I have no idea why anyone thinks democrats will vote as a singular bloc. They’ll vote to give DHS a massive budget soon despite being able to indefinitely withhold funding and starve the department committing heinous crimes. Then they’ll say its to protect those that are in custody because DHS will have no funding to take care of them otherwise. DHS will continue their terroristic assaults on American soil until midterms. Democrats will run on stopping them and right before elections, Republicans will give their word to reign in DHS if they pass this bill. A handful of dems will break rank to cover the 4-5 Republicans that oppose working with democrats to save face and the bill passes.

Shortly thereafter something inflammatory happens and the Republicans allow DHS to resume their terror efforts. (If they ever stopped in the first place) And democrats get nothing out of the situation other than being able to indefinitely act appalled by this administration.

There’s certainly a few people that would hope a bullet helps expedite that election if they vote to hand over ICE funding just like the previous shutdown.

Noted. I was just going off my own recollection rather than verifying.

No the hell he didn’t. If he did, he wouldn’t have rightly pre-pardoned himself and his family members.

140 TB is a whole heck of a lot of movies and TV shows

Thank you! Should be a breeze once I get through this weekend 🙂

Yeah, I may do that. I’m cooped up for the weekend for a knee surgery I had this morning.

I need to watch this movie still. I’ve been wanting to watch it since it was brought up in a infotainment video I watched on YouTube. Now’s the perfect time to watch I guess.

In android; there is also a ‘lockdown’ mode you can quickly activate from the power off screen, that disables Biometrics until next unlock with a pin/pattern, but doesn’t fully shutdown so you can still quickly access things like the camera. This has to be explicitly enabled in settings first and will not offer much protection from various lockscreen bypass software available to law enforcement.

2 things. Unless I accidentally enabled this setting, it’s on by default. And what do you mean by lockscreen bypass software. What would be the point of lockdown if its not effective against law enforcement trying to brute force your privacy?

My wife and I use SimpleX. I don’t know why its not discussed more. Perfect use case for attending protests and such. Get swept up in illegal arrests and they want you to open the app? Enter the self-destruct code. It opens the app normally while destroying any info it contained so they would be none the wiser. It just looks like an empty chat.

I don’t want to make an account. If you want me to read an article for free, allow me to access it without an account. If I like the content then I’ll subscribe. Especially for activism like this.

Especially when OSM is free and open source. Super simple.

Hopefully about 2¼" in diameter by 3½" tall and made of cast iron.

None. They’re just massive pieces of shit.

I could be mistaken, but since this is a state level issue wouldn’t it rather go to the state supreme court?

Parents like this hope the child moves out when they graduate high school and get rich so their kid can care for them when they’re old.

That is the joke. Yes.

Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup Grumman

Previous “first acts” of world wars quickly led to a cascade of treaties being acted upon and declarations of war being announced. I think your opinion is unfounded in historical context. Not to say that we shouldn’t be alarmed or that we’re hurtling towards a global armed conflict if drastic change doesn’t occur, but I think its alarmist to claim its already started.