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My weekly list of must-read articles and some thoughts on the "male loneliness" discourse.

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Activists are also getting FBI visits.

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"Harriet Tubman, along with Black soldiers, took part in a daring Union raid of Combahee Ferry near Beaufort, South Carolina. She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans..."

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Update 6/1: Here is a database that tracks legal decisions in cases "where generative AI produced hallucinated content – typically fake citations, but also other types of arguments." As of today it includes 129 decisions. www.thefacultylounge.org/2025/06/ai-i...

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"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

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The subtext of this is that Khalil is reminding the judge that the case has been entirely briefed for a month and there’s no good reason the judge couldn’t rule already.

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We have officially launched the Participatory Law Fund at Temple Beasley School of Law! The fund is devoted to supporting the production of an emerging genre of legal scholarship called Participatory Law Scholarship (or PLS). More info about the application process @ law.temple.edu/academics/in...

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Georgia Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Pregnant, Brain-Dead Woman on Life Support

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Whatever hard questions there may be about the state secrets privilege, one thing is clear, as @rgoodlaw.bsky.social explains: It applies only to actual secrets. The Trump admin's invocation of it in the Abrego Garcia case is totally illegitimate. www.justsecurity.org/113739/state...

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elect rahm for president, for when you need someone to cover up the summary execution of a teenager by police www.wsj.com/politics/who...

submitted 7 days ago • 432 comments

It's fascinating how thoroughly the administration is proving the validity of Critical Legal Studies as an analytical and predictive framework

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If you are in a district where the House Rep voted NO [either Dems of GOP], take a minute today to thank them and to ask them to go out on the road while on recess to SPECIFICALLY share that this bill is going to kill people.

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NEW: We identified at least 14 officers in the Chicago Police Department who, according to disciplinary records, have faced multiple accusations of sexual assault or misconduct in the past 10 years. Most have not been convicted. With @invisible.institute

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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

submitted 12 days ago • 963 comments

I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not. @chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

This is an alarming development and deserves more attention.

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“I feel like alders are missing the fact that teens need a space, a space that is welcoming and a space that doesn’t really limit them. There are rules everywhere, but I feel like there should be a space where teens can meet up and not be watched by 100 policemen.”

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Over the last 10 years, ICE's use of electronic monitoring exploded. Now, more than 200,000 people on any given day are regularly surveilled & detained by ICE – over 4x as many as a decade ago.

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🚨 Our newsroom is in crisis. Without urgent donations, The Appeal may not be able to keep publishing.

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we live in data privacy hell www.404media.co/license-plat...

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Dozens of LGBTQ organizations have spoken out against KOSA. A small handful of large, national LGBTQ organizations were bullied by Blumenthal into going "neutral" on it. Tens of thousands of LGBTQ youth have spoken out against it. Don't let pro-censorship spindoctors confuse you.

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Flock’s invasive new tool “will certainly help to bring expanded surveillance powers to police departments of all sizes that never needed this much information on any random person who happens to drive by,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton warned @404media.co.

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The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

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"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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So many things are currently happening outside of public view.

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No, this is not a radical position. We should not be using RICO laws on any individual, ever. The growing use of RICO prosecutions will always be weaponized against abolitionist organizers-which is what happened to Cop City organizers. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2541-n...

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Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.

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@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Ahmed White, UW Law’s James E. Jones Jr. Chair, will deliver the keynote lecture May 10 for the Wisconsin Labor History Society annual conference and meeting. This year's theme is "The NLRA and the Working Class: Organizing in and Out of the Law." bit.ly/44UNhXq

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even the notoriously cop-loving atlanta city council is questioning why Mayor @andreforatlanta.com is giving SO MUCH money to the police and jail in his proposed 2026 budget. www.ajc.com/news/atlanta...

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Getting the news that Hindu supremacist Raja Krishnamoorthi is launching a campaign for U.S. Senate on the same day that the India-led Hindu nationalist attacks on Kashmir and Pakistan have started is...an gut wrenching indescribable feeling. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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This is terrifying. I can only hope, for the people of Pakistan, Kashmir, and India, that this deescalates quickly.

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A reminder that debating Stephen Miller — who is not a lawyer and is not making legal arguments, he is spouting propaganda — is a win for him.

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All we want is better public transit. How about investing in that?

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Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

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It didn’t take long for the immigration crackdown to be used for union busting

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My kids have gmail accounts and I got an email about this last week. All kids are opted-in automatically (!!!). If you have family link set up on your kids google accounts, you can turn off access to Gemini for your kids - familylink.google.com

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The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

submitted 31 days ago • 908 comments

love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

submitted 31 days ago • 286 comments

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

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The federal judge who freed Mohsen Mahdawi from ICE detention ruled from the bench, but he had the opinion locked and loaded: "His continued detention would likely have a chilling effect on protected speech, which is squarely against the public interest." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

submitted 34 days ago • 332 comments

the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters

submitted 34 days ago • 1683 comments

Shri Thanedar is a Hindu Supremacist, and everything he does should be meet with a very health dose of skepticism. This is the same person who introduced a resolution denouncing "Hinduphobia" but has remained silent about anti-Muslim hate both w/in the US and India. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

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NEW: Statement from attorney for Judge Dugan. "Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated."

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