I’m not guilty, and they’re not gonna make me believe I’m guilty. – Brandy Moore
Some light enters the defective brain of a moral imbecile:
Leake County, Mississippi…District Attorney Steven Kilgore…[has] for years deployed patently frivolous criminal charges in an attempt to [force] drug-using mothers [into] the help he thought they needed, whether they wanted it or not…[the] legal ordeal…[of one of his victims wa]s detailed in a Mississippi Today story…and…remarkabl[y], Kilgore, who seems to have previously overlooked the human consequences of treating mothers as criminals based on hospital drug tests, had an awakening of his own as a result…”I’ve reevaluated our stance on the topic and have decided not to handle these cases anymore,” Kilgore [said]…after learning how his decisions had harmed…women, several of whom received stiff prison sentences because they failed to [jump through all the hoops set up by] the…drug court program…including paying hundreds of dollars in fines and fees each month…submitting to home searches and drug tests, and waiving medical privacy…for up to five years…
Moral imbeciles can always be trusted to abuse any power they’re given:
[Psychopathic South Carolina politicians] are renewing their push for a piece of legislation that would allow [psychopathic] prosecutors to charge a woman who got an abortion with homicide…[she] could then be…[condemned to] death…
It’s always nice to see authoritarian fanatics hoist with their own petard:
The head of a Texas school district says the Bible had to be removed from school libraries because of a new state law prohibiting…books…[containing] sexually explicit or vulgar content…even though [cherry-picked] portions of the Bible remain available in the district’s libraries…The [announcement] sparked outrage from local parents [who have never actually read the Bible and cannot comprehend the plain text of a law], with many expressing disbelief at the [100% predictable consequences of a law they want to use only to censor books they dislike]…
Cops keep pissing into the wind, so it’s inevitable some will spray back on them:
In a December 16 Instagram post that received more than 190,000 likes, user Ernest Carter shared a video of a Coca-Cola delivery truck that he claimed was found “full of kids”…and that the video showed police getting the children off the truck. “The same video and false claim have circulated elsewhere on Instagram, [Twitter], Facebook, Threads, TikTok, Bluesky, YouTube, Rumble and Gettr — including in Spanish and French,” AFP reports…In a follow-up video, he said that his initial post about trafficked children was wrong but there were two abandoned kids found on the truck. This was also wrong. The truck and the police depicted were actually outside a mall in Davenport, Iowa, where the local police association was running a toy…drive…
Cops everywhere are moral imbeciles, and those who facilitate their evil are enemies of humanity:
Serbia[n cops] have repeatedly used Cellebrite tools to unlock mobile phones so they could then infect them with potent malware, including the phones of activists and a journalist, according to a new report from…Amnesty International…Amnesty…says it, along with researchers at Google, discovered a vulnerability in a wide spread of Android phones which Cellebrite was exploiting. Qualcomm, the impacted chip manufacturer, has since fixed that vulnerability. And Amnesty says Google has remotely wiped the spyware from other infected devices….Cellebrite is a…[fascist] Israeli company that sells its mobile forensics technology to [anyone who can pay] all over the world…[and] in multiple cases…these arrests or detentions appear to have been orchestrated specifically to infect a device…
Don’t let computers call them, either:
Schools are employing dubious…software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves and sending the cops to their homes [using that excuse] — with [typically] chaotic and traumatic results…the…software…tracks every word [students] type [on school-issued devices and]…unsurprisingly…[often] woefully misinterpret[s] what the students are actually trying to say. A 17-year-old in Neosho, Missouri, for instance, was woken up by the police in the middle of the night…[because] a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker [markets to control-freak educational bureaucrats] as a way to “safeguard students from physical harm”…
Paxton is a dangerous psychopath Texans have empowered to destroy as many human lives as possible:
The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has sued a New York doctor…[named] Megan Carpenter [for] sen[ding] abortion pills to a 20-year-old Texas woman through telemedicine…After the woman sought medical attention for severe bleeding in July, the [abusive sire of the 9-week fetus rooted through her belongings]…and found the abortion pills…Because Carpenter is based in New York, Paxton’s lawsuit will come up against New York’s shield law, which dictates that officials in the state not cooperate with attempts by other states to sue or prosecute providers who send abortion pills to people in states that ban abortion. Seven other states have passed similar shield laws…[which have] helped providers send pills to more than 9,700 people [per month] who live in [wannabe totalitarian] states…
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I don’t remember now, why I happened to jump to the home page and came across this post that I hadn’t yet seen. But I was very curious about the one with the Coke delivery truck and opened up the Reason article, and after a few paragraphs…
If I’d have been taking a drink I’d have done a spit-take. That story is from HOME.
Davenport, IA is one of 5 cities that make up the base of the Quad Cities Area (yeah, the name’s been inaccurate for a long time now but we just deal with it), the community where I’ve lived my entire life. In fact, while I’ve lived on the IL side for a few decades now, I was born in Davenport and lived there through my early childhood.
And sadly, it’s not shock to me that this happened in my metaphoric backyard. It’s illustrative of one of the reasons I haven’t legitimately considered moving back across the river for a very long time. We often walk a fine line here, living in this little pocket of progressivism, nestled within in very conservative farm rural expanses – regardless of what side of the Mighty Mississippi you’re on. But at least on the IL side we have a slightly better state record. Pritzker not only loves to rib on DT, but he solidified abortion access in our state, as soon as it became clear that the SCOTUS changes were a sign of what was to come. He’s not perfect, but I’ll take him over Reynolds any day of the week and twice on Friday the 13th. 🙂