Lawmakers Press Treasury to Boost China Forced Labor Enforcement (news.bloomberglaw.com)
- Pressure mounts to fully implement Uyghur forced labor law***- Republican letter seeks details on Treasury sanctions***...
Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War (www.nytimes.com)
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"Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”: Meet the Palestinian Lawyer Censored by Columbia and Harvard (www.democracynow.org)
The website of the Columbia Law Review was taken down by its board of directors on Monday after student editors refused a request from the board to halt the publication of an academic article written by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah titled “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept.”...
RealPage Rent Price-Fixing Probe Escalates With FBI Raid (www.entrepreneur.com)
The surprise search was reportedly part of a criminal antitrust investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) into RealPage, a $9 billion software company that recommends rent raises on millions of housing units across the U.S....
NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI (www.reuters.com)
Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined “Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns.”...
NY Gov Hochul delays controversial NYC congestion pricing plan ‘indefinitely’. (www.cnn.com)
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Top U.S. Art Museum Financial Stats (beehaw.org)
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Gold Mining Project Struck Down By U.S. Circuit Court Protecting Critical Species In California’s Sierra Nevadas (worldanimalnews.com)
The recent decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the approval of exploratory drilling east of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains is a significant victory for environmental conservation and protection of sensitive ecosystems....
Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert (ca.news.yahoo.com)
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Washington Post Newsroom Reels From Its Editor’s Sudden Exit (www.nytimes.com)
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At Texas GOP convention, Republicans call for spiritual warfare (www.texastribune.org)
No matter how bad you think this could be, it’s worse.
Bernie Sanders blasts lawmakers' decision of both political parties to invite "war criminal" Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before Congress (www.sanders.senate.gov)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement on the decision of Senate and House leaders of both political parties to extend an invitation to Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address a joint meeting of Congress:...
"I was shocked:" State Department Official quits after report denies Israel blocking humanitarian assistance in Gaza despite "abundant evidence showing Israel is responsible for blocking aid" (www.democracynow.org)
After working at the U.S. State Department for over 20 years, Stacy Gilbert quit the Biden administration this week after a report she contributed to concluded Israel was not obstructing humanitarian assistance to Gaza....
Shein, Temu and the $800 Sin: Stopping Uyghur Forced Labor Cotton by Unstitching the U.S. Border Free-for-All (dominotheory.com)
Nineteen percent of cotton on the U.S. market still sources back to the forced labor heartlands of East Turkestan (Xinjiang), according to a new analysis. Reducing that figure is easier than Washington makes it look.–...
GUILTY (edition.cnn.com)
Guilty on 34 counts....
Pressure grows on President Biden to allow Ukraine to use US-supplied weapons to strike Russian territory (www.bbc.com)
- Ukraine has been struggling to counter a Russian offensive in the east of the country, often launched by Russia from military outposts near the Ukrainian border, but on Russian soil....
Jury Deliberates Trump’s Fate in Historic New York Trial: Guilt, Acquittal, or Hung Jury? (thenarinder.in)
New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances (apnews.com)
In a nation which has the highest percentage of its citizens imprisoned in the world, Louisiana is the state with the highest percentage of its citizens imprisoned in the country. This is the exact wrong direction.
Vermont Moves to Hold Fossil-Fuel Companies Liable for Climate-Change Damage (archive.ph)
Recently, with memories of the floodings still fresh, Vermont lawmakers voted to assess a fee on fossil-fuel producers to pay for “climate-adaptive” infrastructure projects in the state. The bill operates on the polluter-pays principle, the basis of the federal Superfund law—it’s been dubbed the Climate Superfund Act....
This summer is the end of outdoor dining in NYC as we know it (gothamist.com)
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation (www.theguardian.com)
2 teens won $50,000 for inventing a device that can filter toxic microplastics from water (www.businessinsider.com)
Democrats Send Big Oil Investigation to Justice Department urging DOJ to probe fossil fuel industry’s practices (www.bloomberg.com)
Here is the fossil fuel report (pdf)....
Uvalde families sue Meta, video game creator and gunmaker (www.bbc.com)
Families of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting are suing the manufacturer of the gun used in the attack, the maker of a video game and Instagram parent company Meta....
Here come the Russians, again: The director of national intelligence recently warned that Russia remains “the most active foreign threat to our elections" (www.motherjones.com)
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