Texas Republicans are trying to remove Austin’s progressive DA from office thru a judge.

Garza, you’ll recall, just easily won a Dem primary over an opponent endorsed at the last minute by Elon Musk.

does anyone know how to merge a JSON file with a csv in R so that the final file retains spatial attributes 😇

Several of the Republican Fetterman donors in this story also have to Dave McCormick theintercept.com/2024/04/19/joh…

Several of these donors also gave to Manchin and Sinema

NEW: Ahead of next week's SCOTUS oral arguments re whether a fed law barring discrimination in emergency health care preempts a portion of Idaho's near total abortion ban, here's a bit of an explainer on the law and the situation in Idaho The Intercept

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Since October, Sen. John Fetterman Has Been Building a Roster of Republican Donors interc.pt/3Q9RrCx by Akela Lacy interc.pt/3Q9RrCx

NEW: Registered Republicans are donating to Democratic Senator John Fetterman’s campaign because of his stance on Israel theintercept.com/2024/04/19/joh…

NEW: At least 14 registered Republicans have given to Fetterman’s campaign since October. One donor told me he just switched his registration from
GOP to Democrat to vote in the primary against Jamaal Bowman theintercept.com/2024/04/19/joh…

I can’t wait to see what The Atlantic will publish next!

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is running for a third term, source say. Krasner has been quiet publicly, but it's a big deal. Over the last 70 years, just one Philly DA has served for more than two terms: Lynne Abraham. w/ Anna Orso inquirer.com/politics/clout…

A man worked for almost 500 hours without pay in Broome County Jail's kitchen, according to his lawsuit. When he refused to work on his day off, an officer threw him in solitary confinement. My latest for The Appeal with editor Nick Wing. theappeal.org/broome-county-…

Columbia Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter One Day After Omar Grilled School Administrators interc.pt/3w5TPU3 by Prem Thakker interc.pt/3w5TPU3

We personally know incarcerated writers who have not been paid by PEN America, who have had to track down money from PEN, and have been harmed by its poorly-supervised “support” system. Please read this important piece published by Prism :

prismreports.org/2024/04/17/pen…

Help journalist camacho fight anti-press lawsuits!
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A sentence for the history books: 'Incarcerated people who are 'housed in units that lack climate control' and have no more than $12 a month in their spending account are provided a state-issued fan.'

new: About 50 NPR employees sign a letter to CEO Katherine Maher and top editor Edith Chapin calling for, among other things, a public rebuke of the “factual inaccuracies and elisions” in Uri Berliner’s Free Press essay.

Spoke to a surgeon from California who just spent 5 weeks in a field hospital in Gaza. He described how he is haunted by the scenes he witnessed:

“I was thinking about this young boy who was about 10 years old, who was walking down the street with his sister, probably four or

NEW: The Appeal has published the first national database of prison commissary prices. The project covers 46 states, revealing an exploitative system that forces incarcerated people to pay up to 5x the outside price for some items. theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…

5 Columbia students suspended/evicted over a teach-in Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine. campus sit-in at Pomona re: removal of apartheid wall met with riot cops + 20 arrests Pomona Divest from Apartheid (PDfA). 3 Vanderbilt students expelled for sit-in over canceled BDS vote Vanderbilt Divest Coalition

my latest
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