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Suing under a pseudonym can often be quite valuable to a plaintiff; for instance, someone suing over alleged mistreatment by an employer may worry about becoming known as a litigious employee, and might therefore prefer to sue as a Jane Doe. But there’s a strong presumption in our legal system against such pseudonymous litigation, and worry about professional or economic retaliation generally isn’t enough to rebut that presumption. But what if you start calling yourself Jane Smith in your everyday life, and then argue that you’ve therefore informally changed your name? People are often allowed to sue under names that…

In Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel he imagines a future in which most of humanity lives in gigantic cities, extending many levels underground. This leaves the majority of the Earth’s surface for industrial farming, necessary to feed all those densely populated cities. If you take a similar strategy, however, and keep the population at sustainable numbers, this could maximize land for natural ecosystems and also minimize the environmental footprint of the average person. So if we are going to plan our civilization around environmental sustainability we would not necessarily need Asimovian megacities, but we could concentrate the population in…

When it was reported that Wegmans grocery stores were utilizing facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect data on their customers, the company declined to disclose the software-end of its surveillance machine. Their reticence may be related to the FRT industry’s deep ties to the national security state — leaving consumers’ data just a knock away from American intelligence agencies. As far back as the 1970s, CCTV cameras have decorated private businesses and public buildings — providing a means of deterring theft for property owners and keeping records of activity through omnipresent VCR and later digital cameras. At its inception, there…

A barbecue photo and a Texas flag shirt won’t erase years of public statements that could prove difficult to explain to Texas voters. Source link

An excerpt from the long opinion Thursday in People v. White, decided by California Court of Appeal Justice David Rubin, joined by Justices Terry O’Rourke and Martin Buchanan: On January 9, 2021—three days after the riot at the U.S. capitol—defendant Jeremy Jonathan White and several fellow Antifa movement activists traveled from Los Angeles to San Diego to meet local Antifa activists to counterprotest a planned right-wing “Patriot March.” Donning full tactical armor and armed with bear spray and a taser, White led Antifa marchers up and down the Pacific Beach boardwalk as many of the Antifa protesters violently confronted right-wing…

That long-standing approach to governance and each other is now being challenged by the Republican party’s leaders who espouse Donald Trump-style loyalty over skill, ability, and experience. By mimicking the historically unpopular president — now polling in the 30s — the Montana GOP is trying to “purge” candidates who won’t follow leadership’s dictates, regardless of the cost to society. One need only look how that’s working on the national level to understand it’s a deeply flawed approach to governance.  This is especially true in a nation of 340 million individuals in which about 30% are Republicans, 30% are Democrats, and…

In November 2024, 47% of Virginia voters cast ballots for Republican congressional candidates. Under the map Virginia Democrats tried to push through, those voters would have ended up with exactly one Republican district out of 11. Going from a 6-5 to a 10-1 split was what Democrats called “restoring fairness.” To get it done, Democrats bypassed a bipartisan redistricting commission that Virginia voters had specifically created in 2020 to end partisan map-drawing. They drafted the new map behind closed doors. They passed a constitutional amendment on Oct. 31, 2025, even though early voting for the general election had been underway…

It's a Fight To the Finish in L.A.'s Wild Mayoral Primary Source link

Bills, amendments and investigations are all in the works, as Democrats vow to block Trump’s settlement deal. Source link

The rollout of the DOJ’s Anti-Weaponization Fund may have been botched, but the fund remains a good idea, and the hysteria from Democrats like the hypocritical Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and allied mea€¦ Source link