Sixteen-year-old Kiely Rodni vanished from a party at a California campground just after midnight on August 6, 2022. The party was a high school graduation affair attended by 200 to 300 minors at the Prosser Family Campground, a National Forest recreation site on the Prosser Creek Reservoir near Tru[...]
Archive for August, 2022
August 21st, 2022 - 11:33 pm § in Foreign Affairs
Supporters threaten violence if former leader is arrested
Tensions are high in the country, with the former leader’s supporters gathering outside his house vowing to “take over” if he is arrested. Since being ousted from power, he’s been a vocal critic of the government, touring the country delivering fiery speeches calling for a n[...]
August 21st, 2022 - 11:07 pm § in China, Environment
China’s rivers are drying up, too
In China, the Yangtze River’s water levels “have been falling rapidly due to a drought and a heatwave in China’s southwestern region,” CNN says (read story here). “Rainfall in the Yangtze basin has been around 45% lower than normal,” CNN said. “As many as 66[...]
August 21st, 2022 - 10:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Misfit arrested for threatening rightwing group
The FBI arrested a Texas man for making “credible threats” on social media “to carry out a mass attack” against a conservative gathering in Florida in July, ABC News reported on Sunday, August 21, 2022 (read story here). Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, 19, of San Antonio, [...]
August 21st, 2022 - 7:43 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Charter school student written up for wearing “jihab”
An 8th grade girl attending a charter school in Malden, Massachusetts, was handed a “School Uniform Compliance Form” by a teacher for wearing a Muslim headscarf. The teacher at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School (photo below) misspelled “hijab” as “jihab,” NBC News rep[...]
August 21st, 2022 - 5:30 pm § in Politics
Kansas abortion foes got their recount and here’s what it shows
In the first ballot-box test of abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Kansas electorate kept abortion legal in their state, by a vote of 543,855 (59%) to 378,466 (41%), see details here. Anti-abortion activists requested a recount, raising $50,000 online, with another $[...]
Are “In God We Trust” posters in schools really a problem?
“Civil rights advocates are ringing alarm bells about officials distributing ‘In God We Trust’ posters in Texas schools after a state law took effect requiring public campuses to display any donated items bearing that phrase,” the Guardian reported on Sunday, August 21, 2022 [...]
Most GOP voters still think Trump should be above the law
An NBC News poll conducted Aug. 12-16, 2022, asked if the investigations of Trump should continue. The results were: All voters, 57% yes; Democrats, 92% yes; Independents, 67% yes; Republicans, 21% yes. Read story here, see detailed poll results here. The poll shows about three-fourths of American[...]
Ban abortions or the sewer gets it!
No abortion enforcement, no flood control money. That’s the position of Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry, a sanctimonious Republican anti-abortion zealot who’s flipping the (mostly black) citizens of New Orleans a big bird because their city government asked local law enforcers to [...]
August 20th, 2022 - 8:02 pm § in Russia
Collateral damage
Aleksandr Dugin (photo, left) is a Russian fascist who promotes the idea of totalitarian rule of all Europe, including Ireland, from the Kremlin. It’s hard to tell how influential he is, but some people call him “Putin’s brain,” and others think he masterminded the Ukraine in[...]