Alex Charner

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Caracas-born, Atlanta-based. alexcharner and alexchafd over at the other place. Producer of small films, illustrator of worthwhile ideas and trainer of good people.
The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into 'discipline centers' at 28 schools this upcoming year https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/
HISD to eliminate librarians, turn some libraries into discipline centers at 28 campuses

Houston Independent School District will be eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools this upcoming year and utilizing some of the libraries as ‘Team Centers” where kids with behavioral issues will be sent, the district announced.

KPRC Click2Houston

So.

Yesterday, @ABC tweeted a headline that declared that Moms for Liberty were “fighting back.”

MANY people asked:fighting against what? It was an example of both sides-ism and normalization par excellence.

After lots of people objected, they removed it.

NEVER forget that your voice matters. And that the voice of the people can have real power.

#politics #media

"They haven't done anything wrong yet!"
Meta: (would rather skip out on the entire European market than not be as evil as possible)
lol
It looks like the person who made up that whole fake anti-LGBTQ Supreme Court case was none other than Josh Hawley's bigoted wife Erin. Perfect couple
https://www.newsweek.com/erin-hawley-supreme-court-case-1810419
Josh Hawley's Wife Faces Calls to Be Sanctioned Over Supreme Court Case

Erin Morrow Hawley litigated a case in which the Supreme Court ruled a Colorado web designer can refuse to design websites for same-sex weddings.

Newsweek

Top state reports, new cases of #COVID, 7/04*:

1. New York +520
2. Maine +105
3. Delaware +58

*Only 3 states reported.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

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United States Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.

Please consider joining the Brennan Center in their new campaign to pass term limits for Supreme Court justices. #SCOTUS #TermLimits

Brennan Center for Justice-
https://www.brennancenter.org/

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Defend Democracy. Reform Justice. Protect the Constitution. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free.

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As predictable as day turning into night, here’s the New York Times blithely repeating Musk’s bullshit about “data scrapers” without the slightest hint of skepticism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/business/twitter-rate-limit-elon-musk.html

Musk Says Twitter Is Limiting Number of Posts Users Can Read

The change on Saturday came as thousands of users complained about getting an error message that they had “exceeded” their “rate limit.”

The New York Times

Journalists, if you're still pouring your work into Saudi-government-funded Twitter even partly on the hope that someone will see it embedded somewhere else, Musk's latest move makes that much less likely.

Since the ethics of supporting his cheerleading for extremism aren't on your agenda, maybe practicality will make you reconsider your devotion to his increasingly vile site?

Big Journalism's coverage of the wedding website ruling is missing a key element: the entire case is apparently built on lies if not outright fraud, as a single outlet -- the New Republic -- discovered at the last minute.

To acknowledge this, of course, would be to admit utter failure by news orgs (except one) to do even a tiny bit of due diligence.

And what about the plaintiff lawyers? Shouldn't there be sanctions at least in lower courts?

Not too late to do journalism on that, anyway.

What's the betting line on when King Scotus will overturn Obergefell?