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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Video uploaded to social media by Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, showed officers battering down the door to a Ypsilanti house before others rushed into the home barking commands with guns drawn and pointed at the residents.

    “No search warrant was provided,” someone says in the video as the invaders crashed through the homes’ locked front door. People in the house said their phones and other electronic devices and possessions, including vehicles, were taken.

    Um, a vandalism probe? Really? Smashing into homes with guns drawn, seizing electronic devices and other private property, all over a vandalism probe? That comes nowhere near passing the smell test.






  • The guy is a moron. He’s clearly demonstrated that he has no concept of information security on multiple occasions. For more than a year, it has been known the Signal has a weakness that Russia and others have been exploiting.

    It’s really pretty simple. The hackers send a phishing email or text to the target with a specially crafted QR code. If the user is dumb enough to scan the code, and we all know Hegseth is dumb enough, then the hacker’s device will from then on be linked with the target users device and get a copy of every message sent or received. There is no way in hell that Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to isn’t already getting all his Signal messages.



  • How is this guidance anything but just basic common sense?

    If someone comes up to you and claims that they’re an ICE agent, the first thing you need to do is see their identification to verify their claims. Anyone can come up to you and claim to be anything. You need to know it’s true before allowing them in a non-public area.

    Also, hell yes, notify your supervisor. They need to know that something is happening that will require their attention. Just because someone is an ICE officer doesn’t mean they can do anything they want. The supervisor needs to be involved in case those ICE agents decide to go too far in their actions.

    And of course, you should ask for documentation on why they are there. Again, just because ICE doesn’t mean they can just come in and do what they want. Their authority to search and seize anything is limited by the constitution and, outside of certain situations, needs to be defined in a warrant.

    Finally, yes, you have the right to remain silent even with ICE agents and you should always exercise that right. Do not speak to any cop without an attorney present. Ever.

    The only people that would be annoyed by the governor giving this guidance are fascists trying to undermine the rule of law.




  • Imagine you are a Mexican who comes to the USA every year to work in the fields and pick produce, or to work in a slaughterhouse, or any of the other myriad jobs that Americans won’t do for themselves. Now imagine hearing that brown people are having their work and student visas suddenly cancelled without trial and are being grabbed up and shipped out of the country, again with no trial; Many of being them sent off to a torture prison in El Salvador, even people who are not from El Salvador to begin with.

    How hard are you going to think before coming to this country to work knowing that you could end up on one of those flights to El Salvador and that you’ll never see your family again? I fully expect produce to be rotting in the fields all across the country this year.




  • There are major questions about whether the government has the authority to apply the Alien Enemies Act to gang members outside of a war situation and whether adjudications about gang membership are accurate.

    Come on NBC, this is bullshit. They have no authority because there is no declared war. This is not a question. The law in question states, “in time of war”. This is a fact. Congress has not declared war, therefore this is not wartime. The only question is why the courts and congress are not doing their jobs and putting an end to it.

    More embarrassing for NBC, is the use of the word adjudications in this passage. What adjudications about gang membership? There have been no adjudications stating that any of these people are gang members because they have not been afforded due process and the courts have made no such rulings at all.