Mastodawn

After we documented children crawling through trains to get to school, the mayor of Hammond, Indiana, said train company Norfolk Southern pledged to help fund an overpass. Now the project is dead after the company reneged, he says.

Norfolk Southern denies making a commitment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/norfolk-southern-train-crossing-hammond-indiana-school-pedestrian-overpass?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trains #Children #Walking #Safety #Indiana #School

Walkway Over Dangerous Train Crossing Is Dead After Norfolk Southern Backtracks on Funds, Mayor Says

The mayor of Hammond, Indiana, says the rail company had promised to help pay for a pedestrian bridge after ProPublica and InvestigateTV documented dozens of children crawling through trains to get to school. The company denies making this pledge.

ProPublica

MightyRama Mar 22

Chad McCullough Mar 22

Stop using AI, people. I don't care if it makes things easier for you. You're sucking up water, burning the planet, models were trained on stolen data, and you're making the rich even richer. And I didn't even list all of the issues with AI.

MightyRama Mar 11

Indivisible ❌👑Mar 11

Trump wants billions more for his war with Iran, and he needs Democratic votes to get it.

While most Dems are openly opposed to giving this lawless regime more money to kill Iranians, some are being cagey and Hakeem Jeffries is currently declining to organize House Democrats against war funding. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/hakeem-jeffries-wont-commit-iran-war-funding-defense-department-rcna262271

Hakeem Jeffries won't commit to blocking additional Iran war funding

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries would not commit to blocking any additional funding for the war in Iran, saying the president has so far failed to justify the war but “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”

NBC News

MightyRama Mar 2

Texas Observer Mar 2

Our top story: Since first entering office in January 2015 and up through August 2025, Paxton’s security detail has cost a total of about $2.8 million. The annual cost of his security detail clocked in at an average of $245,000 a year. https://www.texasobserver.org/taxpayer-tab-ken-paxton-travels/

#KenPaxton #Republicans #Texas #politics #USpol #news #law

Calculating the Taxpayers' Tab for Ken Paxton's Extensive Travels

In his three terms as attorney general, Paxton’s state police security detail has cost nearly $3 million as it accompanied him across Texas, the country, and the world.

The Texas Observer

MightyRama Mar 1

kim_harding ✅Mar 1

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/

Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't share this story, it makes them look even more stupid if you do...

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…

Techdirt

MightyRama Feb 26

Grickle Feb 26

Here's the finished image once again! "She had never fully perfected the spell to turn her worst enemies into cats." #grickledoodle #cartoon #drawing #art #funny #humor #horror #witch #cats

MightyRama Feb 26

Texas Observer Feb 25

NEW: In his three terms as attorney general, Ken Paxton’s state police security detail has cost nearly $3 million as it accompanied him across #Texas, the country, and the world.

News and Politics Editor Justin Miller crunched the numbers ... https://www.texasobserver.org/taxpayer-tab-ken-paxton-travels/

#politics #news #USpol #KenPaxton #law #police

Calculating the Taxpayers' Tab for Ken Paxton's Extensive Travels

In his three terms as attorney general, Paxton’s state police security detail has cost nearly $3 million as it accompanied him across Texas, the country, and the world.

The Texas Observer

MightyRama Feb 26

petersuber Feb 25

Wow. "Virginia State terminates six professors without due process.
Campus security escorted the professors —five tenured and one tenure-track— to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/2026/02/25/vsu-terminates-6-professors-without-due-process

#Academia #Universities

VSU Terminates 6 Professors Without Due Process

Campus security escorted the professors—five tenured and one tenure-track—to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals.

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

MightyRama Feb 22

Randahl Fink Feb 22

Back in Denmark after one of the best snowboarding weeks of my life in Zell am See, Austria.

The Schmittenhöhe mountain has 120 centimeters of snow, and the Kitzsteinhorn glacier has 160, so there is plenty of grip no matter where you ride.

Last week was colder than usual, so dressing properly was more important than ever, but that meant endless fun in the great snow conditions.

I did not bring a proper camera, but I hope these phone shots still give an impression of the beautiful Alps.

MightyRama Feb 22

CM Harrington Feb 22

So I’m trying to understand why it’s OK for the US hockey team to bring out a jersey with their killed teammate, but it’s not OK for the Ukrainian guy to have a helmet with his murdered teammates?

Fuck the IOC.