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Cars. Kicks. Content. California. DO COOL SH!T ✌️+ ❤️ + 🌯
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03.07.2025 05:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago.
Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away”
timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...
Have you voted yet?
This weekend is your last chance to cast your ballot before Election Day - make sure you AND three friends have a voting plan!
@daltonmnm.bsky.social the stance works guy need these?
17.06.2025 02:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Kimmel's montage of Presidential comments on immigrants over the past several decades. Really highlights the caliber of people we're working with these days...
12.06.2025 00:45 — 👍 21 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1Props to whoever created that tracker but man that’s depressing
12.06.2025 00:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Project 2025 Tracker
www.project2025.observer
Can’t emphasize enough what a disgrace this whole sad episode was
11.06.2025 19:09 — 👍 3145 🔁 705 💬 131 📌 31BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
11.06.2025 18:00 — 👍 34763 🔁 17254 💬 2287 📌 2548
A good time to read up on the life of Ruben Salazar, the history of immigrant/Latino life in LA, and the manner of his death.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_S...
I have been officially placed on administrative leave, effective tomorrow, pending separation. This is my farewell.
www.breefram.com/final_salute...
Someone turn this kid pro, asap.
07.06.2025 22:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The legendary Nike Solo Flight, the unexpected remake, the remix, a crazy mule sample, and the most unexplainable retro release.
https://sneakerhistory.com/2025/05/08/nike-air-solo-flight/
“On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee is having a plane fly a banner near Mar-a-Lago, the president’s beloved home and club in Palm Beach. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. it will identify the location as ‘Qatar-a-Lago.’”
15.05.2025 04:49 — 👍 604 🔁 101 💬 206 📌 579
Forbes: The Qataris have been trying to get rid of that ostentatious luxury jet for five years, but no one would buy it. It costs too much to fly, costs more to maintain, and needs too big a landing strip. They had another one they unloaded on Turkey.
Delicious.
www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
RFK seems to have lied to Congress a lot
15.05.2025 03:25 — 👍 6623 🔁 1636 💬 186 📌 57
The disgraced cop who cost a small California town millions.
One officer's indiscretions cost a city nearly a third of its annual police funding www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...
Ice is fucking despicable.
15.05.2025 15:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In a draft for a potential public-fundraising message, Clara appears to confirm certain details of this reporting. “Everything started the day before when they arrested my partner, the father of my three-month old son, while he was driving to work,” reads Clara’s draft, sent by her attorney, Andrew Lattarulo, to Rolling Stone on Tuesday afternoon. Rolling Stone has not yet independently verified some of the claims. The draft continues: “He committed no crimes or offenses against anybody. His only mistake was honking at a car that cut him off. The car ended up being an undercover ICE vehicle and they decided to arrest him over this. Later that morning, ICE agents showed up and knocked on my door to return my partner’s car and to also tell me to show up on the next day to sign some documents at an immigration building. I left my home the next morning to do so, and took my 17-year-old sister along. This is when ICE stopped my car and said I was under arrest, but since I was with my baby somebody else needed to be there to take him. So I called my mother to come over and take my son for me, and then the immigration agents wanted to arrest her as well. By now the neighborhood started to take notice of the situation and were filming it with their phones … I am currently staying with friends, as I am too afraid to return home. I am unable to retrieve any of mine and my baby’s things and I am unable to work because of my current predicament.”
Wait, it gets even WORSE. ICE was interested in this family because an agent wanted retribution against the father of the baby, who apparently had honked at the care of an undercover ICE agent the day before who had cut him off.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Ferreira de Oliveira, who is 40 years old, was still at their nearby home when she received a phone call from one of her daughters, who said ICE had pulled them over and were threatening to arrest Clara. Ferreira de Oliveira’s frightened daughter told her mother that she needed to leave the home now and come meet them on the street, because ICE was telling them that if they arrested Clara, they weren’t allowed to leave the baby in the hands of a minor. So, the feds insisted, grandma needed to rush over to take custody of the baby. Shortly after Ferreira de Oliveira arrived on the scene, ICE took her into custody. The agents suddenly no longer seemed interested in the 21-year-old daughter. ICE did not arrest her or her 17-year-old sibling.
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Advisory to Journalists: The Dangerous Expansion of the Federal Wiretap Law Journalists, podcasters, and digital media professionals beware: the U.S. government is currently advancing a legal theory under 18 U.S.C. § 2511—the federal wiretap statute—that threatens to criminalize the mere act of downloading publicly available videos or listening to podcasts. This interpretation risks not only chilling investigative journalism but undermines the very foundation of freedom of the press. The federal wiretap law makes it a felony to intentionally “intercept”—that is, acquire the contents of—a “wire communication” unless you are a party to the communication or a party has given prior consent. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2510(1), a "wire communication" includes any transfer containing the human voice that travels at any point by wire or cable. Originally meant to prevent unlawful phone taps in 1968, the statute has not meaningfully evolved to reflect digital media distribution in the 21st century. As a result, many core journalistic practices today—listening to audio on a video stream, downloading a podcast, reviewing livestreamed footage—can be construed as “intercepting” a wire communication. And unlike “oral communications” (which are only protected if private) or “electronic communications” (which are exempt if publicly accessible), wire communications have no similar public-access defense. This leaves journalists legally vulnerable for accessing material that is otherwise freely available to the public. This is not just a theoretical risk. In Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Department of Justice is actively prosecuting my client, journalist Timothy Burke for allegedly violating the wiretap statute by downloading publicly accessible livestreamed interviews from a video server. The journalist used only a URL—no password, no hack, no deception. The government claims that because the streams included the human voice and were transmitted in part by wire or cable, they are “wire communications”. Under this interpretation, even if the stream was intended for public consumption, and even if no reasonable expectation of privacy existed, the act of acquiring and publishing the content becomes a federal felony. The government also asserts that the same communications are also “electronic communications,” where the law makes it clear that it is not a violation if the electronic communication is obtained from a server that is configured so that the communication is “readily accessible to the general public” -- however, the government has argued (and the court has agreed) that whether or not the communication was obtained from a publicly accessible server is a fact question that the journalist must prove at trial - not an element of the offense that the government must prove. This means that a journalist that obtains public information may still be subject to search, seizure, arrest, indictment and prosecution. The implications for the First Amendment are chilling. Under the government’s interpretation of interception of “wire communications”, the government could prosecute journalists based not on their methods, but on the content they choose to listen to or report on. The wiretap law also criminalizes the disclosure of the contents of a wire communication. Thus, quoting from a podcast or a leaked livestream could subject a reporter to criminal liability regardless of intent, public interest, or harm. This is a dangerous expansion of government authority. It converts the passive act of receiving a communication—something essential to journalism—into a criminal offense based solely on outdated statutory definitions and prosecutorial discretion. The broader issue is not just technical—it’s constitutional. A law that is so vague or overbroad that it allows the government to pick and choose whom to prosecute based on their speech, targets the very heart of press freedom. It is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment and overbroad under the First. By failing to modernize the statute—or at least to interpret it in line with modern communication platforms—the government risks turning millions of journalists, researchers, and citizens into potential criminals. The law as it stands today is an anachronism of the analog era being misapplied in a digital one. If you are a journalist, you should be alarmed. If the DOJ’s current theory prevails, simply clicking “play” could one day lead to prosecution. The press cannot operate in an environment where the law punishes access to speech—particularly where that speech is both public and newsworthy. The press must not only report on this misuse of power, but challenge it—legally, politically, and publicly. Because the right to receive and report information is not just a constitutional luxury. It’s a democratic necessity. -- Mark Rasch MDRasch@gmail.com (301) 547-6925
The federal government is attempting a radical, massive expansion of what constitutes "wiretapping" that threatens everyone working in media/as a journalist today and I hope you'll read this and share it with everyone you know.
I'm not just fighting this for me. I'm fighting it for everyone.
In case you needed another reason to eat ice cream.
14.05.2025 22:31 — 👍 21182 🔁 4242 💬 911 📌 392Can we get a list of names of these convicts? And the event hosts?
As far as I’m concerned these people should be outed like sexual predators.
The truth would like a word…
pix11.com/news/local-n...
I have an ambitious plan to expand homeownership for Black New Yorkers. hbu, Cuomo?
03.04.2025 17:16 — 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0PG&E should be dismantled,
example 976746372.
We know San Diego's most famous food is the french fry-stuffed California burrito. What nobody knows, though, is who actually invented it. #NationalBurritoDay
📰: www.sfgate.com/la/article/s...
The last couple of months have felt like pure evil chaos.
03.04.2025 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yesterday, a giant tree fell and crushed a neighbor’s house.
Today, Carl’s Jr in the Andronico’s parking lot is on fire.
#monterey
