NEW: The LAPD announced just became the largest police department in the country to drop its Flock contract. This came after an audit found that, in a two-month period, the LAPD improperly "investigated" 161 people whose cars were flagged as stolen in their ALPR system but were not actually stolen.

The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people.

BREAKING: A federal judge says President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an "improper purpose" and refers attorneys for disciplinary action.

NYC piloting silent, electric batteries for food carts around Queens park gothamist.com/news/nyc-pil...

#France national team uses #ICE #deportation planes for #WorldCup travel. The plane that French team used after match with Paraguay flew 44 deportation-related flights this year alone. | www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades & submachine guns. 2021 CA #law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent | #PoliceCulture #WarriorCulture | www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Delighted to share a terrific review of my book Police Diversity: Beyond the Blue in Policing and Society journal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mexico's government plans to file criminal complaints in the U.S. regarding Mexican citizens who died in immigration custody or while being targeted for detention, Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco said on Thursday.

Alphabet's Google has convinced a federal judge in California to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the technology giant of enabling its artificial intelligence tools to track ​users’ communications without their knowledge or consent @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/4vkSEJ5

Breaking News: The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

It is the latest in a string of high-profile shootings since President Donald Trump launched his mass deportation policy.

A very angry gay man’: activist’s 11-year fight to overturn #Trinidad’s homophobic laws reaches final hurdle. Privy council in London to decide on Jason Jones’s challenge to legislation against same-sex intimacy | #LGBTQ #HumanRights #law | www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

At Trump’s Direction, Federal Agencies Are Abandoning #Discrimination Cases. President Trump has tried to scale back anti-discrimination regulations that date back decades. Federal agencies have heeded his call. | #CivilRights #law | www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

AI tools are twisting online messages on sensitive political topics about everything from abortion to climate change in ways that could snowball to reshape long-term public opinion, new research finds. | www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Decline of US Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’. Some of the nation’s top #research #universities are shrinking doctoral programs because of uncertain federal funding. | #education #science | www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

Discerning whether ChatGPT has been used in legal research or drafting can be as simple as noting whether a URL ends in a specific source code.

Breaking News: A French court upheld Marine Le Pen’s embezzlement conviction, but left the far-right leader a path to run for the presidency in 2027.

NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social

Under Trump, federal agencies are taking unprecedented action to keep physicians from providing care to trans patients. The DOJ has tried to force hospitals to share names of patients under 18 who have received gender-affirming care in the past five to seven years, plus staff who provided the care.

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is challenging Florida’s new law allowing the state to designate a group as a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Turkish authorities have banned a cruise ship catering to American LGBTQ+ travelers from docking in the country’s ports, citing “moral standards” and “family values,” the CEO of the events company behind the upcoming Mediterranean tour said.

A quarter of terror attacks in Britain over the past decade have targeted Muslims, but some have gone largely unnoticed because of delays formally declaring them terrorism Most jihadist attacks, by contrast, have been declared within hours of taking place inews.co.uk/news/uk-terr...

US Supreme Court rules geofence #warrants require constitutional #privacy protections. Law enforcement’s use of warrants sweeping smartphone location data requires privacy protections, court rules | #SCOTUS #surveillance #CriminalLaw #FourthAmendment #law | www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Supreme Court upheld state laws in West Virginia and Idaho barring the participation of transgender female athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams. Read the decision.

The Supreme Court blocked President Trump’s executive order that banned birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and some temporary foreign visitors. Read the decision.

More than one million undocumented immigrants in Spain have applied to legalize their status to bring them into the formal labor force, said Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the new program that allows them a path out of legal limbo.

The deaths suggest violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which obligates states to protect the lives of those in custody. Poor detention conditions and inadequate medical care can also constitute violations of the Convention Against Torture.

A group of bail bond insurers has agreed to pay more than $69 million to resolve an antitrust lawsuit accusing them of fixing prices in California, causing millions of customers to pay inflated amounts for years.

First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually long

A demonstrator who shot and wounded a police officer during a protest outside a Texas immigration center July 4 has been sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.

ICE plans to sell or give away seven warehouses it bought for $700 million to detain migrants, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The decision, a major reversal, is a rejection of a signature initiative under the previous homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. trib.al/o5iUEu3

BREAKING: The US Supreme Court sided with a gun-rights challenge to a federal law that bars drug users from owning firearms in the latest test of the US Constitution's Second Amendment right to ‘keep and bear arms’ reut.rs/4vmFzQq

BREAKING: The Supreme Court said a man's every-other-day marijuana use is not a reason to bar him from having a gun, a decision weakening a federal gun control law.

“A court has already struck down an agreement between the IRS and Homeland Security to illegally share ITINs and other personal information. A contract to buy that same information from private data brokers is a clear end-around both taxpayer privacy laws and a court order.”

The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot

BREAKING: The Trump administration is moving Education Department oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.

The US Supreme Court will consider overruling a 56-year-old precedent and decide whether the Constitution requires 12-person juries when a defendant is charged with a serious criminal offense.

The US Supreme Court declined to take up the firearm industry’s challenge to a New York state law seeking to impose civil liability when guns are used to commit crimes.

The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban Almost 2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months - surpassing the number of terror suspects detained in the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Trump team wanted to suspend Constitutional right to deport more immigrants, memo reveals

NEW: Meta is testing its face recognition system for its smart glasses using software built by Rank One Computing, a company that sells its tech to the US military and was founded by fmr FBI and CIA people. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Ban on Palestine Action was lawful, court of appeal rules

Tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ supporters took to the streets of Romania and Bulgaria's capitals on Saturday for their annual Pride parades, against a backdrop of rising opposition from conservative groups in the Orthodox Christian countries. https://to.pbs.org/4uzOXyS

UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps

Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK

EXCLUSIVE A lot of attention was (rightly) paid to the role Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson played in inciting the #Belfast riots. But few noticed the critical role play by a small Ulster youth club linked to the fast-growing US white supremacist Active Club network www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

Criminal investigation launched into alleged use of #AI by UK #police officer. Derbyshire Police says officer probed over allegations of perverting the course of justice by using AI to “create evidential material in a number of cases”. | #CriminalLaw | www.ft.com/content/514b...

‘David Hockney caught the look of the modern world’: a tribute to the artist whose work was a feast of visual pleasure

David Hockney, an English painter, photographer, stage designer, printmaker and draftsman who made Southern California his muse and his home, died June 11 at the age of 88. He died a month short of his 89th birthday, his publicist Erica Bolton said.