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When right wing billionaire Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby kid David) hired trolling blogger Bari Weiss to run CBS News, Weiss arrived with the promise of "balanced, fact-based news," "independent ...

Senator Bill Cassidy just lost his campaign for reelection to his Senate seat in Louisiana. With that, his career in federal government is likely over. It's no secret as to why this happened.

As convenient as it is for cops to play along with hysterical claims made by politicians, sometimes a politician goes too far. That seems to be the case here. Scott Bottoms -- currently a stat ...

A couple weeks back, Supreme Court watcher Steve Vladeck pointed out a fascinating "tell" by Justice Samuel Alito in dealing with stays that he will issue on shadow docket requests. If ...

Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the TAKE IT DOWN Act (TIDA), which became law one year ag ...

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Section 702 surveillance powers are still limping along, mostly unimpeded, despite on-again/off-again objections by federal politicians. More active recently have been several GOP politicians. Thes ...

We've talked a lot about how Americans have somehow accepted the fact that our voice networks are now saturated with scammers, fraudsters, and robocallers (no, that's not something that ...

In the online world, we certainly have seen some companies make very poor decisions when it comes to dealing with negative reviews of their products or services. While it can be very frustrating to ...

Judge Beryl Howell has now told ICE at least twice: it's not allowed to grade its own papers. Since Trump's return to office, the federal government has been engaged in a months-long pu ...