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The videos and stills show soldiers forcing Palestinian men to parade in their underwear, abusing captives, looting and vandalising homes and even dressing up in women’s clothing they ransacked.

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HRF lawyers and online activists trawl through mountains of images and videos submitted to them online to verify and geolocate each one, check its metadata and verify its chain of custody, from the soldier filming it through to HRF, Abou Jahjah explained.

Where the perpetrator is a dual national, HRF seeks prosecution under the second country’s existing laws on war crimes and in the case of sole Israeli citizens, collate legal files, which are then filed as evidence with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Abou Jahjah has also been personally threatened by Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli, who – alluding to the attacks on Hezbollah’s members’ communication systems in September 2024 – told him to “watch your pager”.

If you want this in novel form, it’s essentially Phillip K Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.

Now, some people say my mind’s blown, I’m coolin’ like a snow cone

On my cell phone I’m paid, G, can’t call me, just page me

Young ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage see

Some say that’s statutory (But I say it’s mandatory)

My story ain’t that complex, two forties and a rolex

Fred and his best friend, Barney Rubble, participated in the Bedrock Wars, where they and other soldiers were deceived by the conqueror, Mordok the Destroyer, into committing genocide against the Tree People and burning down their home to establish Bedrock. Barney and his wife Betty raised the infant sole survivor of the Tree People as their son, Bamm-Bamm. The “Loyal Order of Water Buffalos Lodge” from the original show is instead depicted as a veterans group the two attend to help them deal with the trauma of the ordeal.

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Babylonians had it figured it somewhat out for astronomy purposes about a thousand years before the weird bean hater.

No see - it’s all about who’s doing the thing. Words are all made up anyway, there are just good guys and bad guys.

Remember how “precedent” stopped them from allowing Obama to appoint a new Supreme Court judge as a lame duck, but the same logic didn’t apply to Trump?

Since compiz fusion is long deprecated, I stick to Xmonad with almost no visual changes from the stock install, other than tweaks to make some colors lower contrast.

The best part of BlackkKlansman was that I watched it with two literal billionaires who most assuredly voted for Trump 3 times. I got to feel their reaction to that ending montage. Thank you for the reminder.

Isn’t that true of Salt Lake City and Provo in general? That y’all have a little of what Tulsa and Norman are to Oklahoma? Beacons of sanity in a theocracy?

Do you think this kind of research will get funded?

According to their analysis, the authors found the rates for pressure ulcers, perioperative pulmonary embolus/deep vein thrombosis, and sepsis were high in Black-serving hospitals. There were no significant differences regarding rates of failure to rescue between these hospitals and others.

Notably, the research team found that Black-serving hospitals were slightly more likely than other hospitals to have a “Magnet” designation, which is a recognition bestowed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center to indicate a hospital has demonstrated a high standard of nursing excellence. This indicates that Black patient outcomes remain compromised even at hospitals with strong nursing resources, such as staffing and the work environment.

My mama once told me of a place/With waterfalls and unicorns flying

At least five women I can find have died so far from being denied reproductive health care - I believe almost all of them women of color. Three in Texas and two in Georgia.

It really is about subjugation. And this specific case does tie into the fact that black women in the US frequently do not receive sufficient medical care:

Monica Simpson, executive director of the organization SisterSong, said the first issue with Smith’s case is that she did not receive proper care when she sought help for her headaches.

He screened Birth of a Nation in the White House. That film, along with Gone With the Wind, is responsible for pushing Lost Cause bullshit into popular culture.

Birth of a Nation is what inspired the formation of the Second Klan. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s gang had mostly cleared off by then, the 20’s were a revival.

The Second Klan was massive and mainstream. They fielded charity baseball games. Something like a third of white people in Indiana were members. It was normalized.

People forget - those lynchings we read about? They’d let kids out of school to attend them. They’d take commemorative photographs.

Can you imagine? Living in a world where your teenage son could be brutalized, have his body mutilated, for the “crime” of maybe having whistled at a white woman?

Condemning the violence of the poem without understanding the context misses so much.

It feels wrong - but it looked like Terry Schiavo’s family was responsible for the costs of her care too?

Schiavo’s parents wanted to keep her on life support; her husband didn’t. I wonder if he was expected to pay too.

I imagine hospitals have all kinds of ways of getting people to sign some agreement to be held responsible for all kinds of costs. The entire system is fucked - you don’t know how much you owe until you start getting random bills months later.

The POS at my shitty fast food job would insult you if you clicked on something that was 86’d.

The last line of the article says that the family is responsible for the bills.

When I got told to 86 strawberry milkshakes, didn’t realize that meant I was supposed to put a cap in them.

Literally the fucking Handmaid’s Tale.

By the way, black women in the US are 3.5x more likely to die in childbirth than white women are. How do you think DOGE and RFK Jr’s research priories will impact that?

It’s very selective. They know Bible stories from Sunday school and have been told a few passages.

It’s a really complicated anthology of books written across 1000ish years (earliest being fragmentary bits of poetry preserved in altered context, most of it being 400 BCE on). Tons of it is related to distant political struggles or cultural norms, stuff so hopelessly distant from us and written in hard to understand language (especially with this KJV only-ists.)

Then, you add 2000 years of history, pop culture, and interpretation. It’s a really difficult text and it’s difficult for anyone to understand without getting a lot of support and context. The context is often presented in a misleading way, pick your denomination and flavor of distortion