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… That’s all? Fuck that’s bleak.

Yes, I sure was! Because, while both describe different avenues for protected speech to be investigated, both are the result of protected speech being investigated. There is no functional legal difference between either example of speech - both are constitutionally protected, and unless you were violating other laws (say something super legit, like ‘disturbing the peace’, anti-harassment orders, the list is long) it would be illegal for the police to prevent you from saying it.

That is what protected speech entails - it does not absolve you of potential consequences of that speech (the classic example is “shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theater”, but my above examples of confessing to a murder/crime apply as well), it just means you cannot be prevented from speaking it

And the intimidation is not hard to prove.

Are you sure about that? It’s really quite a high standard of evidence in a biased court system to demonstrate police harassment or intimidation or what have you at the federal level. There are far harder things to prove sure, but it’s solidly not on the “Easy” end of the spectrum.

They can unintrusively investigate anything that is publically available to them to find suspicious activity that may indicate a crime has occurred or may occur.

Say, perhaps like… something you’ve posted on facebook? Is that the kind of unobtrusive investigation of publicly available information you mean?

(Everything else broadly seems to be restating what I’ve already said, so I’m not super sure what your goal is in bringing this up was. Yes, what we know of the investigation likely was not a violation of the 4th amendment (or any other statute) except in that it was clearly done to intimidate - something that is unfortunately fairly difficult to prove.)

While the actions of ICE are predictably henious, the article is missing the point in favor of the more shocking headline.

Seeking dismissal of Streever’s lawsuit, the government’s lawyers concede his email to Lyons “put words to his disagreements with a current administration official.” In other words, they admit he was investigated because of speech protected by the First Amendment.

Almost everything you say is protected speech. “I did it, I stabbed him, it was me, muahahaha” is absolutely protected by the 1st amendment and you can shout it all you want, but when you’re shouting it outside a daycare it’s also a totally valid justification for someone taking a quick peek at what you’ve got stashed in your freezer. Or the less hyperbolic example of someone bragging about their crimes on facebook - totally 100% protected speech, the cops can’t prevent you from saying that, but the cops can use it as a reason to investigate you.

The issue isn’t that he was investigated for 1st amendment protected speech, the issue is that they made crystal clear that they considered the investigation spurious and it was intended only to intimidate him by dropping it after they encountered the slightest difficulty. Unfortunately, that might be very difficult for him to prove. But hopefully he has even a middling decent lawyer as these chucklefucks haven’t got what I’d call a “great” track record of successfully defending themselves in court, so fingers crossed.

Well sure, that’s what all the “rigging the election” they’re doing is for…

Had to go and check because I thought that too and no, according to wikipedia it’s concrete!

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is the largest of the many reflecting pools in Washington, D.C. It is a 2,030-by-167-foot (619 by 51 m) concrete-bottomed rectangular pool […]

Not unbelievable that these morons didn’t select a chemically resistant coating, but it’s more likely this is due to bad surface prep than the hydrogen peroxide - if it was the result of the peroxide we’d be seeing far more damage than the few chunks spotted thus far. Though, time will tell on that front…

The WIAA is aware of roughly 10 trans athletes out of more than 200,000 kids who compete across the state, Kesterson said.

20,000:1 RATIO, FUCKING HELL HOW WILL GIRLS SPORTS EVER OVERCOME SUCH A HUGE PROBLEM???

I really cannot see this ever passing, at least. Laurie Jenkins would have Bob shot if this somehow passes the house & senate and he didn’t veto, and it’d probably be done with Mike Brown’s gun…

Lucky fans and some season-ticket holders got final tickets at face value or a discount. They told WRAL that their tickets were between $170 and $500, but they’re reselling at much, much more.

So it seems like this is due to scalpers - who are ruining absolutely everything unfortunately. Fucking dickheads…

… Does who know what a what is?

Edit: Does [the former head of HHS under biden, now running for governor of California] know what a [pharmacy benefit manager, something to do with health insurance bastardry I guess] is?

As the old saying goes, if you want something done right…

When asked if impeachment was a top priority, Jeffries said “of course not” during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

He was on fox news when he said this; most likely, given the dems have already tried to impeach trump twice, he was trying to give the fascists a way to rationalize accepting dems winning the house. Besides this is a completely reasonable thing - unless dems win the senate too it shouldn’t be the priority to do something completely pointless.

Iran believes there is a significant chance that President Donald Trump—urged on by Israel—will resume military attacks if a deal is not reached soon

Well… yeah, that’s kind of the point. It would be less depressing if any side were taking this seriously, but holy fuck at this point there’s more oil-soaked posturing than the Mr Universe finals and basically no attempt to actually agree to stop killing people. Fuck I hate this.

“too incompetent for the trump admin” is something…

Apparently a lot of the fortnite devs got the axe - they’ve nixed a ton of the less popular game modes?

As I understand it (have friends that deal with this data), the ballots are anonymized so they can’t back-associate the voting records to real ids. So at least there’s that.

I think I’m still in complete agreement!

Maybe, yep! Or someone did go in and kill him, since it shouldn’t have been possible, and then they released footage with missing time, and so on. He might have been enabled to do it or he might have been outright killed or whatever other option, but I don’t know that the precise distinction even matters anymore given how obviously guilty someone is.

Honestly, it would have made a whole lot of sense for him to just kill himself. He had to have known what was in store, he wasn’t stupid. If he hadn’t been on suicide watch, and if the rest of the coverup wasn’t so ineptly transparent, the reasonable conclusion would be that yeah he 100% did himself in. Save everyone else the trouble and himself some potential discomfort, etc. But like… nah. This has been so stupidly poorly hidden.

What documents, I wonder? It’s not like there’s going to be forms documenting “hey we killed this guy” that need to be shredded, we already have suspicious visitor logs and the medical records and so forth, like… what would they have wanted to shred? And why shred it there, instead of just taking it as part of the investigation and disappearing it like they did with so many other documents?