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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

2 years 9 months ago
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous response to some bargain-basement transphobic bigotry: I could point you at a trans discussing what its like to be a trans, but you are so aggressive towards trans people that i will not set an rabid dog on their case. Suffice to […]
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One Of Area's Best - Baseball Star Daniel Gierer Is Byron, Carlson, Petri & Kalp Male Athlete Of Month For Griffins

2 years 9 months ago
GLEN CARBON - Daniel Gierer will be a senior in the fall at Father McGivney Catholic High School. He'll also come back and play a huge role in his school's baseball team as they look to make it three 30-win seasons in a row. As a matter of fact, it's an expectation from head coach Chris Erwin that his team reach that mark again. "That's the goal," Gierer said. "We set high standards for ourselves here and we expect to meet them, so that's what we're really all about." The Griffins took a relatively early exit this season as they went out in the Regionals Finals. They were defeated by Mater Dei by a score of 2-0. Gierer says that it's important that his team make it deeper into the postseason in 2023. Gierer, who is one of the best overall baseball players in small or large schools in the area, is the Byron, Carlson, Petri & Kalp Male Athlete of the Month for Father McGivney Catholic. The Griffins should be able to do it as they have a ton of talent coming back such as Jackson Rodgers

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Gov. Pritzker's Remarks Following the Supreme Court’s Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade      

2 years 9 months ago
We knew this day was coming. The extremists on the Supreme Court have made an abhorrent decision — one rooted in partisan games — leaving an indelible stain on our nation. Overturning Roe v. Wade directly contradicts the nation’s history of expanding rights in the United States. It’s an attack on freedom and liberty our constitution is supposed to guarantee. Right now, it’s abortion they’re taking away. Next, it will be birth control and other contraceptives. Next: fertility treatment. They are coming to take away women’s power to become mothers at the time of their choosing. And they are allowing states to criminalize the exercise of reproductive rights. Women and their doctors are now threatened with going to prison or being bankrupted because of the radical majority Donald Trump and his right-wing allies created on the Supreme Court. Here we are. At exactly the point many of us feared and even predicted. Privacy rights are being eviscerated

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