Weather Report #11: Judge Sanctions Attorney in San Juan Climate RICO Case, a Political Kidnapping Thriller, and Yet Another Neo-Noir Sci-Fi Film Recommendation

Happy Mothers' Day! Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of my grandmother dying and I've been thinking a lot about how I have not had a plate of spaghetti and meatballs that I've genuinely loved since she got so sick that she wasn't able to really cook anymore. If you like your family, hug them and ask for their recipes while you still have them. Thankfully, my other grandmother is alive and well, and I should give her a call.

Anyway, here's the roundup:

1. The second story about immigration in Puerto Rico for my four-part series over at The Latino Newsletter.
2. San Juan's attorney in its climate RICO case against the fossil fuel majors was just sanctioned for $7,000 for copying motions from the other climate RICO case in Puerto Rico.
3. A short novel that's if like La casa de papel (Money Heist in English) was actually political and leftist.
4. A low-budget technothriller based on a William Gibson short story.
5. Articles and essays about what Skype meant to people, why saving the world through investment isn't going to save, what's next for Argentina with a new loan from the IMF, the tech bro vision for Guantánamo Bay, the "abundance" agenda, French Guiana's independence movement, and more ways AI is making the world a worse place.
6. Three tracks I'm bumping

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What I Did This Week...

Another edition in my four-part series about immigration issues in Puerto Rico over at The Latino Newsletter came out this week. This time, it's about how May Day protesters demanded protection for migrants during their yearly march.

https://thelatinonewsletter.org/p/47691ff2-9431-403d-aa2b-0b114ff5fa10?draft=true

Attorney in San Juan Climate RICO Sanctioned $7,000

Last week, I talked about how the attorney in San Juan's climate RICO case, David Efron, defended himself against a judge's plagiarism allegations and him being consistently late in communication with the other attorneys in the case. Well, this week the judge told Efron he had to pay $7,000 as a sanction. The sanction was only for the late filings and not communicating with the defendants' attorneys. There's still a "separate procedure" open for the plagiarism allegations.

You can find the order on Courtlistener.

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