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A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.

Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.

“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means. Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually…

Turning old plastic into new plastic is really, really hard.

Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.

(Published Aug. 2024)

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Republicans Issue Arrest Warrants for Texas Democrats, But They Likely Aren’t Enforceable Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Texas House Monday voted to issue arrest warrants for Democrats who fled the state to block the GOP from taking a vote on its congressional redistricting plan. However, experts say it’s unlikely the warrants will actually return Democrats to Texas, contrary to Republicans’ claims.

The Law Schools With The Most Diverse Faculty (2025) These law schools are taking diversity and inclusion seriously in their faculty hiring.

The Law Schools With The Most Diverse Faculty (2025)
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/the-law-schools-with-the-most-diverse-faculty-2025/

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

ICYMI: Amazon still doing Amazon things

The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users

Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request *livestream* access to our home security devices.

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Texas Democrats Leave the State to Block GOP Congressional Map Read more here.

House Republicans have sped through a very abbreviated redistricting process – holding just one public hearing for the entire state after the map was released. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

spongebob is sitting at a table in a diner with a cup of coffee . ALT: spongebob is sitting at a table in a diner with a cup of coffee .

A couple years ago I signed up or email newsletters from our local ATF office so I could follow the gun cases, which I write about. Right now, none of them are about guns, they're almost all bragging about ATF doing *immigration* roundups instead. That's ATF, not ICE.

The situation at the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has gotten so bad that detainees have been on a hunger strike for over ten straight days.

What passed also included language aimed at preventing a standoff in the future. It says bar advocates who refuse to accept new clients because of their pay may constitute a violation of the state's antitrust laws.

For some reason not every MA criminal defense atty is cheering for a bill under which, starting in FY27, they'd be paid $85/hr for appointed district court cases and subject to potential antitrust enforcement if they decide to do something else with their time. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...

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Scorching cells How heat threatens lives in America’s prisons

www.reuters.com/graphics/USA... - this is torture

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

The terror began immediately. Salvadoran guards beat them with their fists, boots and batons, shot them with rubber pellets, and forced them to lick other men's backs.

What happened when we sent 230+ Venezuelans to a prison known for human rights abuses.

www.propublica.org/article/vene...

The Washington Post published the 18,500 known names of children killed by Israel’s military operations in Gaza.

Tsunami alert issued for Pacfiic islands after magnitude-8 earthquake Hazardous waves from strong magnitude 8 quake are possible on the coast of Russia and Japan, USGS says A tsunami alert has been issued for Pacific islands, Russia and Japan after a magnitude 8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey says. The quake was shallow and strong enough to cause waves or a tsunami, it said. Continue reading...

Tsunami alert issued for Pacfiic islands after magnitude-8 earthquake

Another day, another mother of an infant detained by ICE 😭

Graph showing that 40% of people in state prisons have a disability vs. 15% of U.S. adults

People with disabilities are failed by the criminal legal system time & time again.

After disproportionate contact with law enforcement, unaccommodating courts, and unequipped jails, thousands with disabilities are locked up in state prisons on a given day.

State Election Board finds Lyft's ride-to-the-polls offer broke Georgia law In a 3-1 vote Tuesday, the State Election Board found that the company violated a Georgia law against paying for votes when it offered discounted rides to the polls in 2022.

Discounted Lyft rides to vote are illegal in Georgia, Election Board finds

Travelling to the U.S.? Here's a guide to locking down phones and other devices Worried about your electronics being checked when travelling into the United States? Here’s how to protect yourself.

“Data copied from devices during advanced searches at entry points into the U.S. gets saved for 15 years in a database searchable by thousands of CBP employees without a warrant.” o.canada.com/travel/us-tr...

Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC president calls for urgent collective action by states to end abhorrent suffering in Gaza

#Gaza:
All States have an obligation to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law #IHL, including by ensuring that the arms they transfer do not contribute to violations of IHL. 

www.icrc.org/en/statement...

5 questions for Danielle Citron

Go @daniellecitron.bsky.social! 5 Questions for Danielle Citron.

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Debunking the Myth of the ‘Migrant Crime Wave’ Data does not support claims that the United States is experiencing a surge in crime caused by immigrants.

The research does not support the view that immigrants commit crime or are incarcerated at higher rates than native-born Americans. bit.ly/4dTGTlv

Trump’s cuts are hitting Black women especially hard.

Haphazard firings are already having dire consequences for communities across the country. We cannot allow this to continue.

Abolitionist Lessons from the Prison Belts - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest In a six-part series that revisits the landmark insights of ‘Golden Gulag,’ we explore what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion in California, Appalachia, and Louisiana.

Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, ‪@craiggilmore.bsky.social‬ @lydiajean.bsky.social‬ & Judah Schept inquest.org/abolitio...

"According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet."

Prisoners’ Phone Calls Will Soon Be Free in New York State

New York is set to make phone calls free for incarcerated people: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...