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Now I'm a simple guy, one who believes that the Bill of Rights means what it says, and applies even to whack environmentalists who don't like cops. And so this seems like something that the Courts should swat down:
The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a
The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices. Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone.
The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the contents of that device if entered instead of the user’s unlock passcode.
passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports.
This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.
According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this week following the court’s first hearing on Monday, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick is fighting the charges. Tunick’s attorneys said that it was unlawful for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seize his phone as he arrived back in the U.S. last year and that any evidence — including the alleged wiping of his phone — should be thrown out.
The Einsteins at DoJ say that the Border Agents didn't need a warrant to search his phone because he "hadn't entered the US" - even though this all took place at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta. Oooooooh kaaaaaaay.
It looks like they guy has some pretty high powered legal help - including the Electronic Frontier Foundation - so hopefully the right precedent will get established here: i.e. that the 4th and 5th Amendments mean what they say.
This is all about a software feature called a "Duress Passcode":
The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices. Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone.
The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the contents of that device if entered instead of the user’s unlock passcode.
The Border Patrol dudes asked him for his passcode while holding him in durance vile for hours. Eventually he gave them the Duress Passcode.
IANAL, but just because he's an activist for anti-cop activities doesn't mean he doesn't have rights.
And yeah, the scare quotes in the post title are intentional.
I have a very good friend, a buddy, a pard, who is a retired Master Electrician. He came over yesterday to help me with the new shop air conditioner. We didn't do any lifting or toting. What we did do is open the panel, ensure that the wiring and breaker could handle the load, then went to the wall and installed a new 230v/30 amp receptacle. I know now that everything is up to code and the shop can handle the load. We are golden on the electrical side.
Next, I called my crew and set it up to have stout men available late this afternoon. Three good men, plus me, be sufficient for getting that AC unit in the wall.
I have done the measuring. The plan is to slide the old chassis out of the cabinet in the wall, then slide the new unit, cabinet and all, into the old cabinet. This plan worked fine last year. It's the same plan as last year. The new unit is just a wee bit smaller than the old unit, and there is no real reason to remove the old cabinet, which is braced and screwed to the building.
The one glitch is that I used, eight years ago, a common product to seal the unit to the building to make it watertight. Great Stuff foam sealant, to keep rain out.. That product is aptly named; it is very good at sealing cracks and crevasse. It has also glued the chassis into the cabinet. I have been on a ladder this morning, digging it out of the gaps.
The crew will be here late this afternoon. We'll get the old one out and the new one in.
On April 18, 2026, a mass murderer killed six people in Kyiv, Ukraine. He took hostages and barricaded himself in a supermarket. Two police officers fled the scene. He killed the victims with a legally registered assault rifle. The killer was 58 years old. Police attempted to negotiate for an hour before storming the position and killing the murderer.
One day later, on April 19, 2026, Ukraine's Interior Minister, Ihor Klymenko showed his support for relaxing Ukraine's controls on firearms, to allow citizens to have firearms, including handguns, for their defense. Klymenko promised the mass murder would not be used to conduct mass checks of weapons owners. He deplored the action of the two police officers. He said he supported the loosening of restrictions on the ownership of defensive firearms, especially handguns. Civilian ownership of handguns is banned in Ukraine. From Ukrainska Pravda:
On the question of granting civilians the right to possess firearms, including handguns, the interior minister said: "I believe that people must be given the right to armed self-defense. Especially after the experience of the early days of the full-scale invasion, when civilians received weapons for national resistance".
The push to liberalize the Ukrainian law on the ownership and carry of handguns did not start with Kylmenko. Ihor Friz, who is with the ruling Servant of the People Party, proposed a reform in 2022. Polls on the subject indicate 59% of the public support the right to carry a handgun for self defense. Only 22% reject the idea entirely.
Klymenko's words have been followed with actions. On May 6, 2026, President Zelensky said he had been briefed by Interior Minister Klyenko. He supported a reform law. From kyivpost.com:
“Ukraine needs a modern and strong law on civilian firearms that will protect citizens without weapons and realistically regulate the situation for those who own weapons,” Zelensky said.
The Czech Republic serves as an example. It has some of the least restrictive firearms laws in Europe. In the Czech Republic, a permit to carry a handgun for self protection is shall issue. According to Wikipedia, about 83% of gun owners were authorized to carry concealed weapons at the end of 2025. Once authorization to own guns is approved, the permission is for the lifetime of the owner. The total number of gun owners in the Czech Republic is a little over 3% of the population. The Czech Republic has one of the lowest crime rates in Europe.
A major motivator to reform the Ukrainian law is the number of firearms which exist in the Republic because of the war. It could be difficult to keep them out of citizens' hands.
As of 11 June, 2026, a published report shows Ihor Klymenko signed an order to create a working group to consider how to regulate citizen ownership of firearms, how to obtain permits to own firearms, and how to address issues of responsibility and self-defense. Once rules are drafted, they will be presented to the Ukraine parliament to be considered.
Eastern Europe has trended toward a more liberal model of firearms ownership than Western Europe. The Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro have shall issue or permissive "may issue" concealed carry laws. Permits to carry concealed weapons are almost impossible to obtain in the rest of Europe.
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In a separate shooting incident early Tuesday in the Hoffman Triangle neighborhood, a fight among a group of people resulted in three being shot around 12:07 a.m. in the 3700 block of Washington Avenue.
Police said after the fight broke out and appeared to conclude, one man “retrieved a firearm” and began to shoot, striking an adult man and adult woman. Someone managed to shoot back, wounding the first shooter.
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San Diego Gun Owners recently brought me to their stomping grounds to teach a Deadly Force Instructor class. While there, I sat down with some of their folks to discuss current issues.Catch it here: or watch video here. San Diego Gun Owners have been spectacularly successful as grassroots advocates for the civil rights of firearms […]- Some Substackers are big mad about the automated AI flag.
- A student wrote a piece for his California high school newspaper looking into local connections in the Epstein Files. Some people got big mad.
- I will henceforth be referring to CVS as "shampoo jail". I hope it makes them big mad.
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The other day I finally did something I've been meaning to do since I first moved to Indianapolis almost twenty years ago.
I booked a room for two nights at a Holiday Inn Express on the east side of Dayton, Ohio. While it's only a little over two hours away, this allowed me to drive out there at a leisurely pace around noon on Tuesday, grab a late lunch, and check into the hotel so that the next morning I could get to the USAF museum about the time it opened, walk until my feet couldn't take any more walking, then go back to the hotel and drive home all nicely rested at a leisurely pace on Thursday morning.
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When I went to Udvar-Hazy back in 2015, I was shooting a Nikon D200 with an 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6 consumer zoom lens, backed up with the Coolpix P7000. Relatively speaking, I had no idea what I was doing. This time I not only had better bodies and lenses, but more importantly I had eleven years more experience taking photos.
Now to sort through the images on the cards and see what I have.
These two images are straight-out-of-camera JPEGs shot with the Canon EOS R5 and RF 24-105mm f/4L IS zoom lens.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. School shooters are content creators. Will they wear Meta Ray-Ban glasses to livestream their attacks? Important information for parents and teachers. This may be a very useful way to interdict some of these attacks […]A University of Minnesota project to create “therapeutic” transgender dolls for children as young as 4 is officially launching this year.
However, the project continues to face criticism from medical leaders, as well as questions about whether public funding is involved.
“Join the waitlist” and “Launching in 2026,” the MyGender Dolls website tells visitors.
“Grounded in gender-affirming clinical practices,” the dolls will be a “therapeutic” resource for clinicians and educators who work with children ages 4-10, it states.
The new website only includes a few details about the dolls, a years-long project by faculty at the university’s Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health. Some of the links on the site are not working yet, but there is a “waitlist” form that people can fill out “to be kept up to date about the MyGender Dolls.”
The College Fix contacted the email address listed on the website and the project organizers via email on July 2 and 5, asking for information about the product and launch date. No one responded.
Previously, the university had a webpage dedicated to the project, but it was removed at some point after The College Fix first reported on it in December 2024.
According to the page, MyGender Dolls mimic classic paper dolls, featuring drawings of children of different ages, shapes, and skin colors to represent “all” kids. Children will be able to choose different internal and external genitals, clothes, and other accessories to help them “visualize their anatomy and genders,” the page stated.
Stunning video taken by a covert sea drone shows a Chinese warship lingering inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
The 42-second clip shows a ship identified by Reuters as a Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Type 052D guided-missile destroyer, floating 65 miles off Luzon Island in the Bashi Channel on June 16.
The ship was identified by “the deck layout, superstructure, crane and mast,” according to the company, “which matched archive imagery.”
Seasats, a San Diego startup, told The Post its drone, the Lightfish USV, was “conducting a commercial operation to prove the feasibility of autonomous operations in the Taiwan Strait.”
I hope this is a company either with, or on its way to, a government contract. Swarms of sea drones might make invading Taiwan so clearly impossible that we can avoid war with China.
Article – Montana man hikes out of the mountains to get help after he was impaled by a trekking pole
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Investigators say the victim arrived at the business and got into an altercation with another man. Police say the victim pointed a handgun at the other man, and the man then shot the victim.
Police say the shooter drove himself to the Mobile Police 2nd Precinct to turn himself in and was detained for questioning. No arrest has been made at this time.
The case has been turned over to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office for review, and police said no additional information will be released right now.
Sunny left us yesterday after a short battle with a very aggressive T-Cell Lymphoma. She had just turned 3. We adopted her as a puppy when she was released to a shelter with bowed legs that made her "unwanted" in some's eyes.
A Vet from Indy, where Barkley got his care for years, had moved to the Chicago area as her husband got a position with a big hospital here as a doctor. She took care of Lorelei and Abby Lab at home at the end for us and did the same for Sunny. In a moment that reminded me that even with this pain, God's watching over me - she told me her husband's new job is at one of the biggest hospitals in Chicago, one known world-wide for it's transplant services.
He's on my Transplant team.
In Memory
Sunny D. Lab
May 11, 2023 - July 29, 2026
Words from my husband:
"Back when we hadn't had her very long, I was just getting her past the overstimulation phase so I could walk her all the way to the tracks and back. On one of these trips, I ran across a neighbor from the next block. He and I had spoken before when Lorelei was still happily begging for pets up and down the street. He liked dogs; he used to have great Danes, and he had fitted his little shoebox SUV with a bulldog hood ornament from a Mack truck.
That day he was walking with his wife. They stopped and waited patiently for Sunny to go through the cautious sniffing phase. After a few minutes Sunny decided they were her new best friends and was happily getting pets and doing little jumps when she wanted more attention. The wife was particularly enthralled with Sunny and praised her, saying she loved how, "She looks you right in the eye!" After more pets and wags we went on our way.
You wouldn't notice it from a distance, but if you watched carefully, you could tell the lady was a bit frail. It was several months later when I saw them both again. They were going up the steps to their bungalow and she was leaning heavily on her husband. They apologized for not being able to stop and pet Sunny, but I told them Sunny was just happy to see her friends and she wagged and gave a little woof.
Back in the spring I bumped into the husband on the street. He stopped me to let me know that his wife had passed. He didn't say what the illness was, but it had been a long journey. He said that she had her favorite comfortable chair next to the front window of the house and that she would always smile and remark when she saw Sunny on the street. It was always a moment of happiness for her.
That's how I would like to remember Sunny the most. The dog who always brought a smile to a neighbor's face in her dying days."
It happened on the 6000 block of Warnock Street in the city's Fern Rock section around midnight.
Police say the 45-year-old victim was shot in the backside.
He is in stable condition.
Police continue to talk to the man who pulled the trigger, who says he did it in self-defense.
HPD said the shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. The department said that a fight occurred between Blood and another man, who fired his gun. The man who fired the gun remained on scene.
Police determined the person had fired in self-defense, striking Blood.
Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website. You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day. These books can be downloaded to a Kindle reader or a free App on your phone or personal computer. Even if you don’t have a Kindle, you can download a free […]Investigators say on Saturday night, Penn allegedly stalked and threatened the victim and her boyfriend near a local nightclub. The victims say Penn claimed he had served time for murder and was not afraid of law enforcement.
The next morning, they say Penn forced his way into their apartment.
At that point, the boyfriend shot Penn.
I heard my first pro-1 ad on the radio this morning. Woman talks about how happy she and her husband were to be pregnant. Then her doctor told her that the baby was very sick and he would have her call a doctor in Utah because he could not even suggest a medically necessary abortion.
This is grossly deceptive, unless they recorded it two years ago. Idaho Code sec. 18-622 prohibits abortion with a few exceptions:
(i) The physician determined, in his good faith medical judgment and based on the facts known to the physician at the time, that the abortion was necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman. No abortion shall be deemed necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman because the physician believes that the woman may or will take action to harm herself; and
(ii) The physician performed or attempted to perform the abortion in the manner that, in his good faith medical judgment and based on the facts known to the physician at the time, provided the best opportunity for the unborn child to survive, unless, in his good faith medical judgment, termination of the pregnancy in that manner would have posed a greater risk of the death of the pregnant woman. No such greater risk shall be deemed to exist because the physician believes that the woman may or will take action to harm herself; or
The next section exempts abortions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest: if "the woman has reported to a law enforcement agency that she is the victim of an act of rape or incest and provided a copy of such report to the physician who is to perform the abortion."
Notice that a doctor makes this decision based on "his good faith medical judgment and based on the facts known to the physician at the time." Proving that a doctor was operating in bad faith would be quite an obstacle to overcome at trial. I think you would need a statement by the doctor (orally or in writing) that an abortion under these circumstances was a bad idea.
Tony Fauci, a guy who five years ago was a demigod, the toast of society, the unfettered expert of medical science and immunology, has decided to clam up. he invoked his 5th Amendment privilege 111 times today, to include such things as which day of the week it is and the color of his necktie.
Today's hearing seems to have established that Little Tony is nothing more than a narcissistic megalomaniac whose only motivation was fame, fortune and personal glory.
What an insufferable prick.
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Quote of the Day On July 1, California’s Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced AB 1383, a bill that guts the pension reform Sacramento passed in 2013 to keep its own promises honest. It would drop the public safety retirement age from 57 to … Continue reading →
Continue reading →Midwest Chick (you do read her every day, don't you? Thought so.) posts about how a Professor was smarter than most of his students, catching most of them using AI to cheat on an assignment:
A very clever professor in Mississippi decided to test and see if his students were cheating using AI. So he put some code in his exam instructions using white font that couldn’t be seen by the students, but could be seen by an AI if a copy/paste was used.
Click through for the details (which are hilarious) but even more so for the comments her readers left. My favorite was one from Carl Bussjaeger:
Oh, yes. I should probably mention DuckDuckGo’s AI. When called out on all of its hallucinations, it informed that if I don’t want it to make s–t up when asking strictly factual questions, I have to specifically TELL it not to make s–t up.
Sure you can trust AI. Just tell it not to make s**t up ...
By Dave Workman Embattled Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson on Tuesday announced her plan to combat violent crime plaguing the city in response to the deadly shooting at the Seattle Center’s “Bite of Seattle” event Sunday, and with all of the rhetoric boiled out, it amounts to pursuing more gun control. The Seattle Police are also […]
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"Police report the outside temperature at that time was around 98-degrees. Responding officers made contact with the caller, and inspected the truck. One officer could hear heavy panting from within the back of the moving truck and determined the conditions were too dangerous, ultimately deciding to force open the back of the truck."
Moving is hard. But is there anyone that does not get the hazard of this to an animal?