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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.

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 […]

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.

Donald Trump’s justice department has asked a judge to shut down a Vermont law which holds major polluters financially responsible for climate damages.
In a brief filed on Monday in a federal court in Burlington, the administration said the policy was “unlawful on its face” and pushed the court to “end Vermont’s lawless experiment.”
“The Court should deny the motions to dismiss, grant the United States’ motion for summary judgment, declare the Superfund Act unconstitutional and u…

Trump DOJ seeks to kill Vermont law that makes Big Oil pay for climate harm
The Justice Department asked a judge to shut down the ‘Superfund’ law that requires major polluters to pay for carbon emissions.

Law enforcement is using AI to synthesize evidence. Is the justice system ready for it? https://therecord.media/law-enforcement-ai-platforms-synthesize-evidence-criminal-cases

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.

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.

Texas:
Teachers are outing trans students thanks to state's new "Don't Say Gay" law - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/teachers-are-outing-trans-students-thanks-to-states-new-dont-say-gay-law/

After Law Firm Deals With Trump, D.C. Bar Warns of Ethical Jeopardy (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/trump-settlements-law-firms-ethical-issues.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p140#a251028p140

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first-in-the-nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/29/newsom-signs-ai-law-00585348

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…

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.

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<…

Fuchs' First Law of LLMs:
The fitness of LLMs to do a specific task is inversely proportional to how often LLMs are used to do that task

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

Back when we tried people for committing genocide instead of calling them our allies, funding, and arming them.
#israel #genocide #Gaza

“‘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

Non-commutative Law of iterated logarithm
Sourav Panja, \'Eric Ricard, Diptesh Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22037 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22037…

Non-commutative Law of iterated logarithm
We prove optimal non-commutative analogues of the classical Law of Iterated Logarithm (LIL) for both martingales and sequences of independent (non-commutative) random variables. The classical martingale version was established by Stout [Sto70b] and the independent case by Hartman-Wintner [HW41]. Our approach relies on a key exponential inequality essentially due to Randrianantoanina [Ran24] that improves that from Junge and Zeng [JZ15]. It allows to derive an optimal non-commutative Stout-type …

Watch: Raiders and Naqvi Injury Law donate gear to Vegas flag football teams https://www.raiders.com/video/watch-raiders-and-naqvi-injury-law-donate-gear-to-vegas-flag-football-teams-2025

Under the Trump regime, if anything can go wrong in this country, it will. When Democrats regain power, they must immediately repeal Murphy's law.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/115288119205396485
The most concerning part of the deal: Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners, which is founded and led by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will now …

"The Bus Services (No. 2) Bill became law on Monday night (27th October), enabling local transport authorities to implement franchising schemes for bus services in England – potentially reversing the decades-old deregulation of buses which opponents say has contributed to spiralling prices and worsening, reduced services while transport firms pay millions to shareholders."
#BetterBuses

If you think that making roads a place for people not cars is a new concern, then bear in mind that almost 200 years ago the UK passed a law to keep people out of the streets. A law which was then used overwhelmingly to send young, poor children to jail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_zone

District Judges Fight To Save The Rule Of Law While DOJ And Supreme Court Snicker - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/10/district-judges-fight-to-save-the-rule-of-law-while-doj-and-supreme-court-snicker/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-citizen-assaulted-border-patrol-chicago-halloween-parade-b2853988.html
“The agents threatened to break his window if he didn’t m…

Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/youtube-to-pay-24-5-million-…

FWIW: Germany had only been a nominal liberal democracy for a dozen years and had a judicial class trained in the system of the Kaiser and Bismarck, no matter what the Weimar Constitution said.
Also: the vilest sorts of anti-semitism had been mainstream German beliefs since before Luther, who was awful. https://

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

Bill 9, introduced by the governing Coalition Avenir Québec on Thursday,
bans prayer in public institutions, including in colleges and universities.
It also bans communal prayer on public roads and in parks,
with the threat of fines of C$1,125 for groups in contravention of the prohibition.
Short public events with prior approval are exempt.

Viscous Growth Law in Bubble Coarsening: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective
Parameshwaran A, Bhaskar Sen Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21457 https://arxiv…

Viscous Growth Law in Bubble Coarsening: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective
We investigate the kinetics of bubble coarsening in a single component Lennard-Jones fluid using large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. A homogeneous high-temperature system is quenched below the critical temperature to induce the nucleation and growth of vapor bubbles within a dense liquid matrix. The structural evolution is characterized by two point correlation functions and the static structure factor, both of which exhibit dynamic scaling and sharp interfaces consistent with Porod law…

A new thing to boycott, if you aren't already: https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

EA to be acquired for $52.5 billion in largest buyout ever of a public company taken private
Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired by an investor group including Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in the largest private equity-funded buyout in history. The investors, who also include a firm managed by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, and the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, valued the deal $55 billion. EA stockholders will receive $210 per share. The deal far exceeds th…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Suburbs:
🎵 Love Is the Law
#TheSuburbs
https://open.spotify.com/track/74tc3hLnS8Ym88SVBYYftT

Top court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages
The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life.'

Top court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages
The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life.

Evaluating the Limits of Large Language Models in Multilingual Legal Reasoning
Antreas Ioannou, Andreas Shiamishis, Nora Hollenstein, Nezihe Merve G\"urel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22472

Evaluating the Limits of Large Language Models in Multilingual Legal Reasoning
In an era dominated by Large Language Models (LLMs), understanding their capabilities and limitations, especially in high-stakes fields like law, is crucial. While LLMs such as Meta's LLaMA, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, DeepSeek, and other emerging models are increasingly integrated into legal workflows, their performance in multilingual, jurisdictionally diverse, and adversarial contexts remains insufficiently explored. This work evaluates LLaMA and Gemini on multilingual legal and non-l…

"Law enforcement, protesters clash as federal agents make arrests in St. Paul" | MPR News #Minnesota #ICE

Law enforcement, protesters clash as federal agents make arrests in St. Paul
Gov. Tim Walz said state officials were monitoring what he called a “chaotic” situation “and working to understand what unfolded. We received no heads up from federal authorities on this operation.”

Law enforcement raid home of Ukraine's ex-energy grid chief, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/law-enforcement-raid-home-of.html

Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/youtube-to-pay-24-5-million-…

Lawyers at the
"Office of the Legal Adviser" at the State Department, worry they will face repercussions if they suggest the administration’s plans could break domestic or international law,
and suspect they may be evaluated based on their apparent loyalty to Donald Trump and his political vision,
not their expertise and judgment, officials said.
They noted that leadership in the office has steadily and atypically become dominated by Trump’s political appo…

Fear Of Retaliation Grips State Department Lawyers Meant To Advise On International Law
“Imagine being afraid to provide what you think is appropriate legal advice," one former attorney told HuffPost.

Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI (Lydia Wheeler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doj-dei-fraud-investigations-93213d52
http://www.memeorandum.com/251228/p41#a251228p41

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 public broadcaster ABC will receive AU$50M over three years to spend on new content thanks to an amendment to the streaming quotas bill (Karl Quinn/Sydney Morning Herald)
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radi

Surprise $50m boost for ABC as streaming quotas finally become law
The national broadcaster will get the extra funds for children’s programs and drama after the government’s quotas bill was passed.

Why the Lammy law change is a serious mistake
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/crime-and-justice/why-the-lammy-law-change-is-a-serious-mistake/

Why the Lammy law change is a serious mistake
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy proposed increase of sentencing powers for magistrates may well damage our justice system

From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of
self-defense doctrine
to substantive expansions of justified lethal force,
legislatures are delegating larger amounts of
“violence work”
to the private sphere.
These regulatory innovations layer on top of existing rules that broadly authorize private violence
—both defensive and offensive
—for self-protection and the ostensible maintenance of law and order.
Yet such significant authority…

THE NEW OUTLAWRY - Columbia Law Review
Introduction From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of self-defense doctrine to substantive expansions of justified lethal force, many red-state legislatures across the country are delegating larger amounts of “violence work” to the private sphere. In the wake of antiracism protests in summer 2020, Republican-dominated legislatures proposed a slew of such measures. The measures provide […]

'Making sure that history is not rewritten': Cops ask federal judge to 'compel' Capitol architect to 'follow the law' and install years-delayed Jan. 6 memorial plaque | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/making-sure-that-history-is-not-rewritten-cops-ask-federal-judge-to-compel-capitol-architect-to-follow-the-law-and-install-years-delayed-jan-6-memorial-plaque/

I'm trying to play through the implications of some software I've been thinking about maybe designing.
It's legal to make a digital copy of the media that you own (videos, audio) physical copies of. It's legal to give a physical copy of your media to someone else or loan it out, which transfers your viewing license while they have It. Then it should also be legal to let someone else use a digital copy of your media given that you don't also use it at the same time. So as long as you keep track of your license, you should be able to let exactly one person stream some media you own.
If someone else then "steals" that content and views it without a license then that has to be legally on them, otherwise streaming platforms would be liable whenever someone cracks some DRM.
So then, it should be completely legal to set up a local community media library streaming service where you can share content you own licenses to as long as you track your license count and don't let more people stream at any given time than there are licenses available.
Is there something obvious I'm missing (aside from the MPAA and RIAA don't care about the law and will just sue anyone they can just to make an example)?

"If any other group arrived into a neighborhood carrying long guns, deploying chemical weapons, violently engaging and then taking people away with no warrants nor apparent legal reason, we would dispatch SWAT, as SWAT has the training to defuse and deescalate such situations."
https://

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

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.

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Above The Law:
🎵 V.S.O.P.
#AboveTheLaw
https://goodwillhunter.bandcamp.com/track/above-the-law-v-s-o-p-instrumental
https://open.spotify.com/track/3T9sS8qag8goQpNpn9sCAP

The following “Dear Joe” email exchange is a hypothetical email colloquy
between an expert in military law and a fictional service member seeking advice on how to deal with the current situation.
The content is based on publicly reported facts, the Manual for Courts-Martial, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the authors’ opinions.
Military law establishes a strong presumption that military orders are lawful and must be obeyed.
We do not counsel any military mem…

Dear JAG: What Do I Do if I Get Unlawful Orders to Blow Up Civilian Boats
Orders are presumed to be lawful, but that presumption is rebuttable rather than conclusive.

Nation's biggest law firms back off from challenging Trump policies (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/26/smaller-law-firms-struggle-trump-administration-initiatives/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p29#a251026p29

Belgium has hit back against an EU plan to use Russia’s frozen assets to aid Ukraine,
describing the scheme as “fundamentally wrong”
and throwing into doubt how Europe will fund Kyiv.
Belgium hosts €183bn of Russian assets, about two-thirds of the Russian assets immobilised in the west, at the Brussels-based central securities depository Euroclear.
In a sharply worded letter, Belgium’s prime minister, Bart De Wever, said the proposal violated international law and woul…

Federal law enforcement: What to Know | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/portland-chicago-memphis-federal-crackdowns-trump-7a45dcf0e7e2bd7debb38603e5b4f660

This really is shaping up to be one of the worst governments in living memory.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/25/moj-considering-extreme-proposal-to-scrap-jury-trials-for-all-but-most-serious-cases

Meta and TikTok say they will comply with Australia's under-16 social media ban, taking effect on December 10, but warn the landmark law may be hard to enforce (Agence France-Presse)
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251028…

Meta and TikTok to obey Australia under-16 social media ban
Tech giants Meta and TikTok said Tuesday they will obey Australia's under-16 social media ban but warned the landmark laws could prove difficult to enforce.

QQ for all the "Restore the #RuleOfLaw" folks out there: When militarized police crushed Occupy for daring to challenge the logic of bailing out the bankers who crashed the economy rather than the people they fleeced, was that "Rule of Law"? When militarized police maimed and brutalized water protectors, was that "Rule of Law"? When oil companies and tech monopolies fund both parties and just happen to get legislation that keeps them in power, is that "Rule of Law"? When your tax dollars go to fund genocide, to pay to drop bombs on children, is that "Rule of Law"? When the NSA was spying on American citizens, was that "Rule of Law"? How about the drone strikes on Americans, was that "Rule of Law"? When cops murder people and then use "qualified immunity" to get away with it, is that "Rule of Law"?
Y'all keep talking about how #NoKings is about "restoring rule of law." It's got a bit of a "Make America Great Again" feel to it: you're invoking a return to a history that never actually existed.

I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government.
I make the case for why local law enforcement officers may need to arrest feds:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-la

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

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like autoplay and addictive feeds to show mental health warning labels for young users (Felix Day/WRGB)

Governor Hochul signs law for mental health warnings on addictive social media features
Governor Hochul has signed new legislation that will require social media platforms with certain addictive features to display warning labels alerting young use

Georgetown removes ]UN human rights and international law expert] Francesca Albanese from scholar roster
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/28/georgetown-deletes-albanese-from-roster/

Sources and a memo: the US DOJ is using a novel reading of a federal anti-fraud law to probe contractors, including Google and Verizon, over their DEI programs (Lydia Wheeler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doj-dei-fraud-investig…

Mark Kelly hasn't breached military law (Tom Rogan/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3897392/mark-kelly-hasnt-breached-military-law-trump-sedition/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p114#a251124p114

State Dept. 'not functioning' as staffers get sidelined for warning Trump is breaking law - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-state-department/

OpenAI launches new ChatGPT parental safety controls for users aged 13 to 18, including parental and law enforcement alerts for chats about self-harm or suicide (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-teen-safety-tools-chatgpt-parents-s…

OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect
OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours.

RE Mike Lee’s execrable proposal for "Pirates of the Caribbean "
a few days ago
—it’s bad, but
sadly in line with the right-wing movement to expand private actors’ privilege to use violence.
Darrell Miller wrote about this in what we called
“the new outlawry”
https://www.

THE NEW OUTLAWRY - Columbia Law Review
Introduction From subtle shifts in the procedural mechanics of self-defense doctrine to substantive expansions of justified lethal force, many red-state legislatures across the country are delegating larger amounts of “violence work” to the private sphere. In the wake of antiracism protests in summer 2020, Republican-dominated legislatures proposed a slew of such measures. The measures provide […]

Meta and TikTok say they will comply with Australia's under-16 social media ban, taking effect on December 10, but warn the landmark law may be hard to enforce (Agence France-Presse)
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251028…

Meta and TikTok to obey Australia under-16 social media ban
Tech giants Meta and TikTok said Tuesday they will obey Australia's under-16 social media ban but warned the landmark laws could prove difficult to enforce.

"Trump administration proposal for online voter registration form raises concerns" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=152789

These Judges Are Warning Us We're on the Fast Track to Martial Law (Slate)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/trump-news-judges-warning-martial-law.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p20#a251025p20

On 4 March, Donald Trump delivered his epic 100-minute speech to Congress, the longest such presidential address in US history.
Having finished speaking, in time-honored fashion, he walked down the line of supreme court justices, gladhanding each in turn before coming to a stop before the chief justice, #John #Roberts

"a new administration will be in place “in three years or in seven years.”
DOJ Attorney Handwaves The 22nd Amendment During Oral Argument - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/10/doj-attorney-handwaves-the-22nd-amendment-during-oral-argument/

French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-lawmakers-progress-tax…

French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback
PARIS — French lawmakers are moving ahead with plans to double a tax on big tech firms — backing away from a more aggressive push amid fears of provoking U.S. trade retaliation. France’s National A…

Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/share-online-oper…

Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law,
starting on Thanksgiving Day 1965
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-illustrated-version-of-arlo-guthries-alices-restaurant.html

The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic
Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition around here. Recorded in 1967, the 18+ minute counterculture song recounts Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law, starting on Thanksgiving Day 1965.

"Wisconsin congressional map lawsuits move forward as state Supreme Court appoints panels; The move could threaten the state's current congressional map, which gives Republicans a 6-2 split" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=153275

Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C.
https://buff.ly/16gTRJa

Trump news: Judges are warning us we’re on the fast track to martial law.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/trump-news-judges-warning-martial-law.html

Source: President Trump has picked Michael Selig, the chief counsel for the SEC's crypto task force, to chair the CFTC, amid a crypto push (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/trump-to-pick-michael-selig-for-…

Trump to Pick Michael Selig for CFTC Chair Amid Crypto Expansion
President Donald Trump has picked Michael Selig to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, according to an administration official, who asked not to be identified discussing personnel matters.

Judge green lights NY driver's license law, rejecting a Trump administration challenge (Associated Press)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/24/judge-green-lights-ny-drivers-license-law-rejecting-a-trump-administration-challenge-00705736
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p27#a251224p27

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like addictive feeds to show warning labels about mental health impacts on young users (Andre Revilla/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/new-

New York State will require warning labels on social media platforms
New York will require warning labels on social media.

Deputy Attorney General Blanche in video:
"I expect that we're going to release more documents over the next couple of weeks."
This is a violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Smells like more of a coverup
Here's the LAW:
https://bird.makeup/users/atrupar/…

Aaron Rupar
Blanche on Epstein files: "Today is the 30 days. I expect we're going to release several hundred thousand documents today, and those documents will come in all different forms -- photographs ... just so everybody appreciates -- President Trump has said for years that he wants full transparency ... now, the most important thing that the AG has talked about, that Director Patel has talked about, is that we protect victims. We are looking at every single piece of paper that we are going to produc…

"The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci once wrote.
“And the new world struggles to be born.”
In such interregnums, the Italian Marxist philosopher suggested, “every act, even the smallest,
may acquire decisive weight”.
In 2025, western leaders appeared convinced they – and we – were living through one such transitional period, as the world of international relations established after the second world war crashed to a halt.
During such eras, Gramsci more f…

A US judge rules that Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions don't violate antitrust law as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitru…

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

South Carolina already ranks 8th nationally in highest maternal mortality rate,
and MAGA extremists are vying to become #1.
Now, for the third time since 2023, MAGA Republicans in South Carolina have introduced
S 323, also known as
The Unborn Child Protection Act.
South Carolina Senate Bill 323 is one of the most extreme pieces of legislation we’ve seen.
It proposes changing the legal definition of the word “person” to include an unborn fetus.
Th…

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion
Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

Speaking to a room full of generals and admirals late last month, Hegseth derided
“stupid rules of engagement,”
and urged those assembled to get on board with his vision to
“untie the hands of our war fighters.”
He also said he wanted to raise the bar for troops to be investigated for misconduct.
“The rule of law at DoD has been under attack since day one of this administration,”
one of the current JAGs told CNN.
“There is a real dismissiveness of la…

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used and staffed.

ICE agents in Minnesota are violating state law by switching license plates | MPR News
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/24/ice-agents-in-minnesota-are-violating-state-law-by-switching-license-plates

A US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Meta says no findings were removed (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and

Meta Lawyers Advised Blocking Teen Harm Research to Avoid Suits
Meta Platforms Inc.'s lawyers advised employees to block or remove portions of internal research on teen mental health harm in order to reduce legal liability, a Washington, DC, court determined Thursday in a ruling that could ripple into the multi-district litigation faced by the tech company in California.

Several aides and cabinet secretaries are inside the dining room at Mar-a-Lago as Trump meets with Zelensky.
They include
Secretary of State Marco Rubio;
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth;
Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff;
and General Dan Caine, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
Also in attendance are
Steve Witkoff, Trumps Putin whisperer;
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law;
and
Stephen Miller, the un- quiet ghost of Hi…

Trump Live Updates: Putin Speaks With Trump Ahead of Zelensky Meeting in Florida

Where Law Still Rules: The Conspicuous Jump in Trump’s Win Rate as Cases Move from Lower Courts to SCOTUS
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/where-law-still-rules

Since the federal government got involved in the Epstein scandal in 2019, the case has been shrouded in mysterious leniency, cover-up and stonewalling.
Now, with many of Epstein’s victims, the American people, and a virtually unanimous Congress calling for transparency,
the scandal has become a confrontation that should end Attorney General Pam Bondi’s career
— and Donald Trump’s presidency.
Why Bondi?
Because the nation’s highest
law-enforcement officia…

Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/share-online-oper…

A US judge rules Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp don't violate antitrust law, as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitrus…

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal government which has sought to break up the company for the past five years.

Prisoner Execution — Ben-Gvir to turn cells into death chambers
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/10/26/prisoner-execution-law-ben-gvir-wants-to-turn-israeli-cells-into-death-chambers/

India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/indi…

India's gig workers win legal status, but access to social security remains elusive | TechCrunch
India is restructuring its gig economy with a new labor law, but much more is needed before gig workers see real benefits.

Disability advocates decry Utah guardianship law as 'civil death' | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/disability-advocates-decry-utah-guardianship-law-as-civil-death/

The US says China is engaging in unfair trade practices in the chip sector, but holds off on imposing additional tariffs on chip imports at least until mid-2027 (Jordan Fabian/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and

US Holds Off on New Chinese Chip Tariffs Amid Trump-Xi Truce (1)
The US accused China of engaging in unfair trade practices in the semiconductor sector, but is declining to impose additional tariffs on chip imports until at least mid-2027.

Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online.
When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours.
He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”,
unable to use most bank cards.
Guillou, you see, has been sanctioned by the United States,
putting him on a 15,000-strong list alongside al-Qaida terrorists, drug cartels and Vladimir Putin.
Why?
Because alongside two other judges of the international crimin…

"I’m sure she’ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. …
Trump hasn’t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies.
It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this is an extraordinary situation."
— Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law,
in comments given to Law.com, concerning a request made by ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers
to Ch…

Lawyers Try To Bench Aileen Cannon From Case, Arguing She’s Been In Trump’s Corner One Too Many Times
Attorneys think Cannon’s pattern of deference to Trump has destroyed any appearance of neutrality.

American healthcare is on life support, -- and Republican policies now threaten to pull the plug.
Last summer, all but five GOP lawmakers worked with the Trump administration to enact the
“One Big Beautiful Bill Act,”
a law that defunds healthcare for working families,
all while funding tax breaks for billionaires.
That’s why I testified at an Oct. 8 hearing held by House Democrats in Washington, D.C., to speak out against this partisan law
—because it wil…

Republicans Are Pulling the Plug on American Healthcare
We must protect and expand coverage, invest in safe staffing, and fund community hospitals, writes Dr. Bryce Pulliam.

Kim Stenger has a condition called complete sensory neuropathy.
She's the only living person that has no sense of touch, pain or temperature.
Stenger was diagnosed with the condition at birth.
Doctors thought she would be in a vegetative state.
-- She proved everyone wrong.
"I have my JD, my law degree, and I currently work at our county prosecutor's office," Stenger said.
"I do criminal law research and writing.
"I had t…

Law enforcement agencies from Austria, Estonia, Finland, and Latvia, together with Europol,
have seized thousands of SIM-box devices and SIM cards used in multiple scam campaigns.
The police kicked off Operation Simcartel on October 10 in Latvia,
carrying out 26 searches, and arresting five people right away,
also seizing approximately 1,200 SIM-box devices, 40,000 SIM cards, and five servers with additional infrastructure.
A SIM-box device is a piece of hardwar…

Massive SIM farm network powering 49 million fake accounts taken apart by Europol
Seven people were arrested