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A resident in Hanson, Massachusetts, has been projecting a Trump 2024 image on the city's water tower, and city officials are not happy about it.

They have taken to shining a spotlight on the image to dull it, and they have threatened the man with a $100-per-day fine if he continues to project the sign.



... The town's efforts to stop the man have now caused the entire world to learn about what used to be a neighborhood squabble. ...

You know what they say: A fine is just the price you have to pay to do something. And Trump supporters on the internet didn't think $100-per-day from now until the election was all that high a price to pay to keep the projection up.

Consider that a billboard could cost a lot more than that.

People have now started a Give Send Go for the guy, which, as of this writing, has raised over $5,000.
If you ask me though, the only thing that will come out of the whole ordeal is a new city regulation about projecting images on buildings and increasing the maximum fine for this sort of thing.

Update: the fundraiser has ended, going well beyond the goal.

Nevada became the most recent women's volleyball team to join the party of teams boycotting the San Jose Spartans, who have a man on their roster that is pretending to be a girl. ...

Other teams participating in the boycott include Southern Utah, Utah State, Wyoming, and Boise State, though Nevada is the first team to cite "safety and fair competition" in their complaint.

Utah State, whose October 23rd contest was forfeited well in advance, has come across these T-shirts, which are likely to become the next big fashion piece in women's sports, particularly Mountain West volleyball.




... The tides are changing, folks, and it looks like women's sports are slowly becoming women's sports again.

"All You Board Members, Superintendent, You've Gotta Stop"

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Dare County, NC Board of Education Meeting
February 8, 2022
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MIKE REED: Hi my name is Mike Reed.[1] I'm going to introduce myself. You've never met me. My family and I moved down here from New York. We have 4 boys. Three of them are in the school system here at Dare County.

But what I can tell you is you're heading in the wrong direction, Mr. Farrelley.[2] You got to look at me. I'm not lying to you. It's going to get worse and worse and worse.

All the board members up there, you've got to stop. You've got to stop. And I know you threw the papers down and that's OK, even though you disrespect me, I still respect you. But we care about every single person in this community, so whether you are for a mask, against masks, I respect your decision 100%. Whether you're for the vaccine or against the vaccine, I respect that 100%.

But the last 2 months our fourth grader has been coming home saying he's having a hard time breathing. So if you care about my child, you got to take these masks off. They're doing about nothing. You can look evidence, show me the evidence that a mask works and I'll believe you, but there's not the evidence out there. Show me the evidence the vaccine works and I'll believe you,
but that's not out there either.

But what you're doing is you're destroying the kids, you're destroying the teachers. Coming out of New York I felt like I was leaving hell on earth. And if you continue, Mr. Farrelly, I totally respect you, but you cannot continue on this path because it only gets worse and worse.

You can see the divide. I want to bring the community together. We need to see these smiles on these kids' faces. We're never going to bring this community together unless you stop this tonight.

So my kid can't breathe and you guys are saying, oh, oh. That's not OK. He has an IEP[3] at the school. went into kindergarten nonverbal and we've got him to the point where he's very verbal now, he's basically a regular fourth grader, you know, where a normal fourth grader would be. But he can't breathe. So now tonight, after you guys don't vote for mask optional, I have to make a decision. And I love this community, I'll do anything for this community. Believe me, when I got down here, our family was so happy. And now we're back feeling like I'm in New York. It's hell on earth there, Mr. Farrelly, I'll tell ya.

Please, I don't care if you got to give the money back. 70% of these houses aren't even lived in, but everyone pays school taxes. We should have a ton of money here. All of them, everyone would probably, I don't even know, pay a little more taxes to get rid of and make up for 9 million dollars. I don't know, we bring in billions of dollars every summer.[4] I mean, just please give the money back. My kid can't breathe. And I got, we got to stop this tonight. I don't— Is anyone listening? Please. Just stop. It only gets worse, and— [time alarm sounds]