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Fulton County judge *emphatically* strikes down Georgia's law against abortion
www.theguardian.com Georgia judge strikes down state’s abortion ban, allowing care to resume

Fulton county judge issues order that abortions must be regulated as they were before law took effect in 2022

Georgia judge strikes down state’s abortion ban, allowing care to resume

Says the judge: "It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another."

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AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
Big Tech's promise never to block access to politically embarrassing content apparently only applies to Democrats
www.techdirt.com Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats

It probably will not shock you to find out that big tech’s promises to never again suppress embarrassing leaked content about a political figure came with a catch. Apparently, it only applies when …

Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats
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AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
Let's do something and help each other.
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AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
Giuliani's daughter: Trump took my dad from me. Please don't let him take our country too.
www.vanityfair.com Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Too

“Nothing I have experienced prepared me for the very public and relentless implosion of my father’s life,” writes Caroline Giuliani, announcing her support for Kamala Harris.

Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Too

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AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
Trump says Harris "should be impeached and prosecuted for her actions"
abcnews.go.com Trump calls for Harris to be 'impeached and prosecuted' at Pennsylvania rally

With less than 40 days left until the election, Trump continues to escalate his personal attacks against Harris, calling for her to be "impeached and prosecuted."

Trump calls for Harris to be 'impeached and prosecuted' at Pennsylvania rally
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AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
John Brisker, the pro basketball player who disappeared and was never found
www.seattletimes.com ‘Is John really dead?’: The mysterious disappearance of John Brisker, the Sonics legend who never was

By 1978, John Brisker had been out of the NBA for three years. In March of that year, he traveled to Africa and intended to launch an “import-export business.” On April 11, he called his girlfriend in Seattle. That was...

‘Is John really dead?’: The mysterious disappearance of John Brisker, the Sonics legend who never was

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Dead people
  • What goes around comes around.

  • AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    U.K., home of the industrial revolution, shuts its last coal-fired power plant
    www.washingtonpost.com U.K., home of the industrial revolution, shuts its last coal-fired power plant

    Britain was a country powered by coal. Now it’s the first G-7 nation to quit it. In a matter of hours, the boilers at the Ratcliffe plant will cool to the touch.

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    Dead people
  • I loved him in Heaven's Gate, but he missed my death deadline. Next time.

  • AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    Dead people

    Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).

    There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.

        • John Boos in county jail     (archived link)

    Melvin Chavez shot and killed     (archived link)

    Frances Conley neurosurgeon without penis     (archived link)

    Santino Contreras shot and killed

    Frank Coppa squealer     (archived link)

    Paul Cripple rock'n'roller, Reagan Youth     (archived link)

    Clive Everton snooker journalist

    Andrea Nicole Garcia in county jail     (archived link)

    Nick Gravenites rock'n'roller, music for The Trip     (archived link)

    John Green shot and killed     (archived link)

    Fredric Jameson author, Postmodernism     (archived link)

    Minhaj Jamshidi shot and killed     (archived link)

    Carrie Marie Kwok shot and killed     (archived link)

    William Lucy "I am a man"     (archived link)

    Ricardo Martinez Olguin shot and killed     (archived link)

    Malik Mebane kid who played football     (archived link)

    Dick Moss baseball's free agency     (archived link)

    Coby Palmer activist     (archived link)

    Anthony Rivera shot and killed     (archived link)

    Jordan Alvin Simon shot and killed     (archived link)

    Maggie Smith actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie     (archived link)

    Michael Valentine accomplice to vehicular mass murder     (archived link)

    Marcellus Williams probably not guilty

        Previously dead

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    AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    Remember that DNA you gave 23andMe?
    www.theatlantic.com Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?

    The company is in trouble, and anyone who has spit into one of the company’s test tubes should be concerned.

    Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?

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    AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    The Lord works in mysterious ways.
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    AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    About half a million people in American jails have a legal right to vote, but don't get to cast ballots
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    AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    Trump says he'll seek criminal charges against Google if re-elected president, because search results unfairly favor Kamala Harris and display negative stories about him
    www.theguardian.com Trump vows to seek criminal charges against Google if re-elected president

    Ex-president complains search results unfairly favor Kamala Harris and display negative stories about him

    Trump vows to seek criminal charges against Google if re-elected president
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    AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    Vance to talk at tour hosted by ‘prophet’ who thinks Harris practices witchcraft
    www.theguardian.com Vance to talk at tour hosted by ‘prophet’ who thinks Harris practices witchcraft

    Trump’s running mate will speak at Lance Wallnau’s event in campaign’s latest link to extremist Christian right

    Vance to talk at tour hosted by ‘prophet’ who thinks Harris practices witchcraft
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    AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    In Alabama, prison guards accused of violence and misconduct carry out secretive executions
    boltsmag.org In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions

    As the state keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.

    In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions
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    AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    Pollen allergies drove woolly mammoths to extinction, study claims
    www.livescience.com Pollen allergies drove woolly mammoths to extinction, study claims

    A boom in vegetation at the end of the last ice age may have created so much pollen, it blocked mammoths' sense of smell. A new study suggests this drove the beasts to extinction, but not everyone agrees.

    Pollen allergies drove woolly mammoths to extinction, study claims

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    AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    As death rate surges, Texas asks Supreme Court to let it keep denying care to pregnant women
    www.rollingstone.com As Death Rate Surges, Texas Asks Supreme Court to Let It Keep Denying Care to Pregnant Women

    As maternal mortality spikes, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton charges ahead with an effort to prevent doctors from providing emergency care.

    As Death Rate Surges, Texas Asks Supreme Court to Let It Keep Denying Care to Pregnant Women

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    AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    Hilton, Marriott and Chipotle bankroll climate opposition, despite green claims
    www.bloomberg.com Hilton, Marriott and Chipotle Bankroll Climate Opposition, Despite Green Claims

    The companies belong to industry trade groups that are opposing pivotal legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Colorado.

    Hilton, Marriott and Chipotle Bankroll Climate Opposition, Despite Green Claims

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    AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    OpenAI looks to shift away from fake nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company
    apnews.com OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company

    OpenAI’s history as a nonprofit research institute that also sells commercial products like ChatGPT may be coming to an end as the San Francisco company looks to more fully convert itself into a for-profit corporation accountable to shareholders.

    OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company

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    Federal Prosecutor Charges Mayor Eric Adams With Bribery, Soliciting Contributions From Foreign Nationals and Wire Fraud.
  • Always good to see a crook toppling, and Adams has smelled crooked since he was a cop. Probably before he was a cop.

  • AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world Doug Holland @lemmy.world
    Scientists have finally worked out how to save earth from a huge asteroid
    www.vice.com Scientists Have Finally Worked Out How to Save Earth from a Huge Asteroid

    For decades, everyone from sci-fi writers to defense specialists and Hollywood directors have hypothesized about how best to save the planet should it ever come face to face with a massive asteroid. Now, they might finally have their answer. According to a new proof-of-concept study published by sci...

    Scientists Have Finally Worked Out How to Save Earth from a Huge Asteroid

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    *The New York Times* is washed
  • As a lifelong reader and ex-subscriber to the Times, my opinion is that its ordinary day-to-day reporting has problems, but it's generally within arm's reach of accurate. The Times' coverage of politics, however, is so laughably hollow and bend-over-backwards subservient to America's rightwing lunatics, it's best ignored.

  • Trump says he'll use federal forces to invade U.S. cities over immigration policy
  • You reading more into it than it says is misunderstanding, but not misleading.

  • Trump says he'll use federal forces to invade U.S. cities over immigration policy
  • All true, except your claim that the title is misleading.

  • Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered
  • Quantum physics makes my mind do loop-de-loops.

  • The star-making machine that created 'Donald Trump'
  • Mr. Burnett did not respond to invitations to be interviewed.

    I'm still reading the article, but that's the key. Burnett knew Trump was fake, a lightweight and not at all how he was portrayed — which is no big deal in creating a TV show. But he kept quiet as Trump ran for President, and has maintained silence about it to this day, which to me makes Burnett and NBC accomplices to the last eight years of bludgeoning America.

  • Study: Increasing minimum wage does not reduce jobs
  • Where I live, Washington, the minimum wage is $16.28 p/hour. Across the border in Idaho, the federal minimum applies — $7.25.

    Businesses on the higher-wage side of the border are doing fine, and Spokaners do not drive across the border into Coeur d'Alene for cheaper groceries or a half-price Big Mac.

  • Nathan Lane: Robin Williams "protected me" from being outed on Oprah
  • It's a great story, and I always get the impression Robin Williams was a mensch, but also: I can't imagine a time when anyone anywhere wouldn't have known Nathan Lane was gay.

  • The Lord works in mysterious ways
  • Definitely an all-time favorite. I'll see anything with her in it.

  • Liz Cheney blocked January 6 scrutiny of Ginni Thomas, book says
  • Cheney was always one of the most reprehensibly right-wing Congresscritters, but lots of lefties love her because she voted to impeach Donnie Trump, and she gives great lip service to the Constitution. I have enthusiastically never been in the love-Liz crowd. She's opposed to gay rights, women's rights, minority rights, health care rights, human rights, etc, and she doesn't give a damn about the Constitution — she just doesn't like Donnie.

  • Dead people
  • Says here it's one of his greatest performances. I saw it and it ain't bad.

  • [news] “What Constitution?” Rashida Tlaib Blasts Michigan AG’s Criminal Charges Against Pro-Palestine Students
  • I would really like an answer to that.

    The answer is, if Kamala Harris says anything less than wholeheartedly supportive of Israel's ongoing war crimes, she'll be slammed all across the media for anti-Semitism. That's rancid but it's a fact, so she's probably politically smart to shut up about it until after the election.

    I strongly suspect that if she wins, Ms Harris still won't say much about the genocide. But... she's better than Trump, on this and every issue.

  • Trump attends 9/11 memorial alongside wingnut who's said 9/11 was an "inside job"
  • Devolved? No, man, I've always been this way.

  • Trump attends 9/11 memorial alongside wingnut who's said 9/11 was an "inside job"
  • Did some research, actually, and concluded long ago that most 9/11 skeptics and truthers are empty-headed fools — and all the ones who say "do your own research."

  • Republicans renominate 14 fake electors who lied that Trump won in 2020
  • It's treason, and Republicans want a second try at it.

  • Personal assistant convicted of dismembering his boss is sentenced to 40 years to life
  • Prosecutors said Haspil had been hired as an assistant for Saleh, whose ventures included a ride-hailing motorcycle startup in Nigeria, but quickly began to siphon money from Saleh’s businesses.

    That's a painfully clumsy sentence. Has AP no editors?