Beria targeted “the man” first, then proceeded to find or fabricate a crime.
By contrast, under the United States Constitution, there’s a presumption of innocence that emanates from the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments, as set forth in Coffin vs. U.S. 1895
RESIST 🇺🇲🗽📜
VOTE BLUE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY!✊️
Remember when Ted Cruz and other Republicans swooned over Russian military ads to mock Biden and our “woke” troops?
An estimated 1.5 million Russian casualties later, Ukraine is still standing.
Turns out cosplay tough isn’t real tough
NEW: I'm joining a coalition of AGs demanding answers from Meta for suspending the No Kings Coalition's Instagram during nationwide protests.
Meta must protect legitimate political activity of its platforms. We won't let Big Tech censor activism ahead of Election Day.
Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.
I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way won’t be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning
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"Seabed mining could wreck parts of our ocean — and our culture and food security are connected to it."
Alaska Native leaders are standing up against rushed offshore mining. Read their full op-ed on why they are calling for a moratorium: tinyurl.com/yy7hczjp 🌊
🌊 Nearly all of the world’s coral reefs now Critically Endangered
Coral reefs are one of the clearest indicators of the ocean’s health.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/nearly-...
right to seed other planets with Earthlike life. How would we feel if some alien civilization decided our planet wasn't habitable because of all the toxic O2, and sent in something to convert all our atmospheric N2 to nitric acid?
If I had some funding for every time I wrote "While satellites provide humanity with many benefits..." then I wouldn't have to write that phrase again in my stupid grant application...
In any case, I guess I will just have to go rage-scream in the hayfield under the full moon as I write that […]
99% of GOP talking points can be knocked down if reporters do third grade level research and pushback. It rarely happens, which is why it's so jarring when you actually see it 🙃
wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!
Ah, that's for the thermometer in the graphic - what they thought the temp was 100 yrs before the article was published!
LA Tmes publication date is 1955.
Nobody knew much in 1855, well, only a woman, and nobody pays attention to them, except for thieving...
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Have you ever looked at a tormented city and wondered how much devastation it takes to kill it? How much more can it endure? Where is the line after which survivors, if any remain, can no longer rebuild?
We watch russia raze our cities one by one.
After Orban's defeat
Hungary's parliament created the 'National Asset Recovery and Asset Protection Office'
to recover public assets that were stolen during the Orban era
According to a dozen current and former Scientific American employees, over the past two years the magazine has struggled to protect its editorial independence in the face of sometimes overwhelming pressure from its corporate ownership.
I highly recommend reading this article by Michael @mcfaulmike.bsky.social
The former U.S. Ambassador to Russia makes a point I fully agree with:
"Helping Ukraine as it fights for its independence and against Russian occupation is not just the right thing to do;it’s also the pragmatic thing to do
A big fist bump between Signature Aviation's fueler and the Eastern Air Express captain flying yesterday's ICE Air flight at MSP.
They took away 24 shackled migrants from their homes around the Twin Cities.
If a loved one may have been aboard, full video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=1-xmZiNEhC4
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, Batman Year One, Usagi Yojimbo, Peanuts, Lynda Barry's strips, the Mantlo/Golden Micronauts, Lone Wolf & Cub, that old Origins of Marvel Comics compilation, Daredevil Born Again.