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In a class-action lawsuit filed in Illinois Federal court, African-American State Farm agents claim they are discriminated against because of "firm-wide policies and practices" which subject the agents to lower pay on a systemic basis as well as a high turnover rate. State Farm sought to have this case dismissed, but a federal judge in Illinois ruled in favor of the agents on July 1, 2022. The lawsuit, claims that through the Term Independent Contractor Agents (TICA) program, State Farm requires that agents invest "substantial sums of their own money in rent, offices, marketing, sales leads, and hiring a team.", after taking a 17-week course ran by State Farm. In return, State Farm made promises of "lucrative business opportunities and careers", which the lawsuit argues does not hap...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zckut1RTtgg&list=PLkWM-tkzjRG8c1W87yBf1LE_rI6tbhwPh&index=1&t=1550s&ab_channel=AkronOhio Akron Police Department and the City of Ohio held a press conference early Sunday to release bodycam footage of the Jayland Walker shooting that happened at about 12:30 a.m. on June 27, 2022. In the bodycam footage, which is a bit grainy because of the quality of bodycams, you can see and hear several dozen gunshots being heard. Authorities confirmed during the press briefing that at least Walker had at least 60 wounds, but would not confirm how many bullets actually hit his body before he crumbled to the ground and was pronounced deceased at the scene. The bodycam footage began with officers in a patrol vehicle chasing Jayaland Walker after he ...

FCC Commissioner, Brendan Carr, posted an open letter to his Twitter account to both Apple and Google requesting they both remove the popular social media app TikTok app from their app stores due to growing national security concerns over the app. In the letter, Carr alleges that TikTok is a "sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data." and goes on to state that the popular video app collects everything "from search and browsing histories to keystroke patterns and biometric identifiers, including faceprints", which could be used in facial recognition technology as well as voiceprints and the list goes on from there. He then proceeds to go down a list of questionable TikTok data practices in the last couple of years that serves a...

Adam Lacroix, a "street preacher' decided to challenge a Fort Myers Beach ordinance after he was cited in December of 2020 for carrying a "portable sign" to spread religious messages to those around him in accordance with an ordinance that was put in place by the Town of Fort Myers Florida. The ordinance specifically prohibits twenty-four different types of signs but outright banned portable signs. The ordinance also allowed for exemptions in certain cases like "real estate/open house signs, garage sale sales, and temporary signs.", but did require prior permit approval from the Town of Fort Myers. The appeals court did however agree that the ban is "content-neutral" and wrote: "The rich tradition of political lawn signs perhaps is surpassed only by America’s history of marches an...