FOIA needs bigger teeth

FBI Refuses Records Request For CNN Contacts Before Roger Stone Raid

The FBI rejected an open records request for any emails sent to or from CNN just prior to a pre-dawn FBI raid on the Florida home of Roger Stone.

FOIA is bullshit if they can just say "no". If they can just keep asking questions and refuse to actually push the information across the table then FOIA is is just a piece of paper.

I'm sure it is all a tapestry of coincidence

Epstein found injured in his cell last night. Arkancide?

Coincidentally (?) after a news story broke yesterday that was drowned out by the Mueller testimony: new

This combination of facts don't sound suspicious at all.

New body cam

Interesting idea #normalphobia

#Normalphobia Running Amok in the Democrat party

I’ve been trying to come up with a word other than “crazy” or “insane” to describe what has happened to

I've been thinking along this line for a while. I am glad someone sat down and put together a bunch of examples. Particularly the last comment or example on that page. The one about we are never going to be perfect so we just need to be our best.

If "gay pride" is not hate speech, then why is "straight pride"?

Straight Pride Day To Hit California?

Via CBS: The city of Modesto is considering awarding a permit for a straight pride march in a local park and

It is an honest question. Someone please explain it to me.

No one is going to like the following paragraphs.

If nazis want to march, they should be aloud to march and everyone should be aloud to tell them they are wrong. If people want to have a nazis are wrong march, then they should have one. The logistics issues may apply.

Either EVERYONE has the right to speak, or no one does. That is just how freedom works. Freedom is not free. The largest price is eternal vigilance.

Why didn't we do this in the first place (joke)

Experts Now Recommend Nuking Everything From Orbit

WORLD—In the wake of a string of increasingly bizarre antics from a rapidly declining western civilization, experts recommended nuking

The "weather permitting" detail sells the whole joke.

We don't know" The hardest words in science

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When it comes to moral decisions, testosterone doesn’t seem to do much

The researchers admit that every one of their hypotheses were wrong.

Negative results like these are extremely import to in science. People should be proud of doing the experiment correctly and thoroughly and reporting  their findings regardless of outcome.

It can happen here

The rise of the virtual nations

Intentionally or by accident the West is developing the equivalent of the Chinese reputational rating system. The New York Times describes how in

This  is like hell to me.

First it started burning ...

I thought price controls were racist. (link: https://www.samizdata.net/2019/07/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-1200/) samizdata.net/2019/07/samizd…

Every five minutes something else burns down. I'm sick of being  the only standing on the side of the road gawking at society melting.

I'm sure it is a coincidence

Netflix Sees Historic Dip in Subscribers During Same Quarter Executive Denounces Georgia's Pro-Life...

“[Netflix] on Wednesday reported a loss of 126,000 domestic paid subscribers compared with analysts’ expectations for a 352,000 gain,”

We still have Netflix. Though, Stranger Things ends with Season 4.

Hey, it works in China

Getting banned from using money because you think differently?

Facebook Unsure If If Will Ban People From Using Its Currency

Social media has banned and censored people from using its products. What will happen when social media companies create other everyday

There is something in the bible about the mark of the beast being needed to buy bread. Well, if you can ban people from using money in any way shape or form, you will no longer need geography to limit their actions. They will simply starve in the streets while the rest who are compliant survive.

Because Chinese people from the mainland and Hong Kong are different races

Chinese Media: 'Patriotic' Teachers Needed for 'Racist' Hong Kong

China's state-run Global Times newspaper accused the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong of "violence, hostility, and racism."

I suppose the word Racism" is a buzz word for politics all over the planet.