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Line between church and state fades in Texas charter schools (www.houstonchronicle.com)
In the first-floor classrooms of a refurbished historical schoolhouse in Houston’s Third Ward, kindergarten-through-5th-graders pray before going to lunch and gather each day for Bible study. A large, green banner saying “He Is Risen” is posted on the hallway wall....
FCC Closes ‘Fast Lane’ Loophole in Final Net Neutrality Order (www.wired.com)
The Federal Communications Commission released its final net neutrality order on Tuesday, and it includes a few edits to the draft version ensuring that internet service providers can’t sneakily violate fast-lane bans....
Report: Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1 billion (www.motherjones.com)
Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1 billion for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell...
Divided Supreme Court rules no quick hearing required when police seize property (apnews.com)
“In short, law enforcement can seize cars, hold them indefinitely, and then rely on an owner’s lack of resources to forfeit those cars to fund agency budgets, all without any initial check by a judge as to whether there is a basis to hold the car in the first place,” Sotomayor wrote....
Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook (arstechnica.com)
The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow...
Reminder: You can read Stormy's first day of testimony transcripts (ww2.nycourts.gov)
I haven’t read them yet so I don’t know a page number. It probably won’t be until tonight.
With so many conspiracy theories, why isn't there one where Jeffrey Epstein lives?
I understand why there are the ones where he didn’t kill himself, but the cameras were destroyed, how come no one thought to think he just walked out? This has been bugging me since it happened....
Key student-debt relief programs are at risk if Congress doesn't boost Education Department funding, 25 Democratic lawmakers say (www.businessinsider.com)
However, Republicans have opted to flat-fund the agency, and this year, they proposed funding cuts. The Democrats wrote in their letter, first viewed by Business Insider, that the lack of funding is “severely undermining FSA’s ability to implement critical programs.”
Trump's classified documents trial in Florida indefinitely postponed (www.bbc.com)
In her Tuesday filing, the judge scheduled additional hearings over pending concerns, including one in late July, and declined to set a new date for the trial to begin....
Tesla is under a federal wire fraud probe for misleading investors (arstechnica.com)
However, the partially automated driving systems remain critically important to Tesla, particularly FSD. In April, the company dropped the price of this controversial option by $4,000, and Musk recently told his followers that “[g]oing balls to the wall for autonomy is a blindingly obvious move.” As Tesla’s profit margins...
Judge Cannon's secret right-wing getaway: Why didn't we know about this? (www.salon.com)
It’s called the Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana, and it’s where George Mason University sends gaggles of federal judges for a week-long “colloquium” every year or so. Paid for by the Law and Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School, the “colloquium” held at the Sage Lodge in 2021, for example, featured lectures...
Federal judge blasts threat by Alabama to prosecute groups aiding out-of-state abortions (www.cnn.com)
A federal judge smacked down a series of threats by Alabama’s Republican attorney general to prosecute groups that help women obtain out-of-state abortions, wading into a debate over access to the procedure that has lingered since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago....
US company agrees to fine for hiring children to clean slaughterhouses (www.theguardian.com)
The US labor department announced on Monday that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC entered into a consent judgment, in which the company agrees to nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employ minors. The February filing indicated federal investigators believed at least four children had...
From toxic mold to rampant fraud: How privatizing military housing became a nightmare for soldiers (www.motherjones.com)
These private companies would go on to invest roughly $32 billion into maintaining the nation’s military housing stock, helping to build 75,000 new homes and renovate another 50,000, according to a coalition of military housing companies....
Boeing Admits That Its Employees Falsified Aircraft Records for 787 Dreamliner (gizmodo.com)
The Federal Aviation Administration revealed on Monday that it was conducting a new probe into the embattled airplane manufacturer—this one focused on whether records related to the company’s 787 Dreamliner had been falsified, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Not long afterward, the Seattle Times reported that...
Poland Funds 20,000 Starlink Devices to Support Ukraine's Military (www.kyivpost.com)
Driver dies after crashing into White House perimeter gate, Secret Service says (www.npr.org)
The male driver, who was not immediately identified, was found dead in the vehicle following the crash shortly before 10:30 p.m. at an outer perimeter gate of the White House complex, the U.S. Secret Service said in a statement.