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School Counselor Wins $6.1 Million from St. Louis Public Schools

2 years 5 months ago
A jury in St. Louis city awarded $6.1 million to a former guidance counselor at Soldan High School who alleged age and gender discrimination. In his original suit, Ron Spivey, 64, says that at the time he worked at the north city school he was  the only male counselor and that his younger supervisor, as well as the school system more broadly, "favored the younger female counselors at Soldan and mistreated [Spivey] as compared to those co-workers."
Ryan Krull

Getting A Leg Up On Blood Clots

2 years 5 months ago
During his 14-year career in the NFL, Deion “Prime Time” Sanders was known for his silky moves on the football field. But now the 55-year-old college football coach has been slowed, due in large part to blood clots he’s suffered over the years.Sanders was back in the news recently due to surgery he had on blood clots in both legs. It’s not his first go-around with this serious health issue. In 2021 he had two toes amputated due to clots. Blood clots can happen to anyone. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot located in a deep vein, usually in a leg or arm. A pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blood clot that has traveled from a deep vein to a lung. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 900,000 people suffer from a blood clot each year and 100,000 people die. About 30% of people who have had a DVT or PE are prone to a recurrence.“It is a serious problem. It's something that you're going to want to seek medical care for," says

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Friday Cat Blogging – 30 June 2023

2 years 5 months ago
Here is Hilbert rolling around on the patio next to our new digiplexis plant, which Marian very much wanted me to get in the picture. It's the pinkish stalk in the top left.
Kevin Drum

Durbin, Graham, Lead Bipartisan Judiciary Committee Letter To Mark Zuckenberg On Child Sexual Abuse Material On Instagram

2 years 5 months ago
The letter follows Durbin’s op-ed in The Hill this week, highlighting the continued bipartisan efforts to stop the exploitation of kids online WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led a bipartisan group of ten Judiciary Committee members in a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman and CEO of Meta, regarding recent reporting that Instagram’s algorithm promotes and facilitates sexual interest in and activity with children, including the production and sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). The letter was also signed by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Chris Coons (D-DE), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Kennedy (R-LA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Peter Welch (D-VT) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). “We are gravely concerned that Instagram’s failure to prevent this perverse

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