I haven't done this yet, but it's tempting: what would happen if I were to run facerec on capitol rioters using photos from convicted sexual predators as my seed faces?
It would be a service if they didn't notify their home state and the DC Sex Offender Registry Unit beforehand
note: only to get counts, any matches would be handed off to law enforcement.
nothing would be posted publicly until they've been officially violated, if at all.
Getting the photos would be a HUGE task, though.
FWIW, probably TOO huge a task. And the risk of doing it without having lawyers clear the ability to use data from each state is WAY out of my reach.
This would def be something @FBI should be able to do, though.
That just gave me another idea too...
That said, if any lawyers want to handle obtaining clearance to use state database photos solely for the aforementioned purposes for one or more states, please let me know.
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You're seeing those who helped cause the problem lament what they did - but who is extending legitimacy to those who tried to raise red flags ~10 years before it lead to insurrection?
Maybe the people WITH foresight are the ones you should start listening to.
There's a real problem with continually fetishizing those who eventually came to realize their actions cause harm over those who can see and elucidate the risks in advance.
It normalizes - even promotes continuing to participate in ventures that put people at risk.
that _should_ show us that their judgement is flawed, and diminish our willingness to trust their judgement in the future, not to invite them to join the pundit class.
Listening to @RepMcCaul on @CNNSotu, I have to wonder why he's talking about paying people's electric bills off using federal funds, when those "exorbitant" rates are pretty clearly a violation of Texas §17.46(b)(27).
Any bills already issued should be comped, and each instance should be counted as a violation.
If doubling the price of water during an emergency is considered price gouging, increasing costs on something required for survival by an order of magnitude is certainly price gouging.
I don't care if the PUC authorized a rate hike.
An 18,000% increase is not a 'hike.'
A two-fold increase in the order of magnitude in something required for survival is NOT a hike. It's beyond gouging.
How is it possible that NOBODY has tweeted about a deep dive into the Oath Keepers 990s yet?
Also, I'm wondering - will involvement in conspiracy to commit insurrection overturn the non-profit status they were granted by the IRS during the Trump administration?
Oh, wait - it seems that this org formed in 2018, and dissolved Oct 31, 2020?
This is an especially interesting photo to me, given the themes many of us have written on in the past few years. It brings together the Oathkeepers, someone in a crew jacket from Michael Jackson's "Bad" tour, Netjets corporate schwag, and an interesting Nascar timeline
Sure - that pic doesn't directly reference NASCAR - but it shows that the Oathkeepers were founded in 2009, and it only took 4 yrs for them to get enough funding to sponsor an Earnhardt on the Nascar circuit?
Note: the "Nationwide" circuit that the car was on in 2013 is now the "Xfinity" circuit - it's equivalent to NASCAR's "minor league."
The first amendment places no restriction on freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech is not freedom of paid _amplification_.
You can't keep dangerous things from being amplified by word of mouth, but restricting broadcast or electronic amplification is totally kosher.
It's not the speech that Trump is being impeached for.
It's the broadcasting, the paid propaganda & adverts.
It's the use of the presidency to SPREAD that message that, were he just rando naked guy on the corner, prolly wouldn't have drawn enough support to take over Starbucks
Trump used the attention and free media granted by the Office of the President to amplify his message that incited and produced imminent lawless action.
This video from Parler features recently arrested Robert Gieswein of Colorado, seen in photographs outside @RepBoebert's bar and with @repBoebert as they move into ranger formation ~1302, breaking the window outside the Senate ~1400. projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol…
As identified in these photos by @arawnsley, we have a match.