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.
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...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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Abbas' grandmother in Lebanon had her home destroyed by an Israeli airstrike this year. (Photo from the Alawieh social media team)
The Trump administration appears poised to gut the central policies that shape Head Start, a popular and long-established early childhood education program that serves the country’s neediest children, including thousands in California. cal.news/4fO8BBJ 📸 Florence Middleton
In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Politico@politico.com · 22h ago26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Apparently we're paying $25K bribes to AUSAs to convince the to risk their law license working for a shitshow DOJ. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 20h agoFed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal grist.org/energy/data-...
It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal
New federal data shows that AI demand helped push U.S. power sector emissions up last year.
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The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.
no thank you, but good reminder that I should finally delete that unused dropbox account
SCREEN failed to pass out of committee, despite a 15-13 vote (in favor). Not enough members voting, but looks like a party line vote. Good work everyone! Keep up the pressure for after recess and beyond!
Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 24h agoIf 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.
But not enough people are talking about THIS stellar victory. Shri "Give homeless people $20 to vote for me" Thanedar: GOODBYE Donovan McKinney WINS
Abdul El-Sayed’s win represents a big blow to the politics of bygone days. Because if one campaign can show that *that* much money and *that* much old guard support doesn’t guarantee victory, it cracks open what can be imagined. It widens the aperture of what’s possible.
Will This Be AIPAC’s Biggest Defeat – Ever?
Prem was on hand in Michigan to witness the nail-biter between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, which appears to have gone down as an astonishing failure for AIPAC.
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I do not and will not ever understand people who pay a bunch of money to come to a concert just to talk through the entire thing and I’m surrounded by them right now.
Hundreds rally in Fishers, Indiana to support immigrants and oppose a nearby ‘mass deportation’ event.
Hundreds rally in Fishers to support immigrants and oppose nearby 'mass deportation' event - Indianapolis Recorder
Two groups with opposing views on immigration hosted events Saturday in Central Indiana. One was a private rally in support of mass ...
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The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
All over the United States, ordinary people are risking their freedom to take a stand against data centers in their communities.
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El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
The board of a Michigan township agreed to rezone a terrain to make way for a data center. Residents opposed to the data center forced a vote on the matter, and they blocked the rezoning tonight: www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
You could say Abdul El-Sayed won despite $64 million being spent against him… one may also wonder if he won *because* of it
No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 20h ago30,000,000 dollars
Some law enforcement agencies treating license plate camera use as confidential information. "Police departments and sheriffs are now adopting formal policies that officers should not mention ALPR usage to vehicle occupants, or even put it in their reports." www.gadgetreview.com/police-are-b...
Police Are Being Told Not to Mention ALPR Searches to Drivers
ALPR cameras log your plate, location, and timestamp daily, yet no law requires police to disclose this during a traffic stop.
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I finally did it. On the train I said out loud "damn, someone's headphones aren't connected" and they stopped playing their music out loud.
Maddow calling Sunrise a "radical" organization is all you need to know about how rightwing mainstream media is
Did you see how Apple, Amazon Walmart and other big companies are refunding the billions of dollars they got back from the federal tariff settlement to their customers, who ultimately bore the cost of higher prices? Yea, me neither.
Detainees in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center have noticed contamination in the drinking water. Last week, we reported on footage from inside the facility that showed evidence of the inhumane conditions inside the facility. The full story: lataco.com/contaminated... 🎥: Aisha Wallace-Palomares
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
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