Emily Briggs

Public defender, ex-ballerina, cat mom, craft beer lover, Ann Arbor townie. I fangirl over everything Scott Sanders, #TeamBottas, and 🐍 🐍 (#YSL & #TSwift)

[LegallyDirtyBlonde @LDBlondePod]

Remember Andrea Yates?

She was found NOT GUILTY by reason of insanity for the drowning of her 5 children in 2001.

Guess where she is now?

In a state run mental institution where she’s been since trial and where she will likely stay for the remainder of her life.

I don’t think people realize that Lindsay Clancy is not going to walk free. She does not deny she killed her children.The question here is if she’s going to prison or a mental hospital after the trial.

[jezz @JezziiB]

Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it. Is this what we call a democracy when the representatives of a state will openly defy the will of voters because incarceration rates went down so much and prisons lost money? Texas is a fucking republican-ran hellhole.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

For the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either.

[mdlpa 🌺 @mellemusic]

ICE fucking shot and killed a man in Houston today. It barely made the news cycle

[CNN @CNN]

Officials from the Nashville Zoo say a planned data center just beyond its perimeter could introduce constant noise, light and industrial activity that may disrupt the environmental conditions critical for the more than 3,000 animals that call the zoo home. https://t.co/z6GV36fhYc

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

Everyone should be extremely concerned that birthright citizenship was 5-4 and not unanimous.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

The Supreme Court’s decision allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for Haitians and Syrians is heartbreaking and morally dangerous.

We are talking about people who fled violence, instability, natural disaster, civil war, and conditions no human being should be forced to endure. Many have built lives here, raised families here, worked here, and contributed to communities across this nation.

America has a long history of deciding which people are worthy of refuge, dignity, and protection, too often along lines of race, ethnicity, religion, and national origin. We must tell the truth about that history. Black and Brown people seeking safety have too often been met with suspicion, cruelty, and rejection instead of compassion and justice.

Temporary Protected Status was created to protect people from being sent back into danger. Ending those protections for Haitian and Syrian families is not just a legal decision. It is a moral one.

We must choose humanity.

#Haiti #Syria #ImmigrationJustice #SupremeCourt #BelovedCommunity

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

A police officer murdered a child whose mother couldn’t afford diapers at Walmart. The headline below was constructed to protect the child-murdering police officer. This is America.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

This is the first case of its kind in UK criminal justice history.

A Derbyshire officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidential material across multiple cases not one. The Crown Prosecution Service is now reviewing every conviction those cases touched.

Three days ago, the UK government announced PoliceAI.

£140 million. a national AI centre for policing. 40 new facial recognition vans. AI tools for every force in England and Wales by 2027. the official goal: "get responsible AI into the hands of officers."

Three days later: criminal investigation into an officer for using AI to manufacture evidence.

the interim director of PoliceAI put out a statement today.

"our work is rooted in transparency."

97% of all criminal investigations in the UK now involve digital evidence. that's this year's figure.

AI is already being used to summarise case files, triage evidence, and assist with disclosure.

one officer already used it to manufacture evidence across multiple cases.

nobody noticed until now.

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

i need all my new york homies to boo this motherfucker so thunderously when they show him on the jumbotron that my TV vibrates off the wall

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

ChatGPT has launched a new health and wellness feature called ChatGPT Health that allows users to upload their medical records. Do not do this. Do not upload your medical records to an AI chatbot.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The wealth of those 51 billionaires are your denied claims, cut coverage, rationed medications and skipped doctors appointments.

Healthcare shouldn't be for-profit.
Demand Medicare for All.

[Dr. Magic Panda @magicpanda_703]

If Jan 6th was fake, then why do all the insurrectionists need pardons?

[Chidi Okereke @Chydee]

First they came for undocumenteds, you said nothing because you’re there legally.

Then they issued visa bans on multiple countries and set ICE on rampage. You stayed silent because it didn’t affect you.

Now they’re targeting those already in the legal green card pipeline: forcing H-1B and O-1 holders to leave the U.S. for consular processing.

Don’t speak up.

Green card holders are next. Then naturalized citizens. Then US born children of non-citizens. Then …

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that Trump is primarily mad at Thomas Massie not because of politics or ideology but because Massie embarrassed him over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and his ongoing cover-up of the Epstein files.

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.

That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.

Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.

A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

[Brian Entin @BrianEntin]

Regardless of how you feel about Alex Murdaugh -- the court clerk simply cannot tell jurors
"watch his body language"
"don't be fooled"
"this shouldn't take us long"

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

This WILL be student loan debt soon. TODAY, the Trump administration is trying to pass a law where anyone who doesn’t agree with the Republicans or Trump cannot be eligible for PSLF.

Follow @StrikeDebt for more information

[Storm™ @dilophosaurid]

This should be making international headlines. Every alarm bell known to mankind should be ringing. This is dangerous and genuinely catastrophic