I was talking recently with some friends of mine that left Louisiana after college, they said they would have totally stayed if the Ten Commandments had been displayed in classrooms.

Arkansas passed a first-of-its-kind 'Right to Mine' law last year written by crypto lobbyists. Local communities where the Bitcoin mines popped up are...not happy. Energy & water suck + noise pollution. Now some lawmakers are having second thoughts. arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/…

By (((Leah Donnella)))

Jerry Mitchell, co-founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, is winner of the 2024 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. Congratulations Jerry Mitchell and thank you for exposing corruption and abuse of power! Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting nieman.harvard.edu/news/2024/04/j…

this was the cover of the constitution of Tocantins (one of the states of Brazil) until one year ago

I like the idiot trending robot tbh

They are 'pulling a Mitterand' — going from Vichyiste to centrist socialist

You have to be totally historically illiterate to say or believe this in the slightest

I think what’s actually happening here is that social media and the Internet has made blind hatred of Biden the only socially tolerated position in a lot of youth circles. And then those youths reason backwards to a rationale, often arriving at the worst idea you’ve ever heard

Perhaps a mystery will now be solved:
Did O.J. Simpson have C.T.E.?
His enormous head (he wore a custom 8 1/4 helmet, bigger than any standard NFL size) was violently & consistently hit for a decade.
Other NFL players w/ giant heads likely had C.T.E.
espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…

I have been loving my subscription to Flaming Hydra, a collective of writers publishing quirky, smart, moving, provocative writing every day.

This essay is a great example of one of my favorite genres and so hard to pull off. Pop philosophy.

flaminghydra.com/how-is-it-so-b…

uh oh

Back in the day when print mattered, The Washington Post ran a rare 'EXTRA' edition when OJ was acquitted. No one knew at the time, but it would be the Post's last-ever extra edition.

My only comment is: Johnnie Cochran had a long career that included repping the Black Panthers, getting Abner Louima his measure of justice from the NYPD and helping get Geronimo Pratt out of prison, and should not *just* live on in public discourse as 'OJ's lawyer'

Notable inflection point: Texas got more electricity from solar than from coal last month. canarymedia.com/articles/solar…

the lede on the NYT's original 1995 story about OJ Simpson's trial is insane

In one of the proudest moments of my career, I returned home to write about Mary Allen College, the first college for black women in Texas. Please read and if you can, donate to its restoration efforts.

texasmonthly.com/being-texan/ma…

Okay, this was funny.
Legit LOL

theonion.com/o-j-simpson-al…

Just once I want to read a story about a pro-nonsense judge who loves nothing more than a big ol' helping of drama