Notices by Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io), page 2

@Meyerweb @blogdiva

Ah, yes, the well-known mathematical fact that 5 + 8 = 🚫

Similar actions, including #immigration agents entering private property without a #warrant issued by a court, have drawn concern from #CivilRights groups across the country amid #Trump’s mass #deportation efforts.

In a memo last week, Todd Lyons, the acting head of #ICE, emphasized that agents should not make an #arrest without an administrative arrest #warrant issued by a supervisor unless they develop probable cause to believe the person is likely to escape from the scene.

#law

@davepolaschek @wronglang
Schumer…or Senators whose names we don’t hear (including some Republicans in both houses who have so far allowed this fight to proceed with less blowback than they could). I tend to think Schumer is more a thermometer than a leader.

@wronglang @davepolaschek

Not that I’ve heard of.

My impression is that this is an attempt at placation / political cover for Senators in the upcoming budget fight.

@miss_rodent There was one huge ramp-up in early Dec, and another in early Jan. We could •feel• both. Those first days of Dec were wild too.

I don’t remember which jump was larger in numbers, but I do remember that the Jan one felt newly unhinged and violent. It’s like…in Dec they were lawless thugs, yes, but in Jan it felt like they’d started doing meth or something.

In Dec, I felt like they were going to kill someone with their •driving•: left turn on red on a 4-lane highway, highway speeds on residential streets, that kind of thing. But by the time they shot Renee Good, I was not surprised they’d straight-up shot someone.

@miss_rodent
Lots of speculation also that they’re gearing up for an entirely new city. Still looking for somewhere, anywhere they can get one of their agents killed and declare marital law.

If @davepolaschek is correct, then this big dramatic reduction of ICE+CBP in MN takes us from roughly 3750% of normal down to…about 2875% of normal. Yay.

https://writing.exchange/@davepolaschek/116013806927464588

@miss_rodent
Maybe a little higher.
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116013686974718857

"Let’s drop the fairy tale. Epstein was not spared from accountability for decades by accident. He was spared by choice."

#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #pedophiles #coverup
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@jackwilliambell @c_merriweather @blogdiva @cstross @jwz
[VOICE FROM THE BACK CORNER]

I was there at the laying of the Earth’s foundation. I marked off its dimensions. I stretched a measuring line across it. I laid its cornerstone; its footings were set on the unsightly part of my backyard, in that bare patch next to the garage where it’s mostly gravel. Steve Wozniak hadn’t even written Breakout yet. You kids, you have no idea.

OK, I was being sarcastic with “that’s nice,” but seriously, the good news here is that the last few days they’ve been viciously threatening legal observers, sometimes at gunpoint, at levels about as high as any time in Jan and •far• higher than Dec

oh wait

That was bad news too, nm

The fun news here in MSP is that ICE seems to have ramped up targeting of mobile home parks in the suburbs. So that’s nice.

Just in case you all wondered how the de-escalation is going.

@blogdiva @cstross @jwz
I was part of the team (though not a very important part, tbh) that advised Minnesota Public Radio on a storage format when they were digitizing their audio archives in the late 90s / early 00s. The conclusion our group reached was that •no• workaday digital format is suitable for long-long-term archiving, and by far the best approach is to have a process for copying and recopying it all forward into perpetuity.

"Our government seems to believe the American people are stupid when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. Not naïve or confused — stupid, as if we can’t put together basic timelines, read plea agreements, or notice when a serial sex trafficker keeps skating through consequences that would flatten anyone else."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #pedophiles #coverup
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-real-reason-epstein-was-untouchable

"Academics and pundits spend too much time quibbling over whether the Trump regime is 'authoritarian' or 'fascist.' What is not debatable: a regime that abuses, terrorizes, and neglects children — and engages in a cover-up of monstrous sex crimes against kids — is evil. Anyone who has participated in or enabled these unforgivable actions should be banished from public life."

#Epstein #Trump #MAGA #EconomicElites #pedophiles
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"The list of those associated with pedophile and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein from the released files reads like a who’s who of the MAGA/oligarch class."

Rubin points to the ways in which the Trump regime is hurting children: measles outbreak as RFKJr rolls back vaccine recommendations; cuts to SNAP and Medicaid; destroying USAID; snatching and deporting children, using them as bait, etc...

#Epstein #Trump #MAGA #EconomicElites #pedophiles
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@jwz
Yeah, that’s my exact setup too (except the remote one is more like monthly). It feels like a lot for the tech-phobic who find even a password manager overwhelming, but maybe that’s just a hurdle worth finagling people over.

What’s your laptop/desktop backup recommendation for general public, not-highly-technical people who don’t have extreme security needs and just want not to lose their family photos etc?

Maybe it’s just “use the cloud drive,” but…OneDrive seems to cause a lot of problems? or does it?

@davepolaschek
Is that ICE only, or also CBP?

Everything DHS has been doing and saying for the past week is focused around one goal: generating excuses.

They’re trying to give Senators an excuse to fund them, to give CEOs an excuse to wash their hands of responsibility, to give wavering Republicans an excuse to keep believing their BS, to give Minneapolis an excuse to let our guard down.

They’re trying to give everyone an excuse to believe it’s all OK now.

It is not OK now. Here in MSP, it is very much not OK.

KEEP • UP • THE • PRESSURE

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