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"After years of enduring severe back pain, navigating obstacles of health insurance system & seeing others do too, I learned United Health would hold its conference. I observed the conference of the largest healthcare company would be attended by executives, not doctor, nurses or patients." - Luigi Mangione during his guilty plea today.

#luigi mangione #luigi #breaking news #quotes #healthcare

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Luigi's statement in court is honestly so heartbreaking

we all knew he'd been driven to do whatever he did because he couldn't get the medical care he needed for his debilitating back injury (his lowest lumbar vertebrae are now fused after a surgery and he'd openly said he suffered with these displaced vertebrae for 1½ years pre-surgery) and he told the federal judge that he had to negotiate with health insurance companies throughout and then heard back within an hour when he pretended to be a billion dollar investor for a health insurance company, which hadn't ever been his experience with health insurance companies before

squeejs-bbg

I guess the most obvious question to ask is what do you think is the most plausible outcome? As in do you think the defense team is gonna take a plea for the federal case given all the variables (judge Carro's potential decision, evidence, politics of the decision, the current administration)? Thank you for all your helpful and informative posts!

Awh hi :) and of course, I love being here and yapping to you all!

I just posted a long winded ask about this as well, but I think there’s a few different options:

Tomorrow is not a plea deal. Instead it’s something to do with jury processes, moving custody/facilities, scheduling, etc. If that’s the case, then the state case goes on as normal and we get a full trial and jury verdict. Risky, but this is the usual course lol.

Tomorrow is a plea deal, the defense argues double jeopardy on the state case, and they win that argument. The state case will be dropped or very few charges will remain. This option is a toss up, because they still have the uphill battle of making the argument. However, it it wasn’t a winning argument, Joel wouldn’t have written a counter motion to throw a hissy fit about it before it even happened. I think recent precedent leans in their favor here, but they have to show that stalking resulting in death (federal) is essentially the same charge as NY murder 2. A tougher argument, but not impossible. Also, the NY double jeopardy clause is heavily construed/interpreted to favor the defendant.

Tomorrow is a plea deal, the defense argues double jeopardy in the state case, and they lose that argument. Even if that happens, the defense is significantly liberated without the dual trials hanging over them. They have a lot more freedoms with the defenses they can use, evidence they can present, and statements they can make, because they won’t be jeopardizing a subsequent trial. I don’t think this is a bad option either, compared to where we are now.

Also asking me about legal politics is basically flirting, so I’m blushing🤭as for politics, I think the feds know that they have a weak case, and them/the administration want a piece of Luigi’s ass so bad that they’re probably willing to give him a great plea deal. If it is a plea, I think it’ll be much lowe than we expect. Also, New York’s double jeopardy clause has been used a lot lately to bail out a ton of Trump’s buddies, which sets up precedent that is very favorable to Luigi. I think there’s a lot more judicial/court politics going into it that we aren’t aware of, but those are the basics. OH and I’d die to know the conversations between Carro and Garnett for the month of August… I’m sure there’s a lot of politics involved in the superiority of each system and trying to get a leg up on each other. Sorry, I’m such a fucking nerd omg

Anyways, I hope that was clear!

#luigi mangione #he pled guilty as per NYT reporting #it will be a bit sad if there isn't a trial even though i know it would likely not go well for Luigi

transattacks

not seeing a lot of people on here talking about ICE murdering another man yesterday. His name was Lorenzo Salgado Arajou. He was a Mexican man living in Houston Texas. He was killed at age 52 and lived the past 35 years here in the USA, and was in the process of obtaining a work permit. He was shot and killed during a traffic stop that ICE claims was part of a targeted operation, and claimed he was “weaponizing his vehicle”- the same claim ICE agents made when they shot and murdered Renee Good.

During the stop, Lorenzo had 3 coworkers with him in his truck who have all been taken into ICE custody.

His family described Lorenzo as a hardworking family man who didn’t deserve to be killed. All he wanted was to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people. His eldest son recognized his father by his cries and pleas when trying to identify who the victim was.

The Salgado Araujo family has set up a gofundme to help with funeral and legal costs, and to help keep their family supported since Lorenzo was the sole provider.

On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salg

#fuck ice #us politics #news

petaltexturedskies

The summer night glowed; in the field fireflies were glinting. And for those who understood such things, the stars were sending messages.

Louise Glück, from "Midsummer" in Poems 1962-2012

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annabelle--cane

love when an absolute nightmare of a character is introduced and all you can think is "jesus christ buddy what the hell is your problem" and the narrative gives you a hot minute to stew before explaining Exactly what is Their Problem. and you just sorta sit back in your metaphorical rocking chair and think "huh. yeah okay fair. that would do this to a person, yes."

sigmaleph

remember when the ai safety debates were about stuff like 'can ai do something to hurt us if we put it in a box where it can only communicate via text?' and not 'the government wants to give ai fully autonomous control over murder robots, should private companies be allowed to refuse?'

afloweroutofstone

This is the first time in my entire life when it's actually fair to criticize the President for gas prices. I've spent so many years explaining to people that Presidents have pretty limited influence over the price of oil and that they do not have a magical lower-gas-prices button on their desk, I almost forgot that the President does actually have a raise-gas-prices button on their desk called "start a war with Iran for no reason"

Sick while having OCD and a forensic understanding of contamination... Locard has cursed me, personally, and I am NOT having fun.

#and all this after having to watch other people who do *not* understand Locard's exchange principle be sick 😒#at least I can control my own actions #unlike people who for some reason think it's fine to cough into their hand and then touch things #tw disease #ocd

skatoules-deactivated20161225

#i want these used on me so badly

randomfriendlyloser

Okay if you're honest about your stigmatized disorder to a group of people, be ready because from now on, they will ALWAYS just be at least a tiny bit cautious around you or not trust you fully, see all of your kind actions as "fake", and constantly think you're probably going to use them in some way lol you're never making friends again

#there are very very rare exceptions to this but otherwise...

ohmightydevviepuu

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

alaric-visi

Reblogging for tomorrow

qqueenofhades

While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusione

By Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of h

HEY MINNEAPOLIS: THIS IS YOUR PROBABLY UNNECESSARY BUT GRATEFUL REMINDER THAT A) WAY TO FUCKING GO AND B) BULLYING THESE FASCIST FUCKS WORKS.

(Note that this does NOT mean the operation is over, they're still hearing legal arguments about that, but they're pulling Obergruppenführer Bovino and his particular death squad out because y'all have raised hell on earth without pause for them, and way to fucking go.)