Kent State, Ohio. May 4, 1970. National Guard troops fire on an unarmed crowd of students protesting the escalation of the Viet Nam war into Cambodia, killing four and wounding nine. Incidentally, the young woman is Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14 year old runaway, who was identified by her father from this photo.

This event was key in turning public sentiment against the war which was brought to an end just a few years later. I remember it well.

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The headline is deceptive. Parents are now given final say in the β€œcare” their children can receive.

Tennessee’s legislature has also passed a bill to forbid the spraying of chemtrails from airplanes. It just needs the governor’s signature to become law.

Where the heck is Montana?

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"The already-slim likelihood that Donald Trump will face a criminal trial brought by special counsel Jack Smith before the 2024 election appeared to dwindle further Thursday in the face of withering scrutiny from the Supreme Court’s conservative majority.

One by one, the court’s six Republican-appointed justices β€” including three nominated by Trump himself β€” took whacks at Smith’s effort to quickly and cleanly reject Trump’s claim of immunity from criminal prosecution over his attempt to subvert the 2020 election.

Instead, during more than 2 1/2 hours of oral argument, the justices forecast a result that could require lower courts to spend months analyzing various aspects of Trump’s election plot, from organizing fraudulent slates of electors to leaning on his Justice Department to sow false doubts about the results. The purpose of those additional lower-court proceedings, several conservative justices suggested, would be to determine if some of the acts alleged in the special counsel’s indictment count as sufficiently β€œofficial” presidential duties that they ought to be shielded from criminal charges.

Even if Smith were to win those battles, it would virtually ensure that a trial could not happen until after the election."

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules.

The agency voted 3-2 along partisan lines to revive rules barring broadband providers from blocking or throttling internet traffic to some websites and speeding up access to others that pay extra fees.
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The way to make sure our policy is never dictated by CO2 levels is to keep this organization out of our cities ( and to never regionalize). This is what Whitefish adopted that transformed it into what it is now. This is the dominant vehicle by which the UN SDGs are implemented on the local level. Once a city, corporation or region agrees to sign on and become a member, they are provided software to establish their baseline scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions and then create a Climate Action Plan to reduce them yearly. All other policy becomes seamlessly subsumed under these goals.
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