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Within 48 hours of Mangione’s arrival here, cable and broadcast news had set up shop outside the prison. That evening, Ashleigh Banfield, the host of NewsNation’s “Banfield” show, placed a curious kind of spotlight on this prison.
During that nighttime interview, Banfield realized the prisoners on E Block were watching her show when they shouted and blinked their ceiling lights in response to the conversation she was having from the studio with Alex Caprariello, her reporting colleague in the field. So she started posing questions directly to the prisoners, who responded both vocally out of their windows and visually with their cell lights.
I haven’t heard voices here raised in such raucous unison since 2018, when the Philadelphia Eagles won the 2017 Super Bowl. Though it was hard for Caprariello to hear anyone shouting from C Block, where I live, I suppose people relished the moment to have a voice.
The day after the NewsNation “interview” with E Block aired, the prison’s deputy superintendent threatened everyone in the unit, particularly the guys on the street-facing side, with time in the hole if they yelled from their cell or blinked their lights for the media again. | |
Submitted at Today, 05:04 AM by sleeppoor | |
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A man’s ongoing efforts to track down the elusive sasquatch in remote areas of British Columbia suggest he’s capable of working, and therefore not entitled to spousal support, a judge has ruled. | |
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The price of bitcoin briefly soared on the president's directive, but it appeared to fall short of crypto advocates' expectations. | |
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The Department of Justice, under new leadership following the inauguration of Donald Trump, has told legal service providers who receive federal funding to stop providing legal orientation and other work intended to support immigrants at immigration courts. In a memo obtained by ABC News, the DOJ ordered all such legal providers on Wednesday to "stop work immediately" in those areas. "This email is to send you notification to stop work immediately pursuant to the Executive Order on the following task orders," the memo said. | |
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Fresh out of federal prison, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio suggests he’s still in charge as the far-right organization looks to regroup. | |
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A decade ago, up to 1,000 of the apex predators lived in one South African bay. Now they have gone, fleeing from killer whales. | |
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A newly discovered supergiant isopod named after Darth Vader for its uncanny resemblance to the Sith Lord, is one of the largest of its kind | |
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"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself." | |
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Meteorologist Sam Kuffel criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture some likened to a Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration. | |
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Musk publicly broke from the Trump administration’s latest initiative on artificial intelligence | |
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High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man’s was over 1,000 mg/dL. | |
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The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement. | |
Submitted at 01-22-2025, 09:47 PM by Mordant | |
Nathan Kalman-Lamb was barred entry into the US. This is a harbinger of the dark political future that Trump is ushering in. | |
Submitted at 01-22-2025, 04:55 PM by sleeppoor | |
For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities find themselves under threat, people invariably step up and offer to help. Beloved children’s television star Fred Rogers famously told us to “Look for the helpers” after a tragedy, because he knew we’d see them.
We can go one step further, though, because it shouldn’t take a catastrophe for people to care for one another. Mutual aid—a voluntary, collaborative exchange of resources between members of a community—is a daily practice, and an act of everyday resistance. | |
Submitted at 01-22-2025, 04:34 PM by sleeppoor | |
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers. | |
Submitted at 01-22-2025, 04:39 AM by sleeppoor | |
Trump also canceled a Biden order blocking sanctions on the International Criminal Court amid his flurry of day-one executive orders. | |
Submitted at 01-21-2025, 09:51 PM by Mordant | |
President Trump is announcing billions in private sector investment by OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle to build AI infrastructure in the U.S. | |
Submitted at 01-21-2025, 08:30 PM by sleeppoor | |
Over the past five years, hundreds of people in Polk County, Minnesota, have been charged with possessing drugs in “drug-free zones” despite not setting foot on those properties.
They include two young men who admitted to police they previously used drugs at one of their parents’ houses, which is across the street from a school.
A homeless man suspected of stealing two candy bars from a convenience store got a drug-free zone charge because police found him walking across a bridge near a park.
A woman in Crookston, Polk County, was charged because her vehicle was in the parking lot of an apartment complex that happened to be within a block of a park.
Minnesota, like virtually every other state, imposes enhanced penalties for drug crimes committed in the vicinity of a school, park or public housing — drug-free zones, in legal parlance. And in Minnesota, those zones encompass not just the property itself, but also the area up to one block around it. | |
Submitted at 01-21-2025, 04:33 PM by sleeppoor | |
Nidia Montenegro fled violence and poverty at home in Venezuela, survived a kidnapping as she traveled north into Mexico, and made it to the border city of Tijuana on Sunday for a U.S. asylum appointment that would finally reunite her with her son living in New York.
That appointment is now canceled. | |
Submitted at 01-21-2025, 12:01 AM by delicatessen | |
The commutation will allow Peltier, who has long maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents, to spend his remaining days in home confinement. | |
Submitted at 01-20-2025, 08:39 PM by sleeppoor | |