Livio De La Cruz
@livio.me
Interim Co-Executive Director of Legal Services at https://communities-rise.org where we help nonprofits and small businesses thrive.
Activist, former indie game developer, dad. Active in my local UCC congregation. Seattle, WA, USA. All opinions are my own
Activist, former indie game developer, dad. Active in my local UCC congregation. Seattle, WA, USA. All opinions are my own
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Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
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The end of Whiplash except it's the Mute City theme from F-Zero.
March 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The end of Whiplash except it's the Mute City theme from F-Zero.
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The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
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I will always repost this wisdom.
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be" – Kurt Vonnegut.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I will always repost this wisdom.
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UPDATE: DOJ lawyers state that DHS Sec. Kristi Noem made decision not to return March 15 flights.
Also Tuesday, ACLU lawyers name Emil Bove, now a federal judge, as a possible witness in Boasberg's contempt inquiry over the flights.
My write-thru at Law Dork:
Also Tuesday, ACLU lawyers name Emil Bove, now a federal judge, as a possible witness in Boasberg's contempt inquiry over the flights.
My write-thru at Law Dork:
DOJ lawyers state that DHS Sec. Kristi Noem made decision not to return March 15 flights
Also Tuesday, ACLU lawyers name Emil Bove, now a federal judge, as a possible witness in Boasberg's contempt inquiry over the flights. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
UPDATE: DOJ lawyers state that DHS Sec. Kristi Noem made decision not to return March 15 flights.
Also Tuesday, ACLU lawyers name Emil Bove, now a federal judge, as a possible witness in Boasberg's contempt inquiry over the flights.
My write-thru at Law Dork:
Also Tuesday, ACLU lawyers name Emil Bove, now a federal judge, as a possible witness in Boasberg's contempt inquiry over the flights.
My write-thru at Law Dork:
Meta’s smart glasses are the kind of product that you can imagine would be a hit with white guys in tech. Yet their ad campaign has exclusively shown quirky, pretentiously artsy Black women using the product.
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Meta’s smart glasses are the kind of product that you can imagine would be a hit with white guys in tech. Yet their ad campaign has exclusively shown quirky, pretentiously artsy Black women using the product.
The rhetoric from this administration over this video feels like they are loudly shouting “yes, we are fascists! Why is this so hard to understand?”
Astronaut Mark Kelly is being investigated by the Pentagon for saying stuff that is legally true. The more you analyze the legalities here, the more obvious it is that the pentagon’s investigation is blatantly corrupt and unreasonable.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Investigates Senator Over Video Trump Claimed Was Seditious
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The rhetoric from this administration over this video feels like they are loudly shouting “yes, we are fascists! Why is this so hard to understand?”
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So Jim Justice is one of the wealthiest people in the country.
And in 2021, we wrote a story about how almost never paid taxes
www.propublica.org/article/how-...
And in 2021, we wrote a story about how almost never paid taxes
www.propublica.org/article/how-...
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
So Jim Justice is one of the wealthiest people in the country.
And in 2021, we wrote a story about how almost never paid taxes
www.propublica.org/article/how-...
And in 2021, we wrote a story about how almost never paid taxes
www.propublica.org/article/how-...
Astronaut Mark Kelly is being investigated by the Pentagon for saying stuff that is legally true. The more you analyze the legalities here, the more obvious it is that the pentagon’s investigation is blatantly corrupt and unreasonable.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Investigates Senator Over Video Trump Claimed Was Seditious
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Astronaut Mark Kelly is being investigated by the Pentagon for saying stuff that is legally true. The more you analyze the legalities here, the more obvious it is that the pentagon’s investigation is blatantly corrupt and unreasonable.
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Wow.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid.
Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid.
Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Wow.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid.
Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment unlawful and the prosecutions against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey therefore invalid.
Both indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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Some conspiracy theories are adjacent to the truth. Many are bad answers to good questions. But people who assume conspiratorial explanations are correct by default are deeply deranged and the more influence such people have over a society, the more deranged that society will be.
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Some conspiracy theories are adjacent to the truth. Many are bad answers to good questions. But people who assume conspiratorial explanations are correct by default are deeply deranged and the more influence such people have over a society, the more deranged that society will be.
Funny how that one plot point in Ender’s Game, combined with the primary topic of posts for many accounts on here, would have you believe that opinions pieces are an absolute force of nature in the average American’s daily life. We just can’t get enough of all these op-eds, apparently.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Funny how that one plot point in Ender’s Game, combined with the primary topic of posts for many accounts on here, would have you believe that opinions pieces are an absolute force of nature in the average American’s daily life. We just can’t get enough of all these op-eds, apparently.
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“Nearly one hundred people had just one item on their list as they entered the Home Depot in Monrovia on Saturday: a small ice scraper worth a little less than a dollar.”
Day laborer organizers protest Home Depot, pressuring it to "scrape ICE out of their stores."
Over one hundred community members gathered at the Home Depot in Monrovia Saturday to pressure the company to stop the immigration raids taking place at its locations.
www.latimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
“Nearly one hundred people had just one item on their list as they entered the Home Depot in Monrovia on Saturday: a small ice scraper worth a little less than a dollar.”
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They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
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A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
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Local Boycott Target DC Coalition has been picketing the Target store in Columbia Heights for over six months straight urging consumers to spend their dollars elsewhere outside of Target. They are inviting folks in the area to join them on 11/29.
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Local Boycott Target DC Coalition has been picketing the Target store in Columbia Heights for over six months straight urging consumers to spend their dollars elsewhere outside of Target. They are inviting folks in the area to join them on 11/29.
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Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.
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There is no better way to express that we should take our shit together at #COP30
(from Rockström et al., 2025: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
(from Rockström et al., 2025: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
There is no better way to express that we should take our shit together at #COP30
(from Rockström et al., 2025: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
(from Rockström et al., 2025: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
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One of the very many reasons why I have not a single ounce (not one) of respect for RFK Jr’s MAHA cult is that they are not just dismantling vaccination & issuing harmful dietary advice (eat more saturated fat!)—they’re also sickening us through spewing dangerous chemicals poisoning the environment
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
One of the very many reasons why I have not a single ounce (not one) of respect for RFK Jr’s MAHA cult is that they are not just dismantling vaccination & issuing harmful dietary advice (eat more saturated fat!)—they’re also sickening us through spewing dangerous chemicals poisoning the environment
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I think the thing that Mamdani has here that other Dems don't is that he owes no loyalty to the old guard. A lot of Trump's mortal enemies actively tried to stop Mamdani. With a big smile, he beat the Dems that Trump hates and made them sad on TV. That's all Trump cares about.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I think the thing that Mamdani has here that other Dems don't is that he owes no loyalty to the old guard. A lot of Trump's mortal enemies actively tried to stop Mamdani. With a big smile, he beat the Dems that Trump hates and made them sad on TV. That's all Trump cares about.
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A few Democrats in Congress, all veterans of the military or the intelligence community, posted a simple video reminding military personnel of their moral, ethical, and legal duties.
President responded to this video by literally and publicly demanding that these congressmen be killed for this.
President responded to this video by literally and publicly demanding that these congressmen be killed for this.
Trump Accuses Democrats of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death,’ Over Message to the Military
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A few Democrats in Congress, all veterans of the military or the intelligence community, posted a simple video reminding military personnel of their moral, ethical, and legal duties.
President responded to this video by literally and publicly demanding that these congressmen be killed for this.
President responded to this video by literally and publicly demanding that these congressmen be killed for this.
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Federal agents used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times — even after a judge said to stop.
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Federal agents used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times — even after a judge said to stop.
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb