BREAKING🚨 A federal appeals court just ruled there is NO constitutional right to CLEAN drinking water — and no right to be told the truth by officials during a public health crisis. The full Fifth Circuit handed down the decision Friday in New Orleans, ending a lawsuit brought by four Jackson, Mississippi residents. Priscilla Sterling, Raine Becker, Shawn Miller and John Bennett said the city let lead leach into their drinking water and then told them it was safe to drink. State health department testing from 2010 to 2013 showed lead in Jackson's water increasing "at an alarming rate." The residents say the city ignored the warnings and switched part of Jackson from a safe groundwater source to corrosive surface water that was already pulling lead out of the pipes. Court records state several of Sterling's children have been diagnosed with lead poisoning, and that two other households are showing effects of lead poisoning or other contamination. Judge Kurt Engelhardt, writing for the majority, called the loss of clean water and honest information "grievous" and said it did "not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right." "We are skeptical that the right to not be harmed by lead-contaminated water fits within the right to bodily integrity," he wrote. He added there is no "constitutional right to truthful information from officials during a public health crisis." The court then listed what the poisoned residents can do instead: file tort claims in state court, petition legislatures, or elect representatives who will better manage the public water system. "The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing," Engelhardt wrote. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.
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BREAKING: OFF THE DEEP END! Trump’s king cosplay escalates into full emperor fantasies with DERANGED North America map. We now have to admit that we were wrong about Donald Trump wanting to be a king. Judging from Trump’s latest intentionally provocative post on Truth Social, it’s apparent that what he really wants to be is an Emperor! Posting an image of the entire North American continent covered in an American flag — including Canada, Mexico, and all the countries of Central America and the Carribean, with Greenland and Iceland thrown in for good measure — Trump is making no secret of his imperial ambitions. This is not a map of countries that Trump wants to beneficently cover with the umbrella of U.S. defense protection. This is a map of proposed conquest, abandoning the long-standing dedication of the American government to democracy and the self determination of people everywhere for an implied new American Empire. This is the kind of map you’d find on the desks of Hitler’s generals before the launch of the blitzkriegs invading the sovereign nations on Germany’s borders at the start of World War II. Ironically, Trump posted this fever dream of a Greater United States at a time when America’s power has never been lower than at any time in the last century — with its weapons depleted by a reckless and foolish war with Iran, the US economy weakening daily because of the Orange Menace’s insane and illegal tariffs, and Trump’s poll numbers falling so low that they’ll win any limbo contest around. Trump’s media strategy seems to be to release one or more outrageous statements every day in order to sway attention away from his massive failures, including the Iran fiasco, the increasingly authoritarian police state being deployed in service to the domination of the oligarch class, a deteriorating economy battered by increasing inflation and widening gaps in income inequality, and his own MASSIVE corruption. Yes, Trump is deliberately trolling us with ever more outrageous posts, testing to see exactly where the breaking point is for the American electorate. Now it’s up to us — and to how we vote in the November midterms — to show the naked emperor that we reached that breaking point a long time age. Please like and share if you think Trump’s imperial ambitions — and the wars that he’ll likely wage to achieve them — need to be condemned!
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BREAKING🚨🏳️🌈 A Tucson realtor’s racist, homophobic meltdown in first class ended with passengers duct-taping his HEAD to the seat—and his real estate firm firing him. Witnesses say he grabbed a passenger by the throat and bit a retired cop. Richard O’Lenick already hated flying. Now he was forced to pin down a 67-year-old man who looked him in the eye and said, “We’re all going to die. This plane is going to crash,” O’Lenick told the Daily Voice. The chaos started minutes earlier aboard American Airlines Flight 618 from Dallas to Newark. Layne Arthur Lundeen, 67, started yelling about Jesus and going to hell while shouting racist and homophobic slurs. When a Black flight attendant came over to calm him down, Lundeen called the attendant the N-word and used the F-slur. Then he turned on the passenger sitting beside him… Lundeen struck the man’s laptop and grabbed him around the throat. Juan Mejia, a retired New Jersey police officer sitting two rows ahead, turned around and saw Lundeen’s hands around the man’s neck. Mejia helped get the passenger out of the seat and away from Lundeen, then moved in beside him himself. O’Lenick joined him. A flight attendant handed them zip ties. They restrained Lundeen’s hands, but he kept fighting and managed to pull one free. He bit Mejia on the hand and forearm and tried to bite O’Lenick too. That is when the duct tape came out. They wrapped it around Lundeen’s hands, legs and body. He was still whipping his head around, trying to bite and headbutt them, so they taped his head back against the seat too, keeping his mouth and nose clear so he could breathe. The flight diverted to Baltimore. O’Lenick was using his own body weight to hold Lundeen down as the plane descended. When O’Lenick was finally told to return to his seat for landing, it lasted for about 15 seconds. Lundeen started fighting Mejia again, and O’Lenick went right back to help hold him down through touchdown. Police boarded the flight, removed the duct tape and zip ties, and arrested him. The Baltimore Banner reported, citing court records, that Lundeen then struck one of the officers in the chest. Lundeen suffered an open wound on his arm during the struggle. O’Lenick told The New York Times that when the adrenaline wore off, he noticed his pants were covered in Lundeen’s blood and had to change clothes. A cleaning crew spent an hour sanitizing the area before the flight could continue to Newark. Lundeen was arrested on assault and disorderly conduct charges and released the next day. The FBI is now reviewing the incident for possible federal charges. American Airlines said it doesn’t tolerate violence aboard its flights. Lundeen had been with Long Realty since 2013, serving as an associate broker and a vice president on its executive council. Long Realty just fired him.
good for the transmasculine guys -This transformative annual retreat centers Black transmasculine joy & brotherhood
This transformative annual retreat centers Black transmasculine joy & brotherhood: “I have yet to meet anybody that has said they don’t want to come back,” said the founder of the organization behind the event.
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