In recent months, the federal government has relentlessly prosecuted protesters, government critics, immigrants and others arrested during immigration operations,
👉often accusing them of physically attacking officers or interfering with their duties.
⭐️But many of those cases have recently been dismissed or ended in not guilty verdicts.
In several high-profile cases, the prosecutions fell apart because they relied on statements by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) offic…
based on highly unscientific observation over the past 6 weeks, the t***a dealership i regularly walk by in brooklyn has stopped selling c********ks, no longer on the showroom floor & none parked out back. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116103440455128250
The Commission of Fine Arts,
a panel whose members were all appointed last month by Donald Trump,
unanimously approved a plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom on Feb. 19,
clearing one of the hurdles on the controversial project.
The seven-member panel also includes former lead architect on the project -- James McCrery, who abstained from voting due to his role.
Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the approval on the $400 million project, which is…
"…first case in which a federal agent has been criminally charged for…actions during the Trump administration's…immigration crackdown in Minnesota…
Gregory Donnell Morgan, Jr is accused of pointing a gun at motorists…he was driving illegally on the shoulder of a state highway in February…"
https://www.…
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An update on upki: TLS certificate revocation checking with CRLite in Rust.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-upki/77063
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Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…
I removed all my #Raspberrypi from my network and #NixOS configuration.
Main reason was that I needed to reduce my side projects a bit.
The raspi's were a nice experiment but I just needed to reduce my workload a bit and their hardware and architecture don't help to make t…
Europe's purchases of Russian gas keep funding the war against Ukraine - now with extra billions for more weapons
https://en.highnorthnews.com/politics/eu-payments-for-russian-ya…
New renderings released this week provide the most detailed vision yet of Donald Trump’s proposed $400m White House ballroom addition.
The renderings, submitted by the project’s architects and released on Friday by the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), depict a vast sprawling structure, expected to be around 90,000sq ft, from multiple angles.
In the images, the proposed building stands level with the White House mansion.
The renderings appear in a 28-page documen…