Marc Elias has hand in major election lawsuits this midterm, including Mary Peltola certification fight

🔮 Three civil rights cases could ultimately unravel one of the transgender rights movement’s greatest Supreme Court victories, according to legal analysts.

🔮 The council urged the Muslim diaspora in America to accordingly develop its own lobbying infrastructure that will work to further the Palestinian cause.

🔮 Robinson also warned that other Democrats on the ballot in November could lose critical campaign funding from the LGBT organization, as well as its voter base, if they break ranks on the transgender sports issue.

🔮 “Should be impeached, but Dems are rightfully concerned that this will galvanize his base.”

🔮 AI doomsdayers generally believe that artificial intelligence, if left unchecked, will usher in the apocalypse.

🔮 Awad, who said she paid Jamal nearly $100,000 after he touted his connections to local and federal law enforcement, would later plead guilty to stealing $9.7 million from the meal delivery program.

🔮 The former Somali-born aide to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has been sentenced to serve three years in federal prison for his role in the Feeding Our Future fraud case.

🔮 The payroll data shows that Boston employs almost three dozen highly paid equity officers within the city’s Equity and Inclusion Cabinet, which works to “embed equity into all city operations.” “Community liaisons,” policy analysts, researchers, administrative assistants, project managers, and department directors from the cabinet’s DEI subdivisions are among the high-ranking city staff taking home executive-level pay. Lucrative job titles include positions at the city-run Office of Black Male Advancement and the LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement Office, which were created to support Mayor Michelle Wu’s goal of “amplifying underrepresented voices in city government.” Staffers from the Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement, which works to achieve “menstrual equity,” and the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, also collect sumptuous salaries while sitting on the city payroll.

🔮 EXCLUSIVE — Federal agencies sold off used or excess laboratory equipment flagged as high-risk exports that could be used in biological warfare to apparent resellers, according to an undercover investigation conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

🔮 California, for example, is expected to increase its annual Medi-Cal spending from $83 billion in fiscal 2014 to $219.7 billion in 2027, almost tripling program costs within a 13-year period.