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Fifth Circuit Says Gov't Can Violate Migrants' Due Process Rights" But Only For 90 Days
12+ hour, 10+ min ago (799+ words) It's good news of sorts, so we'll go with a qualified "good news!" here. There's a little table setting that needs to be done to explain why it's better now than it was before the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court continued…...
Mexico Passed Speech Laws To Protect The Powerless. The Powerful Used Them To Silence Critics.
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (785+ words) The latest example comes from Mexico, where the current leadership has played up "press freedoms," but at the same time, powerful politicians are using laws ostensibly passed to protect the marginalized" to imprison journalists instead. The New York Times piece…...
ABC's The View Wimps Out, Shies Away From Politics After Trump Threats
15+ hour, 37+ min ago (468+ words) Back in February, Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr launched a fake "investigation" of ABC because the network's comedians and daytime talk show hosts hadn't adequately kissed Republican ass. Five months later and ABC's The View is wimping out when it…...
ESA Lobbying Against "Stop Killing Games: Hosting Private Minecraft Servers Is Illegal Piracy
21+ hour, 38+ min ago (576+ words) The committee unanimously voted in favor of granting the bill reconsideration, meaning it could come back before this group of state senators. Assemblymember Chris Ward introduced the bill in February and it passed the California State Assembly 43-16 in late May....
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17+ hour, 10+ min ago (1122+ words) The committee unanimously voted in favor of granting the bill reconsideration, meaning it could come back before this group of state senators. Assemblymember Chris Ward introduced the bill in February and it passed the California State Assembly 43-16 in late May....
Four Years After Dobbs, Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Keep Coming For Online Speech
21+ hour, 40+ min ago (400+ words) The clearest tell that this is also a war on speech is that officials have aimed their efforts not just at abortion providers or the entities that prescribe and sell medication abortion, but also at websites that do nothing more…...
DOJ Using Gang, Terrorist Prosecutors To Ensure People Opposed To Trump Are Treated Like Gang Members, Terrorists
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (327+ words) His latest "countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence" memorandum is basically him screaming "EVERYONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE ME IS A TERRORIST!" in official government letterhead. Thanks to Trump unilaterally declaring most forms of opposition to his particular government to…...
Supreme Court Decides Not To Destroy The First Amendment Just Yet
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (524+ words) While we've been discussing a bunch of other Supreme Court end-of-term decisions this week, we should also call out two decisions the Supreme Court thankfully decided not to make. These non-decisions continue to help preserve First Amendment speech protections. The…...
The DEA Is A Domestic Terrorist Organization That's Trying To Kill Children
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (1016+ words) Plenty of people are going to disagree with this headline. But why should I bother defending it when I can let the government dig its own hole? From Executive Order 14367, issued by President Trump last December: Illicit fentanyl is closer…...
The Supreme Court Upholds The Constitution. Barely.
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (746+ words) Look, 5-4 Supreme Court decisions count just as much as 9-0 ones, and a 5-4 decision getting it right is still a win, but for a number of reasons, the 5-4 decision in Trump v. Barbara, regarding the issue of birthright citizenship is terrifying. This…...