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You’ve missed out Eclipses … they don’t necessarily come around again as quickly but they must be in Lumby’s top 5
Last night the House of Commons somehow passed a Lib Dem amendment that MPs arrested for serious offences should be excluded from the house. Conservative MPs today are furious - for some reason - blaming the Whips office for failing.
Your "publicizing the wins" news for today: 11th Circuit (Alabama, Florida, Georgia) has upheld the ruling that employer health care plans can't refuse to cover gender-affirming care for trans people. transgenderlegal.org/stay-informe...
Transgenderlegal Defense & Education Fund
This is Section 28, all due to the government running a blitzkrieg media push based on a transparently incoherent anti-trans white paper from a Tufton Street outlet. They announced the plan to change guidance within hours of the white paper’s release
Did you know today is the birthday of The Domed One, Our Lord and Savior, Brian Peter George St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno? A legitimate genius, one of the most important artists since the invention of recorded music, and a cat lover to boot.
NEW: A local Kansas news site published a column critical of Facebook—then Meta banned all their links. I talked to the site's editor about the attempt to silence them and the possibility of lawyering up: www.thehandbasket.co/p/facebook-k...
Meta removed all links to this piece from their platform, then removed links to all Kansas Reflector pieces. When @marisakabas.bsky.socialTheHandbasket.Substack.com, as well.
We are getting along OK without the promotional help of Facebook, but it does seem problematic that a behemoth such as Meta can dictate the terms of our communications.