Yep. You’re going to say “fuck tha police” one day and a month later you won’t be able to get through TSA.
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Yep. You’re going to say “fuck tha police” one day and a month later you won’t be able to get through TSA.
Alabama is set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday for a murder that everyone agrees he did not commit.
Governor Kay Ivey must stop it.
This weekend at Law Dork:
At least 10 people have died in Los Angeles County Jails this year (2 months). An unpleasant reminder that in-custody deaths are common AND very few people do anything about it.
abc7.com/post/los-ang...
These are all cases that have received a lot of focus (and doesn't, for example, unpack the groups of people that DHS got far right propagandists to accuse of being terrorists). But it's great that WSJ is putting $$ to laying this out bc maybe right wingers in Congress will read it.
“In October 2025, both her SSI and Medicare benefits were halted, and she was told her immigration status was under review. Although Rakestraw was born in the U.S. and has never once traveled or lived outside the country, federal officials still raised questions about her legal status.”🤬
“A U.S. citizen from Skokie who was born in Evanston was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Chicago O’Hare International Airport Thursday, along with two other U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, after returning on a flight from Turkey.”
“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse. n.pr/4rUa1zD
Sonny Burton is on death row in AL for a murder he didn't commit. He participated in a robbery, left early, & his accomplice killed a man, getting life without parole on appeal. The jury who tried him & the victim's family don't want Burton executed.
But Gov. Kay Ivey never commutes sentences.
"Alabama ignoring ‘incontrovertible’ DNA test in push to execute innocent man, Innocence Project says": www.al.com/news/montgom...
Children are generally considered off-limits in politics, even if in practice they aren't. But in the war on immigrants, the administration and the larger GOP apparatus have placed kids squarely in the line of fire. theintercept.com/2025/10/19/c...
As we’ve reported, there are 11 people who’ve completed a prison program and are eligible to be released *right now*. But Polis, personally, has to approve it, but he’s refused to because he doesn’t want the authority. So they’re languishing. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/16/c...
I have mixed feelings about Ancestry dot com, but this could be an interesting #OSINT & #genealogy development.
www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...
More detail here: www.ms.now/news/justice...
This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"
This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11
I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/
A free press can’t exist in a surveillance state.
Geofence warrants allow the government to collect location data on everyone, including journalists and whistleblowers.
A Supreme Court case could make it worse.
Here’s how.
“The Kansas state government has invalidated the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed the gender on those documents, in accordance with a law that took effect on Thursday.”
“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”
GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON
Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.
In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.
screenshot of 1421 postings showing nothing new since december
LASD has not posted any new deputy disciplinary files to its portal since December so i guess that's it, no more problems in the department everything's good you guys
Behind the scenes, “Meta was divided on whether protecting kids should take precedence over user growth and engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive safety features, even as its own staff detailed the risks its platforms posed to children.”
The Guardian obtained the missing 302s. This story destroys the DOJ's excuse that they withheld the last three interviews because they were duplicative. The accuser covered different ground in different interviews.
Eva Woods is a tireless community leader in Los Angeles who has, for years, spearheaded care for our neighbors in MacArthur Park. She was recently assaulted and needs help to pay for extensive medical bills. If you can support, friends have organized a GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.
Off the top of my head:
www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email
Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
I think @normative.bsky.social made this point yesterday, but once you get beyond the outrage of the brutality of the original “arrest” here, you also have to confront the fact that a D.A. CHOSE TO PROSECUTE THIS and a judge SENTENCED HIM TO A YEAR IN JAIL. Total system fail. WTF
![On February 20, officials at the “Central Office” ordered FCI Butner’s medical director to
terminate Ms. Pinson’s hormone treatment. Declaration of Grace Pinson ¶ 4 (Feb. 24, 2024)
(hereinafter “Feb. 24 Pinson Decl.”). In the days that followed, prison officials made Ms. Pinson
strip naked and subjected her to a demeaning visual cavity search in front of multiple male guards;
they rifled through her personal and sensitive papers, including legal documents, and tossed them
into a cell covered in feces, and extended her detention her in a segregation unit after she was
supposed to return to general population. Id. ¶¶ 5-8. One of the officials who engaged in this
conduct, Lt. Teague, told Ms. Pinson that if “you want to make it home alive, you need to stop
sending stuff to that fucking judge.” Id. ¶ 6. Lt. Teague told Elmer Moreno, another incarcerated
person who conferred with class counsel about this litigation, that Mr. Moreno was being held in
solitary confinement because he had “been talking to [Ms. Pinson’s] lawyers.” Id. ¶ 9.
Summarizing his management philosophy, Lt. Teague informed Ms. Pinson: “I’ve told you before,
and I’ll tell you again, I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.” Id. ¶](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixm3sb7fcy7u6tnxhkrvo32u/bafkreifvihllkiwwpv7dxpuwobgmsnawqfmwkmlwnal26ut6j3moyjm43y)
On February 20, officials at the “Central Office” ordered FCI Butner’s medical director to terminate Ms. Pinson’s hormone treatment. Declaration of Grace Pinson ¶ 4 (Feb. 24, 2024) (hereinafter “Feb. 24 Pinson Decl.”). In the days that followed, prison officials made Ms. Pinson strip naked and subjected her to a demeaning visual cavity search in front of multiple male guards; they rifled through her personal and sensitive papers, including legal documents, and tossed them into a cell covered in feces, and extended her detention her in a segregation unit after she was supposed to return to general population. Id. ¶¶ 5-8. One of the officials who engaged in this conduct, Lt. Teague, told Ms. Pinson that if “you want to make it home alive, you need to stop sending stuff to that fucking judge.” Id. ¶ 6. Lt. Teague told Elmer Moreno, another incarcerated person who conferred with class counsel about this litigation, that Mr. Moreno was being held in solitary confinement because he had “been talking to [Ms. Pinson’s] lawyers.” Id. ¶ 9. Summarizing his management philosophy, Lt. Teague informed Ms. Pinson: “I’ve told you before, and I’ll tell you again, I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.” Id. ¶
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