U.S. Supreme Court Deals Final Blow To Corporate Human Rights Accountability
For the past two decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has been slowly weakening the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a key human rights law that allows foreign…
Categoría: Política
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: When The Chips Are Down
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts,…
Private Prison Co. Offers Empty Jail To State For $75 Million Before Selling It To Trump’s ICE Rubes For Nearly $500 Million
It’s easy to make fun of the federal government for paying well over market for items. We’ve all heard the stories about $900 toilets and $400…
Daily Deal: The Ultimate Guitar Lessons Bundle
The Ultimate Guitar Lessons Bundle has 9 courses teaching you everything from reading tablature and basic fingering to more advanced skills. You can start at the…
Pick Another Senator: How The Open Internet Helped Scott Colom Win Mississippi
By now you’ve seen that after over a week of waiting to make sure that every vote was counted, Democrat Scott Colom has defeated incumbent Republican…
Trump’s Dodgy ‘Media Company’ Claims 205% Revenue Jump After Charging For Early Access To The President’s Brain Farts
The increasingly unpopular president’s ability to cash in on his position shows no sign of showing down. Earlier this year you might recall that Truth Social,…
The U.N. Is About To Decide If America Loses Its Measles Elimination Status
It’s now been nearly two straight years of embarrassment for America as measles has come back from the dead. As a reminder, America achieved elimination status…
Unjustly Fired Black Washington Post Columnist Sued, Got Her Job Back, And Politely Just Told The Paper To Go Fuck Itself
The Washington Post isn’t what it used to be. While the paper is still peppered with a few decent journalists trying to do good work, the…
A Tool Built By Election Deniers Said These Voters Were Dead. We Found Them Alive.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Ahead of the midterms, conservative election activists discussed plans to wield a powerful new weapon in the…
Dems Oppose Brendan Carr’s Efforts To Rush The Appointment Of A Lackey To FCC, Promise New Year Investigations Into Carr
The GOP and Ted Cruz are trying to rush the appointment of Brendan Carr’s personal legal aide Danielle Thumann Severs to the FCC. While simultaneously refusing…