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The new law aims to boost public trust in law enforcement and stop people from impersonating officers to commit crimes, supporters said.
Great idea in theory, but has me worried about federal agents purposely disobeying. Not sure what would happen in that situation. And don’t get me wrong, that’s no reason to not do this. Just nervous, is all.
This weekend, Dan Frosch, Patrick Thomas, and Andrea Peterson of the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is ending its annual report on household food security. Those reports began in the 1990s to help state and local officials distribute food assistance. Last year’s report found that 18 million U.S. households experienced food insecurity during 2023. In a statement, the Department of Agriculture said: “These redundant, costly, politicized and extraneous studies do nothing more than fearmonger.”
Not sure there’s a better sign that this administration doesn’t care at all about people struggling than this. Cut the reporting, cut the assistance, and no one is the wiser—except, you know, the people going hungry. You can’t fix what you don’t measure, and this administration has no interest in doing either.
Daddy's home!
Someone seriously needs to scoop him up and let him do this kind of stuff again once he's loose from CBS. Hopefully Paramount doesn't own all of the IP related to The Colbert Report...
“With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” he added. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”
In honor of the “bastion of free speech” and the debater who was so skilled he only ever debated with college students, we are going to… ensure no one can ever speak a negative word about Trump, Kirk, or any of their allies ever again. Thanks, Stephen Miller!
Context: Antifa is a decentralized, leaderless movement that’s opposed to fascism and is loosely defined as far-left.
I’d love to hear him try to name a single individual in this so-called “major terrorist organization.”
Anthropic recently declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement agencies because the company refuses to make an exception allowing its AI tools to be used for some tasks, including surveillance of US citizens, said the officials, who spoke to Semafor on the condition of anonymity.
Apparently, a tech company has at least a couple of vertebrae left in its spine. I’m sure those will be gone soon, though—cause they already essentially offer their services to the government for free.
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