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According to the Associated Press, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg snoozed during oral arguments today over political redistricting in Texas.

"The subject matter was extremely technical," notes AP writer Gina Holland, "and near the end of the argument Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dozed in her chair."

"Justices David Souter and Samuel Alito, who flank the 72-year-old, looked at her but did not give her a nudge," writes Holland.

Followed by open mic poetry and spoken word Event is free & open to the public

Born in a Palestinian refugee camp, Suheir Hammad moved to Brooklyn when she was a child. Although still a young artist, she's explores the tensions of her 21st century amalagam of identities in biography, poetry, and theatre. She's best known for her renderings of her own hip-hop poetry in the TONY award-winning Def Poetry Jam. Suheir has been able to travel throughout the world via her poetry. She has read her poems in Ivy League Universities and on Brooklyn's street corners. Her work has appeared in award winning anthologies, and in zines stapled together by queer youth collectives. Suheir was the first Palestinian starring in a Broadway show, and she continues to be the first Palestinian in many artistic spaces throughout the States. Her published works include Born Palestinian, Born Black (1996), Drops of this Story (1996), and Zaatar Diva (2005).

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The Olympian has an editorial today titled Hatred has no place here , along with a comment thread discussion to join in on.

Reporters don’t merit special protections

The editorial “State needs a ‘shield law’

White Like Me, An embed reports from the inside of Orlando's biggest neo-nazi rally.

From The Olympian:

The county’s three biggest cities are negotiating an agreement to share equally any water they might gain from the former Miller brewery.

And now...

Meanwhile, one of three commissioners with the Thurston Public Utility District said he’s disturbed by the pending agreement among the three cities.

The utility provides water to 1,200 households in and around the Tanglewilde area outside Lacey. It has bought its water from Olympia for three decades. But the city recently told the district it doesn’t want to sell water to the PUD indefinitely and the district should make efforts to find it elsewhere, Commissioner Paul Pickett said.

The utility has told Olympia officials it wants to be included in discussions with the other two cities, the commissioner said.

“To have the three cities doing this is cutting us out,” he said.

It also turns out that we're talking about a lot more water than originally reported (400 acre feet per year):

In August 2005, the brewery had rights to withdraw up to 7,420 acre-feet a year for industrial purposes, according to the Washington State Department of Ecology. An acre-foot is about 325,851 gallons.

FOUNDATIONS OF PERFORMING ARTS: MUSIC AND THEATRE presents “SHORT STORIES

From the mid 1990s: