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Also, that picture isn’t me.
www.itsdougholland.com
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Florida Governor signs legislation bringing "anti-communist education" to public schools, beginning in kindergarten (floridapolitics.com)
Prosecutors accidentally sent file of one cop's false convictions; they want the file back, unreleased (1ft.io)
This is just one retired cop, who’s cost New York more than $100-million in settlements and claims. How many thousand more cops, as bad as Louis Scarcella or worse, are still being protected?...
Dead people roundup (lemmy.world)
Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you)....
Gov. Reeves proclaims Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi (www.mississippifreepress.org)
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 31-year-old tradition that began in 1993. Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, announced the proclamation in a Facebook post on Friday, April 12....
Al Gore Thinks Trump Will Lose and Climate Activists Will Triumph (www.nytimes.com)
Supreme Court allows cop, injured at BLM protest, to sue protest organizers (webcache.googleusercontent.com)
US Senator (guess which party) urges Americans to "take matters into their own hands" to stop anti-genocide protestors (webcache.googleusercontent.com)
Judge awards $23.5 million to undercover St. Louis officer beaten by colleagues during protest (abcnews.go.com)
Schools were just supposed to block porn; instead they sabotaged homework and censored suicide prevention sites (themarkup.org)
How world leaders responded to Iran's drone attack on Israel? (www.euronews.com)
Global leaders have swiftly condemned Tehran’s actions, urging restraint to avoid further escalation....
Know the difference (lemmy.world)
Don’t sneer at white rural voters — or delude yourself about their politics (www.vox.com)
"Hello, I'm John Waters, and I'm supposed to announce that there is no smoking in this theater." (www.youtube.com)
The wealthy are building "passport portfolios" — collections of second, and even third or fourth, citizenships — in case they need to flee their home country (1ft.io)
Police Chief hailed as hero for running red light, causing wreck (www.techdirt.com)
Dead people roundup (lemmy.world)
Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you)....
Biden administration announces new rule to close 'gun show loophole' (www.nytimes.com)
By next week, there’ll be a 2nd-Amendment lawsuit from Republicans, followed by a judge blocking the rule change, and years of legal action ending at the Supreme Court. And you know the verdict already.
NYPD officials orchestrated smear campaign of police critic using confidential details of her rape, lawsuit alleges (www.thecity.nyc)
Republican National Committee courts election conspiracy theorists to help watch polls (www.newsfromthestates.com)
Anti-vax wingnuts are trying to take over a Florida hospital (web.archive.org)
Letitia James to Begin Claiming Donald Trump's Properties (www.newsweek.com)
“But the Trumpian part is that even though, or perhaps because, it may be part of a Trump scam, Knight now too may be on the hook for $175 million as it won’t automatically get out from underneath its own proffered surety.”...
Vatican blasts gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as violations of human dignity (apnews.com)
The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that reject God’s plan for human life....
Documents kept secret since 2006 show cop (now NH State Rep) threatened murder and rape rampage when his 'relationship' with high school girl was investigated (indepthnh.org)
Beastie Boys paid for trans woman’s gender-affirming surgery (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Donna Lee Parsons isn’t particularly well-known in hardcore/punk circles, but she should be. She played a pivotal role in rock history....