A reminder that using chemical weapons is literally a war crime. Our non-cosplay soldiers are banned from using chemical weapons on opposing forces, but ICE can flood American streets with it because someone wasn’t standing where they wanted them to.
Just like that Boeing whistleblower who committed suicide after taking a lot of effort to travel to and prepare himself to testify against them. People just tend to feel the most depressed after they make plans to take down (other) powerful people.
Except this solution has nothing to do with your complaints. It’s not a ban, it’s age verification, i.e., improved data gathering, and that applies to all users, not just children.
YouTube being broadcast in Israel is not an inherent moral good to be balanced against censorship. And honestly Israel’s threats are almost certainly bullshit. Israel is culturally integrated with the West and YouTube is a vital platform for their businesses and propaganda efforts. They wouldn’t “just block YouTube”.
And ban every field agent from ever working for the government or local law enforcement in the future. No renaming and keeping most of the staff. No shuttling them off to be brown shirts elsewhere. They’re all tainted.
I’m confused by this whole story. How were the Hostage Response Team or even Mexican police involved if he was surrendering himself at the US embassy? I’m also confused by his lawyer’s account about being surprised to be handcuffed. How did he think this was going to work?
That’s gotta be part of a bit. That’s about as useless a weapon or tool as you can get.
There are some juicy targets for Mario out there.
What the fuck are HSI even supposed to do in Italy? Is this like the KGB minders watching to make sure their athletes don’t defect?
I think we shouldn’t need for-profit news sources to provide us with factual information, but if public interest reports are free, what news can’t be argued to be public interest? And would anyone want to pay solely to access those fringe stories?
He’s getting fired because he flubbed the PR. Their lies were too audacious and too easily disproven to be fully accepted at desired numbers within their base. Steven Miller is reportedly one of his main detractors.
Whether it is his intention or not, that is the impact. Politicians can be nice and still end up promoting injustice due to timidity or a bias toward finding solutions through slow and steady politics or court cases.
Ask yourself whether an external force protecting the federal building helps or hurts ICE. Walz, and political leaders in general, will always choose the “negative peace of the lack of conflict” over the “positive peace of the presence of justice”. It may not be his intention to promote ICE, but when you provide defense for an aggressor it further enables their aggression.
The National Guard took up guarding the Whipple Federal Building two days ago and now DHS’s foot soldiers have been freed up to attack protesters elsewhere.
Giving out donuts and coffee sounds nice, but this operation isn’t in any way about limiting DHS terror.
Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said during a news conference that federal officers blocked his agency from the shooting scene, and when they returned with a signed judicial warrant, they were still blocked.
And then, despite having the police and national guard available to secure a crime scene from the murderers themselves, they threw up their hands and tutted disapprovingly.
1000x more valuable to society than every agent there combined.
And the police are more concerned with protests and property than enforcing the law against lawless invaders.
Pwitty pwease Mr. Dictator!
Turns out all that was available was one poorly schooled child and an army of knock-off Nazis.
Few people here are talking about radical reforms that would change the existing power dynamics and politicians are even less ambitious. Centrists are continually looking for off-ramps so that we don’t “go too far” (e.g., don’t abolish ICE, reform the courts, ban money from politics, reestablish the balance of powers). Even with a blue wave and a reformist president, expect there to be enough of those sorts to bog down any momentum for change and enough voters eager to reconcile and return to business as usual that nothing changes.
Other countries should be planning to insulate themselves from us, because we’re not going to become safe to trust. We may go back to Obama levels of foreign engagement and the slow grind of neoliberal economic policy, but we’re going to be teetering on the edge of another Trump for decades at least. His 40% of supporters are fanatical and have no exposure to outside viewpoints that would deprogram them, and the judges he’s put in place will allow insanity to stay mainstream.