Japan's Supreme Court has dismissed a U.S. airman's appeal against his five-year prison sentence for kidnapping and sexually assaulting an underage girl in Okinawa Prefecture in 2023. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/03/japan/crime-legal/okinawa-rejection-airman-appeal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #us #japanesecourts #okinawa #usmilitary #sexcrimes #usbases #usjapanrelations #women039sissues #childabuse #supremecourt
Chapter and verse of Big Journalism's epic failures in the Trump era -- and what's most disheartening is that our top "news" organizations have made it plain they have zero interest in even admitting, much less repairing, the damage they have caused to our nation.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205913/media-malpractice-trumpism-project-2025
Sir, respectfully, you are old enough to remember the equal time rule. You do realize that the #USCongress abolished it after the #SupremeCourt uphelt it? My generation grew up without equal time because of corporate media who wanted this landscape. 
Perhaps a rule requiring corporate outlets to have different political factions get equal prompting in front of users' eyes, so that #YouTube has to allow a #TownSquare and a #MarketplaceOfIdeas ? I want my generation to have their voices heard. 
The Supreme Court has instructed courts across Japan to reconsider the use of handcuffs and waist ropes on defendants when entering courtrooms for criminal trials, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/29/japan/crime-legal/defendants-court-handcuffs-ropes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #supremecourt #layjudges
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the government's responsibility is "extremely grave" in her meeting with victims of forced sterilization conducted under the country's now-defunct eugenics law. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/22/japan/society/japan-forced-sterilization-victims/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #sanaetakaichi #eugenicprotectionlaw #eugenics #discrimination #japanesecourts #supremecourt
"It’s sundowning in America: A presidential mind is a dangerous thing to lose. ...
How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?"
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO #Putin
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundowning-in-america
"That’s an important question, the answer to which I believe lies in the straight line from Bush vs Gore and the Roberts Supreme Court, to January 6th, to the execution of Renee Good. However, what’s more important is that we realize where we are right now, that we don’t try to sugarcoat and sanewash what’s happening: A petulant, violent and deranged individual is running America."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #ReneeGood
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If the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the Trump administration plans to begin replacing them almost immediately with other levies, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/20/economy/jamieson-greer-supreme-court-us-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #us #supremecourt #tariffs #trade #donaldtrump #globaleconomy
Alex Akselrod
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@Nonilex to be clear, the people #protesting #ice are not terrorists, but the federal governments response to protestors is exactly how you create terrorist organizations. Something the US government has a lot of experience doing in many parts of the world.
An empire in decline turns inward
This will end badly if something doesn’t change. I have zero faith in the #democrats and the #supremecourt and most Americans are too self absorbed and or financially stressed for #generalstrike
@VictimOfSimony @ViennaMike@mastodon.social If I was suddenly planetary overlord, I'd ban the advertising industry. Seriously, it's cultural poison. Doesn't matter whether it's cheap spam or brand marketing for YSL, it's garbage all round, designed to manipulate us into doing things we wouldn't otherwise do (for someone else's profit).
@cstross
@ViennaMike
@ireneista
As a #PublicPolicy wonk I'm already remembering how different our common law legal systems have become in just three centuries. Over here they're still worried about the anti-porn #Censorship case where the #SupremeCourt refused to define what they were censoring. They famously said, "I know it when I see it," grumble grumble prurient use in commerce, harrumph typical opinion of ordinary firmness, followed by thirty years of chipping off corners without admitting they were sort of making shit up.
My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated. #gettyreportage #getty at the #Whipple Federal building in #Minneapolis.”
Photo by Pierre Lavie.
#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung
@Nonilex to be clear, the people #protesting #ice are not terrorists, but the federal governments response to protestors is exactly how you create terrorist organizations. Something the US government has a lot of experience doing in many parts of the world.
An empire in decline turns inward
This will end badly if something doesn’t change. I have zero faith in the #democrats and the #supremecourt and most Americans are too self absorbed and or financially stressed for #generalstrike
"Not only is the Court demonstrably not corrupt, Crawford claims, it is also dangerous for the Court to have itself be called 'corrupt.' And, she claims, what is dangerous or threatening to this Court threatens the rule of law itself. In other words, you might say, the danger to the state is that child in the third row saying the King is naked.
But:
"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."
Josh Marshall highlights Chris Geidner's response to the special pleading of CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford on Face the Nation as she addressed charges that the Supreme Court is corrupt.
Noting that a narrative that the Roberts court is corrupt has gained strength, Crawford asserted that it's dangeorus to use this language — though she did not respond directly to the corruption charge.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s second administration refuses to be bound by anything so ordinary and mundane as the laws that Congress passes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/24/world/trump-canceling-rule-of-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #justicedepartment #donaldtrump #supremecourt #johnroberts #republican #democrat #immigrationandcustomsenforcement #rodrigoduterte
Andreas Wagner
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Oberstes US-Gericht blockiert Nationalgarde-Einsatz in Chicago
US-Präsident Trump hat die Nationalgarde schon in mehrere demokratisch regierte Städte geschickt. Die Pläne für Chicago hat der Oberste Gerichtshof nun durchkreuzt. Doch Trump hat schon die nächste Stadt im Blick.
Oberstes US-Gericht blockiert Nationalgarde-Einsatz in Chicago
US-Präsident Trump hat die Nationalgarde schon in mehrere demokratisch regierte Städte geschickt. Die Pläne für Chicago hat der Oberste Gerichtshof nun durchkreuzt. Doch Trump hat schon die nächste Stadt im Blick.
In a rare setback for the administration of Donald Trump at the high court, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to let the president send national guard troops to the Chicago area. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/world/court-reject-chicago-guard/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #chicago #supremecourt
As candidates vie to become chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, it's unclear whether the central bank will maintain enough autonomy and credibility to manage the economy under pressure from politics and the market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/23/world/fed-autonomy-credibility/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #federalreserve #supremecourt #donaldtrump #dollar #currencies #globaleconomy #debt #ai
Chewie
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⚖️ In light of the upcoming US #SupremeCourt ruling in #Trump v. Slaughter, we took a detailed look at the implications for US-EU #datatransfers. In short: It's time for EU companies to prepare for more trouble to come.
https://noyb.eu/en/eu-us-data-transfers-time-prepare-next-breakup
