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Allendale Methodist Church in FL has projected "Abolish ICE" on its wall at night. The preacher spoke at a protest against ICE, at the local jail. Three days later, cops "stage an operation" taking up 17 parking spots with 13 vehicles. Preacher says they're consulting with attorneys considering further action. Good for him, issuing a bill for ten grand; he says he doesn't expect they'll pay.
#AbolishICE #immigrants #human #trafficking #kidnapping #no #one #is #illegal wusf.org/politics-issues/2025-

Four police cars parked under trees in a parking lot
WUSF · Allendale Church bills Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office $10K for using church propertyBy Lily Belcher

This is a brave guy. I love that he just keeps saying "No" to them, keeping the windows and doors of his car closed, while filming their illegal actions and frustrating the crap out of them. 👍

Just resist all these fascists #ICE motherfuckers and give them hell.

(And a good job by the only real policeman on the scene. 👏 )

#FightFascism #illegal #kidnapping #deportations

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1) #federal #judge issued #injunction today blocking application of #Trump #birthright #citizenship #ban against all #babies potentially affected by it. 1st big test of federal #judiciary 2 restrain Trump’s #unconstitutional, #illegal actions since #SCOTUS all but abolished use of nationwide injunctions - CASA v. Trump. In that case #SupremeCourt allowed universal injunctions in class action lawsuit provided large enough class can pass rigors of certification. Judge Joseph Laplante ruled it had.

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De hel breekt los als Trump het op de ZIJNEN heeft gemunt!!

Meidas Touch-presentator Ben Meiselas doet verslag van Donald Trumps aanval op zijn eigen aanhangers met ICE-invallen en het ontketenen van chaos op straat. Vervolgens laat Meiselas andere voorbeelden zien van mensen die geen Trump-aanhangers zijn, maar die Trump ook in hun gemeenschappen laat neerdalen.

#ice #deportations #maga #project2025 #trumpsupporters #change #illegal #immigrants

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“Suno, for those of you not familiar, is an #AI #SongGenerator: enter a text prompt (such as “a jazz, reggae, EDM pop song about my imagination”) and a song comes back. Like many #GenerativeAI companies, it is also being sued by all and sundry for ingesting #copyrighted #material. The parties in the suit — including major labels and the #RIAA — don’t have a smoking gun, since they can’t directly peek at Suno’s #TrainingData. But they have managed to generate some suspiciously similar-sounding AI generated materials, #mimicking (among others) “Johnny B. Goode,” “Great Balls of Fire,” and Jason Derulo’s habit of singing his own name.

#Suno essentially admits these songs were #regurgitated from #copyrighted source material, but it says such use was legal. “It is no secret that the tens of millions of #recordings that Suno’s model was trained on presumably included recordings whose rights are owned by the Plaintiffs in this case,” it says in its own legal filing. Whether AI training data constitutes fair use is a common but unsettled legal argument, and the plaintiffs contend Suno still amounts to “pervasive #illegal #copying” of artists’ works.”

#NYA / #music / #ElizabethLopatto / #amazon / #DataTheft <neilyoungarchives.com/news/3/a>

neilyoungarchives.comNeil Young Archives

#Trump Claims Sweeping #Power to #Nullify #Laws, Letters on #TikTok #Ban Show. In purporting to license otherwise #illegal conduct by #tech firms, Trump set a #precedent expanding #executivepower, #legal experts warned. #AG #Bondi told #BigTech the could lawfully #violate #statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok based on sweeping claim that President Trump has the #constitutional power to set aside #laws, newly disclosed documents show. nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/poli #democracy #maga

Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in letters to technology companies that President Trump had decided that shutting down TikTok would interfere with his “constitutional duties to take care of the national security and foreign affairs of the United States.”
The New York Times · How the Trump Administration Justified Ignoring the TikTok BanBy Charlie Savage
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Remember, in some places in the United States, it is #illegal to hand out bottles of #water to people waiting in line to #Vote

Even in 1980s Poland, the government was more progressive, in that they wouldn't fathom arresting someone for wearing orange pointy hats.

** "The police were flummoxed by what to do, if they arrested people for wearing hats and giving out tampons, they looked foolish and would be embarrassed" **

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