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What made you switch from Reddit to the Lemmy app? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good in c/economy@lemmy.world
[–] 1 point 9 months ago

Anyone with the discipline and time for keeping a budget benefits a lot from BNPL schemes set specifically at zero percent interest. Put the cash you would have spent in a low yield savings account, then move that cash to checking to make the payment when the payment is due. Mitigates the costs of the natural rate of inflation.

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    Don Lemon Taken Into Custody in c/news@lemmy.world
    Don Lemon arrested by federal authorities, his attorney says in c/news@lemmy.world
    [–] 50 points 9 months ago

    Its almost like ICE wants to scare off media organizations from reporting on Minneapolis (1) to keep the wider public in the dark and (2) to protect its officers.

    More reporters in Minneapolis keeping this front and center for the public would be good imo.

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    Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest in c/news@lemmy.world
    “I Didn’t Vote to Lose My Job”: DOGE Destroys $1.2 Trillion Industry as Rural Workers Bear the Cost in c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world
    [–] 101 points 10 months ago* (10 children)

    Folks from rural areas prioritize cultural signaling for conservativism over economic growth. I'd hazard that Mr. Zink would probably vote Trump again, given the opportunity, if the opposite candidate publicly supported trans rights or was just a Democratic black woman.

    Edit:

    Goosechase.jpg "You won't meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn't vote for this"

    "WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN"

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    The world according to ICE part 4 in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
    [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago

    Iirc:

    The same officer who killed Renee Good stuck his hand in the window of a car driven by a convicted sex offender earlier this year, and refused to let go when the sex offender started driving away, attempting all sorts of nonlethal force like a taser, until the sex offender crashed.

    There is some dispute over whether the officer was truly "stuck" or just held on in order to have greater charges against the convicted sex offender. What is indisputable, is that the officer never attempted to use his gun in that moment, while he did use it on Renee Good.

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    • The world according to ICE part 4 in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
    The world according to ICE part 3 in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
    The world according to ICE part 5 in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
    The world according to ICE part 2 in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
    The world according to ICE part 5 in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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    The Recent Minneapolis ICE Incident and Barnes v. Felix (lemmy.world)
     

    Just an interesting, very simple low-citation long-shot descriptive outcome as a result of the Minneapolis shooting and a very recent supreme court ruling:

    Thousands gather in Minneapolis to mourn woman killed by ICE agent : NPR

    "The footage shows multiple officers near an SUV stopped in the middle of the road. One officer demands the driver exit the vehicle and grabs the car handle. The SUV reverses, then begins to drive forward, which is when a different officer near the front of the car pulls his weapon and fires into the vehicle. Three gunshots are heard, as the firing officer backs away from the SUV. Moments later, the vehicle crashes."

    https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5670289/ice-minneapolis-shooting-immigration-crackdown

    There is a remote possibility the Justices will eventually use the yesterdays shooting in Minneapolis as a vehicle to revamp legal doctrines of "flight," and reducing or eliminating the legal doctrines on use of force and noncompliance in line with the concurrence in Barnes v. Felix, where Kavanagh takes pains to describe potential situations in which simply starting the ignition of a vehicle - which is less indicative of "flight" than what happened in Minneapolis - would nevertheless qualify as "flight."

    Barnes v. Felix - Harvard Law Review https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-139/barnes-v-felix/

    This is particularly more likely if a local prosecutor seeks to hold the officer that shot at the driver, responsible, as a state can prosecute a federal official so long as, broadly speaking: "When federal officials act beyond the scope of their duties, violate federal law, or behave in an egregious or unwarranted manner, state prosecutions can move forward."

    These possibilities, in practice, typically require a federal court to rule. This means before a criminal trial at the state level could proceed, a federal court must rule on whether an officer did the above. The second or third broad category a federal court would rule on provide the legal background to revamp legal precedent on the use of deadly force in the context of flight or noncompliance.

    Explainer: Can States Prosecute Federal Officials? Posted on July 17, 2025 Bryna Godar, Staff Attorney PDF Available Here Published: July 17, 2025 https://statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/2025/explainer-can-states-prosecute-federal-officials/#_ftnref41

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