Anodyne

"Together, the two police departments delved into one of the case's biggest missteps: the use of a charge that doesn't exist. The district attorney ... confirmed to the police investigators that there's no such crime as 'criminal responsibility.'"

"People are starting to pay attention to how ... arbitrary and illogical the immigration detention system is."

"[U.S. Forest Service officials ha]ve known about this. They've known about other threats to health and well-being yet they have chosen to not be proactive ... [I]t's only when they're forced to provide information that [wildland firefighters] find out about it."

"[The chapter] generally reflects the conclusions of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The manual ... is considered among the most important and trusted guides for justices grappling with technical material, in large part because it is endorsed by the judicial branch itself."

"[S]enior officials were apparently concerned that the investigation ... could contradict [Trump]'s official (and demonstrably false) statements on [Renee] Good's death, in which he wrongly claimed Good 'ran over' the ICE agent, despite concrete video evidence demonstrating that never happened."

"The only medical condition under this new policy that doesn't get an individualized assessment is gender dysphoria ... If you're transgender, you're out. That's it."

"I shouldn't have to be out standing in the cold in front of the Veterans Administration because of [DHS] murdering people in the United States."

"[7-month-old] Santina almost certainly would have survived if she weren't malnourished ... Santina was transferred to the hospital's morgue, a squat concrete building at the edge of the compound. [Her father] borrowed $10 to bury [her] in [a] cemetery, just on the other side of the hospital fence."

"HB 553 also uses a much more broad definition of what counts as a 'gender transition service,' blocking basically every 'surgical, medical, mental health, or pharmaceutical' service 'performed for the purpose of ... validating or affirming an individual's perception of the individual's sex.'"

"[T]here are always things that could be better ... [W]e have the right and the freedom to point that out."

"[The International Olympic Committee's] responses ... don't get at the core elements that really plague the Olympic Games, and that's overspending, that's the intensification of militarized policing, that's greenwashing, that's corruption, that's the displacement of local populations."

"[Leqaa] Kordia is believed to be the last of the pro-Palestine Columbia protesters remaining in immigration detention. She has been in [ICE] detention since March 2025 ... An immigration judge has ordered Kordia to be released twice, but the Trump administration has worked to keep her detained."

"When prosecutors abuse their power ... disciplinary authorities must hold them accountable and impose real consequences."

"I endured two full years of war without electricity, telling myself to be patient ... The war has been over for more than three months, and nothing has changed."

"This is resistance for survival ... We have no other choice."

"[T]he public is set to foot the bill for 142 [carbon capture and sequestration] projects that amount to $835 billion over 18 years. That's an average of nearly $6 billion per project ... CCS wells will only account for 2.4% of carbon mitigation by 2030, amid concerns over cost and limited impact."

"[T]he answer isn't banning lifesaving products ... [I]t's the development of more sustainable products, and the creation of free and convenient recycling programs."

"For antiretroviral therapies (ART) like the medications that treat HIV, adherence is critical. Bundling ART together with safer supply ... can make [adherence] possible for people who have structural barriers working against them."

"It's very important to make our code enforcement system more efficient, more responsive and better able to track housing quality concerns before they get very bad. We ... want a system where tenants are organized, they can ask landlords for repairs, and those repairs come."

"You have a hard time not breaking down and weeping in front of those women ... It's so cruel what we're doing."

"In the courtroom, probabilistic genotype profiling software analyzes scant, messy, or low-quality DNA evidence to estimate the likelihood that [a DNA profile corresponds to] a person of interest [as compared to the likelihood of one other hypothesis] ... AI systems expand our carceral systems."

Forensic DNA Interpretation and Human Factors: Improving the Practice Through a Systems Approach The Expert Working Group on Human Factors in Forensic DNA Interpretation has conducted a scientific assessment of the effects of human factors in forensic DNA a

For a better description of probabilistic genotyping software, likelihood ratios, and related issues:

"Standing up for yourself, your family, and for your patients is a brave choice and you sacrifice your ... livelihood."

Beyond reform.

"A more accurate way to think about immigration is to view it as a type of population growth. When babies are born, we can be ... confident that some small percentage of them will one day commit crimes. Does that mean that we should ban all babies from being born for public safety?"

Guess which House Dem has repeatedly pushed harmful narratives about asylum seekers being coached to lie by cartels?

I'll give you 7 guesses.

(Yes, of course it's @tomsuozzi.bsky.social.)

Excerpt from: suozzi.house.gov/media/press-...

"The UN has warned that Cuba is on the precipice of humanitarian 'collapse' if the U.S. doesn't lift its oil blockade — in a country that has ... long struggled with an energy crisis brought on by decades of a devastating U.S. embargo."

This is unconscionable.

But some of it is familiar. When I started as a public defender more than 10 years ago, NYPD and Corrections Officers also used the term "bodies" to refer to the people in their custody.

It is both small and huge that I now rarely hear that. We demanded better.

"[W]hat we are seeing is that these women are not getting justice. They're getting the opposite of justice. Their predators ... are being aided and abetted."

On the long list of demands that would have been preferable to body cams: stop using chemical weapons that are banned in war on civilians.

Also, Abolish ICE.