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Rochester Cop in Hot Water After Handcuffing EMT Trying to Care for Patient
Via: Revillug • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 4 Likes • 2 years ago
“The officer was reportedly infuriated that the EMT hit his squad car with the ambulance door—and demanded she immediately hand over identification.”
In a video of the incident obtained by News 10, the EMT can be seen standing next to a colleague at the hospital check-in desk with the patient on a stretcher. The investigator, who is wearing a red shirt, then rushes toward the EMT, pushing her into a wall before handcuffing her and escorting...
Watch New York City's Weird PSA on What to Do in Nuclear War
Via: Revillug • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 years ago
“Watch the Department of Emergency Management's strange PSA on what to do if New York is hit with a nuclear bomb. Eric Adams's Administration Is...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5d7V4Sbqk
Lauren Boebert Denies Her Husband Exposed His Penis in a Bowling Alley: Book
Via: Revillug • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 2 years ago
“Two women alleged that Jayson Boebert exposed his penis to them at a Colorado bowling alley in 2004. He was arrested and jailed.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert stands by her "hunky" husband in her new memoir, writing that Jayson Boebert never exposed his penis in a bowling alley bar in 2004, despite being arrested, pleading guilty, and serving jail time for public indecency and lewd exposure.
The worst virus variant just arrived. The pandemic is not over.
Via: Revillug • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 years ago
“The arrival of subvariant BA.5 should be a reminder that the finish line in this race is nowhere to be seen.”
BA.5 “is the worst version of the virus that we’ve seen.” He adds, “It takes immune escape, already extensive, to the next level, and, as a function of that, enhanced transmissibility,” well beyond earlier versions of omicron.
Editorial: The day could be approaching when Supreme Court rulings are openly defied
Via: Revillug • News & Politics • 35 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 years ago
“The breakdown of U.S. Supreme Court legitimacy may already have begun as the public perception of the court morphs from one of respectful...”
The court’s politicization is no longer something justices can hide. The three most recent arrivals to the bench misled members of Congress by indicating they regarded Roe v. Wade as settled law, not to be overturned. Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife is an open supporter of former President...
Culture War Red Meat Is All the GOP Serves the Working Class
Via: Revillug • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 1 Like • 2 years ago
“Republicans want to strip workers of benefits, legal protections, and Social Security—but at least they own the libs!”
...the nature of the culture war is to polarize, rather than unite, the working class. Every position in the economic ladder is occupied by people with both liberal and conservative cultural sensibilities.
Opinion | The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don't Count - The New York Times
Via: Revillug • Op/Ed • 38 Comments • 5 Likes • 2 years ago • LOCKED
“Tolerance for one group doesn't need to mean intolerance for another.”
The right’s position here is the better known, the movement having aggressively dedicated itself to stripping women of fundamental rights for decades. Thanks in part to two Supreme Court justices who have been credibly accused of abusive behavior toward women, Roe v. Wade, nearly 50 years a...
Texas Republicans Get Deadly Serious About Secession - The Bulwark
Via: Revillug • News & Politics • 17 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 years ago
“The Lone Star State's GOP plays with fire.”
The past few years...have seen a qualitative shift in organized support for cracking Texas off from the United States. In part, that shift has been motivated by malign foreign elements, most especially out of Russia. In addition to Texas secessionists flying to Moscow multiple times throughout...
Guns banned in Times Square, other ‘sensitive locations’ under New York firearms law revised after Supreme Court ruling
Via: Revillug • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 1 Like • 2 years ago
““It’s crucial to the recovery of our local economy, including Broadway, that Times Square be a gun-free zone and that its 50 million annual...”
New York’s Democrat-controlled Legislature on Friday night passed sweeping new restrictions that bar carrying concealed weapons in a host of places including Times Square as well as subways, buses, bars, government buildings, houses of worship, schools, libraries, playgrounds, parks, homeless...