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A mom grieving her 4-year-old daughter was pinned to ground by Arkansas police

On By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Race,1 Comment

A mom grieving her 4-year-old daughter was pinned to ground by Arkansas police

Jeezus….

No amount of confusion or incompetence is a valid excuse abusing civilians.

This kind of racist overreach is unacceptable in a law abiding society. Hope the family sues the entire community into the stone age over this.

The only way errant police forces are brought to heel is when the community demands it and the only way communities are brought to a point where they demand better behavior from the police officers they employ is when member of the community are unable to ignore the consequences of unlawful and thuggish behavior of the police is when other services are compromised.

If a community is brought to its knees by a suit and other services such as ambulances and schools are unable to give the community what they need, only then will people demand their police officers obey the law.

So to repeat: here’s hoping this family sues the entire municipality beyond bankruptcy all the way back to the stone ages.

‘No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News

On By peanutgallerynhIn Domestic Affairs,, Media and Culture,Leave a comment

About 60 percent of Americans say they regularly see conflicting reports about the same set of facts from different sources.

…“Now more than ever, the lines between fact-based reporting and opinionated commentary seem blurred for people,” said Evette Alexander, research director at the Knight Foundation, which funds journalism and research. “That means they trust what they are seeing less. They are feeling less informed.”

They are also tuning out. Mr. Trudell, a registered independent, stopped paying attention to national news about a year ago. He found it toxic and mentally taxing, and it started arguments that had no end. 

…National politics, he said, has started to look like eyewitness testimony: “People can see totally different things, standing right next to each other.”

…How do you have a society without shared reference points, he said Thursday.

…“There’s so much information that’s biased, that no one believes anything. There is so much out there and you don’t know what to believe, so it’s like there is nothing.”

Fake information is only part of the problem. Another is the sheer volume of news and the growing proportion of it that is opinion. Fatigue with it cuts across partisan lines.

…“On the right you have this feeling that the cultural tide has swung against people like me,” said Mr. Hawkins, who grew up evangelical. “There’s this sense of victimhood toward government, media and academia. ‘These people have contempt for us, if not downright hatred, and so cannot be a reliable witness for what we are seeing day to day.’”

…“They had this sense that they had to be skeptical of everything out there but they didn’t have the time to spend hours to make sense of it,” he said.

‘No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News – The New York Times

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Samoa Measles Outbreak: Government Closes Schools, Requires Vaccinations

On By peanutgallerynhIn Modern Parenting,, Pacific Basin,Leave a comment

A state of emergency was declared Friday by acting Prime Minister and Minister of Health Faimalotoa Kika Stowers-Ah Kau. The proclamation legally mandates that all Samoan citizens receive an MMR vaccination and bans minors from public gatherings.

Of the 716 cases reported, over 100 affected individuals have been hospitalized.

….Parents were “neglecting their responsibilities”[emphasis peanut gallery] by not vaccinating their children, Naseri said. According to officials, most of the deaths in the recent epidemic are unvaccinated children under two years old.

Samoa Measles Outbreak: Government Closes Schools, Requires Vaccinations : NPR

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Elkhart Schools teams up with program to package unused food into take-home meals

On By peanutgallerynhIn Environment,, Money, Class, and Poverty,, Schools,Leave a comment

“Mostly, we rescue food that’s been made but never served by catering companies, large food service businesses, like the school system,” said Jim Conklin, Cultivate. “You don’t always think of a school.”

It rescues the unused food.

…20 students will receive a backpack with eight individual frozen meals every Friday until the end of school.

Elkhart Schools teams up with program to package unused food into take-home meals | WSBT

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California Dems question whether it’s time for Harris to drop out – POLITICO

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“Is she a longshot now? Yeah,’’ says Doak. “I don’t think staying through Iowa will hurt her. And frankly, she will be forced to get out if she doesn’t do well in Iowa and New Hampshire.”

But as far as her future in the Senate, he said, “that stuff is forgotten pretty quickly.”

California Dems question whether it’s time for Harris to drop out – POLITICO

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