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This Texas drag queen has an important reminder as state's drag ban goes back into effect

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-drag-ban-overturned-reactions

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Fire engulfs iconic Odesa market amid Russian attack — China covertly supplying drone engines to Russia despite sanctions, Reuters reports — Over half of MPs suspected by NABU backed law curbing anti-corruption agency’s independence — Ukrainian soldiers slam Zelensky’s anti-corruption crackdown … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/thursday-july-24-2025/

The Pryvoz market burning in a fire as a result of a Russian drone attack overnight on July 24, 2025 in Odesa. (State Emergency Service)

DEVELOPING A #Deltaflight arriving at #Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis appears to have #overturned while landing on Monday afternoon, with photos across social media showing an airplane with its belly up on the tarmac.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/canada/delta-toronto-plane-crash.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Trial Court Recommends #MelissaLucio’s #Conviction and #DeathSentence Be #Overturned

Judge finds for Ms. Lucio on all claims, including that she is actually #innocent. The case is now in the #Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for a final decision.

https://innocenceproject.org/trial-court-recommends-melissa-lucios-conviction-and-death-sentence-be-overturned/

Is #marriageequality likely to be #overturned under #Trump? Here’s the #legal #case

After the fall of #RoeVWade, could the #Corrupt #SupremeCourt reverse itself on #ObergefellvHodges, too?

https://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/article295579529.html#storylink=cpy

#Vote #Yes on #Proposition3. Remove #samesex #bigotry from the #California #Constitution.

#Rumblings against #LGBTQ+ people's #HumanRights — along with #cruel #legislation in some #states — have been growing, just as they had against #abortionrights before #RoevsWade was #overturned.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #SameSexMarriage #MarriageEquality #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-09-30/endorsement-yes-on-proposition-3

#Tracking #AntiLGBTQ #Legislative #Bans and the #Legal #challenges #organizations have brought against them.

The #scale of these #attacks has ensured that only some of the #bans get #challenged in #court and an even smaller number get #overturned.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.nclrights.org/tracking-anti-lgbtq-legislative-bans-and-the-challenges-organizations-have-brought-against-them/

#California #Judge #Nixes #School #ForcedOuting #Policy, But Allows #Workaround.

The #ruling #overturned a #forcedoutingpolicy targeting #genderidentity, but upheld a #policy mandating disclosure of all "#official or #unofficial" records.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/california-judge-nixes-school-forced

#Trump seeks to #delay his #hushmoney #sentencing on 34 Felony Counts until after the #election

His #lawyers say they are seeking to have the #conviction #overturned on #immunity #grounds.

But in reality, in a detail the #journalistic #story left out, Trump wants his #sentencing #delayed until after the #election in hopes he can #pardon himself.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/15/trump-seeks-delay-to-hush-money-sentencing-00174157

The #US #challenges the #ruling that #overturned #gymnast #JordanChiles' #bronzemedal.

#USAGymnastics said in a #statement that it had submitted #video #evidence to the #court "conclusively establishing" that #Chiles' #coach #CecileLandi had indeed #submitted the #inquiry within one minute, as required by #competition #rules.

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/g-s1-16509/us-gymnast-jordan-chiles-bronze-medal-return

Why #jurors in the NY #criminal #TrumpTrial can’t have a copy of the #JuryInstructions:

The prohibition against jurors being provided a copy of written #legal instructions comes from a 1987 decision by the #NewYork Court of Appeals in #PeopleVOwens.

The court found that “the distribution of written instructions to the jury is not expressly authorized by #law, & error in such submissions cannot be deemed harmless,” meaning: providing instructions would result in a #conviction being #overturned.

#Antiabortion #hardliners want #restrictions on #Women to go even farther. It could #cost #Republicans

2 years ago, the #Republican #Dominated #SupremeCourt #overturned #RoeVWade, the landmark decision guaranteeing a #federal #right to an #abortion.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Abortion #WomansRights #AbortionRights #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Homophobia #Misogyny #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/1198912380/abortion-abolition-republicans-rights-elections-roe-wade-2024-trump-biden

#WTF

Per #TheGuardian #MeToo

New York’s highest court on Thursday #overturned Harvey #Weinstein’s 2020 #rapeconviction finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women #testify about allegations that were not part of the case.
The #courtofappeals ruling reopens a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures – an era that began with a flood of #allegations.

#HarveyWeinstein’s Conviction Is #Overturned by #NewYork’s Top Court

#NY’s highest court on Thurs overturned Harvey #Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on #felony #SexCrime charges, a stunning reversal in the foundational case of the #MeToo era.

#law #criminal #rape #SexualAssault #power
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/25/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-appeal/harvey-weinstein-conviction-appeal?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

You’ll Never Guess Which #State #Court Just #Approved #Religious #Exemptions From #AbortionBans

#Indiana became one of the first states to enact a near-total #abortionban after #RoevWade was #overturned by the #Corrupt #SupremeCourt in 2022.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Indiana #WomensRights #Abortion #WomansRights #AbortionRights

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/indiana-abortion-ban-religious-exemption-judaism-faith.html

Four high-ranking congressional Democrats condemned a decision the private entity that sets the country’s default homebuilding guidelines made this week
-- which will 👉gut requirements for new houses and offices to include the wiring for electric heaters, EV chargers and solar panels.

In November, 🔸trade associations representing the natural gas industry 🔸launched 11th-hour appeals to the🔹 International Code Council🔹, the nonprofit consortium of local governments and industry groups in charge of writing the model building codes used in almost all U.S. states.

The #gas #groups asked the #ICC to 🔸scrap new tweaks in its latest update to the codes that would make it cheaper for homeowners to go electric. 🔸

While requiring the circuitry for electric appliances and vehicles might add a few thousand dollars to a new home’s asking price, it would cost the typical homeowner tens of thousands of dollars in renovations to rewire pre-built walls themselves.

The ICC’s appeals board rejected those asks earlier this month.
But on Wednesday, the ICC’s board of directors #overturned that ruling, 💥stripping the pro-electrification provisions out of the latest codebook💥 and handing gas utilities and furnace manufacturers a surprise victory.

“This is a real scandal,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) told HuffPost over email.

🔥“At the urging of fossil fuel companies, the ICC’s leadership has overruled its own experts and blocked code changes that would help electrify buildings and reduce reliance on fossil gas. This is a big setback for combatting climate chaos.”🔥

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-building-codes-icc-climate_n_65fdb393e4b07c954d559c55