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March 4, 2025
One Hopped Turnstile, 9 Police Bullets, 4 People Shot. Does It Add Up?
New York’s subway has been flooded with patrols to prevent crime and stop fare evasion. One Sunday in Brooklyn, it all went wrong.
A man coming home from an overseas trip. Another on his way to work. A woman off to a celebratory dinner.
They were three New Yorkers riding the subway on a Sunday afternoon in September, not knowing they would soon end up in a hail of police bullets meant for Derell Mickles.
Mr. Mickles, 38, had slipped into the Sutter Avenue L station in Brooklyn without paying. Two police officers had followed him to the elevated platform, catching a glimpse of a knife in his hand. Within minutes, the police would shoot two of the passengers, Mr. Mickles and one of the officers.
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But critics say that the fare evasion crackdown is misguided and too costly for what it recoups in revenue. And when it leads to a police encounter that escalates, as it did that Sunday, Sept. 15, the effort can quickly turn dangerous for the New Yorkers it is supposed to protect.
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3:07:15
Suddenly, Mr. Mickles stops near the open door of a car next to the one he was just in. He is facing Officer Wong several feet away. Officer Mays is farther down the platform. There are at least three people inside the car. One is Ms. Jahalal, on her way to her birthday dinner.
The officers have switched from Tasers to guns. They begin shooting.
3:07:18
Officer Wong fires six shots. Officer Mays fires three. Passengers scream and rush for safety. Mr. Mickles, clutching the knife, takes a couple of steps and crumples to the train floor.
“Put it down!” the officers yell. “Put it down! Put it down!”
3:07:21
“I’m shot!” Officer Mays shouts as he stands across the platform from Mr. Mickles.
In front of him, Mr. Mickles sits upright.
Both officers, guns drawn, continue to shout at him to put the knife down.
3:07:28
Officer Mays is yelling into his radio.
One of the bullets has hit him under the arm, and at least one is in Mr. Mickles’s abdomen. Another lodged in Ms. Jahalal’s left leg as she ran from the gunfire. Mr. Delpeche, who had moved as the police instructed, has been shot in the head.
It has been less than three minutes since Mr. Mickles slipped through the station gate.
One Hopped Turnstile, 9 Police Bullets, 4 People Shot. Does It Add Up?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/nyregion/subway-shooting-brooklyn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U4.RCNZ.3ddNJXcDn0Cq&smid=url-shareOne Hopped Turnstile, 9 Police Bullets, 4 People Shot. Does It Add Up?
New York’s subway has been flooded with patrols to prevent crime and stop fare evasion. One Sunday in Brooklyn, it all went wrong.
A man coming home from an overseas trip. Another on his way to work. A woman off to a celebratory dinner.
They were three New Yorkers riding the subway on a Sunday afternoon in September, not knowing they would soon end up in a hail of police bullets meant for Derell Mickles.
Mr. Mickles, 38, had slipped into the Sutter Avenue L station in Brooklyn without paying. Two police officers had followed him to the elevated platform, catching a glimpse of a knife in his hand. Within minutes, the police would shoot two of the passengers, Mr. Mickles and one of the officers.
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But critics say that the fare evasion crackdown is misguided and too costly for what it recoups in revenue. And when it leads to a police encounter that escalates, as it did that Sunday, Sept. 15, the effort can quickly turn dangerous for the New Yorkers it is supposed to protect.
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3:07:15
Suddenly, Mr. Mickles stops near the open door of a car next to the one he was just in. He is facing Officer Wong several feet away. Officer Mays is farther down the platform. There are at least three people inside the car. One is Ms. Jahalal, on her way to her birthday dinner.
The officers have switched from Tasers to guns. They begin shooting.
3:07:18
Officer Wong fires six shots. Officer Mays fires three. Passengers scream and rush for safety. Mr. Mickles, clutching the knife, takes a couple of steps and crumples to the train floor.
“Put it down!” the officers yell. “Put it down! Put it down!”
3:07:21
“I’m shot!” Officer Mays shouts as he stands across the platform from Mr. Mickles.
In front of him, Mr. Mickles sits upright.
Both officers, guns drawn, continue to shout at him to put the knife down.
3:07:28
Officer Mays is yelling into his radio.
One of the bullets has hit him under the arm, and at least one is in Mr. Mickles’s abdomen. Another lodged in Ms. Jahalal’s left leg as she ran from the gunfire. Mr. Delpeche, who had moved as the police instructed, has been shot in the head.
It has been less than three minutes since Mr. Mickles slipped through the station gate.
March 4, 2025
The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”
A few months ago, Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he had uncovered $2 billion of science grants funded by former President Joe Biden’s administration that prioritized “radical political perspectives” or “neo-Marxist theories.’’ His aides on a congressional committee assembled the list by searching the project descriptions for 699 key terms like “women,” “diversify,” “segregation” and “Hispanic culture.”
When Cruz released the database of this allegedly “woke” research earlier this month, we decided to run our own experiment. We asked one of the models powering ChatGPT, which can sift through large amounts of data, to evaluate all 3,500 grant descriptions in the database as if it were an investigative journalist looking for Marxist propaganda, “woke ideology,” or diversity, equity and inclusion. The model tried to give us descriptions of how each project might fit those themes. We were particularly interested in the grants where it came up blank. We then read through the researchers’ full summaries of those and many other grants, including each one described in this story, looking for references to some of the keywords on the list.
We found that Cruz’s dragnet had swept up numerous examples of scientific projects funded by the National Science Foundation that simply acknowledged social inequalities or were completely unrelated to the social or economic themes cited by his committee.
Among them, for example, was a $470,000 grant to study the evolution of mint plants and how they spread across continents. As best we can tell, the project ran into trouble with Republicans on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation because of two specific words used in its application to the NSF: “diversify,” referring to the biodiversity of plants, and “female,” where the application noted how the project would support a young female scientist on the research team.
Other projects our AI assistant led us to included:
Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.”
Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself.
Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients.
It’s “very frightening,” said Charlotte Lindqvist, a biology professor at the University at Buffalo who is conducting the research on mint plants.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ted-cruz-woke-grants-national-science-foundation
Ted Cruz's crude method for identifying scientific research he called "woke". searched for terms like "women", "Diversif
A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”
A few months ago, Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he had uncovered $2 billion of science grants funded by former President Joe Biden’s administration that prioritized “radical political perspectives” or “neo-Marxist theories.’’ His aides on a congressional committee assembled the list by searching the project descriptions for 699 key terms like “women,” “diversify,” “segregation” and “Hispanic culture.”
When Cruz released the database of this allegedly “woke” research earlier this month, we decided to run our own experiment. We asked one of the models powering ChatGPT, which can sift through large amounts of data, to evaluate all 3,500 grant descriptions in the database as if it were an investigative journalist looking for Marxist propaganda, “woke ideology,” or diversity, equity and inclusion. The model tried to give us descriptions of how each project might fit those themes. We were particularly interested in the grants where it came up blank. We then read through the researchers’ full summaries of those and many other grants, including each one described in this story, looking for references to some of the keywords on the list.
We found that Cruz’s dragnet had swept up numerous examples of scientific projects funded by the National Science Foundation that simply acknowledged social inequalities or were completely unrelated to the social or economic themes cited by his committee.
Among them, for example, was a $470,000 grant to study the evolution of mint plants and how they spread across continents. As best we can tell, the project ran into trouble with Republicans on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation because of two specific words used in its application to the NSF: “diversify,” referring to the biodiversity of plants, and “female,” where the application noted how the project would support a young female scientist on the research team.
Other projects our AI assistant led us to included:
Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.”
Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself.
Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients.
It’s “very frightening,” said Charlotte Lindqvist, a biology professor at the University at Buffalo who is conducting the research on mint plants.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ted-cruz-woke-grants-national-science-foundation
March 4, 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated the U.S. Forest Service's $75 million grant awarded to a foundation that helps low-income communities plant trees.
Newsweek has reached out to U.S. Forest Service and the Arbor Day Foundation via email for comment.
What To Know
The U.S. Forest Service has terminated a $75 million grant to the Arbor Day Foundation, pulling the funding from 105 environmental projects aimed at reforesting disadvantaged communities across the country.
The grant, part of former President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act's $1.5 billion allocation for urban and community forestry, was intended to boost green spaces from New Orleans to Oregon, offering shade, cleaner air, and climate resilience to some of America's most vulnerable neighborhoods.
However, the foundation was told the nature of the work doesn't align with the agency's new policies. The termination email from the Forest Service, sent on February 14, said the project "no longer effectuates agency priorities regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and activities."
DOGE Terminates Tree-Planting Grant for Low-Income Communities as part of attack on DEI
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-terminates-tree-planting-grant-low-income-communities-2038814The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated the U.S. Forest Service's $75 million grant awarded to a foundation that helps low-income communities plant trees.
Newsweek has reached out to U.S. Forest Service and the Arbor Day Foundation via email for comment.
What To Know
The U.S. Forest Service has terminated a $75 million grant to the Arbor Day Foundation, pulling the funding from 105 environmental projects aimed at reforesting disadvantaged communities across the country.
The grant, part of former President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act's $1.5 billion allocation for urban and community forestry, was intended to boost green spaces from New Orleans to Oregon, offering shade, cleaner air, and climate resilience to some of America's most vulnerable neighborhoods.
However, the foundation was told the nature of the work doesn't align with the agency's new policies. The termination email from the Forest Service, sent on February 14, said the project "no longer effectuates agency priorities regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and activities."
March 4, 2025
https://ktla.com/news/california/popular-clothing-store-chain-slashing-hundreds-of-workers-closing-california-hq/
One of the most well-known clothing brands in the United States, Forever 21, is laying off nearly 700 workers in California and Pennsylvania and closing its headquarters in the Golden State.
The announcement came via several WARN notices filed in both states over the past week.
The California Forever 21 locations slated to close are Orange, Riverside, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Montclair, Santa Ana, Lakewood and Cerritos.
Liquidation sales began last month as the company began to prepare for a second bankruptcy filing and seeks a potential buyer, several business news outlets reported. Forever 21 will reportedly liquidate its entire 350-store chain if no qualified buyer is found.
Forever 21 (clothing store) is on the ropes
this is going to hurt malls.https://ktla.com/news/california/popular-clothing-store-chain-slashing-hundreds-of-workers-closing-california-hq/
One of the most well-known clothing brands in the United States, Forever 21, is laying off nearly 700 workers in California and Pennsylvania and closing its headquarters in the Golden State.
The announcement came via several WARN notices filed in both states over the past week.
The California Forever 21 locations slated to close are Orange, Riverside, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Montclair, Santa Ana, Lakewood and Cerritos.
Liquidation sales began last month as the company began to prepare for a second bankruptcy filing and seeks a potential buyer, several business news outlets reported. Forever 21 will reportedly liquidate its entire 350-store chain if no qualified buyer is found.
March 4, 2025
financial news today: Give subtle nods to Trump's irrationality. "....but knowing Trump, that could change tomorrow"
"trump made xxx decision.... for now", "tariffs on Canada... until Trump changes his mind...".
Heard on various radio shows today. Little hints about Trump's capriciousness related to US economic decisions.
March 3, 2025
Trump begs Americans to 'spend less time worrying about Putin' while attacking his ex-aide
"H.R. MCMASTER IS A WEAK AND TOTALLY INEFFECTIVE LOSER!" Trump wrote in an all-caps rant on Truth Social on Sunday.
In a separate post, Trump added, "We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country - So that we don’t end up like Europe!"
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-spend-less-time-putin/
March 3, 2025
Victim of road rage in Virginia shares story of staying calm amid chaos including woman climbing onto her car
perp was arrested
March 2, 2025
Huang then filmed himself as he confronted Sauerhoff about not having control of his dog.
“Yes, I walk my dog without a leash,” Sauerhoff said in the clip. “She’s walking around. Does my dog look like she’s bothering you?”
Huang took his Doberman back inside their building where the situation allegedly escalated. He claimed Sauerhoff started telling him who he was and “asking to have me removed from the property.”
In another video, Sauerhoff can be seen asking the doorman who Huang was.
“I asked to put his dog on a leash and he’s losing his mind,” Huang explained. “I live here.”
“Get the f— off the private property, get the f— out of here!” Sauerhoff yelled in the building lobby before approaching Huang with the doorman. “This guy’s got a f—ing problem. This guy started with me. F—you! Suck a d—, dude. F— off!”
The celebrity trainer then stormed off as his unleashed dog followed behind him.
https://people.com/matt-sauerhoff-yells-at-neighbor-after-being-asked-to-leash-dog-11686485
Famous trainer "Liv Method" fitness guru doesn't like being call out about dog off leash
https://www.tiktok.com/@mreddiehuang/video/7475168210426514734Huang then filmed himself as he confronted Sauerhoff about not having control of his dog.
“Yes, I walk my dog without a leash,” Sauerhoff said in the clip. “She’s walking around. Does my dog look like she’s bothering you?”
Huang took his Doberman back inside their building where the situation allegedly escalated. He claimed Sauerhoff started telling him who he was and “asking to have me removed from the property.”
In another video, Sauerhoff can be seen asking the doorman who Huang was.
“I asked to put his dog on a leash and he’s losing his mind,” Huang explained. “I live here.”
“Get the f— off the private property, get the f— out of here!” Sauerhoff yelled in the building lobby before approaching Huang with the doorman. “This guy’s got a f—ing problem. This guy started with me. F—you! Suck a d—, dude. F— off!”
The celebrity trainer then stormed off as his unleashed dog followed behind him.
https://people.com/matt-sauerhoff-yells-at-neighbor-after-being-asked-to-leash-dog-11686485
March 2, 2025
This tiny Nevada town is in shock after Great Basin National Park lost 20% of its staff
Just 41 people live in this town that's entirely dependent on the national park
Baker is a tiny town in Nevada with a population of 41. It’s the last stop on America’s loneliest road, before entering Utah, and the gateway to Great Basin National Park, Nevada’s only national park. Surrounded by a sea of public land in the high desert, Baker’s reputation far exceeds its stature. It’s well-known fGreat Basin National Park lost five people on its small staff, the Nevada Current reported last week. That’s 20% of the park’s staff, said Liz Woolsey, who owns and runs the Stargazer Inn and the Bristlecone General Store in Baker with her husband.
It’s still the off-season for folks who live in Baker. Even so, the aftershocks of the firings at Great Basin National Park are reverberating in the small community.
“We’re still in shock, and the waves are rippling from every decision being made, it seems, daily or hourly,” Woolsey said.or its friendly business owners, food trucks and star-filled night sky.
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In Baker, local businesses are utterly dependent on tourism to the national park. The Stargazer Inn has seven rooms, Woolsey said. The general store stocks food, supplies and outdoor gear, but it’s also a bookstore and sells local art.
“We are certainly just trying to figure out what’s at stake here,” Woolsey said. “If we don’t get tourism, people, travelers here, that’s definitely going to negatively impact our business.”
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https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/nevada/baker
The political climate in Baker, NV is strongly conservative.
White Pine County, NV is very conservative. In White Pine County, NV 19.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 77.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, White Pine county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 77.9% to 19.7%.
White Pine county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
Deep red tiny NV town is in shock. ENTIRELY 100% dependent on national park that just lost 20% of staff in Elon's purge
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/tiny-nevada-town-shock-national-park-loses-staff-20195067.phpThis tiny Nevada town is in shock after Great Basin National Park lost 20% of its staff
Just 41 people live in this town that's entirely dependent on the national park
Baker is a tiny town in Nevada with a population of 41. It’s the last stop on America’s loneliest road, before entering Utah, and the gateway to Great Basin National Park, Nevada’s only national park. Surrounded by a sea of public land in the high desert, Baker’s reputation far exceeds its stature. It’s well-known fGreat Basin National Park lost five people on its small staff, the Nevada Current reported last week. That’s 20% of the park’s staff, said Liz Woolsey, who owns and runs the Stargazer Inn and the Bristlecone General Store in Baker with her husband.
It’s still the off-season for folks who live in Baker. Even so, the aftershocks of the firings at Great Basin National Park are reverberating in the small community.
“We’re still in shock, and the waves are rippling from every decision being made, it seems, daily or hourly,” Woolsey said.or its friendly business owners, food trucks and star-filled night sky.
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In Baker, local businesses are utterly dependent on tourism to the national park. The Stargazer Inn has seven rooms, Woolsey said. The general store stocks food, supplies and outdoor gear, but it’s also a bookstore and sells local art.
“We are certainly just trying to figure out what’s at stake here,” Woolsey said. “If we don’t get tourism, people, travelers here, that’s definitely going to negatively impact our business.”
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https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/nevada/baker
The political climate in Baker, NV is strongly conservative.
White Pine County, NV is very conservative. In White Pine County, NV 19.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 77.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, White Pine county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 77.9% to 19.7%.
White Pine county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
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