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I thought they were trying to save money 
Under #Trump, the #Consumer #FinancialProtection Bureau #CFPB has dropped nearly a dozen enforcement cases brought during the #Biden admin, ending lawsuits against #banks & #lenders for a variety of financial practices that the #watchdog agency no longer considers #illegal.
But on Wed, the bureau went a step further: It is seeking to GIVE BACK $105k that a #mortgage lender paid to settle #racial #discrimination claims….
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/business/cfpb-repay-mortgage-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=6A5655B4-A7D4-4098-AED1-2847DA87EEB0
#OnThisDay The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change entered into force(1994).
Birth Anniversary of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna (1960) - often voted as best and most influential #FormulaOne driver of all time in various motorsport polls.
Today is International Day of #Forests,
International Day for the Elimination of #Racial #Discrimination,
World #Poetry Day,
Coming up soon! (as in today!!!!)
Book Launch for Solving Name: Worldliness and #Metaphysics in #Librarianship
Registration: https://libraryjuice.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xKs0k13sQw6x0sUfhoSdYA
“Solving Names” for American pragmatist #philosopher William James meant that no further debate or enquiry was needed. In #Librarianship this means the construction, maintenance, and reproduction of #racial, #settler- #colonial, #patriarchal #capitalism.
In the UK tomorrow is the 30th annual #Racial #Justice #Sunday. Started by the #Methodist Church with the family of Stephen Lawrence it is now a Churches Together project.
With what is happening around us this is a critical time to stand and be counted on the side of #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion and #Accessibility all of which are #Scripture sourced #Kingdom values.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5171vr0A2E
From #Austin, #TX, Congressmember #CésarCasar (D- #Texas) SHREDS #MAGA #GNP (#GrandNaziParty) and confronts the #Republican's DISGUSTINGLY HATEFUL #AntiBlackRacism
Members of #HateGroups involved with #Project2025 (which legalises discrimination, including #racial)
#FCKNZS #Hate #extrêmedroite #farright
A #MustWatchVideo #USAFascistShitShow #WhiteNationalists #WhiteSupremacists
If you don't believe that the U.S. has become a nazi-like hate filled run country...WATCH THIS
Trump’s dismantling of #EEOC and #CivilRightsAct #enforcement will have #chillingeffects for #Black #workers.
"These are all things meant to put #Black people and other #peopleofcolor back into a #racial #castesystem where #discrimination against them was #legal," Dr. #AlvinTillery tells #theGrio.
#Trump Signs Two #ExecutiveOrders to #Dismantle #Equity #Policies.
The #administration will take steps to roll back #federal #support for #racial #equity and #protections for #transgender #people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-transgender-race-education.html
After the release of #Wicked, there was discussion of the #UglyLaws once present, up until the 1970s, but can it really be said that such things are in the past, when more and more, being without shelter and helping those without shelter face punishment?
In July, #SCOTUS decided that it's #Constitutional for those without shelter to face arrest. More and more those who are #disabled face this all the more. Not to mention #racial #discrimination.
The University of Pennsylvania's sale is available to non US customers as well
40% off through December 31 using the code PENN-HOLIDAY24 (ooh, a variation on the theme).
_The Plantation Machine_ is a comparative #economic, #racial, and political history of two of the most important #sugar islands in the 18th-century #Caribbean (Saint-Domingue (now #Haiti) and #Jamaica). Written by two leading historians of the respective islands, The Plantation Machine reveals the connections between #empire and #capitalism that shaped the #AtlanticWorld in the era before the #AgeOfRevolutions.
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812224238/the-plantation-machine/
"A week on from the "pogrom" in Amsterdam, we're starting to see who knew this was coming, who lied about it, who laundered it, and who benefited from it.
As we see a crackdown on dissenting voices throughout the world, what happens in the Netherlands isn't isolated, it isn't random, and it isn't insignificant. If what I suspect happened really happened, then we are in for some very dark times indeed."
https://benjaminmoser.substack.com/p/a-theory-about-a-conspiracy
→ Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14
“[A dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers] said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.”
The next president will also alter the courts’ #racial, #ideological & #professional makeup. Under #Trump, 76% of judicial nominees were #men, & 84% were #white…. Many had ties to the #FederalistSociety, a *#conservative* #legal group. #Biden’s appointees have been 63% #female & 61% #nonwhite. He has prioritized nominees who served as #PublicDefenders & #CivilRights lawyers, & his picks have tended to be more #liberal than those of past Democratic presidents.
"#Tech behemoth #OpenAI has touted its #AI-powered #transcription tool #Whisper...
But Whisper... is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as #hallucinations — can include #racial commentary, #violent rhetoric and even imagined #medical treatments."
The longstanding practice of Weems is insightful meditation on #race, #history, & #power. She works across #photography, #video, & #installations. Best known work:“The Kitchen Table Series”, examines the experiences of #women. A few wks ago, she launched “Contested Sites of Memory: A Performance w/ Artist #CarrieMaeWeems” at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VA Commonwealth U in Richmond. The traveling performance about #racial #healing will be staged in #NY & #Washington, #DC, in 2025.
Greg Cocks Stanford Researchers Map ‘White-Only’ Properties In Santa Clara Co. Using AI [ historic deeds / covenants ]
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https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/stanford-researchers-map-white-only-properties-in-santa-clara-co-using-ai/ <-- shared media article
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https://dho.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/Covenants.pdf <-- shared research
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https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/static/maps/dotmap_lot_level.html <-- link to shared webmap
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #California #deeds #property #racial #racism #redlining #covenenants #race #minorities #propertyrecords #discrimination #history #historical #USHistory #legalreform #records #AI #machinelearning #openlargelanguagemodel #model #modeling #geography #clustering #demographics #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal
![snapshot - 1913 housing advertisement for the Palm Haven neighborhood in San Jose. 1913 is several years before Buchanan found “restricted districts” based on race unconstitutional, and the advertisement emphasizes the “restricted district[].” Palm Haven construction dates straddled Buchanan. It was developed by Thomas Herschbach who came to be responsible for 161 racial covenants in the County](https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/347/153/039/429/065/original/0b7758570a865277.jpg "snapshot - 1913 housing advertisement for the Palm Haven neighborhood in San Jose. 1913 is several years before Buchanan found “restricted districts” based on race unconstitutional, and the advertisement emphasizes the “restricted district[].” Palm Haven construction dates straddled Buchanan. It was developed by Thomas Herschbach who came to be responsible for 161 racial covenants in the County")
![snapshot - portion of deed - Although racially restrictive covenants are no longer legally enforceable and are considered illegal under the Fair Housing Act today, they still exist in thousands, possibly even millions, of historical property records in California. One such example, found in a 1940 real property deed from Santa Clara County’s archives, contains the following discriminatory language: “No persons not of the Caucasian Race shall be allowed to occupy, except as servants of residents, said real property or any part thereof.” The deed further specifies that “[t]hese covenants are to run with the land and shall be binding on all parties,” thereby affecting not only the tenants at the time but also the potential future owners of the land.](https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/347/153/037/909/858/original/5cae8b68202478cd.jpg "snapshot - portion of deed - Although racially restrictive covenants are no longer legally enforceable and are considered illegal under the Fair Housing Act today, they still exist in thousands, possibly even millions, of historical property records in California. One such example, found in a 1940 real property deed from Santa Clara County’s archives, contains the following discriminatory language: “No persons not of the Caucasian Race shall be allowed to occupy, except as servants of residents, said real property or any part thereof.” The deed further specifies that “[t]hese covenants are to run with the land and shall be binding on all parties,” thereby affecting not only the tenants at the time but also the potential future owners of the land.")
…#Trump has garnered support from many #police groups, in part by promising to strengthen #QualifiedImmunity to shield officers from civil #liability for their actions.
…He has detailed plans on his website to direct the #DOJ’s #CivilRights division to investigate “radical, Marxist” state prosecutors whom #Republicans accuse of *failing* to bring NONVIOLENT drug cases or other low-level charges that have disproportionately been prosecuted against #racial *minorities*.
Louisiana’s lawsuit was just one instance in a spate of 
#right-#wing #attacks
against the EPA’s use of #civil #rights law
to regulate pollution in neighborhoods of color.
In April, Republican attorneys general from 23 states filed a petition with the Biden administration’s EPA asking the agency to stop using #TitleVI of the Civil Rights Act to regulate pollution.
The effort was led by Florida’s Ashley Moody, and 
compared the EPA’s efforts at tacking environmental justice through civil rights law to “#racial #engineering.”
The EPA has not yet responded to the petition.
So, #Trump & his allies have been reveling in this line of #racial #identity sniping, hoping to bait Democratic leaders into a mud fight.
Some Trump advisers have even argued - including long before Trump began this Harris-isn't-Black crusade - that painting #Harris as inauthentically #Black could potentially resonate w/ certain Black voters, particularly disaffected, young men - who are already skeptical of Harris & President Joe #Biden.
With the Republicans holding just a two-vote majority in the House of Representatives, 
voters will go to the polls in November in at least two congressional districts that have been challenged as discriminatory against people of color.
After months of delays and appeals, courts have decided in the last two weeks that the maps in #South #Carolina and #Florida will stand, 
giving Republican incumbents an advantage.
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take action on South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District.
In January 2023, a three-judge federal panel had declared it an illegal #racial #gerrymander that must be redrawn before another election was held.
In Florida, the congressional map has faced long-running discrimination lawsuits in both state and federal courts, with one state judge ruling that a district near Jacksonville disadvantaged voters of color.
A higher court overturned that judgment, but an appeal from voting rights and civil rights groups is still pending before the state Supreme Court, which has said it could be months before it rules.
A decision about another contested district in #Utah is pending with the state Supreme Court and seems unlikely to be resolved before the elections, according to Mark Gaber of the Campaign Legal Center, who represents plaintiffs in a partisan gerrymandering lawsuit.