Body of missing mother whose family says was brutally attacked outside a bar in Austin, Texas, found in roadside ditch 70 miles away

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/body-of-missing-mother-whose-family-says-was-brutally-attacked-outside-a-bar-in-austin-texas-found-in-roadside-ditch-70-miles-away/

Las Vegas Strip Has a Scary Covid-Created 'Fatal Fungus' Problem

*What happens in Vegas …apparently won’t stay in Vegas* 🤷🏻‍♀️

https://www.thestreet.com/travel/las-vegas-strip-has-a-scary-covid-created-fatal-fungus-problem

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General reported that there were 1,780 instances of foster kids going missing in Missouri over a two-and-a-half year period that spanned July 2018 to December 2020.

Veterans are pissed off that Republicans plan to slash their benefits and you should be too

https://twitter.com/i/status/1649644204966944771

Campbell, R-Mountain City, resigned from the General Assembly in a sudden move Thursday, less than two hours after he told The Tennessean he had no plans to step down from a Republican caucus leadership position over a harassment policy violation https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/20/tennessee-rep-scotty-campbell-violated-harassment-policy/70135218007/

The wife of a Memphis evangelical pastor, Elizabeth Bryson, has been arrested for child assault & strangulation.

Elizabeth Bryson, 52, wife of John Bryson, who founded Fellowship Memphis, has been charged w 4th degree assault (child abuse) and 2nd degree strangulation.
https://julieroys.com/wife-former-prominent-tn-pastor-charged-child-abuse-second-degree-strangulation/

Mississippi has the nation's highest childhood vaccination rate, with 99% of kids vaccinated for diseases like measles and polio when they begin school.

But that could change after a federal judge said the state's mandates violate religious liberty.

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/32683/mississippi-must-grant-religious-exemptions-for-childhood-vaccines-federal-judge-rules

Judge presiding over next week's civil trial between Trump and E. Jean Carroll is not buying Trump's claim he wants to spare NYC the resources / arrangements of his presence.

Judge Kaplan says he's confident the Secret Service/city can handle it. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.125.0_1.pdf

In recent months, Elon Musk and his mother have been forcefully denying the existence of an emerald mine. But in a new interview, his father says he can prove its existence and that the money set Elon up in North America.

https://the-sun.com/news/7911051/elon-musks-dad-errol-emerald-business/

Florida House committee passes resolution to raise the threshold to pass a citizen-led constitutional amendment from 60% to an unprecedented 66.67% of the vote. This will make it more difficult for voters to amend the Florida Constitution.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/florida-house-committee-passes-resolution-raising-amendment-threshold-to-67/

Sorry, I'm late. Went for a bike ride.

Did I miss Donald Trump promising to invade the Sudetenland?

28 years ago today, I was standing in my boss' office in a pension administration firm in Oakland, CA watching the TV news coverage from Oklahoma City.

This is the pivotal event that led to my current work focusing on anti-government extremism.

The exception also only applies if the “gestational age of the fetus is not more than 15 weeks as determined by the physician.”

https://popular.info/p/floridas-phony-exceptions

#RefuseFascism #DefeatFascism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmCyWKf0QFQ

Good morning, CoSo!

Welcome back to a place that isn't filled with rich-people fanboyz and second-hand grifters. Where you don't have to worry about the boss being in a terrible mood because of his failed rocket launch or falling car stock because... this is a social media site and it's all about the people in it.

$55,000 for an abortion. They'll shame and call you a sinner but then monetize it with a clear conscience?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/16/cost-of-abortion-us-expense