Liz Hughes

Did federal and state officers need a warrant before having a drug dog sniff the exterior of an Owings Mills, Md. apartment door, in a multi-unit complex, accessible via a common hallway? Fourth Circuit: We now hold precedentially what we’ve previously held in two unpublished opinions: No. No reasonable expectation of privacy in contraband—the only thing that a trained dog alerts to—nor is the exterior of the door protected “curtilage” akin to a front porch. “[D]og sniffs are different.”

the court just cannot bring itself accept that this is bullshit. drug dogs alert when they're told to alert. they aren't specialized, objective machines.

they're trained to make their handlers happy and what makes them happy is probable cause.

Once again, Teen Vogue out here doing better journalism than 90% of the mainstream media

How the Prison Industry Became a Booming Business CoreCivic’s CEO called the Trump administration “one of the most exciting periods” of his career.

#OpEd: "We must recognize the prison industry for what it is: an industry built on the human suffering of crime victims, incarcerated people, their families, and still others." Read the full story on how the prison industry became worth over $80 billion a year.

The FBI As We Knew It is Gone It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.

I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...

Trump is turning the FBI into an East German-style Stasi. In front of our very eyes.

“We are set to see the largest increase in incarceration and detention since the last prison boom that started in the 1970s. The social costs will be immense for all of us unless we intervene and dismantle the financial incentives that capitalize on crime and incarceration.”

Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad

New: Israel is starving Palestinians, forcing them to beg for donations on sites like Bluesky. Their accounts keep getting flagged as spam. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Yasmine. Yasmine and her husband Nour have five children, Mohammed, 13, David, 12, Saba, 10, Rital, 8 and little Tin who is just 10 months old. Nour worked as a house painter before all this but his business and their home is lost.

democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either

- nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks

- concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life

literally the only 2 options

“youre goddam right im for ‘they/them’ theyre americans arent they?”

its really not that hard to flip this shit right on its head if you actually want to

“many people are saying hes a child rapist, i mean he was found liable for rape in a court of law and now hes making up reasons to look at your kids genitals” is so easy to say, it took me 30 seconds to type this

“there are a dozen or so trans kids playing high school sports, this is not an issue that affects you and its time we start asking why the guy who has repeatedly bragged about being sexually attracted to children wants to look at your kids genitals” is an entirely true thing you can say!

literally the only counter argument you need is “jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly inspect your childs genitals”

i'm pretty sure if you expressed this sentiment to a medieval monk they would hold a heresy trial

You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.

STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS: Keep these dates in mind because under Trump’s new law this is when you HAVE to act.

The cop's family should file a wrongful death suit against RFK (for stuff he said before Bill Cassidy confirmed him) and the NGO that has made RFK rich.

U.S. map showing that in 25 states and D.C., federal agencies like ICE and the U.S. Marshals only detain people using local jails. In other states, jails play a part in the detention network alongside federal or private facilities. In Arizona, Delaware, and Hawaii no local jails provide substantial detention space to these agencies.

Local jails–mostly run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of ICE's rampant criminalization of immigration.

Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside C.D.C. in Atlanta

“The gunman fired at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because he blamed the Covid vaccine for his maladies, an official said.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

There have been five different heads of the IRS this year alone:

Doug O'Donnell (Jan. 20th thru Feb. 28th)
Melanie Krause (Feb. 28th thru April 16th)
Gary Shapley (April 16th thru April 18th)
Michael Faulkender (April 18th thru June 16th)
Billy Long (June 16th thru today)

About to be a sixth.

Evangelical movement: Inside one Idaho pastor’s crusade for Christian domination in the age of Trump | CNN Politics Doug Wilson grew his Idaho church into a global network of schools and congregations with a patriarchal view of Christian nationalism. His new church in DC counts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a c...

He has the ear of Pete Hegseth and he's the one mainstreaming the idea around toxic empathy and that women shouldn't vote.

Pursuant to Northern District of California Local Civil Rules 7-11 and 77-3, Defendants respectfully object to permitting remote public access during the trial proceedings. Local Rule 77- 3(b)(1) permits a court to prohibit remote public access "where doing so would risk interfering with the integrity of the proceedings." "This includes, but is not limited to, situations where remote public access would risk infringing on privacy interests, creating safety concerns, or materially affecting witness testimony." Id. Those conditions are present here. Yesterday, the parties exchanged final witness lists. The parties expect the Court will hear testimony from the three individuals who have given deposition testimony, which includes two Department of Defense officials and one official from the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations. It is undisputed that agitators have used social media and the Internet to coordinate attacks against DHS ICE ERO personnel. See, e.g., DHS Announces ICE Law Enforcement are Now Facing an 830 Percent Increase in Assaults, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/15/dhs-announces-ice-law-enforcement-are-now- facing-830-percent-increase-assaults (July 15, 2015); ECF No. 84-1 (June 18 Santacruz Declaration) at I 6 (discussing the violence against National Guard members and law enforcement). And doxxing-the posting of private or identifying information about a particular individual online with malicious intent—has been another significant safety concern. See, e.g., ECF No. 22-1 (June 11 Santacruz Declaration) at I 33 (discussing the "significant instances of demonstrators posting the location, images, and family information of federal law enforcement employees online in an attempt to dox, threaten and obstruct"). Providing remote public access to the trial creates safety concerns for the witnesses and attorneys appearing at trial. At a minimum, Defendants res…

NEW: DOJ asks Judge Breyer to close next week's trial on the Trump admin's possible violations of the Posse Comitatus Act to remote public access, arguing that it endangers DoD/DHS/ICE officials to let the public see who they are. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thousands seen sitting with placards that all read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action.” Big Ben is seen in the background

NEW: Parliament Square, London right now.

Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Police now making arrests.

(📸 Saul Staniforth)

Private Prisons Cash In on Trump’s Mass Deportations GEO Group and CoreCivic are boasting of ‘unprecedented growth opportunities’ as they partner with ICE to surveil and imprison immigrants.

Private prison executives are exuberant about mass deportations, boasting on earnings calls about 100% revenue growth and millions in stock buybacks. Next, they plan to assist ICE with transportation. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:

Please, friends, can you do anything to help this family?

Aug. 9, 2014 | White Police Officer Shoots and Kills Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. A grand jury refused to indict the officer, who was never held accountable.

Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.

I haven't heard about this but we have getting ads like this on radio and tv for months now - and I am in a very Democratic northeastern state in a very Democratic city! I am about ready to lead a boycott against my favorite radio station, I am so sick of these ads.

The funniest part for me personally is that at this point you couldn’t PAY ME to visit the US even in passing, I didn’t need Botox Eva Braun to interrupt my 5 hour indie horror game video essay to convince me of it.

Like seriously I haven’t seen ONE WORD about it on the internet in the months that’s been happenin and it kinda feels like it should be a big deal that the US gov is hijacking foreign TV networks to run racist propaganda?

Are we Mexicans really that invisible in the international space? Lol