"and then they came for the socialists"

I thought even a couple police could get killed and it could still be considered a peaceful protest, like January 6

Lol a letter?

"Give us all your information or else." Is what that letter says.

Get fucked Hawley.

"Referral for criminal investigation" is very much not an idle threat, and their absurdly sweeping record request was probably made with that in mind. If there's something missing (or just something they say is missing), they can go after and make an example of the "socalist instigators" behind california's rebellion against trump, retroactively justifying his deployment of troops in the face of what now is "clearly" an organized campaign of sedition.
- Since this is just a letter and not a subpoena it has no legal authority behind it and is essentially a checklist of records to immediately destroy.
  Edit:
  So this may be a legal Subpoena. The organization should clarify with a lawyer and if it does not reach the legal threshold destroy those documents.
  Committee rules may provide for the full committee to issue a subpoena, or permit subcommittees or the chairman (acting alone or with the ranking member) to issue subpoenas..
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress
- this will be news when liberals start waking up to the reality they'll need to start throwing cocktails. until then for those on the left this is standard expected behavior by fascists. not much we can do about it without populace support.
  its why antifascist groups take operational security seriously from the get go.
that Hawley? ROTFLMAO. Yeah get fucked, josh!

credible reporting now suggests

Uh huh. 'Credible'

Fuck yourself fascist

Congratulations to the PSL for growing big enough and true to their own values to the point that the government has pushed for your ban

See you underground

PSL definitely deserves to be in the ground, fr fr.
- It's nice to have some dudes on Lemmy that consistently demonstrate what the wrong take on everything is
  tHey SuppIoRt tHe CcP sO I'm gLaD tHE fAsCIsTS WaNt tO MuRdER ThEm

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there definitely aren't any records of #5 lol

But they really seem convinced there are paid protestors. Is the GOP really paying all these COD cosplayers that show up at street corners on Thursdays to yell about the gays?

These rich folks, can't imagine crashing on a friend's couch or floor.

No fan of psl's authoritarian apologia but true to the stereotype the Marxist leninists continue to be the ones organizing most on the ground. See them at a lot of protests here in the bay area and a lot more of the disruptive ones compared to dsa who like to keep an eir of respectability and don't want to be associated with burning waymos.

Dont obey the fascist nazi regime!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay sure but those were actual socialists and these guys are just CCP shills.
- First they came for the CCP shills ...
  I think the quote may be lost on you sadly

If they don't have the listed information, that must be proof they destroyed it and are guilty! /s

LMMFAO! As if someone needs to pay me to protest fascism. Get a grip, loser.

What's the institutional letters version of "Fuck off and come back with a warrant"?

The presidential administration doesn't own all the courts yet. They only have so much prosecutorial staff. Just like every other level of struggle against this regime, the correct strategy is to drown them with overwhelming numbers. Any institution that gives an inch to their demands is failing the resistance, failing their peers, failing solidarity. They're going to try to destroy you in the end no matter what, always better to force their escalation immediately in order to exhaust them. Remember, authoritarian tyranny requires vastly more work, upkeep, and energy than any other system of organization.

What is with the weird artifacting around some of the text?

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG
- Do I look like I know what a jpeg is?
- I'm familiar with jpeg artifacts and while this looks similar it's only showing around certain text.
Not sure but my office has a xerox printer/scanner. When you select that you scan a text document it will try to make it cleaner and it will look something like this.

"Oh yeah? Well, 'credible reporting' says you suck!"

Burnnnn

Oh Hawley, they will come for the closeted Republicans eventually.

I gotta tell you, I'm not a fan of this administration OR Josh Hawley OR the PSL who openly support the CCP.

They can all pretty much go to hell, that would be cool with me. I do not think it will have any large impact on the protest scene. If winning a Civil War relied on support from the Chinese Dictatorship, I'd honestly rather lose.