Matt Belcher

To increase profits private companies (charging residents up to $7K/month) are abusing public services

Illinois is a hot spot: Lift assists of fallen but non-injured residents account for 1 in 20 of all 911 fire calls, the highest proportion of any state

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Senior homes refuse to pick up fallen residents, dial 911. ‘Why are they calling us?’

Cities are frustrated by 911 calls from senior facilities to help residents off the floor or toilet. Some are now charging fees, but facilities keep calling.

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The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts

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Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police

The medical syringe has become a tool of control during police encounters, a practice that quietly spread based on questionable science.

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Much like trucking safety regulations, firearm safety rules aren’t optional guidelines but ironclad laws.

What the ‘Rust’ Shooting Case Is Really About:
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Opinion | What the ‘Rust’ Shooting Case Is Really About

The conviction of a “Rust” crew member in a tragic on-set death highlights what Hollywood must do to avoid fatal accidents in the future.

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NYTimes: The Question Is Not If Biden Should Step Aside. It’s How.

TL; DR Drop out @DNC convention and delegates pick a successor. Proximity of election creates incentive for disappointed losers to fall in line when convention battle doesn’t go their way

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Opinion | The Question Is Not If Biden Should Step Aside. It’s How.

Condense the nomination into the format that was originally designed for handling intraparty competition: the Democratic convention.

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“The most damaging things in politics are the things that confirm people’s pre-existing suspicions, and those are the things that travel very fast.”
—David Axelrod, one of the Democratic Party’s leading figures warning about how voters view Mr. Biden’s age

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Eight Words and a Verbal Slip Put Biden’s Age Back at the Center of 2024

A special counsel’s stinging report and an uneven White House appearance captured Democrats’ fears about President Biden and fueled Republicans as they try to cast him as weak.

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A lawsuit has been filed against a North Lawndale business following a mass shooting last Halloween weekend that left 15 people wounded

Aleksy Belcher accuses the venue & security firm of ignoring several red flags that could have kept patrons safe

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Lawsuit filed months after Halloween mass shooting in North Lawndale left 15 wounded

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson went on to condemn the violence and called for gun reform.

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What Boeing missed as it dumped costs & sped up production was the chance to make safety a cultural core & competitive advantage

Corporations can choose to push back against the Wall Street-driven notion that safety equals cost and thus lowers profit

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Opinion | Boeing Made a Change to Its Corporate Culture Decades Ago. Now It’s Paying the Price.

What will it take for the airline company to recover?

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Our motivation for being willfully ignorant is related to the way we like to perceive ourselves from a moral point of view

We often choose to be ignorant of the consequences of our actions to avoid making choices that are contrary to our vested interests

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Why Israelis don't want to know what's happening in Gaza, according to psychology research

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Pentagon assesses the 2006 conflict between IDF & Hezbollah as a strategic defeat for Israel—yet according to this WaPo article, the IDF has hit the US-funded & trained Lebanese Armed Forces 34-times despite knowing it remains ill-prepared to fight Hezbollah

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Israel’s talk of expanding war to Lebanon alarms U.S.

A U.S. intelligence assessment found that it would be difficult for Israel to succeed in a war against Hezbollah amid ongoing fighting in Gaza.

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The Question of Genocide in Australian History:

(Spoiler alert, the government denies it was a “genocide” on a technicality because the settlers didn’t intent to kill every single aboriginal)

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needless medical complications and unnecessary deaths for you, big big profits for private equity!!

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Andrew Royer involuntarily confessed to a murder in Indiana, judges ruled. Despite holes in the case, he served more than 16 years in prison.

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Man With Developmental Disabilities Settles Wrongful Conviction Suit for $11.7 Million

Andrew Royer involuntarily confessed to a murder in Indiana, judges ruled. Despite holes in the case, he served more than 16 years in prison.

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After brakeman Chris Cole lost both his legs on the job, railroad officials removed evidence before state regulators could see it, omitted key facts in reports and suspended him from a job he could never return to

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A Train Took His Legs and Career. His Employers at the Railroad Put the Blame on Him.

After brakeman Chris Cole lost both his legs on the job, railroad officials removed evidence before state regulators could see it, omitted key facts in reports and suspended him from a job he could ne...

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“If the manufacturer is not going to take safety seriously, it’s up to the federal government to make sure they’re standing up for others to ensure safety.

But safety does not seem to be the priority when it comes to @Tesla”

-NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy

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Tesla drivers run Autopilot where it’s not intended — with deadly consequences

A Post analysis reveals that people have died or been gravely injured in crashes where Tesla’s software should not have been enabled in the first place.

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That’ll do it.

But the larger question is how did this even happen?!?

Murder conviction overturned because eyewitness was legally blind:

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He’s always my example of why it’s great to be a white guy”

“He’s an unstoppable force of failing up”

There’s a joke in national security circles: “If a nuclear bomb was dropped on D.C., two forms of life would survive: cockroaches and Brett McGurk.”

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How A Deeply Controversial White House Adviser Is Running The Agenda On Gaza

Brett McGurk has sought to put a Saudi-Israeli relationship "at the forefront" of the U.S.'s Middle East policy — downplaying Palestinian concerns and human rights.

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“Israel prefers endless conflict to a Palestinian state.”

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Michael is among nine teens, ages 14 to 17, who illegally operated machinery at Florence Hardwoods LLC

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we must redesign our streets to force vehicles to drive slower so that human errors don’t lead to more
dead friends and neighbors

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Denver traffic safety advocates remembered the dead Sunday. Mayor

Experts say governments should redesign streets to force vehicles to drive slower so that human errors don't lead to fatalities.

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200 faculty members at Columbia Univ. walked out to protest the decision to suspend the groups, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace

“Where is your moral courage?” asks history professor Premilla Nadasen:

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Columbia Faces Protests After Suspending 2 Pro-Palestinian Groups

Students rallied after the university barred two groups from holding campus events until the end of the semester, and faculty members walked out in protest.

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2013: Until five years ago, the U.S. considered Mandela a terrorist. Both the State and Defense departments designated Mandela’s political party, the ANC, a terrorist group, and Mandela’s name remained on the U.S. terrorism watch list until 2008

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US government considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist until 2008

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Posting anything that does not sit staunchly with the Israeli state’s framing of the war leads to arrest

Defense lawyers and human rights advocates describe the move as a McCarthyite clampdown on the 20% of the Israeli citizens of Palestinian heritage

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Israel’s free speech crackdown: ‘War inside of a war’

Rights groups and free speech activists have decried a wave of arrests in Israel for alleged pro-Palestinian “incitement.”

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A $700,000 settlement with LAist correspondent Josie Huang, who was arrested and injured by sheriff’s deputies while covering a 2020 protest, includes a requirement that the Sheriff's Department re-train deputies on the rights of journalists.

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$700,000 Settlement With LAist Reporter Includes Re-Training Of LA Sheriff’s Deputies On Press Rig...

Josie Huang filed a claim with L.A. County after she was arrested and injured by deputies in 2020.

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When Israeli archives opened in the 1980s, records showed how Israeli operations, including psychological-warfare broadcasts, helped drive the exodus of the people now blockaded in Gaza

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Israeli operations uprooted Palestinians in 1948. Many fear a repeat.

“Surprise, long stints of shelling with extremely loud blasts, and loudspeakers in Arabic proved very effective when properly used,” an Israeli military report stated in 1948.

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All of the Biden administration’s great domestic policy gains are being treated as poker chips, mere fuel for a disastrous foreign policy gamble that may very well lose him the election

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It Would Be a Shame If You Sacrificed All This Good Domestic Policy In Order to Kill a Bunch of Kids

Biden is putting all his accomplishments at risk for a terrible reason.

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Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Zack Beauchamp

“Two things are true. Israel must do something, and what it’s doing now is indefensible.”

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Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Zack Beauchamp

The Oct. 31, 2023, episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

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"Roughly 80% of Israelis blame Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition government for the Hamas catastrophe"

Rubin: The closer you look, the more Netanyahu resembles Trump:

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Opinion | The closer you look, the more Netanyahu resembles Trump

Authoritarian bullies sound very similar.

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Running for Congress in 2016, he signed the congressional term limits pledge: “I pledge that as a member of Congress I will cosponsor and vote for the U.S. Term Limits amendment of three (3) House terms …”

He’s in his fourth term.

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55 Things You Need to Know About Mike Johnson

The surprise winner of the race for speaker of the House had one important ally in his come-from-nowhere bid: Donald Trump.

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