Issue 43 News Today

Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman's Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines...

Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman's Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign...

What’s next for abortion? Do museum protests work? Blow up a SCOTUS justice. Direct action and dishwashing at Line 3; closed caption poetry at the caption place. Nicolás Medina Mora reads Heriberto Yépez, Lisa Borst reads Lisa Carver. Fiction by Mark Doten and Vladimir Sorokin.

Carver was still going, stylishly and bravely. Her unusual combination of tenacity and clear talent made me curious. (Also, I am always on the lookout for aspirational Lisas.) What did it look like, I wondered, to keep writing into middle age as though the older structures of DIY publishing were still intact or viable? To what extent can you just decide to continue refusing to sell out, even as rents go up everywhere and safety nets disappear? What kinds of writing does that produce?

Russian flags fly above the abandoned Security Service building and police headquarters. Curfew is between 8 PM and 6 AM. The lines for ATMs are two hours long. The trolleybuses operate for free. There is no gasoline or natural gas in the city, though some diesel is left. On the third day of the occupation, Russian television channels began to broadcast in Kherson. Viewers whose sets are plugged into the antenna directly, without a cable box, still have access to Ukrainian TV. The city’s own...

If it was too cold you called on Satan. Satan also had pre-rolled cigarettes; no one had tobacco in Europe yet for like 400 years, but Satan did

On paper, legislators passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act to halt what congresspeople erroneously called an epidemic of “meritless” prisoner-initiated lawsuits clogging court dockets. But the law’s effect — crushing imprisoned people’s access to the courts and limiting the federal courts’ power to remedy heinous prison conditions, especially via population control orders — was to severely narrow a key terrain of struggle for imprisoned people fighting not only for relie...

Recent years have seen the museum, and especially the art museum, highlighted as a key site for protest and a critical space for political struggle. Actors within and beyond the art world have challenged the museum on the grounds that arts institutions perpetrate harm — not just in the galleries, and not only in the workplace, but on local, national, and even global scales.

After getting in line at 9 AM and standing under a disgusting fine drizzle for almost three hours, Monique, too, got her shot. Just before nightfall she began to get chills and her temperature went up. After taking one paracetamol tablet and twenty drops of diazepam, she fell asleep. And had a dream:

I caption home-renovation shows and an educational program for third graders about careers in science. I caption Australian Family Feud and MasterChef Australia and a true crime show that tracks the grisly murder of a beautiful young woman in such detail that I have to periodically step out of the room to scream into my backpack. I caption soap operas and infomercials for revolutionary sprinkler systems and an awards show for innovations in contemporary design and a show called Gardening Austral...