To avoid armed targets, they have been calling people into court hearings, then they drop charges which allows people to leave. On the way out of the courthouse feds will abduct them.

It’s pretty brilliant. If people become too scared to show up to court, then they get a real judicial warrant which allows them forcibly go into homes.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/the-fastest-man-made-objects-in-the-universe/

Turns out the famous manhole cover did not reach six times Earth’s escape velocity.

Doesn’t even cost that much to flip a few.

It is a decade or more to build.

And yet somehow her net worth will skyrocket…

This will probably be used to target protestors and organizers of political movements.

This near term political disaster sure is a nice break from ecocide anxiety.

Why would they have to eat it? Just set the new price and people buy it.

Why does your Lemmy app have banner ads?

It’s that the one where they tazer the minority?

The US Marshals generally enforce court orders, but they are part of the executive branch, managed by the Trump administration. I don’t expect they will do anything that Trump doesn’t want.

It’s normal for the US president to salute our troops. It was not normal when he saluted North Korea’s troops.

The feds erected a large metal wall in the street around the Portland federal building, then the local police helped harass and beat journalists and bystanders alike.

Hopefully the debt train won’t get cut off.

It’s disconcerting which questions economists can answer with confidence, and for which they just throw up their hands.

A lost generation, common starvation, genocide? Economic and ecological collapse? IDK.

It’s hard not to be biased by the stability of the past. And for me, news about DC politics seems distant.

How would states stop the flow of taxpayer money out?

Absolutely a compliment. It took me many months of research to figure out what PC parts to buy in the late '90s. Now you can easily piece something together in a day.

Xennials are fascinating to watch navigate through tech hurdles. They have a custom built toolbox built purely through trial and error.

He already is. Who is going to stop him?