New Orleans may be about to become the first U.S. city with a program that uses facial recognition technology to surveil people in real time. City officials are voting next Thursday on the ordinance covering this, which they say explicitly states that data cannot be used for immigration enforcement. Critics say that those protections are not strong enough to withstand state or federal pressure, particularly under a new law that establishes criminal penalties for law enforcement officials that decline ICE requests for cooperation. Here's the full story from @npub1hpgg...yrre.
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New Orleans May Hand Its Police Live Facial Recognition Tech. Critics Warn It'll Help ICE. - Bolts
The cameras are mounted across downtown New Orleans: hanging from balconies on Bourbon Street, bolted to the exterior walls of bars and four-star h...
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Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif was killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike. Kareem Shaheen, Middle East and Newsletters Editor at New Lines magazine, writes about the life, career and death of this 28-year-old father of two. "I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you,” al-Sharif wrote in the will and final message that was released after his death. “Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.” Find the full text of this note at the second link, which is from OpenDemocracy.
New Lines Magazine
The Courage and Death of Anas al-Sharif
The Palestinian journalist’s life was devoted to truth and dignity, and his death lays bare Israel’s impunity in Gaza
openDemocracy
‘Israel has succeeded in killing me’: Reporter’s last words
Palestinian journalist Anas Jamal Al-Sharif was killed along with four Al Jazeera colleagues in an Israeli air strike
 #Gaza #Journalism #Media #Palestine #Israel #AnasAlSharif #RIP
Trump is right that D.C. has a serious crime problem. But he has the wrong answer for how to fix it, says Charles Fain Lehman in [@TheAtlantic](
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Trump Is Right That D.C. Has a Serious Crime Problem
But he has the wrong answer for how to fix it.
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U.S. President Trump says he will nominate E.J. Antoni, chief economist for the Heritage Foundation, to replace Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who he fired last week after a disappointing jobs report. "Antoni, a contributor to the Project 2025 policy rubric, has been a longtime skeptic of BLS data. On Bannon’s podcast last week, Antoni called for McEntarfer to be fired shortly before Trump pulled the trigger," NBC reports.
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Trump to nominate longtime skeptic of Bureau of Labor Statistics as new agency head
Trump's naming of conservative economist E.J. Antoni comes after he fired the previous BLS commissioner, claiming without evidence that the July jo...
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A judge ordered the release of mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia today, but the release was immediately paused by a second judge at the request of lawyers for both the U.S. government and Abrego. NBC explains why.
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Judge pauses Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release from federal custody
The order followed back-to-back rulings that ordered Abrego's release and blocked his detention by immigration authorities in Tennessee.
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The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has quietly updated its policies to comply with President Trump's executive order banning trans women from competing in women's sports. Without mention of the word "transgender," the committee updated its "Athlete Safety Policy" to say that it would ensure that "women have a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201." Executive Order 14201 was announced on Feb. 4 2025 under the title: "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports." Here's more from NBC.
NBC News
U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee will comply with Trump's ban on trans women in women's sports
The policy update doesn't use the word "transgender," but it says it will comply with President Donald Trump's executive order on the matter.
 #Sports #WomensSports #LGBTQ #TransRights #HumanRights
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice recommended that a former police detective convicted of excessive force in the case of Breonna Taylor should serve a single day in prison. The judge in the case disagreed, and today sentenced former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison to 33 months in jail. Here's more from NBC.
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Ex-cop convicted of excessive force in Breonna Taylor case gets 33 months
Prosecutors said the former Louisville police detective fired through a window and a sliding glass door in the botched raid that killed Taylor.
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This summer we're seeing reboots of "Superman" and "Fantastic Four," so why not "but her emails?" Newsweek reports that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has released documents tied to the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. "The release includes materials related to former FBI Director James Comey's handling of the investigation, which critics say did not thoroughly examine key evidence," Amanda Castro writes. Castro notes the timing of the release as the Department of Justice tries to deal with backlash over its handling of the Epstein files.
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Pam Bondi grants Hillary Clinton email probe request amid Epstein furor
Pam Bondi greenlit Hillary Clinton email release, praising Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley's transparency push.
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Bill Moyers, the legendary PBS journalist and White House press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson, died last week at age 91. His obituaries talked about his incredible life — born to a dirt farmer in Oklahoma, ordained a Baptist minister, present on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination. But Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein, who knew Moyers via his work with the Center for Investigative Reporting, says there's another story to tell. "Moyers knew Trump was not an aberration, but the logical extension of a problem that went back decades," she writes. "Corruption, he wrote me, is 'a condition beyond individual scandals — more a totality of governance, a philosophy that says democracy exists for us to take what we can while we can—to hell with the law, rules, norms and the country. It’s the crime family manifesto of the mafia, affixed to the civic life and public affairs of the nation.'" How best to honor his integrity, intelligence and commitment to truth and good journalism? "The best — and only — way to pay tribute to him is to go out and do the work," Bauerlein concludes.
The Bill Moyers the Obituaries Missed – Mother Jones
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Tomorrow will be another big day for local elections in the U.S., including the mayoral primaries for Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and a little town called NYC. Plus, a legislative special election in New Hampshire, and the possible comeback of Anthony Weiner. @npub1skvn...dfdf breaks down all the races so far and to come in June for @npub1hpgg...yrre
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The 40 Elections to Watch This June - Bolts
New Jersey, New York, and Virginia—three populous states that are electing hundreds of state and local officials this year—are holding their pr...
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