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View More NewsIn Goldstein v. CUNY, a Jewish Israeli professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College—part of the City University of New York system—sued for discrimination and harassment over various actions (which started in Mach 2023) at BMCC that stemmed from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Today, Judge Jeannette Vargas (S.D.N.Y.) rejected Goldstein’s claim; the opinion is long, and to keep the excerpt manageable I will exclude the long statement of facts, and rely on the judge’s account of the facts within the analysis: Plaintiff’s claims under Title VII, the NYSHRL, the NYCHRL, and Section 1983 are largely premised upon expressions of political…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has conducted unlawful investigations into dozens of individuals who have documented ICE activities in their communities, social media users who criticized the government, and international students who attended a protest. A favored tool in these speech chilling investigations are administrative subpoenas sent to technology companies, requesting basic subscriber data about their users. For example, from 2018 to 2020, ICE sent nearly 500 administrative subpoenas to Meta, Google, and Twitter (now X), according to documents obtained by Just Futures Law. In just the second half of 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent 21 administrative…
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On 15 June 1991, the volcano Mount Pinatubo on the island of Luzon in the Philippines erupted violently, releasing an ash cloud on a scale so vast that seeing a photograph of it boggles the human mind. The eruption spewed out something north of 17 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide. For context, that’s roughly equivalent to 1,700 Eiffel Towers’ worth of material ejected out of the ground and into the sky.The effects were global, albeit quite temporary. As a result of the explosion, NASA estimates that temperatures worldwide fell by about half a degree Celsius on average over the following…
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In brief Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open-source AI repository Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal follows a period in which Nvidia…
from the we’re-the-original-good-guys-of-collect-it-all! dept Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly…
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US financial services giant Charles Schwab plans to add Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX) and Chainlink (LINK) to its crypto trading platform in the coming…
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Exodus Movement (EXOD) cut its bitcoin holdings by 1,076 BTC in the first quarter, while adding 5,068 SOL, as it moved more of its…
Bakkt swung to a first-quarter loss as crypto services revenue fell 77%, underscoring the digital asset platform’s push to reposition itself around stablecoin payments…
In brief Bitcoin’s current bear market drawdown of around 36% from its ATH is shallower than historical cycles, which saw 40–50% declines. ETF inflows…
Last week, Clarence Thomas became the second-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. If he remains on the bench through…
New York, May 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to immediately and unconditionally release two journalists from TOLOnews…
If the treatment of gender dysphoric youth were treated like any other medical topic, there would be little controversy about how patients should be…
The broader crypto market ticked lower on Tuesday with bitcoin BTC$80,984.66 falling 1% since midnight UTC to $80,800 and ether (ETH) losing 2% to…