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@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-09-19 07:31:13

We're all really used to an FBI that is incredibly evil, but generally pretty competent. They have no problem using child sex offenders to infiltrate groups of clowns. They have no problem trying to convince civil rights leaders to commit suicide. They have no problem with sowing confusion within leftists groups and trying to get them to kill each other. They've always been radically anti-left, but they've also always been competent.
Fabricating evidence in a really obvious way would always have been off the table because they wouldn't be willing to throw a case. But those competent people have been pushed out of the FBI. It's now Kash Patel's clown show. It serves the whims of the regime above all else. It will sacrifice decades of hard built trust for a quick win, because no one involved is competent enough to understand the consequences of such actions.
In the past, they may have used torture to elicit a confession. They may have entrapped people. They could have deleted exonerating evidence, but they would probably not have just completely manufactured obviously fake evidence just to forward the regime's narrative. I don't think that we've seen anything like this, at the very least in our lifetimes.
We have to foster a new level of skepticism, far beyond what we have been used to... and this is especially true of Liberals, who still don't understand the level of corruption and incompetence in local law enforcement today.
#USPol #CharlieKirk

A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to carry firearms as the law currently allows.
Nor does a protest become a rebellion merely because of sporadic and isolated incidents of unlawful activity or even violence committed by rogue particip…

@jensilber@mastodon.social
2025-12-10 16:11:57

It might sound reasonable in theory, but it restores discrimination in practice.
justice.gov/opa/pr/department-

Petition of Right, (1628)
was a petition sent by the English Parliament to King Charles I,
complaining of a series of breaches of law.
The petition sought recognition of four principles:
🔸no taxation without the consent of Parliament,
🔸no imprisonment without cause,
🔸no quartering of soldiers on subjects,
🔸and no martial law in peacetime.
After dismissing his second Parliament,
Charles imposed a "forced loan", an effective tax wh…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-07 19:01:22

The FAA's expansive ban on drones in Chicago raises concerns that restrictions will block aerial reporting on law enforcement actions during immigration raids (Jim Magill/Dronelife)
dronelife.com/2025/10/06/faas-

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-24 09:18:50

theguardian.com/technology/202
Dozens of civil liberties campaigners and legal professionals are calling for an…

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-10-09 22:14:48

Color me confused - I see that el cheeto's dog, Lindsey Halligan, is listed as a lawyer in Virginia.
Yet, when go to the Virginia bar website and search for her in their lists of Virginia attorneys I get zero hits.
Huh?
The page below says that she is a member of the Virginia Bar, but the Virginia Bar seems not to know who she is?
Am I fat fingering something on the Virginia bar's attorney search site?

@scott@carfree.city
2025-12-09 08:34:54

"So imagine the Brownstone startup puts 50 pods in one big room. Once they rent pod #1, that person appears to have the right to the entire room. Renting pods #2 through #50 could violate Section 1950. If they do, they are double letting, and 'every tenant in the building, under the same landlord' could withhold rent for as long as the 'double letting' continues." 👀

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-07 00:35:46

Trump's Plan -- To invoke the Insurrection Act -- The direction we're going is either martial law or civil war. (Robert Reich)
robertreich.substack.com/p/tru
memeorandum.com/251006/p161#a2

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-09-26 05:05:13

European Parliament report on Hungary:
Message: the Hungarian Rule of Law has worsened significantly. Therefore, the EU must freeze more funds and take away Orbšn's veto.
europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docum

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-30 15:04:09

FTC alleges messaging app violated child privacy law, duped users into subscriptions therecord.media/ftc-alleges-se

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-09-21 01:59:36

What a gigantic gaping asshole. gothamist.com/news/mayor-adams

Last month, Judge Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice,
a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon
and later reversed by the state Supreme Court.
The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers,
of over three million registered voters as part of Trump’s M…

@curiouscat@fosstodon.org
2025-11-25 21:22:31

As the Republican party continues to promote the destruction of the rule of law and the constitution of the USA it is sad how far they have abandoned basic principles of a civil society.
msn.com/en-us/news/politics/…

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-10-25 12:31:39

The outgoing Dutch government failed to take the additional measures needed to meet the Climate Law goal of 55% emission reduction by 2030.
Although it's an 'aspirational goal', civil servants are already considering the risk of losing a new court case, and how to fund expensive emergency measures.

Front page of Trouw newspaper. Headline Government already preparing for consequences of new climate court cases
@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-09-21 16:50:04

On a practical level, I think the UK should immediately revert to the pre-2021 proscription of Hamas (between 2001 and 2021 a distinction was made between militant operations and civil administration).
(Separately I also think that Palestine Action should be de-proscribed until the government is prepared to make a public case.)

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-31 15:13:46

Sling TV settles with California for allegedly violating state consumer privacy law therecord.media/sling-tv-calif

The first Reconstruction
rebuilt freedom and citizenship after the Civil War
—imperfectly, to be sure.
The commitment faded
and with it large parts of the country descended into another century of tyranny.
But the embers of Reconstruction did not fully die out.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
—eradicating slavery,
promising due process and equal protection under the law
while also enshrining guaranteed citizenship,
and expandin…

Judge Zia Faruqui, a former federal prosecutor,
said leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling their deluge of cases.
He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail for days while they evaluate charges.
“It’s not fair to say they’re losing credibility. We’re past that now,” Faruqui said.
He later added, “There’s no credibility left…

@buercher@tooting.ch
2025-09-26 21:39:36

A 79-year-old owner of a Los Angeles area car wash is seeking $50m in damages from the federal government after US immigration authorities allegedly slammed the US citizen to the ground and detained him for almost 12 hours.Rafie Ollah Shouhed suffered significant injuries during an immigration raid this month, his attorney said, including broken ribs and a traumatic brain injury. The agents “violated the Constitution, California civil rights law, and basic human decency”.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s