Look at what they’re doing now: Soon after Tyre Nichols’s brutal killing by Memphis police officers in January, the chairman of the city’s civilian review board, James Kirkwood, appealed to the city council to strengthen its oversight of police. “If you slap someone on the wrist for something they’ve done wrong, then covered it up and left it alone, they’re going to do it again,” Kirkwood, a pastor and former police officer, told the council, requesting more money, more staff, and more power to conduct independent investigations. Instead, what little power the board did have may soon vanish, as the Tennessee legislature draws closer to gutting civilian oversight over police in Memphis and other cities in the state.
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We can aim to harmonize with our phones through ritual.
That’s what Trump is sharing with his followers today. Seriously. Here’s more: And then he whined: His cult swallows it all. Does it concern you that these people are allowed to have driver’s licenses and own assault weapons? There are millions of them. It sure concerns me.
Texas has gone to great lengths to prevent DNA testing of crime scene evidence that Reed says could exonerate him.
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Not for the first time, Starmer and Labour claim local elections will affect national policies Keir Starmer has suffered the indignity of corrective action by Twitter after he posted a claim that votes in the local elections next month will affect the NHS. Starmer claimed that voting for Labour would lead to ‘an NHS that […]
The company says it can deduct the cost of its $787 million payout to Dominion over its election lies.
How I came to feel at home in what some call the last wilderness on Earth—Antarctica.
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Inconsistencies among our mental health commissions are hurting the well-being of Australians and making it difficult to achieve necessary reform. read now...If you pay for cable or satellite TV, you’re subsidizing Fox News, whether you watch it or not.
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HOME-STYLE SCRAMBLED EGGS 4 eggs1 tablespoon instant minced onion or 3 tablespoons minced onion¾ teaspoon salt3 tablespoons water¼ cup butter or margarine1 cup diced tomatoes1 cup diced cooked potatoes1 cup diced zucchini or ½ cup chopped green pepper Beat eggs, onion, salt and water. Melt butter in large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir […]
Tester knows what he’s doing. Manchin doesn’t. Maybe Manchin should have kept his mouth shut instead of showboating with Kyrsten Sinema. He might not have found himself in this position: Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia are expected to face among the toughest political environments as the Democratic Party attempts to hold the Senate next year, given that the two incumbents hail from states where President Joe Biden performed poorly against then-President Donald Trump in 2020. But the Montanan is beginning the cycle with a huge popularity advantage, while Manchin remains among the country’s most unpopular politicians — fraught territory in the face of an expected challenge by his state’s popular Republican governor, Jim Justice, according to the Morning Consult’s latest quarterly approval ratings. Surveys conducted between Jan. 1 and March 31 show that 58% of Montana voters approve of Tester’s job performance, making him one of America’s most popular senators.
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DeSantis can’t seem to get Florida officials to endorse him He’s an ass. That’s all there is to it: It was supposed to be RON DeSANTIS’ big day on Capitol Hill. Yet DONALD TRUMP managed to overshadow him from almost 1,000 miles away. In the 24 hours leading up to the Florida governor’s much-anticipated meeting with GOP lawmakers, two members from his own state — Reps. JOHN RUTHERFORD and GREG STEUBE — endorsed Trump. A third Floridian — Rep. BRIAN MAST, who was once considered close with DeSantis — told CNN’s Mel Zanona that he’ll soon follow suit. And a few hours later, in a stone-cold act of political brutality, Rep. LANCE GOODEN (R-Texas) walked out of the DeSantis meeting and declared his support for Trump. “It’s a killer!” said one positively giddy Trump confidant, who was on the phone with Playbook when news of Gooden’s surprise endorsement broke.
Every brain’s white matter is different—and that might hold the key to better treatments.
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One of my friends, Aran, just started playing Disco Elysium, the game my son and I have been playing together for months. It’s a role-playing game set in the run-down neighbourhood of an occupied city in an alternate world. You play a detective for the local police investigating a murder who is in such a … Continue reading The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
On Monday, Penny Wong delivered her much awaited address to the National Press Club. What a disappointment! So many words, and so little substance. One could dismiss the episode as just another case of a minister who’s not up to the task. Unfortunately, the speech points to a deeper ailment – a government oblivious to Continue reading »
The world, we have a problem. It is Houston. America is out of control, and is the main threat to the world’s peace, security and civilizations. America is out of control in its prosecution of war. No nation has loved war more, hot or cold. It has waged war in all but 17 years of Continue reading »
War preparations began with the U.S. Force Posture Agreement providing a gateway for U.S. military build-up in the Northern Territory and giving them unimpeded access to our seaports and air bases. War preparations have continued with huge expenditures on military acquisitions topped with $368 billion on nuclear -powered submarines. Now there are legislative amendments on Continue reading »
In the Csergo case the big question is: does the prosecution have any evidence of a real crime and not just a breach of the ridiculous Reckless Foreign Interference law? How dangerous is it to meet a couple of foreigners and have a private cup of coffee? Can you quickly turn to your phone, do Continue reading »
It helps to apply all the lessons of the past correctly when considering learnings from a recent High Court decision about the use of personal Ministerial intervention powers under the Migration Act It saddens me to have to comment negatively on an article by one of my favourite national commentators. Jack Waterford’s article “The Home Continue reading »
Australian education can learn something from climate change. For a long time, people ignored the truth about the climate. We no longer can because the evidence is clear: there is a looming crisis, and we need big structural solutions to enable widespread change and action. The same can now be said about Australia’s schools. We find ourselves among the countries showing Continue reading »
Why are tens of millions of Christians supporting the expansion of Israel and the oppression of the Palestinians? It’s an important question because the answer has serious consequences for the stability of the Middle East. Ensuring the scene is set for the return of Jesus Christ is a crusade that the Pentecostal, Evangelical and Christian Continue reading »