The February 1 quake marks the fifth event of its kind in the area so far in 2022
Yet another earthquake has been recorded near Lake County [Ohio]!
Just days after a 2.0 magnitude quake hit off the coast of Willowick on January 29, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says that a 1.6 magnitude shake occurred Tuesday evening about five miles out from Eastlake.
The event, which marks the fifth earthquake in the Lake County area since January 1, had a depth of 8 kilometers and stuck just around 8:30 PM Eastern. …
Gene McGee, the mayor of Ridgeland, Mississippi, is reportedly threatening to withhold funding from the local county library system unless it removes LGBTQ-related materials from its premises.
Mississippi Free Press reports that McGee is withholding $110,000 in funds for the libraries because he’s upset that they’re carrying books with LGBTQ characters and themes.
Tonja Johnson, executive director for the Madison County Library System, tells Mississippi Free Press that she questioned McGee about why he was withholding money after she noticed that Ridgeland did not make its first quarterly payment this year.
“He explained his opposition to what he called ‘homosexual materials’ in the library, that it went against his Christian beliefs, and that he would not release the money as the long as the materials were there,” Johnson explains.
Johnson says that she tried to tell McGee that libraries are not religious institutions, and thus a person’s religious beliefs should have no impact on the books it decides to carry.
However, it seems he was unpersuaded.
“He told me that the library can serve whoever we wanted, but that he only serves the great Lord above,” she claims.
The Great Pyramid of Giza Ukraine-based photographer Alexander Ladanivskyy using a drone shot The Great Pyramid of Giza from different altitudes creating a visually stunning zoom in.
Although thousands of Texans are without power, CenterPoint Energy was reporting about 600 outages in the Houston area
ERCOT says there is enough to meet the demand, but still,
thousands of Texans are without power. Gov. Abbot warned that issues
like downed power lines could cause outages
New Toolkit from EFF dropped to fight the EARN IT Act
The U.S. Senate has revived a surveillance bill that would have a lethal impact on privacy, security, and free speech. If Congress passes the EARN IT Act (S.3538), it may become too legally risky for companies to offer encryption services. Instead, they’ll be pressured to scan nearly all online content.
We need your support to stop the EARN IT Act before it gets any farther. The Senate Judiciary Committee could vote on this bill as soon as next week. This disastrous bill was first proposed two years ago, and then dropped after overwhelming public resistance. We beat this bill once before, and we can do it again.
I know you all have probably seen support or abort posts about upcoming bills and stuff, but here’s why this is so important.
Beyond the fact that this bill would essentially be like Tumblr’s tag ban spreading to the rest of the internet, this bill is the next step towards making it nearly impossible to have a private life online. Anyone you talk to would be tracked, the contents of your conversations can be documented (some companies are already doing this -cough- facebook -cough-). The things you look up, the websites you visit, all of it.
This isn’t a new thing, and like I said before there are companies already doing this. However, this bill would make it more acceptable for invasion of privacy in order to avoid federal consequences. And if you think you have nothing to hide, just remember that today’s heroes are tomorrow’s enemies. What is standing for justice today is viewed as anarchy in the future.
It would force companies to scan you, basically. And report anything deemed as “child pornography” directly to the feds. Keep in mind that right wing forces rn are pushing to classify books talking about being gay as child pornography.
You really don’t want surveillance to massively increase in a government that’s suffering from metastasized fascism and is going to hit the point of no return in 3 years.
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“1.6 earthquake recorded near Eastlake | wkyc.com The February 1 quake marks the fifth event of its kind in the area so far in 2022
Yet another earthquake has been recorded near Lake County [Ohio]!
Just days after a 2.0 magnitude quake...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/e83c12fe271f75fa47daa1cdd9672f4b/ab78fcd0fc376b20-aa/s500x750/0e198e8eb354a749b6fe29852a268cdfe6c72cea.jpg)
