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NEW: A trio of federal court rulings this week have blocked Biden administration efforts to protect LGBTQ people in getting healthcare and going to school without discrimination. www.lawdork.com/p/trans-heal...

Trans healthcare anti-discrimination rule blocked nationwide as other LGBTQ rule challenges proceedwww.lawdork.com Some aspects of the rule enforcing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act go into effect on Friday. Also: Another Title IX rule injunction.

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My three immunity-related SCOTUS stories at Law Dork this week: 1. The ruling: www.lawdork.com/p/robertss-m... 2. The conservatives: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-dec... 3. The chief justice: www.lawdork.com/p/the-spinel...

The spinelessness of John Robertswww.lawdork.com Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't want to lead. He is, though, carefully setting up a path to allow the right-wing court to respond to whatever comes its way in 2025.

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Time and time again, Chief Justice John Roberts made clear that this SCOTUS term was a term of contingent planning, leaving open two paths depending what happens with the election. @chrisgeidner.bsky.social wrote all about it at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-spinel...

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ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court ruleswww.freep.com An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

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A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “Why the long face?” “I was born into servitude, and when I die, my feet will be turned into glue,” replied the horse. The bartender realized he would not be getting a tip. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/kaf...

Kafka’s Joke Bookwww.mcsweeneys.net Why did the chicken cross the road? It had been crossing so long it could not remember. As it stopped in the middle to look back, a car sped by, sp...

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Alas, Biden's reaction was closer to "I'll be damned. 'To Serve Man' is a cookbook! I promise not to use these recipes!"

After the Court’s decision yesterday, I think there’s an argument from necessity for Biden seizing Trump and trying him by military tribunal, given the sudden unavailability of Article III courts. Plus, itʼs just the sort of thing they’ve authorized an active and energetic chief executive to do.

We've put to rest the joke of "The World's Greatest Deliberative Body"; proved Mencken correct many times over that "the White House will be adorned by a downright moron"; and "originalists" and "textualists" long ago showed that SCOTUS is a bunch of asshats. At this point we're just rolling in it.

“The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Supreme Court Is a Joke. It’s Not Funnywww.rollingstone.com The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators.

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Columbia University: Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement. #Palestine #Israel

Columbia University Hind’s Hall defendants reject deals in solidarity with the CUNY 22mondoweiss.net Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extrem...

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"I’d barely made it out of the parking lot before I passed six different signs describing the same kind of reed, and each one was more detailed than the last."

Ambitious Nature Center Squeezes 25 Informational Placards Out Of Sad Little Marshwww.theonion.com PETALUMA, CA—Noting that whoever was in charge clearly took the assignment and ran with it, sources told reporters Friday that an overly ambitious nature center had squeezed 25 informational placards ...

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1) fitting that Gorsuch, a notably cruel jurist, has the majority opinion here 2) another vindication of my view that the conservatives on the court are re-inflating the police powers of states to regulate public behavior and morality as they please

First decision is Grants Pass. Gorsuch has the 6-3 opinion finding that the Eighth Amendment does not bar "generally applicable" laws banning public camping. Sotomayor writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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For pride month, we are taking a look at the role class played in the dynamics of same-sex relationships in Ancient Rome. This video is also a fundraiser for the Trevor Project so please share! youtu.be/d9y-thVnwKg

Class & Sexuality in Ancient Rome Part 1: Gay Relationshipsyoutu.be It's commonly stated that Romans broadly accepted homosexuality and same-sex relationships - but how do the radically different Roman understandings of sex a...

Showy Lady Slippers (Cypripedium reginae) on the Lake Wobegon Trail near Albany, Minnesota.

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Thanks for Reggie Jackson for saying this, and contempt and defiance, in advance, to the worthless shitbirds who will say he shouldn’t have and that he oughta leave if he doesn’t like it. Regrettably those worthless shitbirds are now fairly mainstream. sports.yahoo.com/mlb-at-rickw...

MLB at Rickwood Field: Reggie Jackson recalls racist treatment in Alabama in stunning interviewsports.yahoo.com For three minutes, Mr. October laid out in stunning detail what it was like to be a Black player in Alabama in 1967.

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"The Texas grid could certainly be made more robust. But building backup natural gas plants that should ultimately sit idle 90 percent of the time is probably the most expensive way to address the problem" www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/o...

Opinion | Oil and Gas Companies Are Trying to Rig the Marketplacewww.nytimes.com Fossil fuel interests are spreading misinformation that renewable energy is harmful, unreliable and worse for consumers.

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One editor persistently asking "Did that happen, though?" would leave the Wall Street Journal opinion section a clean soothing expanse of blank paper

That does sound awful, when did it happen, exactly?

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A School District’s Reliance on Police to Ticket Students Is Discriminatory, Civil Rights Complaint Says Two civil rights groups are asking the US Dept. of Education to force the third-largest district in Illinois to stop discriminatory discipline that involves police.

An Illinois School District’s Reliance on Police to Ticket Students Is Discriminatory, Civil Rights Complaint Sayswww.propublica.org Two civil rights groups are asking the U.S. Department of Education to force Rockford Public Schools, the third-largest district in Illinois, to stop discriminatory discipline involving police.

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"Paris has closed more than 100 streets to motor vehicles, tripled parking fees for SUVs, removed roughly 50,000 parking spots, and constructed more than 1,300 kilometers of bike lanes since Mayor Anne Hidalgo took office in 2014. Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution."

What does a city that has spurned cars look like? Olympics visitors to Paris will get a lookwww.nbcnews.com Changes designed to encourage people to take other forms of transportation have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution, according to city officials.

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🚨NEW DATA: 10 of the largest food corporations have announced they're paying out $77 BILLION to shareholders - as Americans are now paying 25% more for groceries & restaurant food. There are now 3.5 million more households that are food insecure. www.levernews.com/big-food-big...

Big Food, Big Profits, Big Lieswww.levernews.com While blaming inflation for rising prices, the country’s biggest food and restaurant companies are raking in billions and showering shareholders with payouts.

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The Texas Supreme Court considered the stories of women who were denied abortions under wrenching circumstances--who were going into septic shock, or whose babies had fatal diagnoses--and decided that the Texas abortion ban is just fine the way it is.

Texas Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on Exceptions to Abortion Banwww.nytimes.com The court on Friday unanimously reversed a ruling that had expanded the definition of what counts as a medical emergency under the state’s strict abortion ban.

Should be the converse.

“If a former president can be convicted for breaking the law then so can anyone” seems to me the entire ever-fucking point

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If you are horrified by a person sneaking medication to a pregnant person to force them to miscarry against their will, you should be just as horrified by a government that is forcing pregnant people to remain pregnant and give birth against their will.

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NYC had a promising major plan underway to build an open access fiber network that could deliver dirt cheap access, but it was killed by the Adams administration and replaced with an expensive and cronyistic deal with charter communications (this article only briefly notes that at the end)

Broadband access is an important tool for economic mobility and accessing education. Unequal access will only widen the divides and continue wreaking havoc in the lives of lower-income New Yorkers: million NYC households set to lose high-speed internet

1 million NYC households set to lose high-speed internetgothamist.com In some parts of the city, more than three-quarters of residents got a key internet discount through an expiring federal program.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets Paxton has repeatedly used laws that are meant to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and LGBTQ+ groups.

Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targetswww.propublica.org Ken Paxton has repeatedly used laws that are supposed to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including hospitals, pharmaceutical com...

Principal Skinner meme. Can it be the .001% who are keeping us from a better world? No. It's the charitable organization trying to keep the public informed.

This week, the Wall Street Journal opinion section published an op-ed about our tax coverage. We don't typically comment on our newsgathering process, but this opinion essay has factual errors in the headline and in the essay that should be corrected. We've submitted this to their editors:

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🚨BIG NEWS: The Koch empire just secured a court ruling giving huge profitable corporations a way to pretend to be bankrupt in order to avoid paying damages to Americans poisoned by those corporations' products. The Supreme Court just helped Koch-world in the case. What stage of capitalism is this?

A Corporate Poisoner Two-Steps Out Of Its Toxic Liabilitywww.levernews.com A Koch-owned company is exploiting bankruptcy law to avoid responsibility for their asbestos assets and rewrite judicial precedent.

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RIP the Gaza aid pier. It didn't last long, it didn't accomplish anything, and it was always just a PR stunt to pull attention away from the government's support of a genocide, but at least it cost more money than the federal government spends on addiction treatment programs

US Gaza aid pier knocked out of action by heavy seas

US Gaza aid pier knocked out of action by heavy seaswww.bbc.com It is unclear when the US military's floating pier off Gaza's coast will resume operations.

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When Sydney Jones arrived at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto during a mental health crisis, her family assumed she would soon receive treatment. Instead, the hospital sent her to jail, though she was charged with no crime. www.propublica.org/article/bapt...

F*ck these perfect lessons. I am large, I contain multitudes.