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"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

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Cowardice. Fight, damn you.

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It's me. Give a listen!

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Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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Head Start is probably the most successful jobs program in America. Cutting it would be disastrous.

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NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

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We are disappearing people.

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Scale this up by 100x and it’s still great policy and not enough.

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Only 1,000 applications will be accepted this round.

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From @reuters.com: Three more federal prosecutors who worked on the now-torpedoed corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams have quit "after they said the Justice Department wrongfully pressured them to admit to wrongdoing." www.reuters.com/world/us/thr...

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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

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It’s tempting as a Californian to shrug. So what if state taxes go up while federal ones go down? But when one American suffers we all do. This will cause untold suffering — that’s the point.

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I am genuinely confused. I thought the bribes were largely working. “Uber and its chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi each donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration earlier this year.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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“Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record… US authorities have confirmed that he was removed...But to where?”

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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts reut.rs/4cHdnz3

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We hope the third circuit will adopt the belief that headnotes aren’t copyrightable. The excellent brief below explains why in beautiful detail.

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BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

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“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene, the @syracuse.com investigation shows.” www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

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Let me get this straight: Fringe extremist infiltrates a major political party, rises to the rank of Vice President, throws around diplomatic weight to force a meeting with the Pope, and then MURDERS said Pope? Folks. This is a Dan Brown novel.

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Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me?? Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?

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My fellow infrastructure nerds will enjoy this look at the user interface of MTA’s signaling and switching system. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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Barbara Lee wins Oakland mayoral race www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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An unnamed CFPB employee who participated in the agency's layoff decisions says in a sworn statement that its leaders were aware that their approach violated a court order and instructed them to proceed anyway. "All that mattered was the numbers."

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This is the very first code written for CourtListener. It's a real banger:

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For centuries, judges have lived amongst us, in normal houses with fairly normal amounts of security. This is good. Judges should live like normal people. Unfortunately, this isn’t working anymore and they’re going to be forced to isolate from society.

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Yesterday’s Manchester United vs Lyon Europa League quarterfinal match was absolutely and completely bonkers. Check out the highlights. [youtube.com]

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BUSY NIGHT FOR THE COURTS: Late last night, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring DOGE’s access to sensitive Social Securitt data, saying the government flouted the law to provide unfettered access to DOGE without a reasonable basis. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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After a court order by the Turkish government, Bluesky made accounts unavailable for Bluesky users in Turkey this week. I take a closer look at geographic-based moderation works on Bluesky and atproto, how it can be sidestepped, and much more fediversereport.com/bluesky-cens...

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This rounds out our PACER Pray and Pay hat-trick this week. The system should work a lot better now!

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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Just heard from my friend that works there that she’s been fired.

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This is where we are with birthright citizenship and SCOTUS. How'd I do?

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Mayor Adams is wearing his “in god we trust” American flag shirt once again. But this time it’s written in Italian. He says it’s Spanish to honor the victims of a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican republic last week.

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This is a hell of a read.

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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

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Along with many other smart #accesstojustice folks, I’m quoted in The NY Times magazine’s impressive new article discussing the access crisis and our state courts. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/m...

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The Cal student, one of at least 23 whose legal status has been abruptly terminated, says she was never notified directly and given no way to appeal.

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You know you’re the bad guy when ….

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New from 404 Media: that "college protester" you see online isn't real. Instead it's an AI-powered undercover bot for cops. We've obtained documents showing how 'Massive Blue' is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to protesters. Examples: www.404media.co/this-college...

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More cool features for the PACER Pray and Pay feature!

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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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