Mandate Safety Interlocks With Penalties for DHS Equipment

Federal law enforcement must use safety tech, and disabling it should mean prison.

Professional Roles (stage)

The Old Professional Roles Email Forward (with no insult meant, good intentions and tongue in cheek): Producer: • Leaps Tall Buildings In A Single Bound • Is More Powerful Than A Locomotive • Is Faster Than A Speeding Bullet • Walks On Water • Gives Policy To God Director: • Leaps Short Buildings In A Single

The Vote That Stole Breath

It is not too late to start working feverishly to undo the harm your vote inflicted and keeps inflicting.

RMS Carpathia's Courageous Rescue Efforts

“You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it" - Fathers Ethics (2:21) I was struck by this story. It is not quite about the Titanic, but the ship and people that fought to rescue her: The Carpathia. "Carpathia

Bovino Petitions to Fight Wild Boar Naked for Sentence Commutation

Naysayers Say Nay July 12, 2034: Fremont County, Colorado - Gregory Bovino, serving several life sentences at both the federal and state levels in multiple states, has petitioned the courts asking that he be granted permission to wrestle a wild boar naked, and, if he survives, have the rest of

Premeditated State Violence Must End

Planning to kill is bad. In 2013, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) knew that their agents would sometimes “…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force” (PDF from CBP web server). Jonathan

Ice Didn’t Do What They Did and Do

A statement from the US Department of Homeland Security: "Guys, guys, except for all the times we have targeted, arrested, unlawfully detained, been violent with, and hurt American Citizens, ICE doesn't do those things to American citizens. We should be grateful that ICE is doing the vital

To Sea

He woke up, looking forward to finally fishing. He’s retired, even though he feels like he could keep doing the work, and now, finally, he has the chance to go out on his boat, with a beer and his rod to catch something. Maybe if he catches enough he

History’s Bloody Rhymes

It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes. - Theodor Reik, “The Unreachables” 1965 Rhyme Number One: German naval commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck was commander of U-852 and was tried, convicted, and executed (along with 2 others deemed responsible) after the war

President Gives Masterclass in Writing… Assaultive, Murderous Writing

he is picking up the slack from our school's curricula The President has begun offering a masterclass in expository writing. What with the Department of Education being dissolved before our eyes, President Trump is doing us a favor, really. Here's a transcript from an elementary school

Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds

in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

Collective Punishment Backfires

when school teachers tried it we acted out even more ice is doing many things, including collectively punishing the people of Chicago, and by extension the American People. This has me writing instead of sleeping. Gassing neighborhoods, often near children, schools and hospitals is collective punishment. Discharging their weapons recklessly

Securing Faith, Sacrificing Safety

Digital Risks of Faith-Based Content Filters Centralized filtering systems often collect user data to function, raising real privacy and security issues as they are often not properly secured or anonymized. It is a one-stop shop to comprise the security and safety of an entire religious community, and each member of

News

Tyrants Fall

it is their defining characteristic How many enemies dreamed of destroying the White House. How many soldiers wished they could flatten it. How many generals fantasized about razing the American People’s house. This one man beat them all. Same man brought the confederate flag into the Capitol, same man

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No Surrender

No Soldiers in the Streets, No Kings in This Land For all the military violence there has been in the world during my life, my tactic for surviving it has taken me next to no effort: not being there at the time. By largely luck, I have not yet been

Satire

Study Reveals Autism Cure: Punching RFK Jr. in the Face

autism cure is surprisingly simple A joint study out of Shangri-La Polytechnic Institute and the University of Atlantis-Brigadoon has concluded that no cases of autism persist after patients punch Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the face. We do not suggest people punch RFK Jr. without his consent. However, we do

Acting

Kimmel and Killing

censorship and extrajudicial killing make each other more likely Just as the United States was switching broadcast television signals from analog to digital, I made my network television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! playing Thomas Prusik Parkin, who impersonated his dead mother, Irene Prusik, to collect her Social Security benefits,

Satire

Government Rebranding Continues

What’s in a name? Late Friday, after an Oval Office presentation to the press discussing the new secondary name "Department of War" for the former Department of Defense by the President and Secretary of War for Pete Hegseth, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced further secondary

Presidential Incapacity

We know already he can't do good things. Wag the Dog is a movie that was being made as Bill Clinton was doing the things he would later be impeached for. The impeachment timed out as taking place roughly when the movie came out. The movie depicts an

Acting

Tinpot in Tinseltown

from the abandoned Nazi fortress in Los Angeles, to today’s Hollywood executives, to the history of the United States and all of Western Civilization When I heard a rumor there was an abandoned Nazi bunker in Los Angeles, I had to find out more. I looked into it, and

Acting

Run Your Race

Pursue your career, not your competitions' career. ...the fact is that any market you're in, if you're in a good market, they're gonna be competitors and if you don't have any competitors you need to question your product, like where are

Accepting Help

we must accept help for it to help

Migration

Migrating Stuff

changing the place I blog, post articles and...stuff So I've chosen stuff.davidaugust.com as my new custom domain for this site. Setting up a custom domain with ghost, the software running this site, is pretty straightforward. I did it a few minutes ago and already can

Online Longevity

migrating from Medium (and Blogger) to better options