Tim Cushing

22 hours ago | techdirt.com | Tim Cushing

For a long time, we’ve believed no president would dare enact the Alien Enemies Act again, not after it was abused to send more than 100,000 residents and citizens of Japanese descent to US concentration camps during the Second World War. Even the administrative power grabs and uptick in bigotry that followed the 9/11 attacks never went as far as Trump has in his second presidential term. Trump, along with his supporters and enablers, are enacting a racial cleansing of America.

1 day ago | techdirt.com | Tim Cushing

A handful of Seattle police officers who had nothing better to do on January 6, 2021 than support a man whose followers spent the next several hours assaulting cops and committing a number of federal crimes are asking the Supreme Court to prevent having their names disclosed to public records requesters. Using “John Doe” pseudonyms, they sued over whether the investigation into their activities should be made public.

2 days ago | techdirt.com | Tim Cushing

The narrative during Trump’s first term is that he was going after the “worst of the worst” undocumented immigrants. But ICE and other DHS components ran out of actual dangerous criminals pretty quickly, largely because immigrants tend to be more law-abiding than regular US citizens.

2 days ago | techdirt.com | Tim Cushing

We used to be above this. We used to make fun of the in-fighting occurring in autocratic nations. We used to mock the sycophancy of government officials who spent most of their time jockeying for the position of loyalest loyalist, something that usually came packaged with an inordinate amount of backstabbing. We used to think this could only happen in other countries, ones run by dictators, most of them Communist.

5 days ago | techdirt.com | Tim Cushing

For most of a half-decade, law enforcement officials and retail execs have been engaged in a “mass crime spree” duet. Despite this hysteria being debunked several times by rigorous reporting, cops and shops have been manipulating a non-existent shoplifting crime wave for their own benefit for nearly as long. Every time another smash-and-grab hits TikTok, pearls get clutched, poor business practices get buried, and cops get a few more toys for the cop shop.