Joe Biden threw unprecedented amounts of money at police. More than TWICE what Obama gave them in the wake of the GFC.

Every major police union endorsed Donald Trump.

"There's some very bizarre things going on in DC."

Understatement of the century.

FAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying Drones Near ICE Vehicles You won’t go to jail for filming ICE with a drone, but the government may still shoot it down and it expanded the list of protected agencies to include the Department of Justice.

“We're glad to see the FAA rescind its original order, which was an egregious overreach that had serious consequences for reporters nationwide,” said @rcfp.org's Grayson Clary. [via @404media.co]

Which begs the question: how is this worth 12M? This smacks of corruption.

At best, it's a shoestring mom and pop shop buying data from brokers and repackaging it. That means zero security protocols over extensive amounts of sensitive PI, including precise geolocation data.

This might just be plain corruption, steering money at politically connected buddies.

This company may not be real. As far as I can tell, the website was spun up 2 years ago. LinkedIn shows 2 employees, a husband and wife allegedly in Virginia and Tennessee respectively (wife not in husbands profile pic). The tech expert on the leadership page does not appear to exist.

Socom leadership needs to be gutted.

Retail has fewer choices than my local themed independents. I get a wide variety of options used and new at my genre specific locations.

This is one of my favorite memes about this nonsense. That a much maligned Star Wars movie is proving to actually not be as stupid as it was panned as for 20 years.

But, uh, I draw the line if Jar Jar shows up.

So, do you think you pay extra for the thrills or get discounts for the trauma if your cruise ship decides to run the strait?

Begun, the Chinese Century has.

These are good days to take a walk and take yourself out to a meal at a favorite place.

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

I find Dune insanely quotable these days on any number of issues from govt, religion, AI, climate, etc.

Cryptonomicon is my least favorite Stephenson book. It took me 5 years and multiple false starts to read. Anathem is stunningly ambitious and probably my fav. Bc I'm weird like that.

Publicly traded companies should be prohibited from having these kinds of preferred founders stock structures that prohibit accountability. No other CEO would be allowed to blow billions on losses like Zuck if he wasn't completely protected from accountability.

So he's annoyed at something his own govt does that he could put a stop to with an executive order? 🤔

Consent is the fiction at the heart of our profession.

Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

KASUBHAI, United States District Judge: Unserious leaders are unsafe. There is nothing more serious than our leaders' dedication to the rule of law so that we might maintain the integrity of our constitutional democracy. This case highlights a leader's unserious regard for the rule of law. This case demonstrates how disregard for the rule of law does not merely result in an abstract infraction. Rather, and tragically, this case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader's wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.

“Unserious leaders are unsafe” is a fucking banger though

a squirrel is standing on its hind legs and holding a nut in its paws . Alt: a squirrel is standing on its hind legs and holding a nut in its paws .

I read that as "large nut tester."

These are the same people that think we put litter boxes in classrooms for trans furries.

I have never ever heard the phrase "justice involved people "

@legalminimum.bsky.social isn't illiterate. He just writes very slowly.

Now do Minnesota where parents have had to teach their toddlers what the words "Fuck ICE" mean because it's on every street corner.

Shorter: Racism makes you really fucking stupid.

Oh fuck right off. My tax dollars have been subsidizing rural lives forever and they spit in our face and call us unamerican and vote to take my rights away. Fuck right off.

It was obligatory as a lawyer who practiced privacy laws.