Notices by Chris Adams (acdha@thepit.social)

Another January 6th pardon recipient also turns out to be a child abuser:
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/17/pardoned-jan-6-child-abuse-molestation-andrew-paul-johnson/

“The Saturday ride is an extension of an initiative that started last month when the group decided to collect funds to buy out vendors in Pilsen and Little Village so vulnerable residents could pack up early and avoid federal agents. Riders paid the vendors in cash and then passed out the food to people in need throughout Chicago, Rosales said.”
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/chicago-cyclists-protect-tamale-vendors-from-ice/

“The law might have tolerated government conduct of this sort a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But in the here and now, the First Amendment bars government officials from shutting down peaceful protests”
https://apnews.com/article/darth-vader-theme-song-national-guard-protest-2d9b35359504252004ddced67ccf9a86

Another citizen driving while brown: “ICE agents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face. They dragged me out … and even while I was complying, one agent kneeled on my neck … I spent three nights and three days in federal custody … no access to an attorney. I was placed on suicide watch and missed my daughter’s third birthday. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, ‘you’re free to go.’”

https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-citizen-and-a-veteran-ice

“In the memo, Raskin argues: ‘The Trump Administration’s sympathetic alignment with powerful sex traffickers and rapists goes far beyond its efforts to suppress the truth of what happened in one explosive case,’ and pointed to several policies Trump implemented that he believes help criminals.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/jamie-raskin-trump-sex-crimes-traffickers

“Dana’s lawyer, Elizabeth Mullin, said she has never seen anything like this in over 20 years as a public defender in Washington. She said prosecutors are responding to Trump’s surge by bringing ‘weak cases’ that don’t belong in federal court.

‘And the grand juries are seeing through it,’ Mullin said. ‘It’s a huge waste in resources.’”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-grand-jury-nathalie-rose-jones-threat-crackdown-23295257ae267b93435612360bd7f724

"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search."
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g-s1-85119/crime-washington-dc-judges-arrests

Add ticks to the list of problems made worse by fire suppression efforts:
https://www.psu.edu/news/agricultural-sciences/story/prescribed-fire-could-reduce-tick-populations-and-pathogen-transmission

“Musk’s order, which hasn’t previously been reported, is the first known instance of the billionaire actively shutting off Starlink coverage over a battlefield during the conflict. The decision shocked some Starlink employees and effectively reshaped the front line of the fighting, enabling Musk to take ‘the outcome of a war into his own hands,’ another one of the three people said.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/

@skinnylatte it’s broader than tech but I am so tired of the “hero culture” where you can get credit for putting in overtime dealing with problems which you created.

As my son gets older I often see a related one where people expect martyr points for dealing with hideous schedules and it’s like … you know it’s not actually a legal requirement to send your kids to maximally inconvenient charter schools which entail the extra hour of commuting you’re always complaining about?

ICE does not expect to ever have to face accountability ever again:
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/huntington-park-border-patrol-agents-door-explosion/3734095/

“The Venezuelan man arrested with his family said he showed the authorities his legal work permit, Social Security number and papers related to his pending asylum case.

He said the officers told him they meant nothing.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/texas-immigration-raid-hays-county-austin-venezuelan-gang/

“These are all facets of an escalating campaign to erode the independence of the judiciary, experts told TPM. The lawsuit demonstrates another prong of it: close allies of the president are effectively asking the courts to rule that they should be managed by the White House”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-allies-sue-john-roberts-to-give-white-house-control-of-court-system

“Musk is more or less openly breaking the law against vote buying in Wisconsin. He thinks — and there’s a decent chance that he’s right — that no one will indict him for increasingly brazen criminal conduct because his mix of money, a global communications megaphone and his hold over critical national security technologies makes him untouchable.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-musk-and-the-the-threat-of-the-over-mighty-subject-part-ii

“the deputies also put the sisters in separate patrol vehicles and started asking even more inappropriate questions. ‘Mine asked, “I have an important question to ask you, which do you prefer, Canada or the United States?”’ Cassie told the Globe and Mail. ‘It seemed weighted, as if whether we were going to be given a further difficult time or if we were going to have the opportunity to go on our way depended on the answer I gave.’”
https://www.jalopnik.com/1814899/cassie-and-maggie-canadian-folk-duo-traffic-stop-ohio/

#DC is going to be furloughing fire, police, teachers, etc. if Republicans prevent DC from spending its own local tax revenue under the pretense of “efficiency”.

“The CR is an act of fiscal sabotage against D.C., and is an abuse of power over a disenfranchised jurisdiction—the consequences be damned.”

https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/norton-releases-floor-remarks-continuing-resolution-prepared-delivery

“if you’re curious about what some of these people who just got fired from #USAID actually did all day long? Here’s one story.” #Rwanda
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/03/08/usaid-my-next-to-last-project/

@fedward @ebooksyearn @steter I have occasional fantasies about stickers you could slap in the middle of the windshield which wouldn’t technically be damaging the vehicle but would inconvenience them correspondingly. Then I remind myself how many of them are packing and sigh wistfully.

@skinnylatte if you decide to write a book, you could do worse than “All the vast variety of noodles I know and love” for a title.

@skinnylatte the time that actually happened to me was a Morcheeba album, fittingly with Tape Loop on it, but looking at my play counts it’s shifted to be a competition between Waking Hour-era Vienna Teng and the last Yeah Yeah Yeahs depending on whether you go by track or album.