Basic Glitch
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Fucking unacceptable!
14·16 hours agoThis sounds an awful lot like Louisiana…
Relocation begins: Jeff Landry’s administration clears New Orleans homeless encampments
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
It started out as needing to clear everyone out allegedly for security reasons bc of the Bourbon street attacks and the Superbowl, but everyone assumed he was trying to just slap a coat of paint on the city. Then it happened again when there was a big Taylor Swift concert, now it’s like every time “we have company” we should just understand Landry will be rounding up homeless people to make the city more presentable.
People keep saying Newsome is just doing this kind of shit to prove he’s a centrist Democrat but I’m kinda starting to worry it might be a little more sinister than that.
Word of advice for California, be very cautious about allowing any state police or task force to permanently or semi permanently set up in your cities. If it gets proposed push back as loud and hard as you legally can, no matter what you local government might indicate about it.
Homeless sweep ahead of Taylor Swift concert reveals conflict between city, Troop NOLA
Troop NOLA: What we know about the new Louisiana State Police troop in New Orleans
Mayor LaToya Cantrell ‘in alignment’ with Gov. Jeff Landry’s crime plan for New Orleans
And if you can’t stop it from happening make sure your city hammers out even the most obscure details in a contract. If you’re not sure if you need to bother with getting it in writing, you do.
I changed the original headline bc it’s misleading. It makes it sound like the contract was something city council wanted bc they wanted homeless sweeps. The city pushed for a formal contract bc State police were just doing it without any say from the city on how they rounded people up or where they took them.
“You have to be willing to sacrifice your privacy and liberty for the safety of children. Won’t somebody please just think of the children?”
“We can’t fund research or treatment of pediatric brain cancer bc we need more money to keep dumping into this terrible AI investment hole we immediately started digging on January 20th, and continue to keep digging deeper and deeper.”
You know what would get Trump to shut the fuck up? Standing your ground and not bending to his will to prove anything to him.
You don’t need to show you’re tough on crime to get him to back off. If he’s going to attempt to invade again it’s not going to make a bit of fucking difference how much California man power you have on the streets via CHP. He’s going to do it anyway.
I feel like Newsome knows this so why the fuck is he doing this tough on crime act?
8·2 days agoOnce they’ve dismantled all progress made towards equality, and they control all the resources again.
People think this is a new fight, but it’s really the same one that we’ve been fighting forever. We just got too comfortable, and thought we couldn’t lose so much progress so quickly.
“we’ve come to realize that people knowing stuff is a real problem for our agenda.”
“The president’s statement is proof"
This is how you know when somebody is either lying or legitimately has no idea what they’re talking about.
Seriously, I’m glad the experts are stepping in to say “I’m not so sure about this.”
Definitely but quality of life is tied to healthcare, and in the U.S. access to healthcare is sadly tied to wealth.
Does it have something to do with wealth inequality and quality of life being so inextricable from personal wealth? That would be my guess, but I don’t know for sure bc paywall… Oh well.
Shit, that sucks. Sorry, hope you can find somewhere. Might be worth a road trip to rural Pennsylvania.
That’s one of the very few advantages of living in a red state. Most resources are scarce, but I’ve never had vaccines run out bc sadly a large portion of the state just flat out refuses to be vaccinated.
This year, however, the Department of Health and Human Services led by vaccine skeptic Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has in effect delayed the rollout of this fall’s COVID shot.
“Updated COVID-19 vaccines have been delayed this year due to federal policy changes, and we are awaiting [Food and Drug Administration] licensure of this season’s products,” the L.A. County Department of Public Health said in a statement to The Times. “This means availability in September may be later than what people experienced last fall.”
Chin-Hong said that the timing of the vaccine rollout is in such flux and he recommends anyone at risk for severe complications from COVID who hasn’t been vaccinated in more than a year to get inoculated now.
"If they haven’t gotten it in a year, just go ahead, maybe, get it now,” Chin-Hong said. “Because also, the vaccine that’s being proposed [for this fall] is relatively the same formula as last year. … It’s less important to wait.”
You should still be able to get the older version (as of now) at retail pharmacies if you can’t get it through your doctor
Erase & Rewind: The Politics of Nostalgia & its Ethical Implications
By politicizing nostalgia, politicians sow seeds of fantasy among their citizens—visions that may never reach the hoped-for fruition.
A conventional starting point is the derivation of the English word “nostalgia” from Greek words nos-tos meaning “return” and algos “pain.” Viewed in the modern-day context, it becomes a metaphorical “longing for a home that no longer exists” or, worse yet, one that never even existed. Sociologists Georg Stauth and Bryan S. Turner, in their work Nietzsche’s Dance, define nostalgia as a longing for a “golden age of heroic virtue, moral coherence, and ethical certainty—a time when there was no disparity between virtue and action, words and reality, or function and being.” The acute danger of this sentiment is that it can confuse and conflate one’s actual home with an imaginary one, thus creating a phantom of a past.
1·6 days agoI could see giving the assessment to act as something like a screener for post partum anxiety/depression risk.
I have no idea if that was the reasoning, but even then it seems like the way to move forward when you know someone is at risk, is to offer inpatient or outpatient resources. Then continue to follow up with more screeners. Just taking a newborn baby away is bad for both the mother and child’s physical and mental health.
I feel so much anger just thinking about her situation, and all the maternal instincts that you feel leading up to and after giving birth. That sounds like a nightmare.
Brønlund told the Guardian: “I didn’t want to go into labour because I knew what would happen afterwards. I would keep my baby nearby me when she was in my stomach, that was the closest I would be with her. It was a very rough and horrible time.”
She said her first meeting with her daughter, earlier this week, was cut short early because the baby was believed to be overtired and overstimulated.
“My heart broke when she [the supervisor] stopped the time. I was so sad, I cried out to the car and in the car. It was so fast that we had to leave,” she said, through tears. “My heart is so broken, I don’t know what to do without her.”
Holy fuck, well if you weren’t traumatized before you are now, and we made sure trauma has a head start to continue on to the next generation.
3·6 days agoI know! It was so carefully hidden then he turns and bam! Surprise rat tail.
I think there might be some mystical powers in the bleached mullet ends of his band mate as well.
My first thought too, who tf thinks its a good idea to remove a newborn from their mother for something like that??
The most critical period for skin to skin contact: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/12578-kangaroo-care
Brønlund was told that her baby was removed because of the trauma she had suffered at the hands of her adoptive father, who is in prison for sexually abusing her. The municipality told her she was “not Greenlandic enough” for the new law banning the tests to apply, despite her being born in Greenland of Greenlandic parents.
What the actual fuck? I wasn’t understanding this… Still not sure if I am bc it seems so incomprehensible.
They took her newborn baby bc she (the mother) was a victim of sexual abuse? Wtf is the logic behind that?
That’s why I say he’s a hypocrite.
I posted about Newsom calling him out about this a little over a week ago.
But I am growing very suspicious of Newsom. In the last few days he has made some calls that seem to be taken directly from the Louisiana authoritarian playbook of Jeff Landry.
I actually just wrote something about this yesterday. As Newsom pushes for greater state control, California cities should be cautious
3 months ago I wrote this post on my old lemm.ee account: Blue cities in Red states being used to test authoritarian take over
Cities in California (and cities in every state) should be very cautious about allowing increased state control within their cities.
And yeah, technically Shreveport is in Johnson’s district, but it’s also a majority black democratic city, and the way the Louisiana districts are drawn is wonky as fuck (big shocker right?)
Militarizing democratically controlled cities like Shreveport would be a big victory for people like Johnson and Landry. If they do it to Shreveport they will definitely be doing it to New Orleans and probably Baton Rouge as well.
We should be demanding national guard leave DC. We should not be normalizing more military control of U.S. cities. Doing so is helping their agenda.