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View More NewsFormer Houston narcotics officer Gerald Goines is serving a 60-year sentence for his role in a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple, Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, whom he falsely accused of selling heroin. But the officer who actually killed Tuttle and Nicholas was Felipe Gallegos, whose justification for the shots he fired at them was inconsistent with the forensic evidence. This week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit nevertheless concluded that Gallegos “acted like an objectively reasonable officer during a tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving gunfight.” Because the decision focuses on one officer’s culpability,…
from the we-are-now-fully-enshittified dept In the wake of the Sprint T-Mobile merger, wireless carriers immediately stopped trying to compete on price (exactly what deal critics had warned would happen when you reduce sector competition). T-Mobile, which once tried to differentiate itself as the consumer-friendly “uncarrier,” almost immediately began behaving just like AT&T and Verizon, starting with firing 9,000+ people. It’s how mindless and harmful consolidation always works. We know this, there’s endless evidence of this, and somehow it never seems to matter in a country too corrupt to function. In the last few years, T-Mobile’s been facing lawsuits and consumer blowback because…
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Anticipating the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence, speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson recalled: “We boldly proclaimed the self-evident truth that our rights do not come from government, they come from God Himself.” In 2018, President Trump likewise declared: “Our rights are not given to us by man; our rights come from our Creator.” And defence secretary Pete Hegseth recently stated: “Today we gather to recognize that our rights here in this great country come from a loving and benevolent God, not government.”But the US Constitution—the repository of those rights—makes no mention of God. Its authority…
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Bitcoin (BTC) passed $62,000 at Thursday’s Wall Street open as crypto reacted to weak US employment figures.Key points:US nonfarm payrolls data delivers a crypto…
Major cryptocurrencies are broadly in the green Thursday with Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and other top coins showing gains as crypto liquidations climb—with short positions…
They could have died. We forget that now. After appeals to history and self-evident truths and the long train of abuses and usurpations, the…
from the maybe-don’t-compound-your-evilness-with-stupidity dept Some readers might look at this headline and think there’s something off about it. And I’ll grant you that. There…
Key takeaways:While bearish ETH futures trends and spot ETF outflows signal weak institutional appetite, staking demand prevents further decline.Falling exchange deposits and accumulation by…
Earlier this week, I thought the Judge Ross scandal had reached its terminus. Indeed, I had to give Judge Ross credit. She conned her…
Anthropic said it suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after receiving a US government export control directive citing national…
from the real-real-bad dept As we near the halfway point in the second Trump presidential term, there’s something that is worth remembering: Donald Trump,…
From a filing in one of the same plaintiff’s other cases. From today’s decision by Judge Steven McAuliffe (D.N.H.) in Doe v. Trustees of…
The risk-off mood that hammered crypto all week is reversing. Bitcoin is back in the green, and the trigger was a sudden de-escalation in…
In brief SpaceX’s IPO joins an AI-driven tech rally and geopolitical uncertainty in stress testing crypto’s already waning attention and liquidity. Pre-IPO perpetuals on…
It’s strange behavior to throw a party and turn away guests at the door. The joint bid by the United States, Canada, and Mexico…