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... One woman's voice shook as she asked, "What kind of police go around without license plates?"

And then this from another: "Should we just run from them?"

During a tense public meeting days later, Mayor Valerie Amezcua and the City Council asked their police chief whether there was anything they could do to rein in the federal agents " even if only to ban the use of masks. The answer was a resounding no. Plus, filing complaints with the Department of Homeland Security was likely to go nowhere because the office that once handled them had been dismantled. There was little chance of holding individual agents accountable for alleged abuses because, among other hurdles, there was no way to reliably learn their identities. ...

Current and former national security officials share the mayor's concerns. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force. The transformation, the officials say, unfolded rapidly and in plain sight. Trump's DHS appointees swiftly dismantled civil rights guardrails, encouraged agents to wear masks, threatened groups and state governments that stood in their way, and then made so many arrests that the influx overwhelmed lawyers trying to defend immigrants taken out of state or out of the country.

And although they are reluctant to predict the future, the current and former officials worry that this force assembled from federal agents across the country could eventually be turned against any groups the administration labels a threat. ...

... Deiseroth then questioned why the second officer, who was Black, was there, and the officer informed him that it was to prevent him from getting hit by oncoming traffic.

Deiseroth responded by repeatedly asking the officer, "Are you Haitian?" ...

I remain to be convinced that might have been the best of comments by Mr Deiseroth.

This looks similar to Mr Bezos apparently ordering Washington Post OpEd team that their editorials cannot criticize Pres Trump.

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... In a letter published Oct. 14, IDS editors Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said they were told indirectly by Indiana University Media School administrators Oct. 7 that an upcoming print edition could only include information about homecoming " and "no other news at all."

After student media director Jim Rodenbush and the student editors separately protested the order as unlawful censorship, Rodenbush was terminated by the university.

"The Media School's order limiting the Indiana Daily Student's print edition to homecoming coverage isn't a business decision' " it's censorship," said Jonathan Gaston-Falk, staff attorney at the Student Press Law Center. "This disregards strong First Amendment protections and a long-standing tradition of student editorial independence at Indiana University. If the abrupt ousting of the student media director was related to his refusal to participate in such censorship, the message is clear: IU no longer welcomes a free student press. The Media School must reverse course immediately, before more damage is done to its reputation and to its students' rights."

Editors had planned for homecoming content to be a special insert alongside other news in the Oct. 16 newspaper. ...

@#4 ... Putin has the Epstine tapes, so Dotard has to toe the line ...

Pres Putin certainly seems to have something over Pres Trump. I've not a clue what that "something" might be.

Perhaps it is something as simple as Pres Trump naivety towards Pres Putin?

Whatever it is, Pres Putin seems to be using it well to exploit Pres Trump for Pres Putin's desires.

@#9 ... I remember having trouble teaching upper management the need for strong IT security. ...

I ran into that same wall back in the day.

Why? Because increased IT security had an immediate cost, with no tangible return on investment.

imo ...

If Pres Trump wants the war to end, the solution is simple --- make Pres Putin want to stop the war.

How might Pres Trump do that?

Well for starters, Pres Trump should stop giving Pres Putin concessions that he wants and Pres Trump should stop making it look like US support for Ukraine's defense is wavering.

Pres Putin is only going to stop the invasion of a sovereign Ukraine when it is to his benefit to stop, not before.