Founded in 2006 as a division of the Russian media holding RBC Group (abbreviation for "RosBusinessConsulting"), but in 2010, the agency "RBC-Ukraine" left the composition of the Russian holding, and in 2015, it completely came under the control of Ukrainian media businessman Yosyp Pintus. On January 29, 2016, the Russian holding "RBC" tried to challenge the use of the "RBC" brand in court, but lost the case
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Good to know, thank you! Relatedly, I feel like a dummy for not thinking to check Wikipedia first
Huh, does this RBC Ukraine publication have any connection to RBC.ru? My disinformation senses are starting to tingle (although it seems like basically all the factual claims they're making have been backed up by other reporting).
e; turns out they broke away over a decade ago and had to fight their former owners in court, so they seem pretty independent of RBC .ru
I feel like a cap on how much campaigns are allowed to spend would be easier to enforce
Those 20 people were removed from the state’s voter rolls – which total 8.2 million – and have been referred to local law enforcement, he said
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So none of this has been proven in a court of law, we're just going off of what Raffensberger said and treating it like fact
Because of the criminal investigation, the secretary of state’s office said it could not dislose when those nine people voted.
That is just nonsense, you've already got paper records and the elections in question are already passed, how could anyone involved destroy any evidence or corrupt any investigation at this point? He just wants to leave blank space for the anti-democracy voices to imagine the worst into.
Lots of great nightmares fuel here, but I can't believe nobody's mentioned The Lottery yet. The end of that story still makes me feel absolutely nauseous.
MARTIN: It's interesting, 'cause I covered the White House in the administration of George H. W. Bush, and I knew about it. But then when I've talked to colleagues about it, they didn't know about it, and people are continually surprised.
Maybe because news publishers like NPR and CNN never put that detail in the headlines of their stories that brush up against this open secret
As the Israel-Hamas war escalates, Israel refuses to acknowledge its nuclear program
>Israel is still vowing to respond to Iran's ballistic missile strikes a few weeks ago. It's part of a terrifying tit for tat between the two regional superpowers that could widen an already escalating war. Meanwhile, Israel is believed to be a nuclear power with 90 warheads, although it refuses to acknowledge its nuclear program, and analysts say Iran could rapidly develop a nuclear weapon if it chose to. It's part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while Israel is not. Victor Gilinsky was a commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan. And he told our co-host Michel Martin how Israel first produced a nuclear explosive device in the late 1960s. > >VICTOR GILINSKY: They had a reactor that they got from the French that produced plutonium sufficient for bombs, had, you know, very smart people that knew how to design them. And they also, I think, had help from others, including Americans who had been involved in the program here and then went to Israel. > >MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: And do we have a sense of what Israel's nuclear capabilities are at this point? > >GILINSKY: I don't think we know a lot. We do know they have what we call a triad. You know, they can deliver them by a rocket, by airplanes, and their ultimate deterrent is on submarines. They have submarines that they got from Germany, which they've outfitted with long-range missiles tipped with nuclear warheads.
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Related news story from a few days earlier
>The US is investigating a leak of highly classified US intelligence about Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar confirmed the documents’ authenticity. > >... > >One of the documents also suggests something that Israel has always declined to confirm publicly: that the country has nuclear weapons. The document says the US has not seen any indications that Israel plans to use a nuclear weapon against Iran.
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Also, I'm pretty sure Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, and Egypt have all pretty much done everything the US wanted them to for years now
The city of Akron agreed to pay $4.85 million to settle a lawsuit with the family of Jayland Walker, who was fatally shot in 2022 by Akron police officers.
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At 15, he faced pressure to confess to murder. Now a fight for his freedom raises questions about police interrogation tactics.
Lombardo Palacios was 15 when he confessed to murder following hours of interrogation that employed pressure tactics many experts now say are unreliable. Seventeen years later, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón has asked a court to set Palacios and his co-defendant free.
>The teenager kept crying and telling the detectives: This was wrong. He was innocent. Hours earlier, just before dawn, he had been awoken by a phalanx of officers who had stormed into the small Hollywood apartment he shared with his mother and sister. They had dragged him out of bed, brought him here and told him he had been identified as the shooter in a gang-related murder that had taken place on Sunset Boulevard a few months earlier. All that remained was for him to tell police what he had done. > >At one point, officers left the room, and the teen pleaded with God to help the officers understand: He hadn’t killed anyone. But the officers would not accept that. They insisted the only way forward for him was to stop protesting his innocence and tell them how he had been involved > >... > >After hours of questioning, Lombardo Palacios, a refugee from Guatemala who had a passion for art and was fiercely protective of his younger sister, finally told officers what they had asked for — sort of. He said he had been at the scene, maybe in the morning, or maybe when “it was kind of late.” Maybe he had shot a revolver in the air, he said. Maybe he had pulled the trigger twice. Maybe the victims had been walking in a parking lot when they were shot. > >... > >Police would build a case against him and a young woman he said he did not know, Charlotte Pleytez, then 20 and pregnant, with the murder of Hector Flores, a former member of a rival gang. In 2009, they were convicted in L.A. County Superior Court, and both were sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. (Flores’ fiancee, sitting in the passenger seat, was shot and wounded in the same attack and survived.) > >But, according to new findings from the L.A. County district attorney, neither Palacios nor Pleytez had any involvement with the crime. Palacios’ confession, said Dist. Atty. George Gascón, was false. Gascón told The Times this week that he is “convinced that not only are they innocent, but we believe we might know who committed the murder.” > >... > >Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan reviewed the petition Tuesday, but there was a twist: Unexpectedly, the prosecutor who originally tried the case, Dayan Mathai, showed up to protest. > >“I felt obliged to come before your honor and ask for an opportunity to file a declaration that sheds light on the credibility of some of the witnesses” who are supporting exoneration, Mathai said. He added that a victim also wanted to be heard. > >Thomas Trainor, the prosecutor handling the case for the district attorney, said that after reviewing the court file, the district attorney’s file, the police file and trial transcripts, he was “very confident in the analysis” that led him to ask for the pair’s convictions to be set aside. Still, Trainor said, Mathai should be “given an opportunity to be heard.” > >“I’m sorry to have to postpone this,” Ryan said. “I am.” > >But he did, pushing the hearing to Nov. 1.
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A judiciary panel has recommended against revising a rule that prohibits broadcasting of federal criminal trials, following a push to permit cameras ahead of potential trials involving former President Donald Trump.
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Chicago to transition to single unified shelter system for newly arrived immigrants and for unhoused people
>An estimated 3,800 beds designated for immigrants — funded by the city and state — will be added to the existing 3,000 beds for anyone experiencing homelessness in Chicago. That number is far less than the 14,175 beds a group of community advocates and officials had recommended the city keep for the One System Initiative. > >It is also less than the city’s own estimate of 11,000 shelter beds it needs to combat homelessness. An estimated 18,836 people are experiencing homelessness in Chicago this year, according to the city’s annual tally. > >“Could this lead to people on the street? Look, I’ll be remiss if I did not acknowledge the financial straits that we are experiencing right now,” Johnson said, pointing to other budget needs in Chicago Public Schools and across city departments. “I don’t want to see anyone lose, right. But the harsh reality is that we can do what we can afford. We’ve been stretched to the limits.” > >Ald. Andre Vasquez, chair of the City Council’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, said the shelter system should have served both asylum-seekers and longstanding homeless residents together from the start. > >He praised the city moving to the unified system and winding down contracts with controversial, costly staffing companies, Vasquez said he’s worried more residents will end up on the streets as the consolidated system will go into effect during the winter in Chicago. > >“That is concerning, because we’re going to head into winter fairly soon,” Vasquez said. “...not having 1,000 people out on the street as you’re heading into the winter.”
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New documentary, "The Strike," shows how a peaceful prison uprising ended torture in Pelican Bay prison
The image is grainy, the fixed camera angle is awkward, and the audio is muffled and scratchy. But the revelatory footage, shot inside California’s
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A mysterious Supreme Court case could change everything about criminal punishment.
>Smith’s case, known as Hamm v. Smith, first arrived on the Court’s doorstep in August 2023. Since then, the justices have met more than two dozen times to decide what to do about the case, and each time they’ve put the decision off until a future meeting. > >No one outside of the Court can know for sure why the justices keep delaying, but if you follow the Court’s Eighth Amendment cases closely, it’s easy to see how the Hamm case could open up all kinds of internal rifts among the justices. > >The Eighth Amendment, which has a vague ban on “cruel and unusual punishments,” is at the center of the Hamm case because, for decades, the Court has held this amendment forbids executions of intellectually disabled offenders (and offenders who commit a crime while they are juveniles). The idea is that both groups have diminished mental capacity, at least as compared to non-disabled adults, and thus bear less moral responsibility even for homicide crimes. > >That idea, however, has long been contested by the Court’s various ideological factions, and the Hamm case potentially reopens up all of the Court’s issues with the amendment at once. Indeed, in the worst-case scenario for criminal defendants, the justices could potentially overrule more than 60 years of precedents protecting against excessive punishments.
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Trump has vowed to launch a mass operation that could involve a force larger than the U.S. Army—and he promises that it will be a “bloody story.”
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Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford psychologist whose research examined how social situations shape people’s behavior, died Oct. 14.
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Dennoriss Richard, 39, was found hanging at an abandoned house in Colbert County.
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Former Ohio officer Adam Coy stands trial in the 2020 shooting death of Andre Hill
A white former Ohio police officer is on trial in the killing of Andre Hill, a Black man who was shot as he emerged from a garage holding a cellphone nearly four years ago.
>Police body camera footage showed Hill emerging from the garage of a friend’s house holding up a cellphone in his left hand, his right hand not visible, seconds before he was fatally shot by Coy. About 10 minutes passed before officers at the scene began coming to the aid of Hill, who lay bleeding on the garage floor. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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The Texas governor had not publicly shared his thoughts on the actions of a bipartisan group of lawmakers that stopped the scheduled execution of Robert Roberson.
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The R.N.C. says it has recruited tens of thousands of volunteers to observe the voting process at precincts across the country. Their accounts of alleged fraud could, as one Trump campaign official put it, “establish the battlefield” for after November 5th.
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The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway
>Dozens of interviews with people deeply familiar or involved with the election process point to a clear consensus: Not only could Trump make a second attempt at overturning an election he loses, he and his allies are already laying the groundwork.
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Daniel Penny, who put the man, Jordan Neely, in a chokehold last year, told investigators that Mr. Neely posed a deadly threat. The killing polarized New York.
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The Ghosts of John Tanton
Climate change and anti-immigrant hate are colliding, foretelling a volatile future.
> - Tanton’s Network: Today’s contentious immigration debate is the construct of one man’s effort to halt overpopulation, brace for climate change and preserve “European” culture. > > - Green Hate: Now climate change is amplifying environmental concerns that have always run through the white supremacy and the anti-immigration movements. > > - Eco-Fascism: Experts warn that extremists who seize on global warming to justify violence are part of a far right trend to reclaim environmentalism as their own.
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To celebrate a UN conference on biodiversity being held in Colombia, here's a version of their national anthem performed with recordings of native animals
Un homenaje de SURA a la biodiversidad de Colombia. Vivir es cuidar la vida que nos rodea. SURA, aliado de la COP16, la cumbre más importante sobre biodiversidad. Ingresa a https://seguros.comunicaciones.sura.com/cop16 para conocer más.
Original anthem here - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=yPSL78YDyZY
More info here - https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/nx-s1-5157742/how-did-colombia-work-birdsong-into-its-national-anthem (archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/PQLCd)
Relatedly, here's a research paper I saw a few years ago that found that just being stopped by police shortly before an election had a statistically significant association with being less likely to turn out in that election (archive link).
One of the researchers of that participated in a reddit thread that was really fascinating which you can find here - https://archive.is/oDSkv
They also wrote up a summary for a magazine (archive link), which has these two paragraphs that I think explain a lot of why we have red states in this country -
These results make clear that the collateral consequences of policing—including worsening outcomes for economic security, educational attainment, and health—also extend to political participation. If the communities who are most frequently subjected to policing are also discouraged from voting as a result, it could create a vicious feedback loop of political withdrawal.
Why would traffic stops make people less likely to show up to the polls? Past research has already established that the most disruptive forms of criminal legal contact, like arrest and incarceration, discourage people from voting. Our study shows that low-level police contact matters in the same way. If a traffic stop makes a motorist fear that the government will harm them, it can prompt a withdrawal from civic life that political scientists call “strategic retreat.” Motorists might worry that a routine traffic stop could escalate into police violence, a more common outcome for Black people in particular. Beyond justified fears of violent victimization, voters might also bristle at the perception of being targeted to raise revenue through excessive ticketing. Accordingly, if incarceration ‘teaches’ would-be voters that their government is an alienating and harmful force in their lives, traffic stops could catalyze a similar form of ‘learning.’
Voting Rights Confusion Keeps Formerly Incarcerated People from Casting Ballots, Even when they’re eligible to vote
Even when they’re eligible to vote.
Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/6zyzv
So there are eligible voters in the USA literally afraid to try voting in case they're jailed for it
Yep, this is exactly the dynamic they're going for and achieving.
Also, I should have thought of this when I posted this article, but your comment just made me remember a research paper I saw a few years ago that found that just being stopped by police shortly before an election had a statistically significant association with being less likely to turn out in that election (archive link).
One of the researchers of that participated in a reddit thread that was really fascinating you can find here - https://archive.is/oDSkv
They also wrote up a summary for a magazine (archive link), which has these two paragraphs -
These results make clear that the collateral consequences of policing—including worsening outcomes for economic security, educational attainment, and health—also extend to political participation. If the communities who are most frequently subjected to policing are also discouraged from voting as a result, it could create a vicious feedback loop of political withdrawal.
Why would traffic stops make people less likely to show up to the polls? Past research has already established that the most disruptive forms of criminal legal contact, like arrest and incarceration, discourage people from voting. Our study shows that low-level police contact matters in the same way. If a traffic stop makes a motorist fear that the government will harm them, it can prompt a withdrawal from civic life that political scientists call “strategic retreat.” Motorists might worry that a routine traffic stop could escalate into police violence, a more common outcome for Black people in particular. Beyond justified fears of violent victimization, voters might also bristle at the perception of being targeted to raise revenue through excessive ticketing. Accordingly, if incarceration ‘teaches’ would-be voters that their government is an alienating and harmful force in their lives, traffic stops could catalyze a similar form of ‘learning.’
-that I feel ought to be read verbatim in any conversation people have about why red states with lots of poor people and low voter turnout rates keep electing crappy governments that hurt them. They're terror states in a very literal way.
There are 19% who give so little of a shit about democracy that they won't even try to hide it, there's definitely more who feel this way but won't admit it
Before recently sentencing a rioter to prison, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said he prays Americans accept the outcome of next month’s election.
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Preparing for the Worst - Ahead of the election, immigrants' rights advocates are working hard to be ready, no matter who wins
Ahead of the election, immigrants' rights advocates are working hard to be ready, no matter who wins.
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There’s also a simple reason Harris might be reluctant to discuss the expiring Trump tax cuts: She’s promising to keep most of them. ...
With little coming from the candidates themselves, pro-business groups are trying to fill in the blanks for voters — and for members of Congress either facing re-election or simply unacquainted with the tax code’s intricate details themselves.
a) I truly cannot emphasize enough how much I despise both of our political parties
b) At least once every twenty four hours since I've listened to it, I've seen at least one news story that makes me think of this interview the Know Your Enemy podcast did with the authors of "The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics" and how I need to get around to reading that book
If you really think you're the subject of a criminal investigation and think there is some utility in engaging with it before it comes to you, retain a criminal defense attorney and let them start making phone calls and sending letters
Well shoot, it loaded the article for me, but try this one instead - https://archive.is/ZXQXe
If we had a functioning federal government, the answer would be because the EPA required it and failing to follow environmental regulations could lead to them being prosecuted for child endangerment
"Imposing any kind of environmental regulations in businesses would destroy the entire economy, concludes team of economists paid by those businesses. Coming up next - are you doing enough to protect your family from dangerous toxins in our environment? We'll tell you what a dumb and lazy piece of shit you are, after these ads!"
He also wrote that Netanyahu will pay any price at the expense of the public in Israel, provided that his rule does not fall "and therefore, to the horror of it, there is no chance that the war will end in the foreseeable future. Neither voluntarily nor according to logic. Its continuation forever is the only barrier that will prevent his personal catastrophe.
Yep, the ongoing war is delaying a corruption trial against Bibi where I think he could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison, so he's going to keep this war going forever if he can
So no, the police dog can't sniff out abortion pills, instead a dirty cop either signaled his dog to the behavior, or the copy is straight lying about what the dog did.
You're not wrong, but that reality didn't stop a warrant from being issued or those envelopes from being opened
I don't expect any politician to speak against an issue that a majority of the public supports
This is way too simplistic and totally misunderstands the power of political leaders in democratic societies to shape public opinion. Like, the only real explanation for why public opinion on migration tanked is because Democratic lawmakers realized after 2020 that talking about ICE and CBP's deeply institutionalized problems made Biden look bad instead of Trump, so they stopped sticking up against them when more border problems inevitably came out and started blaming those on the migrants instead and the opinions of Democratic party voters followed.
then we have the Republicans trying to ban abortion. I guess we'll see how that works out for them
Reproductive healthcare is more restricted than it's ever been in my lifetime and there's no indication that we'll be overturning the court rulings that made that happen anytime soon. Also, all these political campaigns are sucking up all the donor dollars that reproductive healthcare funds still really need.
Makes sense when neither of the two major parties is willing to speak against it. If Harris made opposition to draconian treatment of migrants a consistent part of her campaign those numbers could change, but Democratic politicians only try to lead on issues their donors care about and just weather-vane themselves into Republican-lite irrelevance on everything else.