It started with a tweet. What if Harry Potter attended an HBCU? Now it's a book series (apnews.com)
(HBCU - historically black college/university)...
In 1st Sit-Down, Brittney Griner Talks Suicidal Ideations in Russian Detainment (www.jezebel.com)
NYPD Produces Propaganda Instead of Legally Required Public Records (www.404media.co)
NYPD officer fired gun while clearing protesters at Columbia: Live (www.independent.co.uk)
Arizona governor signs into law measure to repeal 1864 abortion ban (www.theguardian.com)
State supreme court had ruled that the near-total abortion ban could be enforced, unleashing unprecedented outrage...
New Hampshire jury finds state liable for abuse at youth detention center and awards victim $38M (apnews.com)
A New Hampshire jury awarded $38 million to the man who blew the lid off abuse allegations at the state’s youth detention center Friday, in a landmark case finding the state’s negligence allowed him to be beaten, raped and held in solitary confinement as a teen....
Hope Hicks, ex-Trump adviser, recounts political firestorm in 2016 over 'Access Hollywood' tape (apnews.com)
Hope Hicks, a former adviser to Donald Trump, took the stand Friday at the former president’s hush money trial and recounted how his 2016 campaign became embroiled in a political firestorm over a recording in which he boasted about grabbing women without their permission....
‘Seize all cannabis’: Inside the surprising federal crackdown on New Mexico weed farmers (www.politico.com)
… U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have seized more than $300,000 of state-licensed cannabis in New Mexico in the last two months. These seizures occurred at border patrol checkpoints, some of which lie as far as 80 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border....
Anti-UAW Media in Alabama Is Owned by Influential GOP Consultant With Corporate Ties (truthout.org)
New Federal Rules Protect LGBTQ People From Misgendering, Bathroom Bans (truthout.org)
Fort Campbell Army officer charged with illegally importing weapons from Russia, other countries (www.tennessean.com)
“These ‘Little Gazas’ are disgusting cesspools of antisemitic hate”: Tom Cotton rails against pro-Palestinian protests (www.yahoo.com)
Police officer fired gun while clearing protesters from Columbia building, prosecutors say (apnews.com)
A police officer who was involved in clearing protesters from a Columbia University administration building earlier this week fired his gun inside the hall, a spokesperson for District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office confirmed Thursday....
The governor of Kansas vetoed four anti-abortion measures. Republicans rammed them through anyway. (www.motherjones.com)
"Boogeyman narrative": Columbia professors call out Eric Adams over "outside agitators" trope (www.salon.com)
Rebuilding homes in Gaza will cost $40bn and take 16 years, UN finds (www.theguardian.com)
Today's campus protests aren't nearly as big or violent as those last century -- at least, not yet (www.yahoo.com)
Pennsylvania nurse who gave patients lethal or possibly lethal insulin doses gets life in prison (apnews.com)
U.S. job growth totaled 175,000 in April, much less than expected, while unemployment rose to 3.9% (www.cnbc.com)
For Sale: Jeffrey Epstein’s Second ‘Black Book’ of the Rich and Famous (www.thedailybeast.com)
Rudy Guliani Blows Past the $43,000 Budget He Committed to in Bankruptcy Proceedings (www.nytimes.com)
That amount would cover, among other expenses, $5,000 in alimony payments to his ex-wife Judith Giuliani, $1,050 for food and housekeeping supplies and $425 for “personal care products and services.” He was also obliged to cover $13,500 in monthly nursing-home expenses for his former mother-in-law; she died in March....
Medicaid expansion effort collapses in Republican-led Mississippi Legislature (apnews.com)
Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Republican-led Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate....
TikTok is allowing users to spread manipulated videos of Biden, despite the platform's policies (www.mediamatters.org)
How a Maryland prisoner’s 15-month quest for eye surgery ended in blindness (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)
Appleby-El told a nurse at the North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland that his retina was detached, and he needed to be seen by an ophthalmologist. It was, he said, a medical emergency. But prison medical staff did not immediately treat it like one....
Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’ (www.theguardian.com)
Philip Morris International has supported non-smoking programmes around the world ‘to advance its own interests’, say health professionals...
