Food Not Bombs injunction: Where things stand in the legal face off with the city over feeding the homeless SUIT: Judge orders Houston to temporarily stop ticketing for feeding the homeless in Food Not Bombs case According to municipal court data, the Houston Police Department issued 111 tickets seeking ... 05/3/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Supreme Court to decide whether communities can penalize homeless for sleeping in public The Supreme Court decides whether cities can punish homeless people for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to go. The case has significant implications for cities and states dealing with ... 04/30/2024 - 12:24 am | View Link
Rantz: Seattle employee pulls knife on violent homeless man, cops weren’t dispatched Seattle police were not dispatched to a shop a homeless man allegedly threatened staff. The owner wonders if this is the end of downtown. 04/29/2024 - 1:55 pm | View Link
Justices Appear to Side With City Trying to Regulate Homeless Encampments A group of homeless people in a small Oregon city challenged local laws banning sleeping in public. The case has broad implications for homelessness policy throughout the country. 04/22/2024 - 2:02 am | View Link
Editorial: L.A. officials lied to justify seizing homeless people's belongings. That's despicable In a court case, L.A. officials changed records to justify taking homeless people's belongings. That is a new low. 04/21/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
Criminal defense attorney and former contestant on "The Apprentice" Stacy Schneider details her interpretation of former President Donald Trump's behavior in the courtroom during his ongoing hush money criminal trial.
The second week of testimony in Donald Trump's first criminal trial is officially over and it ended with a HUGE witness on the stand: Hope Hicks!
No ruling on the 2nd gag order hearing, so we still await that. But the judge did open with a doozy of a comment directly in response to a lie that Trump told the media last night about his gag order:
BREAKING: Judge corrects Trump for lying outside court yesterdayTrump said gag order prevented him from testifyingJudge: you have an absolute right to testify at trial or not & gag order has nothing to do with itMerchan is not tolerating Trump's disinfo campaign!
— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) May 3, 2024
Boom.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
Why, oh why, does this keep happening to entities associated with Donald Trump? It's truly one of life's mysteries that criminals keeping associating themselves with Trump. BF Borgers are suspended from practicing as accountants, and received $14 million in fines. And it wasn't just done for Trump Media. In total, over 1500 SEC filings were found to be fraudulent.
Unemployment has been low for over two years now. President Joe Biden has created a whopping 15.3 million jobs. In contrast, Trump left office in disgrace with a negative job number. Negative. Trump was asked at the courthouse what he would do to create jobs; then he went off topic to talk about the border, among other things, none of which are job-related.
"What's my plan for jobs, you say?" Trump asked.
Andra Watkins discussed her Substack newsletter, "How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life," on Rick Wilson's podcast on April 22. The growing threat of the Republican Party's ties to Christian Nationalism and Project 2025 is terrifying. Watkins helps more people understand the threat we are facing. Rick Wilson urged everyone to read "How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life," because the "implications for the country are darker than you may imagine."
Watkins is a New York Times bestselling author who spent her "formative years in a Moral Majority-era Christian Nationalist church and school in rural South Carolina." According to Watkins, she has a "deep understanding of how Christian Nationalists think to their Christo-fascist manifesto, Project 2025."
The NY Times author writes, "Mainstream media outlets miss Project 2025’s Biblical language and imagery.