Police officers raided the
rapper Afroman's Ohio home,
... then sued him after he ridiculed them on social media
— but a jury just sided with the rapper.

In an unusual lawsuit members of an Ohio county sheriff’s department sued over songs and social media posts by Afroman
(Joseph Foreman)
that criticized the guns-drawn 2022 raid on his property, which yielded no charges.

The case claimed the videos were false and caused the officers "severe emotional distress".

But Afroman,
known for his 2000 hit “Because I Got High,”
testified at trial that he had a First Amendment right to mock the officers,
-- particularly after they smashed down his door for ultimately no reason:

“All of this is their fault, and they have the audacity to sue me"
https://www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-trial-verdict-rapper-wins-lawsuit-cops-music-videos/

19 March 1922 | A German Jewish woman, Sara Jacobson, was born in Hamburg. She lived in Amsterdam.

In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz together with her father Naphtali and three siblings: Bernhard, Dina and Ernst. None of them survived.
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🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/transformation-of-auschwitz-concentration-camp-/

Do read this transcript, related to efforts of the federal judiciary in New Jersey to ensure a lawfully appointed U.S. Attorney there. Undercovered situation.

Read the entire document, I promise it is worth it. #LawFedi

Edit: only way to share this is via screenshots. Also at NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/nyregion/judge-quraishi-new-jersey-attorneys-office.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UFA.cDP0.TdXwJuyKyZ8n&smid=url-share

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‘Paul began his questioning time by describing Mullin as angry and having “low impulse control.” He also played a series of videos demonstrating times that Mullin has expressed anger or invoked violence in public, including when Mullin stood up to challenge a union leader, who at the time was testifying, to a fight during a 2023 Senate hearing.

“Do you think fighting as a resolution for political difference is a good example for ICE and border patrol?”’ https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog-update/rand-paul-tears-into-mullin-pattern-of-machismo-behavior-and-low-impulse-control

He Built the Definitive Epstein Database—and It Consumed His Life
https://www.wired.com/story/he-built-the-definitive-epstein-database-and-it-consumed-his-life/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Longreads @longreads-WIRED

"'We’re not going to let it pass. We’re going to fight it tooth and nail,' Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said in a press conference Tuesday. 'We’re prepared to stay here all day and all night…and even multiple weeks if necessary to make sure the SAVE [America] Act suffers the death it deserves.'"

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/democrats-trump-anti-voting-save-america-act-senate/

It’s hard for reporters to see what’s happening up close in the Iran war.
https://theconversation.com/pete-hegseth-is-working-hard-to-make-sure-the-public-hears-only-good-news-about-iran-war-278295

#news #journalism #IranWar

https://theconversation.com/pete-hegseth-is-working-hard-to-make-sure-the-public-hears-only-good-news-about-iran-war-278295

“The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusio … that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey.” 1/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog