A British Columbia author whose children's book about residential schools was temporarily banned by a #US school board says she is concerned about possible bans on #Indigenous books in #BC classrooms.
Some experts share Jordan-Fenton's concern about U.S. book bans having a "chilling effect" on decisions about school books in B.C.
#bookban #USpol #CANpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indigenous-book-bans-bc-1.6985294
Trump made a real mistake here.
In my experience, judges have a very thick skin when it comes to attacks on their own character... but targeting or harassing their staff? I can't think of a faster way to infuriate a judge, or to bring out the most fierce mama-bear instincts you've ever seen from someone in robes. #LawFedi
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/nyregion/trump-gag-order-fraud-trial.html
Just learned I might have to make an appearance in BC Supreme Court (i.e. the superior trial court) early tomorrow.
I'm still a new enough call to the bar that I don't have a properly fitted court gown, which is required at the Supreme Court level. My colleague will let me borrow his, but he's easily half a head taller than me.
Should go great!
https://sb-esq-social.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/111/167/140/826/245/928/original/66a5800500ffbed8.jpg
Been using #Kagi for 2 months now on their Starter plan, US$5/month for 300 searches.
It's been... fine. I hit the 300 limit last month with a week to spare. To avoid a repeat, I've been using Kagi more conservatively and relying more on DuckDuckGo again. And it's starting to seem that the key benefit Kagi provided -- fewer garbage AI-produced results -- is not going as well as it did a couple of months ago.
With that in mind, I'm starting to wonder whether the service is really worth $60/yr?
On the one hand, I appreciate having two three-day weekends in a row.
On the other, I couldn't sleep last night anyway, partly because I was so stressed about having two weeks in a row where five days' worth of hearings are packed into four.
Actual scene this morning:
Me: Maybe we should get one of those robot vacuums, like a Roomba? The apartment would feel a lot cleaner if dirt and dog fur were automatically zapped away daily
Wife: Eh, maybe we just use our hand vac more? Here, let's use it now...
[5 minutes later]
Wife: [drops hand vac on foot, possibly breaks her toe]
***
Now my afternoon itinerary is 1) take wife to walk-in clinic; 2) go buy a new vacuum
Me: If this months-long insomnia keeps up, I'm going to have to do something about it
My wife: Why don't you just do something about it now?
Me: ...
Me: ... I'm too tired?
Dealing with an opposing counsel who is being an absolute prick, but he looks just like Michael Douglas in "Falling Down," so I don't want to push him 𝘵𝘰𝘰 hard
The US Chamber of Commerce, complaining about today's targeted auto workers strike, says, “For the 94% of American private sector workers not in a union, the costs are starting to stack up."
Which, if you think about it, suggests that a lot more Americans should be joining a union.
A white south #Alabama woman is going to federal prison after she hung racially offensive homemade dolls on her Black neighbors’ fence in an attempt to get them to move, prosecutors announced today.
Cheryl Pytleski, 64, admitted in a plea agreement to using the threat of force to intimidate her neighbors because of their race and because they were occupying a dwelling next to her.
Her 12-month sentence is the maximum allowed under the relevant federal statute.
https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/alabama-woman-hung-racially-offensive-dolls-on-black-neighbors-fence-to-get-them-to-move.html
Texas jury orders man to pay ex-girlfriend $1.2bn in revenge porn case
The woman said her ex-boyfriend conducted a campaign to spread intimate photos of her online without her consent. Using images taken by security cameras at the home where the woman was living, he shared the photos on fake social media accounts, tagging friends, family and employers on the picture.
He also created a website and publicly accessible Dropbox folders and emailed the photos to people.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/15/texas-jury-revenge-porn-case
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