Notices by Karl Auerbach (karlauerbach@sfba.social)

Might I suggest that the D-party form a shadow government with shadow agencies to replicate at least the policy making aspects of the gov't that FFOTUS is tearing down.

For example, begin with a medical advisory panel to give us trustworthy policy regarding vaccinations and drugs.

Etc.

It need not be large or expensive, just cherry pick, at least at the start, the most critical places to give the public information that it most needs.

The latest estimate that I have seen now suggests that the cost of FFOTUS' sales tax (also known as "tariffs") amounts to $2,400 per year per family.

(To me that feels low, but that's just a bit of my personal truthiness.)

The Census Bureau says that there are about 129 million households in the US. At $2400 each that works out to be about $310 Billion, which is on par with the projected tariff/sales tax receipts that I've seen so far.

But those receipts don't include the those families will also be paying more because of indirect things, such as prices overseas that are increased due to the reciprocal trade wars and the coerced investments in the US that are part of FFOTUS' ever changing schemes.

In other words, the typical US family is about to be clobbered.

@gsuberland Aw, for the days when command names reflected what they did. Names like "grep", and the famed "dsw". At least we still have self-describing names like "emacs", "vi", and "gimp".

Here's the start of an idea:

Those of us who end up directly getting a tariff payment demand on a purchase from overseas (especially if the purchase is from Brazil) might want to consider filing a personal Federal civil action against FFOTUS, as a private person, for recovery.

The basis would be an ultra vires government action, not authorized by law (this is why the Brazil path is particularly interesting, because there is no real way that this is in any way authorized by Congress.)

Now, there would be lots of procedural hurdles - lots of assertions that the acts are governmental and this subject to things like sovereign immunity constraints (and statutes requiring various pre-filing steps, such as demands via certain channels.) But those may be less effective now, particularly after SCOTUS grant of imperial immunity - and thus declaration of non-immunity - for various kinds of actions by a person who happens to hold the office of el-presidente.

@neil Reminds me of once I was negotiating a contract.

The other side said about one of my terms: "No lawyer would ever allow that!".

I pulled out my California state bar card and said "well, I beg to differ."

@bicmay Employer provided health insurance has become a new form of indentured servitude. Employees are made reluctant to leave abusive, dangerous, or under-paid jobs for fear of loosing health care for themselves and their families.

This is one big reason why we need universal medical coverage for everyone in the US.

I am a licensed attorney (in California) and also admitted before various Federal district courts.

Today I got yet another of those postcards about a class action settlement - you know, the kind where the harmed victims get a pittance while the attorneys walk away with the lion's share.

In this case, the attorneys will get about $75,000,000, the lead plaintiffs maybe $20,000, and the rest of us ... probably close to nada.

Class actions are a good thing - especially since yesterday when SCOTUS has constrained the scope of judicial orders.

But class actions where the action is really a means for certain law firms to tailor cases to generate vast piles of income while the actual victims get a lollypop, are, to my mind, both unprofessional and unethical.

Yeah, I'll send in my claim form - but I don't anticipate that I'll get enough in return to cover the cost of the postage stamp.

Yesterday's incredibly dunce-like decisions from SCOTUS reminded me once again why I am refusing to become a member of the US Supreme Court bar.

"I will not be joining the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Bar"

https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/no-to-scotus/

Now that SCOTUS has crippled the ability of Federal judges to issue blanket injunctions against unconstitutional acts by the government we can anticipate that there have to be many, many, many more individual lawsuits, pretty much one suit per victim of a government policy.

I do hope that lawyers have begun to create a shared repository of text and research that can be updated and evolved as cases succeed or fail.

(Of course there will have to be limited access rights in order to prevent updates by maga-disruptors and leaks to Bimbo Blondi Bondi's D of "justice" staff.)

I wonder if people realize that the proud boyz lawsuit against the Federal government is really a sub-rosa means for the Feds to pay $100,000,000 to the proud boys. That will happen when Blondi Bondi simply concedes the case and "settles" the claim.

One might hope that a judge would deny that settlement, but who can tell in this era of a judiciary that has been packed with maga sycophants.

Vance Boelter has shown us the true face of the R-party: murderous, violent, gun-addicted, rampaging, and deceptive.

His act of disguising himself as a police officer in order to deceive his victims makes it beyond necessary for police and other law enforcement to have clear, readable, and accurate identity tags, front and back, that can be read at a distance. And such officers must not hide their identity by wearing face covering masks.

It is critical to both know that a law enforcement officer is actually that, and we must be able to identify each officer.

Otherwise we are being attacked by mobs of secret goons and secret police.

We see cops going crazy.

There will be lawsuits.

Cops and the places that hire them will incur legal costs and even higher payouts for damages.

This is likely to force cities to raise taxes to cover those costs or, more likely, to cover the massive increase in insurance premiums that cities will have to pay in the future.

Of course, ultimately it will be you and me - taxpayers - who foot these bills for the insane excesses of cops.

I just tried to use the US Senates system to contact my Senator (Padilla) to thank him.

But the system is overloaded.

https://www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/contact-form/

I see that the Marines are being told they can "detain" people while waiting for police to arrive to "arrest" them.

I would mention that our very own SCOTUS says that if a person is not free to leave then that person is under arrest and must be given a Miranda warning.

Now --- here we have the Army or Marines "detaining" people - people who are not free to leave - and probably not giving Miranda warnings.

As such, were I the defense counsel, I would move for exclusion of all evidence gathered post "detention" as inadmissible because of lack of Miranda warning.

Police, ill as they sometimes are, are trained and often quite skilled in the obligations imposed by our Fourth Amendment. Marines are not.

It is a week until the grand Kim Jong Un, oops I mean FFOTUS imperial parade.

(How could I conflate Kim Jong Un's parade with the FFOTUS one? - North Korea does a much better job of putting on mass tributes.)

Anyway, I do hope that DC Metro workers and Uber/Lyft drivers take a sick day off as many of the parade goers will be anti-vaxers with active, infectious Covid or Measles.

Don't forget that on the 14th you should arrive mid-day to your local Metro stop, park in the lot, and ride the Metro or DC busses non-stop all afternoon and early evening (the forced march begins at the Pentagon at 6:30pm.)

And perhaps try to help people out by posting notices in the Metro indicating that parade goers could avoid crowds by exiting at Mt. Vernon Square. And remember, if you are carrying a bag of groceries on the Metro, remember not to leave it on the train as that could trigger a security alert.

Oh, and do remember to wear your TA CO underpants for the mass Braveheart mooning at 7pm.

Well, duh - Elon (age 53) will still be alive (preserved by drugs, perhaps) while FFOTUS (age 78) is decomposing in a box. Musk has time on his side.

"Who holds the cards in Trump vs. Musk?"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/republican-party-trump-musk-analysis

A defense trick:

If you are in a crowd of advancing ICE or maga-cops you can drop strips of packing tape (the two or three inch wide clear stuff available at any drug or stationary store) or carpet tape (double sided super strong adhesive) in their path. It can really entangle an advancing phalanx.

(This trick can bounce back onto those who deploy it. It may be useful to tack one or both ends of the tape to the ground to prevent it from blowing back and entangling you, or if you have a coordinated group, anchor the ends to things like lamp posts.)

Nevertheless, do anticipate being arrested and perhaps billy clubbed.

8647 is now a death threat.

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https://www.numberempire.com/8647

Here's a simple bit of personal knowledge and experience that I thought I ought to pass on to those of us who might be considering encountering this situation in the future.

Being beaten by cops with a billy-club does hurt; it hurts a lot.

(A few years later, when a 2nd time began to unfold, this wisdom was revealed to me: It is much less painful to climb over a tall chain link fence than to be beaten, again, by the LAPD.)

Remember the Black Panthers?

I wonder when we will see the rise of the Brown Panthers to resist the oppression from ICE and other US gov't agencies?

(As a student I knew many Panthers - generally nice people who had become fed up and angry.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Panther_demonstration.jpg