#figleaf — Public Fediverse posts

🐱‍👤 Meta's ingenious scheme to dodge scammer #accountability is about as useful as a 'how-to-not-get-caught' manual for #pickpockets. 🙈💼 The real #scam here is pretending this playbook is anything more than a fig leaf for #corporate #inertia. 🤷‍♂️
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/ #Meta #FigLeaf #HackerNews #ngated

"US to screen for ‘anti-Americanism’ in immigration applications"

Feels like "Americanism" here is a fig leaf for something.

https://us.cnn.com/2025/08/19/us/us-immigrants-screening-anti-american-hnk

#USA #uspol #Americanism #nationalism #figLeaf #excuses

A #Venezuelan musician released a song critical of #Trump, then he was arrested by #ICE.

The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture

#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #AlienEnemiesAct #pretense #FigLeaf #Bullshit #authoritarianism #tyranny #WhiteSupremacy #dissent #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-criminalization-of-venezuelan-street-culture

The case before Judge Burroughs was filed after #KristiNoem revoked #Harvard's #SEVP certification to enroll non-US #students.

In announcing the decision, Noem, without providing #evidence, accused the #university of "fostering violence, antisemitism, & coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party." [#FigLeaf]

#Trump #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #RevengePolitics #idiocracy #BrainDrain

@ilumium @edri doesn't mean @[email protected] isn't breaking the laws nor that it's anti-democratic and evil.
#NotLegalAdvice OFC.

Also can we please stop that #cyberfacist #figleaf|ing?

@MOGiS already wiped the floor with #Zensursula almost two decades ago, and she still owes everyone who can change #DNS settings an apology for claiming everyone more #TechLiterate than her is a "hardened pedo-criminal"...

I want my #HumanRights and #CivilRights back - all of them since 1949 - WITH INTEREST!

@ilumium @edri doesn't mean @EU_Commission isn't breaking the laws nor that it's anti-democratic and evil.
#NotLegalAdvice OFC.

Also can we please stop that #cyberfacist #figleaf|ing?

@MOGiS already wiped the floor with #Zensursula almost two decades ago, and she still owes everyone who can change #DNS settings an apology for claiming everyone more #TechLiterate than her is a "hardened pedo-criminal"...

I want my #HumanRights and #CivilRights back - all of them since 1949 - WITH INTEREST!

@ilumium @edri doesn't mean @EU_Commission isn't breaking the laws nor that it's anti-democratic and evil.
#NotLegalAdvice OFC.

Also can we please stop that #cyberfacist #figleaf|ing?

@MOGiS already wiped the floor with #Zensursula almost two decades ago, and she still owes everyone who can change #DNS settings an apology for claiming everyone more #TechLiterate than her is a "hardened pedo-criminal"...

I want my #HumanRights and #CivilRights back - all of them since 1949 - WITH INTEREST!