Landon Payne's manner of death was ruled "undetermined." Emails between Lane County medical examiner Dr. Daniel Davis and the county’s district attorney indicated Davis’ original intent was to classify Landon Payne's death as “homicide,” the judge wrote.
"Payne, 36, died after he was handcuffed, shot with a stun gun and then held down with deputies’ knees on his back outside the jail, despite his pleas that he could not breathe, according to court documents."
"The judge ruled that the deputies involved are not entitled to qualified immunity at this stage in the case, finding that the deputies “knew or should have known” that placing pressure on Payne’s back or neck could result in asphyxia."
"Griesel “muted his body cam” audio while talking with medics, in violation of Eugene police policy"
Fuck the police. Thank god for this judge, it's incredibly rare to see qualified immunity revoked. AFAICT none of these officers faced any form of discipline for this.
Help end qualified immunity - aaqi.org
8 months ago, some of our elected reps voted to ban TikTok, which is set to come into effect soon. Here's how they voted.
Merkley (D) No, Wyden (D), Yes (BOTH represent Eugene)
Republicans: Bentz: Yes, Chavez-DeRemer: Yes
Democrats: Blumenauer: Yes, Bonamici: No, Hoyle: No, Salinas : Yes (HOYLE represents Eugene)
Not sure which rep is yours? Find out in one click https://myreps.datamade.us/
Biden (D) - Voted Yes by signing the bill/not vetoing
My personal take (please put your own thoughts in the comments):
I don't use TikTok, I think it's trash. The TikTok ban was initially Trump's idea, while he was president, but he couldn't get congress to pass it. But when Biden and dems gained power, they passed it, with a provision set so that the ban doesn't actually come into effect until the start of Trump's turn, where he can cancel it and look like a hero to fans of TikTok and free speech more generally. The democrats handed Trump an absolute win on this for no good reason.
The TikTok ban is one of the biggest attacks on free
Want to actually lower rent in Eugene? Here's how.
Rent in Eugene is high for one simple reason: it's a highly desirable place to live and the people who want to live here are all competing to rent the same units. There is more demand than supply, by a lot. Period. We have under-built for decades despite consistent net migration into our city. Landlords can charge the rent they do because somebody will pay it. The only way to get lower average rents is to reverse migration into Eugene or increase the housing supply.
Why have we under-built for decades? Because city council is an elected position. Homeowners vote, tenants tend to not vote. And to make this worse, homeowners benefit from this supply & demand mismatch because it causes their property values to go up. Politicians don't listen to blocks of voters who don't vote. Eugene homeowners, the neighborhood associations, etc have all lobbied successfully for "single family only" zoning and kept development out. City Council members also tend to be homeowners
Overview of Eugene Restaurants offering Meal Plans
If you're like me, you loathe doing meal prep every week and often end up making food choices that are bad for your health or expensive because you once again neglected to keep your stash of fridge food going. And so maybe you have come to the conclusion it would be better to pay somebody else to do the prep so you always have tasty meals ready for you. I did some research on local places that do this, sharing this in hopes that somebody else finds it useful. If anybody has experience with these places or other places they suggest, I'd love to hear about them.
Prices shown are approximate. Note that I am using "serving" like the USDA uses it. A chipotle burrito, for reference, is around two "servings".
Pickup weekly (Wed) or get free delivery (Thurs), “home-cooked meal” vibe but still very professional. Minimum order of one meal (two servings). Great vegetarian
Val Hoyle votes against bill which would withhold funds from colleges if they allow "anti-semitic" speech on campus. Democrats and Republicans alike have criticized the bill for being over-broad and s
Bill name: Antisemitic Awareness Act
Current status: Passed house, awaiting vote in Senate
Good explainer by US news https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-05-07/explainer-the-controversy-surrounding-the-antisemitism-bill
Article about 700 Jewish professors who opposed the bill https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4651826-jewish-professors-biden-antisemitism-legislation/
ACLU statement against bill: https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-urges-congress-to-oppose-anti-semitism-awareness-act
Vote tally: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024172
If you feel passionately about this bill, contact Eugene's senators and Joe Biden who will have the final say if it passes the senate:
Jeff Merkeley (202) 224-3753
Ron Wyden (202) 224-5244
Joe Biden (202) 456-1111
Thank you Rep Hoyle (D-OR) for voting against the TikTok Ban
Got this response when I emailed her about it. I have not been a fan of all of her votes, but I appreciate this one. Most of OR's reps voted for this bill https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202486
Thank you for contacting me about H.R. 7521, the so-called “Protecting Americans from Foreign adversaries Act.” I appreciate hearing from you.
On Wednesday, March 13, I voted in opposition to H.R. 7521. This bill would force the sale of the social media application TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is based in China.
Let me be clear: I share the national security concerns of many that the Chinese government is collecting Americans’ personal data via TikTok. However, I believe H.R. 7521 is an inadequate proposal that unconstitutionally singles out a specific company, setting a dangerous precedent. Additionally, by restricting access to a social media application, I believe this bill threatens Americans’ constitutional rights to f
New ballot initiative to require a public vote before any new tolls are added
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11365407
People are collecting signatures for a ballot initiative that would require all new tolls on state highways to go to a public vote before being implemented. They need 200,000 signatures to get this on the ballot. From there, people can vote as to whether they want this new rule or not. Polls are a regressive tax, like sales tax, that impacts low-income and working class people the most.
General info: https://votebeforetolls.org/ To add your name (requires a printer and mailing a letter) https://votebeforetolls.org/ip4-esheet-packet-2023-08.pdf
Oregon (Hillsboro) Man Sentenced to Prison on Felony and Misdemeanor Charges Related to Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
WASHINGTON – An Oregon man was sentenced to prison today after he was previously convicted of eight charges as a result of his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the ele...
The Billionaires Tax Is Back - Democratic Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has a plan to make the ultrarich pay.
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has a plan to make the ultrarich pay.
"The legislation [introduced by Wyden] targets a practice known as “buy, borrow, die” that billionaires use to avoid paying income taxes: A billionaire buys assets that appreciate in value, borrows against those assets’ increasing and untaxed value, and then passes on the assets to beneficiaries when they die, without paying taxes. Wyden’s legislation would require people with more than $1 billion in assets to pay capital gains taxes on the appreciation of value in these assets—such as real estate, stocks, or collectibles—regardless of whether they are sold."
Leaving lemmy.world if it doesn't defederate from threads. Fuck Meta.
Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.
In favor of defederation. If I start seeing garbage from threads in my feed, I'm switching instances. I don't want Meta pushing their divisive, hateful, misinformation all up in my feeds. Meta will kill fedi. We don't need them.
Sen Ron Wyden (D-OR) Pushes DoJ for further transparency on govt use of smartphone notifications to spy on users
Been generally happy with this guy, he's got a long and great track record of defending people's right to privacy.
Where does the money from your Tillamook ice cream go? To a lot of Republican candidates, apparently
All of this spending is since 2020.
In the last election for Governor, they gave $10,000 to Friends of Tina Kotek but also gave a combined $85,000 to Betsy Johnson (widely acknowledged as a spoiler to help Christine Drazan) and Christine Drazan.
Here's that breakdown:
In fact, if you look at any local R race, Tillamook likely donated to them. Their donation list is basically a "who's who" of OR republican candidates. Here's a few more donations:
One of their