This week, the city of Pensacola, FL will vote on an "anti-camping" ordinance that makes it a crime to protect yourself from the weather with a blanket or a newspaper. Its intention is to criminalize homeless people, but, of course, it also makes criminals out of anyone who holds a newspaper over her head in the rain.
Pensacola bans sheltering from weather with blankets or newspapers
Virginia cop catfished a teen, murdered her family, then died in a shootout with other cops
Austin Lee Edwards, 28, was killed by officers with San Bernardino County Sheriff's department after opening fire on them Sunday, reports NBC News. Edwards, a police officer in Virginia, had killed the mother and grandparents of a teen he catfished online, say authorities, then tried to flee with the youngster. Officers were initially called to… READ THE REST
Theranos fraud Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison
Elizabeth Holmes, who founded a billion-dollar healthcare company on the promise of technology that did not exist, was today sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by a federal judge. This is the end of a years-long saga that saw the celebrated startup founder become a cautionary tale of Silicon Valley's "fake it 'til you make it"… READ THE REST
Federal judge blocks Florida's "positively dystopian" new school censorship law
The "Stop WOKE" act limited how schools in Florida taught slavery, racism, gender trouble and the rest of it. A Florida judge yesterday put the brakes on it, describing it as "positively dystopian" and comparing it from the outset to the pervasive censorship of the regime fictionalized in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lawyers acting for… READ THE REST
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Black Friday is here: Get a refurbished MacBook Air for just $400
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