MIL got a notice from her apartment complex that they're redoing walkways or something and everyone in the complex is supposed to be out of their apartment from 8am to 5pm, Monday through Friday, for the next SEVEN weeks.
That seems ... illegal?
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16 wtfsA prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/11/texas-prison-lawsuit-fetal-rights/
The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.
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16 wtfsSo there appears to be a serial killer at my son’s school now. There have been three stabbings in the past week in the town of Davis, CA. Two of them have been murders including one CS student. Last night the third stabbing happened and the police were searching my son’s dorm complex.
This shit is terrifying: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/02/uc-davis-stabbings-police-search-for-suspect/70173652007/ -
16 wtfsCounty fair sent cops 500 miles, with a warrant allowing to use breaching charges. to kill a 9 year old girl’s goat to teach her a lesson.
https://archive.is/2023.04.01-060256/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair -
16 wtfsJudge Reed O'Connor STRIKES DOWN a major provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring insurers to cover a vast amount of preventive care cost-free (contraception, cancer screening, PrEP, a ton of pregnancy-related care). The ruling applies nationwide.
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1641438679460872192?s=20
The logic of this decision is that it’s unconstitutional for the government to require health insurance coverage for our most effective tool for fighting the HIV epidemic because fundamentalist Christians think Jesus requires all gay sex to have a risk of serious illness.
https://twitter.com/purplechrain/status/1641444977116082185?s=20
Treating companies as people sure seems to lead to all sorts of bad legal outcomes on speech, money and religion.
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TX GOP wants to create a "vigilante death squad policy" to give a group of lawmakers and citizens to chase down undocumented immigrants, preferrable with non-violent methods, but with language that would give them immunity if they happen to use excessive force.
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16 wtfsAn example of a social studies textbook company katowing to Florida.
The original story of Rosa Parks as to 1st graders (before the new laws):
In 1955, Rosa Parks broke the law. In her city, the law said African Americans had to give up their seats on the bus if a while person wanted to sit down. She would not give up her seat. The police came and took her to jail.
The updated Parks story approved for Florida's use
Rosa Parks showed coujrage. One day, she road the bus. She was told to move to a different seat. She did not. She did what she believed was right.
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16 wtfsMinnesota Republican votes against free school meals bill because 'I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/minnesota-republican-votes-against-free-school-meals-bill-because-i-have-yet-to-meet-a-person-in-minnesota-that-is-hungry/ar-AA18EfVI
A Republican state senator voted against a bill to feed schoolchildren, arguing that hunger wasn't a problem there because he hadn't met anyone without enough food.
Sen. Steve Drazkowski made the remarks on the floor of the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday before voting on HF 5, which would provide free school lunch and breakfast for students in the state.
"I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry," said Drazkowski. "I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that says they don't have access to enough food to eat."
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Drazkowsksi said in his floor speech that hunger is "relative," complaining that it was not well-defined in the bill.
"I had a cereal bar for breakfast," he said. "I guess I'm hungry now."
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GOP rep calls for 'stronger laws at state level' to stop women from leaving Indiana to access abortion care
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-calls-for-stronger-laws-at-state-level-to-stop-women-from-leaving-indiana-to-access-abortion-care/ar-AA16GPWv
"Our work as a pro-life movement is far from over," Miller said. "If a young lady can hop in a car in Fort Wayne and in an hour and a half she can be in a place in Michigan or in just under 3 hours, she could cross the line into Illinois and achieve what she was able to do with abortion clinics here in Indiana. The fight is far from over."
JFC
