Radley Balko

Radley Balko has a great overview on the fundamental flaws with ballistics forensics[1]. The tl;dr is that the core claim of ballistics forensic analysis, that it is possible to reliably differentiate between two models of the same gun using just casings and shells fired from those guns, has never been proven to be valid. [1]: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/devil-in-the-grooves-the-case-again…

In the United States, illegal immigration is largely a humanitarian crisis. A crisis in some ways caused by the United States and their involvement in Latin America the past century. Opposition to the incoming administration’s plan for mass deportation does not have to do anything with wanting a cheap labor pool to exploit or a lack of desire to enforce the law but potentially to avoid exasperating the humanitarian crisis. Additionally there is the huge economic costs and impacts discouraging even legal immigrants from entering the country to work as migrant farm labor and so on. This post[0] really opened my eyes to the scale of the plan Trump et al has and the kinds of impacts it could have. [0]: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-deportation-army

How is this different from Subsack saying they're pure from degeneracy because they don't allow sex worker blogs? Their free speech schtick is bullshit*. It's not that nazi ideas can't be allowed to exist (you don't hear me calling for 4chan to not exist because of /pol/ for example), but declining to help monetize them is also free speech. * https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-the-substack-contr…

Forensic bullet analysis is phrenology for bullets: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/devil-in-the-grooves-the-case-again…

> Direct gdrive link I'm confused where this came from. I cannot find this link in the original article as submitted: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/truth-power-and-honest-journalism The most I can find is "But I found another place where someone has posted all 81 pages. It’s here. Feel free to look them over." Where "here" links to: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21011168-responsive-records-li… That is the 81 page PDF referred to multiple times in the article and is titled "Responsive Records Lim - Balko correspondence_Redacted". I don't see "HIPAA" appear in it anywhere. Toward the end of that document on page 69 is a screenshot of a text that includes a Word attachment titled "Dion Lim Misrepresentati...". After that are screenshots that are excerpts of the gdrive document that you linked, but the HIPAA accusation is not in any of those screenshotted excerpts. So how did tptacek even come across the HIPAA accusation, and how did you find the document that you linked that contains it? Edit: ah, it's linked from this sentence "But in the interest of transparency, I’m posting it as well. You can read it here." where "here"[^1] links to the gdrive document. Sheesh. [^1]: Pet peeve - you've failed HTML 101 if you use "here" as a link. A few sentences earlier in that paragraph is the text that should've been the link text: 'the “Dion Lim Misrepresentations” document that Tan mentions in his post'.