BlueWaveNeverEnd
BlueWaveNeverEnd's JournalMIT suspends student protesters
Men's rights leader reportedly seeking $5M in suit over free tickets for women
https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/fresno-grizzlies-sued-ladies-night-mens-rights-19444333.phpThe head of a national men’s rights group is suing a California minor league baseball team because of its “Ladies Night” promotion.
The current and former owners of the Fresno Grizzlies, who play in the Single-A California League, are being sued in federal court for allegedly committing gender discrimination by giving free tickets to women as part of a promotion last May. The Fresno Bee reported that the plaintiffs are seeking $5 million in damage in the class-action suit.
Plaintiff Harry Crouch is the president of the National Coalition for Men, which says on its website that it is a nonprofit that “raises awareness about the ways sex discrimination affects men and boys.” The lawsuit states that Crouch and co-plaintiff Christine Johnson attended the game together, with Crouch having to pay $18 while Johnson entered the game for free.
Because of that difference in price, the plaintiffs allege the Grizzlies have violated California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, which protects people from being discriminated against by business establishments because of their age, ancestry, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.
The plaintiffs have hired San Diego lawyer Alfred Rava, who once sued the Oakland A’s over a Mother’s Day promotion in 2004 and reached a settlement for what the East Bay Times reported was “more than $500,000” for men who attended the game. Rava has been a part of a number of other lawsuits against businesses that ran similar promotions; he told San Diego television station KSND-TV in 2018 that he had been involved in “about 300” cases involving the Unruh Act at that time.
NY Gov Has to Backpedal Fast Over 'Black Kids' Comment
NY Gov Has to Backpedal Fast Over 'Black Kids' Comment
Kathy Hochul said kids in the Bronx didn't know what the word 'computer' meant
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is walking back comments she made about "Black kids" in her state, reports Mediaite. While giving a talk at a tech conference in Los Angeles on Monday, Hochul said this:
"Right now we have, you know, young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word 'computer' is. They don't know. They don't know these things."
Reaction: "Our children are bright, brilliant, extremely capable, and more than deserving of any opportunities that are extended to other kids," said Assembly Member Karines Reyes. "Do better."
Reaction, II: "The underlying perception conveyed about Black and brown children from the Bronx is not only disheartening but also deeply concerning," said state Assembly member John Zaccaro Jr.
Reaction, III: Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat who represents the Bronx, said that "while the governor's words were inartful and hurtful, I don't believe that is where her heart is," per the AP. "I firmly believe she wants to see all of our students excel."
https://www.newser.com/story/350013/ny-gov-has-to-backpedal-fast-over-black-kids-comment.html
UCLA detectives use Jan. 6 tactics to find masked mob who attacked pro-Palestinian camp
It is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens of people who attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at the center of campus last week.
The mob violence was captured on live television, but it took three hours for police to bring it to an end. Those involved left, and no arrests were made.
But the trail is not cold.
UCLA detectives are now scanning hundreds of images in an attempt to identify the attackers. They intend to use technology that captures facial images and compares them to other photos on the internet and social media to put names to faces, according to law enforcement sources.
The same technology has allowed police to identify suspects in smash-and-grab retail burglaries. It also was the heart of the Jan. 6 investigation, in which videos of those storming the U.S. Capitol helped the FBI identify many of the assailants and led federal prosecutors to charge more than 1,300 people. In those cases, investigators often were able to find social media images of the assailant wearing the same clothing as during the attack.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-07/ucla-police-use-high-tech-tactics-to-find-masked-mob-who-attacked-encampment
"day of rage", NYPD barricades are knocked aside
'Don't worry, I shot them both': Man, woman killed in Wellington neighbor dispute over basketball hoop
'Don't worry, I shot them both': Man, woman killed in Wellington neighbor dispute over basketball hoop
The gunman in Saturday's double homicide in Wellington says he fired his gun in self-defense. PBSO has arrested him on first-degree murder charges
WELLINGTON — A dispute between a 63-year-old man and his neighbors over a basketball hoop and their property boundary led to a double homicide Saturday, May 4, in a Wellington neighborhood, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
Norman Scott is facing two counts of first-degree murder following his arrest in the shooting deaths of Tara Marie Jones and Taylor Glenn Jones. Scott's arrest report did not disclose the victims' ages or their relationship to each other.
----------------
Scott told the witness that he had gotten into an argument with his neighbors over a basketball hoop and property boundaries, the arrest report said. Investigators said Scott called 911 and told a dispatcher that he shot his neighbors when they attacked him.
However, investigators said surveillance-camera video contradicted Scott's claim. The arrest report indicates that neither Taylor nor Tara Jones was observed acting either violently or aggressively or displaying any form of threatening behavior toward Scott.
"The video evidence unequivocally establishes the shooting was completely malicious and unprovoked," an investigator wrote in Scott's arrest report.
According to the report, the surveillance video showed that Scott initiated a conversation with Taylor Jones. Investigators said Scott was "aggressively and belligerently" pointing and waving his hand in Taylor Jones' face. They said Jones responded with "nonthreatening" hand gestures.
The video reportedly showed Scott retrieve a gun and begin shooting as Taylor Jones backed away with both hands raised. After shooting Taylor Jones multiple times, Scott then turned the gun in Tara Jones' direction and continued firing, investigators said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/06/dispute-basketball-hoop-property-boundary-leads-to-double-homicide-wellington-florida-norman-scott/73584691007/
Kristi Noem's Team Told Her to Nix the Dog Story 2 Years Ago
Kristi Noem’s Team Told Her to Nix the Dog Story 2 Years AgoIt would have violated the first rule of campaign memoirs: Do no harm.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/06/kristi-noem-dog-killing-story-00156290
Kristi Noem’s story about killing her dog made headlines across America. But it wasn’t news to people who worked on her first book, where the tale made it into a draft of the memoir before the publishing team nixed it.
Then, as now, Noem wanted the story in because it showed a decisive person who was unwilling to be bound by namby-pamby niceties, while others on the team — which included agents, editors and publicists at Hachette Book Group’s prestige Twelve imprint, and a ghostwriter — saw it as a bad-taste anecdote that would hurt her brand. The tale was ultimately cut, according to two people involved with the project.
In other words, they produced a typical pre-campaign book, where the first rule is to do no harm. Somewhat unusually for the genre, that book, 2022’s Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland, landed the South Dakota governor on the New York Times’ bestseller list, adding to the consensus that the Donald Trump devotee had a big future in GOP politics.
What it didn’t do, of course, was spark a weeklong news cycle — and a round of obituaries for that same political future — by including a tale about Noem leading a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer named Cricket to a gravel pit and shooting him to death after he ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbor’s chickens.
This time around, Noem has a different team in place, as well as a different imprint, Hachette’s conservative-leaning Center Street. And the folks behind her new book, No Going Back, didn’t get in the way of sharing memories about gunning down an ill-trained puppy.
Spike in sick, starved brown pelicans has wildlife care center in need
Spike in sick, starved brown pelicans has wildlife care center in need
Brown pelicans have been coming in starved, dehydrated and in desperate need of care, officials with the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center said as they made a plea for support from the community.
A mass stranding of the species seen over the last few weeks, with birds found throughout Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties, has rescue teams worried and quickly running out of supplies, said Debbie McGuire, executive director of the center in Huntington Beach.
“They are all coming in at starvation level, half their body weight,” she said. “It’s really, really bad.”
To find out more about what to do about a sick bird or how you can help the rescue center, visit to wwccoc.org.
In the past month, more than 80 brown pelicans have been brought into the center, with only 31 surviving. The center has gone through 500 pounds of fish in just the past week, McGuire said, and its supply is quickly dwindling as more of the birds are brought in by lifeguards and animal care responders throughout the region.
The reason behind the mass stranding is unclear, but McGuire said there must be something happening with their food source. Typically this time of year, the center would have only about half a dozen brown pelicans in its care, though in 2022 there was also a spike in strandings with hundreds brought in.
The birds typically dive into the ocean about 6 feet deep to forage on bait fish.
“What we know for sure is that once we start feeding them, they tend to respond – vitamins, food, liquids,” she said. “The biggest thing we need is money to buy fish.”
https://www.ocregister.com/2024/05/03/spike-in-sick-starved-brown-pelicans-has-wildlife-care-center-in-need/
Weightlifting Champ Killed in Ukraine War - Oleksandr Pielieshenko won European title twice
https://www.newser.com/story/349975/weightlifting-champ-killed-in-ukraine-war.html
Weightlifting Champ Killed in Ukraine War
Ukraine's Oleksandr Pielieshenko won European title twice
Two-time European weightlifting champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko died on the front line in the war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Olympic Committee said on Monday. Pielieshenko "died in the war with the enemy" on Sunday, the committee posted on Telegram. He was 30. He joined Ukraine's armed forces in the first days of Russia's invasion, the committee added. Pielieshenko came back from a doping suspension in 2013-15 to win the 2016 European under-85 kilogram division by one kilogram, the AP reports. He successfully retained the title in 2017 in Split.
Profile Information
Member since: Wed Nov 16, 2022, 02:52 PMNumber of posts: 8,108
