Adam Linthicum

Global Coin Logistics sells dollars to ATM providers across the country. Last year, the DEA and CBP seized more than $1 million from GCL during two different airport seizures without charging anyone with a crime. Now, GCL and @ij.org have filed a federal lawsuit challenging those seizures.

The feds seized $1.4M from a currency wholesaler. He’s suing in San Diego to stop the practice.

Can confirm, in the last 6 months AI submissions to my firm have blown up. It’s annoying.

My biweekly house cleaner came by today. For the second time in a row, she was alone; apparently many workers in NOVA are afraid to leave their homes. She then said, “My friend told me I need to vote, but I don’t know who to vote for to stop this!” It was a good chat.

Civil forfeiture is morally wrong in almost any context, but sometimes it can be hilarious.

So I was all “Yeah! That makes sense!” When I heard that Steve Jobs wore the same thing every day to reduce cognitive waste on little things. But what do these things people think is a big thing if not their own children?

The wee one is trying to make their standing activity center into a bouncer and is _very_ upset that it’s not working.

striking how WaPo can write a headline with such moral clarity when they want

Getting roflstomped by the COVID vaccine. Ugh

The opposite of “suicidal empathy” is homicidal selfishness.

I can imagine the conversation outside the oval office... "JFC, just tell him we got it so that he will shut the fuck up about it. We have more brown people to cage and we need his signature..."

I'm sorry, but the stream of consciousness editing here is wild: We need hospitals! "What would happen... if you deep fry this thing?" Talk about oil pipelines

This sucks. That dude was a fucking work horse of the highest quality.

There is a thread on r/cooking about cooking sins. People have a weird definition of sins!

Dem: We need to vote to protect our children from fascism! Trans: I will vote to protect trans children from fascism! Dem: Not them. Other children! Vote to protect the other children! Trans: I will vote for anyone who'll protect trans children from fascism. Dem: Wny do you love fascism????

One of the funniest things about getting involved in local politics is how many people tell you that you’re wasting your time. I want to live locally! It is not a waste!

My biggest issue with these skeet ropes is that I don’t want to be looking at this jabrony every fucking time a new dunk is invented. I appreciate the work that goes into a 89 skeet dunk. But I don’t want to stare at the same dumb ass pic. *This isnt a complaint against Kevin, TBH.

Beautiful in in Northern VA. One of those nights where you step outside and don’t know where your skin ends and the air begins.

Saw a FDA recruitment ad on the metro. Are they recruiting people to not inspect for health and safety?

It's the bat binkie that does it for me. I'm done for the day. Thank you good night.

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

We have moved up our MMR vaccine four months early because this is bonkers.

Burton was never a real scrounger, unlike Scurvy. But now that munchkin is eating real food, he’s all about scraps.

Me to wife: oh I forgot that I put star anise in the stock I gave you for the bean soup. Wife: I was going to say, it’s smelling kind of… Me: Pho-nny?

This mass surveillance tech is unconstitutional even if it’s used “properly.” Unsurprisingly, though, it’s often abused. Here’s our tracker of just the reported incidents of ALPR abuse: ij.org/the-ij-datab...

Picked a good time to get back into therapy.

State is trying to forfeit a person’s car: They go to a crim def attorney: Oh Thats civil! OK… they go to a civil attorney: Oh, this looks like it’s criminal, but check with IJ! If your process can’t be figured out by barred attorneys, it’s a bad process! #endcivilforfeiture

Also McMahon: Next week we will require all Kindergarten classes to play 2 hours of Cocomelon every morning. It will be incredibly effective.

Last night, @ij.org won a jury trial against a Texas sheriff’s office using ALPRs to flag cars for pretextual stops and K9s to falsely alert. ij.org/press-releas...

Even when a restaurant “makes it right,” it really sucks when you have kids and your order gets lost.

Major uptick on people masking on the Metro today…

Anyone else not care if they are actually metaglasses and just want to stomp on Ray Bans because of the possibility that they are?

Question for parents: should one take future orthodontia costs out of our tooth fairy payouts?

Linked in has gotten into those daily games, and it will never not annoy me that they have a streak system that doesn't pause for the weekend.

Did you know that prop glass used in Hollywood is made from sugar?

Remember when Target outted a pregnant teen to her father before AI? Something tells me that they aren’t actually using AI in a novel way, here. But “bad people do bad things with bad systems” is a great way to get views, I guess!

Had a discussion with the boys about Cthulhu Mythos and how the genre is destroyed if you were to take the role of an Elder God in a game setting. I think I was the only one with that opinion. But it feels like it is the only rule that matters for building a game in that world.

School bus cameras are slowly (?) converting to include ALPRs in addition to ticketing machines. While I support the former, we must reject the latter.

This seems like a great time to add a new event for cartoon characters, Indiana Jones, and James Bond.

McConnell is reaping his life’s work rn. Having had his autonomy removed and kept safe by actors working in bad faith.

NEW: Flock has been promoting a recent working paper purporting to show a drop in car theft associated with their cameras. But @ij.org researchers have found some severe limitations with the data. ij.org/do-flock-cam...

The only time I have heard an official from the executive branch claim an expense doesn’t rely on taxpayer funds is LEOs talking about using forfeiture funds…. He’s gonna try to pay everyone in crypto.

Hopkinton, MA - Police used forfeited funds to bypass the town council and brought Flock into town with no oversight by an interim police chief. The town voted to terminate the contract. Now they should vote to send all forfeitures to the general fund.

Is there like an OFAC list of looted works that courts subject all property transfers through?

Leo’s lawsuit against DHS can go forward to discovery. He challenges the warrantless raids of construction sites, mass roundups of Latino workers, and refusal to credit government IDs. The court ruled from the bench and denied the government’s motion to dismiss. ij.org/press-releas...