After Decades of Imprisoning Patients, Idaho Approves Secure Mental Health Facility (www.propublica.org)
Family Balks at Donating O.J. Simpson’s Brain for Research (www.thedailybeast.com)
RFK Jr. can't win. But he and Cornel West could put Trump back in the White House. (www.usatoday.com)
America’s Magical Thinking About Housing: The city of Austin built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and some people seem to think that’s a bad thing (www.theatlantic.com)
If you want to understand America’s strange relationship with housing in the 21st century, look at Austin, where no matter what happens to prices, someone’s always claiming that the sky is falling....
20 years later, Abu Ghraib detainees get their day in US court (apnews.com)
Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world....
Prosecutors: South Carolina prison supervisor took $219,000 in bribes; got 173 cellphones to inmates (apnews.com)
Christine Mary Livingston, 46, was indicted earlier this month on 15 charges including bribery, conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering....
The Anarchist Turn in Twenty-First Century Leftwing Activism (theanarchistlibrary.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18399875...
Plans for Saudi Arabia’s linear city cut from 170km to 2.4km (www.newcivilengineer.com)
Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious plan to build 500m tall, mirrored, 170km long parallel skyscrapers, forming a 1.5M population desert city has been curtailed to 2.4km long....
Fox News now accusing Scrabble of being too “woke” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Free cash programs spread as more cities expand the anti-poverty safety net (www.nbcnews.com)
Fox News, Newsmax Sued for Falsely Linking Man to Neo-Nazi Killer (www.thedailybeast.com)
Elon Musk’s X to stop allowing users to hide their blue checks (arstechnica.com)
No coherent strategy. X circles the drain. You gotta love it. Oh, Lonnie…
Right-wingers claim trans women have unfair advantage in hot dog-eating contests (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, setting cars and homes ablaze (edition.cnn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14235015...
Rich Americans are getting second passports, citing risk of instability (www.cnbc.com)
Father sues Texas Hindu temple, alleging it branded 11-year-old with hot iron (www.nbcnews.com)
The father is asking for $1 million in damages due to what he says was permanent scarring from the branding ceremony....
Florida’s Anti-Trans Bathroom Law Spurs Harrowing Vigilante Attacks (www.thedailybeast.com)
Rise in US executions masks deep divide between states on use of death penalty (www.theguardian.com)
Some of the 27 states that have the death penalty have not executed anyone in years but others still do – and the divide is rooted in history...
Georgia father sentenced to 50 years for poisoning his newborn's breastmilk with antifreeze (www.nbcnews.com)
Police say Curtis Jack admitted that he added antifreeze to his newborn daughter’s milk to avoid paying child support....
Want to visit Brazil? From next year, US travelers will need to share their bank statements first (www.cnn.com)
2024 is shaping up to be the year of travel reprieves....
Florida blocks heat protections for workers right before summer (www.npr.org)
Progressive candidates are increasingly sharing their own abortion stories after Roe’s demise (www.chicagotribune.com)
For decades, only three people knew Gloria Johnson had had an abortion....
Maine lawmakers face down death threats & advance bill protecting gender-affirming care (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Ford recalls nearly 43,000 SUVs due to gas leaks that can cause fires, but remedy won't fix leaks (apnews.com)
Many FBI agents are struggling to make ends meet. Housing costs are to blame (www.wbur.org)
Many FBI agents based in cities with a high cost of living are struggling to make ends meet, forcing them to make hours-long commutes or double up in apartments, according to bureau and Justice Department officials....
