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The goal is to protect the public from unrepentant, violent criminals, but critics contend prosecutors have abused the law by targeting Black men. Louisiana’s population is 33% Black, but 79% of those convicted in the state as habitual offenders are Black, according to a report last year from the Public Welfare Foundation, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. Lanieux, who is Black, didn’t fit the profile of a violent repeat offender. He had been convicted for two drug possession felonies in...

Remember how my previous employer denied my WFH request so that I could flee the state of Ohio to take care of my trans kid while still working for a company I loved? I just heard they did it to someone else today. When you insist people come in to an office a few days a week because you want a "hybrid culture" not a "remote culture" and then tell them to just fuck off when all they want to do is get their kid somewhere safe that makes you an absolutely shitty person. I'm done hiding who i...

the disgusting arrogance of the australian federal police to be told by the privacy commissioner that their use of clearview AI was ***breaking the law*** only for them to jurisdiction shop to find a way to keep using it anyway. really great reporting from @camwilson on this issue *again* seriously where is the rest of the fucking media https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/25/clearview-ai-australian-police-operation-renewed-hope/

People who cheer Pauline Hanson being on booted off TV yet concurrently cheer police occupying public housing blocks only have the capacity to understand racism as a thing individuals perpetrate rather than structures they actively support.

He said none of today's politicians will be alive in 100 years, but younger Australians will have to live in a world that today's politicians leave for them. He said that unless the media holds the political system accountable for its obligation to deliver a better future for our children, that obligation won't be observed. "We used to talk about the critical role played by the 'Fourth Estate'," he said. "It's time that we rebuilt it."

Basically, the Trump-Bondi DOJ argues that ICE should be able to engage in ethnic and linguistic profiling. These are the same folks SO worried about race as a factor in college admissions. Their only consistency: white nationalism. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/07/trump-administration-supreme-court-roving-immigration-raids-los-angeles-00499050

Bikram Lama, 32, was found dead on 7 December last year near the entrance to St James tunnel where he had been sleeping rough. Lama died near a busy thoroughfare on the edge of Sydney’s CBD, but police believe his body lay without detection for up to a week.