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Foosters

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  1. 2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Just what is wrong with these people?  Honestly, it's incomprehensible.  They are a threat to our very existence as a species.

    They should be lined up against a wall and shot

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    Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies.

    The 920-page blueprint, whose hundreds of authors include former Trump administration officials, would go far beyond past GOP efforts to slash environmental agencies’ budgets or oust “deep state” employees.

    Called Project 2025, it would block the expansion of the electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department’s renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting California’s car pollution standards; and delegate more regulation of polluting industries to Republican state officials.

    If enacted, it could decimate the federal government’s climate work, stymie the transition to clean energy and shift agencies toward nurturing the fossil fuel industry rather than regulating it. It’s designed to be implemented on the first day of a Republican presidency.

    “Project 2025 is not a white paper. We are not tinkering at the edges. We are writing a battle plan, and we are marshaling our forces,” said Paul Dans, director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation, which compiled the plan as a road map for the first 180 days of the next GOP administration. “Never before has the whole conservative movement banded together to systematically prepare to take power day one and deconstruct the administrative state.”

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/far-right-climate-plans-00107498

  3. 16 hours ago, Viper said:

    The first competition between a Ukrainian athlete and a “neutral” russian athlete since the start of the full scale war went exactly as you’d imagine.

     

    Ukraine’s Olha Kharlan defeated “neutral” Anna Smirnova in fencing. Despite Kharlan clarifying before the match that she wouldn’t do the handshake afterwards, the “neutral” russian attempted it anyway and then feigned confusion and hurt when she was rejected. The defeated Smirnova then staged a protest, refusing to leave until Kharlan was disqualified and she was declared winner instead.(Fortunately, she was ignored.)

     

    Absolutely no decency or sense of perspective amidst their country’s ongoing imperial genocide. Turns out russians can protest though.

     

    Not understanding how this is the "first competition" between a Ukranian athlete and a Russian. There's been several high profile incidents in Women's tennis between Ukranian and Russian competitors.

  4. 17 hours ago, sidis said:

    this one will definitely make you feel a little bit better about humanity and a good reminder that there are still some awesome people out there working together for worthwhile stuff who don't suck.

    My wife and I watched it the other night. I had this same thought. Definitely worth a watch.

  5. We should take the banner into the 21st century. No more catchy slogans or demands being pulled behind planes. Instead, how about a giant QR code flown right over the pool party with a link to the many instances of institutionalized racism at aggy still occurring to this day.

    Come on. I know for a fact many of you like blowing money on frivolous shit

  6. 3 minutes ago, troph said:

    PNW is highly dependent on ocean circulation for its mild temps.

    Right. But doesn't the "Pacific" part make a difference when discussing the collapse of the Atlantic current? Serious question. Yes, I know its all just one large body of water.

  7. Anyone have thoughts on some spots in the world that will provide a tolerable habitat when the AMOC collapses sometime in the next 5-70 years?

    I was thinking Pacific Northwest? As long as you're far enough away from the forest fires, I guess.

  8. 13 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

    UT alumni of a certain age aren't exactly peaches.  I'm sure most here remember the emails during the Eyes of Texas debacle.   But aggies do seem to take it to an entirely different level.

    I will echo what others have stated here, that the current student body doesn't really look or act like what most of us think of when we think of mouth-breathing, sheep-humping idiots with jizz jars, speech impediments, and lift kits on their pickups.  Times have changed, even though the alumni and admin haven't.

    Not restricted to the olds, either. My brother's close group of UT friends (all under 40) have gone off the far-right deep end. Most grew up with wealth, went to private schools, etc. Most are pretty successful now. One doctor, couple of finance bros, a few attorneys. They should know better. But the screen shots I get from the text threads are something else. You'd think they were boomers drooling over their facebook accounts and forwarding SPAM emails. Really crazy stuff. 

  9. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-23/video-trans-man-beaten-la-county-sheriff-deputy

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    Emmett Brock thought he was dying, and his mind raced. This isn’t supposed to happen to me. This doesn’t happen this way. I can’t die like this.

    He tasted the blood inside his mouth. He felt the fists land on his head. And he heard the shouts of the sheriff’s deputy on top of him, pressing him into the pavement of the 7-Eleven parking lot.

    Three minutes later, the 23-year-old teacher sat in the back of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department cruiser not even knowing, he said, why the deputy had stopped him.

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    Before his run-in with the deputy, Brock already was having a miserable day. He said he’d left his high school teaching job early after a co-worker had harassed him for being transgender. It wasn’t the first time, and he was getting fed up.

    A few blocks from the school, Brock spotted a deputy who appeared to be having a heated conversation with a woman on the side of the road. As he drove by, Brock threw up his middle finger. He didn’t even think the deputy would see it, he said.

    A few seconds later, he spotted a patrol cruiser following close behind him. It made Brock uneasy. He turned down one side street and then another, trying to figure out whether the cruiser was following him or just going in the same direction. The deputy didn’t turn on his lights or siren, but made every turn Brock did.

    Growing unnerved, he called 911.

    “Hi, um, I’m being followed by a police car,” he said in a recording shared with The Times. He told the dispatcher that the car was copying his turns, but not pulling him over. He said he wanted to make sure it was a “real police car” and that he wasn’t being stalked.

    The two kept talking, and eventually the dispatcher asked: “What is it that you want us to do? If he hasn’t pulled you over, he hasn’t pulled you over.”

    Two minutes into the call, Brock cursed and hung up. He kept driving, pulling up outside the 7-Eleven on Mills Avenue in Whittier, planning to buy a Coke before heading to a therapy appointment.

    The cruiser pulled in behind him, and the store’s surveillance camera captured what followed. The deputy’s body-worn camera captured the sound.

    As Brock stepped out of his car, Deputy Joseph Benza approached and told him: “I just stopped you,” offering no explanation as to why.

    Confused, Brock replied, “No, you didn’t.”

    “Yeah, I did,” the deputy said. Then he grabbed Brock’s arm and forced him to the ground.

    Still unsure what he’d done, Brock said, he began to scream. “What — what are you doing? Oh, my god. What the f— is happening?”

    For the next three minutes, Brock struggled and screamed as the deputy held him down and punched him in the head.

    “You’re going to kill me,” Brock told him. “You’re going to f–-ing kill me. Help! Help! Help! I’m not resisting!”

    His mind raced, turning over thoughts of all the things he’d never get to do in life: Finish grad school. Be a father. Become a professor.

    “Help! Help! Help! I’m not resisting!”

    At one point, the deputy ordered him to put his arms behind his back — but Brock‘s arms were already pinned under his chest.

    “Even when I did get them out the way he wanted, he continued to punch me,” Brock told The Times. “He just kept saying, ‘Stop resisting, stop resisting.’ I didn’t understand why he was shouting that because I wasn’t resisting.”

    According to the Sheriff’s Department, two witnesses saw Brock exit his car and struggle with the deputy. One of those witnesses claimed that Brock punched the deputy, which camera footage does not show and the deputy did not allege.

    After Brock was in handcuffs, the deputy put him into the back seat of his cruiser. At that point, Brock said, he was trying to make sense of what had happened and why he was on the deputy’s radar in the first place.

    It was only later that he learned from paperwork he was given: The deputy said he’d spotted an air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror, supposedly obstructing the view of the road from Brock’s black Honda Civic.

    If Benza saw Brock flip him off, he made no mention of it in his report. According to the deputy’s version of events, the force was justified.

    “It appeared he was about to walk away from the car and myself,” Benza wrote as part of an 11-page incident report. “His rejection of my traffic detention and his apparent intent to distance himself from his vehicle further raise safety concerns. I know from my training and experience that those who possess contraband items inside vehicles commonly attempt to disassociate themselves from their vehicles when law enforcement is present.”

    Though he admitted grabbing Brock’s arm, he said that Brock pulled away and “cocked his right hand back into a fist, indicative of someone about to throw a punch.”

    Deciding Brock was “at the onset of assaulting me,” Benza said he tackled him to the ground, adding that Brock had “continuously tried to bite” him. Benza then punched him “approximately eight times in rapid succession.”

    “My punches had their intended effect,” he added.

    He made no mention of Brock’s cries for help, or that he repeatedly told the deputy that he couldn’t breathe and wasn’t resisting. Instead, Benza’s report noted that Brock “attempted to rip my skin from my hand,” which he said “could result in permanent disfigurement.”

    A paramedic’s report from the scene did not mention any bite marks. And when Benza went to the hospital later, the emergency room report noted that he’d told them the bite hadn’t broken the skin and there was no bleeding. A physician’s assistant wrote that there were “no bite marks at this time.”

    Medical records do show that Benza fractured his right hand in a “punching injury.”

    In interviews with The Times, Brock denied biting the deputy, and his lawyer said it would have been nearly impossible.

    “There is no moment that Emmett is not shouting or screaming,” Beck said. “And you can’t talk when your teeth are clamped onto someone’s hand.”

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    Deputies took Brock to Coast Plaza Hospital, where he was treated for scrapes, bruises and a concussion. Once he was medically cleared, deputies took him to the station for booking. There, staff took his mug shot and fingerprints. They took his shoes and directed him to take off any jewelry. He struggled to pull his rings off over his swollen knuckles.

    By that point, he said, the pain was beginning to set in. “My head was just exploding. I felt like I got hit by a truck.”

    It wasn’t long before authorities asked Brock for a statement, during which he explained that he is transgender.

    “So you’re a girl?” he said one jailer asked.

    Brock said he wasn’t.

    Then the man asked whether he had a penis — and Brock said he did. He explained what surgeries existed, and said that he’d been on hormones for years.

    After one jailer asked for proof, Brock said, he spent a few awkward minutes in a bathroom showing her his genitalia and explaining the effects of testosterone.

    He was placed in a women’s holding cell. It was a Friday afternoon and, with the courts closed, he worried he’d be stuck behind bars all weekend.

    It was after dark when one of the jailers told him his family and his girlfriend had pulled together enough money for bail.

    He was facing three felonies — mayhem, resisting arrest and obstruction — plus misdemeanor failure to obey a police officer.

    Four days later, he lost his job after state authorities notified the school of his pending charges.

     

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