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Thugs investigating themselves

jeudi 4 janvier 2024 à 21:18

In England, most complaints about the violence of thugs are investigated by the thug department itself. Those investigations generally conclude that the accused thug did not wrong. However, for cases that are reinvestigated independently, 40% of them lead to rejecting that conclusion and finding some degree of wrongdoing.

It seems to e that this calls for moving all such investigations outside of the thug department.

We see a similar problem in the US.

New Spanish pun

jeudi 4 janvier 2024 à 21:18

Monosemia y polisemia.

Indian "journalism"

jeudi 4 janvier 2024 à 21:18

"Journalism" in India has been reduced to constant support for Modi's right-wing party. Channels that don't go along are driven down.

Urgent: Fully fund IRS

jeudi 4 janvier 2024 à 21:18

US citizens: call on Congress to keep making the ultra-wealthy pay their taxes -- by fully funding the IRS.

This is a crucial first step towards making the rich "pay their fair share", but to achieve that requires much more than making them obey existing tax law. We need to increase taxes for the rich: to reduce their ability to shelter wealth from taxes, and higher tax brackets for very high incomes. The highest bracket should be over 90%, as it was in the 40s and 50s.

Since they have accumulated wealth to the point of distorting our justice and democracy, we also need to tax great wealth.

Urgent: WIC nutrition program

jeudi 4 janvier 2024 à 21:18

US citizens: call on Congress to fully fund the WIC supplemental nutrition program.