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The Metals Co. is trying to discredit new research that bolsters opponents' claims that the deep sea is too unknown to mine. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 05:42 PM by sleeppoor | |
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The rumors were easy to believe, especially when the potential VP has such terrible ideas about sex.
What’s more bizarre is that the couch joke was only one of the three most off-putting things Vance has been known for during his first 10 days as a VP nominee, and the only one that wasn’t verified as true. After Trump announced his pick on July 15, a clip from his 2021 appearance on Tucker Carlson went viral in which he complained that the US was “effectively run” by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” naming Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children, and how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it,” he said, discounting Harris’s two step-children whom she co-parents with husband Doug Emhoff. Then, Vance tried and failed to get laughs at a Trump rally by making an awkward joke about drinking diet Mountain Dew and how “[Democrats] are going to call that racist.”
Vance already held extreme views on sex and gender; he opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest and has compared it to slavery. He has voted against a bill ensuring access to IVF and suggested a ban on porn. He called universal child care “a class war against normal people.” He opposes legislating codifying the right to gay marriage and suggested that people in “violent” marriages shouldn’t get divorced.
He is also among the nebulous group of young intellectual conservatives backed by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel loosely called the “New Right,” whose main project seems to be making techno-fascist and incel-adjacent ideas seem cool and edgy. On X, where Vance has spent a great deal of time, he at one point followed several white nationalist accounts, many of whom glorify bodybuilding and fascism while promoting the Great Replacement theory. He is, in other words, exactly the type of guy you could imagine claiming that couch sex robots were the beginning of a glorious future without women. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 04:34 AM by sleeppoor | |
As daily temperatures hit record highs across much of the South, a federal judge has taken an unusual step, challenging the treatment of mostly Black incarcerated workers in the fields.
U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson issued a temporary restraining order earlier this month. It said correctional officials have shown “deliberate indifference” to the risks of injuries or death of incarcerated workers in sending them to the fields even when they had serious health issues, including some with heart disease, high blood pressure and histories of pre-diabetes or AIDS.
He ordered the state to quickly fix what he called “glaring deficiencies” in its heat-related policies.
As part of a two-year investigation, The Associated Press found some prison farms nationwide have in recent years supplied millions of dollars worth of crops — including soy, corn and wheat — to massive global companies like Tyson Foods, Louis Dreyfus, Consolidated Grain and Barge and Riceland Foods. Agricultural goods produced through prison labor end up in the supply chains of popular brands like Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, Ballpark hot dogs and Pepsi, reporters found.
Though many companies did not respond to questions about their links to prison farms, others, including Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland, have said they were investigating AP’s findings and had either cut ties or were considering next steps. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:57 AM by sleeppoor | |
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is a leading candidate to be Kamala Harris’s running mate. Selecting him would fracture the party. | |
Submitted at Yesterday, 01:41 AM by sleeppoor | |
U.S. sanctions have surged over the last two decades and are now in effect on almost one-third of all nations. | |
Submitted at 07-25-2024, 03:26 PM by sleeppoor | |
The Ohio Supreme Court says consumers can't expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones. | |
Submitted at 07-25-2024, 09:08 PM by thirteen3seven | |
Humans and dogs have been close companions for perhaps 30,000 years, according to anthropological and DNA evidence. So it would make sense that dogs would be uniquely qualified to interpret human emotion. They have evolved to read verbal and visual cues from their owners, and previous research has shown that with their acute sense of smell, they can even detect the odor of stress in human sweat. Now researchers have found that not only can dogs smell stress—in this case represented by higher levels of the hormone cortisol—they also react to it emotionally. | |
Submitted at 07-25-2024, 06:44 PM by thirteen3seven | |
A Republican candidate for county commissioner publicly lost support from the GOP after throwing her roommate's tarantula down the stairs. | |
Submitted at 07-25-2024, 03:44 PM by sleeppoor | |
As the Ohio senator sets out on the campaign trail as the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, social media users are making false claims about the contents of “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 10:15 PM by nocash | |
Fred Trump III writes that his uncle, Donald Trump, made the shocking suggestion during an Oval Office meeting in May 2020 | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 08:32 PM by sleeppoor | |
The Republican VP nominee's Venmo network reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist's close ties to the very elites he rails against. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 08:17 PM by B. Weed | |
A fan invasion in the opening match of the Olympic football tournament between Argentina and Morocco on Wednesday caused chaos, with Argentina eventually beaten 2-1 following a VAR review after play was suspended with the score tied at 2-2. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 07:39 PM by sleeppoor | |
When I first started working with children in the juvenile justice system, I focused on the “what” instead of the “why.” I relied on diagnosis to determine my treatment. When asked to testify as an expert in Act 33 proceedings, a Pennsylvania law that requires those between the ages of 15-17 who meet certain criteria to be tried in the adult criminal justice system, I stressed the importance of addressing mental health, medication management, and therapy. But I still felt that something was missing.
My mind changed the day I watched a child regress.
I was on a crisis call at a local group home, a type of facility for kids who are temporarily placed away from their family and community. When I walked in, my client was screaming threats at staff, ripping paper signs posted on the walls of the unit, and, at one point, attempting to become physically aggressive. Something at that moment told me just to sit. I could have called other staff, who were able to physically intervene, or I could have immediately considered an involuntary commitment to one of two psychiatric units. Instead, I sat. And I waited. I sat there and sat there. The child eventually fell on the floor in a fetal position and screamed out for their deceased mother.
This wasn’t disruptive behavior–this was grief. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 04:44 PM by sleeppoor | |
The white cop with the skull tattoos on his arm shot the unarmed Black woman in the face at point-blank range then told his partner not to bother trying to help her, she’s already gone. Then he walked outside and told his radio dispatcher that the woman had killed herself. Police then told her family the same lie, which is all they knew until attorneys got involved and the local press started digging.
This is as near to the true version of events as I can gather after a day and a half in Springfield, Illinois, where authorities yesterday released bodycam footage of Deputy Sean Grayson killing 36 year old Sonya Massey. How deep the initial cover up went isn’t currently known to the public, but Grayson has since been charged with first-degree murder in Massey’s killing — an exceedingly rare thing in this country when a police officer kills someone.
At a press conference on Monday afternoon at Springfield’s NAACP headquarters — an organization founded after race riots ravaged the city in 1908, claiming 17 Black lives, including a distant relative of Massey herself — Massey’s family revealed that police initially told them their loved one had killed herself. Indeed, police radio traffic I obtained shows someone, presumably Grayson, when he leaves the house to grab medical equipment, saying Massey’s wound was “self-inflicted” and asking dispatch if the call had been recorded as a 10-76 — code for a psychiatric emergency.
The implication is clear: Grayson planned to portray Massey as a crazed threat who he had to defend himself from. Luckily, just barely, Grayson’s partner had turned on his body camera which shows the complete opposite. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 05:35 AM by sleeppoor | |
The vice president is taking over the Biden campaign operation, and those around her want some operatives from Obama’s campaigns to bolster the effort. [Jim Messina and David Plouffe, lol] | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 05:09 AM by sleeppoor | |
A geyser explosion in Yellowstone National Park sent dozens of visitors running Tuesday morning, officials said. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 04:32 AM by sleeppoor | |
Leadership warned lawmakers during a closed-door meeting to focus on the vice president’s record, not her race. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 02:06 AM by Mordant | |
Kamala Harris has the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, according to CNN’s delegate estimate. | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 12:46 AM by Mordant | |
Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee (PAC) to fund the Republican candidate, the billionaire told conservative commentator Jordan Peterson during an interview Monday evening | |
Submitted at 07-24-2024, 01:21 AM by Mordant | |
Thirteen sharks tested for cocaine and benzoylecgonine were found to have the illicit drug in their muscles and livers. | |
Submitted at 07-23-2024, 09:25 PM by sleeppoor | |