WesternInfidels

Thanks, yes, I’ve got “Auto-updater” set to “disable,” but NPP still checks in with the mothership when it starts, and notifies the user when updates are available.

It’s not as if ICE is going to stop kidnapping people if they [the DOJ] run out of lawyers.

Staying on and trying to make the system work sounds like the most moral option to me. It also sounds fruitless.

Edit: This article doesn’t have a ton of detail, and it’s pretty hard for an outsider with no legal background (like me) to understand what the players involved are trying to do. These stories have some more details:

MPR News: ICE attorney to judge: ‘This job sucks’

The Independent: ‘This job sucks’: DOJ lawyer asks to be held in contempt so she can sleep after judge accuses ICE of blowing court orders

See also OP’s comment.

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Le is described as a volunteer. I don’t know if that means she’s getting paid or not. She is working to get ICE to comply with court orders to release people. My guess is that if everyone in her position were to resign in protest, ICE would just ignore the courts completely, and wouldn’t release anyone at all anymore.

This is an attack, a deliberate stratagem, by the executive, on the justice system, and it sounds to me like Julie Le is caught up in that attack, not a perpetrator of it.

Traffic from certain targeted users was selectively redirected to attacker-controlled malicious update manifests.

I don’t want to sound dismissive, but at the same time, if you’re wondering, “Does this affect me and my computer?” the answer is almost certainly “no.” It’s scary anyway.

I would have guessed NPP had an option to disable check-for-updates every time it starts, but I couldn’t find one.

…the Department of Homeland Security brought its allegations to the public long before it could be tested in court, repeating claims of bounties up to $50,000.

So the DHS just wants everyone to be informed about some exciting new gig economy opportunities?

Sure, it may not work, because the feds haven’t been following the rules. It’s important to make it crystal-clear that they aren’t following the rules, anyway.

Nah mate. “Bone walker,” innit.

Back in the Naughties, I thought this approach would matter, would rein in police abuse.

I didn’t understand that police violence and mendacity were systemic, cultural problems, not evidentiary ones.

It’s the Culture of Life™

At this point, the greatest insult the president can offer is to fail to threaten a lawsuit, honestly.

I have baked my own bread, and I have finished baking store-bought parbaked bread, but somehow it never occurred to me that I could parbake my own stuff at home. What a great idea.

Your baguettes look tasty!

If CBP and ICE were really on a mission to find non-citizens, they wouldn’t have been sent to fucking Minnesota .

Even a die-hard “kick 'em all out” pro-crackdown MAGA shithead should be angry about what is actually happening on the ground.

The articles under the “anti-fake” heading seem to mostly be about illuminating and countering Russian propaganda efforts, Russian disinformation campaigns, Russian media subversion, etc.

“Anti-fake” is a term that has apparently been applied to official legislative efforts to counter propaganda, disinfo, and media subversion around the world. I hadn’t heard the term before, but I’m not seeing anything inherently suspect about it, under the circumstances.

Maybe it’s just an appropriate response to the times.

Can you expand on this? What does “anti-fake” mean to you, what does it mean to them? Is this something a lot of news outlets have? Is this the only one? I’ve never heard of this and I’m confused.

Something that jumped out at me: These guys had worked for CBP for ~8 and ~12 years, respectively.

These thugs, who wrestled an uninvolved bystander to the ground, then shot him in the back while he lay there helpless, were not panicky newbs. These were veteran CBP officers.

Is this just what veteran CBP officers are like?

Conservatives’ whole deal can be summarized as “picking and choosing who gets to have rights.”

You’ll call me a curmudgeon for sure, but:

1. “75” is kind of a shit high score, with the scale going to 100 and all.

2. Demonstration of that point: LG is #2 with a score of 74, in spite of the fact that the terrible track record of their big-dollar linear-compressor fridges has made national news.

3. We might also note that the span of scores here is really small; it’s just 8 points on a scale of 100. How meaningful is all this?

4. CR’s reports like these are based on CR subscriber surveys. So they’re about consumer experience and sentiment for things bought brand new and generally things bought recently. I wouldn’t expect such a report to say much about lifespan or repair-ability.

I’ve been a CR subscriber forever. I keep thinking I should cancel, though, because I’m not prosperous enough to live the way their target audience apparently lives.

Oh no not another podcast gosh

You see conservatives are infinitely more tolerant of opinions they disagree with than the left is. I support deportations of illegal immigrants their is no way u can possibly say that without getting called a Nazi or fascist by a decent percent of the population who will go to extreme measures to fuck it life up.

Our actual right-wing government is out there offcially arresting journalists, beating bystanders, observers, and protestors, even killing some of them. They’re terrorizing people they disagree with.

The rest of us correctly recognize this as “fascist.” An act of free speech with no threat or consequences attached.

You’re observing this situation and declaring that “conservatives are infinitely more tolerant of opinions they disagree with than the left.” Because the infinitely tolerant right is normalizing summary executions as official policy, and because the intolerant left is capable of reading a dictionary.

This is the traditional conservative two-tiered system of intolerance. A deliberate conflation to allow the bullies to paint themselves as victims whenever that’s convenient. “He called me a Nazi, just because I want his neighbors to be brutalized. He’s the intolerant one.”

85% of Americans support deportation of illegal immigrants charged with a violent crime. And 55% support deportation of all illegal immigrants.

This just isn’t germane to what ICE is doing on the ground today, because

1. They’re not focusing on the criminally charged or even the undocumented, they’re kidnapping just anyone, documented or otherwise, they think they can get away with shipping overseas.

2. They’re not operating in places that host lots of undocumented, they’re instead terrorizing states that have the smallest “problems” with the undocumented. States that voted against the president in the 2024 election.

3. They’re not following any kind of legal process, so there is no evidence that they’re doing any of the stuff they claim to be doing.

It’s not incoherent to support immigration enforcement and also be appalled by what ICE is doing. Indeed, if one values the rule of law, this is the position one must take. Because it would be incoherent to assert that on the one hand, due process doesn’t matter, but on the other hand, borders and citizenship do.

If they abduct you and disappear you without a trace, that’s not really “arresting” you in the first place. It’s just kidnapping. They’re claiming an expansion of their power to commit kidnappings.

At the movies with my GF. And, for the first time, her family.

The lights come down. The film is underway. There’s a commotion at the other end of our row. GF’s sister has retrieved something from her bag. There are whispers. Something crinkly is passed down the row, one person at a time, to the left. Eventually, GF hands me a bundle the size of a football. It’s aluminum foil on the outside. Wax paper inside, loosely wrapping up … something. “What is this?” I ask, panicking.

“Pumpkin roll?” she says. Indignant eye-roll tone. As if she meant to say “Uh, helLO, it’s a PUMPkin roll, OBVIOUSLY.” She’s suddenly realized that I’m some kind of bumpkin what ain’t never been to no big-suburb movie theater like this before. Where entire family-size bake-sale pastries are always surreptitiously circulating in the dark.

We’ve been married 20 years now. When she’s mixed-up by some momentary contextual confusion, I am still likely to tease her by ‘explaining:’ “PUMPkin roll?”

I don’t remember if I ate any of it.