Twentytwo
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Yep, And then we are fucked. The Republicans can literally do anything then.
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Meanwhile, these bastards say it's the Democrats who are attempting the unfair power grab...
In Georgia, I have heard news reports that many of the black people that won local elections have had their office undermined / roles and power reduced by the GOP.
Djxfactor511
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Meanwhile, in Ohio, The conservative-led Ohio Supreme Court just declared the GOP-drawn state map unconstitutional. Really hoping the same ruling is forthcoming for the congressional map as well.
This is going to be a poop show. Oh wow.
Djxfactor511
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Yep, they only gave them 10 days to redraw, so not a whole lot of time to mess around.
Twentytwo
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All of Nashville has been in one congressional district for 200 years. No republican had represented Nashville since 1875 it is that reliable of a democratic district.
I am very concerned that a large swath of the country will not accept the results of the 2024 presidential election because of the redistricting that was done after the census.
What in the world is going on with judges and rulings lately?
news.yahoo.com
Judge shames 72-year-old cancer patient too weak to tend to his lawn
Judge Tosses Teen Rape Conviction, Says 148 Days in Jail Is ‘Plenty of Punishment’
WGEMAn Illinois judge had a shocking outburst in court Wednesday, kicking a prosecutor out with minimal explanation as outrage grows over the judge’s decision to reverse his own ruling on a teen accused of rape.“Mr. Jones, get out,” Adams County Judge Robert Adrian fumed as he ordered Josh Jones...
Judge shames 72-year-old cancer patient too weak to tend to his lawn
debianlinux
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"Adrian parenthetically said adults at the party were to blame for Vaughan’s assault. He said they abandoned their parental duties and suggested that sexual assault is what happens when parents hold “parties for teenagers, and they allow coeds and female people to swim in their underwear in their swimming pool.”What in the world is going on with judges and rulings lately?
Judge Tosses Teen Rape Conviction, Says 148 Days in Jail Is ‘Plenty of Punishment’
WGEMAn Illinois judge had a shocking outburst in court Wednesday, kicking a prosecutor out with minimal explanation as outrage grows over the judge’s decision to reverse his own ruling on a teen accused of rape.“Mr. Jones, get out,” Adams County Judge Robert Adrian fumed as he ordered Josh Jones...
Judge shames 72-year-old cancer patient too weak to tend to his lawn
wow
"Vaughan’s dad told the Herald-Whig last week that his daughter “feels like she spoke up for nothing.” “Now she wishes she wouldn’t have even said anything,” he said."
and there's the actual injustice
Navient to forgive $41M in Massachusetts student loans
The national student loan corporation Navient has agreed to forgive $41 million in private loans for Massachusetts student borrowers.
www.wwlp.com
Unfortunately, none of my student loans are through Navient nor was I aware there was a lawsuit.
Maybe I should keep my eyes out in the event any lawsuits are filed against the two student loan lenders my loans are with.
debianlinux
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I did not read the article but just came here to put $40M in perspective. If we assume a rather modest average $50k debt per person this is only 800 people. Less than a drop in the student loan ocean.Navient to forgive $41M in Massachusetts student loans
The national student loan corporation Navient has agreed to forgive $41 million in private loans for Massachusetts student borrowers.
Unfortunately, none of my student loans are through Navient nor was I aware there was a lawsuit.
Maybe I should keep my eyes out in the event any lawsuits are filed against the two student loan lenders my loans are with.
The ultra nerdy approach is to get the average student loan debt figure, like this:
Student loan debt in the United States totals $1.75 trillion and grows 6 times faster than the nation’s economy.*
- 43.2 million student borrowers are in debt by an average of $39,351 each.
Student Loan Debt Statistics [2024]: Average + Total Debt
Find student loan debt statistics, including the national debt balance, average individual balance, and annual growth rates.
$41M/$39,351 = 1042 people
I added the bit about student loan debt growing 6 times faster than GDP because this isn't how this is supposed to work.
The ultra nerdy approach is to get the average student loan debt figure, like this:
Student loan debt in the United States totals $1.75 trillion and grows 6 times faster than the nation’s economy.*
- 43.2 million student borrowers are in debt by an average of $39,351 each.
Student Loan Debt Statistics [2024]: Average + Total Debt
Find student loan debt statistics, including the national debt balance, average individual balance, and annual growth rates.educationdata.org
$41M/$39,351 = 1042 people
I added the bit about student loan debt growing 6 times faster than GDP because this isn't how this is supposed to work.
The article mentions the settlement is for more than 8,300 people.
So it looks like $5200 per person. But in reality, it's less than that because lawyers get what, like at least half usually? Not really going to put much of a dent in anything.
First on CNN: US intelligence indicates Russia preparing operation to justify invasion of Ukraine
The US has information that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine, a US official told CNN on Friday, in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion.
Uh oh. This could get ugly on the world stage is this comes to reality.
Russia doesn't want to get into the quagmire that is the Ukraine. This is all positioning because they don't want an expansion of NATO to their borders. They are going to try everything they can to handle this diplomatically. Russia would rather let the Ukraine tear itself apart and then when it inevitably needs to be rebuilt and stabilized, that's when Putin is looking to step in and help.First on CNN: US intelligence indicates Russia preparing operation to justify invasion of Ukraine
The US has information that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine, a US official told CNN on Friday, in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion.www.cnn.com
Uh oh. This could get ugly on the world stage is this comes to reality.
Djxfactor511
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Baltimore state's attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted on charges of perjury and making false statements on mortgage applications | CNN
The chief prosecutor for the city of Baltimore has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements on loan applications for the purchase of two vacation homes in Florida, according to court documents filed Thursday.
Busted.
I imagine this is a lot more common than we think though.
U.S. Food Prices Are Up. How Monopoly Power Makes this Worse — TIME
Prices show no signs of dropping to pre-pandemic levels anytime soon
apple.news
Good read on how corporate consolidation has eliminated competition.
So while it's true that costs have gone up, corporations are not only able pass on 100% of their increases to consumers, they are passing on excess costs as well. Usually if a company is charging to much, a competitor would have a lower price and it would errode at the excess profits a company is charging causing a price correction. But with so few companies after corporate consolidations, companies / competitors are raising prices together like the pharmaceutical industry does.
They say this is how the free market works, but I call it collusion and greed.
Oh, and who would have ever guessed that had record profits last year.