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[ad_1] From Manhattan trial judge Judy Kim in Rodney’s Comedy Club v. Omari, decided April 17 but just posted on Westlaw a few days ago: [P]laintiff’s motion for an order enjoining defendant from “any further social media posts naming, inferring or addressing Plaintiff or Plaintiff’s employees in any way or posts related to Plaintiff” and ordering her to “delete any and all posts on social media naming, inferring or addressing Plaintiff or Plaintiff’s employees in any way” is denied. “Prior restraints on speech are the most serious and the least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights, and any imposition of…

[ad_1] April 27, 2026 Laura Flanders In New York City, some of the most vulnerable incarcerated people will now have dedicated hospital beds and access to medical care like never before. Earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the opening of the city’s first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit for incarcerated people at Rikers Island, with two more clinical facilities on the way. It’s part of a larger plan to shut down the infamous Rikers, and another win for the national movement against the prison industrial complex. Mamdani and the activists and advocates involved are asking the important question: What happens…

[ad_1] In case anyone missed it, higher education in America is in crisis. In 2010, according to Gallup, 75 percent of Americans believed college was "very important." That number tumbled to 35 percent by last September. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Plaintiff Bear and Defendant Bear, from plaintiff’s TRO filings. From Judge Arun Subramanian (S.D.N.Y.) Wednesday in Those Characters from Cleveland, LLC v. Schedule A Defendants: [P]laintiff has failed to sufficiently address the potential fair use and First Amendment claims related to the products in question that use “Don’t Care Bears” (or a variation) along with marijuana imagery. Plaintiff relies heavily on the Supreme Court’s decision in Jack Daniel’s Props., Inc. v. VIP Prods. LLC (2023). There, the Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment defense to a dog toy that had the same shape and design as a bottle of…

[ad_1] In his lecture “On Freedom,” famous Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski said: You can, and even, I think, should, believe in the freedom of choice and the creation of new ones; freedom is our elementary experience, the experience of everyone—it is so elementary that it cannot be broken down into parts that can be analyzed separately, which is why freedom may seem to be an unprovable reality. … We are truly the perpetrators of actions, not just the tools of various forces that clash in the world, although, of course, we are subject to the laws of nature. … This…

[ad_1] Enshrining age verification laws nationwide presents a series of perilous privacy concerns. (Liam Dawe) We’ve covered here before on individual US states setting up their own age verification laws, and now a new US Congress bill has been proposed for it. If passed, this would then potentially set it all up to be nation-wide across the entirety of the US. The bill was introduced on April 13th and has been referred to the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce. It’s being sponsored by the Democratic party’s Josh Gottheimer, with it being co-sponsored by Republican Elise M. Stefanik so it has bipartisan support.…

[ad_1] Being a skeptic can be hard on one’s soul. That’s always been true, ever since the invention of skepticism as a philosophy of life back in the times of Pyrrho of Elis (365–275 BCE) (Bett 2019). It’s hard not just because it requires rigorous intellectual self-discipline but because—let’s face it—much of the world ain’t skeptical at all. Indeed, skeptics such as Socrates of Athens (470–399 BCE) have historically been deemed dangerous enough to occasionally be condemned to death on charge of “corrupting the youth,” that is, teaching critical thinking. If you, like me, have ever felt a bit dispirited…

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[ad_1] Photograph Source: Thomas Fuhrmann – CC BY-SA 4.0 How often do we talk about oceans, trees, or birds in everyday life? How about glaciers, shrubs, or bugs? Nature-related words like these are easily recognizable now, but researchers have found that they are disappearing from our vocabulary. As natural history writer Patrick Barkham writes in the Guardian, “People’s connection to nature has declined by more than 60 percent since 1800, almost exactly mirroring the disappearance of nature words such as river, moss and blossom from books.” Change is an inevitable process in all languages, so why does this matter? These words are…