Jim Lippard

On the left:

Sept 2: Judge Breyer opinion (in CA case) showing DoD's own instructions of actions that violate Posse Comitatus Act (eg "crowd control").

On the right:

Sept 26: DHS request to DoD for military forces in Chicago "in direct support of ... access control, and crowd control."

Trump turns crypto king — but at what cost? – DW – 09/15/2025 Donald Trump has made billions from the Nasdaq debut of crypto startup World Liberty Financial. With his sons in charge and favorable policies in play, critics see a troubling mix of presidential powe...

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Stand together or fall together, you make your choice.

Rampant corruption

As you see the Ellisons’ use the husk of Paramount/CBS to hand out fiefdoms to conservatives, remember: This summer Paramount bribed Trump $16m at the cost of 60 Minutes’ integrity. FCC approval of the Ellisons’ takeover bid followed within a few days. Brendan Carr made this statement at the time.

Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software—as they have with open source in the past—they risk introducing critical security failures along the way.

NEW: Security researchers warn that the rise of vibe coding can lead to dangerous insecurities in the software supply chain. @lhn.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/vibe-c...

1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

3 people hospitalized after apparent Edisto Beach house fire, SLED investigating Three people were transported from the Town of Edisto to a local area hospital as a result of a fire on Saturday, a spokesperson with Colleton County Fire-Rescu

While eyes are on the goofy ass plan to terrorize citizens across the country with federal troops, the house of a South Carolina circuit court judge caught fire yesterday.

Diane Goodstein blocked the DOJ’s attempt to get voter data last month.

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The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

comparing the ICE story to the video, another fact-reality gap

The current gap between what evangelicals who follow Trump claim and the facts is at least as big as the gap between what Buryl Eads wrote and the sources cited, so doubt has ample ground to take root & grow again, as it always has over thousands of years (e.g., Jennifer Hecht, _Doubt: A History_).

Oh, no, this was later, and this is one of my favorite sequences--we criticized creationist Jerry Bergman, he replied, and then I gave him one of the best eviscerations I've ever done (link is to that, it contains links to what came before): www.talkorigins.org/faqs/bergman...

I think the last thing (or one of the last) I published on creationism was this, a review of Duane Gish's book responding to critics: www.discord.org/lippard/gish...

I'm glad that my church brought a speaker who was so dishonest in his book that it was really stark and undeniable. Buryl R. Eads, _Let the Evidence Speak! Creation or Evolution_ (1979, Peachtree Publishers). I spent years in libraries afterwards, reading creationist books and looking up references.

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Discovering that you've been lied to is mentioned by a few here as a contributing factor to being an exvangelical--it was key for me, when I read & was convinced by a young-earth creationist, but then looked up his cited references and found that it was full of lies. www.reddit.com/r/Exvangelic...

After Columbine, martyrdom became a powerful fantasy for Christian teenagers Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott weren’t just victims — they became part of a bigger narrative, with far-reaching effects.

Evangelicals have gone from fake martyrdoms to fake oppression to real oppression directed against others. (2017 story on Columbine and its aftereffects) www.vox.com/culture/2017...

“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t. I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.”

Church warned to stop claiming COVID can be eliminated with air filtration AG issues warning to Dream City Church for claiming that COVID-19 can be eliminated with air filtration system.

The Kirks attend(ed) Dream City Church, an Assemblies of God mega-church in Phoenix that has loaned its facility repeatedly for far-right nuttery, had a fake COVID prevention air filtration system in 2020 called out by AZ's then GOP AG: abcnews.go.com/US/church-wa...

Would have been better to have an expert on Pentecostal influence on the religious right!

The guest on the latest "Know Your Enemy" podcast incorrectly suggests Erika Kirk is a Catholic (not a chance) about 30 min in, then refers to "Talking Point" instead of "Turning Point." They apparently brought him in to discuss the Kirk memorial because of his expertise in Freudianism.

If the web page is removed that means the law is nullified, right?

Thanks. I see the Julius Caesar claim all over the Internet, I wonder if there is a version of it with qualifications that has any basis, which then dropped off to make a false statement.

my god this is so unconstitutional that it contradicts his own unconstitutional EO

Harmeet K. Dhillon Follow @pnjaban The Rose City Antifa criminal enterprise that made the concrete milkshakes to assault our client @MrAndyNgo had custom cups printed up with their criminal gang symbol. Who is the printer? Can anyone identify who made these cups? 10:57 PM - 29 Jun 2019 4,366 Retweets 6,363 Likes 538 4.4K 6.4K

Fun fact. The current head of the DOJ's Civil Rights division was the lawyer that represented Ngo in his specious claim that the milkshake he was hit with contained cement.

Did Sulla put his own *face* on a coin (can't find one online he minted himself, only later by his descendants), or just a tiny figure of himself in a chariot (which I did find online)?

Oregon’s National Guard lawsuit hinges on Trump’s Truth Social posts “The president thinks it’s World War II out here.”

The lawsuit boils down to two things: the “great level of deference” owed to the Executive Branch when federalizing the National Guard, and the obvious truth that the Executive Branch is, at the moment, completely out of its gourd and posting through it. www.theverge.com/policy/79204...

Trump Administration Stomps All Over The Hatch Act With Shutdown Website Banners And Away Messages

The Hatch Act of 1939 is a beautiful piece of legislation. It disallows all kinds of things, like bribing voters with jobs to vote a certain way, as well as limiting any campaign activity by federal…

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fisherman - emptywheel Weeks after Stephen Miller ordered attacks on a series of Venezuelan fishing boats, the White House continues to struggle to explain why it wasn't murder.

White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fisherman

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And it's not a one-time capitulation. If DOJ ever says you violated the vague and unconstitutional terms, they will take back ALL federal funds from that year and you have to return ALL private funding from donors who want their gifts back from that year. It's a never-ending protection racket.