I looked into Dr. Roberts' 2020 gun charge. It was a fifth-degree penalty under Pennsylvania law.
Roberts pled guilty and paid a less than $200 penalty, which included $100 to the gaming commission, court costs, and postage.
BREAKING: A large crowd of people protesting immigration enforcement has formed outside the Neil Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines. The protest was sparked by the detainment of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts earlier today. @weareiowa5news
🧵Today is one of the darkest days yet in modern journalism. I want to write a thread about the martyrdom of journalists Abu Hatab & Omar Zaino, who are among the 30+ people massacred at a café journalists used for its WiFi, and about Bayan Anu Sultan, who was badly wounded.
This is prominent Palestinian journalist Bayan Abusultan after miraculously survived an Israeli strike on a cafe that, with one of Gaza's last reliable wi-fi connections, is widely known as somewhere journalists gather to work. Early reports indicate 33 civilians were killed.
BREAKING: The Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s vessel en route to Gaza has issued a distress signal after confirming drones overhead. Multiple passengers aboard the Madleen, including activists Thiago Ávila, Greta Thunberg, and Rima Hassan, have shared videos alerting that drones are tracking the ship.
The ship reported its position about 80 kilometers off the coast of Greece and is continuing on course at 5.6 knots. Organizers have called for urgent international attention as they proceed with their mission to deliver aid and break the siege on Gaza.
At least 27 people were killed and 90 more wounded earlier this week when Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd of starving Palestinians in Gaza desperately seeking food aid. Since the U.S.-Israeli genocide began, food has been used as a weapon of war – preventing food from reaching the civilian population of Gaza has been a key tactic to inflict massive death and displacement.
Those responsible for these massacres and the genocide itself must be brought to justice before a court of international law! End the genocide now!
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CNN - 5/3/2025 - SpaceX Hub could become an official town called "Starbase" as some locals are afraid Elon Musk is taking too much control
"Are you using public power to benefit a private interest?"
A few days and we will all die❗ We will die from bombing 😔 We will die from hunger 😔 We will die from grief 😔 Be that merciful person and save us. Contribute to donating to my family to get food and retweet 😔🙏
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Even if you believed this was really about antisemitism & not silencing critiques of Israel's genocide, how do you justify deporting folks for discriminating against Jews but literally no other group of people?
Two million people in Gaza -- half of them children -- are suffering severe malnutrition, illness from treatable diseases, and no clean drinking water because the US under Biden and Trump paid and armed Israel to block all food, water and medicine from entering. @haaretzcom:
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"[Elon Musk is] discovering something that MMT economists have been saying for at least the last 30 years, which is, yes, sovereign governments like the US federal government do have the power of the purse and they do create money out of thin air...You type the number & you deposit it in somebody's bank account.
It doesn't mean that we should be doing this left & right & spending money left & right in infinite amounts of ways. MMT is saying basically, we do have the financial capability to invest strategically in areas in the economy where we need strategic investment. That means we don't have to give tax cuts to the billionaires to beg for their money or permission to invest in a better economy. That means that we need to separate the taxation side of the equation from the spending side of the equation."
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