Sweet Corm

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Figure I should try to be on here. Might post art, or rave about my ffxiv character. May also weigh in on politics: I am a socialist. Aught else is moral failure. My Game: https://cormorants.itch.io/jockey-real-horsemanship

This is really gross: the MAGA right is coming after the great Eman Abdelhadi as a way of getting at her sibling Abdul El-Sayed. She is a brilliant scholar and principled voice for justice and has nothing to apologize for. Dr. Abdelhadi deserves all of our solidarity.

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Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Mother Jones

"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · yesterday

This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...