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LilMikeSF

#CalTrain deputy director Joseph Vincent Navarro found #guilty of misappropriation of $40k in public funds for conspiring with contractor during pandemic era and converting #Burlingame train station office into secret personal residential getaway with private gym.

Navarro, who now lives in Pennsylvania and previously told the #MercuryNews that his criminal charge was “overstated” and that he did nothing wrong. His co-conspirator #contractor had built himself similar living quarters inside the #Millbrae Cal #trainstation and plead #guilty, turning States #evidence against Navarro.

Navarro , whose attorneys claimed it was not a #secret , that he had given the key to his secretary, allowed his girlfriend to stay there, and the conversion was done with knowledge of his supervisor, still faces sentencing under judge's discretion which could range from actual #prison time, to more likely #probation.

mercurynews.com/2025/04/30/cal #GiftLink #SharedStory #PaywallLift

Joseph Navarro faced one felony count turning a section of the Burlingame train station into an apartment, complete with a bedroom, a gym and a living room, prosecutors said at the trial. After several days of testimony and closing arguments on Tuesday, the jury began its deliberations Wednesday morning and came to a consensus in the afternoon. The jury also found true that the charges were filed within the proper statute of limitations, which is three years of when the crime is discovered or should have been discovered. Defense lawyers had argued that the initial discovery should have meant the charges were filed too late. “We're very pleased that the jury was able to see through the defense and recognize that he had no authorization ."
NEWS ~ CRIME AND PUBLIC SAFETY - Caltrain employee guilty of using public funds to build secret apartment 1n train station Joseph Navarro spent $38,000 on renovating the Burlingame station between 2019 and 2021 Picture of Passengers waiting at the Burlingame Train Station in Burlingame, Calif., Friday, March 29, 2024. Joseph Vincent Navarro, 66, formerly a deputy director for Caltrain, is accused of conspiring with contractor Seth Andrew Worden, 61, to illegally remodel office space into a small apartment inside two Peninsula train stations, one being in the historic Burlingame station. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
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Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELS

This! This is the truth about what is going on now in the United States of America: a #contempt that undermines "common rules of #truth and #evidence—and the #legal and #academic #institutions that employ those rules." We *must not* ignore the distortions and lies of the current administration, or else we will lose truth and #knowledge and #health and #humanity. linkedin.com/pulse/authoritari

www.linkedin.comThe authoritarian attack on truth By Michael Patrick Lynch“At no time in history have words meant so little as they do today,” declared the philosopher John Dewey in 1941. Dewey, who at the time was one of America’s preeminent public intellectuals, was worried about what he called “complete inversions of truth” by authoritarians and their sympathizers at h
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RDN

Analysis of language used in U.S. congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022, focusing on use of words taken to represent use of either evidence or intuition, found that intuition-signifying words became increasingly prominent since the 1970s, and this change was reflected in increasing political polarization.

Summary: sciencefocus.com/news/scientis

Original paper: nature.com/articles/s41562-025

Four graphs from the paper (Figure 1), showing temporal changes in a) the Evidence-Minus-Intuition (EMI) score, b) political polarization of both major parties, c) number of public laws passed, and d) uncertainty in the relationship between EMI and the number of public laws passed. In the first graph, EMI shows a gradual increase from 1940 to 1970, followed by a steep decline. Political polarization shows the same trends.
#Science#Language#Politics
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Sune Auken

I just saw an apparent left-winger post a suave confident quote, then adamantly refuse an obvious and very well documented fact check of said quote. The contortions were a sight to behold.

So, here's the thing. If you hold that one of the defining differences between us and the fascists is that we honor the truth - then accept compelling evidence when you see it.

I blocked. We don't need to lie about awful people to show that they are awful.

#Truth#Evidence#FactChecking
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻

Miscarriages of justice for everyone! Isn’t 🇬🇧 supposed to be busy *improving* its digital evidence regime?!

“The same technology that supercharged the proliferation of digital material may well provide, at least in part, a panacea for the difficulties we presently find ourselves in.” #AI #trials #evidence #disclosure

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Analysis: A Strike at the Heart of DOGE and Musk...

...With a Surprising Star Witness
davidpepper.substack.com/p/ana

"the surprising star witness...

Musk himself! With assists from #Trump & his press secretary.

It turns out, with their non-stop tweeting & trash-talking about what they’ve been doing... quotes from them turn out to be the best #evidence negating the DOJ’s desperate defense of DOGE’s #unconstitutional actions."

Headline and text from article: Headline: Analysis: A Strike at the Heart of DOGE and Musk... ...With a Surprising Star Witness by David Pepper Mar 19, 2025 Text: While it got attention for rebuffing attacks on U.S. AID, yesterday’s federal court decision did something far broader: it exposed the deep constitutional problems with DOGE, and Musk’s role leading its trail of destruction.
#ElonMusk#Musk#Doge
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