Ryan Farrick is a writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.





Wisconsin Asks Federal Court to Dismiss DoJ Voter Data Lawsuit

The Wisconsin Elections Commission, in contrast, claims that it has already provided publicly-available data for more than 3.6 million registered voters. It has also challenged the Justice Department’s legal argument, saying that nothing in the Civil Rights Act of 1960 provides the Trump administration with the power to forcibly requisition confidential information from individual states.


Closing Statements Presented in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial

PBS reports that Mark Lanier, an attorney representing KGM, concluded his closing remarks by showing the jury pictures of a gazelle surrounded by lions. The lions, Lanier said, don’t go after the strongest or fastest members of a herd—instead, they target, attack, and devour those that lack the strength to either fight back or escape.


Anthropic Sues DOD Over “Supply Chain Risk” Designation

“The Constitution does not allow the government to wield its enormous power to punish a company for its protected speech. No federal statute authorizes the actions taken here. Anthropic turns to the judiciary as a last resort to vindicate its rights and halt the Executive’s unlawful campaign of retaliation,” Anthropic said in the 48-page lawsuit.



Lawsuit Claims Meta Sends Nudes, Explicit Content to Overseas Workers for Review

“We see everything—from living rooms to naked bodies. Meta has that type of content in its databases,” one of the Kenya-based workers told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Goteborgs-Posten. “Someone may have been walking around with the glasses, or happened to be wearing them, and then the person’s partner was in the bathroom, or they had just come out naked.”


Connecticut Files Lawsuit, Blasts Trump Admin. on Tariffs

“That law authorizes tariffs in limited circumstances, including when there are “large and serious balance-of-payments deficits,’” Tong’s office said in a statement. “Notably, a trade deficit is not a balance-of-payment deficit, meaning that once again the President is acting unlawfully.”