Nobody Cares: PRS

[Soen Eber]

Florida Republican Party suspends chairman and demands his resignation amid rape investigation | APNews

If I didn't know any better, I'd say that the GOP actually have a small sense of ethics left.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Parenting advice YouTuber Ruby Franke of Utah pleads guilty in child abuse case | APNews

 

[Essence Lumin]

Major volcano eruption in Iceland.

Volcano erupts on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula

Live view:

 

[Cindy Claveau]

US judge halts removal of Confederate Memorial at Arlington Cemetery

Trump appointee. "Temporary" restraint.

The cemetery's own online critique describes the monument's imagery and inscriptions as sanitizing pre-Civil War slavery, romanticizing secession of the Southern pro-slave states, and perpetuating the noble "Lost Cause" myth of the Confederacy.
The monument features a classically robed woman cast in bronze representing the American South standing atop a three-story pedestal adorned with life-sized figures of deities, Confederate soldiers and civilians.


Among those figures are an enslaved African-American "mammy" character holding the infant child of a white Confederate officer, and an enslaved African-American man following his owner off to war, according to the cemetery's description.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

US judge halts removal of Confederate Memorial at Arlington Cemetery

Trump appointee. "Temporary" restraint.

To be fair, I don't see that the judge, no matter by whom appointed, had a great deal of choice in the matter:

But a group called Defense Arlington filed suit accusing the Pentagon of skirting federal environmental law in its rush to take down the Arlington monument and proceeding in a manner that would disturb adjacent gravesites.

U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston issued a restraining order temporarily blocking the monument's removal, citing allegations that burial sites were threatened by the project.

The cemetery has said the granite base and foundation of the memorial were being left in place to avoid disturbing surrounding graves.

The judge set a hearing on the matter for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.

The plaintiffs are saying that removing the monument risks disturbing nearby graves, thus violating federal law. The Pentagon says that they've taken steps to avoid so doing.

All the judge has said so far, it seems to me, is that, if what the plaintiffs say is true, they have an arguable case and that he'll hear arguments from both sides tomorrow (Wednesday).

What's important is what the judge decides tomorrow, having heard the Pentagon's counter arguments.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Rachel on fighting fascism

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

And Trump is out in Colorado... for the moment.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

This is the winner of the new flag competition in Minnesota. The old flag was criticised by native Americans as discriminating. Now the legislative of Minnesota has to approve the proposed new flag design. It's quite... meh?

Minnesota Unveils New State Flag Design

The design, chosen from thousands of submissions, would replace the current flag, which was criticized by some as racist.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Soen Eber]

This is the winner of the new flag competition in Minnesota. The old flag was criticised by native Americans as discriminating. Now the legislative of Minnesota has to approve the proposed new flag design. It's quite... meh?

Minnesota Unveils New State Flag Design

The design, chosen from thousands of submissions, would replace the current flag, which was criticized by some as racist.

www.nytimes.com

These were the finalists. I was really hoping for 5 or 6. Even the original basis for the new design (#4) was better. At least they kept the K at the end, which is vaguely similar to the shape of our state.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

All these finalists do leave me equally unimpressed.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Texas Lt. Guv Threatens to Take Biden Off State’s Ballot After Colorado Ruling

Their "transparency" just means their stupidity is easy to spot.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Tuberville on Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ comments: ‘I’m mad he wasn’t tougher’

Tommy: The stupider I get, the stupider I get.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Seems to me they should be changing the state seal instead.

 

[Free]

Seems to me they should be changing the state seal instead.

They are.

Emblems panel won over by call of the loon as state bird to grace Minnesota seal

The State Emblems Redesign Commission on Tuesday voted to zero in on a new state seal that includes a loon at the center. It is subject to some modifications before being finally adopted.

www.mprnews.org

 

[Soen Eber]

The new state seal is much more impressive

 

[Free]

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[detrius]

He also made a good case for the original design of the K-flag.

 

[detrius]

They are.

Emblems panel won over by call of the loon as state bird to grace Minnesota seal

The State Emblems Redesign Commission on Tuesday voted to zero in on a new state seal that includes a loon at the center. It is subject to some modifications before being finally adopted.

www.mprnews.org