@markwyner @deirdrebeth

It's very interesting, as a lay person considering hosting an activity-pub based server and allowing open sign-ups, it felt to me like they were trying to hedge against the fact that once something's published online, especially via a federated publishing network, the publisher doesn't have a legally meaningful (to my mind, but I am not a judge) mechanism to reliably unpublished it from the internet. As I read it, they seemed to be asking the user to agree that all parties understood and accepted this.

I could be wrong, of course, and I'm sure the author of your link would say I am (under their subheading "What about federation?" where they seem to think what I describe is handled implicitly, and that's fine for all parties), but nevertheless it's food for thought for me, in how I might compose/adjust a ToS agreement. Thank you for sharing it.

…In the lead-up to the Nov election, #Musk offered voters in 7 states that were considered key to the election $47 & later $100 for signing a petition *supporting* the US Constitution. Registered voters were also promised payments for referring voters in the 7 states who signed the petition.

The 3 plaintiffs, residents of Pennsylvania, Nevada & Georgia, claim that #AmericaPAC breached a #contract by failing to pay in full.

Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? 30 Days Until Martial Law...?
By Jessica Wildfire • 20 Mar 2025.
https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-now-30-days-until-martial-law/ (Kind of a salacious title, but unfortunately not impossible either.)

And she links (Safe Travel Trans Americans Passport Policy) https://19thnews.org/2025/03/safe-travel-trans-americans-passport-policy/
(TGNC Checklist under Trump) https://lambdalegal.org/tgnc-checklist-under-trump/

(Travel State gov page on passport help with sex marker) https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/passport-help/sex-marker.html
(Reddit thread A Guide for Americans to Leave) https://www.reddit.com/r/AmerExit/comments/urwlbr/a_guide_for_americans_that_want_to_get_out_of/

(SF Chronicle on the Insurrection Act) https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/insurrection-act-president-trump-20201819.php

"Meanwhile, corporate media asks, “Can he do that?” These stories are engineered to distract the public with technicalities. While everyone’s debating what they can and can’t do, they are doing it.

We know this administration’s pattern of loose interpretation when it comes to law and historical precedent. There’s no reason to believe he’ll stop here, instead using this act to use force against anyone his administration considers a threat, regardless of their status or what they’re protesting.

You also have to remember this country has a long, established history of censoring speech and leading witch hunts. During WWI, god help you if you didn’t buy enough liberty bonds or called yourself a pacifist.

We’re the land of moral panics.

Every single one of this administration’s actions have been building toward this moment, when the president suspends our civil and human rights. It explains why they’ve taken such aggressive action toward federal agencies, firing tens of thousands of workers and purging their ranks of anyone who might say no. They’ve already been testing boundaries, daring courts to stop them as they shut down government operations and kidnap U.S. citizens."

(some bullshit from an insecure asshole puppetted for power) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states/
(How to move out of the USA) https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2024/11/04/how-to-move-out-of-the-us/

It also said that #USAID & the #State Dept had legal authority to halt payments that did not depend on #Trump's Jan 20 #ExecutiveOrder freezing #ForeignAid, which Ali's order barred the admin from enforcing.

The admin asked that, if it had "misunderstood" Ali's temporary order, the judge convert it into a longer-term injunction that it would be able to appeal immediately.

The #Trump admin said in the filing that it was complying w/ #US District Judge Amir Ali's temporary restraining order, pointing to a line in the order saying that the #USAID & the #State Dept were not barred from "enforcing the terms of contracts & grants."

It said it was reviewing the frozen agreements & had determined that all of them allowed the admin to terminate or suspend them, either on their own terms or "implicitly."

We want to again thank everyone for their support, especially across #NYGuild, #NewsGuild, CODE-CWA, CWA District 1, the New York City Central Labor Council, New York State AFL-CIO. It’s all one fight!

We hope that this contract sets a precedent for tech workers across the country – because every tech worker deserves guaranteed raises, just cause, flexible hybrid schedules, compensation for on-call work, and protections for those on work visas…