Cervantes Xavier 🇨🇦

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Anchorage Police Dept lowest use-of-force year on record: still 3x Portland's rate. Still 2.5x Seattle's. In a city with lower crime than both. Alaska Native people are 7% of Anchorage's population. They're 45% of everyone APD put hands on. The audit dropped. Read it. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

City releases sweeping outside audit of use of force by Anchorage police

The audit, which covered a 4 1/2-year period, found the department’s tally of use-of-force incidents was higher than Seattle, Portland or New Orleans.

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I've been doing a quarterly AMA with my friend Peter, where we answer people's style-related questions. In this latest episode, we talk about fabrics for custom tailoring, shoes for various activities, and how to find your style without looking like you're in a costume. pod.link/blamo/episod...

Below is what appears to be a threat to our PM Carney. Trump sending a message to Canadians that he wants Canada to fail at every level. FFS Canadians need to take this seriously. The Orange demented freak SOB will not back off. Boycott every single thing US. Stay the fuck away from the US.

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shot in the dark here: (1) does anyone here still remember the john laroquette show, and (2) that they had an episode where he met an old friend who had transitioned to a woman and it was handled with (iirc) humanity and sensitivity?

A ninth(!) MLA has quit the BC Conservative caucus – the second today. Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA Scott McInnis: “What I can no longer support are the direction, judgment, and decisions of Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s leadership.”

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NEW: Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be deported rather than wait in detention centers.

These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained

Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...

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I think it's worth noting that nothing is being done now. Johnson has kept congress home for most of the year over the Epstien files. The two year average is 284 stand alone bills passed. This congress has passed 38....they hold all 3 branches. These are not serious people.

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