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@ NOT_RICK @lemmy.world

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My name’s not Rick.

  • TIL pediatricians are being used as a great source of antibodies.

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  • I bet elementary teachers would be good too

  • Hannah Einbinder went hard on Newsom...

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  • Kamala playing to the middle worked out so well two years ago… here goes Gavin taking another stab

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    If the majority of women were this badass, Trump would never be elected in the first place

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  • Yeah the only women this guy knows live in his head

  • Family values

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  • Those flag bearers might as well call themselves the crepes because that is some serious lack of cake.

  • ICE warehouse in Surprise targeted by arsonist days after massive community protests

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  • I welcome him alienating the landed elites

  • ICE warehouse in Surprise targeted by arsonist days after massive community protests

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  • Every one of these moves increases insurance costs and makes landlords less inclined to rent/sell to ICE. Even though the sprinkler system put out the fire, water damage remediation isn’t cheap either.

  • Epstein claims cast shadow over legacy of Northern Ireland peacemakers Clinton and Mitchell

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  • Good people can do bad things and bad people can do good things. You can be reviled that Bill was cozy with a pedo while also being thankful for however he helped bring about an end to the Troubles.

  • Percentage of Passport Ownership

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  • That depends. Do you have a real ID drivers license? Do you plan on traveling abroad any time in the next decade? I assume not if you haven’t in the past 10, but it’s worth asking. It also matters what state you reside in.

  • HERE IT COMES

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  • My slop detector is beeping

  • State of the Union Bingo Card REDUX

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  • THEYRE EATING THE ROWS, THEYRE EATING THE COLUMNS

  • State of the Union Bingo Card REDUX

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  • No free space and six by six?

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  • the bite of 196 rule

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  • Found this context on Reddit; I’m getting the impression that all cops may in fact be bastards…

    "Alistair Mitchell, 61: Lawyer whose calling was knocked into him at a riot" (2009)

    'Private Eye once described Alistair Mitchell as “the only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman — with someone else’s teeth”. His surreal, tortuous saga began on March 31, 1990. The 32-year-old Alistair, then a director of a wholefoods co-operative, had been asked by Alexandra, his girlfriend, to photograph the poll tax riots for a film she was making. Shinning up a steel bus shelter, Alistair duly did so. He leapt off when a policeman struck the shelter with a baton.

    He had been long separated from Alexandra when, at about 6.30pm, Alistair saw a police officer grip a protester by the neck in a chokehold that he had read could prove fatal. “That’s dangerous,” he cried out. “You could kill in eight seconds.”

    In response two police officers pinned Alistair against a nearby shop window, broke his right index finger, and gripped his windpipe. One of them shouted: “In six seconds you’ll be dead.” Unable to move, he fainted.

    To his surprise, Alistair was subsequently charged with assaulting two police officers. According to The Guardian, when he was summoned before a magistrate to give his account, it tallied exactly with those of two eyewitnesses who were working in the shop against which he had been pressed by the police.

    The novelist Maeve Binchy, a family friend, testified that, far from being violent in character, Alistair was “painfully honest” and “gentle”.

    A police officer then displayed bite marks on his left hand, saying that Alistair, “snapping like a dog”, had bitten him. The dental expert who had made a mould of Alistair’s teeth deemed this “highly unlikely”. Speculation followed: could the officer have bitten his own hand?

    Although the question was left unanswered, Alistair was found guilty, fined £250 and sentenced to prison. When a judge upheld Alistair’s sentence at appeal, a second, six-day incarceration followed at HM Prison Wandsworth.

    Unable to sleep in a cell, Alistair found prison “strange and frightening”. Nonetheless, it produced an unexpected consequence: he was asked to assist in founding a group offering legal help to some of the 500 protesters arrested during the poll tax riots, an event by then known as “the Battle of Trafalgar Square”.

    Assisted by the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Alistair helped to form the Trafalgar Square Defendants’ Campaign. He held meetings to collect witness statements, arranged lawyers for defendants, and support for those in prison. Alexandra, meanwhile, logged the television news footage of the day. They developed a system of legal monitoring for use at demonstrations.

    In 1993 the High Court quashed Alistair’s conviction at judicial review. By then, his spare time being consumed by legal matters, Alistair decided to begin a law degree at South Bank (now London South Bank) University. The £40,000 Alistair won in 1997 in a civil action against the police would later pay for his studies for the Bar. As a barrister he initially specialised in family and criminal cases, later expanding into civil, immigration and commercial law. Whatever the lawsuit, the gentle Alistair was always happy to work with police officers.

    More: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/alistair-mitchell-61-lawyer-whose-calling-was-knocked-into-him-at-a-riot-3cc8rmfmq

  • Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as shops warn it's being stolen to order

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  • Stealing them to order? As in someone is requesting they steal them?

  • Cruleative Solution Making

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  • When you’re done saving the world, you may want to get that looked at by a doctor

  • liberule propaganda

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  • Seize the means of broduction

  • With New Policy, DHS Sets Its Sights on Incarcerating Up to 100,000 Refugees

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  • I think they do, since they’ll bill the feds by the head. Not that it makes things any less horrifying

  • Trump Iran airstrikes decision to be guided by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff’s advice

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  • The blind leading the blind is too kind of a characterization

  • Cruleative Solution Making

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  • Huh, I guess so. I’ll never look at those carnival water gun games with the ballon the same again

  • Cruleative Solution Making

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  • In my friend, In

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    Cruleative Solution Making

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What can we do about the increasing problem of these self-deleting bot accounts?

  • Malicious Compliance @lemmy.world
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    Viral Wheelchair Riders in China Highlight Concerns Over E-Bike and Scooter Crackdown

    time.com /6293946/china-guangzhou-electric-wheelchairs-ebikes-scooters/
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    A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb

    arstechnica.com /space/2023/07/a-new-thin-lensed-telescope-design-could-far-surpass-james-webb/