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<p>Church leaders held meetings where children were told to forgive the man who sexually abused them and forget the abuse. An internal church document also suggests that, when appropriate, both parties be brought together for a discussion.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-old-apostolic-lutheran-church-investigation-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-old-apostolic-lutheran-church-investigation-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/min</span><span class="invisible">nesota-old-apostolic-lutheran-church-investigation-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a> <a href="/tags/duluth/" rel="tag">#Duluth</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a> <a href="/tags/church/" rel="tag">#Church</a> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#Religion</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/crime/" rel="tag">#Crime</a> <a href="/tags/epstein/" rel="tag">#Epstein</a></p>

<p>ProPublica has sued the FDA, accusing the agency of withholding information about the safety and availability of generic drugs critical to millions of Americans.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-fda-lawsuit-drug-safety?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/propublica-fda-lawsuit-drug-safety?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/pro</span><span class="invisible">publica-fda-lawsuit-drug-safety?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> <a href="/tags/drugs/" rel="tag">#Drugs</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a> Leader Suggested Violating <a href="/tags/courtorders/" rel="tag">#CourtOrders</a>, <a href="/tags/whistleblower/" rel="tag">#WhistleBlower</a> Says</p><p><a href="/tags/emilbove/" rel="tag">#EmilBove</a> III, a <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> judicial nominee [&amp; fmr Trump criminal defense atty], voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled &amp; misled judges, according to a complaint.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/felon47/" rel="tag">#felon47</a> <a href="/tags/judiciary/" rel="tag">#judiciary</a> <a href="/tags/separationofpowers/" rel="tag">#SeparationOfPowers</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/justice-department-emil-bove-trump-deportations-reuveni.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/justice-department-emil-bove-trump-deportations-reuveni.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/</span><span class="invisible">politics/justice-department-emil-bove-trump-deportations-reuveni.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> &amp; <a href="/tags/legal/" rel="tag">#Legal</a> picks of the day:</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.indie.host/@ToSDR" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ToSDR</span></a></span> - FOSS project to summarise &amp; grade terms of service, founded 2012</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>creativecommons</span></a></span> - Org promoting creative commons licences</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@commissionerHR" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>commissionerHR</span></a></span> - Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/@Curia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Curia</span></a></span> (English) &amp; <span class="h-card"><a href="https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/@Curia_fr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Curia_fr</span></a></span> (French) - Court of Justice of EU</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.bund.de/@BGH_Bund" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BGH_Bund</span></a></span> - German Federal Court of Justice (in German)</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.bund.de/@BVerwG_de" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BVerwG_de</span></a></span> - German Federal Administrative Court (in German)</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.bund.de/@bundesfinanzhof" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bundesfinanzhof</span></a></span> - German Federal Fiscal Court (in German)</p><p>🧵 1/6</p>

<p>N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to sign a bill that bans anonymous complaints to the state child abuse hotline. The law would still maintain the confidentiality of callers.</p><p>The change comes in the wake of a 2023 ProPublica investigation that showed how the hotline had been weaponized by people endlessly calling in baseless allegations against exes or rivals.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-bans-anonymous-child-welfare-reports?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/new-york-bans-anonymous-child-welfare-reports?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/new</span><span class="invisible">-york-bans-anonymous-child-welfare-reports?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/newyork/" rel="tag">#NewYork</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a></p>

<p>&quot;A federal judge in California ruled Monday that Anthropic likely violated copyright law when it pirated authors’ books to create a giant dataset [...] but that training its AI on those books without authors&#x27; permission constitutes transformative fair use under copyright law. &quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/judge-rules-tr</span><span class="invisible">aining-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/114739272177738351" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@404mediaco/114739272177738351"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@404mediaco/11</span><span class="invisible">4739272177738351</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/copyright/" rel="tag">#copyright</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>

<p>Before the automobile industry invented the catalytic converter, the costs of reducing air pollution seemed astronomical, enough to bankrupt the entire industry. After they invented the catalytical converter, the costs were manageable. And they only invented it because they were faced with the threat of being shut down.<br></p>Industries creating harms often claim that controls and regulations are impossible, would bankrupt them, etc., trying to make their existence into a zero-sum game (for some people to have the benefit of our industry, other people must suffer). AI companies claim they must steal copyrighted works because they could not exist otherwise; or be allowed to use as much electricity as they demand in spite of the costs. But it&#x27;s B.S., and we should stop accepting this rhetoric. Forced to innovate to reduce harms, these industries have innovated, and made themselves even more profitable than they were when they were dragging their feet about it like children who don&#x27;t want to clean their rooms.<br><br>From <a href="https://lpeproject.org/blog/is-climate-change-an-externality/" rel="nofollow">Is Climate Change An Externality</a><br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/copyright/" rel="tag">#copyright</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/innovation/" rel="tag">#innovation</a><br>

<p>After Vernor’s breathing machine stopped working, a Lincare representative promised his mother a company respiratory therapist would stay in contact “until we get him a new machine.”</p><p>But she didn’t hear from Lincare until 7 days later, the same day Vernor died.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/lincare-wrongful-death-lawsuit-sleep-apnea-oxygen?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/lincare-wrongful-death-lawsuit-sleep-apnea-oxygen?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/lin</span><span class="invisible">care-wrongful-death-lawsuit-sleep-apnea-oxygen?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/sleepapnea/" rel="tag">#SleepApnea</a></p>

<p>More than a dozen borrowers told the Tennessee Lookout and ProPublica that Advance Financial encouraged them to borrow more money after making minimum payments.</p><p>The lender went on to sue them once they couldn’t pay back the loan.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/flex-lenders-reborrow?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/flex-lenders-reborrow?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fle</span><span class="invisible">x-lenders-reborrow?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/personalfinance/" rel="tag">#PersonalFinance</a> <a href="/tags/debt/" rel="tag">#Debt</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>An effort to call a convention to amend the Constitution is focused on the national debt but could open the door to other changes — including making it legal for Trump to run for a third term.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/constitutional-convention-congress-donald-trump-power?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/constitutional-convention-congress-donald-trump-power?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/con</span><span class="invisible">stitutional-convention-congress-donald-trump-power?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a></p>

<p>A Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance.<br>—</p><p>St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/st-lukes-hospital-idaho-abortion-ban?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/st-lukes-hospital-idaho-abortion-ban?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/st-</span><span class="invisible">lukes-hospital-idaho-abortion-ban?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/idaho/" rel="tag">#Idaho</a> <a href="/tags/abortion/" rel="tag">#Abortion</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on The Courts<br>—</p><p>The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/irs/" rel="tag">#IRS</a> <a href="/tags/tax/" rel="tag">#Tax</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#Workers</a></p>

<p>A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact<br>---</p><p>With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and worsening wildfire risk.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-environment-public-lands-oversight?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/grazing-environment-public-lands-oversight?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/gra</span><span class="invisible">zing-environment-public-lands-oversight?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/publiclands/" rel="tag">#PublicLands</a> <a href="/tags/cattle/" rel="tag">#Cattle</a> <a href="/tags/grazing/" rel="tag">#Grazing</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>

<p>Following reporting by ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror, Connecticut lawmakers passed reforms on a century-old towing law. But they don’t solve all the problems that vehicle owners have raised.</p><p>Here’s what they told us.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-drivers-towing-law-reform?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-drivers-towing-law-reform?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/con</span><span class="invisible">necticut-drivers-towing-law-reform?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/connecticut/" rel="tag">#Connecticut</a> <a href="/tags/cars/" rel="tag">#Cars</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/reform/" rel="tag">#Reform</a></p>

<p>One father who was acquitted of causing his son’s death said that Dr. Nancy Harper’s abuse diagnosis attached a stigma to him, caused him and his wife PTSD and robbed them of the chance to say a proper goodbye to their son.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/child-abuse-pediatrician-nancy-harper-minnesota-shaken-baby-syndrome?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/child-abuse-pediatrician-nancy-harper-minnesota-shaken-baby-syndrome?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/chi</span><span class="invisible">ld-abuse-pediatrician-nancy-harper-minnesota-shaken-baby-syndrome?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a> <a href="/tags/pediatrics/" rel="tag">#Pediatrics</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/minnesota/" rel="tag">#Minnesota</a></p>

<p>The <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin has *declined* to release nearly $7 billion in federal <a href="/tags/funding/" rel="tag">#funding</a> for <a href="/tags/schools/" rel="tag">#schools</a> that helps pay for after-school &amp; summer programs, support for <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#students</a> learning English, <a href="/tags/teacher/" rel="tag">#teacher</a> training &amp; other services.</p><p>The money, which was already allocated by <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a>, was expected to be released by Tuesday. But in an email on Monday, the Trump *<a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a>* Department notified <a href="/tags/state/" rel="tag">#state</a> education agencies that the money would not be available.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/policy/" rel="tag">#policy</a> <a href="/tags/idiocracy/" rel="tag">#idiocracy</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/</span><span class="invisible">trump-education-funds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>

<p>𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 &amp; 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞: 𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 &quot;𝐍𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠&quot; 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐠𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫:</p><p>&quot;Robert Jackson, Harry Truman, held men in custody who exterminated over 12 million civilians in camps, tens of millions more in a war of aggression.</p><p>They wished for a better world, so they tried the monsters in a court of law. <a href="/tags/hegseth/" rel="tag">#Hegseth</a> saw smugglers (?) and couldn’t bother to capture or try them. Then when he had the success using bombs he’s had using <a href="/tags/signal/" rel="tag">#Signal</a>, he returned to ensure the slaughter.</p><p>“ <a href="/tags/nuremberg/" rel="tag">#Nuremberg</a>” isn&#x27;t a historical footnote with men in gray suits. It&#x27;s a film about the moment we decided: civilization doesn’t survive if we let murder become policy. And if we don’t enforce it, there will always be more Pete Hegseths.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/we-tried-nazis-hegseth-bombs-survivors" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/we-tried-nazis-hegseth-bombs-survivors"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/we-tried-nazi</span><span class="invisible">s-hegseth-bombs-survivors</span></a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag">#venezuela</a> <a href="/tags/boatbombings/" rel="tag">#boatbombings</a> <a href="/tags/warcrimes/" rel="tag">#warcrimes</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/crimesagainsthumanity/" rel="tag">#crimesagainsthumanity</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/movies/" rel="tag">#movies</a></p>

<p>I used to think (in my naivety) that a judge on the Supreme Court was the smartest in the Judiciary — cream of the crop, top of the line…</p><p>But damn I can see that’s not true because this is some A-class manipulation and gaslighting by Trump Administration lawyers—</p><p>And it makes sense that the people directing <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> during his first term would put judges in <a href="/tags/scotus/" rel="tag">#SCOTUS</a> who would roll over for him. </p><p>/1<br><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/birthrightcitizenship/" rel="tag">#birthrightcitizenship</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-curbs-injunctions-blocked-trumps-birthright-citizenship-rcna199742" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-curbs-injunctions-blocked-trumps-birthright-citizenship-rcna199742"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nbcnews.com/politics/supre</span><span class="invisible">me-court/supreme-court-curbs-injunctions-blocked-trumps-birthright-citizenship-rcna199742</span></a></p>

<p>An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work<br>—</p><p>GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/geo</span><span class="invisible">-group-ice-detainees-wage?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/prison/" rel="tag">#Prison</a> <a href="/tags/washington/" rel="tag">#Washington</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/migrants/" rel="tag">#Migrants</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>

<p>Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX can be arrested. And he wanted to change who controlled the highway and public beach near SpaceX’s site so he can launch his rockets according to his timeline.</p><p>He got them all.</p><p>Read the full story: <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-legislature-laws-spacex-tesla?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-legislature-laws-spacex-tesla?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/elo</span><span class="invisible">n-musk-texas-legislature-laws-spacex-tesla?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="/tags/spacex/" rel="tag">#SpaceX</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a></p>

<p>In Chicago, a sanctuary city, immigration rights advocates say ICE has unlawfully picked up at least 22 migrants, creating warrants after some had already been detained.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ice</span><span class="invisible">-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#Chicago</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/migrants/" rel="tag">#Migrants</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a></p>

<p>Holy shit</p><p><a href="/tags/desantis/" rel="tag">#DeSantis</a> admits that the <a href="/tags/workershortages/" rel="tag">#WorkerShortages</a> created by anti-<a href="/tags/immigrant/" rel="tag">#immigrant</a> laws need to be eased by putting teenagers to work by relaxing <a href="/tags/childlabor/" rel="tag">#ChildLabor</a> protection standards.</p><p><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302704319.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302704319.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.miamiherald.com/news/local</span><span class="invisible">/immigration/article302704319.html</span></a></p>

<p>The <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin is trying to deport *another* student, 21-yr-old <a href="/tags/yunseochung/" rel="tag">#YunseoChung</a>, a legal permanent resident, under the statute authorizing Secy of State <a href="/tags/marcorubio/" rel="tag">#MarcoRubio</a> to remove people deemed threat. She&#x27;s lived here since childhood.</p><p>Chung wasn’t a leader or heavily involved in the protest movement, she only attended a few.</p><p>The <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> is seeking to deport a person w/a <a href="/tags/greencard/" rel="tag">#GreenCard</a> since she was a child because she went to a <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#protest</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/freespeech/" rel="tag">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="/tags/freedomofassembly/" rel="tag">#FreedomOfAssembly</a> <a href="/tags/righttoprotest/" rel="tag">#RightToProtest</a></p>

<p>This is beyond…</p><p><a href="/tags/lemonde/" rel="tag">#LeMonde</a> reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> after a <a href="/tags/search/" rel="tag">#search</a> of his <a href="/tags/phone/" rel="tag">#phone</a> &amp; <a href="/tags/computer/" rel="tag">#computer</a> revealed messages critical of <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>&#x27;s <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> cuts, &quot;which [says <a href="/tags/cpb/" rel="tag">#CPB</a>] conveyed hatred of Trump &amp; could be qualified as terrorism&quot;. Computer confiscated.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/geopolitics/" rel="tag">#geopolitics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/authoritarianism/" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="/tags/dictatorship/" rel="tag">#dictatorship</a> <a href="/tags/freespeech/" rel="tag">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="/tags/thoughtpolice/" rel="tag">#ThoughtPolice</a> <a href="/tags/nazis/" rel="tag">#Nazis</a> <a href="/tags/viewpointdiscrimination/" rel="tag">#ViewpointDiscrimination</a> <br><a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lemonde.fr/international/a</span><span class="invisible">rticle/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html</span></a></p>

<p>Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up<br>—</p><p>Companies may avoid consequences for alleged wrongdoing as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against Capital One and Rocket Homes and pauses investigations into Meta and others — including providers of medical credit cards.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a></p>