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“In a rare and historic exception to the white supremacist only voice on Mississippi radioand TV, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers made a 17-minute speech on WLBT on May 20, 1963.”
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Clergy ask court to block Washington mandatory reporting law
“The Catholic bishops sued the state in federal court at the end of May, accusing the state of unfairly targeting clergy, and “selectively putting plaintiffs to a choice between eternal damnation or criminal prosecution.” The United States intervened, pushing the federal court to block the state from enacting the law.”
“Before U.S. District Judge David Estudillo, the state argued that the law is only asking for clergy members to report information that gives reasonable cause that a child is being abused, not to solicit otherwise confidential information. The state further argued that the law wouldn’t require clergy to become arms of the state.”
“Donations from Pope Leo XIV, sent through the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, have been delivered to the residents of the bomb-stricken Ukrainian town of Staryi Saltiv and city of Shevchenkove” ( Vatican news )
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“One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution.
His nation is still feeling the reverberations today.”
Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
“ administration's proposal would reverse a long-standing rule that "harm" included any action that would significantly "modify or degrade" an endangered species' habitat.”
“That definition was upheld 6-3 by the Supreme Court in the 1995 case Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Greater Oregon, ruling that it “naturally encompasses habitat modification that results in actual injury or death” to endangered species.”
“..further held that the definition aligned with the Endangered Species Act’s conservation mission and was supported by a later congressional amendment to permit incidental take, including habitat modification.Since 1999, the National Marine Fisheries Service has adhered to that definition for marine species.”
“Two North Dakota tribes filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court on Tuesday to rescue a key provision of the Voting Rights Act “
"Everywhere else in the country, private plaintiffs can rely on an unbroken line of Supreme Court and circuit precedent to enforce the individual rights given to them by Congress in the Voting Rights Act," the tribes wrote. "But the decision below extinguished the only remaining pathway for private enforcement of Section 2 of the VRA in the Eighth Circuit."
The Cabbage Field
Camille Pissarro French ca. 1880
“What to know about the African kingdom of Eswatini where the US sent 5 deportees”
“Companies and trade groups, including those in the fossil fuel business, have similarly opened their wallets to the incoming president to an unprecedented degree. Organisations such as the CLC have noted that the high price of inaugurations and the fact that these funds can accept unlimited donations make them “an ideal way for wealthy special interests to buy political access and influence. President Biden refused donations from fossil fuel companies, their executives and political action committees. Global Witness identified 44 donors to Trump’s inaugural fund with ties to the fossil fuel industry. Some of these donors made multiple donations.
“Edgar Brandt, a superb craftsman who employed all the skills of the traditional French metalsmith, was one of the most accomplished exponents of the French Art Deco style. This grille combines stylized flower forms and rippling scalloped bands rendered in contrasting textures, forming a free pattern of extraordinary richness and creating a sense of highly charged motion. The floral motif evokes Persian miniature painting, reflected in its name.”
“The grille was presented to the public at the 1923 Salon d’Automne, one of the many annual exhibitions in Paris where visitors could see ensembles and room settings promoting the latest styles by the best-known French decorators. It was part of a larger grouping presented in an alcove and prosaically titled "Quelques Ferronneries" (Some Ironworks). The focal point was a monumental tripartite screen set into the alcove’s rear wall, flanked by two nearly identical grilles with mirror images of the same pattern. The grille acquired by The Met was installed at the alcove’s left. While a very similar grille by Brandt was published in 1925 as an "entrance door," none of these panels appear to have been conceived for this purpose. Brandt later added the stabilizing feet to The Met’s panel, allowing it to stand alone.”
As one interviewee puts it, “It was a fashion cult and Dov was the leader.”
“Beyond the questionable ways he’d treat his store employees
(lack of boundaries both emotional and physical, publically berating them, turning them against each other, etc), Charney is also called out for the management of his factory workers. Although Charney boasted about American Apparel’s sweatshop-free labor and American-made clothes constructed by well-cared for employees, an audit revealed that about 1,500 of his workers were there with faked documents.”
“…Charney’s most egregious misdemeanors called out in the documentary are the multiple accusations of sexual assault and sexual harassment levied against him by former employees. Charney would have his employees sign documents that legally prohibited them from speaking out against him, effectively silencing the women from speaking out about their experiences and preventing them from achieving any true justice or closure. In just a 54-minute runtime, Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel paints a fairly vivid picture of the nightmare that Charney hid behind an engaging facade as it examines the brand he built and the pain he wrought in the process.”
“So, where is Dov Charney now? Here’s everything to know about what happened to the former American Apparel CEO and the celebrity he went on to collaborate with.”
Farm worker who died after California Ice raid was ‘hardworking and innocent’, family says Jaime Alanís, 57, died a day after falling off a greenhouse roof during an immigration raid of a cannabis farm.
Jaime Alanis died after sustaining injuries ,
where authorities say they arrested about 200 people
Louisiana police officials charged with taking bribes in alleged visa fraud plot
“Twenty-one children are in the custody of a California child-welfare agency while authorities investigate a Los Angeles-area couple and whether they misled surrogate mothers around the country. Fifteen children were removed from the couple’s opulent home in Arcadia after an abuse allegation in May, and another six living elsewhere were also located, Arcadia police Lt. Kollin Cieadlo said. They range in age from 2 months to 13 years, with most between 1 and 3.”
https://apnews.com/article/arcadia-children-removed-surrogacy-082ebf2d66498a38c3c65d10c4ff86b6