mautamu 3w ago • 100%
Absolutely! I get it if you're stocking up for weather disasters to a degree, but the number of folks who rely strictly on bottled water is too high. Seems that some combination of advertising + fear and convenience have made it too enticing to use single-use water bottles, though. ☹️
mautamu 3w ago • 100%
Agreed! It's absolutely insane what passes the public by these days; unfortunately, I think that the extremely fast residence time for anything in the news cycle is getting worse these days...
www.texasobserver.org
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/17360079 > An interesting anecdote about how veganism is "becoming easier;" does anyone have any statistics to share about veganism that you find surprising / insightful?
www.texasobserver.org
An interesting anecdote about how veganism is "becoming easier;" does anyone have any statistics to share about veganism that you find surprising / insightful?
Very fascinating find!
mautamu 2mo ago • 91%
Thank goodness for the Lincoln Project! Maybe the bully in chief will eventually come to realize he's not in control here...
mautamu 2mo ago • 100%
They still can; the day is still young...
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/15832268 > > The New College of Florida is under fire after what appears to be hundreds of books that have been wiped from its collection and discarded on the street. > > The right-wing war on knowledge continues to be a five-alarm fire for American (and world) Democracy and getting worse by the day...
> The New College of Florida is under fire after what appears to be hundreds of books that have been wiped from its collection and discarded on the street. The right-wing war on knowledge continues to be a five-alarm fire for American (and world) Democracy and getting worse by the day...
Another sign of a broken system...
Reposting this image from [r/Minnesota:](https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1e8mxed/project_2025_is_coming_for_the_bwca/). A vote for Trump is a vote for the end of the BWCA as we know it; tailings and copper pollution from the mining would ruin the environment and be a drag on tourism.
mautamu 3mo ago • 100%
A Heritage spokesperson told CyberScoop after publication that the organization was not “hacked.” Instead, the spokesperson said “an organized group stumbled upon a two-year-old archive of The Daily Signal website that was available on a public-facing website owned by a contractor. The information obtained was limited to usernames, names, email addresses, and incomplete password information of both Heritage and non-Heritage contributors, as well as article comments and the IP address of the commentor.”
At least they're admitting to being incompetent...
A call to action, to be sure.
What a total waste of tax money...
Makes you very happy to see this!
www.hutchnews.com
Absolutely ridiculous... > A work vehicle bearing the saying that supports a white supremacist group was spotted in Hutchinson and reported to social media. > The slogan, according to the ADL, was coined by David Lane, a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13826334 > A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday over police [raids last summer](https://apnews.com/article/marion-kansas-newspaper-raid-aca057365ea3925328a69acd615c9893) of its offices and the publisher’s home, accusing local officials of trying to silence the paper and causing the death of the publisher’s 98-year-old mother. > > The lawsuit did not include a specific figure for potential damages. However, in a separate notice to local officials, the paper and its publisher said they believe they are due more than $10 million. > > The lawsuit from the Marion County Record’s parent company and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, accuses the city of Marion, the Marion County Commission and five current and former local officials of violating free press rights and the right to be free from unreasonable law enforcement searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit also notified the defendants that Meyer and the newspaper plan to add other claims, including that officials wrongly caused the death of Meyer’s mother the day after the raids, which the lawsuit attributes to a stress-induced heart attack.
Glad to see Kansas doing this and trying to bring some transparency back to the statehouse!
ohiocapitaljournal.com
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8862176 > Painesville, Cleveland, Gallipolis, and Dayton will all see some of the money. Minneapolis is also on the list!
mautamu 9mo ago • 100%
Absolutely despicable! Thank you for summarizing all of these details, this story has such sprawl it's difficult to capture just how all the issues factor into one another anymore. Really hope that justice starts to play out in the long term, but I'm not convinced that will happen on account of the corruption emanating from the State; the Kansas Bureau of Investigation decided to involve CBI in the matter, indicating the rot likely permeates much of the state bureaucracy as well.
There's also the attempt to undermine Kansas' 2016 Open Records Act in preventing the release of pertinent communications by officials and court records during and shortly before the raid (which many anti-transparency activists in the Kansas GOP are trying to use to get rid of the KORA (1 and 2)).
kansasreflector.com
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8358951 > Crooked cop couldn't remember the Miranda Rights and threw a *pizza party* to celebrate... This story gets worse with every new revelation.
Crooked cop couldn't remember the Miranda Rights and threw a *pizza party* to celebrate... This story gets worse with every new revelation.
mautamu 9mo ago • 100%
Most definitely!
At least where I am, they're in the most uptown bougie strip mall they can get into; same situation with Whole Foods. Starting to shop exclusively at the two state-wide/local stores that don't have these issues, but wish more folks had access to quality local grocers who pay well and support unions.
minnesotareformer.com
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/8284923 Key Takeaway: > "In defending itself against union busting allegations, Trader Joe’s fired a cannon ball that could sink the ship of modern American labor law. > > The grocery store chain is arguing that the federal agency prosecuting it for unfair labor practices — including giving union workers worse retirement benefits and barring workers from wearing union pins at work — is unconstitutional."
mautamu 1y ago • 100%
That's a good question, never heard about this before now...