Notices by Dave á Jus (nek@hear-me.social)

Administration Infiltrated #Labor #Unions #Churches & Other #humanRights Defense Groups in #Minnesota

The Department of Homeland Security operation, called “Operation Puppet Master,” began shortly after the paramilitary whitenationalist ICE gangs executed caregiver Alex Pretti, a nurse on scene in #Minneapolis who was attempting to give aid to a woman who had been shoved by the thugs onto the pavement. Which Pretti then was also, after being punched and kicked, and before being shot multiple times in the back. Records disclosed in a criminal case show undercover Homeland Security Investigations agents attended meetings at churches, libraries, schools and parks, and entered Signal groups used by activists.

Surveillance operation in Minnesota targeted progressive groups, unions, court documents show
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-progressive-groups-investigated-5e6e554e79980553c3a02ca199593a7d

WSJ: Trump Admin To End Medicare Drug Subsidies

https://sh.itjust.works/post/64189082

Left mouth contradicts right mouth
https://feddit.online/c/technology@lemmy.world/p/1841228/top-meta-exec-describes-controversial-facial-recognition-feature-in-detail-after-the-co

DOJ met for many hours with Epstein collaborators but only minutes with the survivors.

Survivor of Epstein-Trump child-rapes Jess Michaels provides details of her Todd Blanche meeting that left her 'disappointed'

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5975996-jess-michaels-epstein-survivor-todd-blanche-meeting-reaction

Members who vote to confirm Todd Blanche, even those in "safe seats", must be repudiated.

‘Horrific crimes’: Oregon senator introduces second Epstein Files Act (EFTA II)

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) helped introduce a bill on Wednesday, aiming to hold the United States Department of Justice accountable for its handling of the Epstein files.

A group of lawmakers, led by Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), introduced House Resolution 9694, the [Epstein Files Transparency Act II.](https://massie.house.gov/uploadedfiles/efta_ii.pdf)

The bill would allow state attorneys general, the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators along with members of Congress to challenge the DOJ in court for failing to comply with the original Epstein Files Transparency Act — which directed the DOJ to release materials related to the sex trafficking investigation of the late financier.

Representatives Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM) are co-leading the bill in the House. Meanwhile, Senators Merkley and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) are leading the Senate version of the bill.

The bill has several provisions, including allowing attorneys general, members of Congress and victims to sue the DOJ for unlawfully withholding, redacting, delaying, concealing, removing or failing to publish Epstein-related records.

The bill would also give victims the right to obtain full, unredacted records concerning themselves or the harm they suffered and allows state and local prosecutors access to unredacted records needed for investigations or prosecutions.

The bill additionally bans the invocation of common law privileges, such as deliberative process privileges — which can allow government agencies to withhold testimony or deliberations from third parties. That way, the government cannot try to evade disclosure requirements under the original EFTA, officials said.

“Since the Epstein Files Transparency Act was signed into law on Nov. 19, 2025, the Department of Justice has flagrantly and consistently ignored EFTA’s disclosure requirements,” said Rep. Massie.

“The Department of Justice continues to unlawfully withhold over 3 million Epstein files that should be released to the public,” Massie continued. “In addition, the DOJ is unlawfully maintaining heavy redactions on the files it is releasing. State attorneys general and victims should have the right to sue the Attorney General of the United States to compel compliance with a transparency law President Trump signed.”

Sen. Merkley’s office noted that if the House does not consider the bill in seven legislative days, a discharge petition will be circulated. The petition would bring the bill to a floor vote without approval from a committee.

https://www.koin.com/news/politics/oregon-senator-merkley-second-epstein-files-act
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Archive link: https://megalodon.jp/2026-0717-0710-13/https://www.koin.com:443/news/politics/oregon-senator-merkley-second-epstein-files-act

The Mayor of New York is NOT WRONG.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement was created under the Patriot Act, the massive set of authoritarian initiatives rammed down our throat on pretexts and outright lies which simultaneously, connectedly, led us into a series of wars of conquest — not only the domestic one. And it vastly expanded the regime of corruption & foreign influence, the oppression of real people, creating the prison and surveillance industries domestically, for example, and led in a fairly straight line to creation of the Abraham Accord & its global genocide and colonialism. The limited scope of the ICE mission was as an ephemeral task force to disrupt presumed hijacker terror cells particularly on college campuses. It outlived its ostensible/fake purpose long before becoming a disruption army, abducting our neighbors, ransacking communities, and executing us with impunity. #Sturmabteilung

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani renews call to abolish ICE after deadly Houston shooting
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5961237-mayor-mamdani-abolish-ice

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Citizens properly respond to the criminalization and federal conspiracy indictments of their fellow citizens dubbed "The Minneapolis Fifteen”, for having exercised good citizenship in the face of militant abduction squads terrorizing and disrupting their community.

Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-supreme-court-says-constitution-protects-peoples-location-data

The case involved geofence warrants, a form of dragnet surveillance police have used to vacuum up location data from electronic devices of people who happen to be in the vicinity of a crime. EFF had joined the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Virginia, and the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law in filing an amicus brief in the case... The decision in Chatrie is important: It is the first digital surveillance decision by the Court since its landmark 2018 ruling Carpenter v. United States, which involved prolonged tracking of people’s movements using cell phone location data. The new case expands that ruling by confirming that even shorter-term surveillance of location data can constitute a search because it can still reveal “private matters,” including “a wealth of detail about a person’s familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations...”

United States Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) welcomes democratic socialists to the party, says ‘capitalism isn’t working’.

Nor is the US political system — if it were, there would be at least some slim hope of bringing law, justice, a functioning economy, medical coverage, affordable homes, accessible nutrition, protection for the public of public goods eg., its public water supplies, protections for public assembly and redress, enforcement especially of labor and antitrust laws, and the one about no-childraping — and democracy — to the USA.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5944516-chris-murphy-corporate-power

Nasty anti-progress narrative-crafting.

Press Sees Mamdani as ‘Kingmaker’ Because They Don’t See Voters as Rational

https://fair.org/home/press-sees-mamdani-as-kingmaker-because-they-dont-see-voters-as-rational

Judge Blocks ‘Unconstitutional and Dangerous’ Trump Order Designed to Derail Mail-In Voting

The court blocked the latest Trump effort to override states' voting laws willy-nilly, here by trying to assert Federal control over mail-in ballots.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/judge-blocks-unconstitutional-and-dangerous-trump-order-designed-to-derail-mail-in-voting.html

RE: https://social.mondoweiss.net/@mondoweiss/116812704702925501

YES: This is a good and very necessary thing. I remember always that it's never been about Jewish people, but about a fascist genocidal state which leverages a white-supremacist ideology to corrupt actual nations to get their public to fund and assist crimes against humanity and to conduct illegal undeclared wars of colonial conquest. Turn out the Corrupteds - like Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat. Send them all packing.
#deconflate #progress #anticorruption #DSA

A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot #dataCenter

https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead

@mick_collins

A good sign and a bad one.

Jobs, privacy, all semblance of Truth, the consumer economy and all public goods like: water

UN warns that AI will “drink” as much water as 1.3 billion people within four years
https://www.eunews.it/en/2026/06/04/un-warns-that-ai-will-drink-as-much-water-as-1-3-billion-people-by-2030

Senate Iran War Powers Resolution Falls Short by One Vote — Thanks to John Fetterman — Ensuring Continuation of Pointless, Impoverishing, Illegal Trump War

https://www.commondreams.org/news/fetterman-war-powers-resolution

> US Senate blocks War Powers Resolution on Iran as Democratic senator casts deciding vote, despite growing public disapproval.

Investors Using Shareholder Power to Challenge Corrupt Paramount Deal

https://prospect.org/2026/05/12/investors-shareholder-power-corrupt-paramount-warner-bros-deal/

> Freedom of the Press Foundation and Reporters Without Borders are using a rule under Delaware law to demand records. From overpaying for assets to promising Trump they'll make changes to CNN, Paramount's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery "appears to be just blatant corruption" by the Ellisons and the Trump administration.

‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments
from EL PAÍS English

https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-07/hondurasgate-the-alleged-us-and-israeli-interference-plot-to-destabilize-mexico-and-other-progressive-governments.html

Republicans unlock filibuster-skirting power, to pump billions of dollars to the anti-democracy, mercenary, abduction-and-community-disruption squads — in spite of communities' opposition to being terrorized, disenfranchised, dismantled & suppressed.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/59398050

Study Shows Trump's Tightened Embargo on Cuba 'Has Killed a Lot of Babies'

https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanctions-killing-cuban-infants

It's awful to think a child rapist might want to cause harm to a nation's babies.

> The report by Alexander Main, Joe Sammut, Mark Weisbrot, and Guillaume Long of the Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) found an unprecedented increase in Cuba’s infant mortality rate (IMR), which soared 148% between 2018 and 2025.