ICE will be doing its best to provoke an "active public safety threat" wherever it can during the elections. They'll turn up and start grabbing people out of voting lines, or just threatening people, and as soon as anyone protests it will be an active public safety threat. Then they'll either shut the polling venue down or cause so much trouble outside that no one dare approach. Once the election is done and there just happened to be active public safety threats in Democratic-leaning areas only, the Democrats will decide they have to play by the rules and accept the result in order to protect democracy.

It's the Telegraph. The whole thing is a pile of half-assed right-wing nonsense. It's what happens when a middlebrow Tory propaganda broadsheet dumbs itself right down for the internet in the age of MAGA.

The USA is close, with a two-week concept of a plan.

What a coincidence that it was the guy protesting the police who was also suspected of possessing such materials. If it turns out they had real independent grounds to suspect he had such images, I'll change this view, but for now I assume that's the cops' standard line to shut down people's questions. Just say they thought the political target had CSAM, and immediately people see him differently, plus the police can accuse anyone who challenges their actions of supporting pedophiles.

Mustn't evidence be clearly relevant to the suspicion of a crime? If we call anything the police might take an interest in "evidence", then in principle destroying anything could land you in prison. All the cops would have to do is declare they wanted to see the thing you destroyed.

Behind it is the belief that everyone gets what they deserve, so if you're wealthy it's because you're more deserving of wealth, and if you're poor, unemployed and hungry it's because you deserve poverty and hunger. American right-wingers will seldom admit that you can be unemployed or poor through no fault of your own. They don't seem to allow themselves the concept of a systematic injustice, or even of economic forces causing people to become unemployed. Deep down perhaps they know it happens, but you won't often catch them admitting it out loud.

This belief that the world rewards people according to their merits and deserts ties in nicely with evangelical Christianity, and the idea that God administers this global rewards system. Why help the poor if God put them there because they deserve to suffer? Might as well buy yourself some luxuries and enjoy your God-given wealth.

It's not really a philosophy, of course. It's basic selfishness and greed dressed up as a political philosophy. As a philosophy it obviously doesn't hold up for five minutes: you can only fail to see the injustice in the world if your eyes are very firmly and resolutely shut. And you can't believe in investing in the stock market unless you believe there's an economy with booms and busts and people winding up unemployed due to forces beyond their control. But they won't admit it.

Their behaviour proves that they don't really hold principled beliefs, but are just improvising to make peace with their own selfishness. As soon as they themselves fall on hard times, their professed beliefs no longer apply and it's everyone's fault but theirs. As soon as they get a sniff of power, their professed love of guns to fight tyranny turns into an eagerness to use guns to impose tyranny. They live by no principle except craven selfishness.

President Donald Trump’s former international energy adviser has a new, counterintuitive pitch to sell Republicans on one set of technologies to reduce global warming: They could help keep the world hooked on oil, gas and coal, at least for a while.

“If I were in this current White House, I’d say, ‘Well, we should support SRM because it’s a good insurance policy for continued fossil fuel use,'” said George David Banks, referring to solar radiation management, a largely theoretical response to global warming that involves spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere.

That's the very concern that puts responsible people off this type of geoengineering: it will enable us to continue damaging the planet without seeing the full consequences, until our children and grandchildren find themselves in an even worse uninhabitable mess than we're currently heading for. The fact that this downside is a selling point to Republicans suggests that they are sociopaths, and/or deluded rich people who think money and bunkers will protect them from the collapse of civilization.

Maybe he was born in 1969 and started coding at 6 months old.

Me too. I wonder what I said to earn my place there.

Once again, the cruelty is the point. They're not even trying to solve an immigration problem; they just want to hurt people who aren't white enough.

It's clearly the gays. No question about it.

Even just looking at internet policy, it's clear the Canadian government isn't working for the benefit of ordinary Canadians. They have Bill C-22, which potentially undermines privacy by compromising encryption, enhances surveillance through mandatory metadata retention, and could make it hard for anyone but large corporations to legally run online services in Canada. They have Bill C-34, which introduces a new commission with the power to censor and control what Canadians can access on the internet, and requires Canadians to hand over government-issued ID to access websites and online services, potentially to third parties run from the USA. And the Canadian government continues to increase intelligence sharing with the USA despite the USA clearly being hostile and a threat to Canada. Whoever they're governing for, it's not us.