Category : Lifestyle

Colorado school shooter gets life without parole

dailymail.co.uk - Devon Erickson, 20, was sentenced to an additional 1,282 years for attempted murder and other charges stemming from the 2019 shooting at the STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.Tweeted by @noblefacts https://twitter.com/noblefa...

AOC Submits National Defense Budget Amendments To Protect Human Rights

Photos: YouTube\Twitter WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ahead of next week’s vote on the The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced seven amendments that collectively seek to end U.S. practices that have contributed to...

Why I’m Not All the Way There Yet With the Maximum Hydration Method

I’m the cautious type and for that I make no apologies; it’s who I am and it will govern the decisions I make about almost everything in my life. Call me a coward if you will but the way I see it is at least I’ll live to figh...

Democratic Lawmakers Call On Biden Administration To Halt Haitian Deportations

(Photos: Twitter)WASHINGTON – Friday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Co-Chair of the House Haiti Caucus, and Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-07) led 54 of their colleagues calling on the Biden Administration to immediately halt deportati...

Los Angeles Has Its First Afro-Mexican Restaurant And It's Everything - Travel Noire

travelnoire.com - Los Angeles has a new restaurant that fuses the cuisines of Africa and Mexico . Tamales Elena y Antojitos located in Bell Gardens right outside of...Tweeted by @AfroTech https://twitter.com/AfroTech/status/1439076737531449346

US Admits Last Drone Strike in Kabul a ‘Tragic Mistake’

voanews.com - Pentagon, US Central Command take responsibility for killing 10 civilians, including seven children, in what was at first described as ‘righteous strike’ against Islamic StateTweeted by @VOAStevenson https://twitter.com/VOAStevenson/sta...

APD's thin blue line stretched thinner

abqjournal.com - City grapples with officer departures, high crime rateTweeted by @nm_unite https://twitter.com/nm_unite/status/1439265285337407494

‘Why the Innocent Plead Guilty’: An Exchange

nybooks.com - To the Editors: Judge Jed S. Rakoff’s article “Why Innocent People Plead Guilty” is spot on, but doesn’t go far enough. True, we have a federal plea system, not a trial system. True, to call the proc…Tweeted by @JimSavell https://twitte...

Lorain Historical Society marks 40 years, plots vision for future

morningjournal.com - The Lorain Historical Society celebrated 40 years of sharing the stories of the International City at its annual meeting and banquet on Sept. 17 at the Lorain Shipyards. Board President Al Harsar o…Tweeted by @MorningJournal http...

Student Occupation Pressures NYU to Divest From Under-Fire Prison Food Supplier Aramark

filtermag.org - As a stakeholder in this institution, it is appalling that my tuition dollars contribute to the oppression and degradation of ...Tweeted by @carrielogo https://twitter.com/carrielogo/status/1439226496468537346

What Criminologists Don’t Say, and Why

city-journal.org - The history of academic criminology is one of grand pronouncements that don’t often prove out in the real world. To read the article, please visit our website.Tweeted by @dsmith https://twitter.com/dsmith/status/1439133779365404672

How Right-Leaning Entrepreneurs Became the Champions of Equity for Low-Income Students

townhall.com - There is no doubt that free-market enthusiasts—armed with a love of competition and individual liberty—have a successful track record of leading on traditionally progressive issues. When it became cl…Tweeted by @WhirledPeas9 https://tw...

Relieving an overburdened system: Mental health and law enforcement in Eagle County

vaildaily.com - Eagle County law enforcement officials are often faced with responding to mental and behavioral health challenges as they interact with people on some of their worst days and in some of their lowest …Tweeted by @policeofficer https://...

Pennsylvania Senators Will Consider DUI Protections For Medical Marijuana Patients At Hearing

marijuanamoment.net - A Pennsylvania Senate committee is set to take up a bill next week that would protect medical marijuana patients from being prosecuted under the state’s “zero tolerance” DUI laws. The legislation, sp…Tweeted by @tomangell https:...

Why I Changed My Mind On The Reparations Debate

wbur.org - Like most white Americans and many black ones, I was uncomfortable with the notion of reparations in the form of a one-time payout, writes Julie Wittes Schlack.Tweeted by @JBrisenio411 https://twitter.com/JBrisenio411/status/14390128184775...