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ICE using STROBE LIGHTS to disable your phone camera. Via The Jim Acosta Show – YouTube. Strobe Lights & Warrantless Raids: ICE’s New Tactics to Stop Americans From Recording ICE using STROBE LIGHTS to disable your phone camera.
See The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization wants to know what’s up with all that debris from the White House’s now-demolished East Wing. Axios: The new East Wing addition is slated to be two stories, and rise to the same height as the White House, according to plans the architect for President Trump’s ballroom revealed yesterday. …
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U.S. Capitol Siege Resource Page – United States Department of Justice – Page not found. We are sorry, the page you’re looking for can’t be found on the Department of Justice website. ProPublica: Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish? The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of …
1st Experiments with WebMapperGPT. Steven Feldman reports on his experiments with mapping LLMs. The result is available here. [h/t quantum of sollazzo]
Bloomberg Law: “There was perhaps no bigger story last year in the world of Big Law than President Donald Trump’s attacks on several of the nation’s largest law firms through punitive executive orders due to political affiliations and adversarial hires. Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, Susman Godfrey, WilmerHale, and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison …
Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 6 – As we approach January 20, 2026, the one year mark of the second Trump administration, Americans are witnessing the exercise of vast, often illegal and unconstrained presidential powers, unprecedented in our history. The impact of …
Reclaim the Records: “In New York we WON and freely published the New York State death index for 1880-2017. We helped to defeat a detrimental state vital records proposal that the state Department of Health had snuck into the budget, and we even supported new state legislation, our first time working in the statehouse instead …
As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance – WSJ Gift Article [Note – Trump is on the record with the WSJ even as he is suing them and owner Rupert Murdoch for a billion dollars, for libel.] “In an interview, the president says he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets …
Aaron Parnas: “The House Judiciary Committee on December 31, 2025 released the full deposition transcript [255 pages] of former Special Counsel Jack Smith, offering the most detailed public account yet of Smith’s rationale for prosecuting Donald Trump and rebutting Republican claims that the investigations were politically motivated. Smith sought to testify publicly, but his request …
The New Republic: “At her confirmation hearing in January, Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to reassure senators about the job she would do as the nation’s top federal law-enforcement officer. Her “overriding objective,” Bondi said, would be to “return the Department of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously enforcing the …
Wired [no paywall]: “Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops surveil them. The Department of Homeland Security secretary has spent 2025 trying to convince the American public that identifying roving bands of masked federal agents is “doxing”—and that revealing these …
