@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-11-06 20:00:19
“A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington was found not guilty of assault on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.”
🥪🎉
https://ap…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 19:09:18
The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protec…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-05 05:04:21
**Senate Dems to McMahon: Efforts to shift Education Department responsibilities illegal**
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5634520-education-department-program-breakup-criticized/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-04 20:00:04
cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-05 04:01:30
Justice Department urges judge to jail former Jan. 6 defendant after alarming return to DC (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/justice-department-urges-judge-to-jail-former-jan-6-defendant-after-alarming-return-to-dc-00678109
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p144#a251204p144
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-06 23:17:01
The Los Angeles Sheriff's department produced the names of about 8,500 deputies
-- but refused to produce any photographs except of the sheriff and his undersheriffs.
They claimed that producing photographs of the deputies would violate their right to privacy and might endanger them in the future, if they ever go undercover.
But the department’s rationale seemed suspect because it also refused to comply with separate requests for headshots of three deputies who have b…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-05 21:01:40
US judge clears Justice Department to release Epstein grand jury transcripts (Jack Queen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-clears-justice-department-release-epstein-grand-jury-transcripts-2025-12-05/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p102#a251205p102
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 05:42:45
Jamie Raskin, a House judiciary committee member and congressman from Maryland,
has accused the justice department of a
“shameful and gigantic cover-up”.
He demands to know why the Trump administration
“inexplicably killed” a criminal investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged
co-conspirators
despite the fact that nearly 50 women had provided information to prosecutors and the FBI
as part of the years-long investigat…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 06:13:40
She was allowed a phone call to her parents, who contacted a lawyer.
The next day, a federal judge issued an emergency order barring her removal from the US for at least 72 hours until her case could be reviewed.
But the next morning, she was shackled at her wrists, ankles and waist and deported to her native Honduras,
a country which she left at the age of seven and of which she has virtually no memory.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 03:25:14
A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation
run by armed contractors
—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-building-a-24-7-shadow-transporta…
