IIRC before these changes take affect, Mexico’s President appoints (at least supreme) court judges who have tenure for 15 years. The ruling party is arguing for these changes to combat corruption. Rumor is that the Mexican legal system is corrupt af, and I haven’t seen any alternatives proposed by the opposition in (English) coverage of the protests, but we’ll see how electing judges goes I guess.

Cause it’s a fucking dope sticker.

The incidents on the border mission that led to troops dying have varied. Some of the soldier deaths reported include one who died from a medical emergency at a hotel where troops were staying in McAllen, and another who was accidentally shot in Fort Clark Springs. Two other soldiers died in a traffic accident in Laredo — one in the accident and the other by suicide in the minutes after the crash. At least four additional soldiers have died by suicide while assigned to the border.

• the Sergeant who drowned trying to save people in the Rio Grande

This article is a ride and it makes this national guard deployment look even worse.

Yeah, this is a manifestation of those horny thoughts that go too far unfortunately. I’m unsure how you would even tackle this problem

Petulant children

I love this, but I would like to state that Media Bias Fact Check seems to have a pro-Israel bias.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mondoweiss/

• Overall, we rate Mondoweiss as Left Biased and Questionable due to the blending of opinion with news, the promotion of pro-Palestinian and anti-zionist propaganda, occasional reliance on poor sources, and hate group designation by third-party pro-Israel advocates.

I feel like “blending of opinion with news” and “occasional reliance on poor sources” is all that really need be said.

“Overall, we rate Mondoweiss as Left Biased and Questionable due to the blending of opinion with news, the promotion of pro-Palestinian and anti-zionist propaganda, occasional reliance on poor sources, and hate group designation by third-party pro-Israel advocates. (D. Van Zandt 3/4/2017) Updated (12/07/2023)“

Gonna be honest here, kinda disappointed in mediabiasfactcheck for using the “hate group designation by third-party pro-Israel advocates“ as a measure of credibility while also stating they don’t fact check this source. Brings down my view of them which sucks cause I liked them.

I appreciate Darkthoughts for linking the credibility measure for discussion though. More posts need that.

This is some “I have to be here on the weekend and I’m gambling the biosafety officer won’t notice” kinda shit lmao

The rates of colorectal cancer are increasing in young adults. It’s best you start earlier so that problematic polyps and adenomas can be removed before they get worse.

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/with-colorectal-cancer-rates-rising-among-younger-adults-a-yale-cancer-center-expert-explains-there-may-be-more-factors-behind-this-worrisome-trend/#:~:text=Nearly double the number of,by the American Cancer Society.

No one’s perfect.

Confirmation being another credible source reporting on this story. I’m finding many sources with “Hamas claims Israel killed 3 hostages in bombing” from a week ago, but no follow ups.

I don’t think it’s controversial to say Israel likely killed 3 hostages with their bombing, but this Gray Zone article points out that the abductee had a video from captivity about his wife and children dying, which is just excellent Hamas propaganda true or not.

I’d expect at least other anti-Israeli sources like Al-jazeera to be reporting on this story as well, but when I just checked it didnt(?).

It also quotes random sources like an Israeli tv producer? I’ve read Fox News propaganda pieces very similar to this quoting a lot of secondary sources so I’m skeptical atm.

I’d like more confirmation on this story.

The Gray Zone has mixed factual reporting and seems to have a penchant of being so anti-west that they downplay Russian, Chinese, and Syrian government problems.

If you don’t have a lot to fear from a right-wing dictatorship I guess all you can do is vote against it.

If you’re someone who does have something to fear from a right-wing dictatorship, begin thinking about preparations to hide, run, fight etc. because unsurprisingly every right-wing dictatorship has a high body count.

Still hoping common sense wins out, and unlike a lot of other countries that went dictatorship the military doesn’t have the same relative power and authority, but it’s best to have some plans for the problems that could occur.

Imagine being this vocally stupid

You have exposed my vanilla-ness

As long as he can consent I guess lmao

It’s mostly the leather gimp suit on Pluto

Mega “Hmmm” vibes

I’ve never understood this line of thinking. Can someone explain why there’s a “don’t speak ill of the dead” sentiment?

Death is the great equalizer and I definitely celebrate when people who think themselves and act higher than their fellow humans die.