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St. Louis Alderwoman Gives Impassioned Speech From Supreme Court Steps

1 year 2 months ago
St. Louis Ward 7 Alderwoman Alisha Sonnier took her advocacy for the unhoused community to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday as the court weighed arguments in Johnson v. Grants Pass. The court must decide whether cities can ban unhoused individuals from sleeping outside even when shelter space is scarce. “The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue as record numbers of people are without a permanent place to live in the United States,” the Associated Press reported.
Kallie Cox

Lawmakers Who Insisted The US Gov’t Should Never Combat Foreign Influence Online, Vote To Combat TikTok’s Foreign Influence Online

1 year 2 months ago
Is the US government allowed to step in to deal with foreign influence on social media or not? According to at least some members of Congress, the answer appears to be “yes, when we dislike what they’re saying, and no when we like what they’re saying.” When the original House bill to “ban TikTok” passed, […]
Mike Masnick

Lunchtime Photo

1 year 2 months ago
This is the last of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park. It's called Spruce Tree House because.......those are spruce trees nearby? All of these dwellings, by the way, were built in the 1200s after Puebloans had been driven from their previous homes by a long and destructive drought in the 1100s.
Kevin Drum