What Extreme Cold Feels Like in Prison
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how cold their prisons get in the winter — and what small dignities could make it more bearable.
In a special project on extreme cold in prison, 27 PJP contributors in 17 states describe winter behind bars — and the small dignities that could make it more bearable.
21.11.2025 01:50 — 👍 55 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 5
What will a ban on most US hemp products mean?
Ban forbids all products that contain more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per package – a trace amount present in most CBD products
What will a ban on most US hemp products mean?
Ban forbids all products that contain more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per package – a trace amount present in most CBD products
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
23.11.2025 02:43 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
YouTube’s Right-Wing Stars Fuel Boom in Politically Charged Ads
YouTube’s MAGA stars aren’t just talking politics—they’re selling it
"The popularity of YouTube podcasts among conservatives is driving a boom in small businesses tailoring ads to their millions of listeners, paying hosts like Joe Rogan and Candace Owens to read out promotions in the hope that fans will place orders."
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
22.11.2025 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
"The department determined that the following programs were professional: medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, law, veterinary medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic, theology and clinical psychology."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
22.11.2025 17:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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22.11.2025 15:10 — 👍 2828 🔁 1266 💬 87 📌 93
FIRST READING: B.C. human rights chief declares that it's colonialist to stigmatize drug use
Overdose crisis is "rooted in colonial approaches that prioritize individualism over community, wealth over health and power over empathy."
FIRST READING: B.C. human rights chief declares that it's colonialist to stigmatize drug use
Overdose crisis is 'rooted in colonial approaches that prioritize individualism over community, wealth over health and power over empathy'
nationalpost.com/opinion/b-c-...
22.11.2025 00:34 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Psychedelics: Real risk or human right? - Harvard Law School
A Harvard Law School panel debated approaches to research and access to hallucinogenic drugs.
Psychedelics: Real risk or human right?
A Harvard Law School panel debated approaches to research and access to hallucinogenic drugs, which have been little studied because of their illegality
hls.harvard.edu/today/psyche...
22.11.2025 00:28 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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21.11.2025 23:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dude, Where’s My THC Ban?
We thought the Texas Weed Wars of 2025 ended when Greg Abbott passed regulations by executive order. Then Congress banned most hemp-THC products.
"To sum up: After accidentally legalizing drugs, the members of the Texas Legislature consumed thousands of man-hours in a futile debate about whether it shouldn’t have, only to punt on the question repeatedly, allowing a higher authority to answer it for them."
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
21.11.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
NEW: Federal prison workers are jumping ship & heading to ICE for better pay + bonuses. Already BOP lost >1400 people this year, reversing all of 2024’s staffing gains. It’s an unintended consequence of Trump’s push for mass deportations
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21.11.2025 18:38 — 👍 433 🔁 219 💬 33 📌 36
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
"The FBI, the documents show, gained access to conversations in a 'courtwatch' Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
21.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
Oregon gave homeless youths cash payments with no strings attached. Read how it helped.
"Researchers found that 30 months after the program began, 8% of youths who participated reported being homeless at least one night in the last 30 days compared to 25% of those who didn’t."
www.streetroots.org/news/2025/11...
21.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
![Heritage also understood that time-pressed reporters were already adopting the horrid he-said/she-said style that plagues journalism today. If we got wind that some world-class Brookings scholar was due to release a book on, say, national health insurance that made an original contribution to knowledge in the field, someone at Heritage would quickly draft a short paper rehashing the same old talking points attacking national health insurance that had been around forever and release it the same day as the Brookings study. More often than not, we would get a story in the Washington Post the next day saying little more than this: “Today the Brookings Institution published a book, 3 tears in the making, advocating national health insurance, and the Heritage Foundation released a report on the same subject saying it would bankrupt the nation and lead to a deterioration in health quality.” Reporters never distinguished between the quality of one study and the shallowness of the other; they both got conflated and prevented the other side from getting traction on an issue.[vi] This method still works today.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/bafkreiabn6zsn47fjy7fdtsz56sqyl22sg6werwfjmgi3f7tbemrfyucna@jpeg)
Heritage also understood that time-pressed reporters were already adopting the horrid he-said/she-said style that plagues journalism today. If we got wind that some world-class Brookings scholar was due to release a book on, say, national health insurance that made an original contribution to knowledge in the field, someone at Heritage would quickly draft a short paper rehashing the same old talking points attacking national health insurance that had been around forever and release it the same day as the Brookings study. More often than not, we would get a story in the Washington Post the next day saying little more than this: “Today the Brookings Institution published a book, 3 tears in the making, advocating national health insurance, and the Heritage Foundation released a report on the same subject saying it would bankrupt the nation and lead to a deterioration in health quality.” Reporters never distinguished between the quality of one study and the shallowness of the other; they both got conflated and prevented the other side from getting traction on an issue.[vi] This method still works today.
Revealing piece from Bruce Bartlett explaining how even back in the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation understood how to play the news media in ways other think tanks didn't:
brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...
21.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 379 🔁 161 💬 13 📌 5
![As for the evidence Defendants marshalled through Parra with respect to CBP’s actions, Parra testified in his deposition that he had only been in the field with CBP a “handful of times, four to five,” during Operation Midway Blitz. Doc. 191-9 at 30:7–10. And he made clear that he based much of his declaration on information he gleaned from use of force reports, with maybe some (unidentified) review of video footage. See, e.g., id. at 81:17–82:16, 85:17–23, 86:15–91:1 (describing that Parra viewed some video footage, but that he could not recall how much or of what events). Given the inconsistencies between the BWC footage and the use of force reports, with the BWC footage undermining what agents put in their reports, the Court cannot rely on Parra’s broad generalizations of protesters’ actions or Defendants’ responses to those actions. [FN 9]
[FN 9] 9 The Court also notes that, in at least one instance, an agent asked ChatGPT to compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images. Axon_Body_4_Video_2025-10-03_0949_D01A2556T at 00:00–00:42. To the extent that agents use ChatGPT to create their use of force reports, this further undermines their credibility and may explain the inaccuracy of these reports when viewed in light of the BWC footage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreidrgcuxzzkkyozeaimpri73bx75rjcbkhvo5gpkv2lbm4kgpcsk74@jpeg)
As for the evidence Defendants marshalled through Parra with respect to CBP’s actions, Parra testified in his deposition that he had only been in the field with CBP a “handful of times, four to five,” during Operation Midway Blitz. Doc. 191-9 at 30:7–10. And he made clear that he based much of his declaration on information he gleaned from use of force reports, with maybe some (unidentified) review of video footage. See, e.g., id. at 81:17–82:16, 85:17–23, 86:15–91:1 (describing that Parra viewed some video footage, but that he could not recall how much or of what events). Given the inconsistencies between the BWC footage and the use of force reports, with the BWC footage undermining what agents put in their reports, the Court cannot rely on Parra’s broad generalizations of protesters’ actions or Defendants’ responses to those actions. [FN 9]
[FN 9] 9 The Court also notes that, in at least one instance, an agent asked ChatGPT to compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images. Axon_Body_4_Video_2025-10-03_0949_D01A2556T at 00:00–00:42. To the extent that agents use ChatGPT to create their use of force reports, this further undermines their credibility and may explain the inaccuracy of these reports when viewed in light of the BWC footage.
Judge Ellis also found that a top CBP leader's testimony was not credible, in part because he admitted that was relying on unreliable "use of force" reports generated by DHS officers — and in a footnote, says video showed an officer asking ChatGPT to help him fill out a use of force report!
20.11.2025 23:12 — 👍 1003 🔁 215 💬 4 📌 25
Mississippians Still Waiting on Full SNAP Benefits
Mississippi SNAP recipients are still waiting for full payments more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to technical issues.
NEW: Mississippians still have not received their full SNAP benefits more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to problems with a 40-year-old computer system running on COBOL.
And there is no guarantee they'll get them before Thanksgiving—or even by December.
21.11.2025 00:06 — 👍 276 🔁 168 💬 13 📌 14
Cannabis Activist Dana Beal Sentenced on Pot Charge in Idaho
Irwin Dana Beal has been sentenced to four months in an Idaho jail stemming from his felony marijuana trafficking arrest on January 12. 2024.
"The legendary activist, who founded Cures Not Wars and the Global Marijuana March and is a longtime YIPPIE organizer, was busted by Idaho State Police in Gooding, ID with 26 pounds. A vehicle malfunction led to the police apprehension."
www.celebstoner.com/news/drug-bu...
21.11.2025 00:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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