New Lawsuit Details Allegations of Violence, Illegal Searches During ICE Raid
A demonstration in New York City in February 2017 to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement raidsErik Mcgregor/Pacific Press/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In April 2018, employees at a meatpacking plant in small-town Tennessee had just started what seemed like a normal day at work when they were suddenly rushed by…
Use of Force in California State Juvenile Detention Facilities Has Jumped Threefold Since Court Monitoring Ended
zodebala/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2016, California’s state agency for juvenile justice seemed to be experiencing an upward swing. After more than a decade of court monitoring, mandated as part of a lawsuit over the abuse of youth detainees, poor medical care, and a lack of rehabilitative programs…
A Judge Just Imposed a Strict Gag Order on a Groveling Roger Stone
Jose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson slapped a strict gag order on Roger Stone Thursday but stopped short of jailing him over an Instagram post by Stone showing what appeared to be a crosshairs next to Jackson’s head. “Any violation of…
My Abridged Green New Deal
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There has been some confusion about exactly what I meant in my climate change post on Tuesday. Since I’m in no shape to write anything lengthy, this is a perfect opportunity to boil it down to a sentence or two. Here it is: If you’re…
Facebook Fucks Up Yet Again
Robin Rayne/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the LA Times: Facebook makes money by charging advertisers to reach just the right audience for their message — even when that audience is made up of people interested in the perpetrators of the Holocaust or explicitly neo-Nazi music. Despite promises of…
Measles Outbreaks Are Increasing. Experts Think It’s Because of Anti-Vaxxers on Facebook.
David Cheskin/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Medical experts warn that the internet could be making more of us sick, pointing to research highlighting how online platforms’ role in boosting vaccination opponents and their baseless theories is fueling infectious disease outbreaks across the world. “Incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases can be…