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rc-research··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
I always come back to this: https://ia800601.us.archive.org/9/items/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...
rc-research··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Attacking a government building with explosives is a stretch. They had fireworks on July 4th to stage a noise protest outside of the detention facility which got out of hand. The issue is that the government's case for 'material support for terror' mostly hinged on them wearing black and all being members of a signal chat [1] and handed down extraordinarily harsh sentences.

The government's case explicitly tried to throw the book at all involved (including 30 years for someone not even at the protest; for moving a box of anti-fascist literature) in line with new executive direction including NSPM-7[1][2].

The BBC article you linked takes many of the procecutor's statements at face value. Looking into this case more may illuminate how wide this survailance and punnishment net will be cast against the administration's political enemies.

[1]https://theintercept.com/2026/06/23/prairieland-texas-ice-pr... [2]https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/coun...

rc-research··on Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
The Guardian article states that it doesn't exist as a legal entity in any jurisdiction, has no listed physical address, no named staff and no bylines on any reports. Their terms of use reference the laws of "the state in which the Institute is established" which isn't named.

It seems very impressive when you open it. That appears to be the point: the Israeli government's position presented as neutral, academic policy research purpose built for search LLMs to scrape and serve up in an AI overview as fact.

rc-research··on Am I Unc?
New Balance is in. OP is unc.
rc-research··on Sagrada Família Lego set
feel free to test here: https://german.millermanschool.com/
rc-research··on Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says
> Visions of faceless large corporations or even HAL controlling a small town are frightening and the stuff of science fiction.

Company towns are well-recorded history, not science fiction. Lost Hills California (home of Wonderful Pistachios) exists in the real, present, non-fictional world.