“I would think that given everything that has occurred, I think they’ll be reasonable about that,” Demings said. “Plus, the agreement is not between us and the state of Florida. The agreement is between us and the federal government.”
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State, municipal, and county police say that too and still have quotas. I'll believe it when they tightly reign it in and stop paying ICE $7 per arrest.
Aren't council elected? I'm unfamiliar with Chicago electoralism and hiring/firing policies, but a difficult to remove person who talked one way and performed another is certainly problematic, whether it's intentional or not. At the end of the day, in capitalism, people will fight tooth and nail to stay in a job where they are not only under qualified without hope of proper support and training for themselves, and they're also outright miserable, because bills still need paying and homelessness and hunger are still criminalized.
A lot of performance also depends on having the correct support in place, with a willingness and ability to quickly replace undermining elements.
Same with standard narratives. I saw a post mocking a news item posted as a meme, calling it unironically "fake news." A quick search turned it up on domestic and foreign news agencies.
The embargos need to go.
Looks sleep deprived!
The heart-shaped face sends me.
It probably is, for legal purposes.
Chicago Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, a strong campaign ally who has also criticized some of the mayor’s early decisions, noted how critics often trot out the word “socialism” to cast blame on Johnson for long-standing issues facing the city. It’s a phenomenon, she added, that Mamdani could similarly face. “People make this a bad word. People make this into something that it is not. Let’s just call all of this what it is: This is the way the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, because they get us fighting on s--- that just does not even matter,” she said.
In her 2019 book, Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding, Shalhoub-Kevorkian described how 11 years ago, during Israel’s 2014 onslaught against Gaza, Jerusalem's fanatical marchers in Tel Aviv were already celebrating the annihilation of Gaza’s children. Their chants were chilling: “In Gaza there’s no studying / No children are left there / There’s no school tomorrow / There’s no children left in Gaza! Oleh! / Gaza is a graveyard.”
Shame on Middle East Eye for the disclaimer at the end of the article.
Did you read it?
Surely unfair, crippling embargo has nothing to do with any of that.