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Massachusetts to Become 8th State to Make Universal Free School Meals Permanent ( truthout.org )

Lawsuit: Transgender inmate killed after sheriff made a violent sex offender her cellmate ( www.desertsun.com )

GUILTY ( edition.cnn.com )

Guilty on 34 counts....

Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules ( www.vice.com )

Why is healthy food so expensive in America? Blame the Farm Bill that Congress always renews to make burgers cheaper than salad ( fortune.com )

'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death ( abcnews4.com )

All Foster Kids in California Can Now Attend Any State College for Free ( themessenger.com )

Ohio Woman Charged After Miscarrying Non-Viable Fetus ( www.huffpost.com )

Washington Senate bill aims to prohibit use of hostile architecture preventing homeless camps ( mynorthwest.com )

Senate Bill 6231 defines hostile architecture as “elements designed to restrict the use of public spaces by individuals experiencing homelessness.” (A PDF of the original bill can be viewed here.)...

The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now. ( newrepublic.com )

A Texas judge ruled that a pregnant woman who sued the state seeking an abortion can legally terminate her pregnancy ( www.cnn.com )

IRS Collected Half a Billion Dollars in Back Taxes From Delinquent Millionaires in 2023, Sentencing Some to Prison ( www.goodnewsnetwork.org )

The Internal Revenue Service says it collected $482 million from wealthy tax cheats last year, in a continuing effort to step up their enforcement....

Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll ( www.washingtonpost.com )

A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood....

Donald Trump is blocked from appearing on presidential primary ballot by Colorado Supreme Court ( coloradosun.com )

3-year-old migrant girl dies aboard bus headed from Texas to Chicago ( www.cbsnews.com )

Not just any bus as the headline implies, but one of Texas Gov Greg Abbott’s trafficking asylum seekers to Democratic cities as a political stunt.

Alabama town that hasn’t held elections in decades sued to allow voting ( www.theguardian.com )

An update to this post beehaw.org/post/6717143

Bernie Sanders blasts lawmakers' decision of both political parties to invite "war criminal" Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress ( www.sanders.senate.gov )

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement on the decision of Senate and House leaders of both political parties to extend an invitation to Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address a joint meeting of Congress:...

Arizona girl Alicia Navarro, missing since 2019, walks into tiny Montana police station and asks cops to take her off missing children list ( nypost.com )

Alicia Navarro, now 18, walked into a police department in a tiny Montana town 40 miles from the Canadian border and identified herself as the teen who was reported missing in September 2019, Glendale police said Wednesday....

Voters in Ohio reject change to state’s constitution ( www.msn.com )

Delivering a win for abortion rights advocates, Ohio’s Issue 1 will fail, the Associate Press projects. The Republican-backed ballot initiative would have increased the threshold to amend the state’s constitution, making it more difficult for a measure that would enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution to...

Ohio pastor charged for housing the homeless ( wng.org )

this is a classic example of how policing as an institution is broken and should be completely destroyed in its current form, or outright abolished...

‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation ( www.theguardian.com )

I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’ ( zeteo.com )

‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars ( www.theguardian.com )

In the environs of Phoenix, Arizona, on a 17-acre site that once contained a car body shop and some largely derelict buildings, an unusual experiment has emerged that invites Americans to live in a way that is rare outside of fleeting experiences of college, Disneyland or trips to Europe: a walkable, human-scale community devoid...

Proud Boy Christopher Worrell, on house arrest in Jan. 6 case, disappears ahead of sentencing ( apnews.com )

If he’s caught (which I think will be soon) this is a great way to guarantee the maximum sentence. If he’s not caught, he gets to spend the rest of his life hiding and afraid. Either way, the public wins… but I’d rather see him in prison.