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How Trump would use the military against riots, crime and migrants

How Trump would use the military against riots, crime and migrants

The New York Times reports: During the turbulent summer of 2020, President Donald J. Trump raged at his military and legal advisers, calling them “losers” for objecting to his idea of using federal troops to suppress outbreaks of violence during the nationwide protests over the police murder of George Floyd. It wasn’t the only time Mr. Trump was talked out of using the military for domestic law enforcement — a practice that would carry profound implications for civil liberties and…

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UAW brands Donald Trump and Elon Musk as ‘scabs’ — then hits them with federal labor charges

UAW brands Donald Trump and Elon Musk as ‘scabs’ — then hits them with federal labor charges

The New Republic reports: Donald Trump is already receiving pushback after threatening striking workers in his trainwreck interview with Elon Musk on Monday night. “I mean, I look at what you do,” Trump told Musk. “You walk in, you say, ‘You want to quit?’ They go on strike, I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, ‘That’s OK, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So, every one of you is gone.’” In…

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U.S. said to consider a breakup of Google to address search monopoly

U.S. said to consider a breakup of Google to address search monopoly

The New York Times reports: Google was found last week to have violated antitrust law by illegally maintaining a monopoly in internet search. Now discussions over how to fix those violations have begun. Justice Department officials are considering what remedies to ask a federal judge to order against the search giant, said three people with knowledge of the deliberations involving the agency and state attorneys general who helped to bring the case. They are discussing various proposals, including breaking off…

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Majority of Republicans support Supreme Court reforms in Biden’s proposal, poll finds

Majority of Republicans support Supreme Court reforms in Biden’s proposal, poll finds

The Hill reports: Most Republicans support the policy proposals in President Biden’s plan to reform the Supreme Court, according to a new USA Today/Ipsos poll. Biden outlined a three-pronged approach to reforming the high court in a speech last month, calling for a binding code of conduct, 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices, and a Constitutional amendment declaring no one — not even the president — is above the law. The latest poll shows 70 percent of Republicans support…

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Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law

Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law

The Associated Press reports: Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature take its course” before discharging her without treatment for her ectopic pregnancy. When the 25-year-old returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection to end the pregnancy. It was too late. The fertilized egg growing…

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We’re entering an AI price-fixing dystopia

We’re entering an AI price-fixing dystopia

Rogé Karma writes: If you rent your home, there’s a good chance your landlord uses RealPage to set your monthly payment. The company describes itself as merely helping landlords set the most profitable price. But a series of lawsuits says it’s something else: an AI-enabled price-fixing conspiracy. The classic image of price-fixing involves the executives of rival companies gathering behind closed doors and secretly agreeing to charge the same inflated price for whatever they’re selling. This type of collusion is…

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Georgia’s election board is out of control. Can anything be done?

Georgia’s election board is out of control. Can anything be done?

  Lisa Rubin writes: On Tuesday night, as Democrats cheered Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s debut as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, something considerably less joyful was going down in Atlanta. As my colleague Ja’han Jones explained, Georgia’s State Election Board, a five-member body controlled by fervent Donald Trump loyalists, adopted a rule allowing local election boards to conduct a “reasonable inquiry” before certifying election results — a task that, pursuant to Georgia statutory law, has long been understood to…

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What the Supreme Court left unsaid about Trump’s criminal immunity

What the Supreme Court left unsaid about Trump’s criminal immunity

Politico reports: When the Supreme Court set out to decide Donald Trump’s bid for presidential immunity, the justices were aiming to establish “a rule for the ages.” Instead, the court left a muddle that both Trump and his prosecutors now hope to exploit — and their efforts may send the case hurtling right back to the justices, perhaps within months. The July 1 immunity ruling was widely viewed as a major victory for Trump because it declared him “absolutely immune”…

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Israel has created its own Abu Ghraib — and the world is silent

Israel has created its own Abu Ghraib — and the world is silent

Lubna Masarwa and Peter Oborne writes: It’s been just over 20 years since CBS News published the sobering photographs that proved the US army was carrying out unspeakable crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. Rape. Degradation. Homicide. Torture, both psychological and physical. Sexual humiliation. The revelations of US barbarity were greeted with horror around the world and played a major role in turning opinion against the Iraq War. In recent days, it has become all too clear that…

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The Google antitrust ruling is huge, but we don’t know what it really means yet

The Google antitrust ruling is huge, but we don’t know what it really means yet

Fortune reports: Yesterday’s Google antitrust ruling was historic. It may be kind of obvious to most people that a company handling 90% or more of search queries in the U.S. is a monopolist, but it’s nonetheless a big deal for a judge to rule as such—and to confirm that Google was therefore breaking antitrust rules when it shored up that outsized position by paying billions to Apple, Samsung and other players to make Google Search the default on their devices….

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North Carolina and Michigan investigating Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC after voter data complaint

North Carolina and Michigan investigating Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC after voter data complaint

CNBC reports: The North Carolina Attorney General’s Office said Monday that it is eyeing a political action committee created by billionaire Elon Musk following a complaint to the state election board over the PAC’s collection of personal data while failing to help users register to vote as promised. The North Carolina Board of Elections later Monday told CNBC that it has opened an investigation of Musk’s America PAC. “North Carolina law makes it a crime for someone to fail to…

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Israeli jails holding Palestinian prisoners have become ‘torture camps,’ B’Tselem reports

Israeli jails holding Palestinian prisoners have become ‘torture camps,’ B’Tselem reports

The Guardian reports: Violence, extreme hunger, humiliation and other abuse of Palestinian prisoners has been normalised across Israel’s jail system, according to Guardian interviews with released prisoners, with mistreatment now so systemic that rights group B’Tselem says it must be considered a policy of “institutionalised abuse”. Former detainees described abuse ranging from severe beatings and sexual violence to starvation rations, refusal of medical care, and deprivation of basic needs including water, daylight, electricity and sanitation, including soap and sanitary pads…

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$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt

$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt

The Washington Post reports: Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to “kindly withdraw” nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash. Inside the state-run National Bank of Egypt, employees were soon busy placing bundles of $100 bills into two large bags, according to records from the bank. Four…

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Trump’s stalled Jan 6 election-subversion prosecution revs back to life

Trump’s stalled Jan 6 election-subversion prosecution revs back to life

Politico reports: The stalled criminal case against Donald Trump for seeking to subvert the 2020 election is starting to move. The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on presidential immunity — a breathtaking legal victory for Trump’s bid to sideline his criminal prosecutions — had kept the election-subversion case on ice for months. Even after the July 1 ruling, the high court’s rules required a one-month delay to give prosecutors the chance to ask the justices to reconsider the outcome. On Friday,…

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GOP lawmakers support ‘mass deportations’ but have no idea how the policy would work

GOP lawmakers support ‘mass deportations’ but have no idea how the policy would work

NOTUS reports: Former President Donald Trump is promising “mass deportation” — and Republicans in Congress have been quick to support the promise, even if they’re unsure how such an effort would work. “You’ll have to ask the president,” Sen. Ron Johnson said when NOTUS asked last week what that sort of deportation policy would look like. When NOTUS asked Rep. Troy Nehls a similar question — how the government would go about getting a large number of undocumented people out…

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New Louisiana law will make it easier for the police to use excessive force

New Louisiana law will make it easier for the police to use excessive force

By Richard A. Webster, Verite News This story was originally published by ProPublica Four years before a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, prompting nationwide demonstrations, hundreds of people marched in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to protest officers’ killing of Alton Sterling in front of a convenience store. Law enforcement responded in force: Officers armed with rifles, body armor and gas masks pushed protesters back and forcibly arrested about 200 people. Some were injured. A group of 13 protesters and two…

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