The Columbus City school board voted to cut hundreds of jobs, district programs and close four buildings to patch a $50 million hole in its budget. However, the board did not vote to remove school bus transportation for high school students by Cole Behrens www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

On Monday afternoon, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani told Hell Gate that the NYPD infiltrating and spying on courtwatch groups would not be acceptable under his administration.

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

Video of her being dragged by authorities in Ghana: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

“The more that marginalized voices disappear from legacy outlets, the more it matters to fight for our corner instead of abandoning it. It matters to have places in journalism, in media, where we belong and where we can see ourselves.”

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

"$1,000 a month as part of a state program experimenting with giving homeless youths cash payments for two years with no strings attached." "Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing." #Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit

The Trump admin submitted a sworn declaration under oath that Costa Rica had changed its mind and would no longer take Mr. Abrego. Costa Rica has now said publicly that that this is false, that they have not changed their position at all, and that they will still take him.

“Being able to help others while serving my prison sentence was a dream come true. Then I learned that my ICE hold disqualified me from accessing the same college classes I tutored others for," writes Olsen. Story via @thenation.com.

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Tomorrow morning, the DC Circuit will consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by ejecting @apnews.com from the White House press pool after it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Very glad that the AP is fighting this. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fig...

"[C]aste system in prison." "Being able to help others while serving my prison sentence was a dream come true." "Then I learned that my ICE hold disqualified me from accessing the same college classes I tutored others for." #Washington #USA #Education #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Beginning sometime in the first quarter of 2026, The Tribune’s reporting will be free to access online. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/11/21/newsmakers-2025-gala-salt-lake 

When judges get Kavanaugh stopped #KavanaughStop

This is seismic news. It's hard to overstate how big the implications are for both future prosecutions and wrongful convictions. This NJ decision could reshape how courts across the country treat shaken-baby expert testimony. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/n...

Remember the Ohio judge who incarcerated two kids because they refused to visit their estranged father? The Ohio Supreme Court issued its decision today suspending Judge Timothy Grendell for 18 months (12 months stayed if no further misconduct). He will be immediately removed from the bench.

“This was not a harmless mistake. It was the direct result of callous and chaotic policies by the Trump administration...ICE’s failure to exercise even a shred of due diligence is shameful and underscores just how broken and dangerous these federal policies are.” - RI Governor Dan McKee

ICE, which has seen its budget triple, said it did not have the resources to maintain videos of detainees

Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people. This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.

NEW — Illinois residents can submit comments to state leaders by Nov. 24 to oppose mail scanning, which allows prison officials to scan physical mail and reproduce it into digital copies. Criminal justice advocates say the practice doesn’t make prisons safer. thetriibe.com/2025/11/crim...

Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged

The House has passed H.R. 5214, a bill to return DC to cash bail. Cash bail creates two tiers of justice, one for people with money and one without. DC abolished it more than 30 years ago and crime has dropped precipitously since. H.R. 5214 is wrong and we will continue to fight its passage.

I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered. The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo. apnews.com/article/immi...

In 2018, the Supreme Court in Carpenter v US ruled that cell site location data was too invasive to use without a warrant and now ALPR tech has reached that point. Being able to surveillance everyone's movements at any time with AI driven surveillance cameras is an affront to the right to privacy.

Next witness is @daniellefirsich.bsky.social from @ppaohio.bsky.social to testify against the bill and in support of Planned Parenthood's thousands of patients who rely on Medicaid funding for life-saving, essential healthcare.

‼️ Bad things are brewing at the Statehouse. From attacks on abortion to undermining democracy and voting, these bills would strip Ohioans of rights we've all fought so hard for. Find your member of the Ohio House at AbortionForward.org/OHLeg and call them immediately! House session starts at 2PM.

‘Second Look Act’ could shorten sentences for Kansas prisoners | via @gracefromkansas.bsky.social #ksleg

Tomorrow the House votes on a bill that overturns D.C's bail system and imposes cash bail for the first time since 1992. This will make DC less safe, erode home rule, and preview what Stephen Miller wants to bring to the whole country. We need every Dem to vote NO. (Thread)

Applications are now OPEN for our storytelling cohort! We're making a space where you can get comfortable sharing your abortion story—whatever that may look like. Our small cohort will kickoff in early 2026, and apps are due by 12/5 💞 www.abortionfundofohio.org/stories

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it. Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Michigan is one of only two states where the governor and legislature are exempt from open records law. In the decade-long bipartisan push to change that, it's incredible to see certain leaders from both parties be on the side of transparency -- until they have the power to do something about it.

“When the eight African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system," Mecklenburg County (Charlotte) Sheriff Garry McFadden told Bolts in 2023 after Republican retaliation.

ICE today deployed its agents in Charlotte. The decision follows years of retaliation from federal authorities and North Carolina Republicans—ever since voters elected a sheriff who opposed assisting ICE in 2018. Bolts reported on this dynamic in 2023:

Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops. Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.

We’re thrilled to share that Truthout is taking over The Appeal’s journalism. With Truthout’s powerhouse reputation for independent, reader-funded journalism, our reporting on overpolicing and mass incarceration will continue and reach even wider audiences. theappeal.org/news_awards/...

Absolutely fitting coda to the whole Epstein horror show is that the brave testimony of dozens of women could not be credited and we need the emails of men to deem it credible.

Obviously corrupt on its face but even worse when you remember that Congress refuses to create a damages remedy for people abused by federal law enforcement, including ICE, and SCOTUS has narrowed the court-created remedy to almost nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers. hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-whitewa...

Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash. He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.

Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

Greg Bovino tells LA agents ‘it’s our f–king city’ in new video. In it, the Border Patrol boss also says “arrest as many people that touch you as you want to” — and later confirmed the statement applies to Chicago as well. lapublicpress.org/2025/11/bord...

"It’s becoming clearer to me that the government is attempting to lay a foundation for dissenting political beliefs as grounds for terrorism." - Sam Judy in @thebarbedwire.com

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"How can I break America? Let me count the ways" might as well be Trump's love song to a country whose agriculture, construction, foreign trade, air travel, energy/electricity, rule of law, education systems, and health he's savaged.

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Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

Breaking WaPo: The White House just fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of Trump's construction projects, including his planned arch in Washington. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...