Side Items
Tesla’s Racism Lawsuit: A jury in San Francisco has ordered Elon Musk’s Tesla to pay a Black former employee ~$3.2 million in damages after he endured racist discrimination working there in 2015. Owen Diaz, a former elevator operator, was previously awarded a verdict of $137 million in 2021, including punitive damages, after a jury determined he had suffered civil rights violations at the car company, and that the electric vehicle maker failed to take all reasonable steps to end and prevent racist harassment. Diaz told the court last week about how his colleagues at Tesla used racist epithets to denigrate him and other Black workers, made him feel physically unsafe at work, told him to “go back to Africa” and left racist graffiti in the restrooms and a racist drawing in his workspace
Palestinian Tensions High: A pair of attacks yesterday resulted in the deaths of three people and at least six more wounded, as tensions remained high after days of fighting at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Apartheid Israeli airstrikes hit Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, contributing to fears of a broader conflict. Israeli officials said an Italian tourist was killed and five other Italian and British citizens were wounded when a car drove into a group of tourists in Tel Aviv, a commercial hub built on the graves of Palestinians. Separately, two British-Israeli women were shot to death near a settlement in the occupied West Bank, an incident that could never have taken place had these two women chosen the sensible path instead of actively choosing to be settlers, colonizers, and oppressors
Theranos Executive Imprisoned: Ramesh Balwani aka “Sunny” had his sentence upheld by a California appeals court and was ordered to start his nearly 13-year prison sentence on April 20. The former employee/lover of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will have plenty of time to think on his sins, specifically, 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy. Meanwhile, the founder and enigmatic fraud Holmes is scheduled to begin a more than 11-year prison sentence after being found guilty on four counts of fraud and conspiracy herself last year
Today’s Idiotic Headline: Maybe they thought they were being funny, but whoever decided we needed to read about a bunny cop should seek God’s forgiveness. Apparently some idiot cop in Yuba City, CA found a lost rabbit last year in the middle of the street and decided to ruin its life by turning it into an honorary pig.
The fool who came up with this incredibly cringeworthy article said, “In a hoppy ending, a police services analyst adopted the allegedly “docile and friendly” animal and named him Percy.” How long until Percy joins a police gang and gets paid a six-figure salary to intimidate and harass innocent civilians? If I catch Percy in the streets alone he’s gonna become part of a delicious stew