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Magistrate judges without life tenure bowing up to DOJ
Trump's DOJ has lost the presumption of regularity with a swiftness
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...85023.12.0.pdf
Oh, none of the "whites suffer reverse racism!" crew twisted their panties over these comments? Color me shocked!Trump junta: THE PROTESTERS ARE THE WRONG COLOR -- NOT REAL DC RESIDENTS
Magistrate judges without life tenure bowing up to DOJ
Trump's DOJ has lost the presumption of regularity with a swiftness
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...85023.12.0.pdf
San Francisco is pretty safe for a big city
So is NYC, btw
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/ar...w-21086889.phpBy the San Francisco Police Department’s latest official count, there had been 19 homicides in the first nine months of 2025, compared to 24 last year at the same time last year. Those numbers do not include the apparent murder-suicide of a family of four last week, which may raise the count of murders by three. SFPD has not made an official ruling on the incident, but even if those crimes are included, the city would be on track to have 27 — still the lowest since 1954, according to police data.
Texas is very lax on employers who steal wages
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-...plaints-surge/Texas workers have long struggled with wage theft by their employers—and the state’s willingness and ability to crack down on scofflaw employers has been relatively minimal. Now, rates of suspected wage theft are increasing, and the state labor law enforcement system is straining to keep up.
Last year, state investigators faced the highest number of paycheck complaints in nine years and a prior internal audit noted that it typically took months just for complaints to be assigned to an investigator.
“The current system is failing workers in that it’s too slow, especially with many Texans living paycheck to paycheck,” said Sean Goldhammer, director of employment and legal services at the Workers Defense Project, a statewide member-led group that advocates for immigrant workers.
It’s already hard enough for working-class Texans to survive with their full paychecks; 42 percent of Texas households face financial instability. The state still follows the federal minimum wage, which has remained at $7.25 an hour since 2009, and housing in the state has become lessaffordable.
Meanwhile, the rate of wage theft complaints has soared in recent years, and the state agency responsible for policing labor laws has been unable to keep up. In the 2024 fiscal year, more than 15,000 complaints were filed with the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC), which is charged with enforcing state and federal labor law. That’s the highest amount since at least 2016 and double the amount from 2021, according to agency reports. Of the 12,400 cases investigated that year, the state ordered employers to pay back more than $10 million in wages.
Wage theft comes in the form of anything from missing paychecks, commissions, bonuses, or other owed wages under the state payday law to overtime manipulation and misclassification as an independent contractor. TWC may not investigate every complaint if it’s submitted past the 6-month deadline, without sufficient evidence, or involves a bankrupt employer.
If someone steals from your car or your house they might go to jail, but if they rob your paycheck, if they get caught they usually just have to pay it back with no extra sanctions
Reported crime, so it's an undercount across the board
zero trans people involved
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...oys-rcna343859Daniel Savala, a former missionary whose influence inside an Assemblies of God-run college ministry persisted for years despite repeated warnings about his predatory behavior, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he sexually abused two boys.
Appearing by video from jail, Savala, 70, entered the plea before Judge Susan Kelly, admitting to one count of continuous trafficking of persons, a felony charge for offenders who engage in a pattern of sexual exploitation involving multiple victims over time. Under a negotiated plea agreement, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
Savala, dressed in gray jail scrubs, showed no emotion as he entered his plea and accepted a sentence that prosecutors expect will send him to prison for the rest of his life.
Last year, an NBC News investigation found that leaders in the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, were warned again and again about Savala’s history but failed to cut off his access to students in Texas — even after a 2012 child sex abuse conviction in Alaska. Instead, he remained a revered spiritual figure among pastors in Chi Alpha, who called him “Papa Daniel” and “the holiest man alive” and sent scores of students to his Houston home for guidance.
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