With its high production values, conversational style, and a storyline unfolding in real time across episodes, 2014’s "Serial" fueled a new wave of interest in true crime and transformed podcasting. The show also helped free Baltimore high school student, Adnan Syed, convicted of murdering his teenage ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Vox tells us more, including how "Serial" changed the way we think about the criminal justice system. https://flip.it/c3CEC6
#Culture #TV #Law #Serial
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#Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing #Trump Aides of #PoliticalInterference
The board of the prestigious program told the #State Department it had no right to cancel #scholarships for nearly 200 American #professors & #researchers.
#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/fulbright-board-resign-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
看过 胜利属于比姆 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
為看過第一部印度民主題材給五星。印度同事的推薦。好好笑，他掛在嘴邊的一句話是印度沒有希望，中國才有希望。週一返工正好問問他，不準拍這樣的片子的地方像是有希望的樣子嗎？哈哈……豆瓣條目現在採用的片名 杰伊·比姆 是嚴重的誤譯。Jai Bhim 是對印度憲法撰寫者、廢除種姓制度活動家 Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 致敬的一個政治口號，而非人名。Jai 意為 Long live ，所以是“Bhim萬歲” “勝利屬於Bhim”的意思。據同事講，B. R. Ambedkar 是“不可觸碰”低種姓出身，是他將"投票權無關性別、出身、宗教等等身份"寫入憲法的。在印度的政治生活中，Jai Bhim 代表著反抗不公不義制度的精神。說起選舉穆迪大敗，他說他們不能海外投票，但是他真的很想投這一票…他說得很自然輕巧，完全感受不到對面的老鐘的笑容突然僵硬，且感情受到了深深的傷害。真的，聽到他說投票決定國家命運的時候，完全沒想到會激動到鼻子發酸、熱淚盈眶。
Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight
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Citing a ProPublica investigation, lawmakers are calling on the FDA to conduct more drug testing and to alert hospitals and other purchasers when foreign manufacturers with safety failures are given a special pass to send their products to the U.S.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-propose-changes-drug-oversight-fda?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Congress #Senate #Law #FDA #Drugs #Safety #Health #PublicHealth
Under #Trump, Federal #Workplace Anti-Discrimination Agency Engaged in…Workplace #Discrimination
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (#EEOC) was established by the 1964 #CivilRights Act to enforce anti-discrimination laws in workplaces across the country. But under Trump, the federal agency tasked with helping workers who experienced hostile work environments became a hostile work environment itself, acc/to one judge’s recent ruling.
#law #LaborLaw #LGBTQ
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/under-trump-eeoc-discriminated-against-trans-man-marc-seawright/
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In Battle for #Congress, #Virginia #Democrats to Begin Votes to Redraw Maps
State lawmakers are convening to take a vote that would allow #redistricting before next year’s #midterms, though the process would take months.
#law #ElectionLaw #gerrymandering #FireWithFire
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/virginia-redistricting-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#UncontactedIndigenous peoples & efforts to protect them
From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by #roads, miners & drug traffickers—a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection.
#law #InternationalLaw #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #LandConservation #LandRights #SaveRoadless #logging #mining #agribusiness #Climate #ClimateCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/uncontacted-indigenous-amazon-mining-logging-5d8d90cf8e13f44a5202101fee62b583
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In response to #California / #GavinNewsom suit, #Trump admin argues it has no obligation to consult with or get consent of the #governor before sending in #NationalGuard #troops or #Marines.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.22.0.pdf
The Trump admin defends sending ~5,000 troops to LA: "The statute empowers the President to determine what forces 'he considers necessary' to 'suppress' a 'rebellion' or to 'execute' federal 'laws'—not the Governor, & not a federal court."
Exclusive: #Trump officials tried to ban half of US #VotingMachines, citing #ConspiracyTheories
Trump’s “election-security czar” last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of #US #states by asking whether the #Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to 2 people with direct knowledge of the matter.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-officials-tried-ban-half-us-voting-machines-citing-conspiracy-theories-2026-05-22/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Sworn declarations submitted overnight from #Venezuelans deported by #Trump to #ElSalvador prove innocent & legal #immigrants were sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center forced labor facility.
Here is one from a professional soccer player imprisoned in #CECOT & forced into hard labor on the basis of soccer-related tattoos & a single, innocent hand gesture.
#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #CivilRights #Judiciary #ConstitutionalCrisis #AbuseOfPower #Trump
![Initially, Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa & accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on 2 things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary & the word "Dies." OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo & the pictures of the logo]. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts & found a photo of Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership. After submitting a police clearance from Venezuela indicating no criminal record, multiple employment letters, a declaration from the tattoo artist who rendered the tattoo, & various online images showing similar soccer ball/crown tattoos & explaining the meaning of the hand gesture, Reyes Barrios was transferred out of maximum security. Nevertheless on March 10th or 11th, he was transferred from Otay Mesa to Texas without notice. Then, on March 15, 2025, he was deported to El Salvador. Counsel & family have lost all contact with him have no information regarding his whereabouts or condition.](/proxy/post_attachment/654365/b41b7c47fc.png "Initially, Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa & accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on 2 things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary & the word \"Dies.\" OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo & the pictures of the logo]. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts & found a photo of Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership. After submitting a police clearance from Venezuela indicating no criminal record, multiple employment letters, a declaration from the tattoo artist who rendered the tattoo, & various online images showing similar soccer ball/crown tattoos & explaining the meaning of the hand gesture, Reyes Barrios was transferred out of maximum security. Nevertheless on March 10th or 11th, he was transferred from Otay Mesa to Texas without notice. Then, on March 15, 2025, he was deported to El Salvador. Counsel & family have lost all contact with him have no information regarding his whereabouts or condition.")
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There’s a Way to Stop Trump’s #IRS #SlushFund
by #JamieRaskin
These days it takes a spectacular burst of #corruption to get the attention of our scandal-weary nation, but #Trump & his admin have managed, once again, to transfix Americans by establishing a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund in the #DOJ that will undoubtedly be used to line the pockets of Trump’s partisans & foot soldiers — with your tax dollars.
#law #criminal #theft #TaxpayersMoney
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/opinion/trump-congress-blanche-treasury.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kVA.qgbr._vGHusTOpqUc&smid=nytcore-ios-share
I attended the Supreme Court of #Texas on Wednesday to help @deceleration cover a unique case involving #Indigenous religious freedom, pandemic restrictions on churches, and a cormorant rookery in a San Antonio park.
#politics #USpol #environment #ClimateChange #animals #news #law #religion #activism #SanAntonio #SouthTexas #trees
No #SCOTUS decision on #Trump’s absolute #immunity claim.
Chief *Justice* #JohnRoberts announced that Monday is the final day of the term.
Monday will mark the first time since 2020 that the Supreme Court term runs into July. The court extended the session that year because of delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Before that, it had not happened since 1996.
#lawlessness #law #GinniThomas #MarthaAnnAlito #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ExtremistCourt #CorruptCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform
The #IowaSupremeCourt ruled on Fri that the state’s 6-wk #AbortionBan, when most women don’t even know they are pregnant, could be enforced, a decision that sharply limits #access to #abortion & fulfills a longstanding aim of the state’s #Republican leaders.
#Iowa #law #ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy #MaleSupremacy #ChristianEvangelism #NewApostolicReformation #RightWing #extremism
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/us/iowa-supreme-court-abortion-ban.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
#SCOTUS on Thurs will issue more end-of-the-term rulings, potentially including whether #Trump is immune from prosecution in his federal #ElectionInterference case, whether #Jan6 #insurgents may be charged w/ #obstruction & whether #FederalRegulatoryAgencies should have their #powers reduced. Wed, the court inadvertently posted a ruling it has not yet announced that, while #litigation continues, would allow emergency #abortions to stabilize patients in #Idaho where #abortion is banned.
Exclusive: #US Dept of #Energy forms $1B #supercomputer & #AI partnership with #AMD
The US has formed a $1 billion partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to construct 2 supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from #NuclearPower to #cancer treatments to #NationalSecurity, Energy Secy Chris Wright & AMD CEO Lisa Su told Reuters.
#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
>2 dozen states sued the #Trump admin Tuesday over its recent refusal to fund #FoodStamps during the government #shutdown, seeking to spare roughly 42 million people from #hunger & financial hardship starting in a matter of days.
The states, including officials in Arizona, California & Massachusetts, asked a federal judge to force Washington to tap emergency reserve money so that families do not see an interruption to their benefits under #SNAP starting Nov 1.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/trump-food-stamps-snap-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the #NationalGuard’ Into US #Cities
In a speech to American #troops assembled in Japan on Tuesday, Trump said he would escalate his orders to active duty branches of the #military if he decides it is appropriate.
#law #immigration #Constitution #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/trump-japan-national-guard-us-cities.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Broadview #ICE facility a ‘black box’ where #immigrants denied access to #lawyers, #medicine, lawsuit claims
The ACLU of #Illinois & others ask a federal judge to intervene against “inhumane” conditions. Federal #immigration officials [who no one believes anymore] say claims that there are “subprime conditions at the Broadview ICE facility are false.”
#Trump #law #Chicago #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/31/advocates-allege-inhumane-conditions-at-chicago-area-ice-facility-in-new-lawsuit
#Bovino carries out #Halloween #arrests. 'They showed up here to terrorize people,' alder says
The agents swept through the #Chicago Albany Park & Edison Park neighborhoods, & suburban #Evanston, #Skokie & #Niles Friday morning & afternoon after [dog killer] #DHS Secy #KristiNoem said *enforcement* [terrorist] operations would continue on Halloween despite #Illinois Gov #JBPritzker asking they pause for the holiday.
#Trump #law #CivilRights #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/31/2-detained-pepper-balls-fired-by-federal-agents-in-albany-park-it-happens-so-fast
#Trump must release millions in #grants meant to address the shortage of #MentalHealth workers in #schools, a federal judge ruled.
#Congress funded the program after the 2022 #Uvalde #SchoolShooting. The grants were intended to help schools hire more #counselors, #psychologists & #SocialWorkers, & focus on rural & underserved areas. But Trump’s admin opposed #diversity considerations used to award the grants & told recipients they wouldn’t continue past Dec 2025.
#law
https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-department-mental-health-dei-ruling-8cb195602cffff3ee20724a9fbcd1bb1
Border Patrol’s #Bovino agrees to return to court daily, as he & federal judge talk #BodyCams, #TearGas, IDs
The top #US #BorderPatrol commander spent an hour on the stand Tuesday, responding to US District Judge Sara Ellis’ concerns about how federal agents have handled themselves, people they’ve detained, #protesters & #journalists.
#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism #PoliceBrutality #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/28/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-federal-court
A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday indefinitely barred the #Trump administration from firing #FederalWorkers during the government #shutdown.
US District Judge Susan Illston granted a preliminary injunction [#PI] that bars the firings while a lawsuit challenging them plays out. She had previously issued a temporary restraining order [#TRO] against the job cuts that was set to expire Wednesday.
#law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab
https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-layoffs-judge-trump-fdcb16f91c94d7bf73977e8968210b0e?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-28-Breaking+News
WTAF??
#ICE removed detainee #protections after outreach from top #private contractor
In new federal standards released Monday, the agency appeared to make changes that could benefit #GeoGroup’s legal defense.
#law #Trump #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #ForThePeopleByThePeople
https://wapo.st/4giIJjm
The #Trump family raked in more than $800 million from sales of #crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash has come from #foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons have touted their business on an international investor roadshow.
#law #emoluments
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement