Agreed, everyone should read it all and watch the videos. Warning: prepare yourself first.

Maybe that’s why they usually have the detention center in the same building as the training center. Human shields.

Yeah but the owner already got the message from protestors and the fact that the City passed an ordinance to prohibit non-municipal detention facilities the very same day they found out ICE was looking at buying it. The owner succumbed to the pressure and withdrew from the sale, saying they weren’t aware who the buyer was (and there’s a decent chance they didn’t know until it became news since DHS has been sneaky about covering their tracks). A realtor in the area that had been helping them look for properties has also gotten huge backlash, but I haven’t heard whether they dropped them as client. (I live not far from KC so I’ve been aware of the news on this)

She did it for nothing, the warehouse owner had already backed out of the deal by then.

edit after watching video: not the sharpest tool in the shed, lighter fluid squirted on concrete, metal, and glass. Then squirting a stream fluid from the bottle in her hand to the flames, not too bright. But the usual and well-known effective technique would probably also be futile. From what I’ve read the place is completely empty, probably nothing but concrete floors in there.

Yeah, things are going juuuust great for me, uh-huh. I know dark humor doesn’t always go over very well but sometimes I go for it anyway.

Yeah but delaying it until after I die would have been nice.

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You’re correct. In the linked Wichita Eagle article it says

After all, as Kobach pointed out: Elected officials in Kansas are required by law to be legal electors — meaning legally registered voters.

BTW there’s a lot to shake your head at in that article. The stupidity and lack of education of not just this guy but apparently the whole town. They didn’t know he wasn’t allowed to vote. He wasn’t sure who he voted for, he just always voted for the ®. Plus the whole town loves this guy so they’re all mad at Kobach. That county went 80% for trump but they’re all upset that they’re having the day they voted for.

Let’s go!

Best alternative for what purpose? Can’t answer unless you tell us that. To make calls and texts? A feature phone. To use android apps? A tablet, I guess.

More like they can use that law to hold the federal agents accountable because they conspired with the state/local forces. Otherwise they don’t have much ability to hold federal forces accountable at all.

The authorities at the racetrack had a search warrant and criminal warrants to arrest five people, including the track owner, whom they accused of facilitating illegal gambling. But the sweep was much broader. The officers rounded up the entire crowd, some 400 people, zip-tying most adults and many teenagers and forcing just about everyone onto the track, where, according to the suit, they sorted people by perceived immigration status, typically based on skin color. They arrested 105 people for immigration violations.

Community organization of citizens is needed. Some thoughts:

1. Before the elections, they’re going to try and purge eligible voters off the rolls, especially ones they consider likely democratic voters. (Part of what DOGE accomplished was acquiring and collating detailed government records on everyone and ways to query that data for their purposes, like this one). So people who get purged may need help a) finding out in time that they were purged and b) getting re-registered, which could mean help with trips to offices and funds for fees so if needed they can get their birth certificate/marriage license or other required documents.

2. Everyone should vote early if they can. We don’t even know if the Post office can be trusted with mail ballots either, so if you’re in a vote-by-mail state, if possible, take your ballot to the election office ahead of time and hand it in personally. Either way, we need to organize rides to/from the election office for anyone who needs them so as many people as possible can vote early and minimize the number of people having to go to the polls on election day. That way if they do seize ballots from some stations, fewer votes would be lost.

3. Scouts in the areas near the polling places to call in any locations ICE shows up at and monitoring/reporting what they see back to the central group, who could send people there to record them.

4. Then we need ideas how to make sure people can still safely get in to vote if ICE is there, without disrupting anything, if that’s possible. Maybe some civil rights lawyers or ACLU would have advice. In any case, documenting what they do is important. There are laws on how close people are allowed to a polling station but we could have multiple people filming from different angles and of any doors in/out. It would be good if the elections office could have cameras installed inside the locations, at least ones in “swing” districts where feds would be likely to try and interfere.

Accidentally dabbed.

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They’ve got a pretty long to-do list for here before they start looking your way. Keep an eye out for your own home-grown ones though.

Save the Oxford Comma!

Yeah, it’s also easy to pay for several months ahead at a time, and they don’t keep your personal info.

I went with Posteo and have been happy with it. The only meaningful advantage of Tutanova and Proton that I’m aware of is the encryption, but that only works if the person you’re communicating with also uses their service, so I figure what’s the point? I’ve also heard of various problems people have had with with both of them. And, at least at the time I checked, you had to use a browser or electron interface to access them though their own UI. With Posteo I added the account to Thunderbird and I access it through SMTP via TB’s mechanisms (e.g. auto-checking every X minutes and popping up a system notification when there’s a new email) just like with my other email account.

The whole point of these people is to manage things.

Let me fix that for you: In a democracy, the whole point of these people is would be to manage things.

There is obviously a fundamental flaw in this system.

Ya think?