#KimOgg blasts commissioners for cutting her budget by $6M. Important context: the DAO was only cut because the agency failed to submit an eligible budget proposal in May, and the county plans to restore a prorated sum of $4.5M to the office in Jan '25 when a new DA takes over.

BREAKING: Despite widespread support for clemency based on serious doubts about the integrity of Marcellus Williams’ conviction and death sentence, @GovParsonMO has denied clemency to Marcellus, who is scheduled to be executed tomorrow at 6 p.m. CT. innocenceproject.org/attorney-state…

Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing. propublica.org/article/gaza-p…

The #NewsEmmys Award for Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form goes to It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive | Aj+ Reports (AJ+).

Will you all share this??? This is an exchange between a girl from Gaza staying in UAE and a journalist in Gaza yesterday. She was asking him about the names of the families whose houses were bombed in Khan Younis last night. “I can no longer call them. The internet is cut and I

Wow. A US official told aid groups straight-up that the US would not consider withholding weapons from Israel for blocking aid into Gaza. (Politico notes this was not the official's personal view. “She was saying that the rules don’t apply to Israel,” one source said).

I WANT A PHYSICAL FUCKING MENU AT A RESTAURANT. NONE OF THIS QR CODE BULLSHIT

IDF: Either you stay in the north, and we kill you, or you go to the south, and we kill you there too.

Three journalists have been killed in southern Lebanon after an Israeli strike on housing well-known to be used by several media outlets. The area is not under Israeli ‘evacuation orders’ and was chosen by journos because it was viewed as relatively safe.

I wish Americans understood how much we’re propagandized every single day

One of the few things that’s helping me not wallow in these dark times

The way I love them so much for this!

you can be driven into homelessness by someone like brian thompson, then legally murdered by someone like daniel penny, while the money that could have saved you is spent on murdering children in gaza.

"When David Delbert Herron, a sixty-seven-year-old with unremitting back pain, burned down the house of a Benefis surgeon and then killed himself in April 2017, it was taken as a sign of things to come."

EXCLUSIVE: Kim Ogg, Harris County's outgoing district attorney, has issued a blanket plea recommendation of life without parole in more than 60 pending capital murder cases, according to internal office communications obtained by Houston Landing. houstonlanding.org/harris-outgoin…

I sued Yale to get this. Yale took infrared images of its peaceful student protesters during its spring encampment. They bought it from Skydio, a military weapons manufacturer, that has been one of the primary suppliers of drones to Israel since October 7th.

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Under the Laken Riley Act, ICE would be *required* to detain immigrants who are arrested for theft, even if the accusation was false and no charges were ever filed. That would give enormous power to abusive husbands and unscrupulous employers. Here's how 1/

Nathan J Robinson it’s illegal under California state law to pass anything over a 10% rent increase in LA and Ventura Counties because of the state of emergency. this includes currently vacant units! people can report violations here: oag.ca.gov/report