an absolute embarrassment," wrote the journalist Mehdi Hasan.

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    truthout.org Trump Demands Control of Panama Canal, Transfer of Greenland to U.S.

    “We are not for sale and will never be for sale,” Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede said.

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    House investigators find evidence Matt Gaetz paid for sex, frequently used illegal drugs

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    www.kenklippenstein.com Luigi Mangione Judge Married to Former Healthcare Executive

    Pretrial judge in case involving murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson owns millions in stock, including Pharma and healthcare

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    truthout.org Biden Commutes 37 Death Penalty Sentences — Critics Call for More

    Biden will exit the White House having failed to fulfill his 2020 campaign pledge to abolish the federal death penalty.

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    progressive.org Unions Get Bigger in Texas

    Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now.

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    www.propublica.org Trump’s Pick to Lead Federal Housing Agency Has Opposed Efforts to Aid the Poor

    As HUD secretary, Scott Turner would oversee billions in housing aid, but as a Texas state legislator he voted against protections for poor tenants and has called government assistance “one of the most destructive things for the family.”

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    capitalandmain.com Surviving on $1,800 a Month in Social Security, She Died Looking for a Place to Live

    Joanne Erickson’s story shows the looming challenges for millions of seniors struggling with health issues, an unforgiving housing market and little or no retirement savings.

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    wagingnonviolence.org Across the Middle East, the BDS movement is thriving

    Shared regional solidarity and strategic economic pressure have turned the BDS movement into a powerful force in the Middle East.

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    jacobin.com A National Rideshare Cooperative Takes Aim at Uber and Lyft

    After years of getting squeezed by Uber and Lyft, a national rideshare cooperative is offering drivers equity stakes that Silicon Valley refuses to grant.

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    truthout.org Homemade Food Packages Were a Lifeline in Prison. New York Has Banned Them.

    My mother used to send taffy to brighten life behind bars. Facing the holidays is grim under New York’s new rules.

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    jacobin.com Can Cuba Survive “Maximum Economic Pressure”?

    We speak to Cuba’s deputy minister of foreign affairs about bilateral relations with Washington and what remains of Cuban socialism in a period of scarcity and unrest.

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    www.levernews.com The McKinsey Opioid Consultants Who Got Away

    The Biden administration just delivered a sweetheart deal to its friends at McKinsey, letting the consulting giant off the hook for helping to “turbocharge” disastrous OxyContin sales.

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    prospect.org Think Biden’s Unpopular? Check Out His Fellow Leaders.

    If floundering leaders and ineffectual democracies are the new norm, we’re in a very dangerous time.

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    Immigration News Today: Refugees Brace for Trump to Cut Resettlement Program Again - Documented

    https:// documentedny.com /2024/12/23/immigration-news-today-refugees-brace-for-trump-to-cut-resettlement-program-again/
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    Whistleblower Demands PA’s Gov. Fix ‘Completely Unregulated’ Fracking Wastewater Network - DeSmog

    www.desmog.com Whistleblower Demands PA’s Gov. Fix ‘Completely Unregulated’ Fracking Wastewater Network

    A new lawsuit alleges toxic, radioactive waste leaked into a PA family’s water well, uncovering a regulatory abyss for miles of fracking pipelines in the state.

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    grist.org Three-quarters of the world's land is drying out, 'redefining life on Earth'

    Climate change has made great swaths of the planet's land drier and saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for billions.

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    Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare
  • They are definitely not inherently good or bad it depends on the place, but if there is 1 child born per woman in the country, that means the country given enough time will pretty rapidly shrink, unless they change something about people not wanting to have kids or allow immigration

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    Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare
  • They also have security deposits on top of that

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    Israelis Continue to Leave Country - Official Reports Indicate
  • There are far more in times of active conflict like now, including rockets from places like Iran and Yemen, people especially those with resources don't want to hear sirens in their cosmipolitan city, they don't want to go hide in a bomb shelter in their basement even if it's unlikely they won't get hit

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    Israelis Continue to Leave Country - Official Reports Indicate
  • If I were to guess the primary concern of those leaving it would probably be to go some place that doesn't regularly have rockets fired at it

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    ‘They’re political prisoners’: Parents of Palestine activists slam pre-trial detention
  • it is not bad journalism though, there is a big difference between trying to increase your clickthrough and bad journalism, it doesn't change the meaning of the title when you say slam vs saying criticize, putting more exciting words in the titles you could maybe make an analogy to all the YouTubers who started making Mr Beast face in the thumbnail, the video or in this case the article is the same, they are just trying to get a higher click through rate and I really can't blame them, they are not making money hand over fist doing this

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    Employee stabs Michigan manufacturing company president during meeting
  • Definitely a wait and see for the motive, could very easily be an interpersonal thing vs a killing the bosses thing

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    ‘They’re political prisoners’: Parents of Palestine activists slam pre-trial detention
  • it is irresistible to the redditor mind to complain about the word slam in a title of an article

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    Assad allegedly hands list of military targets over to Israel before leaving Syria — media
  • The Russians do not like Israel

    This is not even remotely true, you should probably read up on Russian Israeli relations, while they do engage with groups like Hamas and ally themselves with states opposed to Israel like Iran, Russia and Israel have a very close relationship

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mepo.12743

    or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Russia_relations if you prefer

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    Assad allegedly hands list of military targets over to Israel before leaving Syria — media
  • it is interesting it is TASS reporting this though, you would think they wouldn't bother writing about this unless it was in the Russian state's interest to do so

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    The Future of VOA News
  • That is delusional, it is a propaganda outlet, they report what is in the interest of the US state/business class to report regardless of whether it is true or not

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    Daily Manul - Dec 16, 2024
  • I'll try that next time, if that doesn't work I'll use catbox, thanks

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    Daily Manul - Dec 16, 2024
  • I think I just posted this image badly, can you see my posts on December 12th or 13th in this community okay? I would rather use Elon's bandwith for the image if the picture is already there to begin with

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    The fact that there isn't a revolution happening in the US right now is crazy
  • can't say I'm a huge fan of Nick Cruse or the rest of RBN, but a graph's a graph I guess

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    The Future of VOA News
  • Does this person think VOA is not currently a propaganda tool to control messaging abroad?

    What do they think Russia Today is if they don't think VOA is doing that?

    Also barely anyone in the US reads VOA or watches it, it's almost entirely designed for international propaganda. His base would rather just watch fox news or OANN

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    University of Rochester students face 7 years in jail for displaying ‘Wanted’ posters on campus
  • they are thinking you can arrest anyone for any amount of time for opposing the state of Israel and recieve almost no pushback for doing so and they are largely right

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    University of Rochester students face 7 years in jail for displaying ‘Wanted’ posters on campus
  • nvm they are transcribed in this article

    https://www.campustimes.org/2024/11/13/wanted-posters-accusing-university-affiliates-displayed-throughout-campus/

    and from this article

    Following administration’s response, the University’s chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) released a counterstatement addressing widespread claims of the posters’ antisemitic intentions.

    “Antisemitism is bigotry or hatred against Jewish people on the basis of their identity and we unequivocally oppose it,” the JVP statement read. “It is not, however, antisemitic to criticize the Israeli government and military that is committing war crimes.”

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