Rosenberg is an #AnimalRights activist with the group Direct Action Everywhere, or #DxE, which is known for animal rescues & #protests that often garner national attention. #PerdueFarms is one of the largest poultry producers in the country & supplies major grocery chains….

#law #AnimalCruelty #FactoryFarms #AnimalWelfare

“This is not a whodunit. This is a why-dunit,” said Kevin Little, one of Rosenberg’s lawyers, during his opening statement.

He said Rosenberg, who has been charged with 3 misdemeanors & felony conspiracy, investigated the plant for 2 months before taking the birds & consulted a veterinarian who was concerned about images that appeared to show animals being boiled alive. Chris Carraway, her other atty, said in a statement that this “was a rescue, not a crime.”

#law #AnimalCruelty #FactoryFarms

A California woman on trial for taking 4 #chickens from one of #PerdueFarms’ major #PoultryPlants has put animal treatment at #SlaughterHouses in the national spotlight as her defense argues she rescued the birds from #abuse.

Closing statements are scheduled for Tuesday in a case that could land Zoe Rosenberg, 23, in prison for >5 years. During the 7-week trial, her defense hasn’t focused on if she took the chickens…but rather the justification for doing so.

#law
https://apnews.com/article/california-animal-rights-activist-trial-0892823f09951382b1e72a6a578bc68a

#Biden has strenuously denied he was unaware of his admin’s actions, calling such claims “ridiculous & false.” #Democrats on the #House #Oversight cmte denounced the probe as a #distraction & waste of time.

#Republicans are shifting attention back to Biden at a tumultuous time, 10 months into the 2nd #Trump presidency, with the government #shutdown & #Congress at a standstill over legislation to fund it.

#law #propaganda #gaslighting #LetItGo #HouseRepublicans #Epstein #DOJ

The #GOP report does NOT include any concrete evidence that aides conspired to enact policies without #Biden’s knowledge or that the president was unaware of laws, pardons or executive orders signed in his name. But #Republicans said their findings cast doubt on all of Biden’s actions in office. They sent a letter to AG #PamBondi urging a full investigation. #Trump ordered a similar inquiry earlier this year.

#law #propaganda #gaslighting #LetItGo #HouseRepublicans #DOJ

More #propaganda

#Republicans send #Biden autopen report to the #DOJ, urging further investigation 🙄

#HouseRepublicans on Tuesday unveiled their long-promised report on fmr President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen, delivering a blistering critique of his time in office & inner circle that largely rehashes public information while making sweeping accusations about the workings of his White House.

#law #gaslighting #LetItGo #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/autopen-joe-biden-house-republicans-report-dfee07747d5b3e81417f6416c771d833

The announcement made on social media Tuesday, marks a continued escalation in the pace of the strikes, which began in early September spaced weeks apart. This was the first time multiple strikes were announced in a single day.

#Hegseth said Mexican search & rescue authorities “assumed responsibility for coordinating the rescue” of the sole survivor but didn’t say if that person would stay in their custody or be handed over to the US.

#Trump #law #InternationalLaw #murder #Congress #WarPowers

#Hegseth says #US carried out 3 strikes on alleged drug-running boats in eastern Pacific, murdering 14

#Defense Secy #PeteHegseth announced that the US #military carried out 3 strikes Monday in the waters of the Eastern #Pacific against boats *suspected* of carrying drugs, killing 14 & leaving one survivor.

#Trump #law #InternationalLaw #murder #Congress #WarPowers
https://apnews.com/article/drug-cartels-hegseth-pacific-8f9f65dd67c0bc55b6dd70b109df0216?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-28-Breaking+News

We Americans are by nature good people who believe in the inherent goodness of others, especially those we elect to represent us in the highest office in the land. But we ignore such statements & other expressions of #Trump’s intent at our peril. The 47th president is a vain man, & nothing would flatter his vanity more than seizing another term. Doing so would signify the ultimate triumph over his political enemies.

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

In September, after meeting with congressional leaders about the looming government shutdown, #Trump posted photographs on Truth Social in which trump 2028 hats rested prominently on his Oval Office desk. In October, when discussing the possibility of a third term, Trump said, “I would love to do it. I have my best numbers ever.”

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #ElectoralAuthoritarianism #fascism #tyranny

But also in March, Trump’s ally #SteveBannon said that he is “a firm believer that President Trump will run & win again in 2028,” adding that he & others are working on ways to do it, which would require circumventing the #22ndAmendment. (Bannon later told The Economist: “#Trump is gonna be president in ’28, & people just ought to get accommodated with that.” He added, “At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is. But there’s a plan.”)

#law #Constitution #authoritarianism #fascism

In March, #Trump refused to rule out a third term, saying that he was “not joking” about the prospect & claiming that “there are methods which you could do it.” He was asked about the idea of VP #JDVance running for the presidency, getting elected, & then passing the baton back to him. “That’s one,” he said. “But there are others, too.” As he so often does, Trump later claimed that he wasn’t being serious.

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism

#Trump proved in 2021 that he would do anything to remain in the White House. Even after the violence of #Jan6, his second #impeachment, & the conviction & incarceration of scores of his followers, he reiterated his willingness to subvert the 2024 #election. That proved unnecessary. Yet since his victory, Trump has again told the American people that he is prepared to do what it takes to remain in #power, the #Constitution be damned.

#law #ElectionLaw #22A #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism

Writing to James Madison from Paris in 1787, Thomas Jefferson warned that such an incumbent, if narrowly defeated, would “pretend false votes, foul play, hold possession of the reins of government.” Were that moment ever to come, the #Founders believed, it would mark the #demise of the nation that they had conceived, bringing to a calamitous end the greatest experiment in self-government ever attempted by man.

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny

With his every word & deed, #Trump has given Americans reason to believe that he will seek a third term, in defiance of the #Constitution. It seems abundantly clear that he will hold on to the office at any cost, including America’s ruin.

The #Founders of our nation foresaw a figure like Trump, a #demagogue who would ascend to the presidency & refuse to relinquish #power to a successor chosen by the American people in a free & fair #election.

#law #ElectionLaw #22A #authoritarianism #fascism

Since his second inauguration, #Trump has seized #authoritarian control over the #FederalGovernment & demanded the #obedience of the other powerful institutions of American society — #universities, #LawFirms, #media companies [& more]. The question weighing heavily on the minds of many Americans is whether Trump will subvert next year’s #midterm #elections or the 2028 presidential #election to extend his reign.

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

#GiftArticle

PRESIDENT FOR LIFE

#Trump is trying to amass the powers of a #king.

By J. Michael Luttig

In the normal course of history, the president of the #UnitedStates is a figure who inspires optimism in the American people. The 47th president prefers to stir feelings of fear, vulnerability, hopelessness, & political inevitability—the sense that he, & only he, can rescue the nation from looming peril.

#law #ElectionLaw #Constitution #22A #authoritarianism #fascism
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/12/trump-third-term-authoritarianism/684616/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxe5K46zpx06xRWqfOz8AZR4

#KenPaxton filed the suit against Johnson & Johnson, which sold #Tylenol for decades, & Kenvue, a spinoff company that has sold the drug since 2023.

The #Texas lawsuit claims that the companies knowingly withheld evidence from consumers about Tylenol’s links to #autism & #ADHD. The suit also claims that Kenvue was created to shield Johnson & Johnson from liability over Tylenol.

#law #ConspiracyTheories #RFKJr #Trump

Ridiculous

#KenPaxton, the Republican AG of #Texas & all around POS, sued the makers of #Tylenol Tuesday, claiming that the companies hid the risks of the drug on brain development of children.

The lawsuit is the latest fallout from #Trump’s claim last month that use of Tylenol during pregnancy can cause #autism. That link is UNPROVEN.

#law #ConspiracyTheories #RFKJr
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/health/tylenol-autism-texas-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Why IP address truncation fails at anonymization https://lobste.rs/s/xxp1tx #law #privacy
https://00f.net/2025/10/27/ip-anonymization/

Fuuuuuck

Benton of #8thCircuit to take senior status, giving #Trump first Federal Circuit Judgeship of 2nd term

U.S. Circuit Judge Duane Benton has announced that he will step down from active service on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, creating the first vacancy on the #StLouis, #Missouri court that Trump could fill.

#law #judiciary #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #TrumpCoup2
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/8th-circuits-benton-take-senior-status-giving-trump-first-vacancy-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

#California, the nation’s largest Democratic-led state, has passed a #law restricting what #teachers can say in the classroom, & has walked back an effort to require high school students to take classes in ethnic studies.

…these developments have also set off alarms among #FreeSpeech advocates, as the #Trump admin pushes to punish speech it dislikes & to impose its patriotic vision of #US #history on #schools.

#education #AcademicFreedom #Constitution #FirstAmendment

In the #Trump era, #history & #civics education are under a microscope.

Several major #curriculum #publishers have withdrawn products from the market, while others have found that #teachers are shying away from lessons that were once uncontroversial, on topics as basic as constitutional limits on executive power.

#education #law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom

How #Politics Is Changing the Way #History Is Taught

History lessons are being wiped from the internet, & #California is retreating from ethnic studies, as #education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive.

#law #AcademicFreedom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/history-lessons-ethnic-studies-retreat.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The effort began in #Texas at the behest of #Trump & has touched off months of maneuvering in several states. #Missouri & #NorthCarolina have passed new maps to favor #Republicans. Leaders in #California, vowed a #redistricting push of their own to counter the moves in Republican states.

#Virginia, where #Democrats control the legislature, appears poised to join the fray in an attempt to swing as many as 3 of the state’s 11 congressional seats from Republicans to Democrats.

#law #redistricting

#Virginia lawmakers are expected to assemble on Monday to start a process that could redraw the state’s congressional districts for the 2026 #midterm #election.

Virginia is the latest state to plunge into the fight over control of #Congress, where #Republicans hold a tightrope-slim majority & launched a surprise effort this summer to shore up their control by pushing Republican-led states to redraw congressional districts ahead of schedule.

#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering

In Battle for #Congress, #Virginia #Democrats to Begin Votes to Redraw Maps

State lawmakers are convening to take a vote that would allow #redistricting before next year’s #midterms, though the process would take months.

#law #ElectionLaw #gerrymandering #FireWithFire
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/virginia-redistricting-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Department of #Energy will host the #computers, the companies will provide the machines & capital spending, & both sides will share the #computing power, a DOE official said.

The 2 #supercomputers based on #AMD chips are intended to be the first of many of these types of partnerships with private industry & #DOE labs across the country, the official said.

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #AI #tech #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

#ORNL Director Stephen Streiffer said the #Lux #supercomputer will deliver about 3X the #AI capacity of current supercomputers.

The second, more advanced computer called #Discovery will be based around AMD's MI430 series of AI chips that are tuned for high-performance #computing. This system will be designed by ORNL, #HewlettPackard & #AMD. Discovery is expected to be delivered in 2028 & be ready for operations in 2029.

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #tech #energy #electricity #ClimateChange

The plans call for the first #supercomputer called #Lux to be constructed & come online within the next 6 months. It will be based around AMD's MI355X #ArtificialIntelligence chips, & the design will also include central processors & networking chips made by #AMD. The system is co-developed by AMD, #HewlettPackard Enterprise, #Oracle Cloud Infrastructure & Oak Ridge National Laboratory (#ORNL).

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #AI #tech #energy #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

"My hope is in the next 5 or 8 years, we will turn most cancers, many of which today are ultimate death sentences, into manageable conditions," Wright said.

[that sounds great, but #Trump has defunded #CleanEnergy, he actually wants to use #coal & other #FossilFuels which will increase #cancer rates!]

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #AI #tech #energy #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

…"We're going to get just massively faster progress using the computation from these #AI systems that I believe will have practical pathways to harness #fusion #energy in the next 2 or 3 years."

Wright said the #supercomputers would also help manage the US arsenal of #NuclearWeapons [Skynet anyone?] & accelerate #drug discovery by simulating ways to treat #cancer down to the
molecular level.

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #tech #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

#Energy Secy Wright said the systems would "supercharge" advances in #NuclearPower & #fusion energy, #technologies for #defense & #NationalSecurity, & the development of #drugs.

Scientists & companies are trying to replicate fusion, the reaction that fuels the sun, by jamming light atoms in a plasma gas under intense heat & pressure to release massive amounts of energy.

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #AI #tech #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

The US is building the 2 machines to ensure the country has enough #supercomputers to run increasingly complex experiments that require harnessing enormous amounts of data-crunching capability. The machines can accelerate the process of making scientific discoveries in areas the US is focused on.

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #AI #tech #energy #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Exclusive: #US Dept of #Energy forms $1B #supercomputer & #AI partnership with #AMD

The US has formed a $1 billion partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to construct 2 supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from #NuclearPower to #cancer treatments to #NationalSecurity, Energy Secy Chris Wright & AMD CEO Lisa Su told Reuters.

#science #law #EnvironmentalLaw #electricity #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Finally, advocates say the world must recognize why their protection matters. Beyond #HumanRights, these communities play an outsized role in stabilizing the global #climate.

“With the world under pressure from #ClimateChange, we will sink or swim together,” Bhattacharjee said.

#law #InternationalLaw #UncontactedIndigenous #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #LandConservation #LandRights #SaveRoadless #logging #mining #agribusiness #Climate #ClimateCrisis

Second, #corporations & #consumers must help stop the flow of #money driving #destruction. Survival’s report calls for companies to trace their #SupplyChains to ensure that commodities such as #gold, #timber & #soy are not sourced from #IndigenousLands.

“#Public opinion & pressure are essential,” Watson said. “It’s largely through citizens & the #media that so much has already been achieved to recognize uncontacted peoples & their rights.”

#law #business #UncontactedIndigenous #ClimateCrisis

First, governments must formally recognize & enforce #IndigenousTerritories, making them off-limits to extractive industries.

Mapping is crucial, Bhattacharjee said, because identifying the approximate territories of #UncontactedIndigenous peoples allows governments to protect those areas from #logging or #mining. But, she added, it must be done with extreme caution & from a distance to avoid contact that could endanger the groups’ #health or #autonomy.

#Law #LandConservation #SaveRoadless

#UncontactedIndigenous peoples & efforts to protect them

From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by #roads, miners & drug traffickers—a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection.

#law #InternationalLaw #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #LandConservation #LandRights #SaveRoadless #logging #mining #agribusiness #Climate #ClimateCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/uncontacted-indigenous-amazon-mining-logging-5d8d90cf8e13f44a5202101fee62b583

…Protecting uncontacted #IndigenousPeoples, experts say, will require both stronger laws & a shift in how the world views them — not as relics of the past, but as citizens of the planet whose survival affects everyone’s future.

Advocates have several recommendations.

#Law #InternationalLaw #UncontactedIndigenous #IndigenousRights #LandConservation #LandRights #SaveRoadless #logging #mining #agribusiness #Climate #ClimateCrisis

#Indiana #Republican Gov #MikeBraun called Monday for state lawmakers to return to Indianapolis for an emergency session to redraw the state’s congressional map.

#Trump has pressured Republican governors nationwide to draw new maps so the #GOP can keep control of the #House in the #midterms. While #Republicans in #Texas, #Missouri & #NorthCarolina moved quickly to obey their #DearLeader, Indiana lawmakers have been more hesitant.

#MafiaState #law #gerrymandering
https://apnews.com/article/indiana-redistricting-special-session-braun-63f3447efcc34529dfc363a96a763b6e?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-27-Breaking+News

#GiftArticle

The Next Golden Age of the #DeathPenalty Is Beginning

#Trump & the #Republican Party are bringing #CapitalPunishment back to the forefront of American #criminal justice.

#law #US
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/death-penalty-golden-age-trump/684691/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxUVtWoT14LPwwRDqhowRGMc

As previously reported, the #EEOC even moved to dismiss its own active lawsuits against companies that had been credibly accused of discriminating against #trans & #nonbinary workers. Seawright’s complaint says that the EEOC’s internal non-discrimination & inclusion policy regarding gender identity & sexual orientation, which has existed since at least 2009, was also rescinded by Lucas.

#Trump #law #LaborLaw #CivilRights #LGBTQ #discrimination

“The conditions of my employment have continued to deteriorate & I expect they will become worse as Acting Chair Lucas takes further steps to discriminate against #transgender employees,” his complaint said.

Meanwhile, elsewhere at the agency, #EEOC staff were instructed to stop processing complaints from workers alleging #LBGTQ+ #discrimination.

#Trump #law #LaborLaw #CivilRights

Seawright’s complaint is not only about what he was instructed to do at work, but also about what he was prevented from doing amid the #EEOC’s efforts to “marginalize me & my role.” Among other things, he says he was booted from network systems he needed to do his job & left off meeting invitations about initiatives he was supposed to be leading.

#Trump #law #LaborLaw #CivilRights #LGBTQ #discrimination

The same month, #EEOC staff were instructed that any recognition of #transgender & #nonbinary people needed to be “systematically erased” in both the EEOC’s internal & external materials, Seawright explained in a formal complaint against the agency in March, before his resignation.

“What made it more disturbing,” he wrote, “was my forced involvement in making it happen.”

#Trump #law #LaborLaw #CivilRights #LGBTQ #discrimination

Seawright, who identifies as a queer trans man, has also served as an employee-elected board leader of the agency’s #LGBTQ+ employee resource group; that is, until the #Trump adminn’s newly appointed #EEOC chair, Andrea Lucas, disbanded it in January.

#law #LaborLaw #CivilRights

Before his resignation, the information technology specialist had spent the last 8 years working on projects that enabled the #EEOC to carry out its core mission: preventing & fighting workplace #discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy status, disability, & genetic information….

#law #LaborLaw #CivilRights