Saw exactly the same last week. I spoke with one asylum seeking family who had been trying to get an appointment via CBPOne for 7 months.

Over half a year later, they've taken to sleeping outside the port of entry as they wait to ask for asylum.

Ruling from U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell upholding jury verdict ordering Rudy Giuliani to pay more than $145,969,000 + interest in damages to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss (corrects amount from previous tweet to reflect more accurate amount) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

A Supreme Court decision announced today effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.

We all know the business model of legacy media has been in trouble. But it is really dark to see so many nonprofit, independent and public media outlets in one of the wealthiest cities in America run also into a wall. This is not the future of local journalism we were promised.

Ten straight months of record global temperatures. If that's not an emergency, I don't know what is.

Story by my Los Angeles Times colleague Hayley Smith: latimes.com/environment/st…

The move to repeal Arizona's pre-Roe abortion ban almost certainly has enough votes to pass in each chamber. But Speaker Ben Toma opposes it and says he won't allow it to come up for a vote in the House.

#BREAKING The Arizona Supreme Court upheld a 160-year-old abortion ban that could shutter abortion clinics in the state.

The ruling indicated the ban can only be 'prospectively enforced' and enforcement of the law is stayed for 14 days. azcentral.com/story/news/pol…

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I'm seeing so many Republican women talking about a national abortion ban as a Democratic 'scare tactic' - they're repeating the GOP talking point that they'll never have enough votes for a federal ban.

So let me tell you why that doesn't matter & they can ban abortion anyway

Yet another one of the many reasons that for-profit health care causes harm in the US. kffhealthnews.org/news/article/a…

REPORTER: So is it OK now for Israel to destroy hospitals?

PENTAGON: “I'm going to have to refer you to the IDF for their own operations…the Israelis have an incredibly hard task in front of them.”

Meanwhile, per latest Committee to Protect Journalists stats:

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Once Florida’s six-week ban takes effect May 1, Virginia — where abortion is legal until 27 weeks — will be the only state in the South to allow abortion past the first trimester. The closest options for care beyond VA are DC and Illinois.

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