https://truthout.org/articles/if-the-po ... ree-press/If the Police Can Decide Who Qualifies as a Journalist, There Is No Free Press
Where’s the outcry? Mainstream media have been strangely silent following the arrest of two reporters in North Carolina.
By Eleanor Goldfield , TRUTHOUT
June 1, 2023
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/more-o ... dium=emailMore on my case, the law on misinformation, and why other doctors don't challenge their medical boards
Including the misdirection, sloppiness and impaired memory of Dr. Faust, the part-time ER doctor and pundit
MERYL NASS MD
JUN 1,2033
The fifth day of my board hearing was May 30, 7.5 months after it began and 16.5 months since I was suspended for charges that the board dropped prior to litigation. No one can remember the details from the beginning, and my attorneys and I have to spend countless hours recapping the previous proceedings as we prepare for each new hearing day. The board hired two expert witnesses to opine against me, and now each has been examined and cross examined. None of
The Justice Journal
The monthly newsletter of the
Philadelphia District Attorney's Office
While juvenile justice spending continues to fall, however, it still far surpasses the money spent per youth by the School District of Philadelphia (SDP)—specifically, more than twice what the SDP spends annually. In FY2021, for example, the SDP spent over $30,000 per student compared to over $50,000 spent per system-involved youth. Also concerning, however, are the racial disparities that continue to persist within the system. The analysis found that in FY2019, for instance, 41% of youth aged 10-19 were Black but represented 81% of youth arrests.
Additionally, the rising cost per system-involved youth per fiscal year continues to pose a problem despite the overall decrease in spending. According to the analysis, juvenile justice costs have soared by 36% from FY2017 to FY2021. Residential juvenile justice facilities are the leading drivers of youth justice costs. In FY2019, the cost per youth detained at the Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Services Center alone totaled over $220,000.
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/05 ... 6hjn1me0n/Maine Governor Janet Mills cuts ribbon on redesigned prison at center of dispute with Paul LePage
https://ticklethewire.com/charges-dropp ... ce-driver/Charges Dropped against Michelle Obama’s Secret Service Driver
By Steve Neavling
A Secret Service employee and driver for former First Lady Michelle Obama won’t be tried on charges of criminal harassment and witness intimidation, his attorney told CNN.
Douglas Vines was accused of threatening to blackmail a woman he had been dating after she declined to have sex with him. She told police that Vines threatened to deport her and release nude photos of her that she had not consented to
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/cou ... t-2786902/Charges dropped against alleged conspirator in killing of FBI agent
Carlos Gurry has spent more than three decades behind bars after he was convicted of assisting in the 1990 murder of an FBI agent during a Las Vegas bank robbery.
Copaganda
Alec’s Copaganda Newsletter
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USC Student Selected For FBI Summer TrainingUpper St. Clair High School student Braidyn Recker will get a rare opportunity to participate in an FBI youth leadership program.
https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/the ... dium=emailAlec’s Copaganda Newsletter
COPAGANDA
The Big Deception: Part 3
The biggest lie of all
In Part 1 I described The Big Deception: how common features of news coverage mislead us about the reasons powerful institutions do things. While policies are usually portrayed in the news as good faith attempts by people in power to pursue shared values based on evidence, daily news stories ignore and even obscure most of the actual reasons our world looks the way that it does. The reasons our society looks like it does in its most important respects exist along a longer and more complex causal chain than is typically represented in everyday news. Deceiving people about this complexity leads them to misunderstand how to fight for the changes they want to see in our world.
In Part 2, I examined the most obvious and superficial way the news deceives people about why things happen: by uncritically reporting the stated motivations of powerful people as the actual reasons they do things.
Here in Part 3, I go deeper. I explain why the choice to focus on the intentions of powerful people by reporters is perhaps the biggest deception of all. This focus makes it harder for news consumers to understand the underlying conditions and structural features of our society that determine what choices are available to politicians, which of those options politicians will predictably select, and how entrenched bureaucracy will implement those choices.
1) How might this play out in coverage of a common “public safety” issue?
To see what I mean about the difference between news coverage of the motivations of people in power versus news coverage of a longer causal chain of reasons, let’s take a hypothetical news story and compare different ways of covering it.
https://www.wmur.com/article/students-g ... 3/44058039Students in Goffstown win ice cream party for collecting 'cop cards' from police officers
May 31, 202
https://www.icgov.org/Home/Components/News/News/397/390City of Iowa City
Join the Iowa City Police Department for Coffee with a Cop on ...Coffee with a Cop is a relaxed and informal way to engage with police representatives who serve your community. There are no agendas or speeches; just an...
https://knsiradio.com/2023/06/01/coborn ... cop-house/Coborn’s Donates Ice Cream to COP House
Saint Cloud, MN, USA / KNSI
Jake Judd
https://www.tapinto.net/towns/fair-lawn ... on-june-13Fair Lawn Police Host "Sushi With A Cop" on June 13
https://samuelwalker.net/2012/03/police ... -continue/Police Teen Sex Abuse Cases Continue
* In the Media posted by Samuel Walker
The suicide of a police officer in the small town of Santa Maria, California (north of Santa Barbara) has brought up again the issue of sexual abuse of teenage girls by police officers. The officer took his own life as he was about to be arrested for having sexual relations with a 17 year old girl in a Police Explorers program. The problem of police sexual abuse of teenage girls was first examined in a 2003 report by Sam Walker and Dawn Irlbeck (see the Articles) page of this web site. In response to that problem and other police sexual misonduct, the International Association of Chiefs of Police published a report on Addressing Sexual Offenses and Misconduct by Law Enforcement in 2011 (posted with the 2003 Walker and Irlbeck report). An Associated Press investigative report, the story ran in 235 media across the country, including NPR, CBS News and and Fox News. Read the original AP story: SexAbuseSantaMariaAP Read a small town paper’s story: TeenSexAbuse2012
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/loc ... y-arrested‘Life completely in danger’: Police response questioned after woman with mental problems violently arrested
Incident caught on University Circle Police body cam video
By: Jonathan Walsh
Jun 01, 2023
https://www.heraldnews.com/story/news/c ... 273863007/Fall River cop Michael Pessoa guilty of excessive force. A judge has sent him to jail.
Jo C. Goode
The Herald
Miami cop allegedly beat up cheating boyfriend with help from his pregnant lover
By Ronny Reyes
May 31, 2023
https://nypost.com/2023/05/31/miami-cop ... er-police/Miami cop allegedly beat up cheating boyfriend with help from his pregnant lover
By Ronny Reyes
May 31, 2023
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop ... d-atlanta/ATLANTA POLICE ARREST ORGANIZERS OF BAIL FUND FOR COP CITY PROTESTERS
Part of a brutal crackdown on dissent against the police training facility, the SWAT raid and charges against the protest bail fund are unprecedented.
Natasha Lennard
May 31 2023
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/01/fbi ... australia/FBI REOPENS CASE AROUND JULIAN ASSANGE, DESPITE AUSTRALIAN PRESSURE TO END PROSECUTION
The new reporting from the Sydney Morning Herald comes as Australia is pressing the U.S. to end its attempt to prosecute Assange.
Ryan Grim
June 1 2023
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkagjk/ ... gy-weaponsThe Pentagon Is Spending $1 Billion a Year on ‘Directed Energy Weapons’
Washington is interested in the weapons but worries they'll end up in the 'valley of death' if the Pentagon isn't careful.
By Matthew Gault
June 1, 2023
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9375/ ... op-hackersFTC Orders Ring to Pay $5.8 Million in Refunds For Surveilling Customers, Failing to Stop Hackers
Ring previously allowed any employee to access customer’s private videos and failed to implement basic security mechanisms. Security issues raised by the FTC are ones Motherboard found during a 2019 hacking spree.
By Joseph Cox
May 31, 2023
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bvkj/ ... bulletheadThe Leader of the Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Is Now a MAGA Rapper
Pastor Hyung-Jin “Sean” Moon, the leader of the controversial Rod of Iron Ministries, is now spreading far-right rhetoric via a series of wild low-budget music videos.
By Tess Owen
May 31, 2023
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/guns-in ... ink-again/Nothing Has Been Done Since Uvalde? Think Again!
KLAUS MARRE, DONKEYHOTEY 05/24/23
https://whowhatwhy.org/opinion/washingt ... t-edition/Washington Plays Let’s Make a Deal — Debt Ceiling Edition
KLAUS MARRE 06/01/23
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/01/met ... ks-bribes/Meta Warns That It Will Remove News From Facebook & Instagram In California, Rather Than Pay Buffy Wicks’ Bribes
Failures
from the tax-something,-get-less-of-it dept
Thu, Jun 1st 2023 09:23am - Mike Masnick
We’ve written a few times about California’s “Journalism Protection Act” (CJPA) from state Rep. Buffy Wicks, and many times about the terrible concept
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/31/com ... ular-isps/Community-Owned Broadband Network Again Tops List Of Most Popular ISPs
from the community-broadband-is-good dept
Wed, May 31st 2023 03:31pm - Karl Bode
For two decades, frustrated towns and cities all over the country have responded to telecom monopolies by building their own fiber broadband networks. Data routinely shows that not only do these networks provide faster, better, and cheaper service, the networks are generally more accountable to the public — because they’re directly owned and staffed by locals with a vested interest in the community.
And despite industry lobbyist efforts to paint these networks as some kind of socialist boondoggle hellscape, locally owned community ISPs continue to be extremely popular. Last week, PC Magazine ranked all broadband ISPs, noting that the most popular ISP
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/31/sec ... eft-lawsuiSection 230 Protects Public Records Portal, Says Judge While Tossing Bogus ID Theft Lawsuit
from the government-guys-ask-government-guys-to-protect-government-guys dept
Wed, May 31st 2023 12:05pm - Tim Cushing
Section 230: not just for those irascible tech giants politicians keep grandstanding about. We all may have a love/hate/really hate relationship with various social media services, but Section 230 also protects the little guys. So, while it might be momentarily satisfying to cheer on the latest comeuppance attempt by political opportunists, remember it’s going to be the little guys who get hurt the most.
That’s just one of several lessons that can be learned from this legal victory obtained by OPRAmachine, an online portal for sending Open Public Records Acts (the OPRA in the machine) requests to New Jersey government agencies.
A user of OPRAmachine requested records from the city of North Wildwood. Those records were delivered by the city’s clerk, who failed to redact city employees’ social
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/31/cal ... -tax-bill/California Legislature Bribes Big Media Journalists With Big Tech Money To Support Link Tax Bill
from the link-taxes-are-just-bad dept
Wed, May 31st 2023 09:24am - Mike Masnick
A few months back, we wrote about California Rep. Buffy Wicks’ blatantly corrupt plan to use the California legislature to simply make Google and Facebook hand cash over to news orgs (the same news orgs she needs endorsements from to keep getting elected).
We’ve gone over the basics many times before: link taxes not only don’t make any sense, but they’re actively harmful to the open web. They’re based on a ridiculously confused understanding of basically everything. In short form: if any website does not want to get traffic from Google or Facebook, they have the power to control that
https://whosarat.comReal Life - Real People Largest online database of Police Informants and
Corrupt Police / Agents
https://truthout.org/audio/cop-city-is- ... -we-fight/Cop City Is Only the Beginning, Unless We Fight
“This is a global struggle against fascism,” says Jasmine, an Atlanta orga
https://truthout.org/articles/mccarthy- ... xt-target/McCarthy Warns That Social Security and Medicare Are the GOP’s Next Target
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the debt ceiling agreement is just “the first step” of the GOP’s broader agenda.
By Jake Johnson , COMMONDREAMS
June 1, 2023
https://www.commondreams.org/news/iea-renewable-energyIEA Report Shows Growth of Renewable Energy on Pace to Shatter Records This Year
"Solar and wind are leading the rapid expansion of the new global energy economy," said IEA chief Fatih Birol, who added that "achieving stronger growth means addressing some key challenges."
BRETT WILKINS
Jun 01, 2023
Electricity generated by the sun and wind is set to soar to global record levels this year amid surging solar production and high fuel prices, a report published Thursday by the International Energy Agency forecasts.
The IEA's Renewable Energy Market Update Outlook for 2023 and 2024 notes that "the global energy crisis and policy momentum are driving robust growth in solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power."
Global additions of solar PV and wind are set to increase 107 gigawatts to over 440GW this year, and growth will likely continue next year to reach a total renewable energy
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/vo ... reme-courtThe US Supreme Court Is Coming for Voting Rights—Again
A pending ruling on in Allen v. Milligan could be one of the most damaging yet by the supermajority of John Roberts' right-wing
court.
MICHAEL WALDMAN
Jun 01, 2023
Brennan Center For Justice
is the cruelest month. Today begins the weeks of decisions to be announced by the Supreme Court as its term draws to a close. Once again we will wait to find out how far the six conservative justices will push — and what kind of country we will live in. I discuss the perils of this moment in my new book, The Supermajority, out next Tuesday.
One of the most important rulings will come in a major case on the Voting Rights Act, Allen v. Milligan. It could also be one of the most damaging. That statute was by some measures the most effective civil rights law on the books. And over the past decade, the Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts has demolished it, bit by
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/in ... ics-treatyWe Must Not Allow Industry Lobbyists to Destroy Global PlasticsTreaty
The voices for real solutions to the single-use pollution crisis are being drowned out by the plastic industry’s overwhelming influence and power.
ALEJANDRA WARREN
Jun 01, 2023
The Hill
Cop arrested after ex-girlfriend finds hidden camera in her home, Texas officials say BY MITCHELL WILLETTS JUNE ,2023
Read more at:
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Horrifying moment Idaho cops shoot dead two beloved 'fur babies' after dogs escaped owner's yardHorrifying footage posted to social media shows the moments after police shot dead two dogs on the side of an Idaho highway after they...
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture ... ns-outrageSportskeeda
Cornelius McGee Jr.:15-year-old fatally shot by cop Andrew Bankhead for dating daughter, leaves netizens outragedA 15-year-old teen from Clarksdale, Mississippi, Cornelius McGee Jr., was fatally shot on Monday, May 22, 2023, by a cop, leaving netizens...
https://samuelwalker.net/issues/organiz ... ntability/Organizations: Police Accountability
https://www.opednews.com/articles/FBI-C ... 3-748.htmlOpEdNews Op Eds 1
FBI-Clinton Investigation Impacts Four Presidents
By Lynn Landes