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November 16, 2022
The 25-year-old "jumped or climbed" on top of the truck's trailer as it traveled down Eastex Freeway on Thursday morning, the Houston Police Department's Vehicular Crimes Division said in a statement Monday.
The driver was not aware that someone was on top of the moving truck, according to the release. Police added that the man was dancing and "possibly recording himself."
Footage taken of the man was shared on social media. In one clip, he appeared to duck underneath a freeway overpass before standing to his feet a seconds later. The clip cuts off before the truck reached another overpass
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People who witnessed the disturbing incident posted comments about it on Facebook.
"I saw the contorted body and broken neck and arm. It was horrible way to begin a day," wrote commenter Crystal Davis. "And I took the time to describe the imagery because, it was traumatic for myself and everyone actually there. EVERYONE had the look of, why? Why did this have to happen."
Man Seen Dancing on Top of an 18-Wheeler Dies When It Passes Under Freeway Overpass in Houston
https://people.com/human-interest/man-dies-when-18-wheeler-he-was-dancing-on-passes-under-freeway-bridge/The 25-year-old "jumped or climbed" on top of the truck's trailer as it traveled down Eastex Freeway on Thursday morning, the Houston Police Department's Vehicular Crimes Division said in a statement Monday.
The driver was not aware that someone was on top of the moving truck, according to the release. Police added that the man was dancing and "possibly recording himself."
Footage taken of the man was shared on social media. In one clip, he appeared to duck underneath a freeway overpass before standing to his feet a seconds later. The clip cuts off before the truck reached another overpass
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People who witnessed the disturbing incident posted comments about it on Facebook.
"I saw the contorted body and broken neck and arm. It was horrible way to begin a day," wrote commenter Crystal Davis. "And I took the time to describe the imagery because, it was traumatic for myself and everyone actually there. EVERYONE had the look of, why? Why did this have to happen."
November 16, 2022
“[Warnock] paid himself for childcare, all that stuff—why don’t he keep his own kids? Don’t have nobody keep your kids. You keep your kids. I keep my own, even though he lied about me,” Walker said. Walker appears to be referencing reporting from earlier this year that Warnock’s ex-wife, Ouluye Ndoye, filed a lawsuit for additional custody rights of their kids as well as a recalculation of his child support payments since his income increased after he was elected Senator in 2021. In August, the far-right outlet Breitbart News reported that Warnock had spent over $61,000 in campaign funds on childcare services.
What’s befuddling about Walker’s chosen line of attack is that, put lightly, he doesn’t really have a leg to stand on. Christian Walker, Walker’s only publicly known child, has accused his father of threatening to kill him and his mother, forcing them to move homes several times for their safety. Multiple women have accused Walker of intimate partner violence. And one of the two women who says Walker paid for their abortions, despite his stated support for abortion bans, also has a child with him, telling the Daily Beast Walker hasn’t seen their child in years. His communication with his young son, she claimed, was limited to sporadic texts, which she shared with the outlet, and occasional gifts.
The Daily Beast reporter who interviewed this woman said in a tweet that he showed her Walker’s Monday remarks about Warnock’s parenting, and she responded, “That cannot be real.”
Herschel Walker, of All People, Claims Raphael Warnock Doesn't 'Keep His Own Kids'
https://jezebel.com/herschel-walker-of-all-people-claims-raphael-warnock-1849785074“[Warnock] paid himself for childcare, all that stuff—why don’t he keep his own kids? Don’t have nobody keep your kids. You keep your kids. I keep my own, even though he lied about me,” Walker said. Walker appears to be referencing reporting from earlier this year that Warnock’s ex-wife, Ouluye Ndoye, filed a lawsuit for additional custody rights of their kids as well as a recalculation of his child support payments since his income increased after he was elected Senator in 2021. In August, the far-right outlet Breitbart News reported that Warnock had spent over $61,000 in campaign funds on childcare services.
What’s befuddling about Walker’s chosen line of attack is that, put lightly, he doesn’t really have a leg to stand on. Christian Walker, Walker’s only publicly known child, has accused his father of threatening to kill him and his mother, forcing them to move homes several times for their safety. Multiple women have accused Walker of intimate partner violence. And one of the two women who says Walker paid for their abortions, despite his stated support for abortion bans, also has a child with him, telling the Daily Beast Walker hasn’t seen their child in years. His communication with his young son, she claimed, was limited to sporadic texts, which she shared with the outlet, and occasional gifts.
The Daily Beast reporter who interviewed this woman said in a tweet that he showed her Walker’s Monday remarks about Warnock’s parenting, and she responded, “That cannot be real.”
November 15, 2022
But last Tuesday, Curtis voters went back to the polls and did something that, at first glance, seems to contradict their ultra-conservative image.
They voted down an ordinance that would have banned abortion within the city limits. They did so by a giant, 41-point margin.
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But the Curtis ordinance took things further. It included restrictions on businesses that entered into contracts with the city, stating they could not cover abortions in employee health insurance, cover travel costs if an employee needed to get to an abortion, or donate to abortion-related funds.
It would have tried to get Internet providers to restrict access to abortion-related websites within city limits, and blocked access to those websites in city-owned buildings and public libraries.
And it would have let people sue their neighbors for violating aspects of the ordinance.
“I’m pro-life. I’m against abortion. But I didn’t vote for this ordinance,” Welch said. “My gut feeling is that a lot of the town is probably pro-life.”
Even ruby red small towns vote down stupid abortion bans
https://flatwaterfreepress.org/abortion-ban-fails-in-small-nebraska-town-others-pass-some-narrowly/But last Tuesday, Curtis voters went back to the polls and did something that, at first glance, seems to contradict their ultra-conservative image.
They voted down an ordinance that would have banned abortion within the city limits. They did so by a giant, 41-point margin.
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But the Curtis ordinance took things further. It included restrictions on businesses that entered into contracts with the city, stating they could not cover abortions in employee health insurance, cover travel costs if an employee needed to get to an abortion, or donate to abortion-related funds.
It would have tried to get Internet providers to restrict access to abortion-related websites within city limits, and blocked access to those websites in city-owned buildings and public libraries.
And it would have let people sue their neighbors for violating aspects of the ordinance.
“I’m pro-life. I’m against abortion. But I didn’t vote for this ordinance,” Welch said. “My gut feeling is that a lot of the town is probably pro-life.”
November 15, 2022
Republicans admitting that generous voting processes hurt them
Read some discussions about this since red wave fizzled. Repubs, rank and file understand their hurdle to winning blue states..
The problem as they see it: Need to outlaw generous registration options and mailing ballots to all registered (as done in California) to turn state red but need state to be controlled by repubs to do so..so caught in trap
Whats interesting is they dont even pretend they think "illegal voters" are voting in these blue states.. On freeperville someone called them "disorganized voters" .. They dont want them voting
What they want..super tight registration process. No mail in ballots.. And counting ballots only on election day.
Weird to see Americans invested in blocking eligible adults from voting. They recognize that part of Florida going red is by keeping it harder to reg and vote
November 15, 2022
Karen Bass has continued to build on her lead over Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayor’s race, according to an updated tally of results released Monday that showed the congresswoman leading the real estate developer 52.15% to 47.85% nearly a week after polls closed.
Karen Bass's (Dem) lead over Caruso ( repub running as Dem) expands to 29,000. LA mayor race
https://www.latimes.com/Karen Bass has continued to build on her lead over Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayor’s race, according to an updated tally of results released Monday that showed the congresswoman leading the real estate developer 52.15% to 47.85% nearly a week after polls closed.
November 15, 2022
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1590571257262903296
https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1591095294732558336
The reasons are many and complicated, and have little to do with the Stepman/Berry/Vance caricature. It would be interesting, for one, to further break down the results by race and ethnicity. Black women are less likely to be married than white women by 30 percentage points (32 percent vs. 62 percent in 2018), and they vote Democratic even more reliably than black men.
Comparisons between single women and single men are also affected by the fact that for some time now, women have been more likely than men to attend college, another key predictor of voting Democratic. By 2019, 33 percent of single women but only 26 percent of single men had completed at least a bachelor’s degree. (Obviously, education is not the sole determining factor, since married women are even more likely to have a bachelor’s degree, at 43 percent.)
Single women are also the lowest-earning marital demographic, and lower-income voters are more likely to vote for Democrats.
But obviously, this year, the gender gap—particularly stark among singles—has also been driven by the backlash against Dobbs and anti-abortion legislation in many red states. Contrary to the “all they want is the right to kill their babies” rhetoric, women for whom abortion is the dominant issue tend to frame it not as a matter of their own right to get an abortion but as a “war on women” in which abortion opponents are motivated primarily by fear and hatred of female autonomy. I believe, despite being pro-choice, that this is far too simplistic an interpretation of right-to-life advocacy. But when conservatives respond to unfavorable election results with imprecations against single women and start to echo the more fetid corners of the online “manosphere” with slurs about “cat ladies,” it doesn’t exactly do a lot to rebut the charge that the right’s real agenda is to restore patriarchy and bring those pesky independent females to heel. “It’s the misogyny, stupid” is a message that comes through loud and clear.
Some pundits on the right have decided that unmarried women are at fault for the GOP's electoral dys
https://www.thebulwark.com/blame-all-the-single-ladies/https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1590571257262903296
https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1591095294732558336
The reasons are many and complicated, and have little to do with the Stepman/Berry/Vance caricature. It would be interesting, for one, to further break down the results by race and ethnicity. Black women are less likely to be married than white women by 30 percentage points (32 percent vs. 62 percent in 2018), and they vote Democratic even more reliably than black men.
Comparisons between single women and single men are also affected by the fact that for some time now, women have been more likely than men to attend college, another key predictor of voting Democratic. By 2019, 33 percent of single women but only 26 percent of single men had completed at least a bachelor’s degree. (Obviously, education is not the sole determining factor, since married women are even more likely to have a bachelor’s degree, at 43 percent.)
Single women are also the lowest-earning marital demographic, and lower-income voters are more likely to vote for Democrats.
But obviously, this year, the gender gap—particularly stark among singles—has also been driven by the backlash against Dobbs and anti-abortion legislation in many red states. Contrary to the “all they want is the right to kill their babies” rhetoric, women for whom abortion is the dominant issue tend to frame it not as a matter of their own right to get an abortion but as a “war on women” in which abortion opponents are motivated primarily by fear and hatred of female autonomy. I believe, despite being pro-choice, that this is far too simplistic an interpretation of right-to-life advocacy. But when conservatives respond to unfavorable election results with imprecations against single women and start to echo the more fetid corners of the online “manosphere” with slurs about “cat ladies,” it doesn’t exactly do a lot to rebut the charge that the right’s real agenda is to restore patriarchy and bring those pesky independent females to heel. “It’s the misogyny, stupid” is a message that comes through loud and clear.
November 14, 2022
Unarmed Bystander vs assault rifle
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/yv6zu4/guy_tried_to_shoot_up_a_methadone_clinic_in/
November 14, 2022
Rightwing talk radio this morn: host "election results not that bad" callers "disaster!"
November 14, 2022
Jay leno in burn center with severe face burns..care related fire
https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/14/jay-leno-car-fire-burn-center-serious-injury-cancel-vegas/
November 14, 2022
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Buoyed by high inflation and a Democratic president whose popularity is hovering around 40 percent, Republicans hyped a red wave that would lead to huge gains in both Houses of Congress and in statewide races nationally. Yet, this red wave amounted to more of a trickle, in no small part because of the new abortion landscape that has emerged in wake of the Dobbs decision.
The overturning of Roe was broadly unpopular — my organization, Public Religion Research Institute, found last month in our 2022 AVS Survey that just 35 percent of Americans favored this decision. More importantly, Democrats are now more likely than Republicans to say they would only vote for candidates who shared their position on abortion, 35 percent to 21 percent, respectively. This finding is a striking reversal from 2020 when Republicans (32 percent) were more likely than Democrats (17 percent) to say they would only vote for a candidate who shares their views on abortion.
The survey was conducted in September among a representative sample of 2,523 adults (age 18 and up) living in all 50 states who are part of Ipsos’s Knowledge Panel.
Making abortion illegal in all cases is an extreme position that finds virtually no support nationally — just 8 percent of Americans agree with this position according to the 2022 AVS Survey. Yet, the nomination of many Republican candidates who supported outright bans on the procedure hurt GOP chances more broadly — and was also likely unpopular among many Republican voters, too. While most Republicans have historically opposed widespread access to abortion, support for complete abortion bans has recently decreased among Republicans. In just two years, the percentage of Republicans nationally that favored making abortion illegal in all cases fell from 23 percent to just 11 percent — a dramatic decline.
The GOP may have reached the political limit of abortion extremism
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3731229-the-gop-may-have-reached-the-political-limit-of-abortion-extremism/...
Buoyed by high inflation and a Democratic president whose popularity is hovering around 40 percent, Republicans hyped a red wave that would lead to huge gains in both Houses of Congress and in statewide races nationally. Yet, this red wave amounted to more of a trickle, in no small part because of the new abortion landscape that has emerged in wake of the Dobbs decision.
The overturning of Roe was broadly unpopular — my organization, Public Religion Research Institute, found last month in our 2022 AVS Survey that just 35 percent of Americans favored this decision. More importantly, Democrats are now more likely than Republicans to say they would only vote for candidates who shared their position on abortion, 35 percent to 21 percent, respectively. This finding is a striking reversal from 2020 when Republicans (32 percent) were more likely than Democrats (17 percent) to say they would only vote for a candidate who shares their views on abortion.
The survey was conducted in September among a representative sample of 2,523 adults (age 18 and up) living in all 50 states who are part of Ipsos’s Knowledge Panel.
Making abortion illegal in all cases is an extreme position that finds virtually no support nationally — just 8 percent of Americans agree with this position according to the 2022 AVS Survey. Yet, the nomination of many Republican candidates who supported outright bans on the procedure hurt GOP chances more broadly — and was also likely unpopular among many Republican voters, too. While most Republicans have historically opposed widespread access to abortion, support for complete abortion bans has recently decreased among Republicans. In just two years, the percentage of Republicans nationally that favored making abortion illegal in all cases fell from 23 percent to just 11 percent — a dramatic decline.
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