#processing unit

[technofeudalism]

I'm driving five miles across the city to check out a tip that there's an ICE rendition ongoing. I've got the scanner on the car stereo as I'm about to pull onto the street in question. It’s a quiet neighborhood, small houses on small lots, people walking dogs, the mailman waving, the lawnmowers running, and I hear the dispatcher: "We have an ICE officer over there who's allegedly being surrounded." "On our way," the officer responds.  As a local reporter for a decade now, I've learned that you can hear the cops at their most honest on the scanner. And as I'm hearing that “surrounded” comment I remember what the city's police chief told the city council in January: "We do not do civil detention arrests," Police Chief Paul Saucier said at the time, reassuring them that they wouldn’t be party to the ICE assault Trump was about to unleash. The police, he said, "do not have the authority to affect a civil arrest."  What he didn't say is that if you try to stop the civil arrest, the police will stop you from stopping it.  This morning a few dozen of us here in Worcester Massachusetts got to see that unstated fine print in action firsthand. A woman was led by federal agents in cuffs away from her family, through a throng of community organizers trying to stop it, and into an unmarked car. The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it. I park my car on the edge of the scene and all I can hear are the screams—the deafening desperate screams, from a mother, from her daughter, from the woman holding the daughter's baby. Wordless screams. And then I see the mother, a young woman in a green shirt, wailing, crying, held on either side by menacing white men in tactical vests, black neck warmers pulled over their noses in the style du jour for our secret police forces. Surrounding them are a few dozen community members who were tipped off about the ICE raid and got to it before the police did. Before I arrived, they demanded to see a warrant. The ICE agents refused to provide one, so they created a human chain, which the ICE officers eventually broke through.

[ ... ]

Maydee, still confronting the officers, says "Where is the warrant?" Officer Lugo, according to his nameplate, says "Ma'am we are trying our best but they are federal." Morales again asks for the warrant. "They're federal." "They still need a warrant." Another officer, frustrated, says "They don't need a warrant." Finally, one of them tells the truth. Due process is not a matter they're concerned with. The deportation must proceed. Trying to stop it is the unlawful thing. At this point an ICE agent starts pushing me away, but not very hard. Lazy jabs, his mind elsewhere. Too many people, too much pushing to be done. I return to my pre-push position. I keep filming. I don't know what else to do.   A cop pulls his cruiser behind us—we're boxed in now—and from the intercom says "This is the Worcester Police Department. This is an unlawful assembly, I'm warning you to disperse right now or you will be subject to arrest." On the other side of me, a crackle of the scanner from an officer's vest-mounted radio: "Do I have a car to escort the marshals out of here?" They don't need a warrant but they do need an escort.

i am reposting this without the video because i feel like it needs a post on it's own. look at the images, read the article and then go here to see the videos which are heartbreaking and violent and almost made me sick. this is horrifying in every way imaginable. the community tried to stop this and the police (as expected) straight up stopped them from doing so. this is full blown fascism on your streets.

[wolfythewitch]

I think the final step to my art improvement is getting vaguely horny over some guy

[girl-processing-unit]

Robot girlfriends who interface with a USB cable while they sleep so they can feel the closeness, but they keep each other awake by accidentally sending system popups that say "I love you <3" and making the other girl's fans kick on, and the noise keeps them up until she calms down, but then she accidentally sends a system popup that-

[nokingsnocrowns]

I.C.E. can kiss my ass

📷 Brooklyn, NY

[haberdashing]

Musings on the "depose" part of "deny, defend, depose":

When I first read those words, my mind, like most people's I think, read "depose" in the sense of "overthrow". Like how you'd depose a king, kicking him out of his position of authority, in a way that may or may not involve him losing his life as well as his power over others.

But when I mentioned it to a friend, that friend brought up that the word has a second meaning that might be relevant here as well.

In the legal field, "depose" is the verb form of "deposition". Deposition itself is one of the ways you can go about getting evidence from somebody. A deposition is when you get someone to swear that they're telling the truth, and you ask them questions, or ask them for explanations, and they have to answer truthfully. Documents might be part of a deposition, but it's not about the documents themselves, exactly; it's about what they mean, the essential truth behind what the documents describe.

(In my line of work, this might be something like, "Does that income amount listed on your court filing include this bonus listed in your bank statements?" but with a lot of questions leading up to that one to establish things like the bonus being from their employer and deposited into their bank account.)

In a way, it's like the cross-examination part of a trial isolated. (Assuming that it's the other side being deposed; it could also be a witness or third party, but almost by definition you only do depositions on a party that isn't your own client in the case.) One side asks the hard questions, and unless those questions break rules, the other side has to answer them. And like cross-examination, if someone's not truthful in a deposition, that can cause them to face all sorts of sanctions for perjury.

Now, it's very probable that the assassin in this case meant the word only in the more commonplace sense of the word, comparing the CEO to a ruler that needs to be removed from power. But when you consider the legal definition of the word, it seems almost like an ultimatum:

Tell the truth about your unjust business practices, or else lose your power to enact them.

Be deposed, or else be deposed.

[twovsandan]

Is this not Trump advocating for ending due process? Advocating for violating the 14th Amendment? Remember if even the worst criminals lose their right to due process, you can too. Without this process, the Trump Administration would be void of any sense of justice. They could take anyone off the streets and put them in prison for 40, or 50 years, death sentence, and deportation because you don't have the right to prove otherwise.

In addition, these criminals shouldn't have to wait years for their trials because, as written in the 14th Amendment, they have the right to a speedy trial. That means a trial without any unnecessary delays.

President Donald Trump has posted many, MANY, idiotic words on his platforms but this one really stood out to me. His followers are very violent, calling for the hanging of judges, arresting political oppositions, and violating the rights and processes of those involved for a political agenda. They simply repeat words heard by their "leader" and are blind followers of their new god who will "make America great again."

[alwaysbewoke]

[velkavelkavelka]

I love my funny speaking wife.

[chemical-processes]

I'm sorry MB you kept Art's comm device WHERE?

[girl-processing-unit]

Forcefemming your robot gf by going in and changing the pronouns in her BIOS

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

I just want you to know that in light of your posts about the Zen'in Clan trying to make Megumi kill one of his dogs, I now have a headcanon that when the white dog dies at the detention center, Naoya sends him a card saying "Congratulations on finally getting your dog killed!" and half of the Zen'in Clan have signed it. Someone doodled the white dog with lil X's for eyes. A true family bonding moment for everyone but Megumi.

You’re actually really close because in the backstory that lives in my head, the sword the Zenin clan always gives him to kill the dog is the black blade that he uses in canon. It’s the Ten Shadows’ sword that they typically receive when they kill the dog and ergo come of age. Megumi goes back to his room after the detention center and finds it on his bed. Yuuji’s blood was still on him. He doesn’t know how they found out so quickly or how they got into his room, but he never feels safe in that room again.

But he kept the sword, and he didn’t tell Gojo where it came from. It was meant to be a reminder to himself.

Next time, when it comes down to it, he needs to be the one to die. And then he would never again have to feel the way he did when he saw that fucking sword and realized that someone like Itadori Yuuji died for a person who didn’t even want to be alive.

[simplylost33]

protect the protesters

Everyone, please wish luck to the L.A. protesters in the protest against ICE. The national guard and police who are carrying weapons with deadly force, and they are already using tear gas and flash bangs. Those protesters are fighting against the ILLEGAL deportation done by ICE of those seeking a better life. Wishing luck to those who fight against tyranny. WE SUPPORT L.A. ,Protect not just yourself but your fellow citizens as well. immigrants work just as hard or even harder than most. they built America, so we must protect them! even if you don't live there you can help by spreading the word! L.A. is a sanctuary city. KEEP IT THAT WAY! do not let America become a tyrant contry!

[euthyami]

again sorry for the lack of content, here's a manny and frida doodle!!!

[violetspacedog]

It's the way Akoya has a fear of being laughed at, starting from his childhood and the whole "Gero/vomit" thing. And how in OVA he assumes that IoRyuu are mocking him when they applaud to...whatever Akoya did at that scene in-universe. And instantly goes into defense mode:

And IoRyuu immediately assure him that no, they genuinely think he’s cool:

It’s just… so sweet ._. I really wish we had more AkoIoRyuu being friends in canon (it's good we might see it in the movie)

[tyrannopoke]

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