My husband and I are elder millennials. I grew up in Texas. He grew up in Washington. We both did square dancing in PE.
A judge in Georgia struck down the state's abortion ban: www.ajc.com/politics/jud...
The state can no longer enforce its ban on abortion that took effect in 2022, a Fulton County judge said Monday, allowing the procedure again to be performed in Georgia after a doctor detects fetal ca...
Workers at Impact Plastics in Erwin, TN were not evacuated, many are now missing: wcyb.com/news/local/d...
Family members of missing workers say they were either told not to leave or not allowed to leave until the water was waist high. Many of the missing and dead are immigrants. The bosses made it out, though. www.wjhl.com/news/local/i...
ERWIN, Tenn. (WJHL) — A plastics manufacturer in Unicoi County expressed sympathy after several employees went missing or died amid catastrophic flooding. Impact Plastics issued a press release on …
I find it striking how in the aftermath of Helene, libraries are providing crucial community services like free wifi while cops are guarding stores with rotting food from potential "looters" instead of serving and protecting people. Worth considering how we spend local funding.
people (on here) yelled at me about this when i said it before but a) you need traffic enforcement and b) speed cameras are vastly preferable to cops.
“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”
‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
This essay exactly. The president of wash u demanding that Richard Spencer be allowed to speak now having students and faculty arrested for speaking. It gives the lie so clearly.
"A strange paradox: in his freshman year, my former student ... was required by Martin to read a book insisting that free society tolerates Nazi protests. A year after [he] graduated, Martin had him arrested for pro-Palestinian protest."
These contradictory standards display what activists call “the Palestine exception.”
We treat voting as a matter of consumption, a buy-in to a candidate and their entire platform, a reflection of our personal values. This is not what voting is or how it was meant to function! Yet, capitalism is gonna capitalism. It’s a category error that convinces people to opt out of voting.
Oh, that really sucks. I like the Aveda Brilliant Damage Control as a heat protectant. I also do occasional Olaplex treatments (No. 0 and 3). It always gives my curls a boost.
And where local governments do try to make things better, the dictators running the state will immediately pass executive orders or laws to prohibit local governments from doing whatever it is the people who live there want.