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BREAKING: Massachusetts has just adopted a new law today to make phone calls from prison and jails free.
In fact, it'd also wipe charges for other forms of communication between incarcerated ppl & their loved ones.
Bolts previewed bill here: https://boltsmag.org/massachusetts-prison-jail-phone-calls/
@vurtualtoby For those unfamiliar with the photo - 1908 founding families of Tel Aviv: https://israeled.org/tel-aviv/
2/ A reply someone got when they disagreed with the👇🏼 account below (after the one below replied w "Free speech is important" to my above toot):
"yeah, all I've got are these two stupid law degrees... Please tell me about constitutional law and what Donald Trump did that makes it so, so obvious that the protections of the first amendment no longer apply to him."
I'm no lawyer, but my understanding is, when your speech endangers lives, you get gag ordered.
SCOTUS declines an emergency request to reinstate Florida's law making it illegal to admit children to drag shows. Justices Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch dissented. https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/griffin-v-hm-florida-orl/
Paul Pelosi's attacker was found guilty on ALL charges.
He faces life in prison for this conviction ... and he is still facing state charges..
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/verdict-reached-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack-case-rcna125350
In addition to IBM, X (Twitter) has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, Oracle and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content. - Media Matters https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-x-has-been-placing-ads-apple-bravo-ibm-oracle
The full effects of the AR-15’s destructive force are rarely seen in public.
They blast through classroom doors, splinter wooden church pews, mangle human bodies and, in just seconds, shatter the lives of people attending a concert, shopping on a Saturday afternoon, going out with friends and family, working in their offices and worshiping at church and synagogue. They kill first-graders, teenagers, mothers, fathers and grandparents.
On Nov 16, 1900: Preston John Porter Jr., 15, Lynched in Limon, Colorado http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/nov/16
A driver has been arrested after crashing into the front gate of the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. A police officer reportedly injured. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20231116/k10014259771000.html
"The United States has intelligence that shows that Hamas has been using hospitals in Gaza, including Al-Shifa, as command centers and ammunitions depots, a spokesman for the National Security Council said on Tuesday.
John F. Kirby, the spokesman, said that the intelligence, gathered from American-generated sources, supported Israel’s allegation..."
NYTimes: U.S. Says Hamas Operates Out of Gaza Hospitals, Endorsing Israel’s Allegations https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/us/politics/hamas-hospitals-gaza-israel.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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