#figleaf — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #figleaf, aggregated by home.social.
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🐱👤 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
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The situation in #LosAngeles, #California is a new one. #Trump has called up the CA #NationalGuard, not another #state’s guard. So there’s no #FigLeaf despite the fact that both the #mayor & the #governor have objected to the action.
This SHOULD make the act illegal acc/to the #PosseComitatusAct without the express invocation of the #InsurrectionAct.
The fig leaf Trump is attempting to employ is the assertion that the guard will only be protecting #federal personnel & property.
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That right is meaningless if the #president can simply approach a different #governor & ask her to deploy her state’s #NationalGuard into the unwilling governor’s #state. In this scenario, the cooperating governor becomes a #FigLeaf for the president to use the #military as a #police force anywhere in the country, free from the constraints of the #PosseComitatusAct.
#Trump #law #democracy #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #LosAngeles #California #immigration
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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
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The Hardy Chicago Fig under the LED grow lights is growing. Just waiting for no chance of frost to put it out.
Photos from 5th, 8th, and 10th of April.
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'27 new #BathingSites considered for #England as activists highlight #sewage dangers
#BathingWater status means government is obliged to test #WaterQuality throughout summer
Almost all of the new bathing sites – 22 out of the 27 – are in #Tory constituencies. Conservatives have recently suffered in the polls because of a perceived failure to act on #SewagePollution.' https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/26/new-bathing-sites-considered-england-campaigners-highlight-sewage-dangers
#ToryCynicism #Figleaf