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https://www.longislandpress.com/2021/07/30/nassau-police-hired-17-former-nypd-officers-accused-of-misconduct-reports-say/

The Nassau County Police Department reportedly hired 17 former New York Police Department (NYPD) officers who were accused of misconduct over a 5-year period, sparking outrage among critics calling for police reform.

The 17 officers were the subject of substantiated New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board complaints or named as defendants in federal civil rights lawsuits, according to an investigative report jointly published last month by The Intercept and New York Focus. The only one that the report named was Matthew Castellano, an ex-NYPD cop who joined the city police force in 2011.

In 2015, Castellano was one of two officers to stop Sheena Stewart, a Black social worker who was seven months pregnant, on her commute to work. Castellano pulled her from the drivers seat, threw her to the ground, and called her a fat bastard, according to a lawsuit filed by Stewart, who sued the officers and the department for abusive policing and racial discrimination, the outlets reported. Stewart was suspended from her job at a residential rehabilitation center after being charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and obstructing governmental administration; the charges against her were later dropped.

Castellano reportedly resigned later that year and the case was settled for $75,000 before the Nassau County Police Department hired him at a higher salary.

It is disturbing but unsurprising that the Nassau County Police Department hired a former NYPD officer accused of assaulting a pregnant Black woman, and then gave him a pay raise, said Nia Adams, a community organizer with the Long Island Progressive Coalition. Not only should Matthew Castellano be fired immediately, the county should also release information regarding the other 16 NYPD officers it hired who have been accused of misconduct, as well as all the disciplinary records related to repeal of section 50-a of New York Civil Rights Law. If Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder knew about Castellanos past and still kept him on the departments payroll, it would only further demonstrate that Ryder is unfit to lead the police department and should resign.

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CableZL posted...

You can highlight the whole thing and bold and then unbold. That's the easiest way I've found to do it.

You're not wrong, but I'm still not doing it

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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/07/30/sinemas-vacation-plans-manchin-gets-booed-and-megadonor-drama-493787

On Thursday night, as President JOE BIDEN boarded Marine One, he made some news.
First, he reiterated that immigration reform shouldbe included in the reconciliation bill. Its a position hes staked out before Sarah Ferris, Burgess Everett and Laura Barrn-Lpez first reported the White House supported the approach July 15 but this is the first weve heard about it since there was movement on the bipartisan infrastructure framework. (Worth remembering: For this to happen, Dems would need a favorable ruling from the Senate parliamentarian, which hasnt happened yet.)
Then, Biden said that Sen. KYRSTEN SINEMA (D-Ariz.) who said Wednesday that she would not support a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is on board for passing [reconciliation] if in fact she sees all the pieces of it. Thats why she allowed the budget to go forward. Speaking of which
CANT STOP, WONT STOP SINEMAS SUMMER Sinema is not letting BIFor the reconciliation bill get in the way of her summer plans.
When CHUCK SCHUMER announced earlier this month that he might keep the Senate in session into August delaying a previously scheduled recess in order to shepherd the two gigantic bills through the chamber Sinema told the majority leader that she was not sticking around to vote, multiple Senate sources tell Playbook.
She had prior vacation plans, she said, and wasnt about to let the infrastructure or reconciliation bills get in the way.

In fairness, Sinema isstaying in D.C. this weekend to work instead of attending one previously scheduled event: a wine retreat fundraiser at Sonomas ritzy MacArthur Place Hotel & Spa, where summer rates hover around $950 per night. (Wine is kind of Sinemas thing. Last August, she held a three-week internship at Three Sticks Winery in Sonoma, for which the senator was paid an entry-level salary of $1,117.40.)

The bolding is Politico's doing, and I'm too lazy to get rid of it

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SauI_Goodman posted...

Lets go netherlands!

You're late, dude

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US wins! They will face Canada in the semifinal

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It's on NBCSN if you have the time to watch

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri/

Last May, something extraordinary happened in a Missouri courthouse: Jean Peters Baker, the Jackson County prosecutor, issued a public apology to a man she believes was wrongfully convicted.

"My job is to apologize," she said. "It is important to recognize when the system has made wrongs and what we did in this case was wrong.

"So, to Mr. Strickland, I am profoundly sorry."

"48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty asked Kevin Strickland what was going through his mind when he heard the prosecutor's statement.

"Oh, today's gonna be the day," he said. "They're gonna call me and tell me, 'Pack your stuff up. You're going home.'"

Strickland, sentenced to life without parole in 1979 for a triple murder, has waited a lifetime to hear those words.

Moriarty asked, "How old was your daughter when you came in here?"

"Seven weeks old," he replied.
"So, you've missed watching her grow up?"
"Every bit of it."
"How old is she now?"
"She just turned 43."

But an apology, even from the prosecutor, is all he gets, Strickland is still in prison.

"It's a great deal of pain in here," he said, "of knowing what I done missed out on and my opportunities in life. I'm trying to pick my words because I don't want to offend anybody, but I'm hurting. I'm really hurting. "

And shockingly, his situation is not unique in Missouri.

Forty-seven-year-old Lamar Johnson was convicted of the murder of Marcus Boyd in 1994.

"What have you lost over the last 26 years?" Moriarty asked.

"Time," Johnson said. "There's a closeness between, especially with a father and his daughters, and I missed that. I missed being able to be a part of their life."
For more than two decades, Johnson has insisted he was wrongfully convicted. "I did not kill Marcus. He was one of my best friends and I loved him."

Two years ago, the top prosecutor for the city of St. Louis, Kim Gardner, agreed with him, and filed a motion for Johnson's release based on what she called "overwhelming evidence of innocence." Yet, Johnson, too, remains behind bars.

"We have a longstanding so-called innocence problem here in Missouri," said Lindsay Runnels, Johnson's attorney. "It doesn't stop and start with Lamar Johnson and Kevin Strickland. It's decades old and administrations old."

Runnels and Trish Rojo Bushnell, Strickland's lawyer, point out that, in both cases, the real killers pleaded guilty, and have already served their time for the murders.

Moriarty asked, "How unusual is it in these cases that you, as defense attorneys, are in complete agreement with the prosecutors that your clients are innocent?"

"In Missouri, it's absolutely unusual," said Bushnell. "I can't think of another instance in which we've experienced that."

And in most states, when the prosecutor and defense attorney are in agreement, the inmate is released.

So, what's going on in the state of Missouri?

Gardner said, "I thought that when a prosecutor finds this overwhelming evidence of Lamar Johnson's innocence, that good people would react and do the right thing. But unfortunately, that was not done in this case."

Gardner's office created a conviction integrity unit five years ago to investigate cases like Johnson's. "What we uncovered was devastating, not only to myself, but to the criminal justice system," she said.

Johnson was accused of being one of two men who shot Marcus Boyd. Both were wearing ski masks on a dark night. There was an eyewitness who initially told investigators that he couldn't see the faces of the shooters, but then he later identified Johnson as one of them.

"I didn't believe it," said Johnson. "He told me that I had been identified, and I just didn't believe it."

"Is there any evidence, physical evidence, that ties you to the death of Marcus Boyd?" asked Moriarty.

"No physical evidence. There's not even a motive. At my trial they did not even present a motive. They never explained why I supposedly did this."

In her June 2019 motion asking for Johnson's release, Gardner said that the only eyewitness, who tied Johnson to the murder, had recanted and admitted he had been pressured to lie by investigators. What's more, Gardner's office said it uncovered proof that the eyewitness had been paid thousands of dollars by detectives a fact kept from Johnson's attorneys.

Gardner concluded that much of the evidence presented at Johnson's 1995 trial was "false and perjured."

At a 2019 press conference Gardner said, "This man lost 25 years of his life. We all lost. We have victims who lost. We let everyone down. And that's what it's about. It's about justice and trust in a system, a system of fairness for all."

But the Attorney General of Missouri, Eric Schmitt, successfully fought the motion, arguing that because Johnson's verdict was final and he had run out of appeals, prosecutors like Gardner don't have the power to ask for his release.

"It's not the merits that's ever challenged, it's the procedure that's challenged. 'They're too late,' the Attorney General argues," said Runnels.

"Lindsay, are you saying that a completely innocent human being could stay in prison because he or she missed a deadline?" asked Moriarty.

"Yes," she replied, "and it happens, frequently."

Sean O'Brien, a law professor at the University of Missouri Kansas City, said, "I do know that the Attorney General's office, for a long time, has had a practice of opposing every case regardless of its merit. They think that their duty is to defend every judgment, no matter the justice of it."

"Even with new evidence that shows that the wrong person was convicted?" asked Moriarty.

"Even with new evidence," he replied.

Gardner appealed, but this past March, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled against her, stating that, "This case is not about whether Johnson is innocent This case presents only the issue of whether there is any authority to appeal No such authority exists."
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Missouri Governor Mike Parson has the power to pardon both men, but has so far declined to do so.

https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1420876304619036672


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No, I live in NY

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Not all heros wear capes

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A lot of people, it turns out, believe the things they read online

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I am loathe to give ledbowman credit, but he does have a point.

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https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1420372413582397440


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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/us/politics/covid-poverty-aid-programs.html?referringSource=articleShare

The huge increase in government aid prompted by the coronavirus pandemic will cut poverty nearly in half this year from prepandemic levels and push the share of Americans in poverty to the lowest level on record, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of a vast but temporary expansion of the safety net.

The number of poor Americans is expected to fall by nearly 20 million from 2018 levels, a decline of almost 45 percent. The country has never cut poverty so much in such a short period of time, and the development is especially notable since it defies economic headwinds the economy has nearly seven million fewer jobs than it did before the pandemic.

The extraordinary reduction in poverty has come at extraordinary cost, with annual spending on major programs projected to rise fourfold to more than $1 trillion. Yet without further expensive new measures, millions of families may find the escape from poverty brief. The three programs that cut poverty most stimulus checks, increased food stamps and expanded unemployment insurance have ended or are scheduled to soon revert to their prepandemic size.

While poverty has fallen most among children, its retreat is remarkably broad: It has dropped among Americans who are white, Black, Latino and Asian, and among Americans of every age group and residents of every state.

These are really large reductions in poverty the largest short-term reductions weve seen, said Laura Wheaton of the Urban Institute, who produced the estimate with her colleagues Linda Giannarelli and Ilham Dehry. The institutes simulation model is widely used by government agencies. The New York Times requested the analysis, which expanded on an earlier projection.

The finding that poverty plunged amid hard times at huge fiscal costs comes at a moment of sharp debate about the future of the safety net.

The Biden administration has started making monthly payments to most families with children through an expansion of the child tax credit. Democrats want to make the yearlong effort permanent, which would reduce child poverty on a continuing basis by giving their families an income guarantee.

Progressives said the new numbers vindicated their contention that poverty levels reflected political choices and government programs could reduce economic need.
Wow these are stunning findings, said Bob Greenstein, a longtime proponent of safety net programs who is now at the Brookings Institution. The policy response since the start of the pandemic goes beyond anything weve ever done, and the antipoverty effect dwarfs what most of us thought was possible.
Conservatives say that pandemic-era spending is unsustainable and would harm the poor in the long run, arguing that unconditional aid discourages work and marriage. The child tax credit offers families up to $300 per child a month whether or not parents have jobs, which critics call a return to failed welfare policies.
Theres no doubt that by shoveling trillions of dollars to the poor, you can reduce poverty, said Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation. But thats not efficient and its not good for the poor because it produces social marginalization. You want policies that encourage work and marriage, not undermine it.
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To understand how large the recent aid expansion has been, consider the experience of Kathryn Goodwin, a single mother of five in St. Charles, Mo., who managed a group of trailer parks before the pandemic eliminated her $33,000 job.

Without the pandemic-era expansions passed in three rounds under both the Trump and Biden administrations Ms. Goodwins job loss would have caused her income to plunge to about $29,000 (in jobless benefits, food stamps and other aid), leaving her officially poor.

Instead, her income rose above its prepandemic level, though she has not worked for a year. She received about $25,000 in unemployment benefits (about three times what she would have received before the pandemic) and $12,000 in stimulus checks. With increased food stamp benefits and other help, her income grew to $67,000 almost 30 percent more than when she had a job.

Without that help, I literally dont know how I would have survived, she said. We would have been homeless.

Still, Ms. Goodwin, 29, has mixed feelings about large payments with no stipulations.
In my case, yes, it was very beneficial, she said. But she said that other people she knew bought big TVs and her former boyfriend bought drugs. All this free money enabled him to be a worse addict than he already was, she said. Why should taxpayers pay for that?

The Urban Institutes projections show poverty falling to 7.7 percent this year from 13.9 percent in 2018. That decline, 45 percent, is nearly three times the previous three-year record, according to historical estimates by researchers at Columbia University. The projected drop in child poverty, to 5.6 from 14.2 percent, amounts to a decline of 61 percent. That exceeds the previous 50 years combined, the Columbia figures show.

In addition to there being nearly 20 million fewer people in poverty, the institute projects about 10 million fewer in near poverty, with incomes of 100 to 150 percent of the poverty line. Under the yardstick the Urban Institute used (the governments Supplemental Poverty Measure), the poverty line for two adults and two children with typical housing costs is about $30,000.
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Payments also went to people who kept their jobs, which helps explain why near poverty fell. The beneficiaries included John Asher of Indianapolis, who once served prison time for selling drugs but is now sober and earning $500 a week as a maintenance man. With $3,200 in stimulus checks, Mr. Asher, 49, was able to leave a boardinghouse, rent an apartment and take custody of an autistic son, who he feared would go to foster care.

But he said he distrusted the crooked government and urged poor people to help themselves. If you want to change your life, you have to get up and do something not sit home and get free money, he said.

Leah Burgess, who also kept her job, drew the opposite lesson from the help she received. A part-time chaplain at a school outside the District of Columbia, Ms. Burgess, 43, is studying for two masters degrees at Howard University. With three children, she and her husband, who was also a student, received about $18,000 in stimulus checks and expanded food stamps.

The aid helped them eat better and worry less, said Ms. Burgess, who called the support a foundation for a more just society. If our resources in a pandemic could change millions of peoples lives, then whats stopping us from continuing to do that? she said.

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https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/whos-behind-dallas-justice-nows-dont-send-white-kids-to-ivy-league-controversy-12098228


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Have you heard of a site called blogspot?

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Yeah I don't regret getting a Series X at all, even as most of the games I've played could've run just as well on the One X I had before

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pinky0926 posted...

I do think there is an interesting point to make about the role of statues and monuments here, though.

Like we might argue, "its not who he was as a person. Its what he represented as a symbol. He sparked a revolution in freedom and police brutality. He represents our feelings about this problem" etc.

But like...isn't the exact opposite applied to so many removals of statues? Founding fathers, lincoln, etc.

I mean, no one asked for George Floyd statues. You could've attended dozens of protests last year and not found one person calling for the erection of a statue to Floyd. They asked for, as a bare minimum, police being held accountable and their role reduced, and instead they've mainly got apologies from sitcom writers and symbolic platitudes.

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Summer Olympics, please

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For me, it's rugby sevens and indoor volleyball. Fun stuff

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https://twitter.com/ZackFinkNews/status/1420409931165995022


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Democrats can't all be as radical as, uh, Chuck Schumer


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It's all about who you trust. You can't confirm every bit of news independently; you have to rely on other sources. You and me and have put our faith in more or less mainstream institutions and media to more or less get things right. People on the right have been told by all the people that they trust that those sources are lying to them and actively engaged in undermining the country.

Like, I think one of those perspectives is better connected to reality, but the process is largely the same.

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She said she was on the right street, and had passed a Shake Shack, and I'm thinking okay, that's not far from here. But she seemed totally lost and with no sense of direction, and kept mentioning a Macy's that I was clueless on. The address numbers she was mentioning weren't adding up. I said we were across the street from a Bank of America and a Starbucks, and she found those, but still didn't see our office.

This went on for four or fice minutes, with her getting more and more confused by my directions. I asked what streets she was near, and had to look up one of the ones she mentioned.

Turns out, she was in Brooklyn, not Manhattan. Same street name, same chain business, but the wrong borough.

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Bump

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Just noticing my typo

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The invisible hand of the free market

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Are those boxers particularly known for their Olympic participation, or just the rest of their careers?

I'd argue that swimmers and gymnasts are better known Olympians in the US, by some margin.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/nypd-cops-sanad-musallam-and-yaser-shohatee-fired-for-sex-with-15-year-old-girl

The New York Police Department fired two officers after a department judge found they had sex with a 15-year-old female member of the NYPDs Explorers program, a new ruling recently made public says. Officers Sanad Musallam and Yaser Shohatee allegedly targeted the girl, with the two going on to exchange hundreds of sexually explicit phone calls, texts, and photos with her between 2015 and 2016. The two did this, the NYPDs deputy commissioner on trials wrote, to satisfy their depraved interests. The officers had been fired on March 25, four years after the cases were reported to the Brooklyn District Attorneys office, but the details of the case did not become public until last week. According to the judge, the officers misconduct would cause any responsible adult, let alone a parent, to recoil in horror.

The legal age of consent in New York is 17. The officers were never criminally charged, however, as the teen refused to cooperate with the DAs office, the New York Post reports.

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Update: game has continued to crash on me

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https://theintercept.com/2021/07/27/daniel-hale-drone-leak-sentencing/

DANIEL HALE, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst, was sentenced to 45 months in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to leaking a trove of government documents exposing the inner workings and severe civilian costs of the U.S. militarys drone program. Appearing in an Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom, the 33-year-old Hale told U.S. District Judge Liam OGrady that he believed it was necessary to dispel the lie that drone warfare keeps us safe, that our lives are worth more than theirs.

I am here because I stole something that was never mine to take precious human life, Hale said. I couldnt keep living in a world in which people pretend that things werent happening that were. Please, your honor, forgive me for taking papers instead of human lives.

In delivering his judgement, OGrady said that Hale was not being prosecuted for speaking out about the drone program killing innocent people and that he could have been a whistleblower without taking any of these documents.

Though the nearly four-year sentence fell short of the maximum sentence of 11 years behind bars sought by federal prosecutors, the conviction marked another victory for the U.S. government in an ongoing crackdown on national security leaks that has spanned multiple presidential administrations.

Hale was indicted by a grand jury and arrested in 2019 on a series of counts related to the unauthorized disclosure of national defense and intelligence information and the theft of government property. In addition to documents related to how the government chooses its drone strike targets and information detailing how often people who are not the intended targets of those strikes are nonetheless killed Hale was also linked to the release of a secret, though unclassified, rulebook detailing how the U.S. government places individuals in its sprawling system of watchlists. Long shrouded in secrecy, the release of the rulebook has been celebrated by advocacy groups as a triumph of the post-9/11 era.

Since his indictment more than two years ago, government filings have strongly implied that The Intercept was the recipient of Hales disclosures. In a statement on Tuesday, Intercept Editor-in-Chief Betsy Reed said, Daniel Hale will spend years in prison for leaking documents that the government implied were published by The Intercept. These documents revealed the truth about the U.S. governments secretive, murderous drone war, including that the killing of civilians was far more widespread than previously acknowledged. The Intercept will not comment on our sources. But whoever brought the documents in question to light undoubtedly served a noble public purpose.

She added: Hale was also charged with disclosing a secret rule book detailing the parallel judicial system for watchlisting people and categorizing them as known or suspected terrorists without needing to prove they did anything wrong. Under these rules, people, including U.S. citizens, can be barred from flying or detained in airports and at borders while being denied the ability to challenge government declarations about them. The disclosure of the watchlisting rule book led to dozens of legal actions and important court victories for the protection of civil liberties.

As has become standard practice in the U.S., Hale was charged under the Espionage Act, and he pleaded guilty to one count in March. Under the highly controversial 1917 law, defendants cannot point to their efforts to inform the public about government actions and operations as a defense for leaking classified information. President Barack Obama weaponized the anti-spying law as a tool to hammer government employees who were sources for national security stories, particularly those that were unflattering for the government. The Trump administration continued the practice and now, so too, has the Biden administration.

In todays sentencing, the court did reject the prosecutions extreme demands, but Hales prison sentence is nonetheless another tragic example of how the government misuses the Espionage Act to punish alleged journalistic sources as spies, a practice that damages human rights, press freedom, and democracy, Reed added in her statement.

Hales support team, in a statement following the sentencing, said: everyone agrees #DanielHale is not a spy. He is a deeply honorable man who is being punished simply for acting on his conscience and telling the truth.

AHEAD OF HIS sentencing this week, Hale filed an 11-page handwritten letter to the court detailing the motivations behind his actions. In vivid detail, Hale recalled his own experience locating targets for American drone strikes. By some estimates, U.S. drone operations abroad, conducted by both the military and the CIA, have killed between 9,000 and 17,000 people since 2004, including as many as 2,200 children and multiple U.S. citizens. Those estimates, however, undercount the true cost of remote American warfare as Hale noted in his letter to the court last week, the U.S. military has a practice of labeling all individuals killed in such operations as enemies killed in action unless proven otherwise.

With drone warfare, sometimes nine out of 10 people killed are innocent, Hale said on Tuesday. You have to kill part of your conscience to do your job.

In their sentencing filing, Hales defense lawyers said that he had felt extraordinary guilt for having been complicit in what he viewed as unjustifiable killings through his involvement in the drone program and argued that his disclosures were compelled by a sense of moral duty. In motions filed in the past week, government prosecutors sought to rebut this picture, painting Hale as a self-interested egomaniac who risked his freedom to ingratiate himself with the journalists he admired and compared his justifications to those of a heroin dealer.

In arguing that Hale should receive a maximum sentence of more than a decade in prison, the government repeatedly referred to secret evidence unavailable for public review purporting to show that the Islamic State had circulated Hales disclosures online, thus putting American lives at risk. Harry P. Cooper, a former senior official in the CIA and noted agency expert on classified materials who reviewed the documents and provided a declaration in Hales case, offered a starkly different interpretation.

The disclosure of these documents, at the time they were disclosed and made public, did not present any substantial risk of harm to the United States or to national security, Cooper said in a sworn declaration. In short, an adversary who has gained a tactical advantage by receiving secret information would never publicize their possession of it.

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Update: had my first crash. As in the game crashed, not me

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100 happens far more, in the US at least, than -20

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You know this happened back then, right?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14719971-200-leave-ozone-hole-to-nature-say-republicans/

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Solidarity with them

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Swagger_Dagger posted...

i forgot, is that game in real time? Flight length

Yep. Not sure if there are options to speed up that process, but it is a full ass simulator.

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That's really neat. Did a bunch of the tutorial lessons before setting out from JFK to sightsee NYC. Crashed into a roof in Brooklyn after getting too low. Then took off from Laguardia and landed (not exactly smoothly) in Newark. Fun times.

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I had a lot of tuna sandwiches as a kid, and that remains a comfort food for me

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I'm not planning to play any of those except BotW

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Topic's not great

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Bump

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I'm excited for the new stuff in Dartmoor, and really oughta put more time into the DLC as it is already.

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I mean, politics is how a society decides how its collective resources and efforts are spent, and viruses frequently require those to be spent.

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https://twitter.com/JeffJSays/status/1420032631497019392


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sabrestorm posted...

I think all history should be taught good and bad, dont censor history

All history? How much time do students get?

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cjsdowg posted...

That means we are the best in the Americas . (doesn't it ?)

North America. The few times we've been involved in Copa America (South America's tournament) have usually ended early.

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"Dominate" and "almost every" are doing some heavy lifting in that title. NBC's Olympic coverage is skewed towards the sports Americans are most competitve in, so you don't see us fail to medal at handball or lose to Brazil in volleyball. We aren't out there dominating tae kwon do or judo.

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