Body cam footage is hard to tamper with. Cellphones and GoPro videos however can be easily deleted. I wouldn’t be surprised if, despite policy, DHS agents are being unofficially discouraged from using body cams. Just like the administration is using Signal rather than their oversight-friendly official apps.
They want to chip away at the support bit by bit, targeting different messages to try to overcome the natural sympathy people that center right people might have for a pretty white mother with toys stuffed in her glovebox. So they show her wife a lowly lesbian “feeemale” being uppity to a white male authority figure, “justifying” his response.
I’ve also seen attacks on her fitness as a mother (“her responsibility was keeping herself safe for her children” as if simply being at a protest is not a place for anyone with a family) and deliberately using less attractive photos or photos that emphasize her queerness to cut away at those biases.
They already took our tax dollars in the form of added tariffs and in no case is it coming back to us. The money certainly isn’t going to do more good in Trump’s hands. He’s already been trying to frame it as a presidential slush fund.
They can call it a ballet, it doesn’t make it one, and the human soldiers who will be on the hook for following illegal orders won’t be protected because of it.
The enforcement of the executive comes almost exclusively from people in the executive refusing to follow their orders. If the Supreme Court says “the War Powers Act applies, duh” it still won’t mean anything unless the military refuses to do the wars. Congress saying it or the SC ruling it is just an effort to get them to do that.
It does kind of seem like despite the concerns for poor training of the new recruits, it’s longtime agents who have been itching to openly hunt immigrants that have been involved in the most egregious acts. I remember another long-term agent involved in a shooting. It’s not just the newbies, anyone drawn to that job has something wrong with them.
I don’t think this is helping us at all. It’s letting our own corporations go elsewhere for lower taxation. It helps their investors. And Ireland or wherever their tax havens are now is probably pretty happy.
I find all the added Mastodon cruft in Lemmy posts annoying. The added @ tags take up space and turn into pointless links, and hashtags disrupt the flow of reading. Beyond that, they’re different forms of communication with different purposes. Just use both pieces of software for their intended use. I have both Mastodon and Lemmy accounts.
Unsurprisingly, employees are almost universally against RTO mandates.
So we’re doing the thing disliked by almost everyone who actually makes the business do whatever it does, because some worthless leeches want the other thing. There are more of us than there are of them and unless it’s a startup the business is already paying for itself.
Or she was in on the coup and Trump’s initial statements about her running things for him weren’t just a product of the kakistocracy.
Public statement: “We will not bow down to US imperialism!”
Trump: “What the fuck, we had a deal, I’ll kill you.”
Private statement: “Jesus, do you not understand that I need to say that to rally support to take over?”
Trump: “I don’t understand anything at all, say the secret deal publicly or I’ll kill you.”
Public statement: “We look forward to giving our nominal enemy everything they want.”
Move sparks praise but chain says hotel independently operated and cancellations ‘not reflective of Hilton values’
I thought official press statements were supposed to cast the brand in a good light.
“Hilton’s position is clear: Our properties are open to everyone and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination.”
Words just don’t mean anything anymore, do they?
Not to disagree with anything you said, but be careful applying American exceptionalism to the problem of fascism. This shit is international. We attract the worst people from around the globe to push hard here, but everywhere in the English-speaking world is backsliding under the same influence campaigns, and they see and support their fellow fascists in non-English countries. Many of our worst influences are foreign born (Musk, Thiel, Murdock) and hold no devotion to the US. It’s just the most profitable market to capture. But they won’t stop here.
You went through the bullshit to give the federal government a photograph for their facial recognition database associated with high quality identifying information.
Literally every document can be faked. Passport? Fake. Birth certificate? Fake. The supposed point of REAL ID was to be a reliable document. You can fly with one, but if a Temu Nazi making a “targeted” random stop says it’s a worthless piece of plastic you lose an hour of your life. For living your life in your home country after doing everything the government asked. If the organization who certifies the IDs won’t accept them, why did we go through the effort of making a national ID system that verified lawful status?
And if this was a case about California ID, maybe their fuck up would be relevant, but this is a filling for a case where a US citizen with an Alabama ID was detained.
Turns out all you need to do to ignore the Constitution is change your word choice.
I don’t think anyone should be surprised that the all-white party in the two party system was racist to the core, I’m just surprised so many people in the nominal middle have accepted that as just an acceptable political stance to hold openly rather than as lightly concealed dog whistles. This should be a single issue deal breaker that triggers immediate and increasingly vociferous opposition, not just one issue among many that’s not important if some college student asks you for your pronouns.
Are they planning for a siege?
He literally hired teenagers when lives were at stake.
Depends on what you expect to happen. If you think you could be arrested, leave it at home. If you just don’t want to be caught in a mass surveillance event, airplane mode is fine. You might not even care if you’re identified at something large and public like No Kings type events.
People need to be aware of their threat profile, but having a mobile video recording device and using it as part of an influence campaign is a valuable tool. Going to a candle lit vigil and recording a video of a bunch of somber people to make your MAGA mom feel something is a different event and risk than going with some bloc comrades to sabotage ICE vehicles.