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Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Monday, September 12, 2016
Today's news round-up
Good News
Friday, September 09, 2016
Today's news round-up
Good News
- Facebook co-founder pledging $20 million to defeat Trump
- Supreme Court rejects Michigan straight-ticket voting appeal
- Facebook allows postings of 'napalm girl' photo after debate
- Deputy who tossed student wants job back; sheriff says no
- CEO cuts 'Creationism' from Youngstown school classrooms
Sunday, September 04, 2016
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Former St. Louis prosecutor who helped cover up beating of suspect loses her law license
- Mariners apologize to LGBTQ community, plan to train staff
- Atty General Ken Paxton shares dinner with transgender boy and his family
- Court rules search warrant in Terrebonne blog case unconstitutional
- Hometown of Kim Davis just threw its first ever Pride celebration
Friday, July 29, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Court strikes down "discriminatory" North Carolina voter ID law
- Kansas: Kobach will not appeal ruling on voting rights
- U.S. judge strikes down parts of Wisconsin voter ID law: report
- The creator of the viral pro-Trump act ‘USA Freedom Kids’ now plans to sue the campaign This guy is a total amateur. He gets nothing in writing, and falls for the "great exposure" crap. As performers I know say, "People die from exposure." But this is straight from the Trump playbook: Stiff the little people. See below:
- Judge orders Trump to pay nearly $300,000 in attorney’s fees in Doral painter’s lawsuit
- Congresswoman Trolls Melania Trump By Wearing Her Dress To DNC Hilarious!
- With Degree Debunked, Melania Trump Website Is Taken Down
- Former St. Louis police officer gets 52 months in prison for punching handcuffed man
- 6 public workers charged in Flint water crisis
- Russian weightlifters banned from Rio Olympics for doping
- Turkey's Erdogan dropping lawsuits for insults against him I'm guessing most of the people he's suing have already been dismissed from their jobs. They wouldn't have any money to pay him even if he won. "Insulting" a politician should not be illegal. But as I keep saying, Turkey is not a democracy.
Monday, July 25, 2016
Today's news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- 3 charged in Trump rally altercation
- Judge to Monitor Kansas' Actions on Gay Marriage for 3 Years
- Yelp Is Now Marking Businesses That Sue Reviewers
- Libya loyalists take IS bomb factory in Sirte
- Turkey coup attempt: 'Arrest warrants issued' for journalists Turkey is not a democracy.
Friday, July 22, 2016
Recent News round-up, Part 1
Good News
- NBA Moves 2017 All-Star Game Out Of North Carolina To Protest Anti-LGBT Law
- NCAA to survey potential host cities on discrimination laws
- Roger Ailes Out At Fox News, Rupert Murdoch Taking Over As Acting CEO
- Feds File Copyright Charges Against Owner Of World’s Most-Visited File-Sharing Site
Bad News
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- U.S. appeals court finds that Texas voter ID law is discriminatory
- Court: Traffic stop, arrest prompted by high beams improper
- Campaign aims to register a million U.S. Muslims voters in anti-Trump move
- Indiana Court Tosses Purvi Patel's 2015 Feticide Conviction
- Alaska court strikes down parental notice for abortions
- Governor Cuomo Signs Legislation to Exempt Sales and Use Taxes on Feminine Hygiene Products
- Ventilation to Be Required in All New York Nail Salons
- US goes after more than $1B taken from Malaysian fund
- Bangladesh arrests top Islamist extremist
Bad News
- WikiLeaks may have just published your SSN and credit card number
- Zara has been accused of ripping off an independent artist’s designs Zara needs to be taught about intellectual property law.
- Status update: The rise of the social-media extortionist These people belong in jail.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Yesterday's news round-up
Good News
- White former Atlanta policeman charged in the death of unarmed black man So far so good. But he still has to be convicted.
Bad News
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Recent news round-up
Good News
- Win on NYS Medicaid Paying for Gender Transition “Cosmetic Surgery”
- LGBT history lessons heading for California classrooms
- Man caught in sting trying to join IS gets 8.5 years
- Model Gets Fired and Banned From Gym After Posting Naked Photo of Woman in Locker Room Even if it was meant to be sent only to a friend, it's still wrong, and quite possibly a criminal offense. I'm sure the woman she photographed would have a good lawsuit against her.
Bad News
- Untreatable gonorrhea: coming soon to genitalia near you The headline is misleading. It is not definitely coming, but the trend is in that direction.
Saturday, July 09, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 3
Good News
- Washington State: I-1515, the 'bathroom initiative,' fails to make November ballot
- Same-sex couples win birth certificate lawsuit
- Mike Huckabee paying $25,000 for playing 'Eye of the Tiger'
- Iraq PM says key base taken back from Islamic State
- Islamic State conflict: Nato surveillance planes to help US-led coalition
Bad News
- Ohio: Bakery takes online heat for refusing same-sex pair The refusal is bad. The heat is good.
- Texas: Pride picnic postponed after group says they received threat of violence
Recent news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- Governor Baker signs transgender bill into law I'm very glad that Massachusetts finally has this. When they added gender identity to their non-discrimination law a few years ago, public accommodations was left out, because there weren't enough votes. Businesses could be required to employ trans people, but didn't have to serve them.
- Private prison company CCA to face trial in violence lawsuit Private prisons should be outlawed.
- Overland Park cop fired for Facebook threat that seemed to reference Black Lives Matter
Tuesday, July 05, 2016
Yesterday's news round-up
Good News
- Donald Trump Finds Himself Playing Catch-Up in All-Important Ohio
- Charges weighed after Ohio incident triggers Emirati warning on robes Unfortunately, I suspect there will be no prosecution. The clerk will say she said something innocent to her relatives, and they will say they misunderstood her. Lots of reasonable doubt.
- Pakistan: 'Honor' killings grow more brutal, draw backlash The backlash is good.
- Infidelity website Ashley Madison facing FTC probe, CEO apologizes This was a scam. It should be investigated.
- Twitter suspends account of Nigerian militant group Niger Delta Avengers
- Kuwait detains Islamic State suspects, foils attack
Bad News
Friday, June 24, 2016
Recent news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Ban on transgender troops to be lifted July 1
- Black leaders emerge as powerful allies in LGBT fight in U.S. South
- Hawaii becomes first U.S. state to place gun owners on FBI database
- Sanders will vote for Clinton to stop Trump
- U.S. charges Filipino man with hacking accounts of celebrities
- Exclusive: Google, Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of extremist videos
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Today's news round-up, Part 1
Good News
- Chicago ordinance gives transgender people bathroom rights
- Schneiderman: Jimmy John's agrees to drop no-compete clause for low-wage workers
- Senate votes down proposal to expand FBI surveillance powers
- Italian high court makes gay adoption easier
- Judge to NYC police: Pay officer who sued over beard length
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Yesterday's news round-up, Part 2
Good News
- Supreme Court rules for R.J. Reynolds in racketeering case I'm glad to see at least a little limitation on the use of the RICO law, which was poorly worded and has been used against far more things than true organized crime racketeering.
- An Australian Man Just Pled Guilty to Sexist Online Harassment on Tinder The headline is wrong. The harassment was on Facebook, not Tinder. And I think it should be "sexual," not "sexist."
Bad News
Yesterday's news round-up, Part 1`
Good News
- Marines Under Investigation for Allegedly Threatening to Attack Gay Bars It's good they are under investigation. Also, it's good the post was taken down.
- Hundreds counter-protest Westboro Baptist demonstration in Orlando Also, Orlando: Hundreds form human chain to block Westboro protesters
- Ringleader pleads guilty in StubHub ticket cybertheft case
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Today's news round-up
Good News
- U.S. court backs landmark Obama internet equal-access rules
- Elliot Morales, Who Killed Gay Man in West Village, Gets 40 Years to Life
- Prosecutor bumps Stanford sex assault judge from new case
- Anti-abortion activist's human organ purchase charge dropped It's strange they aren't going to refile. But the important thing is that the felony charge is still alive.
- Brock Turner’s Probation Officer Asked for Lenient Sentence Over Drunkenness
- IS suicide attack kills five in Iraq's Ramadi: officers
- Russian gay couple 'arrested for Orlando tribute'
- Syrian teen's amputated hand a cruel reminder of IS rule
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