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Submitted at 01-21-2025, 08:30 PM by sleeppoor | |
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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 | |
Physical proximity, social dominance are primary factors involved in “contagious urination” behavior. | |
Submitted at 01-20-2025, 05:50 PM by thirteen3seven | |
Amazon’s Beast Games reflects the greed, narcissism and worship of aggro-capitalism that has brought us our second helping of Trump | |
Submitted at 01-20-2025, 05:27 AM by B. Weed | |
After 48 years on death row, the results of Zeigler’s successful battle for DNA testing could mark a breakthrough. | |
Submitted at 01-19-2025, 11:28 PM by sleeppoor | |
The company said TikTok was coming back online in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump provided assurances to its service providers. | |
Submitted at 01-19-2025, 10:56 PM by sleeppoor | |
The Brutalist may be losing its dream. | |
Submitted at 01-19-2025, 10:35 PM by sleeppoor | |
"He was just sitting there watching it burn," the congressman told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. | |
Submitted at 01-19-2025, 10:16 PM by sleeppoor | |
A serious knock to the head may also deliver an insidious blow to the human immune system – a one-two punch that could reawaken dormant viruses in the body, potentially contributing to neurodegenerative disease. | |
Submitted at 01-19-2025, 10:01 PM by sleeppoor | |
The New York Times made a sneaky edit to its own transcript to make Andreessen sound more coherent. | |
Submitted at 01-19-2025, 01:47 PM by Mordant | |
There are many reasons to resist sympathy for Joe Biden, but it’s clear he never had a presidency. We can deduce that Klain, Zients, O’Malley Dillon, Dunn, Ricchetti, Reed and others seen by his side managed the physical process of his puppeteering, but as of today, next to nothing is known about offscreen characters who perhaps had the real final power in his term. | |
Submitted at 01-19-2025, 05:09 AM by OK-I’ll_Register | |
Supporters of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol pushed past lines of police to enter the court, some destroying furniture and blasting fire extinguishers at officers trying to suppress them. | |
Submitted at 01-19-2025, 04:46 AM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 01-18-2025, 10:30 PM by Mordant | |
The first case of avian flu in a commercial poultry operation has been found, according to the Georgia Department of Agriculture. | |
Submitted at 01-18-2025, 08:40 PM by sleeppoor | |
Monday, January 20 is sure to be a day of pomp and circumstance that brings Americans of all political leanings together in celebration of the nation’s most cherished of institutions. We are talking, of course, about the college football national championship game in Atlanta between Ohio State and Notre Dame.
There is a secret sauce that makes the spectacle that will unfold in Mercedes-Benz Stadium—and indeed the entire system of college football—possible. It isn’t the traditions, the pageantry, the religious devotion of fans, or the aesthetics of the game. It isn’t the rich coaches, bloated athletic departments, lucrative tv contracts, or NIL. It isn’t even the drunken tailgating.
No, the thing upon which everything else in college football depends–business and pleasure–is something entirely different. It is a phenomenon we call, borrowing from sociologist Jill Fisher, structural coercion. | |
Submitted at 01-18-2025, 04:08 AM by sleeppoor | |
Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere (which is also called Hoyoverse) is settling a United States Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over selling loot boxes to players under the age of 16. It’ll pay a $20 million fine for allegedly violating U.S. children’s privacy laws and “deciev[ing] children and other users about the real costs of in-game translations and odds of obtaining rare prizes.” The company will also stop selling loot boxes to people under the age of 16 without parental consent. The complaint covers not only the act of selling loot boxes to people under the age of 16, but also alleges that Hoyoverse has mishandled children’s data and personal information. | |
Submitted at 01-18-2025, 03:58 AM by sleeppoor | |
The toxic smoke from the fires, combined with disruption to the economy, health care system, and mental health may lead to thousands of deaths over the coming years. | |
Submitted at 01-17-2025, 04:23 PM by sleeppoor | |
Tom Goldstein, a publisher of SCOTUSblog and one of the most experienced U.S. Supreme Court lawyers in the country, was indicted Thursday in Maryland federal court on charges he schemed to evade paying taxes for years and used funds from his boutique law firm to cover gambling debts. | |
Submitted at 01-17-2025, 03:04 AM 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.
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.
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.
Physical proximity, social dominance are primary factors involved in “contagious urination” behavior.
Amazon’s Beast Games reflects the greed, narcissism and worship of aggro-capitalism that has brought us our second helping of Trump
After 48 years on death row, the results of Zeigler’s successful battle for DNA testing could mark a breakthrough.
The company said TikTok was coming back online in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump provided assurances to its service providers.
The Brutalist may be losing its dream.
"He was just sitting there watching it burn," the congressman told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
A serious knock to the head may also deliver an insidious blow to the human immune system – a one-two punch that could reawaken dormant viruses in the body, potentially contributing to neurodegenerative disease.
The New York Times made a sneaky edit to its own transcript to make Andreessen sound more coherent.
There are many reasons to resist sympathy for Joe Biden, but it’s clear he never had a presidency. We can deduce that Klain, Zients, O’Malley Dillon, Dunn, Ricchetti, Reed and others seen by his side managed the physical process of his puppeteering, but as of today, next to nothing is known about offscreen characters who perhaps had the real final power in his term.
Supporters of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol pushed past lines of police to enter the court, some destroying furniture and blasting fire extinguishers at officers trying to suppress them.
The first case of avian flu in a commercial poultry operation has been found, according to the Georgia Department of Agriculture.
Monday, January 20 is sure to be a day of pomp and circumstance that brings Americans of all political leanings together in celebration of the nation’s most cherished of institutions. We are talking, of course, about the college football national championship game in Atlanta between Ohio State and Notre Dame.
There is a secret sauce that makes the spectacle that will unfold in Mercedes-Benz Stadium—and indeed the entire system of college football—possible. It isn’t the traditions, the pageantry, the religious devotion of fans, or the aesthetics of the game. It isn’t the rich coaches, bloated athletic departments, lucrative tv contracts, or NIL. It isn’t even the drunken tailgating.
No, the thing upon which everything else in college football depends–business and pleasure–is something entirely different. It is a phenomenon we call, borrowing from sociologist Jill Fisher, structural coercion.
Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere (which is also called Hoyoverse) is settling a United States Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over selling loot boxes to players under the age of 16. It’ll pay a $20 million fine for allegedly violating U.S. children’s privacy laws and “deciev[ing] children and other users about the real costs of in-game translations and odds of obtaining rare prizes.” The company will also stop selling loot boxes to people under the age of 16 without parental consent. The complaint covers not only the act of selling loot boxes to people under the age of 16, but also alleges that Hoyoverse has mishandled children’s data and personal information.
The toxic smoke from the fires, combined with disruption to the economy, health care system, and mental health may lead to thousands of deaths over the coming years.
Tom Goldstein, a publisher of SCOTUSblog and one of the most experienced U.S. Supreme Court lawyers in the country, was indicted Thursday in Maryland federal court on charges he schemed to evade paying taxes for years and used funds from his boutique law firm to cover gambling debts.