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www.supremecourt.gov - It's no surprise that Ol' Roy Moore's Foundation for Moral Law is trying to file an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief. I also see National Organization for Marriage, et al. has filed one. SCOTUS voted today whether to grant certiorari to...

www.lawdork.com - Yesterday, SCOTUS used the shadow docket to overturn two lower courts and implement a discriminatory and dangerous passport policy that says they must display the gender at birth. Chris Geidner on his Law Dork blog [please subscribe to either free...

www.usatoday.com - The Supreme Court just reversed a lower court and says passports must reflect the person's biological sex at birth. Not allowing an X is discriminatory and dangerous for transgender people. We're expecting rulings by June that may make "conversion...

www.expressnews.com - The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just overturned the lower court ruling on Senate Bill 12. They claim that plaintiffs didn't sufficiently prove their First Amendment claims and so the court remanded the case to the trial court for further inquiry....

www.bbc.com - Former chief prosecutor at International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Merono Ocamp confirms that the US air strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats would be treated under international law as crimes against humanity. At a classified briefing for...

www.alternet.org - At the Supreme Court's November 7th private conference they will vote whether to take up the Kim Davis lawsuit to dismantle same-sex marriages. It takes four of the justices to vote to grant certiorari to hear the case, and Roberts, Alito, and...

fingfx.thomsonreuters.com - They have "partially funded" the food aid program, but say it could take states weeks or months to calculate and distribute the benefits. They have a $6 billion contingency fund, but have been refusing to use it. We always have money for wars, but...

www.justice.gov - The DoJ issued a June 11th memo on targeting naturalized citizens to be denaturalized for civil offenses such as "concealing facts during naturalization" or criminal offenses. They want to target them with civil offenses because they have less...

www.bbc.com - In August 2024, a video surfaced that shows reserve soldiers at Sde Teiman military base holding a Palestinian detainee, surrounding him with riot shields to block visibility, and then beating him and stabbing him in the rectum with a sharp object....

www.npr.org - Department of Health and Human Services is about to propose new rules to restrict youth gender-affirming care nationwide. It is already banned in 27 states, but the new rules will be nationwide. Let's hope the legal challenges will prevail.  

thefulcrum.us - This comparison of SCOTUS to the Reichsgericht is accurate. Our judicial crisis has led to an autocratic Potemkin Democracy, and I'm not sure how we're going to fix it. If you take a look back at the Supreme Court's actions both in Trump's first...

www.thedailybeast.com - The New York Times Editorial Board has an Autocracy Tracker article about how there are twelve categories of an autocracy, and Trump has completed all twelve. We're quickly losing our rights and our democracy is at stake. The NYT is behind a...

aclu.org - Our First Amendment is the most sacred to me, because those freedoms are what allow us to keep all of the others from being taken away. Unfortunately, the courts and Trump have been ripping up the First Amendment in too many cases to name. We are in...

www.chron.com - Texas Supreme Court has revised the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct to clarify that judges who refuse to perform a wedding ceremony "on a sincerely held religious belief" do not violate the state's rules on judicial impartiality. Judges who decline...

www.rawstory.com - Authoritarian Trump has sent notice to HHS federal workers that they must produce evidence that they “clearly and demonstrably support implementation” of his agenda. All of our federal agencies are being forced to be MAGA and kneel to the orange...

theraven.substack.com - All three branches of our government have failed and been taken over by right-wing extremists. Our executive branch is a joke with authoritarian Trump at the helm. Our legislative branch is so dysfunctional they can't even pass a budget to keep the...

www.alternet.org - Our elections are controlled by the states, but Heather Honey of the DHS "election integrity" team suggested Trump has “some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” and that by using an investigation as a pretext, “we can take these other...

www.youtube.com - Trump just vowed to eliminate early voting and mail-in voting (which he doesn't have the power to do). They are also sending "election monitors" to New Jersey and California counties with a high Latino turnout in order to intimidate minority voters....

github.com - It's important to know how AI models and agents are programmed so you know how and why they answer you the way they do. When do they lie? What ethical and political boundaries are set? This github repository has the leaked system prompts for all of...

knightcolumbia.org - Findings of Fact and Conclusion by Judge William Young found the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment of the...

ddosecrets.com - A redacted dataset of applicants of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, an anti-democratic effort to dismantle large portions of the administrative state under a second Trump Presidency. Applicants to Project 2025 would be tasked with...

ddosecrets.com - Internal emails and donor information which Heritage Foundation posted to a public Amazon server, before falsely claiming to have been breached by hackers.

www.youtube.com - A video on how Stingray/IMSI Catchers work, who uses them, how to detect them, and how to protect yourself. This video was made over 9 years ago, but in 2025 ICE, DHS, and police are using them more than ever against innocent people and without a...

www.torproject.org - Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship. Use Tor web browser to help protect your online web browsing.

https://ssd.eff.org/ - The Surveillance Self-Defense guide from Electronic Frontier Foundation has tips to keep your online activities safe from government spying, hackers, and other threats. It's a must-read for everyone!