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Law and Crime: Lawsuit pits Kavanaugh against 5th Circuit in challenge to Trump’s order that aims to ‘dictate’ new rules for national elections. President Donald Trump is attempting to dictate the rules for national elections in violation of both federal law and the U.S. Constitution, a lawsuit filed Monday in Washington, D.C., federal court alleges. On …
Boston Globe: “Given the frenetic pace of executive orders President Trump has issued — purporting to do everything from changing election laws and citizenship eligibility to freezing foreign aid and dismantling federal agencies — a casual observer might think Trump has the powers of a king. But he doesn’t, even if he likes to pretend …
Below is running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today’s mass firings. Wired [no paywall]: “Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a …
Austin American Statesman – “Former librarian Suzette Baker will receive $225,000 in a settlement of her wrongful termination lawsuit against Llano County… [She] accused them of firing her in 2022 because she refused to pull library materials that a group of conservative activists had deemed inappropriate for children.” The settlement marks the end to a …
“There’s now a Reddit where people share playlists of songs to accompany a total collapse in society. It currently has 3,500 participants. You can dig the sweet tunes here. The perfect soundtrack for your personal apocalypse. The end of the world comes in many different musical forms. All are welcome.”
How we could survive in a post‑collapse world, Stephanie Rost. Discover Global Society. Received: 13 November 2024 / Accepted: 24 March 2025. “The potential for societal collapse has become a pressing concern as the impacts of climate change intensify, threatening global stability. This paper explores the multifaceted risks of collapse, emphasizing the interconnected environmental, economic, …
Scientific American CLIMATEWIRE: “Top Wall Street institutions are preparing for a severe future of global warming that blows past the temperature limits agreed to by more than 190 nations a decade ago, industry documents show. The big banks’ acknowledgment that the world is likely to fail at preventing warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius …
Andy @Revkin from Sustain What – “There’ve been heaps of warnings since the start of the final term of President Trump (“second term” implies too much flex on what might follow) about the short- and long-term damage to American welfare and security from the Doge-led demolition of funding for research and budgets of relevant agencies …
Daily Dot – Mikael Thalen: The other week, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, was accidentally added to a Signal group chat where everyone from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to Vice President JD Vance discussed an impending attack on Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Long story short, the administration responded to the unprecedented blunder by …
Wired [unpaywalled] – Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data…That de facto border crackdown is set to become far more explicit if the Trump administration follows through on a plan …
Marc Murphy from Murphy’s Law: “…an attorney can never help their client commit a crime. Most of an attorney’s work is after-the-fact, and, even then, a lawyer cannot promote perjury or use their clients’ lies in trial if they know them to be false. And, while a lawyer “may discuss the legal consequences of a …
Public Notice: The Supreme Court faces an existential dilemma of its own creation. “John Roberts and his fellow Republican Supreme Court justices not only paved the way for Donald Trump to retake the White House, but encouraged him to seize dictatorial powers upon his return. Now, the Trump Court’s rightwing ideologues appear poised to green …