@#7 ... Just ask any of the Republicans here. They will confirm that's what they voted for. ...

It may be what they voted for, but the support of it seems to be diminishing of late.

Let me state it a different way, by asking a question ...

How many Republicans running for election in November are showing political ads saying that they want ICE to come into their districts and kill American citizens, violently arrest people who do not have criminal records (at times separating parents from children), etc?

... removing trees from a golf course in Washington, D.C., without getting approval from officials ...

My guess is that the unauthorized Trump Demolitions are going to get more frequent because of this afternoon's SCOTUS decision ...

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... These range from Morehouse College to Florida's Fish and Wildlife Commission and include Medicare fraud investigators in Illinois, a drug task force focused on east-central Missouri, and the inspector general of a federal agency.

In return, Alpharetta receives Flock data from more than 1,300 entities, which span from the prosecutor's office of Whitley County, Indiana, to the Metro Police Authority of Genesee County, Michigan.

The Alpharetta Police Department -- which, as reported by WIRED, had an officer resign due to Flock misuse on August 5 -- also exchanges Flock data with several agencies that have been similarly rocked by recent incidents of officers misusing its technology, including Georgia's Bibb County Sheriff's Department, the Savannah Police Department, and the Dallas Police Department.

Alpharetta's data-sharing network has expanded tremendously over the past year. Since June 2025, the number of entities receiving data from Alpharetta police has grown by about 42 percent, and the number of entities sending data to them has grown by about 125 percent.

And, according to documents obtained via public records requests from several other cities around the country, Alpharetta is far from alone in having an expansive and complicated data-sharing system, providing a potent example of how pervasive Flock's surveillance network has become.

One of Flock's central selling points is its network of customers -- mostly, though not entirely, law enforcement agencies. ...

@#2

Yup, the Mecca Defence Pact definitely complicates things in that area.

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... Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Trkiye signed the Mecca Defence Pact on August 7. Under the agreement, an armed attack against any one of the three countries will be considered an attack against all three.

Bangladesh has reportedly become the latest country to express interest in joining the pact. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had earlier said that Egypt and other countries in the region could also be brought under the mutual defence agreement.

Dar is in Istanbul to attend the first meeting of the Strategic Political and Defence Committee formed under the pact. The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Trkiye are also attending the meeting, along with the defence ministers and military chiefs of the three countries.

According to a statement from Trkiye's Foreign Ministry, the meeting will discuss the international security situation, greater coordination among the three countries' armed forces and stronger cooperation in the defence industry. The participants may also finalise the structure of a secretariat to coordinate activities under the agreement. ...

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... As Trump gets older, sicker, stupider, crazier, he seems more indifferent to human suffering, whether he's bombing civilians or waving off the miserable conditions on a U.S. aircraft carrier. "Indifferent" might be the wrong word. At times, he seems to get off on human suffering.

When U.S. bombs hit an elementary school in Iran, killing at least 175 people, most of them children, Trump shed no tears. More than three months later, he finally said something about it: "Mistakes are made. War is nasty."

The Danbury arrests arrive at a significant political moment. Trump's overall approval ratings have been sinking underwater for a long time, and Americans view him with disfavor on virtually every major policy question. ...

Trump has misjudged Americans. "Immigration policy" was attractive to more people when it took the form of locking down the border and focusing on dangerous people with Tren de Aragua tattoos or whatever.

But American people don't like extreme punishment of people who don't seem to be doing anything especially bad.

They don't like cruelty that splashes onto children.

Thus, the Danbury raids are hitting at the exact moment when the immigration issue -- the last little green finch of popularity chirping away in its cage while Trump was increasingly surrounded by the dead ravens of inflation and war -- has slipped underwater in polling for the first time. ...

@#3

related?

@#30

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