In Secretive Court Hearing, NYPD Cops Who Raped Brooklyn Teen in Custody Get No Jail Time
Two NYPD cops coerced Anna Chambers into sex in exchange for her freedom. A judge just gave them no jail time.
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The giant investment firm BlackRock has contributed to the climate crisis by investing in a Brazilian meatpacker, JBS, linked to Amazon deforestation.
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#Compasses to point true #north for first time in 360 years | #Science | The Guardian
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Great Barrier Reef outlook now 'very poor', Australian government review says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/30/great-barrier-reef-outlook-now-very-poor-australian-government-review-says?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Librem_Social #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction
#Amazon #fires show world heading for point of no return, says #UN | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/30/amazon-fires-biodiversity-united-nations
#Nature #Deforestation #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Biodiversity #Brazil #SouthAmerica
There’s No Gay Gene. In Fact, There’s No Anything Gene.
The nation’s press is trying to atone today for the sins of its past: A few years ago a research team conducted a small study that located a few epigenetic markers that seemed to be associated with being gay. Not a single working geneticist—and I say this advisedly—not a single one suggested this was the […]
From Victories to Union Militancy, 5 Reasons for Workers to Celebrate This Labor Day
Labor Day often gets short shrift as a worker’s holiday. Marked primarily by sales on patio furniture and mattresses, the day also has a more muddled history than May Day, which stands for internationalism and solidarity among the working class. Labor Day, by contrast, was declared a federal holiday in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland, fresh off his administration’s violent suppression of the Pullman railroad strike.
Andrew Romanoff said the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee pressured a number of firms not to work with his Senate campaign.
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Trump Administration’s Court-Packing Scheme Fills Immigration Appeals Board With Hardliners
In his first six years as an immigration judge in New York and Atlanta, from 1993 to 1999, William Cassidy rejected more asylum-seekers than any judge in the nation. A few years ago, Earle Wilson overtook Cassidy as the harshest asylum judge on the Atlanta court, which has long been considered one of the toughest immigration […]
Tropical Storm Dorian skirted Puerto Rico’s western corner yesterday, before heading north towards Florida, where it is expected to develop into a Category 3 hurricane. While the storm spared Puerto Rico of much damage, it raised attention to how the island is still in recovery mode—and ill-equipped for another natural disaster. Hurricane Irma struck Puerto […]
For years, Reddit had hesitated to take action against one of its most prominent toxic communities: r/The_Donald, which in addition to being the site’s fan club for supporters of President Trump, has become a noxious hotbed of hate speech and bigotry. That finally changed on June 26 when Reddit “quarantined” r/The_Donald message board, making it […]
Food-waste study reveals trends behind discarded items
Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect they will, food waste that is likely driven in part by ambiguous date labels on packages, a new study has found.
How Ohio’s Chamber of Commerce Killed an Anti-Pollution Bill of Rights
Emails reveal that the Ohio Chamber of Commerce enlisted a key Republican lawmaker in a successful effort to nullify the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
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From Philadelphia to Oregon, the Insurgency Is Making Waves in Municipal Elections
So far this year, Working Families Party-backed candidates were elected into more than 50 offices at the local and municipal levels in nine states.
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Lucas' #etnaviv softpin work landed in #linux-next :
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=ae4530062620561d24683b1bd3438b8397693429
This paves the way for gc7000 mainline mesa GPU support: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/1559
Great news for the #librem5 !
miniDebConf19 in Vaumarcus (CH), registration is open! https://blog.odyx.org/2019/08/minidebconf19-vaumarcus-oct-25-27-2019-registration-is-open/
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
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