[–] 2 points 3 hours ago

If you stick to the premise that the portals exist in a universe with GR, then we can pay much know that space-time is locally flat in and around at least the middle parts of the portal. We know this because things don't get fucked up when they're going through.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 hours ago

    Jesus was a man who travelled through the land.

    A hard working man and brave.

    He said to the rich, "Give your goods to the poor."

    And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago

    In this particular case, there are also 5th amendment issues with the Miranda warnings.

    The CBP officers repeatedly ignored the defendant's requests for a lawyer, and they continued to question him anyway. Then, the defendant allegedly told them the "unlock" / duress code.

    There's existing case law in the US that phone unlock codes are "testimony" within the 5th amendment's right to remain silent, so a search warrant cannot compel someone to divulge them. (This is different from a phone unlock fingerprint, which can be compelled with a warrant).

    I halfway expect the government to argue somewhat against this case law, but who knows? DOJ is now scraping the very bottom of the barrel to find lawyers, so sometimes it's hard to tell if they have any kind of coherent plan at all.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Here's the plan for how the SAVE Act is intended to work:

    1. SAVE Act requires voter ID, but it actually requires a photo ID that says "US citizen" on the ID.
    2. For most people, the only identity documents that do that are passport books and passport cards.
    3. Bad news: By and large, Americans don't have passports. Passport adoption is really low compared to Europe.
    4. Suddenly a bunch of Americans have to apply for passports to vote. Many will have trouble gathering the required documents, including birth certificates and marriage licenses (for name changes). Many won't get it done in time.
    5. What a disaster! So many people can't vote!
    6. But wait! SAVE Act comes in with a solution! States can be exempted from the ID bullshit.
    7. But there's a catch! To get the exemption, your state must have been turning over its voter rolls to the feds, quarterly, since July, 2025.
    8. If your state, like every, uh, blue state, hasn't been doing that... Well, I guess it just sucks to suck. There's no way to become compliant now, and the SAVE Act hasn't even been enacted yet.
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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago

    In Texas, individual precinct judges are granted extremely broad police power to ensure the proper decorum in and orderly operation of their polling places. And this power is independent of the county sheriff, the constables, and any local police department

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  • [–] 51 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Remember folks: they're making these admissions because they don't want the judge to order them to turn over even more damaging documents in discovery.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

    So you can normally be held liable for telling the police bad information. For example, it's a crime to lie to the feds. So if he told them the self destruct code, but told them it was the unlock code, maybe in normal circumstances there could be some liability.

    But this case is interesting, because the phone code "testimony" was given under multiple severe Miranda violations. So that's a whole 5th amendment clusterfuck. The normal remedy for a 5th violation is the statements are suppressed. But a whole separate criminal charge is not a "statement" to suppress, is it?

    I guess on the other hand, if you properly suppress the fact that he told them the code in the first place, how do you prove he had any hand in "destroying" the property?

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    After the supreme court denied Trump's petition for cert in the $5 million defamation case, the district judge has ordered the clerk to pay out the now $5.8 million judgement to E Jean Caroll's lawyers.

    The original judgement was for $5 million, and it earned about $800k interest during the appeal. The money is coming directly from the court because Trump earlier paid the full amount into the court registry in lieu of posting an appeal bond.

    Trump immediately appealed the pay-out order. But since there's no stay, it's still effective.

    E Jean Caroll also has a separate judgement against Trump for about $80 million. That case is still on appeal.

     

    Washington, DC resident Sam O'Hara noticed a couple of national guard soldiers patrolling the streets, and he decided to follow them around playing the Star Wars "Imperial March" on a portable speaker.

    For this he was handcuffed and detained for about 20 minutes. Now he has reached a settlement where the government will pay him an undisclosed amount of money in compensation.

     

    Breaking now, Judge Emmet Sullivan has granted a preliminary injunction that orders the Department of Justice to either release a number of specific Epstein files to the public, or to "show cause" why they shouldn't.

    The government has until July 2 to file responses.

    Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang filed suit to enforce the Epstein Transparency Act. The judge has evidently determined that she has suffered harm from being unable to report on the unreleased files, and therefore has standing to sue.

    This decision seems like it might be headed for an appeal, but Judge Sullivan declined to stay, or delay implementation, to allow the government time to appeal. So the clock to July 2 is currently ticking.

    Bates numbers that are mentioned:

    Ordered to unredact names:

    • EFTA00749245
    • EFTA01187999
    • EFTA01930501
    • ETFA01928255
    • EFTA00628112
    • EFTA02648868
    • EFTA02504630
    • EFTA01022356
    • EFTA01703108
    • EFTA00038227

    Ordered to produce underlying FBI notes:

    • EFTA01245620
    • EFTA02858481
    • EFTA02858491
    • EFTA02858495

    Opinion: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.291779/gov.uscourts.dcd.291779.16.0_2.pdf

    Full court docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73246595/phang-v-blanche/

     

    A lawyer working with the Minnesota attorney’s office said she just wants some sleep, after working so hard to try to get ICE to follow court orders.

    “I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep,” Le said. “The system sucks, this job sucks, I am trying with every breath I have to get you what I need.”

    Edit clarification: This attorney works for the federal government, not the State of Minnesota.

     

    Over the weekend, Judge Nachmanoff made it clear that a large amount of discovery material is to be delivered to James Comey today. The prosecution team from North Carolina seem to be engaging in a series of stall tactics to delay this.

    The eastern district of Virginia is known informally as the "rocket docket" because of its fast resolution times for cases.

     

    While sitting for a deposition in a defamation lawsuit that she filed, Laura Loomer was asked to explain under oath what she meant by the phrase "Arby's in her pants" (which she earlier penned in a tweet).

    Transcript:

    Q  Can you explain to me what it means to say to her that "the Arby's in her pants"?
    A  Well, Arby's --
        MR. KLAYMAN:  Objection.  Relevancy.
    BY MS. BOLGER:
    Q Answer the question.
    A  Arby's sells roast beef.
    Q  Right.  Can you tell me what -- why you were talking about "the Arby's in her pants"?
    A  Well, it's just a -- an expression.
    Q  What is the expression trying to convey?
    A  It conveys the reason why she got a divorce by her own admission.
    Q  Because she had roast beef in her pants?
    A  Yeah.
    Q  She'd put roast beef in her pants; that's what you're trying to say there?  You're literally saying she put Arby's in her pants?
    A  I'm saying she literally -- it's so ridiculous.  I'm saying she literally put Arby's in her pants.  Yes.
        MR. KLAYMAN:  Objection.  Relevancy.
    BY MS. BOLGER:
    Q  You're not making a slur about her?
    A  No.
    Q  You're literally saying she put an Arby's sandwich in her pants; is that right?
    A  Yes.  That's correct.  That's correct.
    Q  Why are you laughing?
    A  Because I just think it's so funny.
    Q  What is your basis for saying she put Arby's in her pants?
    A  I just think it's so funny.  I just think it's so funny.
    Q  What is your basis for saying she put Arby's in her pants?
    A  She carries roast beef in her pockets.
    Q  What is your basis for saying she puts roast beef in her pockets and in her pants?
        MR. KLAYMAN:  Objection. Relevancy. Harassment.
    
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