Official thuggery, bad prosecutions, and bad law – Page 17

Weekend links

Published February 25, 2018 4:44 am by Claire

For the children! Ban the square root sign!

Funny how Authoritah can rush to investigate a math joke, but ignore multiple threats and an extremely detailed and specific warning of a real threat.

Forget the guns (and the square root signs). It’s all actually about toxic masculinity. Or whatever other mad agenda is trendy today.

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Friday links

Published February 23, 2018 1:34 pm by Claire

Okay, you’ve heard by now that the resource officer on site at the Florida school shooting was being paid $75k a year (plus benefits!) to cower behind a pillar while students in his dubious care were murdered. But boy, he seems to have been a general freeloading sleaze even before that.

And he’s just the latest in a long and growing line of coward cops.

I haven’t been paying much attention to any Trump-administration scandals (all those imaginary Russians!). But this news on how Paul Manafort got tripped up by his inability to handle everyday tech is hilarious. When you’re faking it with millions of dollars you’d think you’d at least put a touch of effort into your deceptions.

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Thursday links

Published February 22, 2018 5:23 am by Claire

Thirteen ways government schools damage the mental health of students.

Well, good for the Florida house for having the guts to face down the feelz.

Yikes. Okay, that’s scary: money laundering through author impersonation on Amazon.

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Valentines Day massacre

Published February 16, 2018 10:36 am by Claire

Bear Bussjaeger on all the things that didn’t happen. A sampling: You want to blame someone for the Parkland dead? Try the school adminstrators and police who looked away. Don’t blame me or the other fifty-five to one-hundred-twenty million who did not do it, and who have proposed solutions. Solutions that do not involve assuming the innocent are guilty, and criminals will obey laws. Solutions that do not violate rights. Solutions that would work. Solutions that do not involve:

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Friday links

Published February 16, 2018 8:52 am by Claire

Idaho is moving ahead with plans to offer Obamacare-defying insurance plans.

ICE’s top lawyer in Seattle has been using his position to steal immigrants’ identities.

She was denied a job (or a reasonable accommodation) because of her religion. Now she’s suing.

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Thursday links

Published February 15, 2018 1:39 am by Claire

When you want to know how many people are fleeing an area (in this case, San Francisco and Silicon Valley), check out the U-Haul rates.

With the help of creatively greedy lawyers, some California towns are criminalizing nuisance code violations — and trying to squeeze big bux out of people who don’t have the money.

Hey, knee-jerking bigots: Sessions is actually right about something for a change. The office of sheriff is from the Anglo-American legal tradition

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Tuesday links

Published February 13, 2018 6:25 am by Claire

Warrentless searches in the U.S. no-constitution zone.

And in the data of your future autonomous car. (H/T Shel)

They murdered a man in the cruelest possible way. Now they’re finally being charged with crimes that might put them in prison for a few short years.

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Weekend links

Published February 10, 2018 4:11 pm by Claire

Take responsibility. Find purpose. Live longer.

The taxman tools up for the blockchain.

Are you ready to have your drivers license replaced by a cellphone app? (H/T ML)

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Tuesday links

Published February 6, 2018 11:11 am by Claire

Biometrics for cops. After years of overtime abuse Baltimore cops will have to clock in and out with their fingerprints. (No mention of what they’re going to do about all those other abuses like planting guns and drugs. H/T MJR)

The Berlin Wall. It has now been down as long as it was up.

What was that they were saying about FEMA’s disaster response having improved since the Katrina catastrophe? Well, yeah, I guess delivering 50,000 meals out of a contracted 30 million is … something.

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