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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--hopscotch-is-now-illegal-on-d.c.-sidewalks>
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The Situation on Thursday announced: “I will be observing the occasion of
the Alaska summit by painting a giant Ukrainian flag in front of the Russian
Embassy in Washington in sidewalk chalk.”
Little did I know when I wrote these words that I would be stumbling when I did
so, right smack into the federal takeover of policing on the streets of
Washington, D.C.
It is rare that you get a controlled experiment in the changes in law
enforcement policy. Of course, many of those changes are taking place before
our eyes. We all see those changes plainly with ICE and in the immigration
space more broadly. And we see FBI agents getting fired and investigations
“announced” of fake crimes by the politically out of power.
But how often do we really know that Person X, arrested for Crime Y, wouldn’t
have been arrested for the same act under the last administration? And how
often do we know that the arrest flowed from a changed political climate,
rather than, say, different personnel making different judgments at different
moments in time? One seldom gets to actually experience law enforcement going
from standing around watching as someone does a thing—much less specifically
okaying his plan to do that very thing in a particular location for a
particular reason—to actively enforcing the law against that same person doing
that same thing in that same exact spot and for that same exact reason.
That, however, is precisely what I experienced yesterday when I went to the
Russian embassy at noon to pour 100 lbs of blue and yellow chalk on the
sidewalk."
Via Violet Blue’s
Threat Model - Cybersecurity: August 19, 2025
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-19-136812651
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
