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Automotive culture at work:
"Galvan said collisions caused by drivers of cars speeding in the bus lane are common and frightening, especially for people like her who have no choice but to come to work on and near the street every day."
Enjoyed this exploration of the story behind “Deal with the Devil”
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-real-story-of-blues-legend-robert
"'Armed interventions and the humanitarian crises they inevitably engender are central reasons why people leave their home countries in the first place,' García said. 'Invading Mexico would endanger a key partner, increase the chaos in which cartels thrive, and force large numbers of people to come to our border fleeing violence — far from addressing the challenges that Republicans purport to care about.'"
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/31/republicans-mexico-war/
#USPol #NorthAmerica #AntiWar
This might be the best possible endorsement of the "Right to Repair"
https://www.404media.co/scientologists-ask-government-to-make-hacking-e-meters-illegal/
nostr:npub1xq8heg3d8ycy2m2kcvvfvlgdxajt5rmqjc58taxpe6zh4hcjyglq4j7ntg Yup, your daughter has it right
nostr:npub1vf6epqmsxulh4r7wy0fqdjhxtquh88ewdx23c4vg0cg7rg75y8rswp9z2w For what it’s worth, I kind of understand why they did it. It’s a pseudo defensible process in response to an absurd request, maybe even better than a coin flip.
"California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Friday that his office is launching a civil rights investigation into the new and controversial Chino Valley Unified School District policy to notify bigoted parents about whether or not their children are transgender and/or non-binary, which he says is illegal and directly threatens the lives of LGBTQ+ students."
#CaliforniaPolitics #USPol #LGBTQrights
Seen this story of how a group identified the IP addresses of posters on a notorious anonymous economics web forum?
Well here's the original paper. The techniques are pretty jaw-dropping:
https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/files/2023-07/ejmr_paper_nber(1).pdf
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Phew! Despite Trump's protestations, *this* is what it looked like to use the justice system against the opposition party
https://www.newindiaabroad.com/supreme-court-stays-rahul-gandhis-conviction/
#India #RahulGandhi
"Combining the figures from Gallup and Data for Progress, Erin Reed, a queer-rights researcher who writes the influential Substack Erin in the Morning, estimates that as many as 260,000 trans people have already fled red states for blue ones and that another 1 million are considering it." https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/07/05/they-arrived-portland-is-becoming-a-haven-for-gender-refugees/
Here are the facts:
“Polling shows that a higher share of Asian Americans support affirmative action, with 53% who have heard of the policy saying it’s ‘a good thing.’ Another 19% say it’s a negative thing. A separate 2022 survey from the nonprofit group APIAVote, which polled registered Asian American voters, showed 69% favored affirmative action programs ‘designed to help Black people, women, and other minorities get better access to higher education’”
https://news.yahoo.com/asian-americans-affirmative-action-ruling-215248393.html
#AsianAmerican