Demonstrations across Iran, initially sparked by economic hardship and the sharp fall of the national currency, continued for a third day on Tuesday, drawing in university students as authorities deployed force and made multiple arrests. Protests spread across Iran on Tuesday, with universities and commercial districts emerging as key hubs amid a widening strike by shopkeepers in Tehran and other cities. Human rights and student groups said at least 11 protesters were arrested near Tehran's Shoush Square. Five students were also detained at universities in the capital, four of whom were later released. read more
How did so much get so terrible so rapidly? One simultaneous cause and consequence of the Minnesota swoon is outright fraud, the rotten fruit of a partnership between some of the state's leading politicians and sectarian interests that understand government not as a society's shared instrument to address its problems, but as a storehouse to pillage. read more
Murder rates would be up to five times higher than they are but for medical developments over the past 40 years. According to new research, doctors are saving the lives of thousands of victims of attack who four decades ago would have died and become murder statistics. Although the study is based on US data, the researchers say the principle applies to other countries too: "There is reason to expect a similar trend overall in Britain," said Dr Anthony Harris, the lead author of the study. read more
The state's parole board has released 39 "emerging adult" murder convicts who were originally sentenced to life without parole, but who later became eligible after a court ruling. The Massachusetts Parole Board has issued 51 parole decisions since the Supreme Judicial Court last year ruled that emerging adults who were 18 to 20 at the time of the offense cannot be sentenced to life without parole. read more
Defense attorney Joe Tamburino, who is not affiliated with the case, reviewed the decision and analyzed it for KARE 11 News. He says Judge West ruled that the state's case "relied heavily on circumstantial evidence," and that she believed the state didn't rule out other "reasonable inferences." "That in fact, there could have been other reasonable theories other than guilt in this case. That's what it comes down to," Tamburino said. Despite the ruling, even Judge West wrote that she is "troubled by the manner in which fraud was able to be perpetuated at Promise Health." read more
stand up to Europe to defend hate and violence-provoking speech.
#68 | Posted by GasLighter
More than that....
France seeks to ban social media for children under 15
www.lemonde.fr
Shameless opportunists, nothing more, nothing less.
#3 | Posted by jpw
You have no idea ....
MTG's viral alter ego' Stefanie Sugarman bombing her 2002 American Idol audition!
Just 6 days left till her resignation hits (Jan 5, 2026)"back to cheese marketing and Hollywood dreams?
Countdown activated.
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Indeed, but it hasn't always been the case that practically all the gains have gone to the top 20%. That started in 1975.
#38 | POSTED BY SNOOFY
The reason for this is the financialization of the US economy, NY finally over took London as the financial capital of the world.
Capital earns more "productivity" than Labor.
Overtime Capital makes 5% and Labor just 2%...
This is well know, I just read this wonderful book by Thomas Piketty
www.amazon.com
Boomers now had fiat currency, credit cards, car loans, home loans, Prop13 all sorts of ways to take all the gains, and screw future generations.
Thoughts like this is what makes Mamdani an Outsider.
It's contrary to the fascist belief system that Outsiders are good people.
#4 | POSTED BY SNOOFY
Less than 25 years after thousands of New Yorkers were killed on 9/11, the Chief Counsel of New York is going to be an Islamist lawyer who came to this country after 9/11 specifically to defend the very Al Qaeda terrorists we were fighting against.
Winning!
As I famously like to say, tolerance is the lube that helps slip the ----- of dysfunction into the ass of a civilized society.