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Georgia lawmakers eye allowing criminal charges against school librarians over sexual content of books
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 years ago • LOCKED
A proposal that would require school libraries to notify parents of every book their child checks out was advanced by Georgia state senators Tuesday, while a proposal to subject school librarians to criminal charges for distributing material containing obscenity waits in the wings. The measures...
South Dakota City Asks Oglala Sioux Tribe to Waive Sovereign Immunity to Fulfill Records Request
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 2 years ago
The City of Martin, South Dakota, wants the Oglala Sioux Tribe to either waive its sovereign immunity or pay an unknown amount of attorneys and administrative fees upfront to receive public records related to the city’s new redistricting map. A statement from the Native American Rights Fund...
The A-list stars, politicians and leading figures named in the Jeffrey Epstein files:
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 4 Likes • 2 years ago
The identities of dozens of well-known figures linked to Jeffrey Epstein have been revealed in court papers unsealed in the US overnight. The files are part of a defamation case brought against Epstein's madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in jail for sex trafficking underage girls...
‘We are not equipped to deal with this’: Migrant surge overwhelms U.S. border
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 5 Likes • 3 years ago
A MIGRANT ENCAMPMENT NEAR SÁSABE, Arizona – At a remote spot in the Arizona desert, near a hole in the border wall, dozens of migrants huddled over wood fires. After fleeing war in Sudan, violent gangs in Central America or Mexican cartels, the men had all crossed into the United States...
MINNESOTA UNVEILS A FLAG DESIGN TO REPLACE A FLASH POINT OF RACIAL TENSION
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 3 years ago
Minnesota unveiled its new flag design Tuesday in an effort to replace one with a seal that some Native Americans deemed offensive.The 174-year-old seal on the state’s current flag depicted a White settler plowing a field, a rifle leaning on a nearby tree stump, while an Indigenous man rides away...
Biden is breaking the border on purpose — he wants mass amnesty
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 6 Likes • 3 years ago
The backlog of pending cases in the nation’s immigration courts has hit 3 million, as millions of border migrants have been released into the United States to seek asylum in the past three years. It’s a shocking figure, but just the latest example of President Biden’s efforts to break the...
UW-Madison to cover full cost of college for Native students from Wisconsin tribes
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise Program to begin in fall 2024”
Beginning in fall 2024, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will cover the full cost of an undergraduate degree for students who are members of one of the 11 federally recognized Indigenous tribes in Wisconsin. The school is also launching a five-year pilot program to cover in-state tuition and...
No good answers for Biden as voters recoil over border crossings
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 22 Comments • 4 Likes • 3 years ago
“President Joe Biden finds himself caught between the right and the left, searching for answers on immigration ahead of the 2024 election.”
Worried about the large numbers of people crossing the border from Mexico, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas went to White House officials with some advice: Get the word out about all the people the Biden administration has been deporting in hopes of deterring undocumented migrants from entering the...
Federal Law Requires a Choice: Marijuana or a Gun?
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 4 Likes • 3 years ago
For Vera Cooper, the time had come to buy a gun. In her mid-70s at the time and widowed several years earlier, she was already feeling vulnerable, living by herself. Then came the tipping point: The plumbing business that Ms. Cooper owns in the Florida Panhandle had to fire a worker, and he...
Biden expected to face criticism but not be charged in classified document probe: report
Via: 1stwarrior • News & Politics • 211 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 years ago • LOCKED
President Biden and his longtime aides will likely face harsh criticism but be let off the hook and not face criminal charges over the retention of classified material dating back to the commander in chief’s time as a US senator from Delaware. Special counsel Robert Hur’s team is crafting a...