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Former DOJ Official Labels SPLC Indictment 'Cynical,' Citing Legal Flaws
14+ hour, 19+ min ago (594+ words) The Justice Department is attacking a leading adversary of violent hate groups by accusing it of secretly supporting the very groups the organization has opposed for decades," Hardee writes. Whatever one's view about the SPLC labeling nonviolent conservative organizations as…...
Rights Groups Condemn Poland on 'Unlawful' US Deportations to Ukraine
15+ hour, 19+ min ago (637+ words) POLAND " Human rights advocates are condemning Poland's cooperation with U. S. deportation operations involving Ukrainian nationals, urging the government to halt participation in what organizations describe as unlawful mass removals to an active war zone. A joint letter was published to Poland's…...
Supreme Court Reinstates Alabama Map, Undermining Voting Rights Act Protections
16+ hour, 19+ min ago (605+ words) ALABAMA " Voting rights organizations are sharply criticizing a recent order from the Supreme Court of the United States that allows Alabama to move forward with a congressional map previously found by a lower federal court to be intentionally discriminatory against…...
Op-ed | City Budget Proposal Fails to Tackle Deficit, Fiscal Stability at Risk
23+ hour, 20+ min ago (453+ words) As you know, I served as a fiscal advisor to the California Legislature for 17 years, concluding my state career as Deputy Legislative Analyst of the nonpartisan and independent Legislative Analyst's Office before serving for nine years on the City of…...
Davis Homelessness Surges Nearly 20%, Straining Local Systems, Report Reveals
23+ hour, 7+ min ago (897+ words) DAVIS, Calif. " The number of people experiencing homelessness in Davis increased nearly 20 percent over the past two years, according to Yolo County's 2026 Point-in-Time Count released this week, highlighting the continuing strain on local housing, shelter and behavioral health systems even…...
Meditations: Choosing leads to hell, whereas love emerges with choiceless awareness
23+ hour, 36+ min ago (902+ words) There's a scene in the classic Paul Newman western, "Hombre," in which two men look down from a shack in which they're trapped upon a woman tied to stake in the desert heat, crying out ever more weakly for help…...
Op-ed | Money, Friendship, and the Swalwell Shadow
23+ hour, 43+ min ago (169+ words) Tom Orloff's $20, 000 and the Old Order Silence Has Weight in a Friend's Case A DA's Race Financed by Insiders Reopening the Door to the Death Penalty Children in Adult Court That same punitive drift shows up in how Jones Dickson's…...
Religious Stockholm Syndrome
23+ hour, 34+ min ago (1400+ words) It's not a suggestion. It's not a proposal. It is now a diagnosis. And once you see it, you cannot unsee it. "Religious trauma" describes the wound. It doesn't describe the identification with the weapon. You can have religious trauma…...
Federal Judges Strike Down ICE Detention Practices Citing Due Process Breaches
23+ hour, 51+ min ago (1317+ words) WASHINGTON " Federal judges have ruled against Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention practices in roughly 90% of cases since the Trump administration expanded mandatory detention policies, according to a new report by POLITICO, documenting what legal observers describe as an extraordinary judicial…...
Federal Lawsuit Accuses Memphis Task Force of First Amendment Retaliation
1+ day ago (734+ words) MEMPHIS, Tenn. " Four Memphis residents filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the Memphis Safe Task Force, alleging the multi-agency law enforcement operation systematically retaliated against civilians for exercising their First Amendment right to film and observe immigration and law enforcement…...