Paula Herold

An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There. Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — “tough on crime” state leaders have ensured t...

More than 1,000 people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020.

Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases.

With @veritenews.org

BREAKING: At 11 MILLION attending, No Kings Day numbers are approaching the critical key 3.5%... A political scientist's "3.5% rule" states that no government has ever held power after 3.5% of its population takes to the streets. Let's go!!!

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…

“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.

“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another.

(Published April 2025)

This is actually perfect. The emptiness makes it look as ridiculous and wasteful as it is.

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

What happened to states’ rights, Kristi?

And Silicon Valley/Peter Thiel also

The word that best describes JD to me is... opportunist.

Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner (Gift Article) The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from Ch...

Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner

Story by team including David Yaffe-Bellany (crypto expert) Michael Forsythe (former China reporter), Devon Lum and Jiawei Wang (visual investigations)

Please read and share. Transparency matters

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Yale backing Harvard in lawsuit against government In a joint motion with 17 other universities, Yale argues that cutting federal funds to Harvard endangers the nation.

GOOD.
WELL DONE.
PUSH BACK!

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There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”

Ross Ulbricht Got a $31 Million Donation From a Dark Web Dealer, Crypto Tracers Suspect Crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis says the mysterious 300-bitcoin donation to the pardoned Silk Road creator appears to have come from someone associated with a different defunct black market: AlphaBay.

NEW: Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, who was pardoned by Trump, received a $31 million bitcoin donation this weekend. Crypto-tracers suspect it came from someone associated with a different dark net market, AlphaBay. @agreenberg.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ross-u...

It’s probably bad that the future of America’s government pivots on a fight between Lex Luthor and the Joker

So true

America excels at a lot of things, but growing bananas isn't one of them.

The reality is that not everything can be produced in the U.S.

Trump tariffs penalize Americans simply for buying the quality goods they want.

Never thought as a former writing professor, I would be giving economics lessons to the Commerce Secretary, but here we are.

Trump's chaotic tariffs are rooted in an arbitrary fear of a trade deficit, but a trade deficit means Americans are buying goods — a sign of financial security.

“Crazy how states plan to criminally investigate every miscarriage but they “don’t have the resources” to test rape kits or enforce restraining orders.”

1000s of rape kits sit on the shelves untested, but prosecutors in W Virginia are now actively pursuing people who have *miscarriages*.

The fact that Musk recognizes the truth about Trump but was willing to go along with it while it was in his interest...even though it is all really, really bad for, you know, the world...does not reflect well on him but it does reveal (yet again) who he truly is.

A photo of Belaya Airfield, Irkutsk region with thick plumes of smoke rising into the air as drones destroy Russian bombers. Photo credit to Ukraine Security Service, SBU

Ukraine used $47,000 in drones to inflict $7,000,000,000 of damage.

War changed today. Forever.

Came here to say this

Trump told West Point cadets at their graduation that he wouldn't be able to shake their hands, a tradition among US presidents, because he had urgent matters to deal with on China and Russia.

This was him "dealing" with China and Russia moments later. He went golfing.

Every single foreign student at Harvard and every other US institution had to get a visa which required them to specify the school, and is tracked in a DHS system called SEVIS by their school.

Nooo

Note that courts have already thrown out similar investigations by both Missouri and Texas as an obvious and blatant attack on @mmfa.bsky.social's First Amendment rights.

Exactly. He and Patel profited handsomely from those lies

Hurricane season starts June 1 and if you live in a Gulf state, you need to watch this. It’s worse than you might think.

The few employees still left at FEMA admit: they are not prepared. Not enough staff. Not enough supplies. Not enough leadership. Plan accordingly.

Distract the media, fracture the Dem coalition by picking at picking at scabs, and making Biden an issue with Independents again

Crypto funds are pouring into Trump's pockets. That's it.