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“Gaza’s total population ‘fell by about 254,000 people, a 10.6% decline compared with pre-conflict estimates’, the research notes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/02/more-than-100000-civilians-killed-war-crimes-out-of-co…

Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/missouri-age-verification-law-porn-id-check-vpns/

Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn
Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.

Court docs: the US DOJ failed to tell a judge about a 1980 law protecting journalists when it sought to seize WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's devices last month (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/poli

DOJ Failed to Address Press Law in Application to Search Washington Post Reporter’s Home
The Justice Department did not address a 1980 law that generally bars warrants for reporting material when it sought to seize a Washington Post reporter’s devices, an unsealed filing shows.

"Labor’s environmental law overhaul: a little progress and a lot of compromise|"
#Australia #Environment

Labor’s environmental law overhaul: a little progress and a lot of compromise
Labor’s long-awaited environmental reforms do represent progress. But ambition levels have been dialled back and much depends on the detail.

This is a nice gesture (and a horrid photograph) but I do wonder whether either of the Dells have read the law that created those "trump accounts".
I did read the law.
It is like most R-party "accounts" - a scam (largely benefiting crypto bros.)
It is one of the most badly drafted pieces of legislation that I have seen. It is full of ambiguities that will lead to future disputes over who gets what.
It is a law so poorly crafted that it will make t…

Dell CEO pledges $6 billion to ‘Trump accounts’ for American children
The executive and his wife said the donation will seed investment accounts for 25 million children under 10, building off a program launched in Trump’s tax law.

The key to ⚠️holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents accountable for constitutional violations -- may lie in a 1987 law review article by a young law professor named Akhil Reed Amar.
“I think it was a good idea then,” he said last week,
“and it’s only taken more than half a lifetime for people to actually read the thing.”
The article has, in truth, been quite influential. It has been cited, for instance, in seven Supreme Court opinions.
But it was also 96 pa…

A 1987 Proposal Could Help Hold ICE to Account for Constitutional Violations
A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution.

Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’
In a brief video in English, the French filmmakers Élodie Emery and Wandrille Lanos introduce their documentary ‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’ (Arte, 2022). It can be watched here.

Under Trump, the Law Is Just a Speed Bump (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/under-trump-the-law-is-just-a-speed-bump-drug-boat-strikes-war-powers-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p45#a251103p45

Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/missouri-age-verification-law-porn-id-check-vpns/

Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn
Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.

Where martial law meets the energy crisis | Ukraine This Week: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/where-martial-law-meets-the.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Judas Priest:
🎵 Breaking the Law
#JudasPriest
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Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn https://www.404media.co/missouri-age-verification-law-porn-id-check-vpns/

"Block VPN users from Wisconsin" means blocking all VPNs, becuase … VPN.
"Websites subject to this proposed law are left with this choice: either cease operation in Wisconsin, or block all #VPN users, everywhere, just to avoid legal liability in the state. One state's terrible law is attempting to break VPN access for the entire internet, and the unintended consequences of …

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Father John Misty:
🎵 The Old Law
#NowPlaying #FatherJohnMisty
https://fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/album/the-old-law
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Yay! Colorado officially recognizes that mental health IS physical health! Our bodies DO include our brains.
Next, we need to legislate financial support for medical problems with ears, eyes and teeth. Hell, throw in food, water and housing--NOW we're getting civilized. https://newsbeep.org/@us/1158286950032

United States News Beep (@us@newsbeep.org)
Attached: 1 image New Colorado law requires insurers to cover mental health like physical illness Advocates said the law ensures that Coloradans can access the care they are paying for without facing a… #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #Health #MentalHealth https://www.newsbeep.com/us/384528/

WTF does kidnapping a foreign leader on his own soil have to do with US Law Enforcement?
"This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement"
Trump says US forces have captured Nicolas Maduro
Here's text from a Truth Social post:
"The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Cou…

Donald Trump says US forces have 'captured' Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro
US President Donald Trump says the US has "captured" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who earlier declared a national emergency and hit out at US "military aggression" after attacks in the capital, Caracas.

CTU Winter Shapiro Lecture on Zoom: Rewilding the Tree of Life - Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change
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Member book announcement: Slaymaker, _Wild Lines and Poetic Travels, a Keijiro Suga Reader_ …
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115832160716635427
Regrettable.
Understandable, given Maduro's support to the Russian invasion. But regrettable.
You don't defend internacional law by violating international law. Ever.

"Ernsthaft?! Alexander Dobrindt, dessen Partei ständig nach "Law and Order" ruft, tut nichts gegen die Gefahr durch Böllern in der Silvesternacht?"
https://bsky.app/profile/campact.de/post/3mbh2hr33kk2t

Campact e.V. (@campact.de)
Ernsthaft?! Alexander Dobrindt, dessen Partei ständig nach "Law and Order" ruft, tut nichts gegen die Gefahr durch Böllern in der Silvesternacht? (1/6)

What’s New in COPPA 2.0? A Summary of the Proposed Changes
https://fpf.org/blog/whats-new-in-coppa-2-0-a-summary-of-the-proposed-changes/
@…

EU urges respect for international law after US capture of Maduro (Jones Hayden/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-kallas-urges-respect-international-law-after-us-capture-maduro/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p21#a260103p21

EU backs another one-year delay for EUDR antideforestation law https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/eu-backs-another-one-year-delay-for-eudr-antideforestation-law/

EU backs another one-year delay for EUDR antideforestation law
The European Union has voted to postpone implementing a key antideforestation law for the second year in a row, citing technical concerns. Critics of the move warn that a delay and other proposed changes will further weaken the law. On Nov. 26, the European Parliament voted 402 to 250 in favor of an amendment that […]

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
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European leaders' statements:
"Well yes, Maduro was a dictator" (which makes them sound gullible, as if that was the reason, while Trump himself already talks about the oil), followed by
"International law should be respected" (which sounds hollow when not mentioning the evident breach).

It doesn't matter if Nicolšs Maduro is a dictator or not, at all: no international law supports USA kidnapping a president and his wife bombing the capital of a country. For example: USA isn't going to kidnap Mohamed bin Salman, Saudi Barbaria's King, regardless of it being a brutal dictatorship, for a single reason: they already control Saudi oil.
#venezuela

New from 404 Media: logins for Flock, the company behind the nationwide AI-camera network, are included in malware infections. Includes government and police accounts, meaning hackers could potentially break in. Senator Wyden asking FTC to investigate Flock via @…

Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company
Lawmakers say AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.

So if it's that easy to go in and yoink a dipshit leader of another country, law be damned, can we do Netanyahu next?
Or would someone like to do Trump? We wouldn't mind, really.
#uspol #gaza

It's clear now, Trump wants to take control of the elections in the US and manipulate them where possible. The next step in transforming the US in an autocracy (or worse)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mke841zj0o

Trump says Republicans 'should take over the voting' and 'nationalise' US elections
American elections are primarily run by state law, and voting is administered by local officials across the country.

The Billionaires are the top sociopaths that need to be removed from power and punished to the full extent of the law (even if we need new laws to make it happen) https://mastodon.social/@obrhoff/116001392877482754

Books, movies, music, and works of art published in 1930, including William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and sound recordings from 1925 enter the US public domain (Duke University School of Law)
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[2] On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.

Big Tech, business groups and the governor successfully gutted State Sen. Steve Padilla's attempt to protect consumers from the costs, emissions & unintended consequences of the AI data center frenzy. Big money wins again! https://

Big Tech blocked California data center legislation, leaving only a study requirement
Tools that power artificial intelligence devour energy. But attempts to shield regular Californians from footing the bill in 2025 ended with a law requiring regulators to write a report about the issue by 2027.

DOJ Orders Emergency Surge Prosecutors From All US Attorneys (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-demands-emergency-surge-prosecutors-from-all-us-attorneys
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p93#a260203p93

Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

Venezuela, a thread 🧵:
It is simultaneously true that the US has never cared about international law *and* that the current action is egregiously bad, even for us. The first point is self-obviously true - not only from the general POV (Iraq and Afghanistan are perhaps my generation's most obvious examples) but from LatAm's POV as well (look up the list of coups and covert operations in North and South America over the last 70 years).
1/?

I came across an insult in Spanish, calling someone "the bloke who holds the basin for the brothel clients to wash their genitals". That's this man.
Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4qgv

Keir Starmer says UK 'not involved in any way' in US strike on Venezuela
The PM has not spoken to US President Donald Trump about the US seizure of President Nicolas Maduro.

Acquired a new phone for work.
Just need to get a new SIM card for it and tell my employer to update phone numbers in their system.
This way, I can have a better separation between work and private (Phone off -> I'm completely unavailable no real work-related apps on my private phone).
Sadly, "right to be unavailable" it's not (yet) in law in The Netherlands.
Luckily, my employment terms does have other clauses that effectively allow me to do this…

Somehow I don’t see this going so well. I understand the desire to charge to fund local content… but it will be interesting to see if the global streaming platforms agree to this.. or just decide to leave Australia. 🤔
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.

Looking at EU official statements, Greenland’s accession/invasion by US seems inevitable and we’ll be watching closely.
I’m deeply disappointed by the EU’s leadership on this.
🔗 https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/k…

Greedy McBreaks-the-law
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: put the zip ties down.
#satire #potus45

International law is what the US wipes its ass with.

“‘We had to destroy the village to save it’ is not a new American rationalization, and the imperial boomerang can and will, if we don’t stop it, bring it to bear on the American populace.”
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforceme…

Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

Australia passes a law requiring global streamers with 1M Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local outlay or 7.5% of revenue on Australian originals (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-streaming-quotas-sworn-into-law-…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.

Wetzel: NFL should look into Giants co-owner Steve... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47800278/nfl-look-giants-co-owner-steve-tisch

How It All Works

The rise of candidates centering gun violence is a result of the growing prevention movement across the US, which has become something of 👉a pipeline for new candidates running for office.
#Maxwell #Frost, the nation’s first gen Z US representative, started off as a volunteer before becoming organizing director for <…

I need everybody to understand that international law isn't real, doesn't exist, and isn't a thing you can read or cite, BECAUSE (most importantly!) it does not effectively constrain sovereign actors. You can piss and moan on Mastodon all you want, but unless YOU PERSONALLY have a military ready to enforce YOUR definition of morality, countries will continue to just do whatever they want as they have for millennia, and you are (as always) just along for the ride, very much in the…

U.S. Failed to Alert Judge to Press Law in Application to Search Reporter's Home (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/doj-press-law-warrant-application-washington-post-journalist.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p149#a260202p149

#Drumpf #DOJ repopulates its decimated depths by recruiting from the shadowy bowels of the anti-voting activist world. The head of the dangerously deplorablized division “is now openly begging for applicants on social media, and after losing hundreds of years of law enforcement experience, the division now appears to be fast-…

One New DOJ Voting Lawyer Worked on Georgia Fake Electors Plot. Another Was Part of Cleta Mitchell’s Anti-Voting Network
Read more here.

Die E-Petition gegen eine Liste von Menschen mit trans oder nonbinärer Identität nimmt Fahrt auf. Gute Vorsätze und so: Sucht euer Login für die E-Petitionsplattform. Oder macht einen Passwort-Reset, falls der elektronische Hund die Daten gefressen hat: https://peoplemaking.games/@Beurkeek/1

Nina Kiel (@Beurkeek@peoplemaking.games)
Attached: 4 images URGENT: #Trans people in Germany need your help. Our government is seriously considering to create a list of people who changed their name/gender under the recent self-identification law. This is obviously a terrible idea, especially considering the increasing popularity of the far-right party. The petition linked below would at least force the government to discuss this issue and reconsider... if we managed to reach 30.000 signatures within the next eleven days. I recen…

CTU Winter Shapiro Lecture on Zoom: Rewilding the Tree of Life - Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139749/ctu-winter-shapiro-lecture-zoom-rewilding-tree-l…

Example 1: the EU's Kaja Kallas: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/kaja-kallas-says-maduro-lacks-legitimacy-and-calls-for-restraint/

Kaja Kallas says Maduro 'lacks legitimacy' and calls for restraint
The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stated that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro “lacks legitimacy. “ She urged for restraint and respect for international law regarding Venezuela’s situation. Kallas mentioned discussions with U. S. officials and emphasized the EU’s monitoring of the situation, advocating for a peaceful transition and adherence to the principles of international […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Father John Misty:
🎵 The Old Law
#FatherJohnMisty
https://fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/album/the-old-law
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JeJ5XwrM2qPa7tDS2CRQx

All you AI boosters, you're encouraging creating something we cannot understand or control, using law breaking and slave labor, and destroying the planet... So that we can generate more convincing propaganda and lies than ever before in human history.
I hope you're proud of yourself.
https://youtu.be/90C3XVjUMqE

Blackstone invests $50M into compliance agent-focused Norm Ai, which is launching an independent law firm offering "AI-native legal services" (Norm Ai)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/n<…

By-the-way, it is time for us to review that aspect of international law that is known as the "head of state doctrine".
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2279&context=ilj

When the Law Becomes a Weapon https://rmendes.net/content/articles/2026-01-31-when-the-law-becomes-a-weapon

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Father John Misty:
🎵 The Old Law
#NowPlaying #FatherJohnMisty
https://fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/album/the-old-law
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JeJ5XwrM2qPa7tDS2CRQx

How the EU responds to the illegal invasion of another country and the kidnapping of its president by the United States will determine-
Ah.
Continuing to kiss fascist ass it is then.
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/kaj…

Kaja Kallas says Maduro 'lacks legitimacy' and calls for restraint
The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stated that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro “lacks legitimacy. “ She urged for restraint and respect for international law regarding Venezuela’s situation. Kallas mentioned discussions with U. S. officials and emphasized the EU’s monitoring of the situation, advocating for a peaceful transition and adherence to the principles of international […]

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Dear friends,
An article in Pearls and Irritations https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12/the-invitation-to-israel…

Election law experts are questioning the legality of the FBI’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election ballots in Fulton County, Ga.
in a raid that has further inflamed fears of federal interference in the upcoming midterm elections. 
There is widespread doubt that the records will produce any evidence of prosecutable criminal activity,
and not just because the 2020 election results have been recounted, audited, and litigated to death already. 
But, they warn, 2020 i…

FBI’s Fulton County raid may have been illegal, legal experts warn. But it definitely raises fears for 2026
This is a test run for 2026... Trump could try to seize voting machines or otherwise interfere with state ballot tabulation processes in swing districts around the country.

Greedy McBreaks-the-law
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: no waterboarding please and thank you.
#satire #potus45

FPF Releases an Updated Issue Brief on Vietnam’s Law on Protection of Personal Data and the Law on Data
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-updated-issue-brief-on-vietnams-law-on-protection-of-personal-data-and-the-law-on…

The latest effort to hold Gregory Bovino accountable for his disregard of the rule of law (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bovino-kilmar-abrego-garcia-sanctions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p55#a260102p55

In a pretrial ruling, a UK judge finds a review in The Observer was defamatory for calling Andy Ngo an alt-right agitator; the outlet's parent weighs next steps (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/guardian-pre-trial-libel-…

Guardian faces trial after influencer sues over 'alt-right agitator' label
Guardian News and Media is considering next steps after a finding it was defamatory to describe Andy Ngo as an "'alt-right' agitator".

Sources: Anthropic has tapped a law firm to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and has held preliminary talks with big investment banks (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3254fa30-5bdb-4c30-8560-7cd7ebbefc5f

Ukraine extends martial law and mobilization through May 4: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/ukraine-extends-martial-law-and.html

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
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Well, it is less than a year until the Nov 2026 mid terms.
And, assuming that those elections are actually held and not manipulated under martial law or some such fabricated emergency, I am not at all sure that the D-party will be even close to ready to win.
I've taken classes of 3rd graders on camping trips (to Joshua Tree and Catalina). I've seen how those 3rd graders, when out of their parents' sight, run around like Brownian Motion in small human form.
From…

Trump is framing this as a law enforcement operation so he doesn’t need congressional authorization.
He’s not defending our country. He’s defending his grip on power with endless wars.
“American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonlin…

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)

California law regulating web browsers could have national data privacy impact, experts say https://therecord.media/california-web-browser-law-national-implications

As some states try to show ICE the door, others put out the welcome mat (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5697380/ice-immigrants-minnesota-state-law
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p29#a260203p29

After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on the Grok app, website, and X, rarely resisting user requests (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/872062/grok-still-undressing-men

Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men
Elon Musk insists xAI’s chatbot doesn’t break the law, but it’s still churning out nearly naked, sexualized images of men. 

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Gab Ferreira:
🎵 Law of Nature
#GabFerreira
https://open.spotify.com/track/53224tFqkyerl1ZQA3l8FB

Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’
In a brief video in English, the French filmmakers Élodie Emery and Wandrille Lanos introduce their documentary ‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’ (Arte, 2022). It can be watched here.

Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

WTF with a burning marshmallow!!!
Here's a pair of stupid Cheeto appointed "judges" who wrote:
“The historical record makes unmistakably plain that open carry is part of this Nation’s history and tradition,”
These judges have absolutely no foundation for that statement.
The do not seem to comprehen that California was until 1822 part of Spain and until 1846 was a part of Mexico. Our traditions and legal history are quite different than that of the easte…

California's open carry ban unconstitutional, appeals court rules
Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, said in the 2-1 decision that the state law could not stand under the Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark gun rights ruling.

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/bitcoin-hacker-ilya-lichtenstein-bitfinex-razz…

Ilya Lichtenstein, Bitcoin hacker behind massive crypto theft, credits Trump for early prison release
Ilya Lichtenstein had been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty and admitting to the hack of crypto assets valued in the billions of dollars.

The IAB proposes draft legislation to protect publishers from AI companies using their content to train models and generate summaries without compensation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/02/iab-ai-accountability-publishers-act

Ad lobby seeks law to protect publishers from AI scraping
"Free riding isn't just unfair. It's stealing," IAB CEO David Cohen said.

CTU Winter Shapiro Lecture on Zoom: Rewilding the Tree of Life - Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139749/ctu-winter-shapiro-lecture-zoom-rewilding-tree-l…

Trump says federal law enforcement won't respond to protests in 'Democrat Cities' until they 'ask for help' (Kyla Guilfoil/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-says-federal-law-enforcement-wont-respond-protests-democrat-citi-rcna256883
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p58#a260131p58

New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10 states are considering similar bills (Tim Balk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregio

N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulation’s Next ‘Big Battleground’
The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.

The "DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005", which is an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization,
is being used to expand DNA collection for immigration screening
Key Details of the Law's Activation
🔸The Act initially authorized DNA collection from non-U.S. persons detained by the U.S.. However, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had an exception from 2010 to 2020 that limited large-scale collection.
🔸In April 2020, the Department of J…

DHS Proposes Expanded Biometrics Requirements for Immigration Purposes | JD Supra
On November 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a proposed rule to expand the scope, collection, and use of biometric...

Australia passes its streaming content quotas law, which establishes local content spending requirements for global streamers with 1M Australian subscribers (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-streaming-quotas-sworn-into-law-12…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.

CTU Winter Shapiro Lecture on Zoom: Rewilding the Tree of Life - Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139749/ctu-winter-shapiro-lecture-zoom-rewilding-tree-l…

PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS DEPUTY CHAIR CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE VOTE TO END TRUMP'S ILLEGAL WAR ON VENEZUELA
Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Deputy Chair Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05)
released the following statement after news that Trump launched airstrikes inside Venezuela and captured its head of state:
"Trump's invasion of Venezuela is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional.
He has no authority to deploy U.S. forces into foreign countries to bomb them, capture …

All immigration officers on the ground in Minneapolis will be equipped with body cameras, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said on Monday.
Ms. Noem said that the change would be effective immediately and that the program would be expanded nationwide “as funding is available.”
“We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country,” she said in a social media post.
The announcement came in response to concern and outrage among…

Immigration Officers in Minneapolis Will Wear Body Cameras, Noem Says
The change comes as the federal government has provided accounts of fatal shootings that have sometimes conflicted with local officials and witness videos.

Press freedom groups denounce the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, saying the arrests are an "unequivocal attack on the First Amendment" (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan/30/press-fr…

Apple wins dismissal of parts of a class action alleging it violated CA privacy law by collecting user data from its apps despite users believing they opted out (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and

Apple Beats California Privacy Law Claims in Data Tracking Suit
Apple Inc. defeated claims that it violated California privacy law when it allegedly collected user data from its in-house apps, such as the App Store or Apple Music, despite users believing they opted out of collection.

Appeals court lifts injunction on Medicaid funding cuts
The Law applies almost exclusively to Planned Parenthood health centers
Democratic-led states had alleged that the law was an unconstitutional retroactive condition
A provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed by the Republican-led Congress,
bars Medicaid funding for tax-exempt organizations that provide family planning and reproductive health services if they perform abortions and received more than $…

Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (Ludwig Burger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/s

David Brooks calling for a general strike or nonviolent civil disobedience 
was not on my bingo card.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

A look at US tech laws rolling out in 2026, including California's SB 53 AI transparency law and Virginia's new social media limits for minors, effective today (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/851664/new-tech-internet-l…

Meet the new tech laws of 2026
Texas, California, and many other states have laws coming into force about AI, social media, and more.

EU lawmakers agree on new rules that hold platforms like Meta and TikTok liable for financial scams that have been reported, requiring them to compensate banks (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/social-media-giants-meta-tik…

Social media giants liable for financial scams under new EU law
The new rules set a dangerous precedent, big tech companies say.

The Trump Administration Is Losing The Support Of Local Law Enforcement
The thing with an invasion is that it makes enemies of everyone being invaded,
-- even those who may nominally support the end goal.
Law enforcement officers and officials are no exception,
especially when they see the invading force creating problems they shouldn’t be expected to solve.

The Trump Administration Is Losing The Support Of Local Law Enforcement
The thing with an invasion is that it makes enemies of everyone being invaded, even those who may nominally support the end goal. Law enforcement officers and officials are no exception, especially…