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Spaceman2901 , to Politics in Ron DeSantis' presidential bid is giving life to a struggling Florida Democratic Party

Abbott and Texas next please.

Sarsaparilla , to U.S. News in Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s jet moves to Threads
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Also on Mastodon @elonjet

colournoun , to U.S. News in Florida police officer who led deputy on a high-speed chase, then fled traffic stop, is charged

County Sheriff pulling over city Police? Isn’t that the plot to Super Troopers?

ArugulaZ , to Politics in Pete Buttigieg mocks Ron DeSantis for trying to 'prove' his 'manhood'
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Booty Judge is gay but doesn't lean into it. DeSantis is straight but is absolutely terrible at it.

Col3814444 OP , to Politics in Pete Buttigieg mocks Ron DeSantis for trying to 'prove' his 'manhood'

I would post a link to the tweet, but that doesn’t work anymore since Elon is a prick.

totallynotaspy , to Politics in Notable U.S. State laws taking effect from July 1

Also for Virginia: All Delta products or hemp based THC products are no loner legal

spamfajitas , to Politics in Notable U.S. State laws taking effect from July 1
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Maryland legalization of recreational marijuana comes into effect today, accompanied by record expungement. That's kinda notable.

Drusas ,

Nice to have more positive changes!

ihavenopeopleskills ,
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Not advocating for it but we don't need to be locking people up or scarring them for life over that stuff.

Drusas , to Politics in Notable U.S. State laws taking effect from July 1

Washington chose a state dinosaur.

kuontom OP ,
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Drusas ,

To be fair, that is a pretty cool looking dinosaur.

We got this guy. Cool in a different way.

kuontom OP ,
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I mean hey find me a dino that isn't cool. Washington's got a beautiful beast for sure.

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe , to Politics in Notable U.S. State laws taking effect from July 1
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Wow Mississippi, really swinging for the fences!

DarkGamer , to RedditMigration in Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform
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Inspiring? Elon Musk's cost cutting strategy was he just decided not to pay people, not to pay his landlord, not to pay his janitors, not to pay his hosting companies, not to pay many Twitter employees, and not to bother following laws, because, presumably, "fuck you, I'm a billionaire." If that's inspiring to spez, I'm feeling really good about leaving his platform. Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave so fast we could generate power from it.

Kenraali , to RedditMigration in Reddit CEO seeks to end site protest by allowing users to vote out moderators
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If only this was an option since forever.

Power hungry mods who want their own fiefdom to rule over are nasty.

autotldr Bot , to Texas in Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said in a news release that the mother visibly appeared to be Muslim, as she was wearing a hijab and modest swimwear.

“The mother began helping her son when Wolf grabbed her 3-year-old daughter and forced her underwater,” police said.

H.,” said her daughter is traumatized by the incident and hides whenever she opens their apartment door out of fear that Wolf “will come and immerse her head in the water again.”

CAIR’s Texas branch called on federal and state authorities to investigate the incident as a hate crime.

Shaimaa Zayan, CAIR’s Austin operations manager, said, “We are seeing a new level of bigotry here where a person deeply believes they get to decide, based on religion, spoken language and country of origin, whose kids deserve to stay alive and whose don’t.”

State Rep. Salman Bhojani, a Democrat who represents the area in the Texas House, said he was “shocked and appalled” by the alleged racist incident.


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LordGimp , to Work Reform in California to become third state to mandate heat protections for indoor workers

Technically we've kind of already had regulations for this in the IWC orders for the manufacturing industry, but all the language was vague. "Industry standards" this and "employers shall make all feasible means" that kinda shit. It's good to have actual numbers to point at and specific remedies already laid out when you do bring a complaint tho. All this is going to boil down to actually getting enforcement on this shit, and the DOL is already slow as tar

autotldr Bot , to Politics in NAACP urges Biden to halt weapons to Israel and help end Gaza war

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The NAACP in a new letter has called on President Joe Biden to stop sending weapons to Israel and use the United States’ influence to end the war in Gaza.

“The stakes of this election couldn’t be higher, and with our communities, our democracy, and our freedoms on the line, our campaign is putting in the work to earn — not ask for — every vote,” she said.

Although the Israel-Gaza war is becoming increasingly important to Black voters, economic concerns are the group’s top issue when determining how they’ll vote in the November election, according to NPR.

Earlier this year, more than 1,000 Black pastors from churches across the country, spurred by their young parishioners, signed an open letter calling on Biden to push for a cease-fire, The New York Times reported.

Biden has been under increased pressure in recent months from politicians, college students, activists and others to secure a cease-fire and rescind financial support for the Israeli war effort.

In a poll by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in April, 68% of Black Americans said they wanted the U.S. to support a permanent cease-fire.


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Devi , to U.S. News in Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53

That's sad. Clearly the doc in question was a bit dodgy and sounds like other docs he did had issues, but either way that's super young.

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