The situation in #LosAngeles, #California is a new one. #Trump has called up the CA #NationalGuard, not another #state’s guard. So there’s no #FigLeaf despite the fact that both the #mayor & the #governor have objected to the action.
This SHOULD make the act illegal acc/to the #PosseComitatusAct without the express invocation of the #InsurrectionAct.
The fig leaf Trump is attempting to employ is the assertion that the guard will only be protecting #federal personnel & property.
That right is meaningless if the #president can simply approach a different #governor & ask her to deploy her state’s #NationalGuard into the unwilling governor’s #state. In this scenario, the cooperating governor becomes a #FigLeaf for the president to use the #military as a #police force anywhere in the country, free from the constraints of the #PosseComitatusAct.
#Trump #law #democracy #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #LosAngeles #California #immigration
A #Venezuelan musician released a song critical of #Trump, then he was arrested by #ICE.
The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture
#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #AlienEnemiesAct #pretense #FigLeaf #Bullshit #authoritarianism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy #dissent #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-criminalization-of-venezuelan-street-culture
The case before Judge Burroughs was filed after #KristiNoem revoked #Harvard's #SEVP certification to enroll non-US #students.
In announcing the decision, Noem, without providing #evidence, accused the #university of "fostering violence, antisemitism, & coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party." [#FigLeaf]
#Trump #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #RevengePolitics #idiocracy #BrainDrain
@cmccullough @LetsRoc also #Microsoft is not only a #PRISM collaborator, but subject to #CloudAct aka. "#Datacenter in #Ireland" isn't even a #figleaf!
@hllizi @randahl or just #Figleaf'd cuy #Lobbzists get paid for entrenching the status quo!
@briankrebs that is literally the problem!
And no, what #Apple does here isn't #SelfRepair or #RightToRepair but a rotten-to-the-core #Figleaf to bamboozle #TechIlliterate #legislators into believing Corporate #PR aka. #Propaganda #lies!
@GrapheneOS @thomas @wonka OFC #Google abuses it to enforce their #monopoly and choke alternative ROMs to death with this anti-feature #DRM.
It's obvious #GrapheneOS' devs rather refuse to support hardware than to do concessions in terms of #Security...
As @uint8_t said: it's #SecurityTheater and has nothing to do woth either #security nor #integrity!
The Hardy Chicago Fig under the LED grow lights is growing. Just waiting for no chance of frost to put it out.
Photos from 5th, 8th, and 10th of April.
'27 new #BathingSites considered for #England as activists highlight #sewage dangers
#BathingWater status means government is obliged to test #WaterQuality throughout summer
Almost all of the new bathing sites – 22 out of the 27 – are in #Tory constituencies. Conservatives have recently suffered in the polls because of a perceived failure to act on #SewagePollution.' https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/26/new-bathing-sites-considered-england-campaigners-highlight-sewage-dangers
#ToryCynicism #Figleaf
@charliejane #KOSA, like #OFSTA and #SESTA, is just #Cyberfacism behind a rotting #Figleaf...
And if you don't believe me that @signalapp is a #Honeypot, then ask them why they collect #PhoneNumbers and use that info to restrict functionality of their App based off a Phone number?
Cuz their #MobileCoin #Shitcoin and "#Sanctions" are just #figleaf arguments...
But hey, maybe it's just cynical experience that speaks here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqknSms8VVI&t=98s
@thomasjorgensen @glynmoody @quincy In fact, they don't and you'd be surprised how easy it is to get Telcos to hand over data when the alternative is getting their HQ searched by police and staff held at gunpoint to do so.
Noone's gonna risk jail for any customer, amd I'm not saying this because I work for an ISP.
https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1085614812581715968
But you'd be surprised how mich cyberfacism is already pused under guise of "#NatSec" and "Fighting #OrganozedCrime" or whatever #figleaf...
@ilumium @edri doesn't mean @EU_Commission isn't breaking the laws nor that it's anti-democratic and evil.
#NotLegalAdvice OFC.
Also can we please stop that #cyberfacist #figleaf|ing?
@MOGiS already wiped the floor with #Zensursula almost two decades ago, and she still owes everyone who can change #DNS settings an apology for claiming everyone more #TechLiterate than her is a "hardened pedo-criminal"...
I want my #HumanRights and #CivilRights back - all of them since 1949 - WITH INTEREST!
it's just bad and this #figleaf action is bad.
I really hope @BMWK will instruct the Anti-Cartal Agency to go after #Apple if @EU_Commission doesn't because #RightToRepair is essential and no amout of #greenwashing can outweight #PlannedObsolescence through #AntiRepair #design!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rCUF-V1esM video via #LouisRossmann
This is not #SelfRepair - this is just a shitty #figleaf excuse and a serious infringement on the #Privacy and #DataProtection of #Consumers and so hard #AntiCompetition that I hope @EU_Commission and @kartellamt@social.bund.de will force #Apple to provide free access to the tools without any need for #InternetAccess or any #DataCollection!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQbVuhwwd4s video via #HughJeffreys
@stuartl for Example not-so-long ago I had an minor issue getting me an engine light.
I went to my trusted independent car repair shop and they were able to diagnose the issue within seconds and get a replacement part installed within an hour.
That kept the repair bill low.
And that should be the norm for everything - and not the #figleaf #PR smoke that #Apple does with the #IRPP & "#SelfRepair" program.
Opel forfeilted their rights to my car in the moment it was sold to a customer -forever.
