So what penalty will be given for those performing these unlawful activities? Some snippets from the Guardian article:

Sooknanan said the department “improperly” disclosed and maintained records.

In her ruling, she cited two people who had been incorrectly removed from their state’s voter roll list because they had been wrongly identified as non-citizens.

Here’s the video for that scene from Starship Troopers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18aGbK_8szA

Here’s the relevant truth posted about this on Trump’s private social media:

https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/42215

I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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The articles of impeachment are available at:

https://massie.house.gov/uploadedfiles/articles_of_impeachment_sec._hegseth.pdf

The articles are:

• ARTICLE I: WAGING WAR IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION OF 1973 SECTION 2(c)
• ARTICLE II: WAGING WAR IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION OF 1973 SECTION 5(c)
• ARTICLE III: WAGING WAR IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION OF 1973 SECTION 5(b)
• ARTICLE IV: IGNORING LAWS THAT MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
• ARTICLE V: EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS
• ARTICLE VI: SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH
• ARTICLE VII: KIDNAPPING OF A SOVERIGN FOREIGN LEADER
• ARTICLE VIII: UNLAWFUL WAR IN YEMEN

It’s going to be interesting which articles each representative votes for/against for the record.

Here’s a few more data points. Canada is smaller but some targeted parts of the USA economy will feel the pain:

25% tariff on USA carpet imports is to target purple state Georgia. It was imposed initially between 2025-03-04 through to 2025-08-31 at 25%, then removed, now added back effective 2026-09-08. (1)

Appliances are to target red states Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina and purple state Pennsylvania. 25% rate since 2025-03-13 and ongoing. (2)

(1) Stats Can carpet imports by State

(2) Stats Can appliance imports by State

There were previous DOGE dividends (thousands of dollars) and Tariff dividends of $2,000 which never happened:

https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/29768

Less than a year ago Trump posted:

https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/33756

People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k’s are Highest EVER. We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion. Record Investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place. A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone

Since then the debt has grown by $3 trillion dollars and no dividends have been paid out. What’s changed since then is rather than not paying out $2,000 he will now not pay out $5,000.

Blaming Canada is all they can do as they can’t blame themselves or their dear leader Trump:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gop-republicans-canada-tariffs-trump-9.7329848

Texas Republican August Pfluger praised Trump for bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. and pinned blame for the trade war on Ottawa.

“It’s a war that is perpetuated by Canada,” Pfluger told CBC News. “The Canadians need to get reasonable. They’ve taken advantage of the United States for a long time.”

This trade war against Canada was started by the USA when they unilaterally violated the existing signed CUSMA deal (agreed to during the Trump 1.0 administration) by imposing tariffs on our steel and aluminum. Canada responded in various ways including most provinces banning the sale of their alcohol. Complying with the existing agreement is not “taking advantage of the USA”. The trade deficit in goods in Canada’s favour is mostly due to us selling them crude oil at a discount. Almost 4 million barrels a day. Who’s taking advantage of who?

The USA escalated again on August 22 so there will be “dollar for dollar” increases in our tariffs for their products coming up on September 8:

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/international-trade-finance-policy/canadas-response-us-tariffs/complete-list-us-products-subject-to-counter-tariffs.html

As a result of the U.S.'s decision to impose a 50 per cent tariff on $27.6 billion of Canadian goods effective August 22, 2026, the Prime Minister announced that Canada will match the incoming U.S. Section 338 tariffs – dollar for dollar.

These new countermeasures on $27.6 billion in products imported from the U.S. will be effective as of 12:01 a.m., September 8, 2026.

The new targeted counter tariffs are concentrated in sectors such as steel and aluminum, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, plastics, and electronics. In certain sectors, such as steel and aluminum, existing counter-tariffs will increase from 25 per cent to 50 per cent to match U.S. rates.

Other existing counter-tariffs, including against U.S. autos, will also continue to apply.

Canada’s counter-tariffs are targeted against red/purple states such as carpet manufactured in the state of Georgia. Canada’s economy is smaller than the USA but there will still be negative impacts felt by the USA with higher prices for imported goods and less demand for their exports. Not good for the ruling party leading into their November mid-term elections.

So if the first Epstein Files Transparency act is not being followed how will creating a second one help? What is the penalty for Trump administration officials in not following the original act? What will it be for version 2.0?

Hey, there’s at least two of us that use lemmy formatting for

emphasis

without relying on a LLM. Sometimes I even resort to emojis❗

The lemmit.online instance already exists that hosts a single user, bot@lemmit.online, that mirrors reddit posts for a subset of sub-reddits.

I was looking into why this instance was blocked on some lemmy instances and was trying to get a discussion going about unblocking it for lemmy.ca. It turns out of the top 10 lemmy instances only 4 did not block either the instance or the bot@lemmit.online user:

https://lemmy.ca/post/69414850/24851333

It’s moot now since reddit locked down their old.reddit.com access which lemmit.online relied on:

https://lemmit.online/post/8716662

Before this blockage I did create a new user on lemmy.dbzer0.com and subscribed to some bot communities mirrored from reddit via lemmit.online. It turned out to not be a great user experience but did lessen my need to use the reddit app for discovery as I would just visit reddit for posts of interest.

Thanks for your detailed post.

I’ve bookmarked many of the links to various tools you mentioned and will put them on my todo list to look into.

upvoted for referencing Cory Doctorow’s enshittification.

If Trump does (tries to do) that wouldn’t it be an impeachable offense?

Out of Band - in this case some form of contact outside of Discord.

Original Truth Social post at 8:52 AM

https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/37721

was deleted and replaced with a post at 11:30 AM

https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/37723

with the only difference with the change from Khomeini to Khamenei. So while looking like a random stream of consciousness these posts are actually being reviewed and updated with some level of care about accuracy. This is the USA President being serious: Blockade the Strait of Hormuz to ALL traffic and interdict any ship that passed through.

Here’s the full latest post:

So, there you have it, the meeting went well, most points were agreed to, but the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not. Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz. At some point, we will reach an “ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT” basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, “There may be a mine out there somewhere,” that nobody knows about but them. THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted. I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! Iran knows, better than anyone, how to END this situation which has already devastated their Country. Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft and Radar are useless, Khamenei, and most of their “Leaders,” are dead, all because of their Nuclear ambition. The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION. They want money and, more importantly, they want Nuclear. Additionally and, at an appropriate moment, we are fully “LOCKED AND LOADED,” and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran! President DONALD J. TRUMP

The similarities between Charlie Kirk and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel are striking. Certain types of political parties use martyrs for propaganda.

Found this image with details about the outage. Finally - my username is widely appropriate instead of just specifically me.

I had a company I was doing business with reject a valid email address of mine because it contained a “.” character in it. I got an error message about this being invalid email address to use. My “first.last@emailprovider.com” address had no problems sending/receiving emails with anyone else.

There should be some simplified standard way to identify what combination of email configuration is/isn’t supported by companies and email providers. This can also future proof against future changes in email configuration changing over time due to the ongoing fight against spam.

The CBC is sane-washing this word salad post:

https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/36617

As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually no U.S. content. President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel. Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just “take advantage of America!” What does the United States of America get — Absolutely NOTHING! Ontario won’t even put U.S. spirits, beverages, and other alcoholic products, on their shelves, they are absolutely prohibited from doing so and now, on top of everything else, Prime Minister Carney wants to make a deal with China — which will eat Canada alive. We’ll just get the leftovers! I don’t think so. The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup. The Tariffs Canada charges us for our Dairy products have, for many years, been unacceptable, putting our Farmers at great financial risk. I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve. We will start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY. With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

He thinks Canadians are so concerned about the threat that China has for “ICE Hockey” that we must surrender to his demands!?