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  • In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to “immediately pause” all “compliance determinations” for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to “disregard” them.

    Holy shit, Tammie M Gregg was former director of the National Prison Project for the ACLU. Goddamn.

    Tammie M. Gregg was the Deputy Director for the ACLU’s National Prison Project. Tammie also led the ACLU’s Stop Solitary campaign. Tammie came to NPP from a long and distinguished career with the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies. After beginning her career with law firms in Minneapolis and Washington, in 2000 she joined DOJ as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division. From 2003 to 2011 she was a senior attorney in the Special Litigation Section, where she worked on cases involving prisons, jails, and policing. She rose to the level of Principal Deputy Chief of the Section, where she provided day-to-day supervision to a staff of over 70 people.

    What the actual goddamned fuck

    15th National Indian Nations Conference - Opening Remarks - Tammie Gregg





  • Yesterday, Vox somehow managed to write an entire article about the history of Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison without mentioning the CIA even once. Which is pretty astounding, given the fact that Oracle takes its name from a 1977 CIA project codename. And that the CIA was Oracle’s first customer.

    . . . [Oracle book author] Rosen tells of meeting with the folks at Oracle, one of whom was David Carney, formerly the number three person at the CIA. Carney had retired after 32 years there, and been hired at Oracle to head its Information Assurance Center, founded just two months after the September 11th attacks.

    . . . As Ellison himself told Rosen proudly for The Naked Crowd, “The Oracle database is used to keep track of basically everything. The information about your banks, your checking balance, your savings balance, is stored in an Oracle database. Your airline reservation is stored in an Oracle database. What books you bought on Amazon is stored in an Oracle database. Your profile on Yahoo! is stored in an Oracle database.”

    I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Vox didn’t highlight Oracle’s CIA origins or its never-ending relationship with governments at all levels. But writing an explainer about Oracle without mentioning the CIA or Ellison’s post-9/11 goals or national security infrastructure strikes me as simply bizarre.
















  • Yeah, here in America we have something called “holidays” where people put down their phones for a minute. We just had one called “Thanksgiving”, so if you can’t figure out why someone would be offline for a day, think about that and maybe it’ll come to you.

    Again, for the 80th time, you replied to me. Howabout you put down the rectangle and let it go, huh? You’re allegedly old enough to know better.

    Good job being wouldn’t inconsistent in your bullshit.

    Couldn’t have said it better myself.


  • Fuck off. Lying about what? (You will not answer.) Bigoted about what? (You will not answer.) Spreading what propaganda? (Not only no answer, just more crazed insults.)

    Grow up? Fuck. What are you, in your 20’s? Barely? Personal attacks? You goddamned moron, you wanna count them? If we’re even close to even I’ll be surprised. But I’ll spot you two: you’re an idiot and a lunatic.

    No reason to believe you should be taking anything? I’ve been reading the reasons for days. Please shut the fuck up, or at least fixate on some other poor asshole.