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Submitted at 05-25-2023, 04:13 PM by sleeppoor | |
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Aderrien Murry was shot in the chest by an Indianola Police Department officer early Saturday morning while the officer was responding to a domestic disturbance call at the child’s home, according to his mother, Nakala Murry, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
Murry told CNN that the father of another of her children arrived at her home at 4 a.m., “irate.”
Concerned about her safety, Murry asked Aderrien to call the police.
Murry said the officer who arrived at the home “had his gun drawn at the front door and asked those inside the home to come outside.” Murry said her son was shot coming around the corner of a hallway, into the living room.
“Once he came from around the corner, he got shot,” Murry said. “I cannot grasp why. The same cop that told him to come out of the house. (Aderrien) did, and he got shot. He kept asking, ‘Why did he shoot me? What did I do wrong?’” she said.
The shooting happened within what felt like “one to two minutes” after the officer asked those in the house to come outside, Murry said. | |
Submitted at 05-25-2023, 12:20 PM by droog | |
Submitted at 05-25-2023, 12:45 AM by Nibbles | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 11:42 PM by Mordant | |
Killer whales are attacking yachts off the coast of Spain in a very righteous revenge plot, and we have no choice but to support their cause. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 10:19 PM by B. Weed | |
Tina Turner, the dynamic rock and soul singer who rose from humble beginnings and overcame a notoriously abusive marriage to become one of the most popular female artists of all time, has died, according to a post on her verified Facebook page. She was 83. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 08:07 PM by DamnHead | |
“The hardest decision I had to make was whether to erect fences and barricades around the Supreme Court. I had no choice but to go ahead and do it,” Roberts said. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 07:56 PM by Disruptive Emotional-Support Pig | |
As debt limit talks between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) team and the White House remain far apart, House Democrats are growing increasingly frustrated with how the White House is handling the negotiations.
Some Democrats, especially those who face tough reelections next year, have privately groused that the White House has bungled the messaging, is putting Democrats in a terrible negotiating position and could be forced to eat most of McCarthy's demands.
“I’ve never seen such a massive, surprising and consequential potential failure,” said one Democratic member of Congress who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid. “We'll see where this comes out, but by definition we're only measuring success on how much we lost.” | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 05:46 PM by Forensic | |
Kenneth Anger, the experimental filmmaker and author whose work was groundbreaking in its exploration of gay themes and erotica, has died. He was 96.
His death was announced by his gallery, Sprueth Magers. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 04:27 PM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 02:33 PM by Mordant | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 05:34 AM by sleeppoor | |
Celeste Burgess, 18, faces up to two years in prison for taking abortion pills and burying a stillborn fetus in 2022. Her mother faces eight years. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 05:33 AM by sleeppoor | |
Senior author, prof. Mathias Osvath:
“Early in my career, crow birds earned the nickname “feathered apes,” due to numerous research findings that showcased their remarkable cognition. However, I’m beginning to question whether it would be more fitting to consider primates as honorary birds.” | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 02:01 AM by Nibbles | |
The iconic singer has a long history of taking seemingly "political" positions that say less about her convictions than about our own. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 01:08 AM by sleeppoor | |
Republicans abolished the state labor department in 2002, and with it, an active mechanism for helping victims of wage theft.
For more than 20 years, the state of Florida has lacked a state labor department, which was once tasked with enforcing Florida’s state minimum wage and other wage and hour laws.
That’s right: While Florida has the nation's third-largest workforce, it’s also one of just a few states that lacks even a single dedicated investigator on the state payroll tasked with looking into wage violations, which the labor department used to handle. And very few people in elected office — Democrat or Republican — ever really talk about it.
Former Florida governor and failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush (“Please clap”) prioritized the abolition of the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Security early on in his first term, in the early 2000s, and the state legislature moved forward with dismantling it in 2002. | |
Submitted at 05-24-2023, 01:07 AM by sleeppoor | |
Once dismissed as a fringe theory, the idea that corporate thirst for profits drives up inflation, aka "greedflation," is now being taken more seriously by economists, policymakers and the business press. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2023, 11:52 PM by B. Weed | |
Submitted at 05-23-2023, 10:01 PM by droog | |
Since taking up his post as U.S. ambassador to Japan last year, Rahm Emanuel has lavished his host country with enthusiastic tweets about riding the world-class bullet trains and subways, hiking Mount Fuji or sampling local delicacies and festivals.
He has also regularly hailed business leaders and politicians with a convivial spirit that belies the bull-in-a-china-shop reputation he built as chief of staff to President Barack Obama and as mayor of Chicago. In doing so, he has established himself as a champion of Japan’s accomplishments.
But a recent string of messages about gay and transgender rights, culminating in a video Mr. Emanuel released on Twitter earlier this month, has drawn considerable ire among conservatives in Japan. Critics say the ambassador has overstepped the bounds of diplomacy and crossed into unwanted interference in domestic policy. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2023, 08:08 PM by Forensic | |
In the early morning of March 31, Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Indigenous woman, was walking on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 93, which passes through the Flathead reservation in Montana. Westwolf was struck by a Cadillac Escalade and declared dead at the scene. The driver of the vehicle, Sunny White, is an alleged white nationalist — leading some members of the community to believe that Westwolf's death was a hate crime. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2023, 06:45 PM by sleeppoor | |
Talking to two men who say they were recruited to pose as homeless veterans displaced by migrants.
It was a sensational story combining the most divisive issues roiling New York State. Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of a veterans-oriented nonprofit in Orange County called the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, told the New York Post on May 12 that nearly two dozen “struggling homeless veterans” were being kicked out of upstate hotels to make way for migrants being bused from New York City by the Adams administration. Toney-Finch shared harrowing specifics, like that one of the men was “a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan,” per the Post. Fifteen of the veterans were kicked out from the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, where many of the asylum seekers had been bused on May 11. Republican state assemblyman Brian Maher promoted Toney-Finch’s story, making appearances on conservative TV stations and even introducing legislation that would prohibit the displacement of veterans.
The story now appears to be almost entirely made up. On May 18, Maher told the Post that Toney-Finch had admitted to him that she had lied. The Crossroads Hotel and two others that Toney-Finch mentioned denied that any veterans from her organization had ever been staying there. And, the Mid-Hudson News reported on May 19, Toney-Finch had done something more egregious than simply making up a story: She allegedly recruited 15 men from a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to pose as her displaced veterans, coached them on what to say, and promised to pay them for their time. | |
Submitted at 05-23-2023, 06:44 PM by sleeppoor | |

Aderrien Murry was shot in the chest by an Indianola Police Department officer early Saturday morning while the officer was responding to a domestic disturbance call at the child’s home, according to his mother, Nakala Murry, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
Murry told CNN that the father of another of her children arrived at her home at 4 a.m., “irate.”
Concerned about her safety, Murry asked Aderrien to call the police.
Murry said the officer who arrived at the home “had his gun drawn at the front door and asked those inside the home to come outside.” Murry said her son was shot coming around the corner of a hallway, into the living room.
“Once he came from around the corner, he got shot,” Murry said. “I cannot grasp why. The same cop that told him to come out of the house. (Aderrien) did, and he got shot. He kept asking, ‘Why did he shoot me? What did I do wrong?’” she said.
The shooting happened within what felt like “one to two minutes” after the officer asked those in the house to come outside, Murry said.
Killer whales are attacking yachts off the coast of Spain in a very righteous revenge plot, and we have no choice but to support their cause.
Tina Turner, the dynamic rock and soul singer who rose from humble beginnings and overcame a notoriously abusive marriage to become one of the most popular female artists of all time, has died, according to a post on her verified Facebook page. She was 83.
“The hardest decision I had to make was whether to erect fences and barricades around the Supreme Court. I had no choice but to go ahead and do it,” Roberts said.
As debt limit talks between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) team and the White House remain far apart, House Democrats are growing increasingly frustrated with how the White House is handling the negotiations.
Some Democrats, especially those who face tough reelections next year, have privately groused that the White House has bungled the messaging, is putting Democrats in a terrible negotiating position and could be forced to eat most of McCarthy's demands.
“I’ve never seen such a massive, surprising and consequential potential failure,” said one Democratic member of Congress who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid. “We'll see where this comes out, but by definition we're only measuring success on how much we lost.”
Kenneth Anger, the experimental filmmaker and author whose work was groundbreaking in its exploration of gay themes and erotica, has died. He was 96.
His death was announced by his gallery, Sprueth Magers.
Celeste Burgess, 18, faces up to two years in prison for taking abortion pills and burying a stillborn fetus in 2022. Her mother faces eight years.
Senior author, prof. Mathias Osvath:
“Early in my career, crow birds earned the nickname “feathered apes,” due to numerous research findings that showcased their remarkable cognition. However, I’m beginning to question whether it would be more fitting to consider primates as honorary birds.”
The iconic singer has a long history of taking seemingly "political" positions that say less about her convictions than about our own.
Republicans abolished the state labor department in 2002, and with it, an active mechanism for helping victims of wage theft.
For more than 20 years, the state of Florida has lacked a state labor department, which was once tasked with enforcing Florida’s state minimum wage and other wage and hour laws.
That’s right: While Florida has the nation's third-largest workforce, it’s also one of just a few states that lacks even a single dedicated investigator on the state payroll tasked with looking into wage violations, which the labor department used to handle. And very few people in elected office — Democrat or Republican — ever really talk about it.
Former Florida governor and failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush (“Please clap”) prioritized the abolition of the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Security early on in his first term, in the early 2000s, and the state legislature moved forward with dismantling it in 2002.
Once dismissed as a fringe theory, the idea that corporate thirst for profits drives up inflation, aka "greedflation," is now being taken more seriously by economists, policymakers and the business press.
Since taking up his post as U.S. ambassador to Japan last year, Rahm Emanuel has lavished his host country with enthusiastic tweets about riding the world-class bullet trains and subways, hiking Mount Fuji or sampling local delicacies and festivals.
He has also regularly hailed business leaders and politicians with a convivial spirit that belies the bull-in-a-china-shop reputation he built as chief of staff to President Barack Obama and as mayor of Chicago. In doing so, he has established himself as a champion of Japan’s accomplishments.
But a recent string of messages about gay and transgender rights, culminating in a video Mr. Emanuel released on Twitter earlier this month, has drawn considerable ire among conservatives in Japan. Critics say the ambassador has overstepped the bounds of diplomacy and crossed into unwanted interference in domestic policy.
In the early morning of March 31, Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Indigenous woman, was walking on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 93, which passes through the Flathead reservation in Montana. Westwolf was struck by a Cadillac Escalade and declared dead at the scene. The driver of the vehicle, Sunny White, is an alleged white nationalist — leading some members of the community to believe that Westwolf's death was a hate crime.
Talking to two men who say they were recruited to pose as homeless veterans displaced by migrants.
It was a sensational story combining the most divisive issues roiling New York State. Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of a veterans-oriented nonprofit in Orange County called the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, told the New York Post on May 12 that nearly two dozen “struggling homeless veterans” were being kicked out of upstate hotels to make way for migrants being bused from New York City by the Adams administration. Toney-Finch shared harrowing specifics, like that one of the men was “a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan,” per the Post. Fifteen of the veterans were kicked out from the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, where many of the asylum seekers had been bused on May 11. Republican state assemblyman Brian Maher promoted Toney-Finch’s story, making appearances on conservative TV stations and even introducing legislation that would prohibit the displacement of veterans.
The story now appears to be almost entirely made up. On May 18, Maher told the Post that Toney-Finch had admitted to him that she had lied. The Crossroads Hotel and two others that Toney-Finch mentioned denied that any veterans from her organization had ever been staying there. And, the Mid-Hudson News reported on May 19, Toney-Finch had done something more egregious than simply making up a story: She allegedly recruited 15 men from a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to pose as her displaced veterans, coached them on what to say, and promised to pay them for their time.