I hope Europe is ready for more immigration
He's a Florida Man
If we lose the libraries, we lose democracy
Because the media is complicit and owned by the same oligarchs that have taken control of our country.
'We aim to make sure everyone receives fair compensation for their work and the value they provide.'
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21476821
When he dies will be the first, and only, time.
A grand jury has indicted two former Uvalde school police officers in the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, two Texas state government sources with knowledge of the indictment told CNN Thursday.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17018450
Starfield is still $70 (base). It's $46 on sale. One of the most panned games of 2023 is STILL $70 FUCKING DOLLARS! How the hell?
You put a meat thermometer into the bread for thirty seconds then insert it into the vagina.
The problem is that you pay $20-30 for a game that ends up sucking when you finally get to play it 2 months later which is past Steam's refund date. If you never play it, it may still be a fun game and not a bad decision. Schrodinger's game.
Republicans opposed January 6th until they realized that there would be no real repercussions for the organizers and traitors behind the scenes.
Ironically, it's voting that led to all this corruption. The uneducated, ignorant, scared, hateful masses put corrupt grifters in office.
"I will make it legal." - Republicans
There is no process or procedure that can undo these people. The system has failed us.
But the SCOTUS already said money is free speech. This is exactly the natural progression of Republican corruption we expected.
The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were “filthy and evil.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16956532
> Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with Jewish themes. > > In Mission, the long list of books on the chopping block includes a recent illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary; both volumes of Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic memoir “Maus”; “The Fixer,” Bernard Malamud’s novel about a historical instance of antisemitic blood libel; and “Kasher in the Rye,” a ribald memoir by Jewish comedian Moshe Kasher.
“This might foreshadow what is happening in other states,” said Johns Hopkins public health researcher Alison Gemmill. “Texas is basically a year ahead.”
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35410900
Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime
Elizabeth Wolf, 42, was charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18630049
Emails from 2005 released by Cindy Clemishire show how megachurch pastor Robert Morris responded after she asked for “restitution” for sex abuse she says began when she was 12.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35266052
Texas congressman won’t stop wearing combat Infantryman Badge that was revoked
More than a month after a news report revealed that the Combat Infantryman Badge Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wears on his lapel was revoked since he was never eligible for the award to begin with, the congressman refuses to take the pin off.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16822310
> More than a month after a news report revealed that the Combat Infantryman Badge Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wears on his lapel was revoked since he was never eligible for the award to begin with, the congressman refuses to take the pin off. > > Nehls' stubbornness has garnered growing criticism from veterans and others in the community of stolen valor researchers, who say the issue is simple: The rules for the CIB are clear, and Nehls did not qualify. > > "The veteran community is starting to get to the point now where there's no room for forgiveness at this point because now they see, ‘Hey, this wasn't an error. He's doubling down now,’" said Anthony Anderson, an Army veteran who runs Guardian of Valor and was instrumental in uncovering Nehls' revoked award. "He knows he didn't earn this award."
Dan Patrick pledges to emulate Louisiana with bill that would force public schools to display Ten Commandments
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16793518
This Judge Made Houston the Top Bankruptcy Court. Then He Helped His Girlfriend Cash In.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18479087
> > Law firm Kirkland & Ellis brought multibillion-dollar cases to David R. Jones’s court, aided by a local attorney who lived with the judge; ‘Why did no one look into it?’
The Supreme Court has ruled against a California woman who said her rights were violated after federal officials refused to allow her husband into the country, in part, because of the way his tattoos were interpreted.
The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suspected antisemitic attack has sent shockwaves throughout France and thrust concerns about antisemitism to the forefront of campaigning for the country’s legislative elections.
A Nevada state court judge has dismissed a criminal indictment against six Republicans accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election, potentially killing the case.
The An family, who own and operate a dojo in Harris County, used their years of training and discipline to pin down an attacker until law enforcement arrived.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16767093
> The piercing scream, like a sound from a horror film, triggered taekwondo instructor Simon An to draw on his years of martial arts training. > > Around 4 p.m. Tuesday, shortly after the doors of his family-owned and -operated studio in Texas opened for evening classes, An and his father, his mother, his older sister and his younger brother heard shrieks coming from a neighboring business. > > The family of five, each with a fourth-degree black belt, run the Yong-in Taekwondo studio in Katy, outside Houston. They initially ignored the sounds, assuming they came from employees playing around in their break room. But then a piercing “final scream” prompted the family into action, A said. > > His family ran to the store and opened a door. There they found a man on top of a young woman with his hands “in [in]appropriate places” as she attempted to fend him off, A said. > > An’s father, Hong, yanked the attacker away by his shirt and pinned him to the ground. An’s sister, Hannah, grabbed the girl and rushed her out of the room while An and his brother helped subdue the attacker.
Rules for Fae
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16725859
> Rule > > Alt text: a text post that reads: > Work in retail long enough, and you'll eventually realize the rules for dealing with Customers are exactly the same as dealing with the Fae: > - Avoid eye contact. > - Never reveal your full name. > - Accept nothing They offer you. > - Never verbally agree or disagree with anything They might happen to say. > - To apologize is to acknowledge a debt owed. > - Under no circumstances are you ever to thank Them. > - Remember that They are incapable of reading signs in human languages.
Kendrick Lamar turned his Juneteenth “Pop Out” concert at the Forum into a cathartic livestreamed celebration of Los Angeles unity.
