Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial https://lobste.rs/s/rimd7l #hardware #law
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/inside-the-fight-to-force-vizio-to-share-linux-based-source-code-for-its-tvs-os/
law
The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.
…The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/trump-fund-legal-questions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.oWr9.MEVPYndCxS2N&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Yes, this is theft.
The good news (for artists) is that the liability can’t be washed away by running it through a software tool (a separate issue), and the artist can sue the person who published this.
Don’t be the person that publishes another’s work without authorization, not only because it’s a violation of the rights of the artist, and a breach of law, but because it’s wrong.
#Copyright #Law #IntellectualProperty #CopyrightInfringement #AIIsTheft
#GOP offers a ridiculous additional $1B for #WhiteHouse “security”, sparking dispute over #ballroom
#Senate #Republicans maintain their proposal would authorize #security construction, but not the #Trump ballroom. The White House disagrees.
Senate Republicans late Monday proposed $1 billion to pay for new White House security measures, with lawmakers & White House ofcls disagreeing over whether the #legislation would cover Trump’s planned ballroom.
#law #waste #fraud
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/05/senate-budget-bill-trump-ballroom/
#Iran has hit far more #US military assets than reported [or admitted to by the #Trump admin], satellite images show
Imagery published by Iranian state-affiliated media & verified by The Post shows damage to at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at US #military sites.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/06/iran-us-bases-satellite-images/
#Trump posted on social media that the war with #Iran could soon end & #oil & natural #gas shipments could restart. But that all depends on Iran accepting a reported agreement that Trump did not detail.
“If they don’t agree, the bombing starts,” Trump wrote.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #war #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-war-china-may-6-2026-3d061a90ccde095178d9b988d94d08f3
The #DOJ sued #Colorado on Wednesday over a #state #law banning #HighCapacityMagazines, which was passed after a 2012 #MassShooting at a movie theater in Aurora, CO. It was the second lawsuit in two days that the #Trump admin has filed against #GunControl policies in the #Democratic-controlled state.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/us/politics/doj-colorado-lawsuit-guns.html?smid=url-share
#Feds charge 15 people in #Minnesota with defrauding government social service programs
The cases involve theft of more than $90 million in taxpayer money, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said.
“This is not the end of our work in Minnesota. This is not the end of the beginning of our work in Minnesota. This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota,” he said [badly paraphrasing Churchill].
#law
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/us/minnesota-social-service-programs-fraud-charges
Just a little favor for his #billionaire #donor #TechBros
#Trump delays executive order on #AI #oversight hours before planned signing
The White House had already sent out invitations to the event, where Trump had been expected to sign an order increasing government scrutiny of new #ArtificialIntelligence models.
#law #tech #business #regulation #MentalHealth #plutocracy #aristocracy #technocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/21/white-house-tore-down-ai-rules-now-its-building-new-defenses/
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#Senate #Republicans, unhappy with #Trump $1.8B settlement #SlushFund, delay a vote on paying for #immigration enforcement
Senate Republicans appeared increasingly unlikely to meet their self-imposed deadline for passing a ~$70 billion immigration enforcement bill as disputes over “security” funding for the Trump #ballroom & the $1.8 billion #MAGASlushFund derailed progress.
#law #criminal #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6
https://apnews.com/article/congress-billion-ballroom-trump-funding-bill-republicans-d0b0d2ee59a95f6199d80998ab89d7e4
#Trump admin sows “confusion” as it tries to reopen #StraitOfHormuz [they just have no idea what they’re doing]
The Trump admin’s approach to the #IranWar over the past 24 hrs has pinballed from declarations that a tenuous ceasefire was holding & military operations were over to new threats of bombing the Islamic Republic.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #US #Iran #war #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #MarketManipulation
https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-war-confusion-messaging-contradiction-20471bb90ad7abd6381a761fffeb8e96
#HouseRepublicans, you tiny wimpy nothings
Republican leaders pulled a resolution to halt the #IranWar that had been scheduled for a vote Thursday evening, after it became clear they just didn’t have enough votes to defeat it.
#TheRealSuckersAndLosers #Congress #USpol #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #war #ForeverWars #Trump #law #WarPowers #NationalSecurity
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/iran-war-powers-trump-measure.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share&rsrc=cl-share
#US bears brunt of Israel’s missile defense, #Pentagon assessments show
The US military has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending #Israel amid hostilities with #Iran than Israeli forces used themselves, according to #Defense Department assessments described to WaPo.
#Trump #TrumpsWar #IranWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #GovernmentSpending #GovernmentWaste #NationalSecurity #economy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/21/us-bears-brunt-israels-missile-defense-pentagon-assessments-show/
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#Iran Says It Is Discussing Plan With #US to End Hostilities
The one-page proposal under review would open the #StraitOfHormuz & pause the fighting for 30 days, but differences remain over US demands on Iran’s #nuclear program.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Israel #war #ForeverWars #Trump #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/07/world/iran-trump-hormuz-peace-deal?smid=nytcore-ios-share
So much for the “ceasefire” talks going well. Not that I believe anything from this admin.
#US launches #strikes on #Iran after attacks on warships, military says
The “self-defense strikes” followed attacks on 3 US naval vessels, #CENTCOM said in a statement. None of the US warships were hit.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #ForeverWars #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/politics/us-forces-strike-military-facilities-in-iran?cid=ios_app
#ABC Accuses #Government of Violating #FirstAmendment
The network’s argument, made to the #FCC, is the most aggressive [long overdue] posture taken yet by a television network toward the #Trump admin.
#law #constitution #FreeSpeech #FreePress #media #entertainment #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/business/media/abc-fcc-first-amendment-the-view.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The #CongressionalBlackCaucus on Tuesday called on major #corporations across the #US, including those that previously expressed support for #VotingRights & #RacialJustice, to oppose #redistricting efforts by #Republican led states that seek to eliminate majority-#Black US #House districts.
#law #ElectionLaw #midterms #election #RepresentationMatters #BlackCaucus #Congress #JohnLewis #VotingRightsAct #VRA
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-black-caucus-voting-rights-corporations-a8a89bcc64ba1b074289c1ee606485fc
#SCOTUS [shockingly /s] sides with #Trump in fight tied to #speech curbs on #immigration judges
SCOTUS sided on Tuesday with Trump's admin in a dispute involving a #FreeSpeech challenge by federal #ImmigrationJudges to a #US government policy restricting what they can publicly say about immigration.
The justices, in an unsigned ruling, reversed a lower court's decision & returned the case to that court for further proceedings.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.reuters.com/world/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-fight-tied-speech-curbs-immigration-judges-2026-05-26/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
#US military intelligence-gathering flights are surging off the coast of #Cuba, a CNN analysis of publicly available aviation data shows.
Since Feb 4, the US Navy & Air Force have conducted at least 25 such flights using manned aircraft & drones, most of them near the country’s two biggest cities, Havana & Santiago de Cuba, & some coming within 40 miles of the coast, acc/to FlightRadar24.
#Trump #imperialism #LandGrab #law #WarPowers #sovereignty #InternationalLaw
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/americas/us-spy-flights-cuba-latam-intl
#Iran responds to #US #ceasefire proposal but #Trump rejects it as 'unacceptable'
Iran sent its response to the latest US ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators & wants negotiations to focus on permanently ending the war, but Trump quickly rejected it as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” with no details.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #IranWar #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #EnergyCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-war-attack-may-10-2026-f8812db41837336d816efaea7bc1c44a
Nonprofit sues to stop Trump’s changes to Reflecting Pool, a #HistoricSite
A Washington-area nonprofit Monday asked a federal court to halt Trump’s efforts to resurface the #LincolnMemorial #ReflectingPool, saying that #Trump [once again] failed to undergo required federal reviews before applying a blue color to the basin.
#law #landmark #preservation #UShistory #HandsOffOurProperty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/11/trump-reflecting-pool-lawsuit-memorial/
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#SCOTUS is temporarily leaving women’s #access to a widely used #AbortionMedication untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, #mifepristone, to take effect.
Justice Samuel Alito’s order Monday allows #women seeking an #abortion to continue obtaining the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.
#law
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-mifepristone-supreme-court-louisiana-5cb02123db6e8e5520cd995efc751b82
#SCOTUS set the stage for #Alabama to get rid of 1 of 2 largely #Black congressional districts before this year’s #midterms, creating an opening for #Republicans to gain an additional #US #House seat in a closely divided chamber.
The decision follows a SCOTUS ruling that struck down a majority-Black US House district in #Louisiana as an “unconstitutional” #RacialGerrymander, significantly weakening the federal #VotingRights Act.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-redistricting-supreme-court-congress-ba371351585b79c2965f9efb0332f33d
The Silence That Meets the #Rape of #Palestinians
Male & female Palestinians describe brutal #SexualAbuse at the hands of #Israel prison guards, soldiers, settlers & interrogators.
It’s a simple proposition: Whatever our views of the #MiddleEast conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape.
#terrorism #torture #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #law #InternationalLaw #HumanRights
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/israel-palestinians-sexual-violence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h1A.LaPH.UM_TCEtFy_4N&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Enough already.
Exclusive: #FBI questions #CIA officers over #Russia assessment in #Brennan probe
The FBI has begun interviewing current & former CIA employees as part of DOJ’s investigation into ex-CIA director #JohnBrennan over his role in an intelligence finding that Russia interfered in the #2016election to help #Trump, according to 5 sources familiar with the matter.
#law #ElectionInterference #WeaponizationOfGovernment #propaganda #gaslighting #RevengePolitics
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/fbi-questions-cia-officers-over-russia-assessment-brennan-probe-sources-say-2026-05-12/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement