Mike Katz-Lacabe

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

What’s a true shithole country? One that zip-ties children’s hands and puts them in cages. One that sends people to a mega prison in El Salvador without due process. One where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wear face masks to conceal their identities. And so on...

Is the law not clear? It states that you can't put the image of a living person on currency. Why are you soft-pedaling this?

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Fired for displaying a pride flag, followed by a citation of the Constitution.

Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product ...

Flock is preparing to roll out a new feature: Its gunshot detection devices will begin listening for voices in “distress”

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I’m still processing what happened this morning.

Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

In 2020, President Nayib Bukele went to the U.S. ambassador with an extraordinary request.

Salvadoran authorities had intercepted a conversation between a journalist and a U.S. embassy contractor working with an FBI-led task force investigating corruption among high-level aides to the president.

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

Alt text: A Twitter exchange. The first tweet is from Stephen Miller (@StephenM) saying, “Why do you think they posted this?” with a retweet of a post from the account Governor Newsom Press (@GovPres...) that says “STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST!” That tweet shows 3.8K replies, 2.5K retweets, 20K likes, and 658K views. Governor Newsom Press replies to Stephen Miller with, “because you’re a fascist.” That reply shows 512 replies, 1K retweets, 18K likes, and 110K views.

Lol.

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

San Jose joins the list of municipalities considering an ordinance prohibiting law enforcement officers from concealing their identity - "wearing any mask or personal disguise while interacting with the public in the course of their duties withing the city."
sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

It SHOULD be the norm. Congrats on getting to experience it and can take a moment to enjoy it.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

So a DC-based colleague sent me this -- but apparently to get alerts from the White House you have to agree to *promotional and marketing messages notifications and customer service communications*

Are other people seeing this? This seems like an obviously illegal use of public data.

1/n

How Surveillance Firms Use ‘Democracy’ As a Cover for Serving ICE and Trump Multiple Palantir and Flock sources say the companies are spinning a commitment to "democracy" to absolve them of responsibility. "In my eyes, it is the classic double speak," one said.

In Trump 2.0 surveillance firms are explaining working for ICE/the government with 'we live in a democracy' and shrugging their shoulders. But this democracy is different. Sources say this is to absolve responsibility.

"classic double speak" one Palantir source said

www.404media.co/how-surveill...

HOLY SHIT

CA cops’ license plate reader data has been leaking to ICE + Border Patrol- illegal under state law since 2016. SB 274 would curb abuse with commonsense rules: case numbers, reasonable suspicion, & deletion after 60 days.

#privacy #surveillance #immigration

Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor, is 1 of only 100 Americans out of over 250 million adult citizens given the consequential responsibility to advise and consent on exec branch nominees.

He used that to approve an antivax, anti-science conspiracy theorist as the nation's top public health official.

Incredible animation. No notes.

[from Reddit]

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

If having a felony conviction on your record doesn’t disqualify someone from being the President, it shouldn’t disqualify someone from voting.

People with felony convictions should be able to vote.

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC (1947) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️

archive.org/details/walt...