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Sharon Woodhouse
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Former indie book publisher. Owner of a book business agency, Conspire Creative, in Chicago. Project manager. Consultant. Coach. Publisher. Ideas, small business, cities, science, the quirky, the future. Also here @ProfitableAuthor.
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Steven Conn's book "Americans against the City" is an essential history of American anti-urbanism. It will help you understand why fear and hostility toward people who live in cities runs so deeply in US culture and politics. Good summary:

www.governing.com/urban/why-we...
Why We Despise Cities and Yet Are Drawn to Them
Americans have always feared crowding and congestion, blaming the anonymity of the city for a decline in community feeling. But cities’ energy and vitality continue to pull people toward urban life.
www.governing.com
Hey Bloodshot Records fans in Chicago and beyond. Look what's coming: Long hours, low pay. History and memoir from Rob Miller.
Terrified to announce 11/25/25 release. A journey of weird record stores, grimy clubs, and starting venerable label Bloodshot Records. History, memoir, how-to, and a cautionary call to support indie arts communities before they are gone.
Pre-order now:
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
And this wasn't the only bridge people were crossing as they left the park for the march down Michigan Avenue in Chicago, there was at least one more.
a world where girls are women and men are boys
"however you do CTA is how you do everything"
Haha. Right! School committees can't agree on prom themes, condo boards reach stalemates on assessment structures, nonprofits bicker over gala ticket prices, but EVERYONE is in on it.
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Reminds me of something I just read about the nihilism of pointing fingers at virtue signaling
Yes, and whole schools full of kids are scared and anxious. Grammar schools and high schools. Ask parents and teachers.
Wow. The "monkey mind" and internal chatter of most people is coherent enough to be decoded? And an individual can password protect their thoughts with thinking? I would've thought that was a yogic feat accessible only to some.
"Hey, I know a group of people who should give up their rights..."
2) To elaborate on #1: Courts have specifically recognized that entertainment speech receives First Amendment protection.
3) Notable precedents have established that even highly offensive speech is constitutionally protected. See such disparate cases as Hustler v. Falwell and Snyder v. Phelps.
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Mike Pence: ""The First Amendment does not protect entertainers who say crass or thoughtless things..."

3 Things:
1) The first amendment is viewpoint neutral, and the government generally cannot restrict speech based on its content or message, regardless of how crass or offensive.
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Headline is unclear. The ruling isn't against finger-detection technology or making, buying, selling of such. It's against mandating its inclusion in all table saws.
Just as it becomes more common knowledge that it takes into mid-20s and beyond for executive functioning/prefrontal cortex to mature.