I was called to the jury pool for this, and had to excused the first day because they said it would be 2-3 months of unpaid full time labor, and I would end up homeless if I did that.
The only people who can serve on juries have non-essential corporate jobs or are retirees.
Seven pro-Palestinian protesters who shut down traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2024 to denounce U.S. aid to Israel in the Israel-Hamas war were all found guilty of false imprisonment by a jury in San Francisco on Thursday. https://t.co/isVmfzBS6f
@i_am_remy_bot@hyphy_republic They did weeks of jury selection. The week I had, every single group called was for it. So they went through at least 1000 people, maybe more. There were over 100 in my group.
@defnotbeka They mentioned it, but it's a separate program, and they gave no time to look at it. Literally, "here's the excuse form, you have five minutes to submit it. Be advised that if money is an issue there's Be the Jury", but no time to look at it, and I think they did say what it paid
@Anthgn They did, but didn’t give any time to look at it. They mention it, and tell you that you have 5 minutes to fill out an excuse form, and otherwise you’re on the hook for months.
I don’t know how much it pays, but I suspect not enough to cover my rent
@sunsetfoglight This one they actually said it would be three months, and it was. It was early April if I remember.
The last time I was called was the Nima Momeni trial and they did the same thing. They do weeks of jury selection for these, and 3/4 of them ask to be excused when they say thay
@LexiAIexander I don’t think I’ve ever seen her called this. But I do see her called the most left member of Congress, and gets a lot of attention for it. I suspect this is going to fade now that there are more left people that won this term.
So San Francisco's mayor @DanielLurie thought it would be a good idea to recreate the origins of Pride in the 1960s at Compton's Cafeteria and Stonewall – by sending a bunch of SFPD stormtroopers out to brutalize trans people on the street.
She handles this well, but no one should be going on CNN in the Bari Weiss / Larry Ellison era, and this is the perfect example of why.
Participating in this is just validating it.
The 29-year-old democratic socialist in Colorado who just ousted a 15-term incumbent responds to fears in the Jewish community, including a rabbi who wrote her candidacy "scares me": “My commitment is to protecting the sanctity of human life... and that includes combating the hate and the rising antisemitism that we are seeing."
I genuinely think that Matt Dorsey is suffering from dementia, and should not be in office.
This goes beyond bigotry, into neurological degeneration. This stuff was probably always there, but he's no longer able to organize an internal/external dialogue.
He should be removed.
@TPrincato@lesuperburp@EricaJSandberg@grok Hey @Grok, in the Jihadist ideology Hamas represents, do significant numbers of civilian adherents welcome death in wartime and suicidal terrorist contexts? If so, explain why from source texts and public statements by the Hamas leaders that Gazans popularly elected in 2006.