As allies push to free Nashville Noticias reporter Estefany María Rodríguez Florez, attorneys argue that her arrest and detention violate the First Amendment.
Free Press' @juliorvarela.com reports on the chilling impacts on journalists who report on or criticize ICE on today's Pressings Issues:
This is very serious and I hope all the 1A orgs will meet the moment here.
unexpected things making you cry about dead dads is such a universal dead dad experience
Common hospital experience
Lmao
NTSB graphic depicted the flight paths of the CRJ and Blackhawk helicopter.
The NTSB issued its final report on the mid-air collision between a PSA CRJ-700 and US Army Blackhawk helicopter, finding a chain of systemic failures led to the accident and providing a litany of safety recommendations to the FAA, US Army and others. www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...
I’m shocked by this turn of events
ICYMI: Here's the full text of the threat issued by Cobb County, Ga., the 23rd largest school district in the country.
In a county which voted for Biden and Kamala Harris for 15 points, the district also came under fire in the past few years for aggressive book bans:
www.cobbk12.org/important-up...
Who could have guessed that Cobb County Schools would take the most aggressive position in metro Atlanta on this (at least publicly)?
Everyone in metro Atlanta basically.
Oh boy
Last year, I collaborated with @gelliottmorris.com and scores of journalists and volunteers to conduct a crowdsourced, unofficial, nationwide estimate of "No Kings" attendees.
We're pretty confident that both "No Kings" days were the two largest single-day protest events in American history:
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Oh no
❤️ well wishes for you and the bb
None of these people should be able to work in our industry again
My dad struggled with addiction his entire adult life, due in large part American healthcare’s complete and utter failure to treat the severe and intractable chronic pain he was in from age 17 onward.
Ain’t got shit to do with Venezuela.
I’m so sorry friend ❤️
Yall I just woke up what the fuck
Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.
I hold no brief for Maduro. He's a murdering autocratic dictator who has done deep long term economic damage to his country.
But do not fantasize that there is a rightwing, Western-oriented majority waiting in the wings in Venezuela, and the only obstacle to a color revolution is Maduro.
this one’s super shameful.
encryption was rolled out because 2020 activists learned how to listen to their scanners to know when SRG would be showing up to beat them up, and NYPD disliked that.
the only actual impact this has is preventing news teams from being able to report on emergencies.
I also bruise very easily…because I have a genetic condition lmao
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I don’t have a place to host the judge’s orders because Document Cloud refuses to approve my account, but I’m happy to email the PDFs to anyone.
ICYMI: The racketeering charges in the eponymous Cop City RICO case were dismissed yesterday. However, this is just the first step in what will surely be a lengthy appeals process.
For my hero of 2025 at @motherjones.com, I wrote about the late great disabled disability justice oracle Alice Wong, including her work with Disability Visibility Project, Crips for eSims for Gaza, and #CripTheVote. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
In a separate ruling, Farmer declined to dismiss the domestic terrorism charges.
I'm waiting to see if a ruling will be posted on the arson charges.
At some point the AG's powers must not intrude upon those constitutionally granted to the District Attorneys of the state. This is that point. The court has not been presented with, nor found any case law itself, that addresses RICO (or any other criminal charges that do not expressly grant the AG concurrent jurisdiction) being brought by the AG without prior approval from the governor. If the AG had sought and received permission from the governor to bring RICO charges, the check on the division of powers would be satisfied. And that permission may still be sought and the charges brought properly. but they were not in this case.
As expected, count 1 of the Cop City RICO indictment has been dismissed by Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer on the grounds that the Attorney General's office did not seek the required permission to prosecute a RICO indictment.
The state has already announced its intent to appeal this ruling.
