@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 00:36:16
An examination of cases in which people were arrested for supposedly assaulting an immigration agent finds that
nearly half of those charges were either dropped or resulted in no conviction
— suggesting that federal law enforcement has engaged in widespread misconduct in carrying out Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
The New York Times report, published on July 18, examined the close to 550 cases in which individuals
— generally protesters and/or immigrants
— we…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 16:02:46
Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25.
Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so this book could not possibly be more in our zone.
You build systems by measuring things — gathering information, quantifying it as data, and taking action on it. And Jill’s big…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-01 15:48:00
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-06-19 16:40:13
I just got an email to pre-order my Christmas potatoes. As it’s first come, first served, I put in the order. They’ll be here the first or second week of July. They were quite successful last year, and you can’t beat homegrown.
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-05-16 10:42:29
Some genius did this to two subway adverts ⤵️
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-07-13 02:59:36
It's that time again! Tomorrow (Tues) 14 July, 20:00 NZDT is our #libre / #FOSS Catch up. We'll be at https://meeting.iridescent.nz
@davej@dice.camp2026-07-13 04:36:50
Looks as if Apple Music’s skewing kinda punk this #MondayRandom10. Not complaining or anything, though: it’s a good day for it.
1. Weezer—“In the Garage”
2. Hawkwind—“Motorhead”
3. Static-X—“Love Dump”
4. Spermbirds—“Another Dead Friendship”
5. Storm Weather Shanty Choir—“Leave Her, Johnny”
6. The Jim Carroll Band—“People Who Died”
7. Argatu’—“La Cosit”
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-19 01:35:52
The Trump administration has activated a secretive and
never-before-used legal process
to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists”
or their immediate family members.
The Justice Department submitted the first-ever application to the Alien Terrorist Removal Court
— which has lain dormant since it was established by law in 1996
— with little notice earlier this week.
The details of the July 15 application are sealed and an acco…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-15 01:01:02
On July 13, the Trump administration announced in an op-ed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio
that it would “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC),
“brick by brick, if necessary,”
using “all the tools at our government’s disposal.”
According to the provocative text of a State Department press release,
the United States will undertake a sweeping campaign
to dismantle the "threat to U.S. sovereignty" posed by the International Criminal …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-13 15:48:22
The hard-won Americans with Disabilities Act,
passed into law in July of 1990,
and specifically Title II of the ADA,
emphasized disabled people’s access to civic life.
These laws have been interpreted for decades as meaning that
our shared societal goal is to have disabled people live in community,
with family, with friends.
A new thing, a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel within the Justice Department,
now says:
“or maybe not.”
