Or "interference". I'm so tired of seeing cops throw that tired accusation out just because they don't like someone refusing illegal directives.
Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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Of course.
And it's an understandable part of the human condition, I expect, to be all for free speech up until the point that someone says something that one finds reprehensible.
But disappearing people for crimethink -- as has happened -- is very much in "First They Came" territory: and the ADL's "appreciation" for the current maladministration's "broad" and "bold" efforts to "counter campus antisemitism" even as said league was shrugging and saying "what salute?" when Elno sieg-ed twice at a rally is not a path to a good ending. I would have thought they had longer memories, but here we are.
ICE Yanking Green Card Holders Out Of Their Houses For Wrongthink Now
Yeah, this ain't right.
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Also, from "Domestic Enemy Hat", formerly "Popehat", via Bluesky and bridged from Mastodon:
Domestic Enemy Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a ******* polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.
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Former Trump spiritual adviser indicted for child sex abuse cases dating back to the 80s.
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Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes
Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in Dallas-area GOP politics.
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Pardon incoming.
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
“We are witnessing a new brain drain.”
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If there's jailtime involved: I'm sure the pastor will just be transferred to "epsteins island".
Then Gov. Abbott will do it.
Good summary of today's bucket of slag: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...s-recession-economy-live-updates/82321690007/
The interesting parts to me here:
1) At least 6 agencies have been ordered to reinstate all the "fired" employees. Not all of them however, and based on what my dad had said discussing the firings with him the other day(as he used to be a fed worker himself) it may be because the judge plans to bundle those with some other similar lawsuits to combine them into a class action suit and streamline getting those through, rather than slow things down dealing with all them individually, like Trump undoubtedly hopes for. On the other hand, I also believe he said that has to happen at the first appeals level, so I may be wrong on that,
2) 200% tarriff on -all- alcohol is going to hit some people hard, because the US just doesn't make some of those beverages. Meanwhile the breweries in the US(that it supposedly helps) are like "this trade war sucks"
The interesting parts to me here:
1) At least 6 agencies have been ordered to reinstate all the "fired" employees. Not all of them however, and based on what my dad had said discussing the firings with him the other day(as he used to be a fed worker himself) it may be because the judge plans to bundle those with some other similar lawsuits to combine them into a class action suit and streamline getting those through, rather than slow things down dealing with all them individually, like Trump undoubtedly hopes for. On the other hand, I also believe he said that has to happen at the first appeals level, so I may be wrong on that,
2) 200% tarriff on -all- alcohol is going to hit some people hard, because the US just doesn't make some of those beverages. Meanwhile the breweries in the US(that it supposedly helps) are like "this trade war sucks"
It was already happening. There was a exodus of East Asian scientists who left during the first Trump administration after the DOJ started witchhunting scientists for connections to China. One guy even committed suicide and the DOJ admitted to making up jive on people. Cutting government funding for science, firing government scientists, attacking universities for "DEI", etc will just set things further back.NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
“We are witnessing a new brain drain.”
Live updates: Judge orders Trump to reinstate probationary workers let go in mass firings
A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to rehire thousands, if not tens of thousands, of probationary workers let go in mass firings across several government agencies.
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Courts are slower than firemen, but they are doing their work.