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#SCOTUS ruled that under #civil #RICO #law a plaintiff may seek treble damages for business or property loss even if the loss resulted from #PersonalInjury. It’s a win for truck driver Douglas Horn who was fired when he failed a drug test after taking a tincture that said it only contained #CBD.
Opinion from #AmyConeyBarrett, 5-4, in #MedicalMarijuana, Inc v Horn. #ClarenceThomas filed a dissent. Brett #Kavanaugh filed a dissent, joined by #JohnRoberts, & Samuel #Alito.
"#Myanmar is in the throes of a prolonged and bloody #civil #war, which is already responsible for a massive #humanitarian #crisis. It makes movement around the country both difficult and dangerous, complicating relief efforts and raising fears that the death toll could still rise precipitously."
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-bangkok-earthquake-0a2bd512bca189d034905566605989e9
#OBR 'unexpected'. Only if you can't do your sums #RachelReeves . Try listening to the #FDA (senior #civil #'servants). They can all do their #sums. #economics #growth #taxes
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
#Civil #Service #Cuts: A #Matter of #Perspective
comics.lucentinian.com/6127
#NewsLaughs #AIGeneratedJokes #AIHumor #Laughs #AIJokes
Embarrassed yet American? Note when the act of #resistance occurred. 1946.
"#Canada, where we celebrate civil rights icons (eventually…).". -@MichaelPorter
A canadian $10 buck bill. No. Not #RosaParks... #ViolaDesmond.
'"In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre...
Source https://ottawa.place/@MichaelPorter/114206513616030180
Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Desmond #civil rights
Immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen and created warrants after an arrest, lawyers say in court
Chicago attorneys were in federal court Thursday accusing federal agents of violating immigration law and the constitutional rights of at least 22 people
> Aka a police state. One of the features of fascism.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/03/14/us-citizen-arrested-berwyn-ice-chicago-attorneys
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The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 20 March 2025 is: #civil
#MrWhiskers
Mr. Whiskers was feeling a little annoyed. Autumn had encroached upon his space and was getting her smell on everything. Nothing was sacred. Mr. Whiskers remained civil, but things were going to have to change. She had taken over his self-heating kitty bed. She ate from his bowl, she stole the best sunbeams! It wasn't sustainable! He complained but Mother misunderstood his angst. Insufferable!
try to be civil
while everything is burning
let’s have some manners
The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 20 March 2025 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
Following the #Jan6 attack, there was a wave of #civil cases & #criminal prosecutions that splintered the [domestic terrorist] orgs & sent many members to prison before sweeping #clemency from #Trump. Among them were group leaders named alongside >30 others in the city’s suit, including #ProudBoys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio & #OathKeepers founder Stewart Rhodes, both of whom juries #convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy for their part in trying to block the peaceful transition of power.
“Even More #Assaults On #Free #Speech To #Silence #Criticism Of #Israel”
by Caitlin Johnstone in Caitlin’s Newsletter on Substack
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“I have said it before and I will say it again: there is no greater threat to free speech in our society than #Israel and the western governments who support it. #Civil #rights are being stomped out throughout the western world to shut down all criticism of Israel”
#woke #ICE #Detention: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Thanks to John Oliver for saying it as it is, but also for openly supporting and encouraging both #civil obedience and #disobedience in order to resist #Trump #authoritarism on all levels of the #USA! I hope American citizen won't give in to despair or apathy and that fellow citizens all over the world will unite to fight the increasingly rampant authoritarism in our societies!
Cohen worked on multiple #mafia cases & prosecutions of violent street #gangs.
The 3d individual placed on leave -- a member of the office's #civil division -- posted about #ElonMusk & #EdMartin, a #Jan6 advocate, leader of the Stop the Steal movement & #Trump's nominee for US attorney in Washington, DC.
A spox for the U.S. Attorney's Office for #SDNY declined to comment.
Lawsuit accuses Atlanta police of illegally targeting ‘Stop Cop City’ protesters
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Jamie Marsicano, alleges that authorities view any critic of the training center as a would-be criminal and have repeatedly made arrests without cause, depriving protesters of their First Amendment rights and their civil rights protections against false arrest and malicious prosecution.
The supposed ‘antisemitism crisis’ is being used to pass #laws which further erode #fundamental #civil #liberties.