BREAKING - A federal judge has just ruled that 'Tower Dumps' are inherently unconstitutional. Story below, details on a case that was only unsealed because of our court motion. www.courtwatch.news/p/judge-rule...
Judge Rules Tower Dumps Search Inherently Unconstitutional
Docket and Opinion are only available because Court Watch successfully fought to unseal it.
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Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...
Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.
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If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future. The @theguardian.com just published an amazing piece about my book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Coming August 18! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
theguardian.com
Heatwave blood crisis exposes EU’s risky dependence on American plasma
Heatwave blood crisis exposes EU’s risky dependence on American plasma
The US supplies a quarter of EU plasma, and now they're in a supply crisis. Although that doesn't mean an imminent emergency in Brussels, the EU needs to get ahead in its external dependence on life-giving products like plasma.
euobserver.com
If you’re tracking the CA bill that (if passed) will give adopted people access to their original birth certificates, it’s still in play!
It's been a roller coaster and it isn't over yet but it's gotten farther than similar bills ever had. We had a scare in June and thought it wouldn't be able to proceed but the author, the fabulous Aisha Wahab, was able to revive it. This chart is from CAAR, which has done all the hard work.
Another man who couldn’t cope either life and his daughters paid the price. Wisconsin Dad and His 2 Daughters Found Dead Hours After Finalizing Divorce From Their Mom - Us Magazine apple.news/AQ1mPSWhdQdG...
Wisconsin Dad and His 2 Daughters Found Dead Hours After Finalizing Divorce From Their Mom — Us Magazine
A Wisconsin dad and his daughters died just hours after he attended a hearing with their mother to finalize their divorce. The Winneconne Police Department and the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office co...
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She ain’t never hooped well enough for them to talk about her because of sports. White women be lying.
sophie cunningham just wants to go back to doing sports, guys
Important to note that anyone arguing that systemic racism was a fact of American life would get drummed out of any current confirmation process.
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
coworker: “what’s a more appropriate way to say shitshow?” me: 🤔 🤓☝️ “fecal fiesta”
Breaking news: A federal judge took the final step in allowing the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning many are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation.
TPS for Haitians officially ends, putting thousands out of work and in limbo
A federal judge allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning they are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation.
washingtonpost.com
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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@nmdoj.bsky.social’s complaint alleges that "the federal government has refused, without adequate legal justification, to share records that could help investigators identify witnesses, corroborate evidence, and determine the full scope of crimes that occurred in New Mexico."
north koreans, powered by chinese, shooting missiles at European cities yet there are still some of you telling me calling it WW3 is too dramatic
⚡️ A North Korean missile unit is deploying to Russia, with plans to operate 120 ballistic missiles against Ukraine. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
I wonder if so many people hopped on the train after cuz the virus damaged their brains 🙃
wait y’all. How big of a factor is COVID in the cultural shift towards purity/religion? 🤔
VERY. Plagues stoke fears that are easily exploited by oppressive religions & con artists. The fact that COVID-19 damages the frontal lobe means ppl who survived multiple infections are quite literally unable to think clearly, which makes them easier to manipulate by bad-faith actors.
wait y’all. How big of a factor is COVID in the cultural shift towards purity/religion? 🤔
It is a biased reading of reality that has moved the yard stick on where the supposed political centre lies. It ignores how many in this nominal centre have mainstreamed ideas of the far right. It ostracizes actual progressive thought because "that's not what the normal person wants."
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Batman will always be popular because people love the fantasy of pretending a billionaire isn't depraved.
I don’t care if you’re the world’s richest man, you shouldn’t be allowed to crash your out of control rocket into the moon.
If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
A day of remembrance and celebration Happy Fade In The Water day