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It seems like years ago, but the Trump administration got itself sued earlier this very year by the state of California for commandeering California’s National Guard to shut down anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. Trump justified this by declaring the city to be under siege, even though (1) most violence was being committed by law enforcement, (2) most of the protest activity was limited to a few...
It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as if their claims of being silenced have always been a bullshit ploy to dominate the discourse on the back of something other than the quality of their ideas!
As long predicted, Paramount/CBS owners, the Ellison family,...
As we discussed last week, Ryan Walters resigned from his position as the state Superintendent of Oklahoma and the mood across the state was sad and sour as a result.
Okay, while it’s very funny that Oklahoma businesses hosted celebration parties for Walters’ resignation while I can’t even hazard a guess at who my own state’s Superintendent is, the question for some of us is what would...
The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people.
Chat Control, which EFF has strongly opposed since it was first introduced in 2022, keeps being mildly tweaked and pushed by one Council presidency after another.
Chat Control is a dangerous legislative...
Stephen Miller just called a federal judge’s enforcement of constitutional law “legal insurrection.”
Let that sink in. A Deputy White House Chief of Staff—one of the most powerful people in the executive branch—declared that judicial review of presidential power is rebellion against the United States government.
A Trump-appointed judge carefully reviewed the facts, applied the relevant statutes,...
I have a simple question for Senator Ted Cruz: Who was president in 2018? How about 2020?
I ask because Cruz just released a “bombshell” report claiming that the Biden administration “converted” CISA into “the Thought Police.” There’s just one tiny problem with this narrative: Cruz’s own report shows that everything he’s mad about started under Donald Trump, under whose leadership CISA was...
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This administration is so comfortable with its power and so self-assured in its actions that it can’t even be bothered to engage in basic operational security. This dates all the way back to Trump’s first term, when the president casually (and unofficially) declassified information by posting it to Twitter, routinely refused to attend national security briefings, and said stuff during interviews...
Brendan Carr has received ample attention for his recent failed attempt to ban a comedian and trample the First Amendment, something he’s facing several fledgling investigations over.
But that disaster class in shitty governance shouldn’t overshadow all the other, terrible things Carr has been up to. Like last week, when Carr announced he’d be killing a popular, bipartisan program that provided...
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment on our post about DOGE’s “efficiency theater”:
I voted for this!”
—person whose taxes and cost of living and rent are all going up
In second place, it’s a double-winning anonymous comment that also takes second place over on the funny side, in response to Trump’s posted-then-deleted AI deepfake about the MedBed...