A reminder that the Israeli government does not allow any international journalist into Gaza. That’s how they have killed more journalists than most conflicts combined since WWII while claiming that all the journalists they’ve killed were actually enemy combatants.
More than 200 journalists have now been killed by the IDF in Gaza.
And so many journalists here haven’t expressed a single sliver of solidarity or outrage about it.
The demonization and criminalization of people without housing is critical here. The unspoken logic that pulls this all together is the reality that poor people can’t afford bail, so they stay locked in jails without convictions, and that’s how these people *want* it to work.
The president brought up no cash bail and Chicago today.
Here’s a reminder: Data emerging from the Circuit Court of Cook County shows that the law is working
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New report reveals human rights abuses in US detention camps, including:
-a 10-year-old US citizen child recovering from brain surgery denied follow-up medical care
-a 4-year-old child suffering from metastatic cancer deported w/o ability to consult a doctor
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@needstobebred.live hi, I think you're the Ayla that Emma was supposed to hang out with today—she fell asleep after not sleeping for like two days and it was too hard to wake her up. She semi woke up a little bit just now and says she's sorry and will try to reschedule when she's awake again later
I was in abbotsford (where dreamer is from) earlier this summer & it put world / internet politics in such a funny & insane light. If some faillenial TWU grad sees 3 or more sikh uncles meandering the Mill Park lily pad bridge then the US VP becomes slightly more likely to push for pogroms that week
Marketplace platform that enables Nazis and fascists under the guise of free speech has now passed the big banks to become the most valuable company in Canada.
Shopify’s leadership will now have even more resources to push for extreme right-wing political causes in Canada.
A significant part of the clanker meme is people who have had slurs deployed against them joking about doing it to robots. Eg a bunch of the videos are young black guys doing "look who's coming to dinner" routines
Again, it should tell you all you need to know when the policy & rhetoric pushed by certain canadian municipal councillors and premiers is also now a core pillar of the Trump playbook
Fully illegal given the temporary restraining order on "roving patrols," affirmed by the 9th Circuit just last week
The NPR writer is not seeing people doing something and of her own accord declaring that this constitutes a slur. She is covering a trend where the whole gimmick is, explicitly, to come up with slurs for computers *as if* you were doing inter-human discrimination
You're making a fool of yourself here man. NPR is covering a meme where the jokes involve a) imagining being "racist" to ostensibly sentient robots in a future scifi society, & b) applying that to the obviously nonsentient current robots ppl deal with, like self-checkouts &chatbots & automated calls
Lol I don't think I need to be condescended to by a guy who apparently can't manage to parse a fluff piece on a meme
...that's the joke man
Like I think a non-negligible amount of racist incitement on twitter might be traceable back to the fact that lauren southern and captive dreamer happen to be from 2 of the only 4 notable Canadian municipalities with a double-digit percentage of punjabi speakers
genuinely think it's probably at least partly related to so many of the big english-language rightwingers being Canadian
The documents were obtained after a 15-month struggle during which the FOIP request was "lost," delayed, ordered released by the OIPC, released for $1,133 payment, then delayed again.
Two weeks after the order, the police chief & two deputies resigned.
All resignations remain unexplained. 4/
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Two years after being caught using Clearview AI facial recognition software, Calgary police signed contracts for "image recognition" software that scours photos and videos for individuals. 1/
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So in the absence of any official policy, a community festival was told they’d need to pay two cops $437/hour each, with no justification or oversight from the city
I'm just not really seeing a contradition here. The article doesn't actively doubt the cops but it keeps the specific claims tying the suspect directly to the crime, like the quote, within the realm of "police say"
The article takes most of the same precautions the headline does though. I'm not seeing much of a disconnect there. And the purpose is just to not lock in information that hasn't been second-sourced or video-confirmed esp when that information is related to legal responsibility
What's the benefit of explicitly making that leap though? Any reasonable reader is going to make the inference immediately, & imo this isn't a case of normalized road injury where the media & public are so exonerative of drivers that there's real social value in emphasizing driver responsibility
“The point of this messaging isn’t to meaningfully dispute the facts on the ground in Gaza. The point is to foment among Israel’s supporters the idea that no piece of media sympathetic to Palestinians can be trusted.”
(Unless the police are obviously trying to exonerate / downplay their own role ofc, and then the reverse type of adjustment is needed, but coming from the same place of automatic caution around the police press machine)
Again in this case it's pretty harmless / reasonable but I see stories every week where journalists (especially ctv, ironically) just use "suspect" synonymously with "guy who did it" to the point that "suspect" loses its meaning
I'd just rather journalists err toward "these are the limits of what I can confirm" than "this is most likely what happened" when it comes to police press releases, unless the result is outright confusing / incoherent / opaque for reader
Idk i think this is slightly more accurate or at least better-practice. Anything single-sourced from police should do as little pre-convicting for them as possible imo, even though in this case yeah it's like 95+% likely that the arrestee did indeed do what police claim
With Mark Carney in power, the Business Council of Canada has reclaimed its throne in Ottawa—quietly shaping national policy to serve the interests of the country’s corporate elite while sidelining the public, Parliament, and the progressive promises that got the Liberals elected.
(To be clear though I'd want the proper template back in red, with two full stripes, rather than either of the two weird inferior versions they did in the past decade, first with the wider black stripe and then then with no white at all)