Dota 2 Update 7.36 : Tinker's Not as Strong with Phantom Assassin Getting Scarier A new update introduces changes to the heroes in Dota 2. Today we take a look at two of them. Player One · May 23, 2024
This Student Was Allegedly Suspended for Saying 'Illegal Aliens.' Did That Violate the First Amendment? Christian McGhee is suing, arguing a North Carolina assistant principal infringed on his free speech rights. Reason · May 7, 2024
Minimalist website design: 12 striking examples These minimalist site designs prove that less can be more. Creative Bloq · Apr 8, 2024
"Black Lives Mat[t]er" + "Any Life" Drawing "Not Protected by the First Amendment" in First Grade Such speech can be found to be "impermissible harassment," the court says, partly because "deference to schoolteachers is especially appropriate today, where, increasingly, what is harmful or innocent speech is in the eye of the beholder." Reason · Mar 19, 2024
Professor's Lawyers Argue: Private University Student Newspapers Are "Not Entitled to First Amendment Protection" The lawyers also argue that the speech in the newspaper was “not made pursuant to its right of free speech, but to instead to advance the personal agendas of male faculty members at Notre Dame [and others].” Reason · Jan 9, 2024
The awful ‘cultural genocide’ of Scotland’s Gypsy Traveller community When Shamus McPhee’s mother gave birth to him on the toilet of the curved steel hut they called home in April 1971, his older sisters retched out… The National (Scotland) · Jan 7, 2024
"The crowd was berserk, and Bruce just beaming. It was like he knew. He'd taken a massive step": Bruce Springsteen and the long road from Sunday matinees to stardom Like many young teenagers in the 60s, Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with rock'n'roll. A decade and a lot of hard graft later, he was being hailed as its future Louder · Jan 5, 2024
FIRE on the School Restricting "Dont Tread on Me" and Firearms Policy Coalition Patches From FIRE's letter sent yesterday to the Superintendent of Harrison School District Two in Colorado; I generally trust FIRE's factual accounts in such matters, and I think its legal analysis here is spot on: The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to defending freedom of… Reason · Sep 1, 2023
Court: Public School Likely May Ban Student from Wearing "There Are Only Two Genders" T-Shirt, notwithstanding the First Amendment. Reason · Jun 16, 2023
Coronation Street fans predict murder on the cobbles amid stalker storyline Fans think there could be a major twist coming for Daisy Midgeley Liverpool Echo · Feb 24, 2023
You need to watch the best psychosexual thriller on Netflix ASAP Blumhouse Productions, known best for its genre-warping social issue flicks like 'Get Out' and 'The Purge,' is trying to generate the horror icon of the 2020s. Inverse · Jan 5, 2023
Ninth Circuit Upholds Expulsions for Off-Campus Abusive Speech That Targets Particular Students “Students ... remain free to express offensive and other unpopular viewpoints [at least outside school], but that does not include a license to disseminate severely harassing invective targeted at particular classmates in a manner that is readily and foreseeably transmissible to those students.” Reason · Dec 27, 2022
These artists are preserving the history of a dance style gay men created in '70s-era LA In 2011, Lorena Valenzuela packed her bags and flew from her home of Mexico to Los Angeles to compete in a dance battle. The day before the contest, she attended a class at Evolution Studios in North Hollywood focused on "punking" — a series of sharp, fast movements rooted in… Los Angeles Times · Nov 11, 2022
Shocking CCTV footage catches man kicking cat into wall in Newport Police and the RSPCA have launched appeals for information The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2022
Reason · Jul 7, 2022 Court Rules for Student Free Speech as to Off-Campus "Me and the Boys Bout to Exterminate the Jews" Post “Defendants cannot claim a reasonable forecast of substantial disruption to regulate C.G.’s off-campus speech by simply invoking the words ‘harass’ and ‘hate’ when C.G.’s speech does not constitute harassment and its hateful nature is not regulable in this context.”
Daily Mirror · Jun 28, 2022 Woman left speechless by vet's letter days after having her dog put to sleep A woman has taken to Reddit to share the touching letter her vet sent her after having her dog put to sleep - it has helped her enormously through her grieving process
Reason · Jun 15, 2022 Seventh Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over School Ban on T-Shirts That Depict Guns, and reverses a precedent that suggested that viewpoint-neutral speech restrictions in public K-12 schools are generally permissible.
Reason · May 23, 2022 Slurs Posted from High School Campus Can Be Punished Even If They Aren't "Disruptive" or "Fighting Words" The result might have been different "if plaintiff's speech had occurred off-campus."
Reason · Apr 27, 2022 A Different Sort of "Don't Say Gay" A public school banned a "homosexuality is a sin" T-shirt on the grounds that it mentions "sex."
Reason · Apr 21, 2022 Eleventh Circuit Strikes Down Univ. of Central Florida's "Discriminatory Harassment" Speech Code An excerpt from today's Eleventh Circuit decision in Speech First, Inc. v. Cartwright (written by Judge Kevin Newsom and joined by Judge Stanley Marcus and District Judge Richard Story), which generally strikes me as quite right: [In] determining the propriety of preliminary injunctive relief[, we consider, among other things, whether…
Manchester Evening News · Apr 17, 2022 ITV Coronation Street fans' delight over Tinker family reunion Coronation Street's Beth, Sinead and Daniel were all smiles as they enjoyed a drink together
Reason · Apr 8, 2022 Justice Black's Dissent in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District "Turned loose with lawsuits for damages and injunctions against their teachers as they are here, it is nothing but wishful thinking to imagine that young, immature students will not soon believe it is their right to control the schools."