A group of book sellers and publishers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block a new Texas book ratings law they say could ban such classics “Romeo and Juliet” and “Of Mice and Men” from state public school classrooms and libraries over sexual content.
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Texas #BookBans
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https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-book-ban-lawsuit/285-a44dccba-d10b-46b8-8dba-c4243791ea7e

There is no economic growth on a dead planet.

Pass it on.

Via ACLU:

BREAKING: With more than 700,000 signatures submitted, the #Ohio Secretary of State announced that a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom has enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot this fall.

We have a right to #abortion care and we will vote for it.

Relying on the Fed to raise interest rates puts the burden of fighting inflation mostly on lower-wage workers who are already hurting from rising prices.

There’s no need to continue punishing workers by increasing rates to drive unemployment.

Stop raising rates.
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RT @economics
Jerome Powell says the Fed probably needs to do further interest-rate increases following the January jobs report http://trib.al/PXyf7Ja
https://twitter.com/economics/status/1623019691135365122

Even if you have good health insurance, hospitals "in your network" have a scam whereby doctors not in your network treat you -- and you're on the hook for megabucks.

It should be flatly illegal to do this.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/30/1151778684/a-baby-spent-36-days-at-an-in-network-hospital-why-did-her-parents-get-a-huge-bi

A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”

Found a "shaggy fringe lichen" (Anaptychia palmulata) yesterday, but the name doesn't do it justice - it had the showiest blue flowers I have ever seen in a lichen.

#inaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147583377
#LichenSubscribe