The killing of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last month seemed to mark a breaking point for the United States on immigration enforcement. But rather than lowering tensions, the government appears intent on cranking the temperature up. President Donald Trump framed Good’s killing as the price of being “disrespectful of law enforcement” and described Pretti as an "agitator" and “insurrectionist.” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller described Pretti as a “domestic terrorist” and “would-be assassin" (claims Vice President Vance amplified) while labeling broader protests as an “insurgency.”

The administration isn’t just criticizing anti-ICE protesters and observers; it is treating their conduct as criminal. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has claimed that merely filming ICE agents constitutes an act of violence, despite the fact that filming police is not only legal, it is a constitutionally protected right. DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin has labeled recording ICE personnel as “doxing” subject to prosecution, while a DHS statement described filming agents as "obstruction of justice,” threatening that “we will hunt you down and you will be prosecuted.” Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, who was removed from his position following Pretti’s killing, has said protesters could be arrested for making “hyperbolic” comments about immigration officers. A DHS bulletin to personnel lists “use of cameras,” “livestreaming,” and filming agents among “unlawful civil unrest” tactics.

These are not idle threats: As the Cato Institute’s David J. Bier has documented, there is a growing trend of ICE and Border Patrol agents threatening observers who film them with arrest for illegally “impeding” operations. Over the last month, the Department of Justice pushed efforts to investigate Good’s widow for activist ties and launched a criminal probe against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, both Democrats, for criticizing ICE operations.

Americans should brace for broader investigation and persecution of those who document and criticize immigration enforcement, fueled by an array of powerful surveillance technologies and tools. But they can also take actions to protect their privacy rights.

Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

Too late assholes... I'm already deleting most of the posts I made on my discord and I will be migrating elsewhere soon.

My friends are open to leaving Discord which has finally given me a reason to look into Element/Matrix. I found the install instructions and am immediately put off. Is this it? No official docker compose? 😞

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With each successive trove of documents from the Epstein files the Department of Justice releases, we’re treated to rare insight into how our ruling class behaves in private, and how connected many of them were to the late sex trafficker.

The list of elites who maintained close relationships with Epstein is long and includes prominent politicians, media figures, academics, and business leaders. In contrast, the list of people who have faced any meaningful consequences, at least in the United States, is so far quite short. Recently, Brad Karp, a top Democratic Party fundraising “bundler,” was removed as chair of the white-shoe law firm Paul Weiss after his extensive ties to Epstein were revealed. Peter Attia, the celebrity doctor and a new hire at Bari Weiss’ CBS News, resigned from a protein bar company after emails showed him making dirty jokes with Epstein. The economist Larry Summers was deemed toxic after a previous DOJ disclosure, went on leave from teaching at Harvard, and was unceremoniously dropped by numerous institutions. So far, that’s about the extent of it.

To be very explicit, this lack of serious consequences is a choice that powerful people in the United States are making. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, Prince Andrew is prince no more, reduced to merely Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after King Charles removed all of his remaining royal titles; the former CEO of Barclays has been barred from the finance industry; the British ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, has been forced out; Morgan McSweeney, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff and a Mandelson protege, was forced to resign under pressure; and Starmer risks losing his post over the Mandelson appointment. In Slovakia, the national security adviser to the prime minister has resigned. Accountability, if you care to enforce it, is in fact possible.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43029711

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Cubans have ample experience facing enormous dangers stemming from the US empire. We defeated the Bay of Pigs invasion, we survived the October Crisis, and the Special Period when we lost 85 per cent of our trade overnight following the collapse of the socialist camp.

Furthermore, we have heroically resisted a criminal economic and financial blockade for more than 67 years.

They have applied “maximum pressure,” and here we remain. That phrase, spoken with such arrogance, demolishes the lie that Cuba is a failed state, because they have been forced to admit that the fundamental cause of the country’s economic crisis is linked to that very pressure they classify as “maximum.”

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