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Alternate article title: Vindictive and petty school district gets clowned on by the US Supreme Court

"Brandi Levy was 14 in 2017 when she used Snapchat to express her frustration after failing to make the Mahanoy Area High School varsity cheerleading squad. Her Snapchat post contained an image of herself and a friend with middle fingers raised and the caption "Fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything.""

...that was the speech she got punished for by the school

here is the ruling btw

PDF:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-255_g3bi.pdf

""While public schools may have a special interest in regulating some off-campus student speech, the special interests offered by the school are not sufficient to overcome B.L.'s interest in free expression in this case," the court said in today's 8-1 ruling written by Justice Stephen Breyer. The school "violated B.L.'s First Amendment rights when it suspended her from the junior varsity cheerleading squad," the majority decision also said. Justice Clarence Thomas filed a dissenting opinion."

Supreme Court backs cheerleader over school that punished her for Snapchat post

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/supreme-court-backs-cheerleader-over-school-that-punished-her-for-snapchat-post/

the shortest episode is episode 8 at 24m23s from January 2016

https://twoshadesofbrown.com/2016/01/30/episode-8-ones-a-shooter-rpg-the-other-is-a-rpg-shooter/

( if you listen to this, mind you this is before chosa started actually editing our audio so the quality is pretty rough )

I went through my local archive of the podcasts and verified that episode 163 is in fact the longest episode of Shades of Brown currently

the second longest episode is 1h40m

Apex Legends solves this exact problem by just...putting the lore in the game

like I can read the little comics and audio stuff they put in *in the game*

honestly its mostly because I forget that the lore exists because its not in the actual game itself

also its hard to keep interest when this stuff gets released at a slow drip feed pace

speaking of Overwatch lore..I have still yet to finish reading the Tracer comic they released a while back

this also means the release of a Overwatch book called "Deadlock Rebels" by Lyndsay Ely

https://kids.scholastic.com/kids/book/overwatch-2-deadlock-rebels-by-lyndsay-ely/