In a surprisingly and wildly out of character turn of events, President Trump is questioning why our immigration court system isn’t even more cruel to undocumented immigrants than it already is.
After Trump’s MS-13 fear mongering session on Wednesday, the president met with Fox and Friends minion Brian Kilmedee for a brief interview. Trump lamented the current state of America’s immigration court system and the “thousands” of judges he imagines work within it.
‘Like a Bad Dream’: In New Orleans, Witnesses Are Going to Jail Instead of Perpetrators
But since 2010, Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro has sought more than 150 such warrants to arrest witnesses, including a significant number of victims, according to a data analysis by the Yale Law School students of the legal scholar James Forman Jr. that was shared with In Justice Today.
A 19-year-old victim of sex trafficking was arrested in November 2014, shortly after giving birth to her daughter. She had failed to appear at a hearing during her pregnancy because she was supposed to be on bed rest and had a doctor’s note to prove it. Even so, she was held in jail for nearly four months until she testified against the father of her child.
Another victim who was shot with a semiautomatic rifle was jailed as a material witness on a $100,000 bond in December 2016. Two victims of assault were arrested and jailed on $250,000 bond after they tried to recant their testimony against their alleged attacker.
via ‘Like a Bad Dream’: In New Orleans, Witnesses Are Going to Jail Instead of Perpetrators
Strikes, Rallies and Protests: The Grassroots Fight for a Moral Economy
One key functional difference between libertarians and neoliberals became apparent in 2008 with “Too Big to Fail Banks.” To the question of whether to let the banks fail, the libertarian says simply, “the government isn’t in the business of picking winners or losers, and so the government should let failing banks fail.”
On the contrary, the neoliberal says, “the government should save those banks in order to preserve stability and order.”
To the neoliberal, major banks are so essential that they are “too big to fail.” If those banks failed, they would bring entire global economic system down with them. And because neoliberals assume that the global economic system provides some sort of stability, the neoliberal finds it only reasonable that governments need to support those banks to promote as much stability as possible.
via Strikes, Rallies and Protests: The Grassroots Fight for a Moral Economy
The “Unintended” Consequences of Successful Employee Rights Litigation in California.
This test lays out the three elements a business must meet in order to designate a worker as an Independent Contractor
A) that the worker is free from the control and direction of the hirer in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of such work and in fact;
B) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business; and
C) that the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed for the hiring entity.
via The “Unintended” Consequences of Successful Employee Rights Litigation in California.
Trump’s Plan to Punish Abortion Providers Is Deadly, Horrific, and Totally Predictable
Feminists and health care organizations, such as Doctors Without Borders and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, warned the policy would kill pregnant people without preventing abortions — ironically, since the gag rule works to shut down clinics that provide birth control, abortion rates spike in the affected countries, even as more people die in back-alley procedures. Family planning organization Marie Stopes International predicted that, in Nigeria alone, “there will be an additional 660,000 abortions…with 10,000 women dying as a result.”
via Trump’s Plan to Punish Abortion Providers Is Deadly, Horrific, and Totally Predictable
When the resistance confronted Democrats in 1968, the crackdown was vicious
The Yippies filed for an outlandish permit for a citywide festival at the same time as the convention, and told news media that the party would involve events such as nude swimming in Lake Michigan and dumping LSD into the water supply. The permit request and open invitation to the nation’s youth outraged Mayor Daley, a law-and-order politician and influential Democratic Party strongman who ruled the city with an iron fist. He may not have taken the threats literally, but he loathed the thought of the city being overrun with hippies, and prepared the police department for an invasion. He also stalled on distributing any permits, including to Dellinger, Davis, and Hayden.
Davis appealed to Justice Department official Roger Wilkins, who recognized his sincerity and attempted to negotiate with the mayor. “About five minutes into the conversation,” Wilkins remembers, “red started coming up from Daley’s collar, all up on these jowls, which seemed larger and larger and larger to me. And he launched into a monologue which lasted, I believe, 25 minutes. And when I started to interrupt and say, ‘But Mr. Mayor,’ he would just raise his voice.
via When the resistance confronted Democrats in 1968, the crackdown was vicious
The Recent Mass Shootings in the US All Have One Thing in Common: Misogyny
The massacre at Santa Fe high school last week that left 10 people dead — most of them students — seems to have something in common with so many other mass shootings that happen in the US: misogyny. The shooter, one victim’s mother claims, targeted her daughter as the first victim because she rejected his continued harassing advances.
How many more tragedies have to happen before we recognize that misogyny kills? The longer we ignore the toxic masculinity that underlies so many of these crimes, the more violence we’re enabling.
via The Recent Mass Shootings in the US All Have One Thing in Common: Misogyny
Call for action on UK’s screenwriter gender inequality – BBC News
The number of female writers working for film and television in the UK has not improved in the last 10 years, a new report suggests.
Across the whole industry, just one in six screenwriters is a woman.
Only one in 10 feature films is written chiefly by a woman, the figure dropping even lower for those with a budget greater than £10m – to just one in 14.
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, which commissioned the report, is calling for change in the industry.
via Call for action on UK’s screenwriter gender inequality – BBC News
Oxford University ‘failing’ on diversity, says Lammy – BBC News
Oxford University remains “a bastion of white, middleclass, Southern privilege” after “glacial” progress on improving diversity, David Lammy has said.
via Oxford University ‘failing’ on diversity, says Lammy – BBC News
Watch Trump Get Off on Taking Away America’s Reproductive Healthcare
Donald Trump, a man I am certain has never paid or asked someone to abort a fetus he helped put inside them, proposed last week to withhold federal Title X grant funds from healthcare providers that offer abortions or abortion referrals. The so-called domestic gag rule would financially punish places like Planned Parenthood that provide abortions and other health services. It would also make it difficult for many women and other marginalized genders, especially those with low income, to obtain abortions, birth control, and other necessary care. Trump, who has been loudly “Pro-Life” for all of maybe three years now, and anti-woman for decades, is immensely pleased with himself.
via Watch Trump Get Off on Taking Away America’s Reproductive Healthcare