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How digital health startups are navigating the post-Roe legal landscape

TechCrunch

Now, as state laws shift and abortion bans go into effect across the United States, companies are still trying to find ways to provide care while reimagining what healthcare should include. Nationally, the situation is proving tricky to navigate as each state can begin implementing individualized abortion laws.

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How Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Supplanting Columbus Day

Whole Whale

1989: South Dakota becomes the first state to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ day. Besides looking at state and local government holiday laws, there is another way of looking at the adoption of either Columbus or Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. What do people search for?

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Democrats want a truce with Section 230 supporters

The Verge

After three hours of questions from the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, the PACT Act looks like an attempted truce between Section 230 reformers and supporters of the law. It is okay to update a law. I think that a well-crafted statute could do a lot of good here,” Cox acknowledged. “If

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Meet the lieutenant governor pushing Democrats to get serious about weed

The Verge

Before he was elected lieutenant governor, Fetterman, who holds a master’s in public policy from Harvard and is known for his trademark wardrobe of a gray work shirt and cargo shorts, spent 13 years as the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania. The job paid $150 a year in a community where 35 percent of people live below the poverty line.

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This pipeline company tried to take South Dakota farmers’ land—but they fought back

Fast Company Tech

Jared Bossly was planting soybeans one spring night in 2023 on his 2,000-acre farm in South Dakota when he spotted a sheriffs vehicle parked at the corner of his property. All 156 of the eminent domain actions were brought in South Dakota. He had a hunch it wasnt a social visit. He was right.