Karmelo Anthony, a Black teenager, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted by a jury with no Black jurors. Whatever one believes about the verdict itself, we cannot ignore the larger truth that many Americans are wrestling with: justice is still being administered through a system with a long history of racial disparity in sentencing and punishment.
This requires more than reaction. It requires moral honesty about who is deemed dangerous, whose pain is centered, and how differently accountability has often been applied in America. If we want justice worthy of its name, it cannot be shaped by race.
#KarmeloAnthony
President Trump said he has no idea “where the hell” he got his “stat” that Black unemployment is doing better than ever before. That’s probably because the “stat” is fake. The Black unemployment rate is higher now than it was when Trump returned to office…in fact, higher than it was in each of the last 34 months of Biden’s term. https://t.co/r3BentdjF3
Drop Site News was scheduled to host a panel discussion at SXSW London on June 3. We have informed the organizers we will not be moving forward with the event following SXSW’s refusal to condemn the British Home Office’s state censorship of our colleagues Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, who were also scheduled to speak at SXSW. The banning of our colleagues is part of an intensifying campaign by the UK government to stifle criticism of Israel and criminalize pro-Palestine activism at a time when the genocide in Gaza is continuing.
In the past two weeks, the president has lied that he’d have won California with an honest vote count, that California doesn’t allow people to vote in person, and that California mails out 15 million excess ballots. All absolute nonsense. https://t.co/lCo2EJ9oMv
If you turned on the TV in another country and saw the leader's daughter-in-law giving him a softball interview on a major "news" channel, you would rightfully assume that country is a tinpot dictatorship.
This is a vicious psyop designed to dehumanize immigrants in order to lower resistance to the regime’s systematic campaign of violence, imprisonment, and deportation of our neighbors.
This is psychopathy with a federal budget. Just vile Nazi shit.
I spent the last week digging through old articles and studies on racist policy like segregation, redlining, war on drugs etc.
It’s SHOCKING how many “.gov” addresses and resources now end in “404 not found”
They’ve deleted so much nobody realizes is gone.
Let’s do some basic math.
Say the war cost us $50 billion ( low I know but let’s go with it)
25 times is $1,250 billion
Oil is about $100 a barrel
So this means we would need
12.5 billion barrels of oil
Daily oil production in Venezuela is 1.1 million barrels
I will double it to 2 million barrels a day
So that’s 6,250 days worth of oil or about 17 years of their production.
Now does anyone believe this BS ?
Of course they do.
The morons in Trump cult.
The CFPB has deleted 15 years' worth of data off its website.
Every post that predates Trump's second term has been removed except for reports mandated by Congress.
In total some 1,700 pages on the website have been wiped out.
Can't raise minimum wage because it will kill jobs.
Can't raise taxes on the bourgeoisie class because it will kill jobs.
Can't ditch oil because it will kill jobs.
But when these companies replace 50% of their workforce with AI, it's "sorry, that's just the way it goes."
SPOILER ALERT: It’s the same reason AI writing sucks. AI is pattern-based, which means it disregards outliers then forecasts (or writes) based on what’s statistically probable given the average pattern. You can’t predict extreme weather based on average patterns just as you can’t write amazing prose using something that merely predicts the next average word.
And we’re losing jobs to this. What a wicked world.
remember when biden ran on public option in the primaries against bernie’s m4a & every serious pundit told us bidens plan was the responsible doable alternative- only for biden to never bring it up again. the private healthcare industry is up to the same tricks one more time.
The simple truth is that anyone with anything close to that level of empathy simply wouldn't be able to reach anything close to bezos levels of wealthy, because that amount of money requires unbelievable amounts of human exploitation