ICE agents initially claimed Mondragón had tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the man’s 31-year-old’s brain. ... A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain.
Mondragón entered the U.S. in 2022 with valid immigration documents. Minnesota incorporation filings show he founded a company called Castaneda Construction the following year with an address listed in St. Paul. He appears to have no criminal record.
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“The massive labor shortage that’s rocked the U.S. … hasn’t had much impact on UPS, which pays its unionized drivers the highest wages in the industry. That’s helped it maintain a stable workforce and rising profits.”
Paying workers. Imagine that. https://t.co/zSdnba388x
EXPOSED: Months after @RahmEmanuel helped Joe Biden vilify Medicare for All, SEC documents show Rahm was given a board seat & 186,000 shares of stock by a health care corporation which warns investors that its profits would be reduced by Medicare for All. https://t.co/c8zpUP0Sjx
Left: Washington Post illustrates an article on corageous whistleblower Daniel Hale, who exposed US war crimes, with a mugshot.
Right: Washington Post illustrates article on Michael Behenna, a war criminal who murdered Iraqis in cold blood, with a touching family love pic.
Cognitive biases are systemic errors in thinking that negatively impact decision-making quality and outcomes.
THREAD: 20 cognitive biases to learn (so you can think clearly and make better decisions):
Texas Republicans have voted to remove Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream”speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” from Texas social studies curriculum. https://t.co/Zdr5E30lAA
Providing homeless people with housing:
- reduces crime
- increases employment
- improves health
- does not increase reliance on social benefits.
80% of costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18 months:
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Voters – including R's – weren't inclined to think @IlhanMN's recent comment about Israel/U.S./Afghanistan/Taliban/Hamas was antisemitic.
But something changed, especially among GOP voters, when they learned who said it. https://t.co/zF3XkskyND
The Dan Snyder Memorial Award is awarded each year to the Winnipeg Jets player who embodies perseverance, dedication and hard work without reward or recognition, so that his team and teammates might succeed - this year, awarded to Defenceman Neal Pionk!
Well earned, Neal! 👏
Idk where people are at but something that helped me when I was learning more about Palestine a few years ago was reading about the everyday mechanisms of control that Palestinians deal with — from roads to water to ID cards. So thought I’d share