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Suit alleges plot to sabotage referendum on gerrymandered Missouri congressional map www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
Four consulting firms are involved in an effort to pay signatures gatherers to abandon their work, turn over signatures and badmouth their employer, a lawsuit claims
Donald Trump used false claims about immigrant crime rates in Chicago to justify sending a surge of ICE officers to “crack down” on crime. New federal disclosures show the crackdown mostly targeted people who posed little to no public-safety risk.
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New federal disclosures through ongoing Castañon Nava Settlement reveal that Chicago’s immigration crackdown overwhelmingly targeted people who pose little to no public safety risk.
WAPO jumps into the circular-revenue graphic game.
@washingtonpost.com $ORCL $NVDA www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
“What gets lost is that trans people, particularly trans women of color, are more impacted by the criminal legal system,” says the director of legal services for the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois.
Even after years of reforms to state law governing name changes, prosecutors can still object when trans people have charges or prior convictions.
Vaccines DO NOT cause autism - there is extensive research showing this. Resurrecting old, discredited, fraudulent work is shameful.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms.
This is dangerous & disappointing.
A fire tore through Joshua Tree National Park during the government shutdown, seemingly torching more than 1,000 Joshua trees. And it's possible there will be little or no active restoration thanks to Trump administration cuts. www.latimes.com/environment/... via @lilaseidman.bsky.social
A firefighter with the National Park Service says a fire wiped out more than a thousand Joshua trees amid the government shutdown. Restoration could be limited by a depleted staff, they said.
They line up perfectly.
Anyone posted this one yet?
This is the same pension as for any federal worker. Your TSA agent making $35,000 a year has to work 5 years for the same pension to kick in. This ain’t a congressional pension perk.
Also she is delaying leaving until the first work day after hitting five years when the congressional pension kicks in.
BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
UPDATE: Justice Alito Grants Administrative Stay: Texas Files Emergency Supreme Court Motion to Stay District Court Order Throwing Out 2026 Gerrymandered Maps for Congressional Elections; What Should We Expect at SCOTUS and When? electionlawblog.org?p=153164
The State of Texas, as expected, has filed an application for a stay at the Supreme Court of the 2-1 racial gerrymandering decision issued earlier this week (over a fiery dissent by Judge Smith). Just...
