This may have implications for the Trump administration's unlawful persecution of Rhode Island Hospital for treating transgender minors. DOJ has conducted this "investigation" from Texas to get the assistance of a lunatic MAGA judge. But it's not at all clear DOJ can charge the hospital in Texas.
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Given sanctions prohibit most SaaS companies from serving Iranian nationals, let alone the government, what platform was the agreement "digitally signed" on? abcnews.com/US/vance-ira...
There are lots of reasons to support quality news wherever you can find it. Here's some data on what it looks like to lose news coverage and how that costs the communities now finding themselves in news deserts ... www.rebuildlocalnews.org/new-report-r...
Today in #FOIA / #APRA denials: the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls tells me that it cannot release the audit reports of its biggest client, the U.S. Marshals Service.
Mark Joseph Stern
What an awesome resource. Heavy on science & nature reporting, but how could any editor not take a pitch on “Sea Otter Surrogacy Pairs Childless Otters with Orphan Pups."
local recycling rules updated, we can finally recycle Steinbeck
Strong Ricken Hale-from-Severance energy.
As election season gears up, MuckRock Foundation is looking to work with some new freelance researchers and investigative journalists to help support high-impact reporting. Learn more and apply to the part-time openings! www.muckrock.com/jobs/researc...
Larry Ryckman
The Supreme Court's third AND FINAL decision is Abouammo v. U.S., holding that a defendant charged with falsifying records must be tried where the falsification occurred under the Sixth Amendment. Unanimous, per Kagan. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Ariel Edwards-Levy
The villain of ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ is described as “a powerful villain no one can even see.”
(via spidermanbrandnewday.movie/synopsis/)
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Researchers link expanding news deserts to higher borrowing costs for local governments, based on analysis of bond‑market data.
This is most commonly attributed to Napoleon, who also didn't say it; the earliest reference I see in Google Books is to a 2012 self-help book called "The Mourner's Book of Courage: 30 Days of Encouragement."
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Tim Marchman
Big banner with a Teddy quote about courage on the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, headquarters of OPM. Only discrepancy is that the 26th president never said this.