quote [ Katy, Robert, and Cody went to Midwest FurFest. They left with a tale of a Nazi terrorist attack, and a useful guide to surviving the worst year ever, together. ]

quote [ Venezuela?s special diplomatic envoy, Alex Saab, was extradited to the United States on Saturday October 16 after being detained in Cape Verde for 491 days. Saab was arrested in Cape Verde on June 12, 2020 at the request of the US government when his plane was refueling at the Amilcar Cabral International Airport on the island of Sal. Following his extradition on Saturday, the Venezuelan government released an official statement condemning Saab?s ?kidnapping? by the US with complicity of Cape Verdean authorities. ]

quote [ Daniel Baker?s calls for armed defense against possible far-right attacks led to a much harsher sentence than that facing most insurrectionists. ]

quote [ The yearning for the appearance of some group of professionals that somehow saves us from the worst kind of mess can therefore be read as a projection of a deeper kind of anxiety that plagues the present radical zeitgeist, the realization that peaceful mass-mobilizations will likely not be able to avert a climate catastrophe. ]

quote [ Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge. ]

quote [ "This ruling was done to deter ANYONE from crossing corporate special interests." ]

quote [ The Void. We all feel it, to varying degrees. And we all try to fill it in different ways. In this episode of Filling the Void, a collaboration between Vic B... ]

quote [ Since 2013, the Tampa Police Department has taken a hands-on role at more than 100 apartment communities, sending notices to landlords when their tenants are arrested or stopped by officers and encouraging their eviction.

The program, known as Crime-Free Multi Housing, was marketed to landlords as a way to keep violent crime and drug and gang activity off their properties.

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But the program also swept up more than 100 people who were arrested for misdemeanors ? and dozens more whose charges were later dropped, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.

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And roughly 90 percent of the 1,100 people flagged by the program were Black, police records show. That?s despite Black residents making up only 54 percent of all arrests in Tampa over the past eight years. ]

quote [ British investigation: Gaddafi was not going to massacre civilians; Western bombing made Islamist extremism worse ]

quote [ A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appears to be accurate based on new empirical data.

As the world looks forward to a rebound in economic growth following the devastation wrought by the pandemic, the research raises urgent questions about the risks of attempting to simply return to the pre-pandemic ?normal.? ]