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Judicial reconsideration

dimanche 3 mars 2024 à 11:16

Louisiana's governor wants to put a end to judicial reconsideration of convictions based k evidence of illegality in the trial.

Also, to make parole much harder for people that some members of a parole board are prejudiced against -- blacks, typically.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that practice it. But I make exceptions for some articles because I consider them important -- and I label them like this.

(satire) SNAP recipients must balance food on nose

dimanche 3 mars 2024 à 06:46

(satire) *New Law Requires SNAP Recipients To Balance Food On Nose Until Receiving Command To Eat It.*

New Zealand online vape seller vows to ignore Australia’s new import ban

samedi 2 mars 2024 à 22:17

Australia is trying to crack down on the importation of vapes. A foreign seller that ships to Australia is defying the restriction.

Prohibition of addictive dangerous drugs tends to cause various forms of harm.

Which can be worse than the harm caused by the drug itself. However, this prohibition does not criminalize users, so maybe it will avoid the worst harms that prohibition usually causes.

However, a government that can succeed in blocking vapes being shipped in could succeed in blocking mifepristone being shipped in.

Impose Targeted Sanctions and Arms Embargo to Prevent Atrocities

samedi 2 mars 2024 à 22:17

Calling for targeted sanctions and an arms embargo against Israel to make it cease its war crimes.

Retirement Savings Crisis

samedi 2 mars 2024 à 22:16

*Sanders Report Warns Nearly Half of Older Americans "Have No Retirement Savings."*