https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c65JOfvH4NI
Scott Ritter Alarming Revelation: Russia Will Use Nuclear Weapons if U.S Continues to Aid Ukraine
https://www.foxnews.com/media/newsom-pr ... ve-deficit
Newsom proposes defunding police, prisons, public safety as California faces massive deficit
'They're in a panic. They're in a freefall,' Florida's CFO told Fox News
By Hannah Grossman Fox News Published June 6, 2024
https://theintercept.com/2024/06/05/nyc ... -training/
The People vs. Cop City
New York Spends $225 Million on Its Own “Cop City” — to Make the Whole City Run on Cops
Natasha Lennard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnGdULcPWc
FBI Director Christopher Wray details $13,000,000,000.00 billion budget request at Senate hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3SbBuCI7d0
White House Call Girl Ring
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/loc ... e/3306944/
East Lyme police chief arrested, placed on leave
Published June 5, 2024 • Updated 6 mins ago
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new ... -110881604
New York judge seen shoving police officer will be replaced on the bench
Authorities say a New York judge who was censured after being seen on video shoving a police officer during a brawl with neighbors will be replaced on the bench
ByThe Associated Press June 5, 2024
https://www.judicialwatch.org/informati ... leblowers/
JUNE 06, 2024 Judicial Watch: Records Show FBI Provided Democrats with Information on Whistleblowers Who Testified at May 2023 Weaponi
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received 54 pages of records from the Department of Justice in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit which show the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Office of Congressional Affairs (OCA) provided a Democrat staffer with information on FBI whistleblowers who detailed the bureau’s targeting of political opponents and retaliation for their testifying at a May 18, 2023 hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
A May 23, 2023, email from Damon Marx, senior counsel in the office of New York Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman, shows that the FBI provided documents apparently pertaining to the whistleblowers that were “very helpful” to Goldman
https://nypost.com/2024/06/05/us-news/a ... ath-video/
Autistic teen was tied down, taunted by cops while he begged for help before death, disturbing video shows
Olivia Land Published June 5, 2024
https://nypost.com/2024/06/05/us-news/n ... cist-ties/
NJ state trooper with giant Hitler-related neck tattoo is fired following probe into white supremacist ties
Allie Griffin Published June 5, 2024
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/0 ... ing-class/
Asian Literary Scholar, Emanuel Pastreich, is Running for President to Raise Awareness About State Crimes and Criminality of U.S. Governing Class
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - June 3, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... eat-stroke
Phoenix turns to ice-filled body bags to treat heatstroke as US south-west bakes
Technique known as cold-water immersion adopted by Phoenix hospitals after county saw 645 heat-related deaths last year
Associated Press Wed 5 Jun 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ournalists
Nearly half of journalists covering climate crisis globally received threats for their work
Groundbreaking new research also reports that 11% of surveyed have faced physical violence in their reporting
Nina Lakhani climate justice reporter Wed 5 Jun 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... dification
Oceans face ‘triple threat’ of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification
Third of world’s ocean surface particularly vulnerable to threats driven by burning fossil fuel and deforestation, new research finds
Oliver Milman Tue 4 Jun 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... dvertising
‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief urges global fossil-fuel advertising ban
António Guterres says world faces ‘climate crunch time’ and announces dire new scientific warnings of global heating
Oliver Milman Wed 5 Jun 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... car-payout
Colorado woman left inside police car that was hit by train to receive $8.5m
Authorities agree on payout to Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, who suffered serious injuries while handcuffed inside vehicle
Guardian staff and agencies Wed 5 Jun 2024
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics ... index.html
FBI reinstates security clearance for former employee who raised questions about Jan. 6 attack
By Annie Grayer, CNN Wed June 5, 2024
https://www.blackprwire.com/press-relea ... st-program
BPRW) ORISE Is Accepting Applications for FBI Counterterrorism Forensic Science Research Unit Visiting Scientist Program
(Black PR Wire) OAK RIDGE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) is currently accepting applications for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Counterterrorism Forensic Science Research Unit (CFSRU) Visiting Scientist Program (VSP). This program is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for early career scientists and recent graduates to participate in forensic science research at the FBI Laboratory, one of the largest and most comprehensive crime labs in the world.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/03/sta ... ion-rooms/
State Court Says There’s A Reasonable Expectation Of Privacy In Conversations With Non-Cops In Interrogation Rooms
from the caveats-apply dept
Mon, Jun 3rd 2024 03:09pm - Tim Cushing
Kind of an odd bit of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence here, given all the factors. (h/t FourthAmendment.com)
Obviously, some conversations have an expectation of privacy, even when they’re held in police interrogation rooms. Those would be ones between the suspect and their legal representation. But that’s not really a Fourth Amendment issue as it is about privileged communications. The government isn’t allowed to eavesdrop on suspects as they work on a legal defense and/or make statements to their lawyer.
Then there’s the assumption that pretty much everything a cop would like to listen to is recorded, starting with anything said in interrogation rooms (minus attorney-client
https://www.govconwire.com/2024/06/fbi- ... vices-bpa/
FBI Issues List of 95 Awardees on $8,000,000,000,00 Follow-On IT Supplies & Support Services BPA
JANE EDWARDS JUNE 6, 2024
https://meritalk.com/articles/fbi-chall ... deepfakes/
BY: CATE BURGAN JUN 5, 2024
FBI Challenged With Building Workforce Needed to Detect Deepfakes
https://nypost.com/2024/06/05/world-new ... -erection/
Catholic priest claims Jesus died with an erection
Katherine Donlevy Published June 5, 2024
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/05/acl ... -property/
ACLU Asks 9th Circuit Not To Treat Abandoned Phones Like Any Other Abandoned Property
from the not-exactly-a-backpack dept
Wed, Jun 5th 2024 11:57am - Tim Cushing
This is an interesting case with some very serious implications.
For the most part, anything discarded by a suspect fleeing from law enforcement officers can be searched or seized without a warrant. For years, this wasn’t necessarily a problem. The stuff discarded ranged from bags containing “substances” to wallets to the occasional backpack. The intrusion was limited and, in most cases, the evidentiary value (drug baggies, recently fired guns, etc.) was self-evident.
But in this case — one in which the ACLU has filed an amicus brief — the expectation of privacy is a bit more important. Previously, the Supreme Court rejected plenty of government arguments when it ruled that phones seized during arrests required a warrant to be searched. One of the many arguments rejected was this: that searching a phone was like searching a suspect’s pockets or the trunk
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/video/ ... e-charges/
Colorado Springs police officer arrested, facing child abuse charges
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/05/rep ... right-law/
Rep. Jerry Nadler’s Shocking Misrepresentation Of Copyright Law
from the the-law-literally-says-the-opposite dept
Wed, Jun 5th 2024 09:28am - Mike Masnick
It’s a running joke here at Techdirt that many elected officials in charge of copyright policy seem wholly ignorant of the subject. But sometimes, it’s still shocking when people who should definitely know better brazenly parade their cluelessness.
Enter Jerry Nadler, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and a man who has been knee-deep in copyright policy for many years. His recent comments on intellectual property weren’t just ignorant, they were downright pathetic.
This one is from a month ago, but it’s been gnawing away at me for a few weeks. I figured it was still worth calling out. Last month, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on “Intellectual Property,” and ranking member (i.e., top Democrat) Jerry Nadler’s opening remarks were so far off-base and factually lacking that it deserves to be discussed.
Nadler has long been a reliable voice for copyright maximalism, and Hollywood has rewarded him accordingly. But, really, some of these comments were just beyond the pale:
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/04/its ... hemselves/
It’s The 21st Century And County Sheriffs Are Still A Law Unto Themselves
from the just-daring-the-public-to-stop-them dept
Tue, Jun 4th 2024 08:22pm - Tim Cushing
The Wild West we all imagine contains two forms of law: the brave people who’ve decided to be sheriffs. And the vigilantes who perform frontier justice when not cashing in bounties while ignoring the enshrined civil rights (the Constitution came out ahead of the Wild West, non-American folks) of the people they beat, tortured, threatened, and (if my movie recollections are accurate) tied to the back of their horses and drug to the nearest town.
A couple hundred years later and nothing’s changed but the entities performing the majority of rights violations. Bounty hunters still exist but rarely make headlines. Sheriffs, however, are still treated as kings among men, capable of doing all sorts of evil while rarely being subjected to even the very low bar of accountability we apply to regular cops.
In most locales, sheriffs are elected. That means they can’t be fired, only voted
https://fourthamendment.com/?p=57894
D.D.C.: Judge shopping after denial of SW inappropriate; could have appealed to DJ
on May 15, 2024
DC Court Smacks Feds For Going Judge Shopping After Their Warrant Request Was Denied
from the lol-you-absolute-idiots dept
Well… this is a fun one. The FBI requested a warrant, got it shot down, and thought it would just try to bypass the proper judicial process by pitching the same warrant to another judge all the way across the country. (h/t FourthAmendment.com)
This saga/debacle begins in Washington D.C. The FBI is building a case against yet another person who participated in the January 6th insurrection attempt. The FBI’s suspect is a Washington D.C. resident who, as of March of this year, was staying with her sister in Irvine, California.
Despite this being three years after the fact, the FBI swore (in its California-based warrant) that it had reason to believe any electronics possessed by the suspect would likely contain evidence
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/04/nso ... is-allies/
NSO Malware Discovered On The Phones Of Critics Of Putin And His Allies
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the NSO-may-be-down-but-its-software-is-still-running dept
Tue, Jun 4th 2024 10:52am - Tim Cushing
Here’s yet more unsurprising news about Israeli malware developer NSO Group and its preferred customers. More phones infected by NSO’s flagship Pegasus malware have been discovered by Citizen Lab researchers. And yet again those targeted are journalists, critics, dissidents, and opposition leaders.
The latest investigation identifies seven additional Russian and Belarusian-speaking members of civil society and journalists living outside of Belarus and Russia who were targeted and/or infected with Pegasus spyware. Many of the targets publicly criticized the Russian government, including Russia’s invasion of Ukr
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/31/fbi ... ple-times/
FBI Informant/Leaker Sues Iran For $5 Million Because It Has Allegedly Tried To Kill Him Multiple Times
from the yep-that-ought-to-do-it dept
Fri, May 31st 2024 12:11pm - Tim Cushing
I don’t know why I’m drawn to doomed litigation but there’s no denying this impulse.
I know what the plaintiff wants to achieve. That much is made clear by Justin Rodrich’s reporting on the lawsuit for the Daily Beast. But I don’t know how he (or any other pronoun! — it’s filed as “Doe”) expects this to stop a rogue state from trying to kill them, much less put $5 million in his pockets.
Nonetheless, here we are:
An FBI informant who leaked sensitive government secrets that reportedly then led to a deadly U.S. drone strike claims Iran’s fearsome security apparatus has targeted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXX4iMuwaVQ
Reduce dementia risk
https://missouriindependent.com/2024/06 ... e-funding/
Missouri Supreme Court backs August election on Kansas City police funding
In an order Tuesday, the court modified an earlier ruling with November vote to ‘accommodate the governor’s apparent desire’ for a vote on the same day as the primary election
BY: RUDI KELLER - JUNE 4, 2024
The ballot measure, which will be Amendment 4, grew out of a conservative reaction to the “defund the police” rhetoric from Black Lives Matter protests after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. It would allow state lawmakers to pass a law mandating that Kansas City spend at least 25% of its general revenue budget on its police department.
https://substack.com/@merylnass?utm_sou ... dium=email
Meryl Nass
Meryl Nass is a physician researcher who was the 1st person to prove an epidemic was due to biological warfare. She revealed the dangers of the anthrax and covid vaccines. Her license was suspended for treating COVID and spreading 'misinformation.'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... alifornia-
Dangerous heatwave hits US from Texas to California with grim records expected
Millions of Americans are sweltering as experts warn early heat could herald next record-smashing summer
Gabrielle Canon in Oakland and Dani Anguiano in Chico, California Thu 6 Jun 2024
https://theintercept.com/2024/06/05/isr ... on-recuse/
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