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Department of State authorises non-essential officials to leave, with embassy staff told to book flights to anywhere

This likely means a US attack on Iran is imminent

 

This post uses a gift link with a view count limit. If it runs out, there is an archived copy available though archive.is sometimes modifies archived pages.

 

Black Mississippians won a key ruling last year in a case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But the U.S. Supreme Court may soon weaken the Voting Rights Act and erase their victory.

 
 

The partnership empowers Indigenous people to steward the land by growing the markets for goods like acai, Brazil nuts, honey, and sustainable rubber.

 

The paper is here

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 hours ago

Headline isn't great, but they've started impersonating local police, which is something ICE has not done before. Locally, a big part of what rapid responders do is to verify that a local police action is not ICE or Border Patrol. If ICE is running around with fake local police badges, this becomes a lot harder.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Turns out it had a view count limit that I didn't notice. Here's an archived copy; not a completely trustworthy archive, but they seem to be accurate on this one.

 

If the federal agents who arrested Columbia student Elaina Aghayeva passed themselves off as local police, city officials need to put a stop to that practice.

Impersonating local police is the one thing that ICE and the Border Patrol had not been doing — they were impersonating utility workers, kidnapping and murdering people, but never ever impersonating local police.

Archived copies of the article:

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

They tend to spread it onto other platforms though

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 20 hours ago

A lot of local reporters think their job depends on staying on the good side of local police in order to retain access

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They've got support from Musk and Zuckerberg so that means banning their platforms

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, but cause a lot of suffering in the meantime

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 day ago (6 children)

A ton of us voted against this

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I expect it of the New York Times, which is afraid of losing access. Local outlets have nothing to lose by speaking truth to power

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We can make it into a bug if we're able to pressure him into recusing himself.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

ICE doesn't actually wear badges as a rule; they usually just have a mask and body armor, with other clothing being random, often military-style items. Their body armor may say "police " or "dhs" but usually does not even say "ICE"

There's no real way to tell them from cartel gunmen.

The local cops also bear significant blame here; they took a cane from a blind man and beat him up and arrested him because they didn't have a language in common with the victim. This is what led to ICE taking him

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

In the past, yes, but not this time

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who had recused himself in a prior petition in the Boulder case (possibly because he owned stock in ConocoPhillips) did not indicate that he would be recusing himself from the case. ConocoPhillips, which is not named in the Boulder case, is a defendant in other climate lawsuits.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So long a he holds it, he is supposed to recuse himself from cases that affect those stocks. This has meant one less vote in the Supreme Court in favor of the oil industry

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