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  • Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog

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  • Police reports that support criminal complaints are usually sworn under perjury, or otherwise the officer or complainant is coming into court and testifying directly to what happened.

    Either way, the person who swears is responsible for the content of what they testify to.

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  • War of the Worlds was originally a novel in 1898. A 1938 adaptation was made for radio as a single 60 minute episode of The Mercury Theater on the Air.

    The radio episode was formatted as a series of increasingly frequent "news bulletins" that interrupted light jazz orchestra music. This caused some listeners to believe that New Jersey was actively being invaded by Martians.

  • Something's not math-ing

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  • Economy of scale is a real thing.

  • US Is Said to Board Third Tanker Off Venezuela as Tensions Mount

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  • Speaking about oil reserves, the US can be a petro state and net exporter as long as the price is above 60 USD/bbl. Thanks to hydraulic fracturing. Other nations can still produce oil cheaper than that, but the US has a vested interest now in stabilizing the price right around where fracking breaks even, because they're also such a big consumer of petroleum.

  • US Is Said to Board Third Tanker Off Venezuela as Tensions Mount

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  • There's a long and storied history of that in the Caribbean Sea. Yarrrrrrh.

  • Celine Dion

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  • I can somehow hear this lyric.

  • MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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  • Magnetohydrodynamics is a somewhat specialized subfield where there are immediate direct applications to nuclear fusion reactors.

    It's basically fluid mechanics, like you'd see in the aerospace department, but the fluid both generates and is moved by the local magnetic field. Because it's an ionized plasma.

  • Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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  • Fentanyl the WMD is all over every hospital and nursing home in America. Time to send in the UN inspectors and set up the no fly zones.

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    Is audiophile bullshit cheating?

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  • But, but, the other terminal on those batteries is floating?

  • Judge orders immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention - ABC News

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    1. The court found that there is no lawful basis to deport Abrego in the first place, because the government was unable to produce a copy of the 2019 deportation order in court.
    2. The court found that government lawyers deliberately "misled the tribunal" regarding their efforts to deport Abrego to Africa. The court "will take this into account" while considering pending motions for sanctions.
    3. In alternative to #1, the court found that the government was not really detaining Abrego to deport him, because they could have sent him to Costa Rica at any time in the past few months. But they did not.
    4. Therefore, there is no lawful reason to subject Abrego to immigration detention, and the writ of habeas corpus is granted.
    5. Abrego is still on bail in the TN criminal case.

  • Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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  • The absolute safest bet is to perform a wipe.

    This may be effective at preventing the government from accessing the data. But as we see, the law, including the 5th amendment, doesn't protect from legal exposure to obstruction-type charges. Or lying to the cops type charges if you say you'll unlock the phone, but then you actually wipe the phone.

  • Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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  • If he's a US citizen, he's better off refusing to enter any PIN. That's protected by the 5th amendment.

    If not a citizen and this was in a port of entry context, then he would still have the 5th amendment protection. But customs can simply choose to refuse entry on discretion. So that's a potentially serious consequence.

  • Judge temporarily blocks Justice Department’s use of evidence in dismissed Comey case

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  • This is a different judge in a different district than the one who handled the Comey indictment.

    The lawsuit was filed by Dan Richman, who wants his personal data returned to him. The data was seized in 2019-2020 under search warrants, but the public learned in Comey case filings that the FBI failed to exclude non pertinent data, violating the terms of the original warrants. Among other problems.

    In the previous Comey case, nearly all of the evidence that the government presented against Comey came out of these warrants. And it's not clear if they have any other sources of evidence.

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  • What kind of scheduler or RTOS does this abomination come with?

  • FBI seeks interviews with Democrats who urged US troops to defy illegal orders

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  • The speech and debate clause is separate from the arrest clause. The Treason exception only applies to the first part.

    Additionally, Treason has a definition elsewhere in this document, and just giving any kind of speech doesn't meet the standard.

    Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

    It would be pretty hard to claim that any kind of speechifying amounts to "Aid and Comfort", especially if you can't identify the "Enemy" in a time when the nation is at peace.

    Now the first amendment does apply here, but I expect a legal defense to go to this speech and debate clause first, then 1st amendment. Because 1st amendment has a bunch of exceptions of the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" type, but speech and debate is going to be more ironclad. Once you convince a court that you were doing Congressional speech or debate, then the only discipline you can face is from your chamber's rules, period.

  • Trump weighing the ouster of Kash Patel, according to sources

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  • B-but, but... The Burn Bags??? The grand jury in Florida??? The conspiracy against rights???

    Kash gotta stick around to cover for that stuff, right?

    (If you don't know what I'm talking about, keep it that way. This is like the dumbest bullshit I've ever heard, and I've heard a lotta bullshit. )

  • DOJ flouts court order on Trump’s illegally installed attorney

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  • Double jeopardy is not a factor in this situation, because the first jeopardy "does not attach" until a jury is seated and sworn in for trial, or when a guilty plea is accepted. The trial by jury is the "jeopardous" part of the criminal justice process. If the case is tossed before that point for any reason, then there is no jeopardy bar to refiling.

    If a trial starts, but ends in a mistrial, then it is usually possible to go to another trial, even though jeopardy "has attached". A mistrial ruling effectively "unwinds" the entire trial like it never happened.

    or is it like an annulment where it kind of never happened?

    This is what Judge Currie said in her opinion. The indictments didn't happen because they were run entirely by a pretend US attorney.

  • FBI seeks interviews with Democrats who urged US troops to defy illegal orders

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  • I am not looking forward to potential litigation on that question.

  • FBI seeks interviews with Democrats who urged US troops to defy illegal orders

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  • [The Senators and Representatives] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Beach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.