Ohio lawmakers introduced legislation that would see women and doctors charged with murder if they did not re-implant fetuses from ectopic pregnancies in women’s uteruses, a procedure that does not exist and is impossible.
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Ohio State University files for a trademark on “THE”
“The Ohio State University” is apparently the full name of Ohio State, and to remind everyone of it, they’re selling a line of clothing emblazoned with the stark word “THE,” and so they’ve asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to give them the exclusive right to sell t-shirts, baseball hats and hats with the word “THE” on them. This is stupidly generic and unlikely to survive a challenge or even examination. Doesn’t THE university have a law-school that could prevent this kind of public embarrassment?
The darkest SEO: forging judges’ signatures on fake court orders to scrub negative Google results
It’s one thing to send a bogus legal threat in an effort to suppress criticism, because usually the only consequence of that is public humiliation and a little Streisand Effect heat; but if you really want to score an own-goal, the best way to do so is to send a fake court order to Google ordering removal of someone else’s embarrassing post from its search index, forging a judge’s signature to give it that really authentic look-and-feel.
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Lessons from testing decades of forgotten rape kits: serial rapists are common, they don’t follow a pattern, they’re not very bright, and they’re often the same men who commit acquaintance rape
America has an epidemic of untested rape kits, thanks to the institutional misogyny of police departments and prosecutors, especially when it comes to rapes committed against poor and racialized women.
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Ukrainian oligarchs accused of laundering $470b, buying up much of Cleveland
Billionaires Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov used to own Privatbank — the largest bank in Ukraine — and now they are being sued for using it for a decade to launder more than $470b (through its Cyprus subsidiary) ($470b is more than double the GDP of Cyprus over the same period).
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Amazon’s cloud business leads American companies in shifting its electric cost to taxpayers
Whether it’s paying for burying dedicated power-lines for data-centers, winning below-cost sweetheart deals on electricity rates, or securing tax-breaks and incentives to set up shop, Amazon Web Services has proven time and again that it is the nation’s best cost-shifter, enjoying billions in tax-funded gifts for operating data centers that employ almost no one and whose profits go straight to distant shareholders.
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Customs stole a US citizen’s life savings when he boarded a domestic flight, now he’s suing to get it back
Rustem Kazazi is a 67-year-old retired Albanian policeman who became a US citizen in 2010; last October, he boarded a flight from his hometown in Cleveland to Newark, planning to continue on to Albania.
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Kucinich is running for Ohio Governor, and he’s promised to end fossil fuel extraction and sue Big Oil
Dennis Kucinich was once the youngest mayor of a major city in the US, leading Cleveland through a hard fight with the banks and mobbed-up city contractors to save its municipally owned power plants and kill a plan to privatize the city’s energy; after decades in Congress, he’s running for Democratic governor of Ohio (a state whose Republican leadership has shamelessly corrupted the state’s electoral process) and promising to kill fracking and oil extraction, fund studies that will produce the evidence to sue Big Oil, and create jobs by funding a conversion of the state to renewable energy.
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Federal prosecutors say that Ohio man used MacOS malware that covertly operated cameras and mics and exfiltrated porn searches for 13 years
An indictment in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio’s Eastern Division alleges that Phillip R Durachinsky created a strain of MacOS “creepware” called Fruitfly, which was able to covertly operate the cameras and microphones of infected computers as well as capturing and sharing porn searches from the infected machines; the indictment alleges that Durachinsky used the software for 13 years, targeting individuals, schools, and federal agencies including the Department of Energy.
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Ohio Republicans create winnable electoral districts by siting nonvoting prisons near friendly voters
91% of the prisoners in Ohio are in Republican districts: they aren’t allowed to vote, but they are counted in the census, creating winnable districts with tiny voting populations that would otherwise be included with large groups of nearby Democratic voters.
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