For years, you may recall that we would write about the insane nature of forum shopping for patent trolls, in which the trolls would flock to the federal courts in East Texas. Going back nearly 15 years, we wrote about how East Texas courts became grand central for patent troll cases, leading to all sorts of sketchy behavior. There are a bunch of empty office buildings setup in small Texas cities (mainly Marshall and Tyler) just to "pretend" to have offices there. Companies engaged in many patent cases started to try to suck up to residents of those small cities, in case they might be on a jury. TiVo literally bought a "Grand Champion Steer" just weeks before a jury was set to rule on a massive TiVo trolling case. Samsung threw so much money at the local "Stagecoach Days" event that it was renamed "Samsung Stagecoach Days," and built a Samsung ice rink right next to the courthouse in Marshall. ... However, as Patent Progress notes, there's a new judge vying to be at the top of the patent troll's Christmas list, and he's in West Texas. Judge Alan Albright, a former patent litigator, was appointed to the bench in 2018 -- and he literally went on a tour to convince companies to bring patent cases in his court:

In Alaska’s annual battle of heavyweights, a salmon-chomping bruin named 747 – like the jetliner – has emerged as the most fabulously fat.

President Donald Trump spent months earlier this year playing up the promise of the old anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in the fight against COVID-19. And along the way, he convinced the right-wing media to go along with him, boosting the drug even though there was no real proof of its efficacy against the virus.  Now that Trump is fighting his own case of COVID-19 without his miracle drug, the hydroxychloroquine advocates who followed his lead are pretty frustrated.  Dr. Stella Immanuel, the Houston-based doctor and preacher who specializes in demons and alien DNA, was part of a group of doctors who in July falsely declared hydroxychloroquine a “cure” for COVID-19. Trump shared a video of the group on his Twitter account and subsequently called Immanuel “very impressive.” 

Jason Gelinas lived a normal suburban life with a plum Wall Street gig. He also ran the conspiracy theory’s biggest news hub.

Leaders of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn, the country's third most popular party in parliament during the debt crisis, were found guilty of running a criminal group, a Greek appeals court ruled on Wednesday. The court ruled that seven former Golden Dawn MPs, including its leader, Nikos Michaloliakos, were guilty of leading a criminal organisation, while the others were found guilty of participation in one. Earlier, the court found Golden Dawn sympathiser Yiorgos Roupakias guilty of killing 34-year old anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas in 2013. Roupakias confessed to the stabbing, which triggered the party’s demise as public outrage reached a tipping point and prompted a crackdown against the Golden Dawn. More than 15,000 people gathered for an anti-fascist rally outside the Athens courthouse on Wednesday. Applause broke out in and outwith the courtroom as Roupakias, who was found to have delivered the final stab wounds, was found guilty. Some 2,000 police officers have been brought into the city over fears that violence would break out between anti-fascists and Golden Dawn supporters. Riot police fired tear gas into the crowds as people chanted anti-fascist slogans, with observers from Amnesty International describing police use of the chemical weapon as “indiscriminate". Nils Muižnieks, Amnesty International’s Europe Director, said the ruling sends a message that violence and hate crimes will be ignored.

How an aspirational slogan for men rejects the anxiety of gender

In an effort to fight deplatforming by big tech, right-wing blogger Dave Rubin launched a site called Locals. Let's see how it's going.

A professor, Craig Chapman, was placed on leave after he was exposed for allegedly posing as an 'immigrant woman of color' on Twitter.

The boy was dragged into Lake Victoria from Mbita in Kenya by a hippo while horrified men and women stood on the shore launching sticks and stones at the animal There is no honor in killing a defenseless tiny human calf.

President Donald Trump is once again warning voters that Democrats would "shut our economy and jobs down" if they win in November.

The West Wing and the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room received a deep cleaning by a White House employee on Monday after President Trump was discharged from Walter Reed.

The government art competition now requires hunting imagery, a change that some wildlife painters say undermines its conservation message.

A member of the Fort Worth school board’s Racial Equity Committee struck a nerve with some residents when he argued in a column that “wealthy white folks” are controlling the back-to-school debate, with some saying his column labeled a large swath of people as racist. Max Krochmal serves as a volunteer co-chair of the school board-appointed committee. On Sept. 22, the day the school board was set to vote again on the back-to-school date, an opinion column by Krochmal about the online learning debate appeared in the Fort Worth Weekly. He wrote that “the demands for ‘rigor’ and ‘choice’ and now ‘in-person’ activities from the ultra-privileged have a habit of steamrolling other voices and our collective conversations on equity.” Krochmal, who is an associate professor of history at TCU, said “wealthy white folks demand in-person learning” without regarding the cost to marginalized communities, who might not have health insurance or be able to pay for medical care if they contracted COVID-19. “The folks in Tanglewood, Benbrook, and — worse — those who have already abandoned FWISD are insulated from the full effects of COVID,” he wrote. Krochmal argued that some people demanding in-person learning were showing “dripping paternalism and, yes, racism toward Black and Brown families.” Petition calls for removal Suzanne Asfar started a petition calling for Krochmal’s removal from the Equity Committee. As of Tuesday morning, 197 people had signed.

By national measures, those making $400,000 or more a year belong to a rarified group. But in a city, people with that income aren't exactly living large.

Top department officials were “a driving force” behind President Trump’s child separation policy, a draft investigation report said.

Stephen Miller, a top policy adviser to President Donald Trump, has tested positive for coronavirus, he confirmed in a statement Tuesday.

Electrek can confirm that Tesla has dissolved its PR department — technically becoming the first automaker who doesn’t talk to the press. It’s something that we have discussed on our podcast several times over the last few months, but now that reporters are publicly complaining about it, we thought we’d clear things up in an […]

Amazon’s safety team knew there was a problem at its fulfillment center in Thornton. A cache of company records obtained by Reveal — including internal safety reports and weekly injury numbees.

The change is a significant escalation over its previous actions targeting QAnon and one of the broadest rules the social media giant has put in place in its history.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A grand jury on Tuesday indicted the St. Louis couple who displayed guns while hundreds of racial injustice protesters marched on their private street. Al Watkins, an attorney for the couple, confirmed to The Associated Press the indictments against Mark McCloskey, 63, and his wife, Patricia McCloskey, 61. A spokeswoman for Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner declined comment.