A 13,600-year-old mastodon skull is unearthed in an Iowa creek
Very fascinating find!
Thank goodness for the Lincoln Project! Maybe the bully in chief will eventually come to realize he's not in control here...
They still can; the day is still young...
Books dumped en masse at Florida's New College, sparking controversy
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/15832268
> > The New College of Florida is under fire after what appears to be hundreds of books that have been wiped from its collection and discarded on the street. > > The right-wing war on knowledge continues to be a five-alarm fire for American (and world) Democracy and getting worse by the day...
Books dumped en masse at Florida's New College, sparking controversy
> The New College of Florida is under fire after what appears to be hundreds of books that have been wiped from its collection and discarded on the street.
The right-wing war on knowledge continues to be a five-alarm fire for American (and world) Democracy and getting worse by the day...
Laura Viar, the magistrate who authorized last year’s police raid on the Marion County Record, escaped discipline from a state panel with contradictory claims.
Another sign of a broken system...
Project 2025 is coming for the BWCA
Reposting this image from r/Minnesota:.
A vote for Trump is a vote for the end of the BWCA as we know it; tailings and copper pollution from the mining would ruin the environment and be a drag on tourism.
A Heritage spokesperson told CyberScoop after publication that the organization was not “hacked.” Instead, the spokesperson said “an organized group stumbled upon a two-year-old archive of The Daily Signal website that was available on a public-facing website owned by a contractor. The information obtained was limited to usernames, names, email addresses, and incomplete password information of both Heritage and non-Heritage contributors, as well as article comments and the IP address of the commentor.”
At least they're admitting to being incompetent...
There is no precedent. Whatever its name — dictatorship, fascism, autocracy, theocracy — this is not democracy.
A call to action, to be sure.
Attorney General Kris Kobach files a civil lawsuit against Pfizer, alleging deceptive marketing of its COVID-19 vaccine and violating Kansas's Consumer Protection Act.
What a total waste of tax money...
June is Pride Month, and some houses of worship, and faith leaders stand as allies to the LGBTQ+ Community.
A two-day celebration of diversity, acceptance, life and love - Kansas Pride.
Makes you very happy to see this!
Hutchinson man purportedly displays racist group on his work vehicle
Absolutely ridiculous... > A work vehicle bearing the saying that supports a white supremacist group was spotted in Hutchinson and reported to social media.
> The slogan, according to the ADL, was coined by David Lane, a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order.
A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher have filed a federal lawsuit over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher’s home.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13826334
> A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher’s home, accusing local officials of trying to silence the paper and causing the death of the publisher’s 98-year-old mother. > > The lawsuit did not include a specific figure for potential damages. However, in a separate notice to local officials, the paper and its publisher said they believe they are due more than $10 million. > > The lawsuit from the Marion County Record’s parent company and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, accuses the city of Marion, the Marion County Commission and five current and former local officials of violating free press rights and the right to be free from unreasonable law enforcement searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit also notified the defendants that Meyer and the newspaper plan to add other claims, including that officials wrongly caused the death of Meyer’s mother the day after the raids, which the lawsuit attributes to a stress-induced heart attack.
When Kansas House lobbyists ask for new laws, their names go on bills
Glad to see Kansas doing this and trying to bring some transparency back to the statehouse!
The Biden administration will send close to $1 billion to airports across the country to upgrade terminal facilities, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced Thursday.
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8862176
> Painesville, Cleveland, Gallipolis, and Dayton will all see some of the money.
Minneapolis is also on the list!
Even if they had, they're hoping their voters never did or have forgotten. :(
Absolutely despicable! Thank you for summarizing all of these details, this story has such sprawl it's difficult to capture just how all the issues factor into one another anymore. Really hope that justice starts to play out in the long term, but I'm not convinced that will happen on account of the corruption emanating from the State; the Kansas Bureau of Investigation decided to involve CBI in the matter, indicating the rot likely permeates much of the state bureaucracy as well.
There's also the attempt to undermine Kansas' 2016 Open Records Act in preventing the release of pertinent communications by officials and court records during and shortly before the raid (which many anti-transparency activists in the Kansas GOP are trying to use to get rid of the KORA (1 and 2)).
Record reporter Phyllis Zorn filed a federal lawsuit in the Marion County Raid, releasing new details on the infamous seizure.
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8358951
> Crooked cop couldn't remember the Miranda Rights and threw a pizza party to celebrate... This story gets worse with every new revelation.
Record reporter Phyllis Zorn filed a federal lawsuit in the Marion County Raid, releasing new details on the infamous seizure.
Crooked cop couldn't remember the Miranda Rights and threw a pizza party to celebrate... This story gets worse with every new revelation.
Photo by Pixabay By CRISTINA JANNEYHays PostKansas Attorney General Kr
Suggesting that lead paint in water is of trivial importance is cartoonishly evil
The reasons for local opposition vary. The motives behind them can be murky. But they often boil down to one idea: Renewables are fine, but we don’t want them here.
Unfortunately, the oil-funded NIMBY scourge continues...
Most definitely!
At least where I am, they're in the most uptown bougie strip mall they can get into; same situation with Whole Foods. Starting to shop exclusively at the two state-wide/local stores that don't have these issues, but wish more folks had access to quality local grocers who pay well and support unions.
Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news from Minnesota and beyond. This week: Trader Joe’s launches raid on New Deal; Minnesota lawmakers receive public option estimates; Minneapolis and Rochester teachers protest on ‘Walkout Wednesdays’; Twin Cities janitors to take strike ...
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8284923
Key Takeaway: > "In defending itself against union busting allegations, Trader Joe’s fired a cannon ball that could sink the ship of modern American labor law. > > The grocery store chain is arguing that the federal agency prosecuting it for unfair labor practices — including giving union workers worse retirement benefits and barring workers from wearing union pins at work — is unconstitutional."
Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news from Minnesota and beyond. This week: Trader Joe’s launches raid on New Deal; Minnesota lawmakers receive public option estimates; Minneapolis and Rochester teachers protest on ‘Walkout Wednesdays’; Twin Cities janitors to take strike ...
"In defending itself against union busting allegations, Trader Joe’s fired a cannon ball that could sink the ship of modern American labor law.
The grocery store chain is arguing that the federal agency prosecuting it for unfair labor practices — including giving union workers worse retirement benefits and barring workers from wearing union pins at work — is unconstitutional."
This story, the first in an occasional series about water challenges facing the American heartland, is a partnership between Stateline and the Kansas Reflector. MOSCOW, Kansas — Brownie Wilson pulls off a remote dirt road right through a steep ditch and onto a farmer’s field. He hops out of his whit...
At this point, we really ought to be shouting about this from every rooftop in the country.
That's a good question, never heard about this before now...
It will be interesting to see what becomes of them!