ROB HENDERSON ON LINDSAY CLANCY: O.J. Simpson for middle-class white women. “What I’m about to explain is why some verdicts are more about settling emotional debts than attaining a fair outcome. Once you understand this, the support for Lindsay Clancy begins to look much less mysterious.”

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NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

Here’s a Community Note that could use a little push to reach Helpful status: “While Patrick Havas forced his way through the crowd while carrying weapons, police state he did not brandish them or lunge at Acton. He approached holding a cellphone to record.”

UM…: US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why.

US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Pat Harrigan (R-NC) on Friday asked for an investigation by the Defense Department Inspector General into policies that have only partially stanched the flow of location data that allows military personnel to be tracked and targeted.

In May, Wyden, Harrigan, and a bipartisan group of 12 other members of Congress released details about how commercially purchased location data – often captured by mobile apps and advertising SDKs – can be used to identify where US military personnel gather and to target those locations. They noted that the DoD has been aware of this threat since at least 2016.

The lawmakers urged Defense Department CIO Kirsten A. Davies to take steps to mitigate this risk, including turning off advertising identifiers on DoD smartphones and issuing a policy requiring the disabling of advertising identifiers on all personal devices brought into DoD facilities or overseas.

This seems like no-brainer stuff, and the DOD has sat on it for a decade?

NOW THAT WOULD BE SOME CHANGE:

THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE CAMERAS. THE PROBLEM IS THE DATA BASE THEY’RE FEEDING AND THE ACCESS AND USE POLICIES:  Good Point.

SORRY I DIDN’T SHARE THIS HERE YESTERDAY:  The Memes must go on.

For family reasons, we’re moving. It’s a long and complicated story, but it looks like end state will be better for us, and better for the rest of the family too. Anyway, the move must be completed this month, which means I’ve barely been online enough to check the email and often collapse before I can post here. That was the last week and a half. This week should be a little better.

THE GOAL IS WHAT IT SHOULD BE: TO USE IT ONLY FOR EXCEPTIONAL CASES:  Trump wants to increase fees for this visa. It could top $200,000. Critics of the visa program lauded the move to reduce competition for U.S. jobs. But opponents of the higher fee say it will devastate the program and question whether the goal is to abolish it.

The goal was never supposed to be replacing all American workers with cheaper labor that couldn’t talk back. And it’s time to stop that already. I see the President is giving his attention to this matter. This is what I voted for.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE ABOLITION OF BRITAIN: