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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2h

Time to crowd-fund that judge a bodyguard, to head off MAGA stochastic terrorism...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 23h

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 22d

States need to decide in advance, how they're going to react when federal forces try stuff like blocking the roads around a polling place with "immigration checkpoints".

These people *don't care* that they'll lose a lawsuit (paid for by the taxpayer) if they can irreversibly taint the election.

EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 1d

It's either a manually operated f-stop, or an optical lathe for making artisanal Bokehs.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Now is a good time to sign up for the best daily political news bulletin in the universe 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 1d

"Plenary Authority" is what Hitler got from the Enablement Act. It is literally dictatorship power.

Stephen Miller knows that. He blurted out his fascist dream.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 1d

No, they've gone far, but not that far, because plenary authority means SCOTUS doesn't matter.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 1d

"Plenary Authority" is what Hitler got from the Enablement Act. It is literally dictatorship power.

Stephen Miller knows that. He blurted out his fascist dream.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 1d

"Plenary Authority" is what Hitler got from the Enablement Act. It is literally dictatorship power.

Stephen Miller knows that. He blurted out his fascist dream.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 1d

"Plenary Authority" is what Hitler got from the Enablement Act. It is literally dictatorship power.

Stephen Miller knows that. He blurted out his fascist dream.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 1d

CNN let him redo the question, and only posted his second answer on their YouTube channel.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 1d

Republican White House official Stephen Miller was just caught saying Trump has "plenary authority", echoing Hitler's "plenary authority" from the German Enablement Act.

He realizes it and panics like a child on a Zoom call, standing still to pretend the feed broke.

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From the law community on Reddit: Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2d

By that logic, Stephen Miller is a legal terrorist.

EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2d

That makes me think of an old Dilbert cartoon.

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Tomorrow you be the computer

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2d

The problem isn't really national origin, the problem is monopolistic behavior and lack of competition.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if FOX "news" is now going to argue the rest of their lineup is also stuff no "reasonable person" would believe is real.

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You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers

Fox News viewers don't expect facts from Tucker Carlson, according to network lawyers who defended their star in a slander lawsuit filed by a woman who said she had an affair with President Trump.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2d

Even if the money is being collected, What happens next with it is entirely up to Congress.

We already know the Republican party is spineless/cultists when it comes to Trump's illegal impoundments of *not* spending money... But it'd still be a big jump if they started letting him spend on a whim.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

No corruption here, folks! Totally normal stuff the deputy director of the CIA(Michael Ellis) just demoted the acting general counsel and decided to make himself the top lawyer while still being the No. 2 in charge.

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Techdirt @techdirt.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

Chat Control Is Back On The Menu In The EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat Control, which EFF has strongly opposed since it was first introduced in 2022, keeps being mildly tweaked and pushed by one Council presidency after another. Chat Control is a dangerous legislative […]

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2d

"Oops, it seems that building has no power or water today. Not sure when that'll get fixed."

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2d

Before this year anyway, being an ICE agent was 2.5 times safer than being a regular police officer, and 14 times safer than delivering pizza.

Any change to that is entirely due to all the crimes the federal government started committing.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2d

The most-hyped kind of AI right now are LLMs, and they generate harsher punishments for people based on the target's ethnicity...

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Bias or Justice? Analyzing LLM Sentencing Variability in Theft Indictments Across Gender, Ethnicity, and Education Factors | Request PDF

Request PDF | Bias or Justice? Analyzing LLM Sentencing Variability in Theft Indictments Across Gender, Ethnicity, and Education Factors | The application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in judicial d...

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2d

Now *that's* something worth having the (state's own) National Guard out for. Any federal force impeding the vote to be detained until the day is over.

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EndMalcompetence @endmalcompetence.bsky.social · 2d

"Adverse Inference" Time!