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When social opprobrium fails to stuff a turd like Charlie Kirk into some powerless far corner of society where he can’t hurt people, that’s when a turd like Kirk gets shot.
When democracy and the law fail to reign in corporate greed and harm and cruelty, that’s when you get a Luigi.
When the press and civil society fail to stop a rising authoritarian, that’s when you get WWII.
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Civil (common) law countries like the (non-)binding obligations of Kyoto (Paris) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325005468 @…

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?

Lindsey Halligan - Civil Rights, Criminal Defense Lawyer | Lexinter Law Directory
Lindsey Halligan, attorney and political appointee, became Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2025 under Donald Trump.

Just in one day Israel has bombed civil targets in Qatar and Tunisia. We need a map of countries assaulted by Netanyahu under Trump's passive approval
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/09/israel-attacks-doha-qatar/

Israel’s Peace Plan: Assassinate the Ceasefire Negotiators
In “a mockery of international law,” per one expert, Israel has bombed the residence of Hamas officials negotiating peace in Doha, Qatar.

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)
https://dronelife.com/2025/10/06/faas-

FAA’s Expansive Chicago Drone Ban Raises Questions Over Security and Civil Liberties
The FAA has issued a drone flight restriction over downtown Chicago through 10/12, citing security concerns during federal immigration raids.

Ezra Klein recently asked Kate Shaw, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, what powers the recent Supreme Court decisions seem to grant Trump that Barack Obama or Joe Biden just didn’t think they had when they were president.
Here’s what she said:
“Refuse to spend money appropriated by Congress.
Remove heads of independent agencies protected by statute from summary firing.
Fire civil servants without cause. Dismantle federal agencies.
Call up the N…

Opinion | Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover
Democrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy.

Trump's Plan -- To invoke the Insurrection Act -- The direction we're going is either martial law or civil war. (Robert Reich)
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p161#a251006p161

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…

"House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down" #ELB
Time: Police are investigating the cause of a fire that burned down the home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein, who had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her work. State law enforcement is investigating the house fire … Continue reading “House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down” →

Justice Department Finds the University of California-Los Angeles in Violation of Federal Civil Rights Law (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-finds-university-california-los-angeles-violation-federal-civil-rights
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p151#a250729p151

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.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/LIBE-PR-777005_EN.html…

DRAFT INTERIM REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision determining, pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union, the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded | LIBE_PR(2025)777005 | European Parliament
DRAFT INTERIM REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision determining, pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union, the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (C9-0000/2022 - 2018/0902R(NLE)) Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Rapporteur: Tineke Strik

WTF? Sheriffs now!
#Australia …

Inside the fringe groups fighting a 'quasi civil war' with self-styled sheriffs and their own court
Wary of being labelled a cult, this 'sovereign citizen' group has never spoken to mainstream media. It made an exception for Four Corners.

FTC alleges messaging app violated child privacy law, duped users into subscriptions https://therecord.media/ftc-alleges-sendit-app-violated-children-privacy-rule

In June 2025, the Trump administration pressured University of Virginia (UVA) president James Ryan to resign,
threatening to withdraw federal funding due to an alleged lack of compliance with civil rights law.
Like other elite higher education institutions such as Harvard,Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and many others targeted by the Trump administration,
UVA capitulated to the coercive authority and dictatorial weaponization of civil rights law.
UVA buckled …

Racist Lies About College “Quotas” Stoke Support for Trump’s War on Higher Ed
College quotas haven’t existed since 1978, but the right keeps people misinformed.

Recipe:
Ingredients:
One old barrel
Steps:
Scrape bottom of Barrel
Put the scrapings into highly physically powerful roles with a need for solid comprehension of the law, procedures, and civil rights.
"US offers up to $50k bonus for would-be ICE deportation officers"
"In addition to the signing bonus and student loan repayment and forgiveness of up to $60,000, ICE is promising potentially hefty overtime pay for deportation officers and…

US offers up to $50k bonus for would-be ICE deportation officers - BBC News
ICE recently received billions more in funding from Congress as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up its deportation drive.

What a gigantic gaping asshole. https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-adams-vows-to-challenge-nyc-school-policy-on-trans-students-bathroom-rights

Mayor Adams vows to challenge NYC school policy on trans students’ bathroom rights
State officials say denying access would break the law as civil rights groups and political rivals condemn the mayor’s remarks.

The US DOJ sues Uber, with its civil rights division alleging that Uber discriminates against people with physical disabilities in violation of federal law (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Experts are condemning the U.S. military strike that killed 11 people on a boat in the Caribbean on Tuesday,
saying that the bombing was in violation of international law.
The Trump administration has claimed
— without providing evidence
— that the casualties of the strike were members of Tren de Aragua,
a Venezuela-based gang that it has designated a foreign terrorist organization

Experts Say Trump Administration’s Deadly Boat Attack Amounts to Extrajudicial Killings
“Trump is claiming the right to conduct extra-judicial assassinations,” a civil rights attorney posted on X.

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

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.)
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Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations
List of terrorist groups or organisations banned under UK law, and details of proscription criteria.

The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference.
A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday,
including the attorney general’s own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell.
Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as pros…

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws
In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.

The Administration's Contempt for the Rule of Law Has Roots in the Pre-Civil Rights Era (Steve Chapman/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-administrations-contempt-for
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p23#a250712p23

Here's the start of an idea:
Those of us who end up directly getting a tariff payment demand on a purchase from overseas (especially if the purchase is from Brazil) might want to consider filing a personal Federal civil action against FFOTUS, as a private person, for recovery.
The basis would be an ultra vires government action, not authorized by law (this is why the Brazil path is particularly interesting, because there is no real way that this is in any way authorized by Co…

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”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/los-angeles-car-wash-owner-ice-raid-lawsuit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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…

Judge upbraids prosecutors for handling of DC surge cases, saying they have 'no credibility left'
A federal magistrate judge has angrily accused top Justice Department prosecutors of trampling on the civil rights of people arrested during President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. Judge Zia Faruqui said Thursday that leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling the cases. He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail…

One of Charlie Kirk’s main legacies was a “watchlist” of professors who Kirk and his organization, Turning Point USA, considered too liberal;
People on the list often were targeted for smears and death threats.
TPUSA also bussed people to the January 6 insurrection, and Kirk was a major proponent of “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theories.
Among many other horrific statements, Kirk said that stoning LGBT people to death is part of “God’s perfect law,”
and that gun dea…

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

When the military is deployed to quell overwhelmingly peaceful protest,
when elected officials of the opposing party are arrested or handcuffed,
when student activists are jailed and deported,
and when a wide range of civic institutions
– non-profits, law firms, universities, news outlets, the arts, the civil service, scientists
– are targeted and penalized by the federal government,
it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that our core freedoms are disappea…

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Across the US, lawmakers and interest groups are stepping up efforts to shield Israel from accountability for war crimes, occupation, and apartheid.
They are doing so by restricting Palestine solidarity advocates’ First Amendment rights to free speech and political boycotts.
In June 2022, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold an Arkansas law punishing state contractors who boycott Israel.
Since 2014, dozens of states have adopted similar laws designed to puni…