Yesterday was an important day for DoJ’s work on police accountability. Here’s a little thread of what happened yesterday:
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Charged With Illegally Acquiring Controlled Substances, Extortion, Violation Of Civil Rights justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/for…
Case is from 2014, and this happened yesterday:
Former Tulsa Police Officer Charged with First Degree Murder justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/f…
@dananessel to Texas far right weirdos who fund gross hypocrites/adulterers like @KenPaxtonTX:
don’t come for Michigan.
or, as the shirt says,
“Bitch, please. I have people in Detroit.”
We Haz Captured Ur Wallet
United States Files A Civil Action To Forfeit Cryptocurrency Valued At Over One Billion U.S. Dollars justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/u…
Permanent.
Public.
Ledger.
“The complaint further alleges that in 2020 agents of the IRS CI used a third party bitcoin attribution company to analyze bitcoin transactions executed by Silk Road and were able to identify 54 previously undetected bitcoin transactions executed...
... by Silk Road, all of which appear to represent bitcoin, which was the proceeds of unlawful activity, that was stolen from Silk Road in or about 2012 and 2013.
The complaint alleges that these funds were traced to a bitcoin address. Further investigation of that bitcoin...
#FAFO
United States Seizes 27 Additional Domain Names Used By Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps To Further A Global, Covert Influence Campaign justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/u…
This is my favorite part:
“four of the 27 domain names, “rpfront.]com,” “ahtribune.]com,” “awdnews.]com,” and “criticalstudies.]org,” were also seized pursuant to FARA. FARA establishes a registration, reporting, and disclosure regime for agents
of foreign principals (including foreign governments and their agencies) so that the U.S. government and the people of the United States are informed of the source of information and the identity of persons attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, policy, and law.”
This is an old song by @iamcalebhawley and it’s on my election anxiety calmdown playlist. A little dose of hope.
Do you want to know the progress that happened after that performance?
It’s actually astounding, when you think about it.
The Affordable Care Act was signed into law less than a year later.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was repealed.
Dodd-Frank was signed into law-bank reform (didn’t...
go far enough but it was something).
Gay marriage was made legal in every state.
We had the first ever major party female Presidential candidate.
That’s a small portion of the progress.
Yes, trump n frenz are trying to roll back all the progress. They want the current gilded age