Aaron Sorkin Takes Back ‘Fever Dream’ Biden Replacement Idea (www.thedailybeast.com)
Non-paywall link: 12ft.io/thedailybeast.com/aaron-sorkin-takes-back-fever-d…
A first-of-its-kind free food market opens in San Francisco: ‘Without this, some of us won’t make it’ (www.theguardian.com)
Pro-Trump multimillionaire and election denier boosts funds to far-right voter-conspiracy groups (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-Overstock chief Patrick Byrne using Maga-allied America Project to steer large amounts to groups pushing fringe theories...
Member of eBay security team sentenced in harassment scheme involving bloody Halloween pig mask (apnews.com)
The former senior manager of special operations for eBay Inc.’s. global security team was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston for his role in a cyberstalking campaign that included sending a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask and a book on surviving the loss of a spouse to a Massachusetts couple’s...
LA City Council Considers Funding Former IDF Soldiers to Patrol Its Streets (theintercept.com)
THE LOS ANGELES City Council is considering whether to give public funds to private, armed security patrols to protect its religious communities, following a protest against the marketing of West Bank settlement properties at an LA synagogue last month that turned violent....
Montana’s Plan To Curb Opioid Overdoses Includes Vending Machines (kffhealthnews.org)
Veteran who lost driver's license because TN said he wasn't a U.S. citizen gets welcome news from the state (www.newschannel5.com)
Israel Has Attacked Gaza “Safe Zone” 10 Times Since Forcing Palestinians to Evacuate There (truthout.org)
China's banking turmoil: 40 banks vanish in one week as crisis in the property sector deepens (essanews.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/860815...
In New York, Wage Theft Violators Get Millions in Government Contracts (www.propublica.org)
Disney wants a wrongful death lawsuit thrown out because the plaintiff had Disney+ (www.npr.org)
When Florida judges sentence children tried as adults, they give them higher sentences on average for felony crimes than adult offenders (www.miamiherald.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/article290425414.html
Texas’ overcrowded and understaffed jails send people awaiting trial to other counties and states (www.texastribune.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/texas-jails-overcrowding-inmate…
Montana Supreme Court rules minors don't need parental permission for abortion (apnews.com)
Montana’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that minors don’t need their parents’ permission to get an abortion in the state – agreeing with a lower court ruling that found the parental consent law violates the privacy clause in the state constitution....
SkyWest Airlines facing federal lawsuit over alleged ‘fake company union’ (www.theguardian.com)
Largest regional airline in North America also sued by flight attendant union for alleged retaliatory firings...
Puerto Rico cancels classes, activates National Guard as Tropical Storm Ernesto approaches (www.seattletimes.com)
Puerto Rico activated the National Guard and canceled the start of classes in public schools as forecasters warned that the U.S. territory would be hit by Tropical Storm Ernesto, which formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday....
Child rape survivors face extraordinary barriers in states with abortion bans (www.theguardian.com)
Since fall of Roe, 14 states have passed near-total abortion bans – most with no exceptions for rape or incest survivors...
More than 100 neglected animals rescued from home in southern California (www.theguardian.com)
Animal services officials in southern California have rescued more than 100 neglected animals including dogs, horses, birds and pet cockroaches from a home in Riverside county....
Medical examiner determines dead woman found entangled in O'Hare baggage machinery died by suicide (apnews.com)
The dead woman who was found entangled in a baggage conveyor belt at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport died by suicide, authorities said Friday....
Embattled Illinois sheriff will retire amid criticism over the killing of Sonya Massey (www.usatoday.com)
In the 3 days before killing Dexter Reed, Chicago cops made 50 traffic stops but issued no tickets (chicago.suntimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/gunfight-dexter-reed-chicago-po…
Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX ordered by US court to pay customers $12.7bn (www.theguardian.com)
A US court has ordered the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to shell out $12.7bn (£9.9bn) to compensate customers and fraud victims, five months after its founder was jailed for his role in the collapse of the company....
Arizona grand jurors discussed indicting Trump, but prosecutors urged them not to (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/trump-arizona-indictment-prosec…
The conspiracy theorists who think Biden has been replaced by AI (arstechnica.com)
