It would be very helpful for my understanding to be able to see this content.

I can understand being curious, I'm curious too.

But it's hard to imagine any circumstance that would make TikTok support's responses seem reasonable in context. They're claiming a right to remix your stuff (where "you" are a paying customer mind you) without your knowledge or consent, and then to disseminate that remix at their discretion.

The specifics of how they altered this ad are almost incidental by comparison.

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador later issued guidance stating the “Everyone Is Welcome Here” poster violated the law. In an opinion published on the attorney general’s website and in an op-ed for Fox News, Labrador described the poster as “DEI messaging disguised as inclusion” that “mask[s] a comprehensive worldview that undermines parental authority over children’s moral development.”

This is an argument that the message is not the message. That the offense lies, not in what the poster says, but in what the poster does not say. This is an accusation of a thought crime.

Labrador argues that the sign is political because of its rainbow colors. You can read his op-ed here.

If ICE is rounding up anyone who looks Hispanic, ignoring or dismissing their papers, then a new visa isn't going to help, is it?

The National Park Service said in a statement provided to USA TODAY that, with limited exceptions, only the U.S. flag and other authorized flags are permitted on flagpoles managed by the agency. The policy was outlined in a directive the agency issued on Jan. 21. Exemptions can include flags that provide historical context...

Well if the facts aren't the facts and the truth isn't the truth I guess the rules get to not be the rules, too.

Not enough people are aware that the compound added to gasoline, tetraethyl lead (TEL), was understood to be potently toxic before it was used as a gasoline additive. Effective alternatives to TEL existed, but TEL had the advantage that its use could be patented. It could make some very rich companies even richer.

Short article from Smithsonian Magazine, 2016: Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented

...in February 1923, a filling station sold the first tank of leaded gasoline. [TEL developer] Midgley wasn’t there: he was in bed with severe lead poisoning, writes History.com. The next year, there was serious backlash against leaded gasoline after five workers died from TEL exposure at the Standard Oil Refinery in New Jersey, writes Deborah Blum for Wired, but still, the gasoline went into general sale later that decade.

Long, long article from The Nation, 2000, by way of archive.org: The Secret History of Lead

In March 1922, Pierre du Pont wrote to his brother Irénée du Pont, Du Pont company chairman, that TEL is “a colorless liquid of sweetish odor, very poisonous if absorbed through the skin, resulting in lead poisoning almost immediately.” This statement of early factual knowledge of TEL’s supreme deadliness is noteworthy, for it is knowledge that will be denied repeatedly by the principals in coming years as well as in the Ethyl Corporation’s authorized history, released almost sixty years later. Underscoring the deep and implicit coziness between GM and Du Pont at this time, Pierre informed Irénée about TEL before GM had even filed its patent application for it.

A concise history in timeline format: The Rise and Fall of Leaded Gasoline: An Absurd and True Timeline

1923: GM partners with Standard Oil (now Exxon) and DuPont to form Ethyl Gasoline Corporation. They market the product as “Ethyl,” deliberately avoiding the word “lead” despite known toxicity.

Rolling back a new ballot initiative, even.

...a metric shit ton of evidence that could destroy your nice cushy life...

But it didn't even happen, though.

To think some people will tell you privilege isn't real.

It's not as if ICE is going to stop kidnapping people if they run out of lawyers.

Staying on and trying to make the system work sounds like the most moral option to me. It also sounds fruitless.

Sure, it may not work, because the feds haven't been following the rules. It's important to make it crystal-clear that they aren't following the rules, anyway.

Back in the Naughties, I thought this approach would matter, would rein in police abuse.

I didn't understand that police violence and mendacity were systemic, cultural problems, not evidentiary ones.

Something that jumped out at me: These guys had worked for CBP for ~8 and ~12 years, respectively.

These thugs, who wrestled an uninvolved bystander to the ground, then shot him in the back while he lay there helpless, were not panicky newbs. These were veteran CBP officers.

Is this just what veteran CBP officers are like?

If they abduct you and disappear you without a trace, that's not really "arresting" you in the first place. It's just kidnapping. They're claiming an expansion of their power to commit kidnappings.