Adding onto this. Just a few highlights from the article:

She said: “I posted a poster for the Tiananmen Square massacre commemoration in Sutton and right after that, that account made deepfake images about me. They’ve been tagging my username since they started it.

Ni said that one of the posts accusing her of animal abuse had correctly written that she had a cat. She said: “I feel like they’re doing some kind of profiling of me … Every time I go out, I feel like I might be followed or watched. And I actually think that might be the case.”

Considering that there are secret Chinese police stations in other countries that target people like her, she likely is correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations

I’m all for an age cap. It should be dynamic and based on some sort of percentage of the average lifespan of the population in their area.

It would provide a good incentive for them to vote in/pass legislation which would help raise the overall life expectancy of everyone.

Poe’s Law strikes again:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe’s_law

Adding a /s would help convey that intent a little more. And if you’re going for the “Got ya!” satire effect, you could always hide it in a spoiler.

Just to add a little context to this. The Brave CEO donated $1k to California’s Proposition 8 almost 20 years ago (in 2008). 6 years later he formally apologized for it and stepped down as the CEO of Mozilla.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
His apology is viewable on his website: https://brendaneich.com/

The worst part is, this did apply to state law enforcement up until the final revision when they decided to change it:

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB627/id/3267892

(e)For the purposes of this section, “law enforcement agency” means any agency, department, or other entity of the state or any political subdivision thereof that employs a peace officer as described in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, and any federal agency that enforces local, state, or federal laws.

(2) “Law enforcement agency” means any of the following:

(A) Any entity of a city, county, or other local agency, that employs a peace officer described in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.

(B) Any law enforcement agency of another state.

© Any federal law enforcement agency.

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB627/2025

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You can take your pick here: https://ground.news/article/connecticut-police-find-decomposed-body-after-standoff-with-man-who-shot-at-officers_21cc82

Wait, why would they get in trouble? PepsiCo owns all of these companies (Frito Lays, Naked, Doritos/Cheetos, etc.).

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PepsiCo_brands

Oh, oh, I know! How about they release an app, or a website, where we can take a picture of the face of any of these Agents, and it will confirm if they’re actually one or not.

On a serious note, it would be very useful to have a better system of confirming who is an actual agent or not. Something like plugging their badge number into a website and they have to confirm a daily code or similar.

I mean, votes are public in the fediverse. I wouldn’t try to read into the reasoning from a single downvoter too much though.

One downvote could be accidental. 2 downvotes in the same thread makes that seem less likely.

Downvoting/Upvoting doesn’t mean the same thing that it does for everyone. Some use it as an agree/disagree. Some use it for whether a comment is productive and adds to the conversation or not. Some use it as a visibility score whether they think a comment should be seen by others first or whether there are other comments that are better. Some may agree with most everything in a comment except for one part and then downvote because of that.

His lawyers from the Institute for Justice are currently looking for any other U.S. Citizens who have been detained or questioned by ICE while working.

If this has happened to you or someone you know, please share your story through the linked form. Your experiences can make a real difference.

English: https://ij.org/case-intake/government-raids-on-construction-sites/

Español: https://ij.org/case-intake/redadas-gubernamentales-en-sitios-de-construccion/

https://www.reveddit.com/v/IceRaidAlerts/comments/1nvie1v/seeking_stories_us_citizens_detained_by_ice_on/

Thanks! I definitely feel the same. I found it particularly wholesome to read through the comments of those that were donating here: https://www.givesendgo.com/helptheSanfordfamily

Yes, but this isn’t a fundraiser that was started by the church (or with church funding) but rather it was started and donated to by the members themselves.

Yeah, the problem I’m seeing now is that everyone on the right is seeing the left’s reaction. And now they don’t care if the shooter actually was someone from the left or not.

The response they see is all they need to justify any reaction. Of course they’re conveniently forgetting their own response (and Charlie Kirk’s response) to Pelosi’s attacker.

The U.S. is a big country, whether large vehicles are the most popular depends on what state you live in.

That being said, anyone from Europe will notice that there are way more of these trucks (designed in a lethal manner as you described) than they have ever seen before, no matter what part of the U.S. they visit.

Ana Valens recently resigned from Vice following an article about the censorship of games. On social media, she shared communication between Mastercard and Riot Games.

Looks like Vice can’t be trusted as a reliable source of information if they’re willing to fire journalists after a little outside pressure is put on them.

All they really need to do is make self-driving cars safer than your average human driver.

He was attempting to purchase a gun for work, but wasn’t able to. He was flagged in the system which is why ICE went after him.

The police department used DHS’s own “e-verify” website to make sure that Evans was able to work. So, it sounds like some of their own internal systems are unreliable.

After reading through the article, this is a misleading title. It sounds like he’s trying to say that Biden voters are all wealthy people that wouldn’t need this:

Well, you wouldn’t give it to everybody, you’d give it to the working people,” the Missouri Republican told far-right podcaster and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on Tuesday. “You’d give it to our people.”

“I mean, you know, the rich people don’t need it … what I mean by that is all those Democrat donors of Wall Street, all these hedge fund guys, who all hate the tariffs, by the way."

Hertz keeps failing again and again with their automated systems. Only within the past few years did they finally settle with 364 customers that were falsely accused/arrested for stealing their cars.

They have an automated system for generating police reports on stolen cars, but there were many instances of customers falsely reported when they had actually called in to extend the rental, or if they had rented a car which had previously been flagged as stolen (but not corrected in their system).

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusation-stealing-cars-settlement