@murgatroid99 The SS were only enforcing the law too.

Exactly. "It's unfair to compare us to Nazis because [Nuremberg defense]"

Time to take a big sip of coffee and thank goodness that Alan Dershowitz only visited Epstein's island with his wife and oh, oh dear

Bill Clinton making an appearance too

lol the US Marshals are auctioning off Fyre Festival merch taken via asset forfeiture

Census door knocking will be cut a month short

@TimStone wait, they had merch?

Update on the Twitter hack: blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/…

> We will be slower to respond to account support needs, reported Tweets, and applications to our developer platform.

This is my biggest worry: that this hack will have the side effect of allowing malicious tweets to stay up longer

@Nzall tbh this just goes to show why companies do so much phishing training. It's by far the easiest way to gain access to company data.

All it takes is one Blake

That's a reference no one will get, but maybe they will if they've seen the same training videos

So the LEC reversed course on the NEOM partnership and Riot held an internal meeting today, likely related.

It... doesn't look good.

> White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany confirms my story w/ @ericawerner this morning about Trump being willing to sign a stimulus bill w/o liability shield. Says Trump is focused on unemployment benefits; up to McConnell if he'd hold up over UI

US Goverment Covid Policy [Satire]

> The US State Department says a man was “lured” from his home in Illinois to Pakistan, charged with blasphemy, and then assassinated in the courtroom before he could be tried. The AP says thousands in Pakistan demonstrated today in favor of the murder

From where to where

what

> Pakistani officials said Naseem was charged with blasphemy after he declared himself Islam’s prophet

Okay so also I would just not have done that though

Was he (or his family) originally from Pakistan? That's about the only thing that would be compelling enough to work as a lure.

Blasphemy laws are obviously bullshit and used against people for mundane nonsense all the time, but it also seems like knowing they exist it should be simple to just not declare yourself Islam's prophet, idk

@MBraedley The state department didn't explain, but I'd assume so

Since yeah, it doesn't really make sense how they'd lure him there otherwise

> Six retired Houston Police officers have been indicted for 17 felonies after being charged with crimes uncovered during an ongoing investigation into the Houston Police Department Narcotics Division

@TimStone i think in general if you're going to a islamic (or any religous) centric country, declaring yourself their prophet is probably not something you should do

It's certainly possible that the guy had some personal issues that caused that to happen, but urgh. Anyway, extrajudicial killings and blasphemy laws, both bad!

> As the media pool was ushered into the Cabinet Room for a meeting with the leadership of @NAPOpolice, @POTUS made an unprompted comment: "NBC, fake news," according to print pooler @hunterw

lol, such a broken-brained man

> The LAPD cop who told the local Fox affiliate a Starbucks employee targeted him with a tampon in his frappucino was wrong. The investigation was also "unable to prove the store employee acted maliciously" (Surprise!)

The police then decided to put out another narrative saying that the worker admitted that they accidentally dropped a cleaning cloth and that that inadvertently got mixed into the drink

But like, unless the worker actually comes forward and tells us that, lol

> The police in Hong Kong have named 6 activists overseas on their wanted list — one of which is an American, Samuel Chu of @hkdc_us. In theory, that means if you're an American and you support rights in Hong Kong and speak up about it, the authorities can one day go after you

Like, he's an American who lives in the US

> Fifth Circuit rules in ACA case

(full opinion)

tl;dr here is that the fifth circuit ruled the states did have standing but they messed around for over six years, so too bad, and that both the relevant provisions for this case are lawful and thus the $479 million dollar award granted by the district court has been reversed

> Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok

> A Florida teen was charged with hacking the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin

The blue checks got rekt by a rando teen, such is the way of the world

> wow, the FBI used a stolen database of OGUsers from April to identify one of the people allegedly involved in the Twitter hack

@TimStone Probably not likely to move TikTok operations out of China though.

Which, for all intents and purposes, means "eh..."

???

> President Donald J. Trump and His Administration Have Created The Best Covid-19 Testing System In The World

on whitehouse.gov

Rally at Alberta Legislature to protest passing of controversial Bill 1 cbc.ca/news/canada/alberta-bill-1-rally-1.5646637

@murgatroid99 That title is something straight out of North KOrea, holy shit.

This whole thing is some North Korean-esque pro Trump propaganda, holy shit

Demands for Kushner to Resign Over 'Staggering' Level of 'Depravity' That Put Politics Before Public Health commondreams.org/news/2020/07/31/…

> Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner's team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. "The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy," said the expert.

Holy shit

100% should be charged with murder

Like holy shit

Like this is mass murder. There's no other way to put it.

@TimStone Kinda looks like an attic, hence the slanted wall

Him and the rest of the people involved in this decision are serial killers.

Not exactly a very practical place to put up photos

> The idea of having sex with demons or the devil, through astral sex or no, has a long and proud history...

@PrivatePansy is this the "doctor" who was standing with other "doctors" claiming there was a cure and it was the drug Trump wants to sell everyone?

i remember her saying gynaecology diseases came from having sex with demon in your dreams