Lisa

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Attorney. Mom. Stepmom. Nana. Photographer. Plant mom. Yogi. 4 years sober and counting! She/Her.

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If you want to understand today's SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity, this should be your first stop.

NOW OUT: emergency episode on the emergency that is the Court’s immunity ruling. (tl;dr- SCOTUS goes full Dick Nixon, “if [Republican] Presidents do it, then it’s not illegal.” crooked.com/podcast/scot...

SCOTUS Hands Trump Presidential Immunity | Crooked Mediacrooked.com

Arizona sunsets never disappoint.

Four years sober today. The single best gift I have ever given myself.

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The Supreme Court of Georgia describing an obvious basis for recusal: you accuse a judge of prejudice and he acts unprofessionally in response. Mondy v. Magnolia Advanced Materials, Inc., 815 S.E.2d 70, 81 (Ga. 2018)

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An email from a reader helped a team of ProPublica reporters uncover secret tuition payments Harlan Crow made for a family member of Clarence Thomas. Now we’re looking for tips on the election, and you can help. www.propublica.org/article/read...

Reader Tips Propelled Our Supreme Court Reporting. Now Your Info Could Power Our 2024 Election Coverage.www.propublica.org An email from a reader helped a team of ProPublica reporters uncover secret tuition payments Harlan Crow made for a family member of Clarence Thomas. Now we’re looking for tips on the election, and yo...

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Just mind blowing. Elephants have names. Like, they give each other names and use them in conversation. Elephants have names!

Elephants call each other by name, study findswww.theguardian.com Researchers used artificial intelligence algorithm to analyse calls by two herds of African savanna elephants in Kenya

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I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder... For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...

@strictscrutiny.bsky.social - Can any of you think of an instance where SCOTUS' fear of the "slippery slope" ever proved accurate?

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This ER doc suing the FDA over mifepristone has been busy: fighting a malpractice suit in the death of a woman with a newborn; getting elected to the Indiana state lege; working with his lawyers in the mife case, Alliance Defending Freedom, to pass anti-trans legislation. New (and yikes) from me:

The Sketchy Career of an Anti-Abortion Doctor in the Mifepristone Casenewrepublic.com Tyler Johnson used his position as state senator to try to get a serious malpractice suit sealed, and has a long history of trying to ban health care he disapproves of.

@profmmurray.bsky.social Look what I got yesterday!

Huh. Weird.

1/ Donald Trump's legal team has filed a brief & affidavit with the New York Appellate Division stating it's a "practicable impossibility" for Trump to get an appeal bond sufficient (110% of $454M) to stay execution of the judgment by NYAG Letitia James. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...

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“Just because they’re appointing Kavanaugh doesn’t mean Roe is dead, don’t get so hysterical.” “They’re only coming for abortion, they’re never going to touch birth control”

The 5th Circuit grants a Texas father the right to deny his daughter access to birth control, holding that Title X does not override parents' "right to consent to their teenagers’ obtaining contraceptives" under state law. (via @mjsdc.bsky.social) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Really great work from @katzonearth.bsky.social here theracket.news/p/senator-ka...

Why Senator Katie Britt's border lie matterstheracket.news Your newsletter writer has, as the kids say, gone viral. While giving the official Republican response to Biden's State of the Union, the senator told ...

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Jack Smith's office says Trump's claim that he has presidential immunity in the Mar-a-Lago documents case "is so wholly without merit that it is difficult to understand it except as part of a strategic effort for delay." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEW: Judge Kaplan DENIES Trump's motion for a temporary stay while Kaplan continues to work on his decision on whether Trump can postpone posting bond in the $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll judgment: "Mr. Trump's current situation is a result of his own dilatory actions." tinyurl.com/2j7dt9zw

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NEWS: The Supreme Court announces that one or more opinions in argued cases are expected to be issued at 10a Monday. We do not know what opinion or opinions or how many opinions will be issued. I will report any news at Law Dork. Subscribe here: www.lawdork.com

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Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti: "For democracy to control its destiny, women must be allowed to control theirs.”

France Moves Closer to Enshrining Abortion Access in Its Constitutionwww.nytimes.com The vote by lawmakers comes after supporters of the measure in France were galvanized by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

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Footnote 12: "But Trump’s reliance on, for example, a decades-old Eastern District of Louisiana unpublished decision reveals everything the Court needs to know about the strength of his position."

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In light of yesterday's ruling by Judge Hendrix in Lubbock, it seems like a good time to re-up my running list of lawsuits filed by Texas against the Biden administration in federal district courts in Texas. There are some ... patterns ... here:

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Nex deserved better. Hold Raichik accountable.

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A reminder that the E. Jean Carroll case is the opposite of the norm. Much more common is the alleged rapist or abuser suing the accuser (or the press) for defamation. Another reason why we need good anti-SLAPP laws that apply in all state and federal courts.

i just want to share that i won my court case. my rapist and abuser sued me and another survivor for defamation and lost on a directed verdict. it was extremely traumatic and i think it’s best i stay off the internet for a long time. but i am ok and grateful for all of your prayers.

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Having sued big pharma for more than a decade, going deep into the science of their side effects, I can confirm that the safety profiles of vaccines are very different from every other drug they offer. The risk/benefit of vaccines is astonishing.

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I would just personally like to thank every pundit and reporter who gave credence to the idea that this was ever about protecting kids

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Huge scoop by Erin Reed. Ohio and Michigan Republicans announced their intention to expand bans on gender affirming care to everyone. This isn't about protecting children, and never was. Bans on youth care were the first step of an attempt by the right to legislate trans people out of existence.

Ohio, Michigan Republicans In Released Audio: "Endgame" Is To Ban Trans Care "For Everyone"www.erininthemorning.com In audio released Friday evening, senators and representatives from Ohio and Michigan revealed the "endgame" is to ban transgender care "for everyone."

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i just keep thinking about her testimony about how she didn’t want to burden anyone in her life with what she was going through and kept a happy face on, and y’all the socialization of the american woman is almost impossible to crack. and just having to say that in court is HUGE

i do bits on here and cynical jokes are my game but straight up, e jean carroll is braver and tougher than any mutherfucker on here. strong person.

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Using AI to create a face from crime-scene DNA & then running it through face recognition tech isn’t only “junk science,” EFF’s Jennifer Lynch told WIRED: “It’s very dangerous, because it puts people at risk of being a suspect for a crime they didn’t commit.”

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on Itwww.wired.com Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use facial recognition on a face generated from crime-scene DNA. It likely won’t be the last.

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"On 4chan, groups of trolls are watching livestreams of municipal courtrooms and then creating non-consensual nude imagery of women who take the witness stand."

The Taylor Swift harassment campaign on X is a warning. These same tools are already being used to harass average people across lots of platforms, and the response from tech companies and lawmakers hasn't been nearly good enough www.platformer.news/taylor-swift...

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Justice Department has responded to my magazine's FOIA suit for post-mortem reviews of federal inmate deaths, warning that if findings of adequate or inadequate medical care were disclosed, officials wouldn't give frank opinions. Confidence-inspiring. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Sometimes the good guys win. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requestswww.eff.org This is a victory in a long fight, not just against blanket police surveillance, but also against a culture in which private, for-profit companies build special tools to allow law enforcement to more