@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
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May 05, 2026
GrumpyOldFart
@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
I’m an elderly lefty, living in South West England who’s looking for a nice place in the fediverse where I can share/ learn/ politely disagree etc with others & (occasionally) vent my frustrations & concerns about the parlous state of the world that my grandkids are growing up in! When I’m not “doom scrolling” I enjoy gardening, bird watching, bread baking & being the best granddad I can be.
expressional.social
“It's official: the [British - my edit] police won't arrest IDF Brits for genocide, but they will arrest you for protesting against it”
by Ricky And Council Estate Media on Substack
@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@uk_politics
@UKLabour@mastodon.cloud
@BBC5Live@social.bbc
@BBCRadio4@social.bbc
@BBCNews@flipboard.com
@guardian@press.coop
@Independent@flipboard.com
@thetimes@press.coop
“In April 2025, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the Public Interest Law Centre submitted a 240-page dossier to the #MetropolitanPolice’s #War #Crimes Team. It contained evidence of war crimes carried out by #British #citizens, including the targeted killings of civilians and aid workers, indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, hospitals and protected sites, and forced displacement.
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Over 70 legal and human rights experts signed a supporting letter urging investigation, but the Met refused, citing ‘no realistic prospect of conviction’”
https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/its-official-the-police-wont-arrest
#Press #SocialMedia #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #UK #Starmer #Labour #LaboirFriendsOfGenocide
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
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Jan 28, 2026
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai
#law, #climate, #science, #geopolitics, #politics, #democracy, cool stuff &… #BabySquirrel Recovering lawyer. Spending less time on world news since US voters re-elected a rapist/convicted felon, who tried to end democracy, but who Americans decided to give a mulligan, cuz democracy shlemocracy right? Occasionally I’ll come across something that I feel compelled to share, but… …these days… I've stopped my dreaming …these days I sit on corner stones & count the time in quarter tones to ten
masto.ai
Drilling down on these facts reveals specific paths forward for #state #prosecutors even when a direct investigation is blocked.
Evidence of these 2 kinds of #crimes has already emerged in the 2 recent #ICE killings. After #ReneeGood was shot, ICE agents blocked a physician from aiding her. #Minnesota #law not only imposes misdemeanor liability for failures to aid in general, but in #shooting cases obligates the person who fired the wounding shot to “render immediate reasonable assistance.”
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@medigoth@qoto.org
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Jan 06, 2026
Daniel Dvorkin
@medigoth@qoto.org
Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran USAF medic and Army infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, long-ago kickboxer, oldbat goth, vaccinated liberal patriot.
qoto.org
Since #Trump pardoned every member of the #J6 mob, 33 out of the approximately 1,500 released have been convicted of other #violent #crimes, a rate of 2.2%.
Elsenet, sumdood is arguing that this is no big deal because, and I quote, "The national violent crime rate is 4.4%." He argues that therefore, J6ers are less violent than the average person. Unfortunately for him (but fortunately for everyone else!) he's not even close.
There were about 1.3 million violent crimes *reported* in the US last year, out of a population of about 330 million. Assuming one criminal and one victim per crime—which isn't necessarily the case, of course, but it's a reasonable approximation—that's a rate of 0.4%, not 4% or more.
The #arrest and #conviction rates are much lower. There are about 500,000 violent crime arrests each year, or 0.15%. I can't find conviction numbers at the moment, but they must be lower than arrest numbers: for convenience, let's say 0.10% of the population, 2/3 of those arrested, are convicted.
2.2% is a lot more than 0.10%. Even a #Republican ought to be able to figure that out.
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