Running a Bail Fund: An Introduction “This documentation is intended to share knowledge about operating a bail fund to support protestors. While it discusses legal, jail, and prison support, bail is the primary focus. Our experience is around operating a bail fund for protestors arrested at a series […]
Leonard peltier, finally at home. At 80 years old, Leonard has finally arrived home following one of the last presidential orders Joe Biden would sign before leaving office. He was accused of the murder of two FBI agents in Pine Ridge, during an armed altercation that also saw […]
David Cole The Wrong War on the War on Drugs The war on drugs has failed, but so has the constitutional counteroffensive in the courts. What should reformers do instead? Colin Grant Hiding in the Front Room The BBC series Mr Loverman, about a closeted West Indian grandfather and […]
by: Matthew Holloway 2025-02-17 Source: Law Enforcement Today News Oakland Homeless by is licensed under Conversation Michael Oxford – AKA The Santa Cruz Mountain Goat OAKLAND, CA— As critical budget woes and the utter insufficiency of political support for policing in Oakland, CA have dominated recent news cycles, […]
By Ronny Reyes Published Feb. 10, 2025, 1:08 p.m. ET Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has accepted nearly $300,000 in donations from his so-called fans to pay for his criminal defense, his lawyer says. The December 4 Legal Committee, a group […]
Troy Southgate Feb 02, 2025 I OFTEN point out to people that whilst politicians come and go the System always stays the same, but it is also necessary to keep an eye on the way the System itself is being run. In post WW1 Germany, for example, the […]
The U.S. Senate will vote TOMORROW on sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in retaliation for the Court pursuing justice against Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.1 It’s clear that these sanctions are meant to shield Israel from all accountability related to its siege on […]
Watch the full show: http://www.kimiversenshow.com We dive into the latest from Donald Trump’s presidency **About the show The Kim Iversen Show is a fully independent program produced for your entertainment and information. The one hour show airs live M-F at 5pm PT / 8pm ET at http://www.TheKimIversenShow.com. Clips […]
20 January, 2025 Sebastian Wang Mr Bickley does not usually entertain commentaries about America. However, since I am Chinese, and this is a topic in some way relevant to China and what many Chinese people believe, he has let me post this. Joe Biden’s decision to issue pre-emptive […]
A second chance for the creator of the dark web drug site the Silk Road might be coming…from an unlikely savior. https://reason.com/video/2025/01/17/t… 0:00 – Intro 1:30 – The Arrest of Ross Ulbricht 2:06 – The Philosophy of Ross and the Silk Road 3:55 – Why Ross is a […]
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2025 When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that people may require a leader. – Plato, The Republic [380 BC] […]
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2025 I was in Europe when the Constitution was planned, and never saw it till after it was established. On receiving it, I wrote strongly to Mr. Madison, urging the want of provision for… an express reservation to the States of all rights not specifically […]
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 2025 It is best to just end the US government’s war on drugs, in America and abroad. – Adam Dick, “Don’t Just Reform the US Government’s War on Drugs. End It.” [2024] HORNBERGER’S BLOG January 3, 2025 The New Orleans Killer Was from Texas, […]
by Peter Zeihan on January 1, 2025 JOIN PETER ZEIHAN’S PATREON PAGE HERE There was a terror attack in New Orleans today. An American citizen, who has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (despite its largely defunct state), drove a truck into a crowd; killing at least ten and injuring […]
Michael Huemer Dec 21, 2024 Here, I discuss America’s mass incarceration problem.* [ *Based on: “Unconscionable Punishment,” in Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration, ed. Chris Surprenant (Routledge, 2018), pp. 34-48. ] 1. The Incarceration Question America is the world leader in incarcerating people, with about […]
The CRIPs were not always the gang-bangers they are known to be. The CRIPs were formed in 1969. Raymond Washington, a high school student at the time founded the organization in response to the increasing level of police harassment of the Black community. Socialist Alternative CRIPs stood for […]
Some legal experts believe Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, could be acquitted at trial due to jury nullification. That occurs when a jury ignores evidence of guilt to send a message to society. Law&Crime’s Angenette Levy looks at the possibility of jury […]
“Dear police, we saw nothing. Sincerely, everyone.”
Watch the full show: http://www.kimiversenshow.com The Kim Iversen Show LIVE | December 5, 2024 The CEO of United Health was shot dead by an assassin still on the loose. Rather than mourn his death, Americans are showing their complete disdain for the US healthcare system. The Biden administration […]
The International Criminal Court, or ICC, has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sacked defense minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas Commander Mohammed Deif, in a move that is simultaneously being called unprecedented and long overdue. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the […]
NOVEMBER 29, 2024 Read our November 2024 Issue → Giving Thanks The night after the election, I watched The Godfather with a friend, and for a few hours, the rise of the Corleone family pushed the fate of the country out of my mind. It was only the […]
November 26, 2024 On December 4, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of United States v. Skrmetti, a challenge to a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors. A win for the plaintiffs — young patients, their parents, and a doctor — could potentially mean […]
There is much talk in Britain of things such as freedom of speech and the European Convention on Human Rights. Few people though ask themselves where these supposed rights actually originate. Simon Webb Nov 23, 2024 A day does not pass in Britain, without somebody raising the matter […]
Story by Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Truth Social early Monday morning that his incoming administration will declare a national emergency and use military resources to implement a mass deportation of illegal immigrants. The confirmation was made in response to an earlier post […]
Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain Nov 15, 2024 Programming note: As you consider end-of-year gifts, don’t forget that contributions to Drop Site are tax deductible. Read more here on how to give. If you want a sense of how dramatically the Republican Party has transformed in our lifetimes, […]
News Updates From CLG 14 November 2024 All links are here https://www.legitgov.org Previous edition 10 Nov.: The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide Polymarket CEO’s Home Is Raided by FBI –“This is obvious political retribution,” said a Polymarket spokesperson. Bloomberg reported that DOJ is investigating the company for letting […]
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now Filing FOIAs – #SolutionsWatch The Corbett Report Oct 28 READ IN APP SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://corbettreport.com/filing-foias/ You’ve heard of FOIA, but how do you actually make use of it? What’s involved in filing a FOIA? Who can do […]
Sponsored by The University of North Carolina Press In the Review’s Election Issue, Christine Henneberg writes about the effects that the 2022 Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has already had on women and abortion providers in the United States: Under the current patchwork of state laws […]
In the Review’s November 7 issue Laurence H. Tribe applies the lessons he’s learned in his decades as a constitutional scholar and advocate—he has argued before the Supreme Court three dozen times—to the stark choice presented by this year’s presidential election: The threat to all our personal freedoms and […]
Published Oct 08, 2024 at 3:25 PM EDT Updated Oct 08, 2024 at 4:37 PM EDT By Anna Skinner Senior Writer, General Assignment, Newsweek FOLLOW 187 As of Tuesday afternoon, Manatee County Jail is not planning on evacuating approximately 1,200 inmates, even as state and local officials stress that Florida […]
TELL CONGRESS: It was just revealed that Samuel Alito taught a legal seminar alongside an election denier just days after January 6. The neverending corruption scandals involving right-wing Supreme Court Justices are destroying the integrity of SCOTUS. Sign the petition: Pass a SCOTUS ethics act to hold Supreme […]
October 8, 2024 Roughly a year ago, reporter Tess Owen began reaching out to January 6 rioters held in an isolated block of the D.C. Jail, known to its residents as the “Patriot Wing.” The majority of the most violent January 6 offenders have passed through this unit: […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you Pro-Gun Org Celebrates Supreme Court Taking Up Smith & Wesson v. Mexico Case The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) recently praised the Supreme Court’s decision to take up the Smith & Wesson v. Mexico case in […]
TELL CONGRESS: Trump is still trying to get his criminal cases thrown out, citing the Supreme Court’s extreme “absolute immunity” ruling. But Congress can invalidate the Court’s dangerous, anti-democratic decision with new legislation. Sign the petition: Pass the No Kings Act! ADD YOUR NAME Keith, Federal authorities argued […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you Texas Governor Leading Insulin Manufacturers For Conspiracy to Hike Drug Prices Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently filed a lawsuit against leading insulin manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers concerning an alleged conspiracy to raise insulin prices. Pharmacy […]
The Duty to Prevent Genocide_ Naming and Shaming “The Duty to Prevent Genocide under International Law: Naming and Shaming as a Measure of Prevention” by Björn Schiffbauer discusses the duty under international law to prevent genocide, particularly focusing on the strategy of “naming and shaming” as a preventive […]
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2024 The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. – H.L. Mencken, Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks [1956] HORNBERGER’S BLOG September 9, 2024 Tampa […]
A way to make things much fairer in regards to this issue? Random Musings and History Apr 28, 2024 Start writing today. Use the button below to create your Substack and connect your publication with Random’s Substack Start a Substack Some pro-choicers have previously proposed a “financial abortion” […]
The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case Kate Knibbs Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library. READ ReMarkable Brings a Color Screen to Its Focus-Friendly Tablet Lineup Julian Chokkattu The company’s […]
The extreme right-wing Supreme Court’s “absolute immunity” ruling could still let Trump off the hook in all of his criminal cases. Democrats in Congress are fighting back and saying loud and clear that No One is Above the Law. Democrats put forward new legislation called the No Kings […]
Ryan Grim Sep 02, 2024 During the week of the DNC we reported on the unusual case of a wrongful conviction in northern Minnesota that the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, was attempting to make right in the face of intransigence from the local prosecutor and sheriff. What […]
Bishop Barron’s latest Sunday Sermon is now available! Watch this week’s Sunday Sermon, “The Goodness—and Dangers—of the Law,” on YouTube or listen for free on the Hallow app. WATCH THE VIDEO Click here to watch in Spanish Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, PO Box 97330, Washington, DC 20090-7330, […]
By Doree Lewak Published Aug. 25, 2024, 1:57 p.m. ET New York Post This cop’s a mensch on a mission. The NYPD recently promoted the department’s highest-ever-ranking Orthodox Jew — a 9/11 hero who wears a yarmulke on the job — as the city fights a wave of […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Wins $1.4 Billion Settlement Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently announced that he won a $1.4 billion settlement from Meta, the parent company of Facebook, over privacy-related issues dealing with Facebook acquiring […]
Repro Nation Monthly | August 2024 Abortion is on the ballot Hello Repro Nation readers! With the election less than 80 days away, two more states certified abortion measures to appear on the November ballot: Missouri and Arizona. That brings the total number of states with confirmed […]
PM Edition August 19, 2024 TRENDING NOW House drops its Biden impeachment report — and it’s damning The magical media makeover of Kamala Harris MORE STORIES THAT MATTER Kamala’s extreme makeover: Don’t buy the moderate act California man defies order from HOA to take down Trump flags and […]
AM Edition August 16, 2024 TRENDING NOW COVER-UP: Biden’s medical crisis in Vegas CONFIRMED after police call logs released Blaze News original: 10 times violent thugs got all they could handle from folks you might not expect would fight back MORE STORIES THAT MATTER Red-state Republicans embrace the […]
The name Ted Bundy inspires nothing but fear and anger in the hearts of Americans, but for Edna Cowell Martin, the serial killer was her kind, gregarious cousin during her formative years. When the truth about his despicable crimes finally came to light, she was barely able to […]
Trending story August 07, 2024 Christian radio host’s alleged mistress given life sentence over Ponzi scheme that stole millions from elderly listeners Texas prosecutors secured a life sentence for the alleged mistress of a Christian radio host for her role in stealing tens of millions from elderly listeners […]
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