Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on fraud charges over use of informants The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks extremist ‌groups, was indicted on criminal fraud charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate far-right organiza...

"Trump administration officials and conservative figures have criticized the Alabama-based SPLC for labeling some far-right entities hate groups." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Sullivan & Cromwell law firm apologizes for AI 'hallucinations' in court filing Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal ‌judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence.

Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal ‌judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by AI: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

US judge blocks Trump administration actions stymieing wind, solar projects A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a series of permitting policies that wind and solar energy industry groups say have stymied the ​development o...

New: A federal judge in Boston has blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a series of permitting policies that wind and solar energy industry groups say have stymied the ​development of new energy generation projects. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Musk scorned “shady” loopholes, yet offshore tax tricks likely saved Tesla hundreds of millions When Tesla released its annual report for U.S. regulators in January, the Texas-based automaker, led by the world’s richest man, reported a federal tax bill of zero dollars for 2025.

Musk scorned “shady” loopholes, yet offshore tax tricks likely saved Tesla hundreds of millions - www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

My oldest has gotten into a Garfield cartoon where one episode arc is about how the introduction of smartphones on an alien planet has led to a robot takeover.

Newly released records detail police response to lawmaker attacks Authorities first identified Vance Boelter as a suspect within three hours of the start of the politically motivated rampage.

A senior law enforcement official said the situation fit the description of an active shooter.

That meant officers should have gone into the Hortman home to confront Vance Boelter and not waited to deploy drones.

Newly released records detail police response to lawmaker attacks Authorities first identified Vance Boelter as a suspect within three hours of the start of the politically motivated rampage.

Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.

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"One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind."

It’s in keeping with the basic idea of the original Colorado River Compact, which was to manage the basin’s water through some negotiation and compromise, rather than strictly following the letter of the law. But the legal foundation of prior appropriation hamstrings negotiations at every turn. Farmers account for the overwhelming majority of Colorado water use—almost a third goes to cattle feed alone—and thanks to how the system was initially designed, their prices are absurdly subsidized. One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind.

TIL that while Colorado basin municipal water districts pay an average of $512 per acre-foot, irrigation districts pay an average of $30--and fully a quarter of all water diversions, all going to farms, pay nothing at all prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...

The Wild Wild Western Water Wars - The American Prospect As a changing climate bakes and dries up the Colorado River, the seven basin states can’t agree on how to share the declining water resources.

Centuries-old legal precedent regarding water-sharing in the American West has put the region on a collision course as water becomes a more-and-more precious commodity due to climate change: prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

Important story from the Times on the rise of AI influencers for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Leaked memos show how US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts circumvented procedure to rule against Obama’s Clean Power Plan, creating the shadow docket that would be ultimately used to grant Trump more than 20 key legal victories: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Barbara Flynn Currie, 40-year veteran of Illinois House, trailblazer for women in Springfield, dies Article Summary Former Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, who served 40 years in the General Assembly, died Thursday

Great obituary about Barbara Flynn Currie from @hannahmeisel.bsky.social, who is one of the best reporters covering Illinois for the past decade or so: capitolnewsillinois.com/news/barbara...

Barbara Flynn Currie, Illinois' first female House majority leader and a progressive champion, dies at 85

Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

NEW: Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they describe as erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. She spoke with more than two dozen people with knowledge of his conduct, some of whom described it as a national-security vulnerability.

Musk's stable of litigators now includes ex-DOGE attorney @davidjthomas.bsky.social @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/4sEJgyy

Trump ally John Eastman is disbarred over bid to overturn 2020 election The California Supreme Court stripped conservative attorney John Eastman of his law license on Wednesday over his efforts to overturn U.S. President Donald Trump's 2020 ​election loss to Democrat Joe ...

NEW: The California Supreme Court stripped conservative attorney John Eastman of his law license over his efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 ​loss to Biden.

Eastman's attorney says they plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Congrats on 30 years of steamed hams, @thatbilloakley.bsky.social 🍔♨️

Partners at London-based law firm Ashurst and U.S.-based Perkins Coie have approved a merger that would create ​a combined firm of 3,000 lawyers with $2.8 billion ‌in revenue and more than 50 offices worldwide @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/480cX5N

Key City Panel Advances Push to Rid CPD of Officers With Ties to Extremist Groups The City Council’s Workforce Development Committee advanced the measure after a lengthy debate over whether all city employees, not just CPD members, should be banned from “actively participating” in ...

BREAKING: A key City Council panel voted 6-3 on Monday to advance a proposal designed to rid the Chicago Police Department of officers with ties to hate groups and far-right extremist organizations. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2026/04/13/k...

Emergency Prices: How Private Equity Captured the Ambulance Market Emergency service costs have been going up for years, frustrating city officials. One reason seems to be private equity, which bought up ambulance makers and raised prices.

Emergency service costs have been going up for years, frustrating city officials. One reason seems to be private equity, which bought up ambulance makers and raised prices. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/code-red-w...

The sharply conservative Supreme Court, reshaped by President Trump’s three appointees, is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in most cases involving women and minorities, according to an analysis conducted for The Post. https://wapo.st/4tCkcJB

The Blaze Fires Reporter Behind Its Crazy Jan. 6th Pipe Bomber Story And he’s firing back, alleging the publication was “in the fetal position” over lawsuit threats.

"A newly fired reporter for the Blaze says the outlet could be easily crushed by a potential libel settlement over its off-the-wall reporting on the January 6th pipe bomber." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-blaze-...

The Illinois House approved legislation that would prohibit non-lawyer-owned entities from charging any fees to a law firm, controlling a firm's hiring practices, document access or interfering with a lawyer's professional judgment.

I previewed the bill today: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Photo of James Talarico and supporters. And the headline of the story: Texas Democrat Talarico faces tough test with Black voters in Senate race

A coalition of white, college-educated Democrats & Latino voters delivered Texas state Rep James Talarico the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. But his chance of winning the seat in Nov may hinge on a group that he did not receive much support from: Black voters. www.reuters.com/world/us/tex...

FedEx on April 7 sued New York personal injury law firm Ikhilov Law Group and its founder alleging they ran a years long scheme that used staged or exaggerated vehicle crashes to squeeze money from the delivery giant through lawsuits and insurance ‌claims reut.rs/4sfKe45