ACLU attorney Maria DeLiberato was in the room with her client Tony Carruthers as Tennessee tried to kill him for over 90 minutes. Her accounting of what happened that day is devastating, disturbing, and disgusting.
This barbaric practice must end.
Corey Robin reviews Sven Beckert's "Capitalism" (and it seems like he is one of the only people to have actually read the book) and more broadly evaluates 15 years of the "New History of Capitalism."
BREAKING: An Ohio-based federal appeals court has become the third to reject ICE's bid to expand detention without bond to millions of immigrants residing in the United States for years w/o criminal records.
And...
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Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT EXTENDS PAUSE ON JUDICIAL DECISION THAT BLOCKED MAIL DISTRIBUTION OF ABORTION PILL MIFEPRISTONE, PENDING FURTHER ORDER BY THE JUSTICES
Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection https://t.co/rRnCkEpILG
I really wish more Americans were aware that the USPS is the only service - the ONLY one - that can reach every home in the country. All other services rely on them for "last mile" deliveries that these other (more expensive!) services refuse (or can't) deliver to!
There has been an alarming development in our legal system. Judges are starting to contract with a private corporation started by an ex-Palantir employee--whose bio says he is also a former speechwriter for Israel's UN ambassador--to have **secretive proprietary AI help decide cases for them.**
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
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