Stephen Raher

Hard to take seriously the red-white-and-blue rhetoric of freedom on a 4th of July where the US president has cut off aid to a democracy fighting for its independence against ferocious attack by a foreign tyrant.

Indeed. ICE detention has always been a human rights nightmare. Now it will continue as such, on a much larger scale and with the explicit blessing of the President.

FCC postpones its groundbreaking 2024 rules, allowing excessive phone and video rates to continue Incarcerated people and their loved ones will continue to be exploited by sheriffs and telecom companies for two more years, while these same interests lobby ...

Congress told the FCC to lower prison phone rates by 2025. This this week FCC staff said "just kidding"
Did some sheriff buy a bunch of memecoin in order to get the White House to tell the FCC to reverse course? Now that emotion and personal connections are prioritized over the law, it's possible.

The Trump Administration Likely Sent Scores of Legal Immigrants to a Foreign Prison The Constitution guarantees all people — regardless of citizenship — due process, free speech and other rights. DHS’ refusal to respect those rights is ruining America’s image as a land of freedom and...

“The fact that so many of these imprisoned people came legally highlights an important feature of the Trump administration’s mass deportation policy: No one is off limits.”
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Is the Federal Communications Commission Out of Commission? For the first time that anyone can remember, the agency lacks a legal quorum to do business.

Surprise: no one really knows if we have a functioning FCC.

The so-called GENIUS act would require banks to payout failed crypto schemes ahead of FDIC-insured deposits.

"The FCRA prohibits any 'person' from furnishing 'any information relating to a consumer to a consumer reporting agency if the person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the information is inaccurate.'"

Dudes with no badges or ID grabbing you off the street when you haven't committed a crime is what the Second Amendment is for.

Federal prison rules push for “financial responsibility” while impoverishing people Proposed changes to the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program by the Bureau of Prisons risk pushing incarcerated people and their families further into poverty

Almost everything in prison has a price tag, and products are often marked up.

Most people, whether they have a work assignment or not, rely on outside support to meet their basic needs. #CriminalJustice #ProtectConsumers @prisonpolicy.bsky.social www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/02...

Funeral procession closes sections of I-205 Thursday morning between West Linn, Johnson Creek The procession is for a West Linn officer who died in November

Not a two-day closure, but a similar highway closure just happened in a suburb of Portland

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