The artist who created the “crowning” sculpture, Esther Strauss, also condemned the destruction, according to the Linz diocese statement. “Most portraits of the Virgin Mary were made by men and have therefore often served patriarchal interests,” she said, adding that in her sculpture, “Mary gets her body back”.

“Crowning”… I think I might love this artist.

I think they resent the reminder that a woman gave birth to their god. A woman having that kind of power and authority is abhorrent in their minds.

The court’s dissenting justice, widely seen as its most conservative, warned that Kansas is headed toward “a legal regime of unrestricted access to abortion.”

Fucking good. Health care should not be restricted based on anyone’s religious or political ideologies.

Lead is still used as a gasoline additive for some applications. It was only banned for sale for on road vehicles in the 90s. Prior to 1975 just about every car on the road was spewing it from the tail pipe.

Credit scores don’t measure how responsible with your money you are. They measure how much you’re willing to pay lenders.

Someone on his staff told him he needs to appeal to black and Hispanic voters. So his usual rhetoric changes from “They’re coming here and stealing American jobs!” to “They’re coming here and stealing Black jobs and Hispanic jobs!”

This is the maximum level of nuance Trump can handle.

Yeah, I watched it the other day. That cop was nuts. “I thought maybe you were signaling me because you needed help.” Bullshit. He just wanted him to admit he’d flipped him off because he thought he could charge him for that.

If an offered is not accepted or whatever, HR should have some record of who the other top contenders would be.

It doesn’t work that way. We search until we find one person we want to hire and we offer that person the job. If they decline, it doesn’t mean we go down the list until someone accepts. Everyone else was rejected for one reason or another, so we continue our search. I’m not saying OP definitely did not run across some fake postings. It’s a possibility. But there’s also the possibility that they’re not as qualified as they think they are, or their resume doesn’t make it clear that they are. Or whoever is screening applicants is screwing up. Job searching is tricky, and so is candidate searching.

When discussing politicians, “challenged” almost always means “ran against them in a campaign”.

That’s not necessarily a fake posting. It may be that they offered the job to someone who took time to decide not to accept. Or accepted and then changed their mind when they got a better offer. Or used the offer as leverage to get a raise/promotion at their current job. Games get played on both sides. Hell, I once hired someone who just didn’t show up on their first day. Or the next three days. We tried to call and email. We didn’t hear anything until a week later when they claimed they were sick and couldn’t come in. No explanation for why they couldn’t call to let us know. That was the most immediate termination I’ve ever dealt with.

Not “probably”. The court literally declined to take any disciplinary action at all.

This gives me hope for the future. The district is solidly red, but the recall effort was able to cross party lines and convince enough Republican and Non-affiliated voters that it was more than just a partisan issue.

Technically, not forced. They sent him a C&D letter, which is basically threatening to sue if he leaves it up. It’s not legally binding or anything, he could choose to ignore it. They’d have to get a court order to actually force him to take it down. I’m glad for this family that it worked, but there’s no greater justice here.

Dudefella is trying to claim he’s a whistleblower and should therefore face no consequences. Last time I checked, whistleblower laws only protect you if you’re reporting illegal activity. If the hospital stopped providing these services when they were made illegal, then he’s just doxing people for no good reason. (not that I think it would be a good reason either way)

I’m just really concerned that, in the political environment of Texas right now, he’ll get away with little or no consequences. Hell, there are probably a ton of people looking at him as some kind of hero right now, and that just makes me feel ill.

Slaughterhouse 5 is a great novel. I haven’t read it in a long time. Maybe time for a re-read.

Note that the writer did not apologize for what she said. She only apologized for using Dolly Parton as an example of someone who is “unaligned with God’s vision for humanity”. You know, because she doesn’t tell queer people that they are going to hell just for existing.

To be clear: he claims the people giving him all these gifts are his “friends”. The fact that they are also wealthy donors to the RNC and various conservative issues is (in his mind) coincidental.

Ah, I think I understand. The potential problem here is that even a donation to a campaign fund could be seen as a bribe if the person running for office is a public official. “Sorry, I can’t accept your generous gift, but you cold contribute to my campaign for mayor!” Interesting, I’ve honestly never run across that info, but it makes sense. Thanks!

From the AP version of the story:

Under Connecticut law, voters using a collection box must drop off their completed ballots themselves, or designate certain family members, police, local election officials or a caregiver to do it for them. Clark wrote in his decision that the volume of “mishandled ballots” left the court unable to determine the legitimate result of the primary.

It’s a state law that they aren’t supposed to drop off someone else’s ballot except under very specific circumstances. It’s a dumb law that makes it more difficult for people to vote if they can’t easily get to a polling place or a ballot drop off. But it’s the law so, charge and prosecute them, and redo the election I guess. But hopefully the people of CT will work to change the voting laws.

Interesting. What state is this in? We don’t have any restrictions like that in my state and I’m a little curious about what the justification is.