Legalectric

UPDATE: This has been disappeared, redacted removing references to Trump, and reposted.

Saving for posterity. From Giuffre v. Maxwell Case No. 1:15-CV-07433, Exhibit A which was overly redacted, but wasn’t fully redacted of references to Trump, and like some other documents released, will probably be illegally disappeared soon (and note the Bates numbers, many pages from Ransome are missing, they may not be part of this Exhibit A but I’ll bet their relevant and interesting):

Yes, OOPS! The Public Utilities Commission didn’t publish notice of the Annual Infrastructure Permitting Hearing as required by statute, so here it is — the full notice as published in the Current Monitor: December 16, 2025 Volume 49, Number 50, quoted in full:

Minnesota Public Utilities Commission – Annual Infrastructure Permitting Hearing

Notice description: On 12/9/2025, The Commission held the Annual Infrastructure Permitting Hearing under Minnesota Statute § 216I.15 – however, it was inadvertently missed that the notice was not submitted to the EQB Monitor. The 12/9/2025 recording of the hearing will be played at an additional, online only hearing via WebEx that will be held on December 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM. Information to join that meeting can be found on the PUC calendar on the date of the hearing, 12/9/2025, at: https://mn.gov/puc/about-us/calendar/. You can also find an updated version of the Notice in eDockets using the docket number 25-18, at: https://efiling.web.commerce.state.mn.us/ You can also join the WebEx meeting using the login information below.

Public meeting date, time, location: December 29, 2025, 10:30 a.m., Online meeting
Public meeting virtual link: Join online meeting
Public meeting additional details: Telephone: 1-855-282-6330
Event Password: PUC2025! (667820 when dialing from a phone)
Webinar Number: 2485 945 6472
Meeting video and audio are available via the internet. Logon five to 15 minutes before the meeting begins. You will be asked to join the meeting through a Webex application or through a plug-in for your web browser. You will be asked to enter your name and email address. Attendees will be muted. If you would like to ask a question or make a comment during the meeting, use the chat function to send a message to the meeting moderator. Your line will be unmuted, and you will be able to ask your question or make a comment. You may call in on your telephone and listen to the meeting. If you would like to ask a question or make a comment during the meeting, press *3 on your telephone. General information about attending a hearing using the WebEx platform can be found at: https://mn.gov/puc/activities/meetings/webex/
If you have questions about participating in the meeting or need assistance during the meeting, please contact Commission staff person Sam Lobby (details below).

Link to additional information: PUC infrastructure permitting additional information

Contact: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Sam Lobby, 651-201-2205

From this week’s EQB Monitor, another “be there or be square” notice:

And here’s the kuve link for the meeting packet:

ERIS meeting webpage

As if war, warS, murder on the high seas, violations of Constitution and law every day, disregard for people following the legal processes to become citizens, putting the country’s health at risk by pulling out health insurance out from under them, pardoning of J6 insurrectionists and criminals guilty of extreme fraud… etc., etc., etc., as if that wasn’t enough… this is clear enough for the world to recognize that Trump is an abhorrent POS:

Yes, just look at “this raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights…”

Of course I told him what I think in technicolor, by mail in my daily postcard and a letter with this screenshot (1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20500), and calling both comment line (202) 456-1111 and switchboard (202) 456-1414 AND the contact form: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Your turn, you know what to do!

Sure, add me to the “Anti-Fascist” list — I’ll wear that label proudly.

Attention fellow Maggots! And everyone else who cares about education, the Minneapolis Public Schools, and preserving diversity in teaching:

Trump admin sues Minneapolis schools over layoff protections for teachers of color

DOJ’s Press Release

Here’s the Complaint:

Dept. of “Justice,” just how does this policy affect the public? Are there applicants standing in line applying to teach in Minneapolis Public Schools, and not being hired? If so, I’d imagine they’d be Plaintiffs. Do tell, specifically how is your lawsuit in the public interest?

The thought of this lawsuit makes my head explode. What can we do about it? Spread the word, and ?? I’m at a loss…

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Those of us who were there way back when — remember the beginnings of Central’s Magnet School?

Remember the lawsuit against the school district at that time, and remember the Consent Agreement hearings?

Booker v. SPECIAL SCHOOL DIST. NO. 1, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 351 F. Supp. 799 (D. Minn. 1972)

From that decision:

It’s interesting to read some of that history with 50+ years of hindsight. This history means a lot to me, it’s very personal and I get pretty worked up about it, because experience at Central opened doors for me and changed my idea of “education.” Central worked for both my brother and I, and I wonder if I would have even graduated if I hadn’t had the Magnet School option.

During that time, I learned a lot about Minneapolis that I’d not have learned otherwise. My first hearing testimony ever was at a federal Consent Agreement hearing. I went to the one at Bryant, and I know a group of Central students went to one elsewhere. We had a dog in this fight and experience to draw on (I can vividly remember the mimeo of the Agreement with graphs of various school racial mixes). My main comment, OBJECTION, was that schools more than 35% minority were deemed “segregated,” and schools 100% or close were NOT deemed segregated. That framing was bizarre. I’d attended Armatage elementary, Susan B. Anthony Jr. High, and then Southwest High School for just a few months, all 100% white, and the environment was so oppressive (I’d also taken classes at South High for summer school, and Vocational for drafting, and Community Ed ? at Southwest or Washburn for photography). In SW’s AP History, I vocally objected to the teacher’s racist presentation of historical U.S. treatment of natives, and I had to go to counselor about it. I learned about option to transfer out, to Central, and also had to go to that counselor to get that process moving, with my mother in tow, and the counselor said, “Why would you want to go there, you’ll get beat up in the halls.” I wish I could remember more of that interaction! So I transferred to Central. In homeroom, I met Rick Davis (didn’t know him other than that) and learned his father, Harry Davis, school Superintendent, was running for Mayor, and that was the first campaign I worked on, stuffing envelopes, trying to get neighbors to post Harry Davis signs (no one would… and ours was stolen a couple of times… sigh…), and lit dropping. The Mayoral “debate” at Mayflower Church was unnerving, such vocal ugliness and even spitting at Harry Davis, eye opening for this kid from the Richfield edge of southwest Minneapolis. At Central, I think I got the best high school education that Minneapolis had to offer, and even finished requirements in December, 6 months ahead of my class thanks to summer school and night school.

To the current Department of “Justice” a simple message:

Now it’s time to ferret out what would be helpful. Watching this slowly wind through the courts will be excruciating. How dare they!?!