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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges,
seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation.
Netanyahu is the only sitting prime minister in Israeli history to stand trial,
after being charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases
accusing him of exchanging favors with wealthy political supporters.
He hasn’t been convi…

Israeli leader Netanyahu requests a pardon to end his ongoing corruption trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel's president for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial. His office on Sunday confirmed the request was submitted to the president's legal department. The president's office called it an “extraordinary request” with “significant implications.” Netanyahu faces charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. But he hasn't been convicted. He denies the allegations and calls the trial a witch hunt. The request follows U…

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".

🧑‍⚖️ The Antitrust Trial that Could Take Apart NASCAR
#nascar

How NBA Legend Michael Jordan Is Blowing Up NASCAR's Monopoly
The France family has run stock car racing since NASCAR's founding in 1948, treating team owners like high-end Uber drivers. Now an antitrust lawsuit brought by Michael Jordan could upend NASCAR.

What to know about Netanyahu's request for a pardon in corruption trial (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-trial-pardon-president-corruption-charges-f4dfb2e78c2b9ef265324d2d5bfa7518
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p58#a251130p58

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Crypta:
🎵 Trial of Traitors
#Crypta
https://cryptabrazil.bandcamp.com/track/trial-of-traitors
https://open.spotify.com/track/21PFdGI8WVp8bbOXfyCslW

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru

TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/tikto…

TikTok Settles Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of a Landmark Trial
The settlement means TikTok will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.

Why has it taken so long to fix this injustice? #WrongfulConvictions
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-pregnancy-loss-prosecution-6517…

Alabama woman prosecuted after stillbirth receives new trial
A judge vacated the conviction of an Alabama woman sentenced to 18 years in prison after a stillbirth. Brooke Shoemaker was convicted of criminal endangerment of a child resulting in death after admitting to using methamphetamine during her pregnancy. Her attorneys said there was no evidence the drug use caused the pregnancy loss. They submitted an expert’s opinion that the pregnancy loss was caused by genetic abnormality and severe infection. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Tickal ruled last week that…

ZELENSKYY: MADURO IS ON TRIAL in New York, but NOT PUTIN #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/zelenskyy-maduro-is-on-trial.html

In Blow to 'Fetal Personhood' Push, Alabamian Serving 18 Years After Stillbirth Gets New Trial | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/criminalization-of-pregnancy

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
TRAVIS: No one would believe it. [Par exits.] Any more than I do. [Drinks from the flask.]
[Corridor. Thania is waiting for Par.]
THANIA: Did you give it to him?
PAR: Yes, Major.
THANIA: I appreciate it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/240

Logic Pro und Final Cut Pro: Drei-Monats-Trial derzeit noch verfügbar
Mit Einführung des Creator Studio verschwinden auch die beliebten Testversionen von Apples Profisoftware. Derzeit findet man sie aber noch.

WIRED: #Paradromics gets FDA approval to trial its brain implant in people https://www.wired.com/story/paradromics-gets-fda-approval-to-trial-its-brain-impla…

Paradromics Gets FDA Approval to Trial Its Brain Implant in People
The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement.

TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/tikto…

TikTok Settles Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of a Landmark Trial
The settlement means TikTok will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.

In a #criminal #trial with a #jury in #England or

A monthly injection could allow people with severe asthma to stop taking daily steroid tablets, a clinical trial has found.
More than 260 million people are thought to have asthma worldwide.
While most can control their asthma with inhalers to treat immediate symptoms and preventive ones to reduce inflammation,
those with the most severe asthma often take daily doses of oral corticosteroids as well.
But long-term use is associated with serious health conditions,

RE: #IsraelIsATerroristState

🤯 Why is Michael Jordan suing Nascar? The blockbuster antitrust trial, explained
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/dec/06/michael-jordan-nascar-antitrust-lawsuit-explained

Why is Michael Jordan suing Nascar? The blockbuster antitrust trial, explained
Michael Jordan’s lawsuit claims Nascar holds too much control over teams and money. Here’s what the trial is about and why its outcome could change everything

Paradromics says it received FDA approval for a human trial of its Connexus brain implant, aimed at restoring speech to those with severe motor impairments (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/paradromics-gets-fda-approval-to-trial-…

Paradromics Gets FDA Approval to Trial Its Brain Implant in People
The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement.

#EroticMusings Final Question?
At the start of June, I decided to trial Erotic Musings until the end of the year and then decide if it was worth continuing. Would you like Erotic Musings to continue into the new year? If so, is there anything you'd like to change about it, or do you want it to carry on how it is?
I would love to! My attempt at carrying it into the German bu…

Daily Mail publisher's High Court trial over alleged phone hacking threatens to derail its £500M Telegraph bid, as main funder NatWest considers the legal risks (Dan Evans/Byline Times)
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/23/dai

Daily Mail High Court Trial Casts Shadow Over Lord Rothermere's Telegraph Bid
Allegations that the Mail engaged in phone hacking, landline tapping, burglaries, and the theft of medical records are threatening to derail its £500 million takeover of the Telegraph

There is someone who has taken a lot of old films and used AI to colorize them badly and "boosted" the frame rate from 24 to 60fps and then uploaded this trash to the Internet Archive.
I hate this. Films shot in b&w have an aesthetic that is destroyed by colorizing them. Video games might look better with more frames per second but movies don't. We didn't accidentally settle on 24fps, it was trial and error. A film shot in 60fps looks bad. A movie that has been ar…

Bättre effekt för mRNA vaccin mot influensan jämfört med etablerat influensavaccin.
Dock också fler som fick akuta biverkningar direkt efter vaccineringen med mRNA vaccinet.
Pfizer's mRNA flu vaccine shows 34.5% greater efficacy than standard shot in phase 3 https://www.fierce…

Pfizer's mRNA flu vaccine shows 34.5% greater efficacy than standard shot in phase 3
Pfizer has released the full data from its phase 3 trial of an mRNA flu vaccine candidate, with the potential new shot demonstrating 34.5% greater efficacy compared to a control vaccine. | Pfizer has released the full data from its phase 3 trial of an mRNA flu vaccine candidate, with the potential new shot securing 34.5% greater effectiveness compared to a control vaccine.

In Their Heads: US Detains Espionage Act Defendants Before Trial https://thedissenter.org/in-their-heads-us-detains-espionage-act-defendants-before-trial/

Antonio Brown's journey from All-Pro to criminal defendant https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46991182/antonio-brown-extradition-trial

This trial would appear to ignore the precautionary principle. The critics, victims of previous irresponsible prescribing, should be taken seriously.
Campaigners question ethics of puberty-blocker trial in legal letter to Streeting - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvg6l5…

Campaigners question ethics of puberty-blocker trial in legal letter to Streeting
Researchers and the UK regulator say the study is going to help improve care for children questioning their gender.

Making sense of the trial and conviction of a judge who stood up to Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/making-sense-of-the-trial-and-conviction-of-a-judge-who-stood-up-to-trump/

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru

#ColoradoMan in custody for killing 3 victims, wounding 8 others in an armed attack on a #ColoradoSprings #PlannedParenthood facility 10 yrs ago dies in

Man accused in Planned Parenthood shooting in 2015 dies in federal custody
Robert Dear, who was mentally ill, had been held in federal custody since 2019, with his attorneys arguing he was not fit to stand for trial

It’s fascinating to see the administration constantly trial efforts at normalizing its Nazi core:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/coast-guard-hate-crimes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Which means we have to *alwa…

Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents
A new servicewide policy recasts swastikas and nooses as “potentially divisive,” revises harassment provisions and deletes protections for transgender troops.

Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Andrew Johnson to face criminal trial for child molestation (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/pardoned-jan-6-rioter-andrew-johnson-child-molestation-trial/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p83#a260120p83

Mark Zuckerberg and other executives will pay $190M to the company in a settlement with shareholders who brought suit to recover damages from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal that reverberated out of Trump’s first term. Ensures that he, Sandberg, Andressen, Thiel, et al shielded from deposition, trial. https://<…

Zuckerberg, Meta directors agree to $190 million settlement of shareholder privacy case
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Mark Zuckerberg and current and former leaders of Meta Platforms agreed to pay the company $190 million to resolve...

THANK YOU to everyone who posted about the series 🤖MurderBot.
Apple offered me a "free one-week trial" and I just finished binge-watching season one.
It is absolutely delicious. I think the last time I had so much fun, such pure enjoyment, was when I saw Galaxy Quest!😊
If not for people on here raving about it, I probably wouldn't have found it. 💙

Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several social media addiction lawsuits (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026…

Snap Settles Lawsuit on Social Media Addiction, Avoiding a Landmark Trial
The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.

Curious: none of the links to related stories (e.g. "RCMP video footage of raids on Wet'suwet'en pipeline blockade shown in court") inside either of these articles on @…'s #pressFreedom trial in BC are still present on the

“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…

Man who threw sandwich at federal agent is found not guilty of assault
A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington has been found not guilty of assault. A viral video of the sandwich tossing made Sean Charles Dunn a symbol of resistance to Trump’s deployment of federal agents to combat crime in the nation’s capital. Dunn's misdemeanor acquittal Thursday is another setback for prosecutors, who have faced a backlash for how they have handled criminal cases resu…

Israel and Its Leaders Are Still on Trial for Genocide https://jacobin.com/2025/12/israel-gaza-genocide-icj-icc/

Israel and Its Leaders Are Still on Trial for Genocide
Western states would like to move on as if the Gaza genocide never happened, even though Israel is still terrorizing the Palestinian people. But the legal cases holding Israel and its leaders accountable are going ahead despite their best efforts.

🍯 Changing sweet taste in diet does not affect sugar cravings or health, study suggests
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-sweet-diet-affect-sugar-cravings.html

Changing sweet taste in diet does not affect sugar cravings or health, study suggests
Changing the amount of sweetness in a person's diet has no impact on their liking for sweet foods, the results of a new trial suggest. The results also showed no difference in indicators of cardiovascular disease or diabetes risk between people who increased or decreased their intake of sweet-tasting foods over a six-month period.

Qesser Zuhrah has just been picked up by an ambulance seconds ago. I wish for his survival and future wellbeing. Shame on Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy for not even listening to the hunger strikers and their demands!
The silencing and criminalization of Palestine Action has seen hoards of arrests, with the hunger strikes it may even claim its first lives. We must do everything in our power to prevent this, which means at least giving all arrested a chance to a fair trial!

Why The Dugan Verdict Should Be Set Aside And New Trial Held | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/12/why-dugan-verdict-should-be-set-aside-and

Nu händer det grejer 🙂
Weight loss drugs for cats? Company launches clinical trial of GLP-1 implants in cats https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/weight-loss-drugs-cats-company-launches-clinical-trial/story?id=128054236…

Weight loss drugs for cats? Company launches clinical trial of GLP-1 implants in cats
The company will aim to enroll 50 cats in the study.

We put out a new Studioworks website yesterday.
It does a much better job of highlighting our product, team, and ethos. Really happy with how it turned out.
(Free trial if you use my link, below.)
Tell your friends!
https://studioworks.app/join/sean

Streamline Your Studio | Studioworks
Run your creative studio like a pro — client management, beautiful invoicing, low-fee payments, and a supportive community

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.

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
BERCOL: Bercol! Senator Bercol. Head of the Information Bureau. Ex-officio member of the High Council. [The door opens and he passes through.]
LYE: [Laughs] Thought he was going to run for it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/11 B7B4

Say what you will about state violence, but •orderly• state violence — an officer with a face and a badge, Miranda rights, an orderly booking, the constitutional phone call, the jail roster, the habeas corpus petition, a trial, a system, a process, maybe once in a blue moon consequences for officers’ most egregious abuses — is infinitely preferable to what ICE is now: a secret police with blanket immunity.

Comptroller Brad Lander Seeks Federal Trial for Protest Outside ICE Holding Area (Gwynne Hogan/The City)
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/18/brad-lander-ice-arrest-trial-federal-charges/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251118/p157#a251118p157

The Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees
has been sentenced to 14 years in prison
for a case in which he was convicted of funnelling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former US president Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
In April 2023, a federal jury convicted Michel of 10 counts,
including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
The trial in Washington DC included testimony from the act…

Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several such lawsuits (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/technol

Snap Settles Lawsuit on Social Media Addiction, Avoiding a Landmark Trial
The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Arthur Sullivan, William Gilbert, Richard Suart, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 When I, good friends, was called to the bar (Trial by Jury)
https://open.spotify.com/track/5OMaPvDv9AKR9pZ3Y3hXTo

Popular Mechanics article on the PRIMA retinal implant from Science Corp. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a69948833/photovoltaic-retina-implant-trial-results/ "restored vision is not by any means immediate for tho…

A Revolutionary Device Can Cure Blindness. This Has ‘Never Been Done Before,’ Researcher Says.
Thanks to this tiny piece of tech, people with profound vision loss can now read, do cross word puzzles, and navigate public transit.

There are just too many patents granted. Example 33,444,592: This company literally sticks a microwave oven on top of a fridge and gets a #patent for that.
https://www.danby.com/microfridge-patent-a

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
TRAVIS: Stand to attention when you talk to me.
PAR: [Stands to attention] Sir.
TRAVIS: I'm putting you and your friend on report.
PAR: Only trying to help, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/222 B7B3

U.S.-backed vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau raises confusion, ethics concerns - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/17/rfk-vaccine-trump-hepatitis-b-guinea-bissau-infant-trial/

#PamelaAnderson #DavidChokachi
Season 7 Episode 19 "Trial by Fire"
#RandomBaywatch

If only there was a way to deal with people breaking international laws and charters with some sort of fair trial, like maybe we could call it International Court of Justice idk

In a new Swedish V2G trial, parking enforcement vehicles will generate revenue not only during their money-making rounds on the streets, but also while parked in a garage: with #V2G, they will feed energy back into the grid at high prices and charge at low prices.

Först i Sverige – Linköping testar elbilar som energiresurs i stadsmiljö | Dukaten
I ett nytt Vinnova-finansierat projekt kommer VTI och Dukaten att testa Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G)-teknik i statsmiljö. Genom att koppla upp parkeringsövervakningsbilar mot elnätet i ett av Dukatens parkeringshus, ska projektet undersöka hur elbilar kan användas för att leverera energi tillbaka till nätet vid effekttoppar. Den här lösningen kan öppna upp för nya tjänster inom både mobilitet och energi.

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.

12 ordinary LA jurors say “No!” to ICE goons and federal prosecutors.
At least part of the constitution still lives and does its job:
the Sixth Amendment's right to a jury trial to decide criminal charges.
Jury acquits L.A. man who towed immigration agent’s car during TikTok influencer’s arrest
-- Susan E Seager

Milwaukee County Judge Dugan trial: Live updates Monday, Dec. 15 (FOX6 News Milwaukee)
https://www.fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-judge-dugan-trial-live-monday-121525
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p137#a251215p137

Q&A with David Liu, CEO of PlusAI, which is slated to go public next month, on the ongoing commercial trial of its autonomous truck driving software, and more (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/plusai-ceo-david-liu-on-…

PlusAI CEO David Liu, on the precipice of going public, talks autonomous trucking
With his company set to hit the public markets in February, Liu envisions a future where most vehicles, commercial or not, are driving themselves.

Trump admin dealt major blow as migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia's trial canceled and 'vindictiveness' hearing set - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abrego-garcia-2674828487/

Former Uvalde school police officer Adrian Gonzales acquitted of all charges over his response to the Robb Elementary School shooting (Steven Rosenbaum/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/uvalde-police-officer-trial-verdict/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p159#a260121p159

RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113069700310787144
I was contacted in a panic by the pharmaceutical company that ran my clinical trial when they found out I live posted so many occurrences during the study, asking me to delete all of it.
I'll most lik…

Clinical trial: Neurofeedback-based visual restoration therapy (#ReViseNetFeed) https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07237412

A US federal trial of Carl Rinsch, accused of swindling Netflix out of millions when making sci-fi series White Horse, begins with an ex-Netflix exec testifying (Antonio Ferme/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/carl-rinsch-netflix-fraud-trial-begins…

Carl Rinsch Netflix Trial Begins: Was He a Swindler or Overwhelmed?
Carl Rinsch, the director of 'White Horse,' faces many years in prison if convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million.

The federal agent described her wounds as “boo-boos.”
Nevertheless, the Department of Justice aggressively pursued the alleged perpetrator.
They jailed Sidney Lori Reid on a charge of felony assault,
accusing her of injuring the agent during a July protest of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Washington, D.C.
When grand jurors thrice declined to indict the 44-year-old on the felony, prosecutors tried her on a misdemeanor.
Body camera footage played at trial …

Bellwether Uber sexual assault trial begins in Phoenix | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/bellwether-uber-sexual-assault-trial-begins-in-phoenix/

Trial begins for Wisconsin judge accused of helping immigrant evade federal authorities (Todd Richmond/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/dugan-trump-immigrant-judge-trial-milwaukee-9c1f4d421a049fcb37a041007eb251d5
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p73#a251215p73

Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel begins construction of the country's first chip plant, with trial production expected to start by late 2027 (Phuong Nguyen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Canadian police department becomes first to trial body cameras equipped with facial recognition technology https://therecord.media/canadian-police-department-trials-facial-recognition-body-cameras

"Washington willn't tolerate sanctions violations: detained tanker faces trial," Karoline Leavitt: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/213021.html

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
BERCOL: Playing for time?
RONTANE: And playing for Servalan. The computer will find Travis guilty, there's no doubt of that, but those three are responsible for the sentence.
BERCOL: So?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/68 B7B2

Jeremy Corbyn says the UK government is endangering pro-Palestine hunger strikers
Former UK Labour leader Cornyn has issued a statement in solidarity with Amu Gib, who is accused of participating in the Palestine Action break-in of RAF Brize Norton airbase this summer.
The action,
carried out in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the UK government’s participation in it,
led to the proscription of the group under “anti-terrorism” laws.
Dozens of protesters h…

Palestine Action activists on trial in UK over Israeli arms maker protest
The judge urged the jury to do away with personal feelings about the war on Gaza or the legality of the proscription.

Judge Convicted of Obstructing Agents as They Sought Undocumented Immigrant - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/judge-hannah-dugan-trial-verdict.html

Uber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/uber-teams-up-wit…

Judge Convicted of Obstructing Agents as They Sought Undocumented Immigrant (Julie Bosman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/judge-hannah-dugan-trial-verdict.html?unlocked_article_code=1.908.Jdrz.4vUiqabVFmqs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p135#a251218p135

A US federal judge denied Sarah Palin's bid for a new libel trial against the NYT and rejected her motion for his recusal, after a jury found no libel in April (Associated Press)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/15/j<…

It's not in this article
but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at
"point blank range",
which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality,
and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Trial Begins for D.C. Man Accused of Throwing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
Jury selection started on Monday for Sean C. Dunn, who was charged with misdemeanor assault after hitting a federal agent with a “sub-style sandwich.”

Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration? https://news.keckmedicine.org/can-a-retinal-implant-reverse-macular-degeneration/ using a stem cell-derived patch. A Phase IIb randomized, multicenter trial of subretinal CPCB-RPE1 in advanced dry AMD …

Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration?
LOS ANGELES — Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness for Americans 65 and older, is a progressive disease affecting central vision. Over time, faces, book pages and anything directly in front of a person become obscured by blurry, dark or blind spots.Now, a novel clinical trial offers hope for patients...

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan's defense argues 'top levels of government' pushed to bring charges (Todd Richmond/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/dugan-judge-wisconsin-immigrant-arrested-trial-09cd6fc722058ca2e191d66bda720ac4
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p138#a251218p138

Bari Weiss gushed about the popularity of El Salvador’s president,
who describes himself as the “world’s coolest dictator,”
and how safe he’s made the Central American nation
– without noting he’s suspended basic civil liberties,
has been accused of making deals with gang leaders,
and has thrown thousands of innocent people in jail without giving them a fair trial.
Months later, on Sunday night, Weiss squashed a CBS News story on the treatment of immigran…

Bari Weiss Spiked CBS Story on CECOT After Praising Bukele
Weiss praised El Salvador’s brutal leader, Nayib Bukele, while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.

Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is found guilty of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to publish seditious articles (Kanis Leung/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-ve…

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial
Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court. Three government-vetted judges on Monday found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. Under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law, Lai could face up to life imprisonment. A mitigation hea…

Anger as suspect in $100M jewelry heist said to be biggest in US history avoids standing trial – because ICE deported him | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/ice-deports-jewelry-heist-suspect-b2905236.html

FT's Tim Cook retirement story could be a "trial balloon" from people close to him, if Cook makes the decision to leave on a high note after Q1 earnings report (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/tim-cook-retirement-apple/

Let Tim Cook
Might Tim Cook retire as CEO of Apple in early 2026? There are signs...

Brazil’s federal police on Saturday arrested former president Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
The decision laid bare some of the country’s divisions, with many uncorking Champagne outside the far-right leader’s prison to celebrate as his supporters prepared a religious act in his favor.
In a dramatic and unexpected twist in the final stage of a long and divisive criminal trial, feder…

Brazil’s Supreme Court orders arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro over claims he was planning to escape before starting his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt. Bolsonaro, who has been under house arrest, was taken to the federal police headquarters in Brasilia on Saturday after his ankle monitor was reportedly violated. Justice Alexandre de Moraes cited a video by Bolsonaro's son urging supporters to protest, which he said showed intent to create chaos. Bolsonar…

Man charged in 'largest jewelry heist in U.S. history,' avoids trial by getting deported (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-21/jewelry-heist-deportation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p163#a260121p163

Stem-cell based retinal implant: Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration? #AMD

Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration?
LOS ANGELES — Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness for Americans 65 and older, is a progressive disease affecting central vision. Over time, faces, book pages and anything directly in front of a person become obscured by blurry, dark or blind spots.Now, a novel clinical trial offers hope for patients...

A Manhattan jury finds director Carl Rinsch guilty on all seven counts of defrauding Netflix of $11M when making sci-fi show White Horse (Jacob Shamsian/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-director-carl-rinsch-v…

Guilty on all counts: Jury convicts Netflix director Carl Rinsch in $11 million fraud case
Prosecutors accused Carl Rinsch, who directed the Keanu Reeves-starring "47 Ronin," of fraud after an ambitious sci-fi Netflix project collapsed.

The Secret Trial of the General Who Refused to Attack Tiananmen Square - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/s14ZL

Trump says he'll "be involved" in Netanyahu's corruption trial "to help him out" (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/03/trump-netanyahu-corruption-trial-60-minutes
http://www.memeorandum.com/251102/p87#a251102p87

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27, show Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/863319/highlights-musk-v-altman-open…

‘Sideshow’ concerns and billionaire dreams: What I learned from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Highlights from Musk v. Altman.

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
BLAKE: Servalan's headquarters.
[Hearing room]
SAMOR: You may begin.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/447 B7B4

Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days,
accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses.
The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the jury found him guilty
on charges that included conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Testimony had paused for the weekend when Moore’s lawyer called him early one Saturday this July
with what felt to him like unbelievable news.
U.S. Attorney Gener…

Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that protects us from infectious disease,” an expert said.

Trump calls for Democratic lawmakers to face trial for 'seditious behavior' (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/20/congress/trump-democratic-lawmakers-sedition-00661504
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p58#a251120p58

Prince Harry and celebrities including Elton John prepare for a ~10-week trial against Daily Mail publisher, Associated Newspapers, for "unlawful activity" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/42abdd54-4155-4e7f-963e-72f01ed2846f

Judge Denies Sarah Palin New Libel Trial Against NY Times | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/sarah-palin-the-new-york-times-libel/2025/12/16/id/1238531/

Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. "This is another Tuskegee." (Jeremy Faust/Inside Medicine)
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-leaked-protocol-of-the
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p44#a260115p44