According to the mayor, while federal agents in violation of the order would not be arrested by Chicago police, the city will take the federal government to court if necessary.

So yeah… nope, they’re not going to enforce it.

Bold-faced has been used at least since the late 1900s https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced

With Newsom’s signature, now it’s up to the voters to decide whether to temporarily sidestep the state’s independent redistricting commission

How temporary is “temporary”? I can’t find it in the article

Source?

And I fully agree with your statement, but the article is also going out and calling things false when in reality we simply have no evidence for them (see the last quote in my comment above).

But when Alito referenced a systematic review conducted for the Cass report in England, Strangio conceded the point. “There is no evidence in some—in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide,” he said. “And the reason for that is completed suicide, thankfully and admittedly, is rare, and we’re talking about a very small population of individuals with studies that don’t necessarily have completed suicides within them.”

And then

Advocates of the open-science movement often talk about “zombie facts”—popular sound bites that persist in public debate, even when they have been repeatedly discredited. Many common political claims made in defense of puberty blockers and hormones for gender-dysphoric minors meet this definition

Ok, I get the idea that there might be no scientific evidence for gender affirming care reducing suicide rate, but “no evidence” is not the same as “discredited”: it might still be true, and in fact, anectodal evidence probably suggest it’s true, but we don’t have enough data to confirm that.

The conclusion should be “we need more data” rather than taking about zombie facts.

And the article continue to conflate “no evidence” with falsehood:

But the movement has spent the past decade telling gender-nonconforming children that anyone who tries to restrict access to puberty blockers and hormones is, effectively, trying to kill them. This was false, as Strangio’s answer tacitly conceded.

No, it’s not false, or at least, we can’t conclude that from not enough evidence.

Not disagreeing, especially as of lately…

They’re using what little leverage they have, and for once, without bombing or killing people. Surprisingly rational. Still a shitty regime, especially the way they treat their own citizens, but anyways…

I don’t give a shit about Iranian regime, but I do care for their innocent civilians. Just like I don’t care for Israel’s regime (and the … US regime, as well), but I do care for their innocent civilians. The difference with Israel and USA is, though, that they voted for their regime, so, many of them aren’t so innocent.

Still, as usual, the people who suffer the most are always the ones who never wanted any of this.

Not sure what crypto we’re talking about here, but most crypto coins (e.g. bitcoin) are also easily traceable, as all transactions are public. It’s true that they’re not reversible and that certainly offer less protection than a bank account, but also offer other things e.g. more privacy and decentralized infrastructure, which can be useful even to non criminals.

Also once again, if one needs absolutely no traceablilty (ok fine, almost no traceability) then cash is still king and criminals use that as well, or sometimes gift cards and prepaid cards. Should we ban cash and gift cards? (hmm gift cards maybe…)

What I’m trying to say is, crypto is just a tool and it’s up to us to use it in a good or bad way. Unfortunately, most people seem to have chosen the second option.

This could’ve easily happened over his bank account online password instead of crypto, don’t blame crypto here, blame human greed.

That’s a far cry from genocide though

A cutlery knife is not a butter knife, most are sharp and definitely capable of killing someone. Again doesn’t justify the cops acting in such disproportionate manner, but … definitely not the same as a straw.

Fully agree the cops went too far with how they treated him, definitely didn’t deserve to die.

Ok, I understand the officers likely used excessive force and this guy maybe had dementia or something but …

Burgess […] was seen poking a care worker in the stomach with a cutlery knife

Sorry, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for this old man.

“pro life”

I guess I misunderstood what you meant. I stand by my words though: If a mother, who wanted the child, is now all of a sudden braindead, it makes a lot of sense to try to save the baby. This is of course not the case in the article, because the fetus is not in good conditions and probably dead already, so I agree in this case it makes no sense.

Yes, generally if a mother was pregnant and now she’s braindead, it makes sense to keep her alive until her child is born, but if you read the article, the fetus suffered complications and is likely braindead as well, so it might be a stillbirth or just suffer and not live for very long, so it’s a bit more complicated

Al Jazeera is fine, not perfect (who is?), but definitely fine

The usual “free speech as long as you agree with me”