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Judge Blocks Prosecutor From Using Unconstitutional Anti-Drag Law To Arrest People During Pride Festival

2 years 3 months ago
It’s great to see hateful people being shut down by little things like, you know, the Constitution. Would that it happened more frequently. Or, more hopefully, would that the mere existence of the Constitution prevent hateful legislators from passing hateful laws that have zero chance of surviving a constitutional challenge. It’s the land of the […]
Tim Cushing

Daily Deal: OfficeSuite One-Time Purchase

2 years 3 months ago
OfficeSuite makes everything a breeze, with comprehensive compatibility across different platforms and devices. With OfficeSuite, you can work anywhere, any time, and on your terms in a reliable and familiar way. Want to work on a phone? Desktop? Tablet? Windows? iOS? Whatever you want. And, if you want a more open alternative to the monopolies […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Sexual assault survivors can now track their rape kits in most states

2 years 3 months ago

It can take hours for a sexual assault victim to undergo the multiple swabs, hair samples, blood and urine collections, and other invasive procedures of a sexual assault examination. And then it can take months, sometimes years, for investigators to process that evidence kit. But now, responding to demands from survivors and their advocates, more […]

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Amanda Hernandez

Tennessee Williams Festival Kicks Off With a Riveting ‘Suddenly Last Summer'

2 years 3 months ago
Sebastian Venable was a dilettante, a poet from a privileged New Orleans family who wrote just one poem a year, which he “printed himself on an eighteenth-century hand-press at his atelier in the French Quarter,” in the words of his adoring mother Violet. He professed no desire for fame in his lifetime; his mother was supposed to attend to that after his death.
Sarah Fenske

Everything at the Fields Foods in Lafayette Square Is 50 Percent Off Today

2 years 3 months ago
It's been one of the biggest guessing games in town: When exactly will the battered local grocer Fields Foods close its two remaining stores? After several stores were unceremoniously shuttered last month, and the inventory cleared out, people began to wonder about the flagship store in Lafayette Square and the sole remaining satellite in Downtown West. Inventory had been perilously low in recent weeks.
Sarah Fenske

Ron DeSantis is right about excessive 1/6 sentences, but for the wrong reason

2 years 3 months ago
Ron DeSantis thinks the Proud Boy leaders of the January 6 insurrection have received unfairly harsh sentences. I agree with him. However, we have very different reasons for thinking the sentences should be shorter. DeSantis says that BLM protesters who broke the law got lenient sentences, so the Proud Boys should too. But this doesn't ...continue reading "Ron DeSantis is right about excessive 1/6 sentences, but for the wrong reason"
Kevin Drum

Did Elon Musk deactivate Starlink coverage around Crimea?

2 years 3 months ago
Here is Elon Musk's version of the story about how and why Starlink satellite coverage around Crimea was inactive when the Ukrainian government wanted to use it to guide a drone attack on the Russian navy: There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol. The obvious intent ...continue reading "Did Elon Musk deactivate Starlink coverage around Crimea?"
Kevin Drum