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"purity of essence"
Dilutes what for us?
"purity of essence"
I just noticed that HHS Civil Rights office has deleted its webpage about the Supreme Court's 1999 landmark Olmstead decision, which guaranteed the rights of disabled people to live in their homes rather than being ins utionalized.
write a letter critical of the government, get a warning from federal goons
has happened at least twice in NY during the last week or so
https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/0...-vacation.html
here's a counter form
lock em all up under 18 US Code, section 241 - Conspiracy against rights
and 18 US Code, section 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/...ng-record-saysThe District of Columbia has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a resident who accused police officers of illegally detaining him for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader's theme song from "Star Wars" on his cellphone, according to a do ent released Monday.
masked goons and rioters violated Americans' rights in Chicago
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06...tion-officers/Immigration agents assigned to Chicago frequently wrote in reports that they were “targeting immigration violators” in a “confined, civilian-heavy environment” with a goal to “enhance public safety.” The agents often claimed civilians attacked them or refused orders before agents used force.
But a state commission is offering a competing picture. Based on video evidence and accounts from locals’ harrowing experiences with agents, the Illinois Accountability Commission found that the Trump administration encouraged agents to act recklessly.
“Federal officials did not just tolerate lawlessness,” said commission Vice Chair Patricia Brown Holmes, a former Cook County judge and county and federal prosecutor. “They encouraged it, they shielded it, and they made a grand bargain with the agents to deliver arrests: Occupy the city through fear, and we will protect you, even if you violate the Cons ution.”
ICE is now Trump's thought police
https://www.wired.com/story/ices-int...nline-critics/The incident, which was first reported by local news outlet Syracuse.com, was unsettling in many ways, but one part stuck out to Gonyea: the warning notice said it was sent by ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
“That office is supposed to be for internal investigations,” says Gonyea, “and now they're using their own internal departments on American civilians.”
OPR is supposed to act as an internal watchdog. It’s responsible for inspecting detention facilities, investigating allegations of employee and contractor misconduct, and processing security checks for new applicants. On its site, it says it also protects against “external threats” by managing badge access to buildings and maintaining the agency’s network security. But lately, court do ents indicate, it appears to be pursuing more civilians like Gonyea for what they say online.
Chicago US Atty's office will pay the legal fees of the Broadview Six, but insists it did nothing wrong
AUSA Boutros is very sweaty to make this go away
If is prosecutors did nothing wrong, why pay for the other side's costs?
https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dc/d1/...saresponse.pdf
Pentagon extends Trump's pretextual military occupation of Washington, DC until inauguration day, 2029
https://cbs4local.com/news/nation-wo...ct-of-columbiaThe National Guard will remain activated in Washington, D.C. through Inauguration Day 2029 as part of President Donald Trump's anti-crime mission, unless the president deems otherwise, according to the Pentagon.
"The DoW remains committed supporting the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and our Federal law enforcement partners until law and order are fully restored in our Nation's Capital," a Pentagon official told 7News. "The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Mission has been extended to Jan. 20, 2029, or until terminated by the President."
As of July 8, nearly 5,150 National Guard troops from multiple states are in D.C., according to the joint task force. Nine states and territories are providing support for Freedom 250 and associated summer events from May through the end of August.
another ICE-involved homicide in Maine
ICE shot a legal resident with permission to work and a social security card
the man was not ICE's intended target -- looks like another Kavanaugh stop (racial profiling) pursued with deadly force
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/...b-792f474bf410Here are some of the key updates from our coverage of Monday’s shooting.
- The man killed was Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old father from Colombia, a neighbor identified and immigrant advocates confirmed. Here’s what we know about him so far.
- Guerrero was not the intended target of the arrest warrant, officials say.
- Witnesses described seeing the victim bleeding as he was pulled out of his vehicle, telling agents ‘I tried to stop,’ and bystanders shouting at agents, including believed family members of the victim.
- Protesters attempted to storm Sen. Susan Collins’ office in Biddeford as anti-ICE protests erupted around the city.
When will some of these assholes finally get charged with manslaughter?
a ver, the government finally turned over homicide evidence to Minnesota
Homan on Laura Ingraham, promising to kill more Americans if they criticize him or protest ICE
"It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."
The shooter called his ex-wife to vouch for his character
She said no and went to the press
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/...ement-officer/
official oppression is a Trump 2.0 hallmark, bogus prosecutions of American citizens are just a symptom
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/u...smid=url-shareIn its nationwide immigration crackdown, the Trump administration has charged hundreds of people with assaulting or impeding federal agents. President Trump has branded them “insurrectionists,” “animals” and “thugs,” part of a broader effort by his administration to cast protesters and immigrants as violent criminals.
But a close examination of those cases reveals that in its rush to meet White House demands for deportations, federal law enforcement has engaged in extensive misconduct — ranging from attacking protesters to destroying evidence and misrepresenting facts in court.
The New York Times found that the Trump administration has filed assault charges against more than 550 people who were caught in its immigration dragnet — far more than previously known. Of the more than 400 cases resolved so far, nearly half have unraveled: Juries acquitted defendants, judges threw out charges, or prosecutors withdrew them.
The record is abysmal by the typical standards of federal prosecutions: The Justice Department seldom loses criminal cases, with more than 90 percent of defendants pleading guilty or being convicted at trial.
you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride
“There seems to be a pattern of charges being filed without any merit,” said Jimmy L. Arce, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago who served on a commission that investigated immigration raids in the city last year. He added that some defendants were “having their speech criminalized by the U.S. attorney’s office.”
- In dozens of cases, court records and videos show that federal agents were the first to get physical — including shoving, tackling or pepper-spraying defendants. Many defendants successfully argued that the assaults they were accused of were actually acts of self-defense.
- Judges repeatedly chastised prosecutors and immigration agents for misconduct including distorting facts and withholding evidence. Two judges found that agents purposely destroyed evidence, including ordering a defendant to delete cellphone photos.
- Officers charged more than two dozen people who were filming or following agents, often while honking car horns, blowing whistles or shouting warnings like, “La migra is coming!” There was no allegation of physical contact with agents.
- In more than 100 cases, prosecutors did not claim that any agents were injured. In at least seven other cases, officers’ injuries were caused by their or their colleagues’ actions. For example, a judge last fall dismissed assault charges against an immigrant, ruling that the agent involved had been cut by shards of glass from a car window he himself had smashed.
- Sixty-five times, prosecutors abandoned or downgraded charges before hitting a deadline to present evidence to a grand jury or judge. Former prosecutors said that this pattern of rapid retreat was unusual and signaled that the cases should never have been brought.
The government has lost or abandoned nearly half of the resolved cases in which it accused people of assaulting immigration agents. Normally the Justice Department wins more than 90 percent of its criminal cases.
The Times identified more than 30 instances of judges criticizing prosecutors or federal agents for conduct such as destroying or withholding evidence, violating rules about communications with jurors and making false or exaggerated claims, including some disproved by videos.
Judges have denounced the government’s actions as “flagrant,” in “bad faith” and “shocking to the universal sense of justice.”
FBI turns a blind eye to Trump's secret police
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...-android-shareFederal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security agents implicated in violent encounters, according to people briefed on the decision.
If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents, as the Trump administration draws mounting criticism over killings at the hands of federal officers. In the last two weeks, two fatal shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Texas and Maine have thrust the government’s tactics back into the spotlight.
F.B.I. managers around the country received a written notice informing them of the change on Thursday, according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal communications. The same day, some ICE agents around the country were notified by their F.B.I. counterparts.
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