Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
“Nobody knows what’s happening until the bulldozers are out there.”Justine Calma (The Verge)
“Nobody knows what’s happening until the bulldozers are out there.”Justine Calma (The Verge)
Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records
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The university, whose 1980s rape crisis figured prominently in a ProPublica article, committed to support survivors at “every step of the process.” Now it’s in court to stop police from sharing many records with a student who was assaulted in 1987.
propublica.org/article/syracus…
#News #University #College #Students #SexualAssault #Law #Lawsuit #Transparency #Records
JUSTICE: HOW TO KILL META!
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The legal math on media is broken. The punitive measures are not effective deterrents.
If you look at the numbers, Meta does harmful things, apologizes, pays a pittance, and still comes out ahead financially.
Zuckerberg sold out his users data to Cambridge Analytica, influencing the US election. Then he appeared before Congress like a contrite little schoolboy - "Oops! I didn't mean to accidentally cut multibillion dollar deals and sell out Facebook users. Honest mistake. I promise not to do it again ( unless the price is right! )"
Because of the math, he still came out ahead.
I left Meta's platforms a long time ago.
People who are not savvy, are locked into the Facebook walled garden, because of the Network Effect. ( "I can't leave Facebook. All my friends are on Facebook!" )
Having liberated ourselves, it is our duty to liberate others, who are still trapped, to give them their right to privacy.
Here's a plan of action:
1) Place ads on Facebook, explaining the benefits of #Mastodon
( joinmastodon.org/ )
1.1) Freedom from Meta's censorship and algorithms.
1.2) A community owned, open social media platform.
2) When a user clicks, guide them through exporting their data from Facebook, and deleting their Facebook account.
3) Give them an optional questionnaire, asking about their interests, and match them with the right Mastodon instance.
4) If they skip the optional questionnaire, pick a random Mastodon instance for them.
5) Give them an option to enter into a Facebook migration registry.
6) Help them set up a Mastodon account and import their data.
7) If they opted into the migrant registry, reconnect them with their former Facebook connections, who also joined the registry. Like a reunion in Heaven with your loved ones. ☺️
#FaceBook #Meta #instagram #WhatsApp #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #Technology #Tech #Justice
#FuckZuck #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #Freedom #Liberty
#Law #USA
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.joinmastodon.org
What hasn’t been reported is the stake is being purchased from a private equity fund run by #Australia #billionaire #MichaelDorrell, who owns a mansion on a private island near #MarALago & has boasted of socializing with Trump’s inner circle. Dorrell personally gave $926,300 to the #Trump Vance Inaugural Cmte 2 wks after Trump was elected for a 2nd term in late 2024 & another $73,700 a few weeks later, acc/to federal filings. (Dorrell also has US citizenship.)
Behind the windfall is a #settlement stipulating that German energy giant #RWE will receive $1.2 billion from a federal fund on the condition that it gives up its offshore wind leases in NY, California & Louisiana & invests in unspecified #oil, #gas or #nuclear “conventional energy” projects.
Most of the payout—$900 million—will be spent by RWE to buy a stake in a massive LA #LNG project, acc/to statements from RWE & #WoodsideEnergy, the majority owner of the project.
$900 million from a canceled #wind deal will benefit a #Trump donor
Government #settlement money is going to a Trump neighbor’s private equity fund.
The Trump admin’s latest deal to cancel offshore wind projects & boost #FossilFuel #energy development instead is generating a huge payday for one of Trump’s million-dollar donors.
#law #corruption #TaxpayersMoney #ClimateSolutions #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
washingtonpost.com/business/20…
NEW: These local jails in Florida were supposed to detain immigrants for only up to 72 hours, per DHS.
One woman was rebooked 10 times, spending a cumulative 26 days in jail.
propublica.org/article/immigra…
#News #Florida #DHS #ICE #Immigration #Law #Immigrant
Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusually high numbers of rebookings.Mario Ariza (ProPublica)
This and/or #impeachment is about the only thing I want "news" of: #TrumpEpsteinFiles #justice
We should boycott all #media that does not update this story every day, something...
Every network/newspaper should be focused on the #coverup and the #truth and #law
So here's what I've got on the #TrumpVirus / #EpsteinFiles - Lots of legalese at first, but then down to dynamics.
Katie Phang: Aug 26, 2026
EXCLUSIVE on the latest in Katie Phang’s lawsuit against AG Todd Blanche to obtain the unredacted Epstein Files. Blanche has now filed a Notice of Appeal, or at least he thinks he has. Katie explains why this latest move by Blanche is just to continue to delay providing the truth to the public and the suspicious timing of the appeal on the eve of having to turn over to the court unredacted handwritten FBI notes involving Donald Trump.
EXCLUSIVE on the latest in Katie Phang’s lawsuit against AG Todd Blanche to obtain the unredacted Epstein Files. Blanche has now filed a Notice of Appeal, or...Katie Phang (YouTube)
NEW: In Idaho, prosecutors can't file neglect or manslaughter charges against parents who say their faith prohibited giving lifesaving medical care to their children.
Until the early 1970s, that wasn’t the case.
propublica.org/article/idaho-l…
#News #Idaho #Parenting #Children #Health #History #Medicine #Law
From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake.Audrey Dutton (ProPublica)
And what has Canada gotten from bowing down to US tech oligarchs and passing the horribly unfair and rightfully despised Copyright Modernization Act?
Nothing.
Worse than nothing.
Canadians are having to deal with more and more enshittification of the US-based tech they are forced to use because of these laws that protect US tech oligarchs' power, and prevent anyone from making better, non-US-made, tech.
NEW: For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care.
Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.
propublica.org/article/faith-h…
#News #Idaho #Law #Children #Religion #Health #Medicine #Parenting
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.Audrey Dutton (ProPublica)
Australia’s biggest oil and gas company recorded a 27% increase in sales profit to $1.67bn in the six-month reporting periodJonathan Barrett (the Guardian)
A US airman who was arrested twice, once on the steps of the Capitol while calling for the #impeachment of #Trump, was criminally charged for his comments….
Maj. Jason Watson faces the following charges under the #UCMJ, acc/to the charging document∶ 3 violations of Article 88 for alleged “contemptuous” remarks about Trump, 5 violations of Article 92 for allegedly disobeying orders & 2 violations of Article 133 for alleged conduct unbecoming an officer.
Does copyright protect your AI-generated content in EU? Apparently not. Content that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence is not protected by copyright. EU copyright law has strictly human-centric foundation.
Daniel J. Gervais: 'When you put your name on an article that's written by ChatGPT or Claude, you're basically putting a provenance mark on it saying: I take responsibility for this. I haven't written it, but I'm putting my name on it. That doesn't give you copyright, but it does give you liability for the content' euobserver.com/232898/intervie…
Gervais, Daniel J. and Shemtov, Noam and Marmanis, Haralambos and Zaller Rowland, Catherine, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs (September 21, 2024). Available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=4963711 or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.496371…
"Munich Local Court has held that AI generated logos do not enjoy copyright protection. Neither mere prompting nor the selection between several AI suggestions is sufficient as a human creative contribution. For businesses, this is ambivalent. On the one hand, content generated purely by AI can hardly be protected on an exclusive basis, which has implications for brand building and content strategies" germanlawinternational.com/int…
#law #copyright #LLM #AI #iplaw #intellectualProperty #EU
AI providers must disclose training sources to EU authorities—or face presumptions that all protected works were used.Thomas Wolf (GermanLaw International)
Max D. Lederer Jr. announced his retirement, effective at the end of September, in a memo to staff Tuesday, as well as in an interview with #StarsAndStripes. In the memo, seen by AP, Lederer, the second full-time civilian in the position, wrote that it had “become clear that my philosophy of leadership, and my understanding of the value & mission of Stars and Stripes, differ in fundamental ways from the direction the leadership of the Department of Defense has for the organization.”
They can’t even handle being covered by the #military’s own #newspaper.
Longtime publisher of #StarsAndStripes to retire, citing differences with #Pentagon leadership
The longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes has announced his retirement, ending a decades-long career with the military newspaper as Defense Secy Pete #Hegseth’s Pentagon moves to exert editorial control & eliminate what it asserts are “woke distractions.”
#Trump #law #FirstAmendment #FreePress #fascism
apnews.com/article/stars-strip…
A publisher tried to use a poet's FBI file to keep his poems out of the public domain. Twelve of Corretjer's poems got there anyway. Whether he gave Puerto Rico's unofficial anthem away on purpose goes to a jury. Full story, up now on Copyright Lately:
copyrightlately.com/corretjer-…
Twelve Corretjer poems Roy Brown set to music are in the public domain. Whether Brown had permission for "Boricua en la Luna" goes to a jury.Aaron Moss (Copyright Lately)
US states are suing the social media giant to force an overhaul of its platforms for young users.Kali Hays (BBC News)
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However that count is reset after 365 days and also only goes to 250! (🖼️ 2)
Therefore companies can simply mass report negative reviews to improve their rating.
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#Degoogle #Corporation #Internet #Review #Rating #Online #Maps #Feedback #stupid #company #technology #tech #german #legal #law #defamation
🗺️ While visiting Pride #Berlin, I learned how utterly pointless #GoogleMaps Reviews in #Germany are.
⭐ Any place can simply report negative #reviews for defamation or claim the person was never there and have it removed.
Users can then appeal & risk a lawsuit.
When a review is removed the removed count on #Google Maps goes up (🖼️ 1)
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#Reviews #Degoogle #Corporation #Internet #Review #Rating #Online #Maps #Feedback #stupid #company #technology #tech #german #legal #law #defamation
"You betcha!"™️
But as for his perfect #cognitive processing, after it goes through filtration (last person's #truth, conspiracy leanings, mood, level of hallucination/delusion)...
some of reality must seep through.
For almost any human alive, no matter how pervasive the #denial and encapsulated #delusion, there is some kernel of reality that gets through. (Freud and I might say: in distorted or disguised form though.) Most people have filters like "reality testing" and "critical reasoning". But not Sir. Roy Cohn's prime directives are his only modes: lie, double down, take it all, don't worry about law.
That's what most maddening to me, as someone who lives & breathes the decoding of crazy #WordSalad and behavior... He has zero mindfulness, executive reasoning skills, or care for anything/anyone beyond himself, his ballroom, his soul-reflecting pond, his terrific fantasy world where life is beautiful all the time...
All #truth seeps through. And his truth seeps straight out. No filters.
And his 'thinking' and #WordSalad spew is polluted only by his twisted ideas and concepts of concepts. (Like #democracy? #law? #entitlement?)
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" is a 1966 novelty record by Jerry Samuels, recorded under the name Napoleon XIV. Released on Warner Bros. Records,...Music Selection (YouTube)
#KatiePhang will debrief us on her day in court today, vs. #TrumpVirus / #ToddBlanche / #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup
#EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #compliance #law #justice #EpsteinFiles #accountability #justice
Meanwhile, in #TrumpVirus / #TrumpEpsteinFiles news... Hopefully, some good news for #accountability coming soon.
Katie Phang's hearing was scheduled for 1PM today... She checked in with this surprise/update beforehand.
Apparently Blanche's legal representation is now infused with essence of #StephenMiller, #AndrewBlock
So far, seems like it is now proceeding, and #KatiePhang said she'll give us the news afterwards. 🤞
#EFTA #AmericaFirst #EpsteinFiles #coverup #ToddBlanche #survivors #justice #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #law
Todd Blanche does a last-minute scramble to get yet another DOJ lawyer to defend him in the big status hearing today! A new lawyer, Andrew Block, from the Tr...Katie Phang (YouTube)
Progress Note from Katie Phang on her #law suit against the #TrumpVIrus / #ToddBlanche #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup
Delay is the name of the game for Todd Blanche in my lawsuit. But, my latest filing on the eve of a big in-person hearing tomorrow is designed to blast Blanche into compliance.I walk through the brief & explain why this Status Hearing is a huge inflection point.
"I'm never going to let moss grow on a rolling stone".... - #KatiePhang
#Truth #justice #EpsteinVictims #TrumpVictims #obstruction #corruption #plutocracy #ethics #CPL
Delay, delay, delay is the name of the game for Todd Blanche in Katie Phang’s lawsuit to compel the release of the unredacted Epstein Files. But her latest f...Katie Phang (YouTube)
AP Exclusive: #ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction & de-escalation devices” for officers & agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by #DHS.
#law #Trump #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
apnews.com/article/ice-electri…
This is excellent! Well-articulated #truth about the #TrumpVirus bubble that we are now immersed within, the #Project2025 #fascism, with #oligarchy and #corruption now the #law, as administed by the Boss' personal pet, #ToddBlanche.
And still- #sanewashig #media oops, what? another #WarCrime... Look over there! More theft of OUR treasury by a (crime) family 'the likes of which nobody's ever seen before... by a long shot". Time for more war threats, and #retribution!
Speaking of #distraction... Has anyone yet seen the unredacted #TrumpEpsteinFiles specifically ordered for production, as in alleged video proof of Sir and others in high places, doing low things in low places, to so many victims and so many acts of blatant disregard for #justice. No #accountability yet.
It's all connected. #FollowTheMoney Get some basics, like why Sir's name is all over the #EpsteinFiles in relation to... well, let's see if it's #MoneyLaundering, #SexTrafficking, Make-believe, detached #criminality, or just the best-ever #coverup
/MHO. Best wishes for a good/better week.
Our Supreme Leader has assured us: "Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen. I hope the #WordSaladKing is correct, but for the human race, not his magical rule in the land of Denial Bubble.
"Liberty and Justice for All"
Soon, please.
#TrumpVirus #detention #law #ICE #liberty #Constitution #democracy #justice #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup #fascism
The appeals court placed its ruling on hold for 14 days to allow the #Trump admin to appeal to #SCOTUS.
US District Judge Richard Leon, an appointee of Republican former President George W. Bush, had ruled that no federal statute “comes close to giving the President” the required authority to construct the ballroom without congressional approval.
#law #ballroom #WhiteHouse #EastWing #Congress #architecture #landmark #conservation #HistoricPreservation
US appeals #court blocks #Trump’s $400 million White House #ballroom project
The Washington-based #US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in a divided 2-1 order upheld a preliminary injunction won by the National Trust for #HistoricPreservation, which sued last year after the admin tore down the #EastWing & began building a 90,000-square-foot (8,360-square-meter) ballroom both without seeking #authorization from #Congress.
#law #architecture #landmark #conservation
reuters.com/world/us-appeals-c…
“Through the *cooperation* of our federal partners we have obtained the hard drives of previously withheld evidence in the killings of #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti & the shooting of #JulioSosaCelis,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said. “We have also obtained some of the physical evidence that was previously withheld, including Renee Good’s car.”
#Trump #law #immigration #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #UseOfForce #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState
#Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained long withheld key evidence in their ongoing investigations into fatal #shootings of #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti during pitched protests against a federal #immigration enforcement crackdown in the state earlier this year & withheld evidence in the shooting of #JulioSosaCelis.
#Trump #law #Constitution #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #murder #DueProcess #UseOfForce #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState
apnews.com/article/immigration…
He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
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Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
propublica.org/article/louisia…
#News #Louisiana #Law #CriminalJustice #CivilRights #Justice #Legal
Mehta had sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in prison & imposed lesser prison terms on other top #OathKeepers who were #convicted at #jury trials. #Trump commuted those prison sentences on his first day in office last year, & he pardoned more than 1,500 rioters.
#whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to dismiss the #SeditiousConspiracy case against the leader of the #OathKeepers, #StewartRhodes, & 7 other members of the #extremist group who planned to storm the US Capitol on #Jan6, 2021.
The ruling by US District Judge Amit P. Mehta is the last step in the legal process to wipe out penalties from the Jan 6 #insurrection, cementing #Trump’s bid to unravel the largest federal investigation in US #history [& erase the truth of his crimes].
WTF???
Judge dismisses #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy charges against #OathKeepers
While taking the last step in the legal process to wipe out penalties from the #insurrection, the judge also criticized the #DOJ for undoing the most serious convictions.
#Trump #whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #ConspiracyTheories #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Interesting
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between #Trump & #JeaninePirro
Jeanine Pirro, the #USattorney for DC, told Trump that his #interior secretary, #DougBurgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
When Pirro is the sanest most capable person in the room, well, get the hell out if that room.
#Trump murders again
#Immigrant Held at #Delaney Detention Center [ #ConcentrationCamp ] Has Died, Officials Say
The mayor of #Newark, #NewJersey identified the dead man as Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo. The NJ center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its #inhumane treatment of detainees.
#law #immigration #DueProcess #ExtrajudicialKillings #murder #UseOfForce #CivilRights #HumanRights #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #ICE #Sturmabteilung
nytimes.com/2026/08/03/nyregio…
From Law and Crime
Sir #TrumpVirus' Kryptonite and vocation, respectively...
Surprise? Not in this era of mad #king, #WordSalad, and #Doublespeak: #Truth is #lies; #law is Unconstitutional
ARTICLE:
#MarALago #espionage #treason #JackSmith #justice #coverup #TrumpEpsteinFiles #obstruction #JudgeCannon