The FBI takes 686 days on average to respond to an *expedited* FOIA request.

Give me a break.

The light bulb conspiracy is just documented fact

GOOD news everybody, after two months, CIA has finally *acknowledged* my request. Not everybody makes it this far but I guess I'm just built different

CIA Official opposed to assertion of constitutional rights, to the shock of all assembled

Cat in a wicker basket

He nap

Ok the suit was filed in January, the settlement was filed in March? I guess DOJ just hadn't conducted their search until they got compelled by the court?

A document created in March getting released in litigation in April is CRAZY fast

Nice (and infuriating) FOIA win from @annabower.bsky.social and @lawfaremedia.org!

They can still deploy a burger king anywhere in earth in 72 hours, this deprivation is a choice

Tbf the bar for entry level writing in the transphobia space is generously low

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette avoids closure, will continue to publish thanks to nonprofit sale The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will continue to publish now that it's been purchased by the Baltimore Banner's parent company, turning the paper into a nonprofit news outlet.

We love to see it!!!
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BREAKING: Alongside Free Information Group and Colombo Hurd, we've sued four federal agencies for hiding records on Trump's Gold Card visa program — a pay-to-play scheme that sells U.S. residency to wealthy foreign nationals for $1 million, pushing aside qualified applicants.

Under Trump's "Gold Card" program, anyone with $1,000,000 can buy their way into an immigrant visa like a Mar-a-Lago membership. Over the last year, Howard Lutnick and the crony gang have bragged about "selling" billions in visas they have no legal authority to issue. Today we sued them about it

Our new case was written about in Newsweek! www.newsweek.com/trump-gold-c...

“Immigrant visas are not million-dollar Mar-a-Lago memberships,” said Kevin Bell, co-founder and partner at Free Information Group. “For months President Trump and Secretary Lutnick shifted their story about which foreign interests would benefit and who would suffer the cost. This litigation will reveal the true story. People may lie, records don’t.”

Trump and Lutnick may have changed their story more than a few times, but we aim to pin down exactly who will benefit, and who will pay the cost. The case, Civil Action No. 26-cv-01230, can be found at the link above.

Democracy Defenders Fund and Colombo & Hurd previously filed a lawsuit on behalf of the American Association of University Professors and a group of immigrant professionals challenging the program as an unlawful pay-to-play scheme. This litigation will support that effort

DDF FILES LAWSUIT OVER ADMINISTRATION’S REFUSAL TO RELEASE DOCUMENTS ON GOLD CARD VISA PROGRAM Democracy Defenders Fund, in cooperation with Colombo & Hurd and public interest law firm, Free Information Group, filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of Commerce, Homeland Security, State, ...

In our latest case today, the Free Information Group, representing Democracy Defenders Fund and Colombo Hurd, PC, is suing for the garish records of the Gold Card's tortured development, rollout, and use, to get more than just the marketing
www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/04.13.26...

Under Trump's "Gold Card" program, anyone with $1,000,000 can buy their way into an immigrant visa like a Mar-a-Lago membership. Over the last year, Howard Lutnick and the crony gang have bragged about "selling" billions in visas they have no legal authority to issue. Today we sued them about it

suing the government today

It's one landfill, what could it cost, $20 million?

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Glad to hear the regulator is actually doing something about it. The NY site, the city didn't want to lose the annual revenue and DEC didn't seem to care about the PFAS sampling. Looks like the locals are still fighting it though: rensselaerenvironmentalcoalition.org

Amazed they're admitting they need to treat it at all. Dealt with a private C&D in upstate NY pre-covid that wouldn't allow any access for leachate testing and insisted it was fine until we got runoff samples from an adjacent high school showing real bad levels of almost everything

Jesus told the woman at the well he’d give her living water, and the thief he would enter paradise, I told him WRONG, WEAK on crime, loser shit, no wonder the Sanhedrin and the Romans killed him, pathetic, he’ll never defeat death OR the world. And Allah, who was VERY UNFAIR to me is TOO MERCIFUL

And at around 5% of what they're paying Rufo

I am teaching a new intersession course on FOIA at Iowa law this May that only got added to the academic calendar in March and we still made our minimum enrollment in like a day and a half

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The entire basis of the deliberative process privilege which normally protects predecisional material is that it might chill the writer, and an AI by definition can't suffer a chilling effect because it doesn't and can't care about what it's output is

Hasn't been litigated, but I believe yes and I've been waiting for a good test case to prove as much if somebody can fund it