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A suspected fed. agent is seen exiting a Dodge Charger @ an intersection & pointing his gun @ members of the public. Acc. to #Pasadena officials, the vehicle's license plate is a "cold plate," or untraceable, which is typically used by law enforcement in undercover criminal operations. "One question is this a law enforcement agent or someone pretending to be a law enforcement agent, & there is no good answer" (Mayor Gordo).
Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal ...
Like I've been saying, and now elected officials are saying it, we can't tell that they're police officers? How do we know they're not faking it? And if we don't know if they are or not, are we not obligated to assume they aren't cops and stop it?
This really is the end of trust in law and order for what might be a sufficiently critical mass to start the process of abolition
Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Ted Cruz surprised many with his strong critique of the U.S.-Israeli alliance. But Carlson's "woke right" view has a long history in conservative politics and should not be mistaken for Palestine solidarity.
Tucker Carlsonโs recent interview with Ted Cruz surprised many with his strong critique of the U.S.-Israeli alliance. But Carlsonโs โwoke rightโ view has a long history in conservative politics and should not be mistaken for Palestine solidarity.
European countries have based their social stability on the low cost of energy and know it will all fall apart if oil/gas spikes and blows it all to pieces. Is so, Syria might look like a kids party compared to civil disorder in EU, with population density as it is.
Supertramp have such a unique sound and have created tons of amazing hits and we LOVE The Logical Song written and sung by the amazing Rodger Hodgson. We lea...
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NATO boss Rutte (fmr Dutch PM) sends app to Trump, who promptly publishes it.
"Wow, your bombing of Iran was great; it makes the world a safer place!"
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#Smooth-Operator by @SadeSME performed by The #Graystones (4 min) March 14, 2025 #TheGraystones #music #video We love Sade... and Smooth Operator is such an iconic song. Her voice is so effortless and silky and the groove is great. We worked really hard on this song to get it right. We hope you enjoy it!
(We wanted to say that the audio in our live performances is overwhelmingly live and, on many videos, is 100% live. To some select songs, we may add layers of sound, such as harmonies or string parts. But the original live sound as the foundation for our videos, and then we might decide to add/replace some parts, if we feel it would help to bring the song even closer to the original that weโre honoring - but always in service of the art! With love, The Graystones)
We love Sade... and Smooth Operator is such an iconic song. Her voice is so effortless and silky and the groove is great. We worked really hard on this song ...
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) filed an article of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday, accusing the president of failing to notify or seek authorization from Congress before the U.S. launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend.
The resolution alleges โabuse of presidential powers by disregarding the separation of powersโdevolving American democracy into authoritarianism by unconstitutionally usurping Congressโs power to declare war.โ
โPresident Trumpโs unilateral, unprovoked use of force without congressional authorization or notice constitutes an abuse of power when there was no imminent threat to the United States, which facilitates the devolution of American democracy into authoritarianism,โ Greenโs resolution reads.
Congress has the sole power to โdeclare warโ under the Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution. Presidents of both parties have struck adversaries without approval from the legislature.
Pretty easy to argue this comes under 'official duties' too. Surely there's a thousand other reasons he could be impeached that would stick.
I agree they'll never get the votes to pass anything, but they should keep doing it anyway. Flood the zone back at these arseholes and put them on the back foot.
Senate rules process strips SNAP cuts, other GOP priorities from โbig, beautiful billโ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworldโฆ U.S. Senate Democrats have succeeded in eliminating more than a dozen policy changes from Republicansโ โbig, beautiful billโ after successfully arguing that the elements didnโt comply with the strict rules that go along with writing a budget reconciliation bill. #Tucson #Arizona
U.S. Senate Democrats have succeeded in eliminating more than a dozen policy changes from Republicansโ โbig, beautiful billโ after successfully arguing that the elements didnโt comply with the strict rules that go along with writing a budget reconcilโฆ
In Gaza, death is no longer an event... It's a daily routine. We passed through the cemetery's door 600 times, and returned bearing new names for mourning.
What is your reasoning for not just using capital letters where grammar requires it? I agree with OP, it makes it very annoying to read the way it is now.
I've got a buddy who texts like this. It's madness, but I love him and texts are short. I didn't realize the ability to write like this long form. It's just a style, but it makes it hard as hey for me to actually get my brain to not just error out and quit is all. This isn't a blog for anyone though, it's for you so you do you!
Yes, actually! I love Knifepoint Horror, but I can't ever read any of the books because the tell-tale signs of readability weren't there and it breaks my brain. I can read all caps fine though.
not familiar, though i'm not much of a horror guy myself
i'm gonna assume based on context it's the kind of work my senior-year english teacher would have spent two classes having us discuss the meaning behind the punctuation (or lack thereof) and capitalization, with my attention divided between [i have redacted this for several reasons...]
I went back and looked and I think old boy just uses big chunka paragraphs. School sucks, you do you. I just figured I'd tell you I just can't read it. Uppercase is good stuff though, you had good things to say and I thought it was cute and you're very intelligent for a youngun'. You'll do well, just keep fostering your voice, skills and more of that purposeful consumerism. I'd like to read more about your phone, so I hope you share it some time.
Also horror sucks, I just love it. Don't worry about it.
Oh yeah, of course! I hope to see it, but I update by the hour so who the hell knows if I will. Either way best of luck. I often remember fucking up is just part of the learning process. So if you break something, just learn from it. When you make your first public phone, I'll line up.
Yeah, sorry, that came a bit harsh. I'm just a bit salty, because i dislike monospace and white-on-black for reading. But i'm working on something, that lets the user choose the reading settings. In the meantime, i just create a usercss (Stylus) for pages i see often.
But that's another reason i'm salty; please don't do * {โฆ} CSS hacks. Just set the rule on body, because children inherit, if not set otherwise. And * is the worst for performance, use the rightmost selector instead.
no problem! i'm frequently described as "abrasive" so i guess what goes around comes around...
i do appreciate the CSS tip(s) -- that stylesheet is a few years old with many alterations over time, so there are bunch of weird hacks that i'm not even sure why they're there. off the top of my head, for some reason the header is a div-within-a-div: #header and #header_internal. no idea why. ๐
It seems like you updated your webpage in the wake of the meme incident. But it has made it unbearable to read. Whilst I was able to read the article in reader mode, the ~ page is virtually an eye sore to browse right now.
Yes. But also, I donโt care about the resolution. What Trump did was flatly unconstitutional already. More legislation making it โmore illegalโ is bad obfuscation. The real resolution is called impeachment.
@Simplicator The resolution is a piece of it that Hakeem SHOULD back. It's Constitutional. But AIPAC bought him so he could back #GenocideJoe and his extra-Congressional efforts to fund and arm Israel's genocide and war crimes. That's why we have Trump. Because of second rate corrupt assholes like Jeffries and neoliberal warmongering assholes like Biden.
Play chamber music? Like unusual composers or off beat (as it were)? THIS is your place. OMG. So happy--found Fanny's quartet. Beautifully printed, fast to arrive and very reasonable cost. AND you can hear a clip...I wonder if they can get Oscar Levant's quartet? Must ask.
1. LIE BIG Big lies work better than small because the masses won't believe that anyone would lie "about that."
2. FOCUS Don't make it complicated, ignore history, keep it simple for simple minds.
3. REPEAT People cannot tell the difference between facts and familiarity. If they hear the same words repeated enough, they become true in their minds.
4. BLAME Never credit the other side, always blame, debase, defame, and dehumanize.
5. PROVOKE Outrage, fear, and resentment are more powerful than reason, logic, or facts.
6. CRISIS Issues must be life or death, good vs evil, love vs hate, us vs them. Urgency defeats objection.
7. EMOTION A person might question facts, but they will never question their own feelings. Go emotional.
8. PANDER Ignore reasonable arguments, demonize all who disagree as having bad intentions.
9. NO LIMITS Morality is for losers. The victor's morality will not be questioned. No limits.
EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER BEEN TOLD IS A LIE!
Do not consent! Do not comply! AND MOST OF ALL,...HAVE NO FEAR! THEIR STRENGTH IS AN ILLUSION!
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Bloomberg reports that NATO is hit by 4 crises at once: the alliance is experiencing the most dangerous crisis in 75 years and could fall apart.
NATO is currently facing four crises at once: a security crisis due to the conflict in Ukraine, a preparedness crisis due to the decline of European armies, a strategic priority crisis due to the US pivot to Asia, and a crisis of confidence, exacerbated by Trump's actions.
See also his video on it being a genocide legally. This is an out of control monster the government created. On his way out, the last president gave more arms to Israel. Israel is exactly who the us empire are&have always been. ๐ Israel has no motivation to ceasefire at all
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Hamas was discreetly supported by Israel, as a counter-balance to the secular Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).
Mossad HQ:
"So Shlomo...we got a mission for you!" "Cool, Benji!! What is it?" "Well, we're gonna dress you up as a militant and send you over there. Then we'll take pictures of you, whine to the press, and then shoot you with the others!" "Wait, Benji...why are you gonna shoot at me??!" "Well, you're a bad guy, obviously!" "But you're sending me yourself, Benji??!!" "Sorry, Shlomo...we do need to defend ourselves!!"
Si on prenait le rรฉchauffement climatique au sรฉrieux, prendre lโavion pour voyager en Europe serait hors de prix, ou interdit. Vous avez dรฉjร entendu un politique ou un dirigeant avoir le courage de le dire clairement ?
Lire chez Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic le crossover de l'enfer : cupiditรฉ capitaliste X surveillance algorithmique X ia = un monde oรน la surveillance croisรฉe avec l'ia permet de moduler les prix pour te faire payer le maximum, en estimant ton degrรฉ de besoin / dรฉsespoir pour le produit ou service : ยซ De chacun selon sa capacitรฉ ร payer ; ร chacun selon son dรฉsespoir รฉconomique ยป. โคต๏ธ pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/priโฆ
Por cierto ahora es el momento de pedir la derogacion de La Ley Mordaza. Por si algรบn socio de Perro Buhonero Sรกnchez nos lee. Pedid joer que ahora estรก en modo "lo que sea" #MarlaskaDimision
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend a gathering marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
QUE RETENIR DES 12 JOURS DE CONFRONTATION ENTRE LโIRAN ET ISRAรL ? Infos Brutes- 24/06/25
La confrontation inรฉdite entre lโIran et Israรซl aura durรฉ prรจs de deux semaines, marquant une rupture majeure dans la dynamique rรฉgionale. Le cessez-le-feu, initiรฉ par les รtats-Unis, tรฉmoigne de la volontรฉ israรฉlienne dโรฉviter une dรฉsavantageuse guerre d'usure. Cette initiative reflรจte en rรฉalitรฉ un signal d'essoufflement dโIsraรซl. Mais que nous enseignent rรฉellement ces douze jours dโรฉchanges de frappes ?
Sur le plan politique interne iranien
Lโattaque israรฉlienne, justifiรฉe par le prรฉtexte nuclรฉaire, nโa pas affaibli la Rรฉpublique islamique. Au contraire, elle a consolidรฉ la cohรฉsion nationale. Face ร lโagression, le peuple iranien a resserrรฉ les rangs autour du rรฉgime, dรฉmontrant que la capacitรฉ de rรฉsistance dโune Nation repose avant tout sur lโunitรฉ de son peuple.
Sur le plan technologique โ Iran
LโIran a pu tester grandeur nature ses missiles balistiques ร longue portรฉe. Au-delร de la dรฉmonstration de puissance, cโest une opportunitรฉ dโajustement technique. Lโexpรฉrience de terrain servira ร perfectionner ces armes, ร les rendre plus prรฉcises et potentiellement plus dissuasives ร lโavenir.
Sur le plan technologique โ Israรซl
La supรฉrioritรฉ technologique israรฉlienne, longtemps considรฉrรฉe comme un acquis, a รฉtรฉ sรฉrieusement mise ร rude รฉpreuve. Malgrรฉ la prรฉsence du Dรดme de Fer, des systรจmes avancรฉs de dรฉfense antimissile et la puissance de son aviation, les missiles iraniens ont percรฉ les ยซ rideaux de protection ยป et atteint des cibles stratรฉgiques, รฉbranlant la confiance dans ces boucliers.
Des dรฉcennies dโassassinats ciblรฉs de scientifiques iraniens nโauront pas empรชchรฉ lโIran de maรฎtriser la technologie nuclรฉaire. Les bombardements israรฉliens, en partie aveugles, nโont pas dรฉtruit les capacitรฉs et le savoir-faire nuclรฉaires de lโIran. La centrale nuclรฉaire de Bushehr n'a pas รฉtรฉ touchรฉe et l'incertitude demeure sur l'efficacitรฉ des frappes sur les infrastructures souterraines. Pire encore, le stock d'uranium hautement enrichi dissimulรฉ ne finira pas de hanter Tel-Aviv.
Lโimage dโinvincibilitรฉ dโIsraรซl en sort affaiblie. Pour la premiรจre fois, un รtat souverain a revendiquรฉ et exรฉcutรฉ des frappes en profondeur sur le territoire israรฉlien avec un lourd bilan humain et des dรฉgรขts considรฉrables. Cette brรจche stratรฉgique aura un impact durable sur la perception de la superpuissance militaire d'Israรซl.
Sur le plan tactique โ Iran
LโIran sโattellera dรฉsormais ร renforcer considรฉrablement ses systรจmes de dรฉfense aรฉrienne. Lโinvestissement dans des technologies hypersoniques et furtives deviendra une prioritรฉ, tout comme la dissimulation accrue des infrastructures militaires stratรฉgiques pour renforcer sa dissuasion et sa capacitรฉ de projection.
Sur le plan de la retenue iranienne
Malgrรฉ sa capacitรฉ ร infliger des dรฉgรขts considรฉrables, lโIran a fait preuve de retenue stratรฉgique. Il aurait pu viser la centrale nuclรฉaire de Dimona ou les installations de dessalement, provoquant une catastrophe humanitaire et รฉcologique. Ce choix dรฉlibรฉrรฉ de ne pas franchir certaines lignes rouges montre une volontรฉ de ne pas provoquer une guerre totale.
Bien que la Russie et la Chine aient ouvertement condamnรฉ les frappes israรฉliennes, leur soutien concret se veut plus discret. La prรฉsence de scientifiques russes sur certains sites iraniens suggรจre une collaboration รฉtroite dans le nuclรฉaire et le militaire. Les missiles iraniens devenus subitement performants prouvent l'efficacitรฉ de la coopรฉration militaire et technologique avec la Russie, la Chine, la Corรฉe du Nord et le Pakistan.
La situation ramรจne paradoxalement le dossier nuclรฉaire iranien ร son point de dรฉpart: la voie diplomatique. LโIran se retrouve en position de force pour relancer les nรฉgociations avec ses conditions ou, au contraire, accรฉlรฉrer discrรจtement sa transition vers le nuclรฉaire militaire, s'il est considรฉrรฉ par Tรฉhรฉran comme seule garantie de sรฉcuritรฉ face ร des menaces existentielles.
Sur le plan militaire israรฉlien
Habituรฉ ร affronter des groupes non รฉtatiques comme le Hezbollah ou le Hamas, Israรซl dรฉcouvre les limites de sa stratรฉgie face ร un รtat organisรฉ, disposant de moyens balistiques consรฉquents. Lโoption militaire perd de son attractivitรฉ stratรฉgique, et la confiance dans les systรจmes dโalerte prรฉcoce et de dรฉfense est sรฉrieusement entamรฉe.
Sur le plan des pertes humaines et matรฉrielles
Malgrรฉ une communication strictement contrรดlรฉe par Tel-Aviv, de nombreux observateurs remettent en question le bilan humain en raison de lโampleur des dรฉgรขts. L'รฉtendue des destructions ร Haรฏfa, Tel-Aviv ou Beersheba , associรฉe aux indemnisations civiles et au coรปt des interceptions, pรจsera lourdement sur l'รฉconomie israรฉlienne, mรชme avec le soutien amรฉricain.
Sur le plan de la politique intรฉrieure israรฉlienne
#Netanyahou a momentanรฉment renforcรฉ sa position en dรฉtournant lโattention de ses ennuis judiciaires et ร se maintenir au pouvoir. Mais lโopinion publique, dโabord favorable ร lโattaque, pourrait basculer face aux limites rรฉvรฉlรฉes par la riposte iranienne. La paix avec les voisins s'imposera dรฉsormais comme une option crรฉdible.
Sur le rapport de force rรฉgional
Cette confrontation aura des effets durables sur lโรฉquilibre rรฉgional. Les รtats arabes observeront avec attention la capacitรฉ dโun รtat comme lโIran ร tenir tรชte militairement ร Israรซl. Cela pourrait redessiner les alliances, refroidir certaines normalisations diplomatiques, et rรฉactiver des dynamiques de dissuasion nuclรฉaire au #Moyen-Orient.
Sur le plan du droit international
Lโagression israรฉlienne contre lโ #Iran, sans justification reconnue par le droit international, viole la Charte des Nations unies. Pourtant, les รtats occidentaux nโont ni condamnรฉ cette action ni rappelรฉ les principes de souverainetรฉ. En invoquant une ยซ guerre prรฉventive ยป โ non reconnue juridiquement โ pour justifier lโattaque, ils valident un double standard. Or selon leur propre dรฉfinition, les รtats qui ne respectent pas le droit international sont qualifiรฉs d'ยซรtats voyousยป.
et personne ne parle JAMAIS des bombes nuclรฉaires israรฉlienne estimรฉes entre 60 et 300 ogives selon wikipรฉdia ni que c'est la France qui a aidรฉ Israรซl ร dรฉmarrer ses recherches sur le nuclรฉaire dans les annรฉes 50-60
Instead of pursuing sane policies such as reindustrializing Canada by creating crown corps, and improving relations with China as a counter balance against the US, Carney predictably chose to appease Trump instead.
Yet, after all the grovelling he did, Trump is still going to fuck him over. Neoliberals are the dumbest people to walk this earth.
the bignig 3000 angle grinder works really well but ugh it flings sparks like 15 feet, and not little ones but big hot ones that catch your apron on fire
i prefer to only use that thing when absolutely necessary and mostly stick to the ryobi but my motor brushes still didn't arrive. had to cancel that order and re-order some others cause the shipment stalled
a bit misleading does that mean they had sex convictions that were already adjudicated or new one unresolved? what were the details on the so called pedophilia? were they consensual?
The attack on Iran was a reckless, criminal act of aggression by both the U.S. and Israel and it will have profound ramifications that will echo for decades to come.
While he was in college, my son came home for summers and holidays and the occasional weekend. Still it was melancholic, watching him drive off to return to school. Now this morning I helped him load his truck and watched him drive off. He was leaving to go the 313 miles to his new home. What an awful thought.
From a simple material, Kendra Haste brings us face-to-face with striking sculptures of wild animals. โI try to capture the living, breathing model in a static 3D form and convey its emotional essence without slipping into sentimentality or anthropomorphism," she says.
On Friday, I was in Brussels, having fun in the European Commission for one of the highlights of the social calendar: Microsoft's DMA Compliance Workshop. Read about British Browser Boiz in Brussels! Fun at Microsoftโs DMA compliance meeting, and envy my glamorous life. brucelawson.co.uk/2025/britishโฆ
@brucelawson, well, Wavebox is also nice, but I don't think that it is a big competidor for Vivaldi for the normal User, it's a paid Browser and the free versiรณn is too limited (1 extension admited, no sync....WTF). It can be a competidor in companies where is teamwork needed, there it has some advantages over Vivaldi, but that is.
I know that after a hard day mowing the lawn and showing off my 6-pack to the married woman next door, there is nothing better than a tall glass of cool-aid flavored with cat spray
Margarita Island, located in the Caribbean Sea about 30 kilometers north of the Araya Peninsula, remains one of Venezuelaโs most iconic tourist destinations.
@๐ฒ-alist It's unfortunate that it's rhetorical, about 5% of congress has dual Israeli-US Citizenship. You KNOW their loyalties aren't going to be to the United States, and same for those with US only citizenship receiving AIPAC money.
Highlights the desire to replace tokenization with a general method that better leverages compute and data. We'll see tokenization's fragility and review the Byte Latent Transformer arch.
a lot of people here in the united states find it attractive to have a foreign accent (although depending on what it is they could hate it too). what about your country?
does it depend? what accents don't they like if it depends?
Neither the Israelis nor the Iranians are eventually going to follow Trumpโs orders, and Trump is losing his shit at the prospect of being unmasked as a fool.
I know these rarely have any sway with our governments and there is more important things in the world atm, but it's getting close to the end now and it's worth a reminder.
Um, no. Ross Scott, the organizer of this whole thing, said that it will most likely fail. Meaning that there's still a chance of success, not that he's completely given up. The deadline for the European Citizens Initiative is 31st July, more than a month from now.
Yes, I may have jumped the gun, I apologize. What this initiative is trying to do is important to me and between Pirate Software lying his face off and one of the most prolific gaming publications not getting their facts straight... The amount of misinformation being spread around this topic just hurts my soul.
I had some people who deal with eu council and work for them express their opinions on this petition and this petitions wording and goals are so shitty and ambiguous, even if it got the signatures it was never going to pass.
The main points my friends brought out is "How are the games not going to be killed? "Just like make them available" is not an answer. Are they companies now forced to run the games always for eternity on their servers or do expensive reworks that may not even be possible to make them singleplayer or are hosting game servers banned now???"
It is usable from Linux Mint live boot, even with only 4GB memory. Not sure how it will work with Windows 11 (though I may upgrade to 16GB if Windows ends up staying on it).
The A6-4400M CPU isn't that powerful. It could be upgraded to an A8 or A10, but I don't think I have one of those lying around.
This laptop is perfectly fine for retro or minimal type tasks, but would struggle a bit what is expected out of laptops today (as least without upgrades).
I have customers who want laptops under $200 - this certainly would fit that requirement.
Yeah, Windows 11 isn't going to perform very well on this dual core AMD A6-4400M. CPU is at 100% for about half an hour and Windows Updates are still not done.
It'd work okay, but not great. Upgrading the CPU in this laptop to a quad-core A8 or A10 would help a bit.
On June 18 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on US v. Skrmetti, deciding whether a Tennessee law prohibiting certain medical interventions on youngsters violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. The Hon. Elspeth Cypher (ret.) a.k.a. Judge TERF joins the Dorx to dissect the case, the decision, the concurrences, and the dissents. Which concurrence is best, Thomasโs or Barrettโs? Does Justice Sotomayor suffer from pathological empathy? If Skrmetti were a pasta, what type of sauce would be best on it? Plus Nina mis-sexes Chase Strangio (whoops!), Coriโs gender is Jewish, and Judge TERF solves the crisis in the Middle East.
A 21-year-old tourist has described the horrendous treatment he allegedly received after being denied entry to the USA due to a meme depicting JD Vance as bald being found on his phone
โFuckLAPD.comโ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A new site, FuckLAPD.com, is using public records and facial recognition technology to allow anyone to identify police officers in Los Angeles they have a picture of. The tool, made by artist Kyle McDonald, is designed to help people identify cops who may otherwise try to conceal their identity, such as covering their badge or serial number.
โWe deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up,โ McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. โfucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests against the horrific ICE raids. And more broadlyโthe failure of the LAPD to accomplish anything useful with over $2B in funding each year.โ
โCops covering up their badges? ID them with their faces instead,โ the site, which McDonald said went live this Saturday. The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officerโs face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests. The site says image processing happens on the device, and no photos or data are transmitted or saved on the site. โBlurry, low-resolution photos will not match,โ the site says.
โfucklapd.com uses data provided by the City of Los Angeles directly to the public,โ McDonald told me in an email. โThis data has been provided in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits. That means all of this information belongs to the public and is a matter of public record. fucklapd.com is not scraping any data.โ
In addition to potentially identifying officers by name and serial number, FuckLAPD.com also pulls up a police officerโs salary.
โSurprisingly it [the domain name] only costs $10 a year to exercise my first amendment right to say fucklapd.com,โ McDonald said. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2โฆ I tested the tools by grabbing an image of a white and bald police officer from an LAPD press conference addressing its use of force during the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. I uploaded the image to the site, and within a few seconds the site presented me with nine headshots of officers who could be possible matches, all of them bald white men. The first correctly identified the cop in the image I uploaded.
Clicking โview profileโ under the result sent me to the Watch the Watchers site by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community group based in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. โAll of the information on this website comes from records that were deliberately made public by the City of Los Angeles in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits,โ the Watch the Watchers site says. โWe plan to keep refreshing this data from new public records requests as well as to add other data.โ Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is not associated with FuckLAPD.com and did not endorse the site.
McDonald told me that since the site launched, it had around 50,000 visitors, but โBecause the analysis happens on-device I have no way of knowing what people are using it for, except for some people who have posted screenshots to Twitter or Instagram,โ he said.
In 2018 McDonald made another tool called ICEspy which used hundreds of photos of ICE employees from LinkedIn and does much the same thing as FuckLAPD.com. โThis app is designed to highlight and embarrass the organization committing atrocities against refugees and immigrants to the United States,โ ICEspyโs website says. That tool originally used a Microsoft API, before Microsoft restricted access to it. McDonald said on X that he recently relaunched the tool to run locally on devices. 404 Media tested ICEspy using images of ICE employees on LinkedIn to verify if the tool worked and each result was incorrect; McDonald indicated on X he was looking for others to re-scrape LinkedIn and update the database.
Over the last few months ICE officers have consistently worn masks, neck gaiters, sunglasses, and baseball caps to shield their identity while often refusing to provide their name or even confirm the agency they belong to. This includes while violently assaulting people, detaining U.S. citizens, and pointing weapons at bystanders, leaving little room for recourse or accountability against the individual agents or the agency.
ICEโs constant use of masks has created a climate where people cannot be sure that the heavily armed group of men coming towards them are really federal agents or not. In Philadelphia, a man pretended to be an ICE agent in order to rob an auto repair shop and zip tie an employee. In Brooklyn, a man posed as an immigration officer before attempting to rape a woman.
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Like I've been saying, and now elected officials are saying it, we can't tell that they're police officers? How do we know they're not faking it? And if we don't know if they are or not, are we not obligated to assume they aren't cops and stop it?
This really is the end of trust in law and order for what might be a sufficiently critical mass to start the process of abolition