"North Carolina GOP takes gerrymandering to new extremes with proposed new maps"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/19/2200351/-North-Carolina-GOP-takes-gerrymandering-to-new-extremes-with-proposed-new-maps
"Republicans put forth a pair of congressional maps that would both upend the state's House delegation, which currently includes seven Democrats and seven Republicans thanks to a court-drawn plan. Instead, if these new maps go into effect, North Carolina would almost certainly send 10 or 11 Republicans to Washington and just three or four Democrats."
#GOP #NC #gerrymandering
Because life in Minnesota just isn't beautiful enough until you have your beautiful giraffe dung necklace on.
Hmmm...is that dung you're wearing?
Next time just make the necklace in Kenya, and wear it home, around your neck.
"Customs officials seize giraffe poop from traveler at Minnesota airport"
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/05/Customs-Border-Protection-giraffte-poop-Minnesota/1311696528107/
"Customs officials in Minnesota seized a box of giraffe feces from a traveler who arrived from Kenya and said she planned to use the droppings to make a necklace."
#poop
"Why MAGA Wants to Betray Ukraine"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/opinion/columnists/maga-republicans-ukraine.html
Paul #Krugman: "The answer is, unfortunately, obvious. Whatever Republican hard-liners may say, they want Putin to win. They view the Putin regime’s cruelty and repression as admirable features that America should emulate. They support a wannabe dictator at home and are sympathetic to actual dictators abroad.
What they are, basically, is enemies of democracy, both abroad and at home."
#paywall #opinion #GOP #MAGA #Ukraine #Putin
That rare event: The media reporting on the media...
"The Media Falls for Trump’s Labor Lies"
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/the-media-falls-for-trumps-labor-lies.html
"Donald Trump is not going to speak to striking autoworkers on Wednesday. He is going to a non-union auto supplier in Michigan, where he will perform a pro-labor routine in front of workers who are not represented by the UAW. You could be forgiven for thinking otherwise after reading recent press coverage, which has portrayed Trump as some iconoclastic friend of workers."
GOOD! A great example of 'just because we can doesn't mean we should.'
"New York bans facial recognition in schools after report finds risks outweigh potential benefits"
https://apnews.com/article/facial-recognition-banned-new-york-schools-ddd35e004254d316beabf70453b1a6a2
"New York state banned the use of facial recognition technology in schools Wednesday, following a report that concluded the risks to student privacy and civil rights outweigh potential security benefits."
#privacy #identity #facialrecognition #inference #tracking #surveillance
"Philips Kept Complaints About Dangerous Breathing Machines Secret While Company Profits Soared"
https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-about-dangerous-cpaps-secret-profits-soared
"Tainted CPAP machines and ventilators went to children, the elderly and at least 700,000 veterans despite internal warnings. Company insiders said the devices posed an “unacceptable” risk."
#health #cpac #PhilipsKent
Taking down band directors now for non-compliance...
"A high school band director was tased by cops at a football game after he refused orders to stop his musicians from playing"
https://www.businessinsider.com/school-band-director-tased-refusing-police-orders-stop-music-performance-2023-9 #alabama #music #football #showofforce
"The director of a high school band in Alabama was arrested and tased by police after he ignored their repeated requests to stop his students' music performance at the end of a football game, a statement from Birmingham police department says."
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