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The NY Times had a good write-up on him this morning. PTSD, depression, isolation: bad cocktail for someone with minimal education and doesn't speak the language on top of having gone through some serious shit. A Volunteer’s Dire Warnings About the National Guard Shooting Suspect More than a year before the Trump administration granted asylum to the Afghan immigrant, the volunteer’s emails raised concerns that he was unraveling. The emailed plea was urgent and direct: “Rahmanullah needs help.” The warning came nearly two years before Rahmanullah Lakanwal would be named as a suspect in the gunning down of two National Guard troops near the White House on the eve of Thanksgiving. It was enshrined in writing by a volunteer helping to give Mr. Lakanwal a fresh start in America who had become convinced he was unraveling. He had tried to make a go of life in the coastal city of Bellingham, Wash., after he and his family were evacuated from Afghanistan by the U.S. military in August 2021. In Afghanistan, he had fought in a C.I.A.-trained paramilitary unit. In the United States, he did temporary jobs, took his five sons to a local mosque and hosted visitors for tea in an apartment decorated in traditional Afghan style, with floor pillows and red rugs. But by early 2023, he started to show signs of depression and erratic behavior, according to accounts from a volunteer in northwest Washington who worked with his family. In the months after, he sequestered himself inside his darkened bedroom, refused to answer his phone, and even failed to bathe or dress his sons when his wife left to take short breaks from him. He dropped out of the English classes he was supposed to take, did not seek work and stopped paying rent. His family received an eviction notice. “Rahmanullah has not been functional as a person, father and provider since March of last year,” the volunteer wrote in a January 2024 email for a friend to send to a nonprofit group working with immigrants. “His behavior has changed greatly.” Occasionally, Mr. Lakanwal did emerge from “dark isolation,” only to disappear onto the open road, taking seemingly aimless drives hundreds of miles away to Chicago and Phoenix and Indianapolis in “reckless travel,” the volunteer wrote. He posted photos from the car on Instagram. Last week, Mr. Lakanwal went on one last road trip, the authorities say, driving cross-country to Washington, D.C., where he is accused of shooting two West Virginia Guard members, one fatally. Mr. Lakanwal, 29, has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Investigators are still trying to understand why Mr. Lakanwal spiraled downward — whether he was haunted by his involvement with a violent Afghan paramilitary group, as a childhood friend told The New York Times, or if he was succumbing to the isolation, poverty and untreated mental traumas that trail many Afghans from their war-ravaged homeland, or something else entirely. Prosecutors called the shootings a betrayal by a man who had benefited from America’s generosity. Regardless of motivation, the attack has had global reverberations, as America’s failed wars violently returned just steps from the White House. continued: https://archive.is/tYo4h
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In case you missed this from last night, Stewart brilliantly covers that.
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TIL Jimi Hendrix opened with a live cover of Sgt. Pepper at the Saville Theatre in London two days after the album was released, meaning that dude had to learn it in a day or so. Helluva tribute and show of respect, exhibiting how important that album was.
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Hey man, we aren't quibbling over my shit. We're negotiating over your shit.
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Nix that comment about the culture wars having just been started. No, it was just another stupid battle that's been going on forever.
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The Beatles Anthology documentary is out. Lots of great stuff in it. I've just started the sixth episode and paused to say that I had no idea that the fucking KKK was one of the groups to come out and protest the "bigger than Jesus" comment. Hell, one of those dipshits was interviewed, showing his face on TV in Memphis, to clumsily explain his stupidity and why he's so pissed off. Culture wars were just getting started, I suppose. Again, lots of great stuff in this thing.
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Season finale or series? Cuz that's one helluva cliffhanger.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
She's from Austin. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/college-student-deported-thanksgiving-texas.html A 19-year-old college student was about to board a flight to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport and deported to Honduras two days later, her father and lawyer said on Sunday. The student, Any Lucia López Belloza, was brought by her parents from Honduras to the United States when she was 7. Her father, Francis López, said in a telephone interview on Sunday that neither Ms. López nor her mother knew there was an order for her deportation. “When they arrested Any, that’s when they told her,” said Mr. López, a tailor. He said his employer had arranged and paid for his daughter’s travel to Austin, Texas, to surprise him at work. Ms. López’s lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, described an opaque process for obtaining information about her case, including the grounds for her deportation. He said she had been deported in violation of a court order that a federal judge signed on Friday that said Ms. López could not be removed from the United States while her case was pending. Ms. López, a freshman studying business at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., was about to board a Southwest Airlines flight to Texas early on Nov. 20. She was told there was a problem with her ticket, so she went to customer service and was surrounded by immigration agents, Mr. Pomerleau said. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency told The Boston Globe that an immigration judge had ordered Ms. López deported in 2015, when she was a child. The agency did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday. Mr. Pomerleau said he checked her information in the Executive Office for Immigration Review database and could not find any record of her original deportation order. “So I’m not convinced she has a removal order, and if she did have one, she should have been notified of it, because she’s completely unaware of this situation,” he said. On Saturday, after she spent a night detained in Texas, she was put on a bus with shackles on her wrists, waist and ankles before being put on a flight to Honduras, Mr. Pomerleau said. Ms. López, who is staying with her grandparents in Honduras, asked that her father speak on her behalf, her father said. He said she had found it upsetting to recount the details of her removal, in particular being detained and shackled. He said his daughter told him she had not signed any paperwork authorizing her removal from the United States, as some people do to avoid lengthy detentions. Ms. López lived in Texas with her parents and two younger siblings, who are 2 and 5, before going to college. The family emigrated nearly 12 years ago because of the rampant crime and insecurity in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Mr. López and his wife feared for their daughter as the news was filled every week “with deaths and murders,” he said. “That’s the reason we left.” The family had applied for asylum, he said, but it was denied, and they were never told they had to appeal to avoid a deportation order. Mr. López described his daughter as organized and studious. “She had that responsibility — of being the first to graduate from college and being an example to others,” said Mr. López, who had sewn her business suits for interviews and internships. Now, he said, his daughter was reeling being back in the country she left behind so long ago. “She’s trying to assimilate to her new reality,” he said. Ms. López told The Globe she was worried about how she would continue her education. “I have worked so hard to be able to be at Babson my first semester, that was my dream,” she said. “I’m losing everything.” A spokeswoman for Babson College did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday. At the time the López family left Honduras, migration from Central America was growing as people, particularly in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, fled violence, crime and economic stagnation. In recent years, migration from Honduras surged, with thousands joining migrant caravans and camping at the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump made stopping immigration and expelling migrants a central message of his campaigns, even more so in his push for a second term. In recent days, he again turned his attention to Honduras, endorsing a right-wing candidate in this weekend’s election and seeking to pardon a former president whom many experts blame for spurring mass migration from his country to the United States. The president in office, Xiomara Castro, has spent the end of her term trying to balance her obligation to undocumented migrants in the United States — of which there are estimated to be more than half a million — with a need to cooperate with the Trump administration, which has come down hard on leaders who do not back its agenda. By Nov. 20, nearly 30,000 Hondurans had been deported this year, about 13,000 more than in the same period last year, according to Honduran government data. Honduran officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the case of Ms. López. Her father said he felt it was important to share his family’s ordeal at a time when so many are facing deportation amid Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown. “I’ve decided to speak because it’s a reality we are facing right now,” he said. -
Vanderbilt hasn't beaten a single AP Top 25 team, while Notre Dame, BYU, and Miami have only one apiece. Yet all four are ranked ahead of Texas, which has the same total Top 25 wins as all four teams combined.
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I'm not "talking trash," simply pointing out facts. Texas beat Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma on the field in a convincing fashion. Texas is inarguably a better team than all three, yet it's somehow ranked lower than each. Your entire season hinges on a single victory against Alabama (who lost to Florida fuckin' State) and two "quality" losses against Ole Miss and Texas. If Texas is as undeserving as you say, your loss to us shouldn't even count as a quality one, then, I guess. And who the fuck has Ole Miss beat? Their only "good" win is against...you. Take Texas out of the equation for a moment and give us your best justification for OU ranking in the Top 10 after going 1-2 against the current AP Top 25, especially when that single win against Michigan has none.
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