THREAD: Bill Cosby set to be released from prison after court overturns sexual assault conviction trib.al/gyAK7yd
Pennsylvania’s highest court found on Wednesday that an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented Cosby from being charged for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand in 2004. Click here for the original conviction: trib.al/0lxpjb4
Charges were filed against Cosby in late 2015. Now 83, he served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence at a state prison near Philadelphia. The new ruling bars any retrial in the case, the Inquirer reported.
Cosby won the right to appeal the case last Tuesday, after being denied in the past. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to review two aspects of the case, which ultimately led to the overturned conviction. For that story click here: trib.al/3VhfpP5
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THREAD: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis edges out Trump in 2024 straw poll trib.al/OeDWsHT
DeSantis pulled in 74% approval to Trump’s 71% in a poll at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver. The poll was conducted among roughly 500 people in person at the conference and more online. The list included 31 candidates both Republican and Democrat.
The first-term governor, who has endeared himself to conservatives for bucking coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns and combating critical race theory as well as tech censorship in his state, hasn’t said he would mount a campaign in 2024.
THREAD: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) under fire for membership at an all-white beach club trib.al/ohhD0v7
Sen. Whitehouse is facing new scrutiny over his decades-long membership in an allegedly all-white private beach club, as he bills himself as a progressive and prominent critic of systemic racism — dismissing membership based on race as “a long tradition in Rhode Island.”
When Whitehouse initially ran for office in 2006, he disavowed his membership and pledged to quit “Bailey’s Beach Club.” Click here to see the new video of a GoLocal reporter confronting him on the issue trib.al/ohhD0v7
THREAD: Sex abuse rituals at NJ boarding school exposed — in cartoons by survivor trib.al/tbBIHnj
Cartoonist Glenn Head’s new critically acclaimed graphic memoir recounts his two traumatizing years at the now-defunct, Mendham, NJ boarding school, “Chartwell Manor.”
Former headmaster “Sir” Terence Michael Lynch is known as a serial sexual abuser who manipulated young boys into “cuddling sessions” after fondling and beating their nude bodies. Five decades later, Head’s memoir could help bring justice to his fellow victims.
THREAD: Fans with AstraZeneca vaccine won’t get into ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ trib.al/BSr3nyR
People looking to attend Springsteen’s Broadway show later this month will be denied if they’ve received the AstraZeneca vaccine, which hasn’t yet been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. For info about the show itself click here: trib.al/VEDhmTK
Guests will meet vaccination criteria if they’ve received a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech or Moderna vaccine at least 14 days earlier, or that same span with a Johnson & Johnson shot. There are no exceptions for AstraZeneca recipients.
THREAD: The World Health Organization accused of being “sexist and paternalistic” for advising women of childbearing age not to drink alcohol – family plans aside, according to a report trib.al/nvW6dwD
The UN agency’s draft global alcohol action plan for 2022-2030 urges countries to pay “appropriate attention to prevention” of consumption in certain groups, including teens and women of childbearing age, the UK’s Telegraph reported.
Matt Lambert, head of the Portman Group, slammed the WHO on Wednesday. “As well as being sexist and paternalistic, and potentially restricting the freedoms of most women, it goes well beyond their remit and is not rooted in science,” he said.