320 million dollar dock sucks ass.

And by "core functions" they mean "donations."

The pressure’s on. An Ohio billionaire is planning to take a deep sea submersible to Titanic depths to prove the industry is safer in the wake of the doomed OceanGate vessel that imploded last year. Real estate investor Larry Connor, of Dayton, said he and Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey will plunge more than 12,400 feet to the shipwreck site in a two-person submersible.

Rather than address its deadly jail system or predatory bail industry, the state has made mutual aid the enemy. In early May, Georgia lawmakers celebrated the passage of the state’s latest weapon to criminalize protest: making bail unpayable. Community bail funds, which have served as an important mutual aid strategy for Black communities and racial justice activists, are now functionally illegal in Georgia. The new law expands the cash bail system by making close to 30 offenses, including protest-related charges like unlawful assembly, bail ineligible. It also makes obtaining bail through anyone other than for-profit bond agents, who turn a profit by extracting hefty fines and fees from desperate clients, almost impossible. As of July 1, anyone —be it a mother, uncle, church, or nonprofit—who tries to bail more than three people out a year will risk being charged with a misdemeanor. Gov. Brian Kemp claims the law gives the courts “tougher tools to bring violent offenders to justice,” but legal advocates see a different, more sinister motivation. “This bill is one part of a larger crackdown on protest,” says Cory Isaacson, legal director at the ACLU of Georgia. “We want people to be able to protest actions from the government without fear that there will be retribution, but unfortunately that’s exactly what we’re seeing in this state.”

Two countries—Slovenia and Venezuela—have lost all of their glaciers. It is a grim benchmark showing the progression of climate change

A section of the $320 million floating pier built and erected off Gaza’s coast has broken off and floated onto an Israeli beach. The Saturday mishap is the latest setback for the US humanitarian aid project, after three US troops were reported injured aboard the pier two days prior, including one critically. The Times of Isreal’s military correspondent, Emanuel Fabian, has reported that “An American vessel used to unload humanitarian aid from ships into the Gaza Strip via a floating pier disconnected from a small boat tugging it this morning due to stormy seas, leading it to get stuck on the coast of Ashdod, eyewitnesses say.” The recovery operation has not gone well either, as “Another ship was then sent to try and extract the stuck vessel, but also got beached,” Fabian writes.

Yes, it’s the same people and yes, they beat their kids.

In a city with a high violent crime rate and claims of inequitable policing, leaders are questioning the $100,000 per year the chief receives from local business owners. “Can the criminals get together and pay the chief?” asked one alderwoman.

*Sad Trombone Noise*

Powerful storms have killed at least 13 people and left a wide trail of destruction across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte died 203 years ago May 5, but his legendarily petite privates were last known to be in the hands of an Englewood, NJ, resident.

The food-borne disease — which is rarely reported in the US

The friend of a prominent Congolese opposition leader’s son said he turned down a six-figure offer to travel there as part of the family’s security detail in what turned out to be a failed coup attempt.

Major crypto firms are fighting to remake federal law with an expensive lobbying campaign that has left no part of American politics untouched.

Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets. Well, it appears that our government’s legislators have heard these complaints and, unlike when the rest of us whine about stuff, actually done something.

Star athlete and conspiracy theorist Royce White just landed the Minnesota GOP’s endorsement for Senate. They must not have seen his previous campaign expenses.

As frozen ground below the surface melts, exposed minerals such as iron are giving streams a rusty color that pose a risk to wildlife

Dr Roger Mitchell, former DC chief medical examiner, on how homicides are mislabeled as ‘accidents’ and how ‘we must hold the system accountable’

Atlanta Inspector General Shannon Manigault reported interference in investigations by high-level city officials to the City Council.

Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive. “Mentally torturing a false confession out of Tom Perez, concealing from him that his father was alive and well, and confining him in the psych ward because they made him suicidal, in my 40 years of suing the police I have never seen that level of deliberate cruelty by the police,” said Jerry Steering, Perez’s attorney in Newport Beach. Steering filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against the city of Fontana, alleging that police psychologically tortured Perez and coerced a false confession without first determining that the father had actually been slain. The suit was recently settled for nearly $900,000. Perez agreed to the settlement rather than take the case to trial out of concern that a jury award could be overturned on appeal on grounds of qualified immunity for police. Generally, qualified immunity protects law enforcement officers unless they violate clearly established law arising from a case with nearly identical facts, according to the Legal Defense Fund. Fontana police did not return an email seeking comment. Three of the involved officers remain employed with the department. One other officer has retired.