Habeas has long been celebrated as the great writ of liberty
because it places the legality of imprisonment in the hands of judges rather than jailers.

Its importance is underscored by cases such as Khalil, Mahdawi, and Suri,
where the executive has seized individuals based on their political speech and advocacy,
concealed their whereabouts from counsel and family,
and transferred them in shackles across state lines to distant detention facilities.

In such circumstances, habeas performs its most essential function:

placing an independent judge between the individual and the executive that has imprisoned him.

Allowing that protection to be extinguished simply because the executive ultimately seeks to remove the detainee from the country
would turn the Suspension Clause on its head.

It would allow the government to accomplish the functional equivalent of suspension without satisfying the extraordinary conditions the Suspension Clause requires

and without facing the political costs of suspending the writ openly.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/free-speech--deportation--and-the-suspension-of-habeas-corpus

Reminder that choosing who to vote for isn’t choosing who you’d like to marry.

It’s more like picking which LEGO brick you want in your shoe for the next 4 years.

DRM-free media releases in the year 2026, wow

@AkaSci You know. Kidnapping Ukrainian children. Bombing civilians. Supporting the Russians with Trump family grift and money laundering.

Who Really Watches Hasan Piker? by Steven Asarch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuwPVzYTCjY

@catsalad would an elf catgirl have sections or segments

Obviously I'm assuming a system of government where people actually get to make the rules that govern our lives (ie actual democracy). Instead of a system where governments make rules that benefit the 1%, at everyone else's expense, and we get to choose which people get to play roles in those governments (ie "representative democracy").

We probably need some kind of democratic revolution to bring about that situation. That's neither certain, nor impossible.

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@jmorris
I don't think we have any here. However, if they eat scorpions, more power to them.

Andy Ngo has publicly asked the U.S. State Department to treat Sabot Media’s reporting on the Autistici/Inventati sanctions as “support” for A/I and has described this publication as its “propaganda wing.”

Sabot Media is an independent publication. We are not an agent, affiliate or organizational arm of Autistici/Inventati. We have reported on the U.S. government’s designation, interviewed affected parties, examined the people and institutions that advocated for the policy, and published the underlying records so readers can evaluate them for themselves.

That is journalism.

It is also worth noting that OFAC’s own guidance states that U.S. sanctions do not prohibit constitutionally protected political speech and recognizes protections for the exchange of information and informational materials.

If Ngo or Kyle Shideler has evidence that Sabot Media has provided financial, technical or other prohibited services to A/I, they should publish it. Calling critical reporting “terrorist support” does not make it so.

https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2095928475731325130

https://x.com/ShidelerK/status/2095927734664847775

@chris_e_simpson Usually I'm more careful editing the AI generated description. But that slipped past me. All I can think of is that it actually did recognize the insect. And picked up on the tarantula in the name. Serves me right for using it.

This is neat: https://www.crowdsupply.com/gblink/gblink-usb-v2

I don't *need* to connect my gameboy link cable to my PC, but it's good to know that I can.

Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in 1939's classic "The Wizard of Oz", would tell of how she got the role. Her agent contacted her to tell her she was under consideration for the film. "What part?" she asked. "The witch", he replied. "The WITCH?" she responded. "What else?" he said ...