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Marchers protest Florida's Black history teaching standards - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-16/protesters-march-through-miami-to-object-to-floridas-black-history-teaching-standards

Dozens of teachers, students and labor leaders marched to a Miami school district headquarters Wednesday to protest Florida’s new standards for teaching Black history, which have come under intense criticism for what they say about slavery.

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Pressure on Clarence Thomas to Resign as ProPublica Exposes More Undisclosed Lavish Trips, Gifts
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/16/clarence_thomas_vacations

* 5 House Democrats call on DoJ to investigate Thomas under Ethics in Government Act for accepting gifts f. wealthy benefactors w/o following disclosure laws

https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Aad4fc3b6-d0d8-3117-9720-89300cdca587

#SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #JudicialMisconduct #HarlanCrow #AOC #DefundBillionaires

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‘Porcha Woodruff was eight months pregnant when police in Detroit, Michigan came to arrest her on charges of carjacking and robbery… She was detained and questioned for 11 hours and released on a $100,000 bond… Woodruff later found out that she was the latest victim of false identification by facial recognition.’ https://www.theguardian.com/newsletters/2023/aug/15/techscape-facial-recognition-software-detroit-porcha-woodruff-black-people-ai #ai #tech #law #politics #privacy #surveillance #dataprotection #gdpr #discrimination #humanrights

You gotta love Ruby and Shaye

https://newrepublic.com/article/175016/trump-georgia-indictment-ruby-freeman-wandrea-moss-american-heroes

PREDICTION: The Sheriff in Fulton County says he will post Trump's mugshot, height and weight just like everyone else arrested there. My prediction is that he will claim the height and weight posted is false designed to make him look shorter and fatter than he claims.

Finally, those 2nd law of thermodynamics arguments will make some sense!

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NEW: You heard about Ohio's Issue 1. But GOP is pushing such changes in so many states, trying over & over.

So I brought together 3 organizers who're fighting to defend democracy in Ohio, Arkansas, and Idaho. They talked about their frustrations & shared lessons.

Conversation was FASCINATING: https://boltsmag.org/direct-democracy-roundtable-ohio-arkansas-idaho/

Santos Aide Who Impersonated McCarthy Staff Member Faces Federal Charges – The New York Times

The New York Times and other news outlets have previously reported that Mr. Miele impersonated Mr. McCarthy’s chief of staff in a bid to solicit funds for Mr. Santos’s campaign. Mr. McCarthy later confirmed those reports and said that Mr. Miele was fired after Mr. Santos learned of his actions. Mr. Miele was charged with four counts of wire fraud in connection with specific…

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/08/16/santos-aide-who-impersonated-mccarthy-staff-member-faces-federal-charges-the-new-york-times/

Per WHO, every twelve minutes four people die of acute covid. Three of those deaths are in the United States.

Entering April, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid.

The emergency is over. Covid is not done with us.

[Revised charts provide add'l info.]

#ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks

To make matters worse, Indiana AG Todd Rokita says he'll keep requesting medical records regarding medical procedures MAGA folks don't like to increase fees for medical providers, according to the WFYI article.

He sent requests to all of Indiana's Planned Parenthood locations asking for gender affirming care info.

Abortion records will be next.

Remember, Trump said he wants to punish women who have had abortions.

#Indiana #abortion #transgender #trans #abortion #medicine #women #health

Here's a feature I'd like to see Social Media offer up..... A "Seen" button..... Yup... I've seen that Image... Never Show it to me again, thanks.... That way I could tag the endlessly repeated memes and junk that people share as if they were new, and never have to see them again.....

The internet is, too often, just the same old crap over and over and over......

Like any patriotic American, I'm concerned that, after he is convicted, the Secret Service may find it difficult to protect Former President, or President-Elect, or incumbent President Trump. Therefore I suggest that he serve his time at either the Marion (IL) or Florence (CO) penitentiary, where all convicts are kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day.

Quite a difference...

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Via Kyle Cheney:

UPDATE: State bar authorities in California say John #EASTMAN's disbarment proceedings should continue next week even though he's been charged in #Georgia.

He already waived his Fifth Amendment privilege by starting to testify in June, they say. #legal

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In retaliation for Zuck trolling Elon on Twitter, Elon should give Zuck a Tesla so when Zuck is out driving in public he is trolled by people for driving a Tesla.