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FlashMobOfOne

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Artist, theatrical performer, roller derby announcer, and former derby skater in the Midwest.

Single, childless, and married to my freedom and sense of adventure.

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Happened a few times under Trump, like when the US redeployed from Syria, doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, that is.

White officer who fatally shot Black man shouldn’t have been in his backyard, judge rules in suit ( apnews.com )

A federal judge has partially sided with the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a now-imprisoned white Kansas City, Missouri, police detective, ruling that the officer should not have entered the man’s backyard....

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It's been a pleasant surprise knowing my city is one of the few places with the courage to actually try and imprison a killer cop, but I'm about 99.9% sure that Mike Parson (our outgoing governor, who is termed out this year) will pardon him before hitting the bricks. He hasn't done it yet because it will be a very unpopular move here in KC and potentially affect the election prospects of Republicans.

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This is the stuff people need to remember whenever Congress and other federal politicians make exorbitant promises this fall. What they're actually going to do is make your lives harder.

‘It scared them off’, Kansas City shoppers report less crime thanks to security robot patrolling strip mall ( www.kctv5.com )

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A sight previously thought to be science fiction is very real at a southeast Kansas City shopping center. Instead of a police officer, a security robot has been patrolling sidewalks and shoppers are taking notice....

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Justice, baby.

Dig it.

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Identity politics is perhaps the worst element of our politics, regardless of which side of the spectrum you subscribe to. It's made it much, much easier to divide people and get them to oppose each other rather than focusing their ire on the real problem: the wealthy and their insatiable greed.

Overseas threats hit the Ohio city where Trump and Vance lied about Haitians eating pets ( apnews.com )

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Ohio stationed state police at Springfield schools Tuesday in response to a rash of bomb threats — the vast majority that officials said came from overseas —- after former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance falsely said legal Haitian immigrants in the small city were...

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I had to share this when I saw that the AP had the gumption to finally use the 'L' word in the article's headline, instead of some euphemistic bullshit like "misled" or "false claims".

LIED, baby. Lied.

Finally.

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Bummer that they didn't find him with some marijuana or something, a much, much more dangerous crime than committing actual treason.

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More like bots, really. Threads had a huge user influx but also a ton of inorganic activity.

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Oh man, I am an avid reader of history and I've never heard of this. Thanks for sharing!

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If we look at the actions of the party in power over the last several decades, it becomes clear that it doesn't matter who we elect. Both Democrats and Republicans, based on their actions when they're in power, have the same policy on Israeli genocide.

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The only thing that amazes me about is how cheap it is to get a meeting with a presidential candidate. I'm not sure the going rate now, but it was around half a million dollars in 2016, and quite a few outlets reported on it. A measly 500k is nothing for most major corporations, and if it can get you a few minutes in private with a presidential candidate to demand a favor, there's no better investment that you can make.

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Reminds me of Robert Reich, who makes his money railing against the evils of capitalism, but seemingly did nothing to change it when he actually had the power to do so in the Clinton Administration.

He's right though, it's just a bummer that he didn't find his conscience when he could make real change.

Colorado teen hoping for lakeside homecoming photos shot in face by town councilman, police say ( abcnews.go.com )

DENVER -- A teenager scouting out a spot near a Colorado lake to take picturesque homecoming photos this weekend was shot in the face when the boyfriend of the property owner fired his weapon and yelled, “Oh sh__, my gun went off,” court records show....

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The article's pretty graphic, and yikes, I hope they go for attempted murder. The shooter fired THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD at kids just sitting in their car and offering no threat. Further, the injuries to the kid's face were pretty substantial.

A ‘Trump Train’ convoy surrounded a Biden-Harris bus. Was it political violence? ( apnews.com )

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury will soon decide whether a convoy of supporters of then-President Donald Trump violently intimidated former Democratic lawmaker Wendy Davis and two others on a Biden-Harris campaign bus when a so-called “Trump Train” boxed them in for more than an hour on a Texas highway days before the...

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Attorneys for the plaintiffs argued that six of the Trump Train drivers violated state and federal law. Lawyers for the defendants said they did not conspire against the Democrats on the bus and that their actions are protected speech.

I don't know how, given the harassing and objectionable temperament of Trump supporters, that anyone could argue this with a straight face. How is it even a question that this was a violent incident? Because they didn't fire a gun at the bus?

Calls Mount for U.S. to Investigate, Hold Israel Accountable for Killing Turkish-American Activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi ( www.democracynow.org )

The body of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old Turkish American activist who was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, has arrived in Turkey ahead of her funeral. On Thursday, Ayşenur’s father, Mehmet Suat Eygi, praised Turkey for investigating the killing and called on the U.S. to do the same....

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I wouldn't hold your breath waiting on that, honestly.

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“As young people, we’re poised to inherit a world that needs thoughtful, informed leadership more than ever. But if we’re not even willing to watch a debate

I think it's fair to say that Gen Z has seen enough of both major parties to know definitively that neither of the two leaders up for the job are going to do anything meaningful to change their lives in a positive way. Their entire lives they've watched presidents of both parties promise to raise wages, improve health care and education, and spend less on war. Instead, they've watched both of their parents working full-time jobs while still finding themselves unable to provide for the family's needs and education.

And it isn't lost on them that when money for a war or corporate bailout needs to happen, it happens overnight, every single time. During COVID the government even made a few trillion we didn't have appear out of thin air overnight.

It's unreasonable at this point to expect Gen Z to care. Why waste a badly-needed day's work to vote when you have observed for your entire life that things stay consistent regardless of who's elected?

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Agreed. The headline made it sound like the deceased person was injected or something.

Judge frees Colorado paramedic convicted in death of Elijah McClain from prison ( www.msn.com )

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020, is being released from prison after a judge reduced his sentence to four years of probation Friday....

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It made me very sad to read this when I woke up today. As if Elijah's death wasn't horrifying enough, the paramedics who drugged him to death (and any paramedic who seemingly wants to do the same to another person in the future) now have a get out of jail free card.

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It really does suck that something so heartbreaking is just business as usual in this country.

What is going on in a small Ohio town that Trump and Vance won't stop threatening ( www.springfieldnewssun.com )

Springfield, Ohio became suddenly famous nationally when Trump claimed that an influx of Haitian migrants were devouring residents' pets. I went looking to see what the town is experiencing from the perspective of local news, and it looks surprising nuanced....

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I must say that I think the city government makes a reasonable point: those of use who want to offer foreign visitors safety and dignity in American must also demand that our government takes responsibility for helping them relocate to a town in which is expecting their arrival and has been aided in making that arrival successful.

Agreed. It just makes sense.

But there are lots of things we do differently than the rest of the world for no good reason. That's America for you.

My biggest worry with all this attention on Springfield, Ohio is that some chucklehead neckbeard in podunk nowhere is likely already planning a mass shooting there.

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Compared to the US, very hefty.

Is it enough, though? I can't say if it is or not, but my gut tells me it's not enough.

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That's wonderful news to read.

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Not blaming the victim here, just glad I have different habits.

Stories like this make me glad I'm not one of those people glued to my phone 24/7.

It's way harder to snatch it when it's in your pocket.

But the fun of these stories is when someone writes an article about the thieves trying to scam the victim into giving up their codes. That's always amusing.

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Fair point.

Let me be perfectly clear that I think you should be able to look at your phone 24/7 without getting robbed.

Still glad I don't, though.

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To be clear: I 100% think people should be able to enjoy their things without being robbed, public or no.

I'm not amused, just glad I have different habits.

U.S. School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety, Digital Rights Says ( www.eff.org )

Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the U.S. don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered...

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Yeah, that'll be misused. Without a doubt.

What an awful development.

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Barf.

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What's the argument against it being illegal? This seems like a no-brainer.

I spent part of the last two weeks reading 'Bad Blood', a book about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, and how they mishandled and faked test results, creating problems for many of their customers. It just seems obvious to me that this kind of deception and fraud is particularly immoral.

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Just the thought of DIY medicine scares me, and honestly, it's sad that such a thing has to exist.

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If you know how to fix this where I can get qualified competent medical assistance with my issues before they snowball together and murder me, please tell me how because I cannot solve this.

I wish I did, man.

Stories like yours are what I think of every time someone tries to tell me we have "access" to health care, when the reality is we were all sold as a commodity to the health industry by people we elected to protect us.

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I saw the headline above this morning, and my first thought was that it was being done as a preventive measure in order to speed up response times for mass shooting events.

And then I read it, and no, it's meant to protect property and address theft that, depending on your source, may or may not actually be happening in the first place. It makes sense that Hochul's focus is doing potentially useless shit for major corporations in a time when her constituents are struggling to pay rent.

I also worry about having a 'sic police' button available all major stores in a state known for having a very diverse racial population.

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That's a fair assessment. Kind of a bummer that the centrists won and not Cynthia Nixon.

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It's a wild time.

The Republican candidate is a legit insurrectionist, proven pathological liar, impeached multipled times, and has collected indictments like Halloween candy. None of this, presumably, has changed the minds of the 49% who vote Republican obediently and robotically every two years.

The Democratic candidate, meanwhile, has taken no documented public positions and is answering all of this with memes. (And if you don't believe me, go try and find a public platform on her website.) Her position is: "Just trust us," which I imagine is hard to do in a time when your party just held the presidency for four years and Congress for two, and nearly everyone is vastly poorer or working harder for the same pay.

It really is the Giant Douche vs the Turd Sandwich.

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You can respond as you like (provided you're not going to be an a-hole), but understand that if you don't like my point of view, you do have the option to block me. If you've decided, over the course of seeing lots of my posts that you don't like what you have to say, then you probably should.

With that said, my point of view on this is informed by history and poverty. I grew up poor and have had some lucky breaks the last few years, but even so, I have 80 year-old parents driving for DoorDash, using my car, so I am less focused on social issues than I am on the widespread poverty evident in this country. They'd be destitute and starving if I didn't have a car to loan them, in Joe Biden's America, and potentially Kamala Harris' America.

With those precarious circumstances a daily part of my life, Trump isn't particularly scary. What's scary is the knowledge that no matter who we elect, I can trust nothing meaningful is going to be done to help my elderly parents survive.

What makes them equally bad to me is that they have bipartisanship in the worst ways for majority of the US population, and I can see it every single day when my parents are out delivering people's food.

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He's right.

They are.

It sucks, but he's right.

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I agree.

But I'd wager my life savings that laws holding parents accountable will either simply be unenforced or fail to pass in most of this country.

I want it to be different but it's never going to happen. School shootings are a fact of American life whether we like it or not. That's just reality.

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I like those headlines as much as the next guy, but a year from now, would it surprise you if these are still the only two instances of parents being held accountable?

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I respect your honesty. I think gun control's going to take a few steps backward before then, myself. We'll see how it goes.

Misinformation: Baseless claim about U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris crash spread by mysterious website ( www.bbc.com )

A story posted on a mysterious website has been widely circulated on social media after it made a baseless claim that Kamala Harris - the Democratic presidential nominee - was involved in an alleged hit-and-run incident....

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Please read what I wrote again. The answer's already there.

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