@716wings.bsky.social
588 Followers
531 Following
-
-
Some good news. Judge calls out that senior FTC staffers (who double as shitposters) had tweeted about how much they hated Media Matters, which undermined the claims that this was just an ordinary investigation, and not punishment for speech.
Federal district court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters, finding the "expansive" investigation is "a retaliatory act" for Media Matters' criticism of Elon Musk. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.281859/gov.uscourts.dcd.281859.34.0.pdf
-
-
What's especially amazing about Hagerty's attempt to say the quiet part out loud here is that it's brilliantly self-defeating:
If the Constitution had to specify (in an odious way) how to count even enslaved people in the Census, that's only that much more evidence that everybody gets counted.
Sen. Hagerty on his legal rationale for not counting undocumented immigrants in the census: "There's a constitutional interpretation I think that has been misapplied that goes back to slavery days and what portion of a person is going to be counted."
-
NEW: Democratic leaders in New Orleans are preparing to legalize real-time surveillance with cameras that process facial recognition tech.
Civil liberties groups are pressing the alarm: Louisiana has new laws that require localities comply with ICE, and they say this new tech could feed into that.
New Orleans May Hand Its Police Live Facial Recognition Tech. Critics Warn It'll Help ICE. - Bolts
The cameras are mounted across downtown New Orleans: hanging from balconies on Bourbon Street, bolted to the exterior walls of bars and four-star hotels throughout the French Quarter. For two... Read ...
-
You know he fired the guy who tried to give a real run down. Didn't they even try creating a fox news style video to give trump intel briefings?
-
Greenland and Canada make sense now this was planned
-
Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:
-
“Why Russia Is Building a $25 Billion Nuclear Power Plant in a NATO Country -
Russia is building and operating Turkey’s first nuclear power plant—a $25 billion project.
WSJ explains what it means for Turkey and NATO.”
Why Russia Is Building a $25 Billion Nuclear Power Plant in a NATO Country
Russia is building and operating Turkey’s first nuclear power plant—a $25 billion project. WSJ explains what it means for Turkey and NATO.
-
Sean Duffy: "Pete Buttigieg was running for president as opposed to doing his job and making sure that we got our air traffic control system modernized."
(Pete Buttigieg ran for president in 2020. He became transportation secretary in 2021.)
