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Comment Re:You're assuming that's not the point. (Score 1) 9

At this point, I've stopped giving politicians the benefit of the doubt. If they support regulations that look like they have the potential to drag the United States into becoming an authoritarian hellhole, I assume that they're actually trying to do just that. It makes it a lot easier to convince myself to vote for another candidate in every election afterwards, even if that candidate isn't as good in other areas, because at least the other candidate isn't trying to destroy our basic freedoms.

Look up the sponsors of the bill, and vote against them from now on, whether it's a primary or a general election. Repeat until ousted.

Currently, all the cosponsors are Republicans - 26 on the House bill and 4 on the Senate bill.
(Links to bills noted here.)

Comment This already exists (Score 1) 9

Under the SCREEN Act, the "bouncer" will be a digital age-verification service that captures your personal information and saves it to a database for an unspecified amount of time.

Some sites already require the use of ID.me -- like the IRS, SSA and Medicare, the latter two also allow Login.gov. Here are 77 Companies that use ID.me in United States

Not trying to give them ideas, just sayin' ...

Comment Re:Iranian meddling or ... (Score 2) 47

I don't think a woman can be elected. This isn't a statement that one shouldn't be, it's an estimation of the voters.

Adding that 49.8% of voters did re-elect a man found liable of sexual assault, who undeniably, obviously, constantly lies, over the 48.3% who wanted a black woman and 36% (90 million) of eligible voters who did not vote at all. I'll add that the first and third stats are pretty sad. On the upside, we didn't get those sky-high prices and new Middle-East wars Trump promised Harris would give us - hooray! /s (*heavy-sigh*)

Comment Iranian meddling or ... (Score 5, Interesting) 47

... an attack that had hallmarks of Iranian meddling, according to a law enforcement official.

Trump puts the blame on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. From Trump blames governor, not Iran, for Minnesota cyberattack

"They blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent," Trump said [w/o presenting any evidence] at a July 31 Cabinet meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. "I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota."

Governor Walz has a different theory (also from that article):

"Trump knows exactly who is responsible for this attack, and knows that other states were hit too," Walz said in a statement in response to the president's remarks. "This is what modern warfare looks like, and it further illustrates there’s no plan to win a war with Iran."

Walz blamed Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, the former government-slashing agency once led by tech executive Elon Musk, for gutting the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. "DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the U.S. exposed to cyberattacks. Thankfully, our experts in Minnesota were able to identify the vulnerability quickly and work with local communities to stop it," Walz said.

As seven states have been impacted, either Iran or Governor Walz has been very busy ... :-)

Submission + - Drifting Falcon 9 upper stage heading for accidental collision with the Moon (space.com)

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fahrbot-bot writes: Space and The Guardian are reporting that the Falcon 9 upper stage leftover from the launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost-1 lander on Jan. 15, 2025 is due to impact the Moon on Aug. 5, 2026.

Onboard the same flight was the Hakuto-R Mission 2, called Resilience, a robotic lunar lander developed by the Japanese company ispace.

According to a new study by an international team, the resulting impact plume may briefly be bright enough to see against the dark sky near the moon's edge. That means it might be visible to moongazers with sufficiently sensitive telescopes.

This head-on collision of the errant stage is expected to occur near the Einstein and Bell craters near the western lunar limb. It may well be visible to ground and space-based assets.

Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 1) 182

I think what you say is not as strong as you think it is.

Perhaps you missed this bit in my comment:

... to the extent specified in the Constitution, as interpreted by SCOTUS, ...

An example is that naturalized citizens can have their U.S. citizenship revoked, if, for example, it's proven they lied on their application, while that of a natural-born citizen cannot.

Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 1) 182

If the reality is that ICE can shoot you at pretty much any time, without any real penalty, then you have no 'rights'. Rights are not something someone gives you, they're something that no one can take away.

Anything can be taken away if there's no one protecting them. The job of ultimately protecting U.S. citizens generally falls to the Courts and the Dept. of Justice (DOJ), whose Mission is:

The mission of the Department of Justice is to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights.

The only reason ICE is getting away with what they're doing is because the Trump administration is encouraging them and Trump's DOJ isn't prosecuting them, and other entities (state/local LEO and private citizens) and the courts are hamstrung by a lack of cooperation, to say the least, from this DOJ. I imagine that will change if/when a Democrat is elected and perhaps even if a Republican is elected. I also imagine that under a Democrat administration there may be investigations and prosecutions of current ICE personnel, assuming Trump doesn't give out another blanket pardon to everyone in ICE and his administration.

The only hitch may be getting rid of all the hastily hired, ill-trained ICE personnel. Simply firing them would probably mean severance and unemployment payments. Personally, I'd just reassign them all to "guard the border" at the tip of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, until they quit... :-)

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