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Columbia Coincidentally Rewrites Disciplinary Rules Just in Time to Screw Over Student Protesters (theintercept.com)

Just as summer vacation is getting underway, students at Columbia University in New York are left dealing with a raft of looming disciplinary charges from their participation in campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. But some students at the school said 11th-hour changes to disciplinary procedures are making it harder...

California comedown: how illicit cannabis farms have left a wilderness where ‘you’re lucky to see a lizard’ (www.theguardian.com)

In the shadow of Mount Shasta in northern California, a sea of makeshift greenhouses and plywood huts sprawls between the conifer trees of the high desert. From the air, many of the polytunnels look in bad shape, their plastic covers torn by the wind to reveal what’s inside: hundreds of cannabis plants packet tightly together,...

Revealed: how a US far-right group is influencing anti-gay policies in Africa (www.theguardian.com)

A long-standing US anti-pornography campaigning group has advised, promoted and endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ activists and politicians in Uganda, including a governing party member who endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ laws by saying gays “should be castrated”, and a virulently homophobic founder of a “militaristic” Christian boys camp....

How Ken Paxton is stretching the boundaries of consumer protection laws to pursue political targets (www.texastribune.org)

Consumer protection laws give attorneys general broad legal authority to request a wide range of records when investigating businesses or charities for allegations of deceptive or fraudulent practices, such as gas stations that hike up fuel prices during hurricanes, companies that run robocalling phone scams and unscrupulous...

Staffing Crisis at Federal Prisons Highlighted at FCI Sheridan in Oregon (www.nytimes.com)

An inmate at a federal prison in Oregon faked a suicide attempt to obtain medical treatment for a serious infection because health care staffing levels were so low that patients were forced to wait days, or even weeks, for basic care, an independent watchdog found....

Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering (boltsmag.org)

In 2010, ahead of the decennial redistricting process, Minnesota’s legislature considered adopting a bold reform: It would stop counting state prisoners as residents of the districts where they were incarcerated, and instead count them as residents of the districts from which they hailed before prison. At the time, this was a...

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