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Kevin Kortum

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🏈 Why Defector is intervening to make public a confidential document in the Tyreek Hill case

Defector

Marks said he received threats from Schneiderman saying that if any financial harm came to Hill because of the court document, “his client will pursue all available remedies against me, my client, and my firm, and me, personally.” A second person on Hill’s legal team, Marks said, made similar threats to him as well.

Similar to the last one from 404, another example of these small independent outlets shining a light on things that the powers that be would rather have kept on the shadows.

đŸŠč Countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence

White House

This “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.

We obviously already have ICE acting like the gestapo in masks, and now the administration is literally putting us into a police state where being against fascism or not being Christian can apparently be a crime. And while it doesn’t seem mentioned in the post, the slug to this URL includes: “enforcing-the-death-penalty-laws-in-the-district-of-columbia-to-deter-and-punish-the-most-heinous-crimes.”

◌ ‘The Bear’ writer Alex O’Keefe says he was handcuffed & detained by police after “an old white woman” on a train complained about him

Deadline

O’Keefe, who is Black, says “an old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting.” He says he refused and subsequently was “pulled off, handcuffed, and detained” by police.

The article, Instagram post, and video are terrible enough as it is, then you scroll down to the comments
 Sitting while black. Wonderful to see that this is where our tax money goes—sending four cops after a guy on a train who didn't break any laws.

🧊 We’re suing ICE for its $2 million spyware contract

404 Media

On Monday 404 Media filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding the agency publish its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware that can remotely break into mobile phones without the target even clicking a link.

How much do you want to bet they’ve utilized this and targeted people without getting the appropriate warrants? 404 continues to do the work of our lord and savior, Charlie Kirk /s

💉 They pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies

McSweeney’s

And I will say there are parts of the world that don’t take Tylenol. I mean, there’s a rumor, and I don’t know if it’s so or not, that Cuba, they don’t have Tylenol, because they don’t have the money to put Tylenol. And they have virtually no autism, okay? Tell me about that one. And there are other parts of the world where they don’t have Tylenol, where they don’t have autism. That tells you a lot.

When a satire website can publish a transcript of your speech—word for word—and it fits in with everything else, you know you’re doing something right.