A Buffalo supermarket worker dialed 911 during the massacre and was asked, ‘Why are you whispering?’ Now, the dispatcher is set to be fired, an official said https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/us/buffalo-supermarket-worker-911-call/index.html
“Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.””
This is the country the rabid right wants to create, where the white people get to attack and mistreat the non-white people. The right wants a 1940s / 1950s world where blacks and minorities knew their place and stayed there. We are losing what it means to be a country of laws and equal opportunities to become a raciest country of white privilege. US apartheid? Hugs
“In a video circulating online, Shaan Pritmani can be seen being assaulted and choked by a white student in the cafeteria of Coppell Middle School in Texas on May 11. The video begins with the aggressor choking Shaan with his right arm before demanding him to stand up from his seat. “No, I’m not getting up,” Shaan replies. “There is literally no one sitting here.” The student then presses his elbow on Shaan’s neck from behind before choking him once again while dragging him away from the seat. Other students surrounding the two can be heard cheering.”
How a Social Security program piled huge fines on the poor and disabled
The remarkable penalties led to tumult inside the office of Inspector General Gail Ennis, where a whistleblower was targeted for retaliation, an administrative judge ruled.
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“It is hell there”: Ukraine’s Donbas region “destroyed” as Russia steps up strikes
Russian forces have bombarded areas of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas from land and air, killing at least 13 civilians, Ukraine’s military said on Friday, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the assaults had turned the region into “hell.”
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“The fever isn’t breaking. There are now bidding wars for one in every five Manhattan rental apartments (and one in three luxury units), according to the most recent Douglas Elliman report. Inventory in all of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and northwest Queens has been hovering well below 10,000 units — as of April, the number was just 7,669. Which is several thousand less than the number of entire-apartment and entire-home Airbnb rentals available in New York City right now: 10,572, according to AirDNA, a third-party site that tracks short-term rentals. Inside Airbnb, another site that scrapes Airbnb for listings data, puts the number even higher, at 20,397. Ever since Airbnb came on the scene in 2008, there have been concerns that the short-term-rental company would deplete the housing stock by sucking up available rooms, causing prices to rise in cities like New York and San Francisco, where there were already severe housing shortages. The absolute number of available apartments and houses on the site peaked before the pandemic and has since dropped back, according to both Inside Airbnb and AirDNA. But there’s a difference now: There are just so few apartments to be had that Airbnbs make up the majority of the city’s available rentals.”
“Congresswoman Lucy McBath on Wednesday shared her own difficult experiences to point out how attacks on abortion rights by right-wing judges and legislators could impact what treatment doctors can provide to patients who, like her, endure miscarriage and stillbirth. The Georgia Democrat’s comments came during a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Revoking Your Rights: The Ongoing Crisis in Abortion Care Access,” an event held as the country prepares for the Supreme Court to issue a final ruling expected to reverse Roe v. Wade. “For two weeks, I carried a lost pregnancy and the torment that comes with it,” McBath said. “I never went into labor on my own. When my doctor finally induced me, I faced the pain of labor without hope for a living child.””
January 6 panel evidence suggests Congress members led ‘reconnaissance tours’ of the Capitol before attack
The revelation resurrects a line of inquiry into the involvement of House Republicans in the insurrection
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Giant sinkhole found in China has hidden forest with ancient trees growing at its floor
Cave explorers in southern China have found a 630-foot deep sinkhole with massive trees, tall plants and some potential new species within.
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