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whenever people talk about using the ADA to force institutions to make people wear masks for you, especially doctor's offices, i laugh and laugh and laugh.
all this idea tells me is that you have never tried to use the ADA. you can make ADA accommodation requests until your face turns blue and the likelihood is that you will get absolutely nowhere, especially with medical providers.
no one is more ableist than medical providers, and the ADA has no teeth. it is enforced entirely by lawsuits from disabled people. so, it is not enforced. because what disabled people have the money, time, and resources to sue? given that we can easily encounter dozens of ADA violations per day?
you want to test the ADA's power over medical providers? try and get them to communicate with you any way other than by phone. good luck.
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The US Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The ruling does not apply to all cases in which biometrics are used to unlock an electronic device but is a significant decision in an unsettled area of the law.
The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit had to grapple with the question of "whether the compelled use of Payne's thumb to unlock his phone was testimonial," the ruling in United States v. Jeremy Travis Payne said. "To date, neither the Supreme Court nor any of our sister circuits have addressed whether the compelled use of a biometric to unlock an electronic device is testimonial."
A three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit ruled unanimously against Payne, affirming a US District Court's denial of Payne's motion to suppress evidence. Payne was a California parolee who was arrested by California Highway Patrol (CHP) after a 2021 traffic stop and charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, fluorofentanyl, and cocaine.
There was a dispute in District Court over whether a CHP officer "forcibly used Payne's thumb to unlock the phone." But for the purposes of Payne's appeal, the government "accepted the defendant's version of the facts, i.e., 'that defendant's thumbprint was compelled.'"
Payne's Fifth Amendment claim "rests entirely on whether the use of his thumb implicitly related certain facts to officers such that he can avail himself of the privilege against self-incrimination," the ruling said. Judges rejected his claim, holding "that the compelled use of Payne's thumb to unlock his phone (which he had already identified for the officers) required no cognitive exertion, placing it firmly in the same category as a blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."
"When Officer Coddington used Payne's thumb to unlock his phone—which he could have accomplished even if Payne had been unconscious—he did not intrude on the contents of Payne's mind," the court also said.
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so matt's absolutely giving scorched earth orders behind the scenes right. Not only are publically visible transfems dropping like flies, but every third person who musters up the audacity to comment negatively on Staff or Matt about this vanishes fucking instantly
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I didn’t want to disrupt the post about hostile architecture I saw because it’s true that the main target is homeless people but I did want to mention that this architecture also hurts people who aren’t skinny. I want to preface this all by saying I am in no way trying to minimize how this impacts people experiencing homelessness I am just trying to add on to the discussion of how these are bad.
You think that someone who can’t fit into those weird little yellow seats is going to feel comfortable? No. It will only make them feel bad or excluded.
Look at this shit. It’s not good or nice.
It only adds to the ways fat people are made feel unwelcome and though we already needed to tear this shit down because it makes life a million times worse for people experiencing homelessness and so this isn’t saying this is why you should tear it down. It is saying that our society is fatphobic and that sucks.
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I am now on the 4th call to establish a new primary care provider who actually takes my insurance.
The place they assigned me to automatically has a phone message stating that they are so short staffed that they are not currently answering the phone lines or taking messages.
The second place had a phone tree that literally had infinite loops, and once I realized I had to lie to get a human operator I was told their current patient waitlist is 400 people.
The third place ALSO does not have any operators, but if you leave a message they claim they will get back to you in 3-5 business days, one assumes to tell me that they are not accepting new patients.
Hopefully the fourth place is a charm!
It is clear that the US is actually facing severe health care shortages, to the point where I'm shocked it's not a national scandal dominating news headlines.
I suspect it's because our system has been so shit for so long that people are inured to shortages and going without, and see it as a fact of life.
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Israelis are now banned from entering the Maldives
In a bold step taken by the Maldives government, Israeli passport holders have been banned from visiting the country in a move of solidarity with the Palestinians.
Source: Mintpress
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My boy Muu is going to be a champion!
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i love when a mutual i havent seen in a while appears in my notifs again and is still my mutual. hugging you happy you are still here yayyy
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I think it's fairly safe to say at this point that the overwhelming majority of transfems on this website are feeling pretty fatalistic about their general lack of safety here and the high probability their blog will eventually get termed. This bleak sentiment doesn't occur in a vacuum and staff needs to recognize that their moderation systems, both on the automated side and their user generated reporting system, unfairly targets transfems. It's not enough to say, "we've got trans folks on staff!" Your entire method of moderating the terms of services needs an overhaul.
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I wake up to a blue light,
my phone’s warning of a news alert:
50 people are dead
I rub my eyes and grab my glasses
because I must have read that wrong:
50 people are dead
I start opening articles, grogily
hoping to find a lower count, but
50 people are dead
it wasn’t until the third link
that I read the whole title:
50 people are dead
in an Orlando gay bar, club,
a safe place, accepting, and
50 people are dead
because one man’s hate
can shoot a machine gun into a crowd until
50 people are dead
in a place they came to be themselves,
their acceptance was met with violence and
50 people are dead
my community is grieving again
striving for strength to not sink in the stats and
50 people are dead
already politicians offer
prayers and thoughts but
50 people are dead
they blame a religion
to not talk about hate, but
50 people are dead
for being gay
and there are “christians” celebrating that
50 people are dead
“because at least they were perverts”
because gay means it’s okay that
50 people are dead
conservatives are quick to complain
“don’t politicize this tragedy” cause
50 people are dead
but they’ve politicized gay lives,
governed their love, but now that
50 people are dead
this is not about politics.
blame Islam and ISIS, not guns, but
50 people are dead
the deadliest mass shooting
and the US can only acknowledge that
50 people are dead
more injured, struggling
and their family can’t help them because
50 people are dead
but it’s still illegal for a gay man
to donate blood
50 people are dead
one man, two guns,
and he didn’t break a law until
50 people are dead
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"If you have a racist friend, now is the time for the friendship to end"
Seen in Berlin
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Their April report, ‘IKEA: Smart Outside, Rotten Inside’, details at least 50 suspected violations of EU or Romanian legislation, and poor forest management practices.
These include clear-cutting biodiverse woodlands, exceeding allowed maximum extracted wood volume, and failing to preserve trees high in biodiversity such as old oak, beech and dead wood.
Its report, ‘Assemble the Truth: Old Growth Forest Destruction in the Romanian Carpathians’, claims that at least seven suppliers for IKEA’s leading wood products were linked to the “systematic destruction” of old growth forests, including two Natura 2000 protected sites.
In 2019, IKEA consumed one tree every second, according to non-profit Earthsight - and it continues to expand, owning over 2,800 square kilometres of forest worldwide. More than 500 square kilometres are in Romania, making it the country’s largest private landowner.
thank god for scandinavian capitalism with a human face
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