I gotta say that at some point this nostalgia for old internet starts to feel like some sort of digital white flight. happy to be proved wrong.

Zelensky and Putin should settle the matter with a gentleman's dual. Or whatever is the local equivalent. Bear rodeo or smthg.

Both their flags look great hanging that way.

Some real

to consider not only how the flag will look when laid flat or waving in the wind.

A 1966 entry in the Congressional Record noted that due to supposed Vietnamese superstitions regarding the ace of spades, “the U.S. Playing Card Co. had been furnishing thousands of these cards free to U.S. servicemen in Vietnam who requested them.”

wow TIL Bicycle cards are a class enemy.

The resources our unions control are vast. Teachers’ unions could use their databases to identify families in need of support.

Idk if this makes sense? What do these databases contain? Can any teacher just query familial immigration status? Sounds like something that should be disallowed by the software if the info exists at all. This kind of database search would not make sense as a union activity, more an individual misuse of computer systems.

Transit unions could refuse to transport detainees.

Absolutely agree. Are union workers involved in this? It would have been good journalism to look into this. Actually, given the oodles of people who have already written more or less identical articles to this one, it would have been a better use of time to investigate this single question.

Healthcare unions could organize free clinics.

Likely this author has no idea what "healthcare" or "clinics" entail. A lot more than people is needed to provide modern healthcare. It requires substantial capital and material inputs at any level.

The infrastructure of union halls could serve as coordination centers.

Churches already beat us and there are way more of them.

Union funds could go towards supporting workers striking or sheltering in place as well as these extensive mutual aid operations.

Sure.

The organizational capacity built over decades, of phone banks, steward networks, meeting spaces, and communication systems, could all be deployed to this fight against ICE and Trump’s attacks.

Sure, to whatever extent they exist. If they haven't yet been, then there is likely some ideological reason, not barbecue the thought hasn't occurred to anybody.

ELF also non existing organization. I would characterize what happened during green scare as "wild goose chase".

What is "all this information"?

You are asking a question so they need at least 1 way to contact you. Phone and email is pretty normal.

You dont need to provide as full name, you can give a fake name or just initials.

Location makes sense because you might get passed on to local people. That way they dont have to have 1 person answering every message from all over.

How do you think this should have been done?

To join any organization, you will have to put your name on a list. If you think not putting your name on a list will protect you, then you are paralyzed and incorrect.

If you dont want to fill this form, you can always do it the old fashioned way: go up to them at a public event.

Sounds like that what she was trying to do.

There was a reason the "f slur" was so common

Idk that is pre internet imho

That's the beauty of conspiracy thinking, it makes the problem smaller.

Lol I was literally going to suggest anti vax, and maybe some pro vax people could be there due to his connections to academia. Andrew Wakefield is a good call though.

But as far as I know, Epstein has nothing to do with factory farming + industrial meat production.

But how did they know each other?

what does anybody participating in any way think the direct outcome of their specific presence is? does anybody think they are the linchpin of the revolution?

you're right, why bother doing anything.

lol nice analysis

Nazis be like "I learned it from watching you, Americas"

text of document (minimally cleaned up)

ED-1057 (Rev. 5.8.101

50D-NY-3027571 Serial 306

UNCLASSIFIED

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Electronic Communication

Title: (U) Lead Forwared to Legat Mexico City, Date: 10/09/2019 Mexico

From: NEW YORK NY-C20

Case /D #: 31E-NY-3027571 (U) EPSTEIN, JEFFREY; CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING

Synopsis: (U) This Lead was generated to follow-up on information that a USC (RICHARD MARCINKO) is in custody in Mexico,MX, regarding a child sex ring investigation by the Mexican authorities, that is purported to include video evidence, held by Mexican law enforcement officials, of JEFFREY EPSTEIN engaging in sex acts with minors. The said minors were reported as possible USC's.

Reference: 31E-NY-3027571 Serial 158

Enclosure(s): Enclosed are the following items:

(U) TLO reports and ■ DMV image of TURNER
(U) ■ DMV image of MARCINKO

Details:

The author received information while assigned to a Bureau hotline concerning the JEFFREY EPSTEIN investigation that video evidence of EPSTEIN engaging in sex acts with minor children is in evidence in Mexico City, Mexico.

The caller identified himself as, KENNETH DARRELL TURNER,

of TURNER stated he has some type of Mexican "deputization" and is working along with a female former South African law enforcement offical, on the Mexican investigation. TURNER has been insistent that, RICHARD MARCINKO, DOB , who is a former U.S. Navy Seal team commander, is currently in custody in Mexico City, Mexico.

TURNER states MARCINKO is being held on charges pertaining to a child sex ring and a Mexican law enforcement official known only to the author as "Jorge" is in possession of a trove of video footage of JEFFREY EPSTEIN and other United State's Citizens engaged in sex acts with minor children, some of whom are reported to be United States Citizens as well.

TURNER has remained in contact with the author on an infrequent basis and has yet to provide any evidence of his claims.

The author is requesting that Legat Mexico City attempt to verify the incarceration of MARCINKO and any inquire with Mexican law enforcement officials of the video evidence of child sex acts.

fulltext

Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty after US judge dismisses murder charge

By Jack Queen and Jonathan Stempel

January 30, 20263:16 PM GMTUpdated 4 hours ago

Judge says murder charge incompatible with stalking charges
Mangione faces possible life in prison on remaining federal charges
US hasn't decided whether to appeal
Judge won't suppress contents of Mangione's backpack
Mangione still faces New York state murder case

NEW YORK, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty after a U.S. judge on Friday dismissed murder and weapons charges against the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, in a major blow to federal prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett in Manhattan said she felt constrained by Supreme Court precedents to dismiss the murder charge, calling it legally incompatible with the two federal stalking charges Mangione still faces.

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Mangione still faces murder charges in a separate case brought by state prosecutors.

Federal murder statutes carry different legal requirements than comparable state laws, and Garnett said federal law required Mangione's murder and weapons charges to be tied to another crime of violence.

Stalking, the judge said, did not meet this requirement because it was neither "inherently" violent nor always intentional. Garnett acknowledged that the average person might be bewildered by the dismissal.

Mangione, 27, still faces possible life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted on the stalking charges.

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Dominic Gentile, a federal prosecutor, told Garnett at a court hearing that the government has not decided whether to appeal.

Speaking to reporters after the hearing, a lawyer for Mangione, Karen Agnifilo, thanked Garnett for the "incredible" decision. Asked for Mangione's reaction, she said, "we're all relieved."

Thompson, who led UnitedHealth Group's (UNH.N), opens new tab health insurance business, was shot and killed on December 4, 2024 outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan.

Mangione pleaded not guilty to all charges stemming from Thompson's death, and has been jailed since his arrest in Pennsylvania five days after the killing.

While public officials widely condemned Thompson's killing, Mangione became a folk hero of sorts to many Americans who decry high costs for medical care and health insurer practices.

JUDGE NOTES 'TORTURED AND STRANGE' LEGAL ANALYSIS

Scott Sundby, a University of Miami law professor, said Garnett's decision hinged on a Supreme Court precedent aimed at constraining federal prosecutors from using vague statutes to bring inappropriate violent crime charges.

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"While the alleged manner in which Luigi did this would strike a layperson as indisputably violent, that isn't the question," Sundby said. "The concern of the court is prosecutors using a vaguely defined crime that gives them too much power," Sundby said.

Garnett has scheduled jury selection to begin in September, with the trial getting underway on October 12.

In her 39-page decision, Garnett said federal prosecutors could pursue their murder and weapons charges only if the stalking charges qualified as crimes of violence.

She said the stalking charges did not qualify because people could break the law without intentionally using force.

Garnett acknowledged the "apparent absurdity" of the legal landscape, saying no one would seriously question that Mangione's alleged conduct -- crossing state lines to kill a specific healthcare executive, and carrying a handgun equipped with a silencer -- was violent criminal conduct.

She said her analysis may strike ordinary people, and many lawyers and judges, as "tortured and strange," and the outcome "contrary to our intuitions about the criminal law."

But she said her decision reflects "the court's committed effort to faithfully apply the dictates of the Supreme Court to the charges in this case. The law must be the court's only concern."

EVIDENCE SEIZED FROM BACKPACK IS ADMISSIBLE

In a separate decision, Garnett rejected Mangione's bid to exclude evidence seized from his backpack when he was arrested.

Mangione argued that evidence found in the backpack, including a 9-millimeter pistol, silencer and journal entries, should be suppressed because police obtained it without a warrant.

The judge said it was standard practice for local police to search closed bags that might reasonably contain dangerous objects, and the police had probable cause to conduct a search. She also said the contents would have been discovered inevitably through a federal search warrant.

Mangione has also pleaded not guilty to separate murder, weapons and forgery charges in a New York state court in Manhattan.

No trial date in that case has been set. Prosecutors in that case suffered their own setback in September, when the judge dismissed two terrorism-related counts against Mangione.

Reporting by Jack Queen and Ryan Patrick Jones; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Bill Berkrot

how tf did all these previous generations fall for this?

little known fact is that in in the 1950s tiktok, instagram and even lemmy were totally controlled by the cia. over the decades we have regained some power, mainly on lemmy with some outposts on the others.