While Bois and Rubenstein’s work has been deservedly feted since at least their first major Dorktown series, The History of the Seattle Mariners in 2020, it wasn’t until the second half of 2022 that they began referring to their projects as films, with two features that vividly represent two extremes of their craft. The first was Section 1, a fleet 42-minute piece that covers the events of a single date, December 19, 1976, where significant loss of life during a lopsided Baltimore Colts-Pittsburgh Steelers game due to deranged fan Donald Kroner—whose attempt to buzz the stadium ended with his airplane crashing into the stands—was avoided. The film emphasizes the urgency of the situation and the heroism and sports prowess of both teams. In contrast, The People You’re Paying to Be in Shorts, co-written and narrated by Seth Rosenthal and Kofie Yeboah, is a sprawling two-and-a-half-hour saga chronicling the 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats, the worst team in NBA history despite being owned by the one and only Michael Jordan, which unfolds in arguably the funniest and most absurd video Bois has ever made. Both amply capture the peculiar and singular skill, joy and pathos of one of the most exciting documentary filmmakers working today. Over the past few months, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Bois about these two films via email.

A misconduct complaint against San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, who ordered a U.S. marshal to handcuff a defendant’s 13-year-old daughter during a hearing, will be reviewed by a higher court, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday. The handcuffing exercise, which brought the girl to tears in the courtroom, was intended to scare her away from doing drugs and ending up in court like her father, Benitez explained to her, according to a transcript of the Feb. 13 hearing. Instead, the father’s defense attorney described the incident in a motion as “psychologically damaging and harmful.” The complaint against Benitez is not his first brush with controversy. In 2003, the American Bar Association gave Benitez a rare “not qualified” rating when President George W. Bush nominated him for the lifetime district court position. At the time he was a federal magistrate, and before that a state judge in Imperial County.

The giant lacewing, or Polystoechotes punctata, is a large insect from the Jurassic Era. It was once widespread, but mysteriously disappeared from eastern North America sometime in the 1950s. Scientists suspect the disappearance may have been due to pollution, artificial light, non-native predators or a number of other factors.

The Jackson clinic was the state's only abortion provider since 2004 and was at the center of the lawsuit that ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade.

The 320 demonstrators were trapped by police officers on both sides, pummeled with batons and doused with pepper spray.

Talk of a “cycle of violence” between Israelis and Palestinians obscures how the provocative agenda of Israel’s far right may be fanning the flames. When confronted by scenes of bloodshed and destruction in Israel and the occupied territories, there’s a tendency to talk of “the cycle of violence.” In this view, the entrenched enmities and existential imperatives that drive conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are so powerful that they create their own lethal logic, a tortuous chain of atrocity that winds its way back a whole century. That chain lengthened by a few more links this weekend when an organized force of vigilante Israeli settlers descended upon the West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday and carried out a deadly, destructive rampage, torching dozens of homes and scores of cars. The raid was described in some Israeli and Palestinian circles as a “pogrom.” It left at least one Palestinian civilian — Sameh al-Aqtash, 37, who had just returned from a stint in Turkey as a volunteer earthquake relief worker — dead, an estimated hundred more injured and a whole community traumatized. The attack by the settlers was billed as an act of revenge after a Palestinian gunman opened fire at a traffic junction near Huwara, killing two brothers who lived in a nearby Jewish settlement. That assault itself was likely retaliation for an Israeli military raid on the city of Nablus last week that saw 11 Palestinians — including militants and civilians — killed. On Monday, there were reports of new Palestinian attacks on Israeli-owned vehicles in the West Bank. The bloody wheel turns, the cycle of violence continues. But such logic obscures more immediate forces at play. The installation of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history at the beginning of the year has been accompanied by the marked rise in violence. Since the start of the year, Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 61 Palestinians — civilians and militants. A new wave of militancy is stirring in the West Bank, which analysts say is fueled by anger at the Israeli military occupation and mounting settler violence as well as disillusionment with the prevailing political status quo represented by the deeply unpopular Palestinian Authority.

Seventy years ago, New York and New Jersey teamed up to fight corruption at the docks serving New York Harbor. Using an interstate compact, they created a waterfront commission with police power. That commission sharply reduced the influence of organized crime on both sides of the Hudson River, but New Jersey now wants to pull out of the compact because it thinks the commission is stifling economic growth through over-regulation. New York objects, saying that continued interstate cooperation is necessary to keep crime at bay. Wednesday’s argument in New York v. New Jersey will bring a debate about whether the terms of the compact leave New Jersey a unilateral right to withdraw.

After a years-long assessment, five U.S. intelligence agencies conclude it is “very unlikely” an enemy wielding a secret weapon was behind the mysterious ailment.

Rotten wasn't the only aggregate shock site at this time. Stile Project, started in 1999, shared similar notoriety as Rotten, both being written about by mainstream media, outside of just reporting on legal issues that often surround this type of website. Ogrish was another popular one, mainly publishing gore—some of the founders of which would later go on to found the much more popular and controversial LiveLeak. There was also Portal of Evil, a one-stop-shop directory of all the bizarre, nauseating, and repulsive the internet had to offer.

Micron Technology’s planned semiconductor fabrication plant in Clay would consume more electricity than the entire state of Vermont. When fully built, the complex of four chip fabs would use 640 million kilowatt-hours a month, more than enough for 1 million average New York homes. Micron has promised to buy all that electricity from renewable sources, a promise that reflects New York state’s commitment to have an emission-free electric grid by 2040. But Micron could find it tough to keep that promise unless the floodgates open to new wind and solar farms. It’s one of the least-discussed challenges of the Micron project, as New York’s signature economic development success story collides with a major environmental aspiration.

CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters on Tuesday denied incumbent Lori Lightfoot a second term, issuing a rebuke to a leader who made history as head of the nation’s third-largest city.

Longtime NFL groundkeeper George Toma believes the issues that plagued the field at Super Bowl LVII could have been avoided, saying it was overwatered and not allowed to dry out properly. Super Bowl LVII was Toma's last. He retired after more than 80 years in the groundskeeping business. "I can't take it anymore," said Toma, who said he hasn't been pleased with how the NFL responded to field issues at Super Bowl sites in the past. "Me and the league are finished," Toma said. "They can't tell me what to do anymore. We're done."

Supplement companies with a lot of product want us to think "preworkout kratom" is a thing.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida lawmaker has filed the so-called "Ultimate Cancel Act" that would call on the Division of Elections to cancel the filings of any political party that "has previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntarily servitude." State Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, filed SB 1248 on Tuesday. If passed, the legislation would also impact voters of any such political party, automatically changing their status to "no party affiliation."

A survey from the University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs released this week found that 67 percent of Texans "support legislation that would make the recreational use of marijuana for any purpose legal for those age 21 and older."

Get the fuck outta here, hillbilly.

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The incident did not involve the database involving the Witness Security Program, commonly known as the witness protection program, a source told NBC News. The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a security breach over a week ago that compromises sensitive information, multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday. In a statement Monday, U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson Drew Wade acknowledged the breach, telling NBC News: “The affected system contains law enforcement sensitive information, including returns from legal process, administrative information, and personally identifiable information pertaining to subjects of USMS investigations, third parties, and certain USMS employees.” Wade said the incident occurred Feb. 17, when the Marshals Service "discovered a ransomware and data exfiltration event affecting a stand-alone USMS system."

In their final interview before Dave “Trugoy” Jolicoeur passed, De La went through their discography and selected standout songs from each album ahead of their streaming debut.

“You’re a bad mofo, you get out of the Cadillac and you pimp-slap her.”