NEW: The FBI arrested an open neo-Nazi Trump fan for allegedly threatening to "exterminate" every Hispanic person in Miami and trying to wire someone $25,000 to kidnap a Miami woman and stuff her in a Rubbermaid plastic tub. miaminewtimes.com/news/neo-nazi-…
"The time will come when Miami will burn to the ground — and every Latin Man be lined up against a Wall and Shot and every Latin Woman Raped or Cut to Pieces," Lin allegedly wrote via Facebook Messenger on August 8. miaminewtimes.com/news/neo-nazi-…
Eric Lin allegedly sent more than 150 pages of threats to a Miami woman & immigrant from Spain. After the FBI searched his accounts, they found he was trying to pay $10k to have someone beat her up, and then offered $25k to have the same person kidnap her miaminewtimes.com/news/neo-nazi-…
Lin also wrote: “I thank god every day Donald John Trump is President and that he will launch a Racial War and Crusade” against nonwhites and said he hoped Trump would put nonwhites in concentration camps miaminewtimes.com/news/neo-nazi-…
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Even if we win the title I want Doc Rivers run out of town with torches and pitchforks
How do you leave Georges Niang on the court for that long, how do you not recognize the Celtics came back once they put Horford on Joel, how do you not run plays to get Joel switches or go at Horford and get him into foul trouble
This is a bad idea but this actually seems like it's less "full-on fascism" than it is directly aimed at a few Florida-specific bloggers who pretty openly take money in exchange for positive coverage
"And in 2020, Matrix even harnessed the power of the press for itself, when its employees acquired control of The Capitolist, a Tallahassee-based political news site which it used for favorable coverage, leaked records show." theguardian.com/environment/20…
New series starting at @theappeal today: In 2015, LA County created a program to divert people w/ mental illness away from jail. But data @megoconnor13 obtained shows the number of ppl in jail with mental illness has instead grown significantly since then. Here’s why:
The infuriating aspect here: advocates say the county Office of Diversion and Reentry, which provides housing & services to ppl instead of jail, is *working.* It's just underfunded. Meanwhile, the LASD is eating up massive amounts of public $$
This stems from a failure of political will and imagination, in tandem with LASD & cops' control of "public safety" discourse. They could easily divert the ~6,000 w/ mental illness in jail to the existing housing/support program if it funded it over cops
This is a transparent PR play by the Louisville PD to get ahead of what even they admit will be a scathing DOJ investigation coming soon, pure propaganda but I’m glad the NYT doesn’t employ “activists” lol
This story is also a sympathetic profile of… this guy for some reason
The NYT got a ride-along and interviews with multiple cops on-record, including the chief, which are things departments do not do unless they know the coverage will benefit them!
New at @theappeal this morning from @TanaGaneva about how the “violent felon” label—which politicians & the press use to vilify people—can be wildly misleading. A “violent felony” could mean murder—or just a bar fight, purse snatching, or verbal threat theappeal.org/how-the-violen…
Reform & clemency efforts have overwhelmingly favored people convicted of nonviolent drug charges—almost all people sent home for COVID distancing were nonviolent drug offenders. But people classified as “violent” make up most of the prison system and are being left behind
People have been labeled “violent felons” for knocking an old woman to the ground while trying to steal her purse and pointing a realistic airsoft gun at cops without even firing it. Labeling people “violent” forever does little to help society. theappeal.org/how-the-violen…