Mangione’s attorneys also sought to suppress statements he made to authorities in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he was arrested after a five-day manhunt and where “officers failed to provide him with Miranda warnings,” according Thursday's court filing.
It's crazy how everyone has known for fucking decades that cops are idiots who only "solve" cases thru presumed innocence and planting evidence to support it...
Yet neither of our two political parties have ever tried to fix it.
Maybe they shouldn't have let a fascist use their brand image to appear similar to the working class?
They've had a fucking decade to distance themselves from trump, but they loved having him serve their trash in the White House...
Now they're shocked people don't like fascists?
We do not know if he is taking his meds and his behavior frequently suggests he is not,” Jentleson wrote, adding that “Fetterman was avoiding the recommended regular checkups with his doctors. He also wrote that the senator was driving his car recklessly, often speeding while texting, making FaceTime calls, and reading entire news articles behind the wheel.
One month after the letter, Fetterman got into a car accident, driving home from the airport after an early morning flight well over the 70-mph speed limit on I-70. His wife in the back seat suffered a pulmonary contusion and spinal fractures, and Fetterman told one of his staffers that he had fallen asleep while driving.
In an incident earlier this year, Fetterman was filmed on a flight to Pittsburgh arguing with the pilot about wearing his seat belt correctly.
“If you want to go to Pittsburgh, it’s simple,” the pilot told him. “You’re going to have to follow our instructions or be asked to get off the airplane.”
His brain is fucked...
John Fetterman Seems Like a Risk to Himself and Everyone Around Him
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Money is most important when voters dislike both candidates.
It doesn't not take a billion dollars to run a presidential campaign, I'd argue 90% of that is a complete waste.
It's very cheap to run a winning campaign for a charismatic candidate with popular policy positions.
It is very very expensive to get Dem voters to vote for some one significantly more conservative than they are.
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This ain't new and it ain't unique to America:
The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had — he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.
The difference is some of us have been talking about it for decades...
Some just figured it out in the last year, but are often beligerently resist to the people who saw it way before them, and completely refuse to believe there may be other things they haven't noticed yet.
If people think any of what is happening right now is new or unique, they need to spend a lot more time reading (actual books too) and less time typing.
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this would’ve been considered crazy old for a president
It still is...
Neoliberals tried to use trump to lower the bar so that historically unpopular candidates no one wanted like Hillary, Biden, and Harris had a slim shit of winning.
But it obviously doesn't work well.
In a fair primary, no geriatric is going to make it to the general. Voters from neither party honestly want a president that old, but because both of the only two parties are ok with it, it didn't matter what voters want.
With what money?
They're destroying the American consumer class, people won't be able to buy shit, and Americans hate not being able to buy shit
...
Therapists are used to strange demands from clients, if you said you were uncomfortable with electronic notes, any decent one would be holding a notebook and pen before you finished that sentence.
Which makes me think you haven't mentioned any concerns to your therapist, or you need to find a new one
It's named after this sub...
100 to 1 their real account can be found in the mod list as someone recently bannex
but most MAGAs I know personally believe that Fox news betrayed Trump, and they’ve switched to watching Newsmax.
Rupert Murdoch stepped down a few years ago, and his son that took over literally had TP with Trump's face on it.
So they're not really wrong with this one.
Rupert stepped down in 2023, the next generation is so liberal that Rupert is trying to changed his trust/will to give it all to the one furtherest of n the right. Lachlan who is currently running shit.
Lachlan still doesn't like trump though:
Although it has been assumed that Lachlan is more conservative than his siblings, it was reported that he did not support Trump's presidency, and kept toilet paper printed with his face in his house during the 2016 campaign. However, he has backed his father's moves in business, including defending Tucker Carlson when he was on the rise.[4]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Murdoch#Political_views
That's two separate thoughts tho, trump and his supporters can't keep two thoughts in their head at once.
If they pre-bpught to avoid tariffs (unlikely due to little warning) then that's been propping up this quarter. So it would have been worse and will make the transition even worse.
There's no way out of this, and no rational people to save anything. Shits going to be really bad, the silver lining is it's going to get unignorably bad so historically that leads to a FDR type government that actually fixes shit
What do they have to do with voting members of the DNC?
It feels like you don't really understand the American political system
The voting members?
It's been a slow shift back to the left for a while.
I feel like you're talking about elected politicians, they're not "the party"
It's not blind optimism.
Read up on Ken Martin and how he ran the Minnesota State party, it will make you a hell of a lot more confident in the future of the party and the country as a whole.
Especially if you're aware of how bad the DNC has been for decades and that the "victory fund" was bankrupting state parties and losing lower seats for a decade. Just stopping that would get us the House and maybe Senate.
We honestly don't need much out of the DNC, Martin isn't perfect (no one is) but it's a very low bar to beat MAGA.
Edit:
There's still some Dem state parties that are shit, so feel free to go after them if you want, but the national party is finally on the people's side again.
The democrat party is complicit
There was a DNC chair election between then and now, and we got the most progressive chair in over 50 years...
I've spent most of my life shitting on Dems but holding my nose because I didn't have another option.
As of February tho. I'm 100% behind the current DNC.
The reason the media didn't talk about that, is the same reason they suddenly became OK criticizing Dems as well
Because billionaires now only control one of our two political parties and they can actually lose the next election. If we keep party unity, we can easily have president AOC in four years
It shouldn’t have taken a 75-year-old man receiving a second cancer diagnosis for the party to see that.
To be clear on the timeline:
And Pelosi and the (prior) DNC supported him thru all three of those steps.
Like, he clearly lied about when he knew, and he was awarded by the (again, not current) party for it.
It should be illegal...
But with alternating between Republicans and neoliberals for 50 years, no one has ever actually put in serious effort to reign in police. Asset seizure is 100% legal and since they're "charging" the money/property there's no presumed innocence.
Biden didn't fix policing, Obama didn't, and under Clinton it got worse in large part due to a bill Biden wrote.
Obviously Republicans have been worse, but the point is shit doesn't ever get better.
We have a good DNC now, that won't block good candidates, but that's a very recent development
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This meant to be a reply to someone else, but something weird is happening
If you abandon the social contract by being hateful or violent to others, you are no longer protected by it.
Pretty much the oldest rule of society and the first one established.
Outlaws are romanticized, but back in the day it was being such a shithead that you no longer had any protection under law.
Someone could rob, beat, and kill you in front of the sheriff and the mayor and nobody would do anything.
If you were going to ignore the rights of others, you would have zero rights. They turned to life's of banditry in the wilderness because that was the only option. But most often they'd starve or be killed first.
The Vermont senator, who has long had a tense relationship with the Democratic Party, suggested in an interview that more progressives should join him in running as independents.
"@ Mentions" circumvent blocks
There's an issue where trolls will "@" people who blocked them because it will still send a notification.
Sometimes it's just people who always do it, so it's likely unintentional.
But it's pretty obvious from a post history glance when they're only doing it with people who never respond to them. And definitely obvious after someone tells them about it
Example:
https://lemmy.world/comment/15711438
Is there anyway to make mention notification abide by the blocklist?
If not should we be reporting harassment to our admins or the admins of the account doing it?
Vest Patches?
So after the last couple years of seeing how protests get treated based on how much larping they're doing, I bought some plates and a carrier.
I'm fully aware the only thing it does is stop me from dying immediately from a body shot, and only covers like 10% of me.
But the only reason I got it was because cops have been showing for decades they won't start violence against protesters when even just a few are plated up and holding a rifle. And I got a feeling there's gonna be some protests again.
My issue is I look like a nazi's wet dream even when I'm not geared up, and it's not like someone can read a Tshirt under a plate carrier.
I wanted to grab some patches from SRA, but all they sell is stickers, and Etsy just has vague slogan patches you wouldn't be able to read from five feet away.
I did see some links where the reddit sub had been doing mass patch orders over the years. Is there any community not on the big social media doing the same?
Or any other methods to show you'
Good Work: Nvestigating Nvidia’s world domination
Somewhat satire, somewhat actual investigation.
Pretty much same vibes as the Daily Show
It’s easier to become a resident and reap the benefits in South Dakota than in perhaps any other state.
A report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex.
President Biden: My Legacy Is "I Kept My Word," "When I Said I Was Going To Do Something, I Did"
In sabotaging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of the Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy.
The president commuted the sentences of 1,499 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic.
NBC News interviewed the four men competing to be the next head of the Democratic Party about their plans to move beyond the losses of the last election.
Josh Johnson: Drake is suing everyone BUT Kendrick
Stand up from Daily Show correspondent Josh Johnson.
Vacancies in the Federal Judiciary
118th Congress
Last updated on12/02/2024
Total Vacancies:42
Total Nominees Pending:12
Israel fires on southern Lebanon after claiming ceasefire violation
Israel's military said on Thursday it had detected "suspects" in several areas in southern Lebanon, calling this a violation of a ceasefire with Hezbollah.
Israel's military said on Thursday it had detected "suspects" in several areas in southern Lebanon, calling this a violation of a ceasefire with Hezbollah.
On Thursday morning, Israeli tank fire hit six areas within the border strip, state media said.
The rounds struck Markaba, Wazzani and Kfarchouba, Khiyam, Taybe and the agricultural plains around Marjayoun — all of which lie within two kilometres of the Blue Line demarcating the border between Lebanon and Israel.
The ceasefire was scheduled to take effect from 4am local time on Wednesday.
Requesting /fantheories
Can I mod /fantheories?
The only mod created it a year ago, made a single post there, and hasn't made a comment/post anywhere in over four months.
They mod about 50 communities, all of them seem to be ghost towns the account was just squatting on.
So not sure if you just want to delete those so when someone wants to create it they can.
Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was also arrested on suspicion of leaving white powder on political signs in Ahwatukee, according to Tempe police.
The reason it fits this sub, is they already knew this guy was an extremist committing crimes 2 years, long before he started shooting up Dem offices.
The cops just felt it wasnt in the interest of their personal safety to stop him, which lead to him escalating his crimes over the years.
Despite evidence pointing to Kelly as the perpetrator, Weich said law enforcement did not move to arrest him. Weich said that Phoenix police feared that approaching Kelly would pose a threat to their safety. A prosecutor out of the Phoenix City Attorney’s Office declined to pursue charges, Weich said.
Which lead to this:
Kelly was arrested about 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday during a traffic stop. Kelly's attorney Squires said his vehicle was stopped using a grappler that hooked the car from behind. "That is quite shocking to a person who's never had any previous allegations at all," Squires said in court.
Squires said in court the car was then surrounded by more than a dozen law enforcement personnel.
