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23 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Really worth reading this article. ICE are intimidating lawyers at their home at 11:30pm for helping fellow community members with immigration issues. This lawyer lives in D/FW. 

The Courage to be Decent
 

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Crazy times when you have to start making requests for the next Android update to allow you to take pictures / videos without unlocking the phone AND prevent the deletion of those pictures while still locked.  IYKYK.

ETA:  Apparently, you can hit the home / power button after taking a pic and that cuts off access to that picture until you unlock the phone.  If someone grabs the phone out of your hand while you're shooting, they can delete whatever pictures / videos you took in the most recent session, though.

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33 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Really worth reading this article. ICE are intimidating lawyers at their home at 11:30pm for helping fellow community members with immigration issues. This lawyer lives in D/FW. 

The Courage to be Decent
 

 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/love-letter-george-saunders

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Perhaps I haven’t told you this yet: in the early days, I wrote two letters to the editor of the local rag, one overwrought, the other comic. Neither had any effect. Those who agreed with me agreed with me; those who did not remained unpersuaded. After a third attempt was rejected, I found myself pulled over, up near the house, for no reason I could discern. The cop (nice guy, just a kid, really, from my perspective) asked what I did all day. Did I have any hobbies? I said no. He said, Some of us heard you like to type. I sat in my car, looking over at his large, pale arm. His face was the face of a kid. His arm, though, was the arm of a man.

How would you know about that? I said.

Have a good night, sir, he said. Stay off the computer.

Good Lord, his stupidity and bulk there in the darkness, the metallic clanking from his belt area, the palpable certainty he seemed to feel regarding his cause, a cause I cannot begin, even at this late date, to get my head around, or view from within, so to speak.

Fiction, but we're getting there....

 

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So the radical right keeps using Laken Riley as a talking point saying Garcia got more due process than she got. 

if I was Riley’s family, I’d be livid 

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5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

So the radical right keeps using Laken Riley as a talking point saying Garcia got more due process than she got. 

if I was Riley’s family, I’d be livid 

Trump also allowed Venezuelans temporary legal status before he left office, which people attribute to the influx of other Venezuelans after he left. Yet, Republicans used her death by a Venezuelan to hurt Biden. They are playing on a different, evil level. How Dems messed that one up is crazy. 

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My answer to what makes sense in this MAGA turn our country has taken:

The resistance cares about the one-off.  

If even one person is wrongly deported, the process has to change.

If even one person is wrongly executed, the process/laws have to change.

If even one child dies of the measles, we need to increase vaccinations.

If even one person dies of tainted food, we need to increase food inspections.

The MAGA - for thee and not for me approach accepts casualties as long as they don't affect them.

If it's suspected criminals or immigrants -- what are we even talking about?

If it's a few hundred thousand dead people - well that's just pre-rapture paring down.

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2 hours ago, 'stache said:

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I told my wife last night that the GOP thinks that if they limit payments to married couples having kids that they think that will be a backdoor way to mostly pay white people because they think black families won’t qualify nearly as often. 

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So Bondi and the justice dept are holding a task force meeting on combating alleged anti-Christian bias

 

This is a total fucking waste. 

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43 minutes ago, Pancho said:

So Bondi and the justice dept are holding a task force meeting on combating alleged anti-Christian bias

 

This is a total fucking waste. 

While trying to suppress free speech on college campuses under the guise of antisemitism. If they weren’t fucking destroying the world, I would be applauding their marketing genius. 

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20 hours ago, miguelito said:

"Which per capita?  There are many per capitas."

 

Here's the actual quote:

TRUMP: “When you say per capita, there’s many per capitas. It’s like per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category and we’re really at the top”

we're first, because we're last

Posted
25 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Swear we used to have laws and shit to prevent that kind of thing from happening. Oh well. 

Well, ackshually, we kind of didn't.  We had norms that most or all Presidents respected.  The Emoluments Clause sets a norm, but without a statute/law enacted pursuant to it, is basically unenforceable.

One of our problems is that our do-nothing Congress has been lax in enacting laws that constrain the behavior of public officials, in no small part because they would constrain Congress as well.

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3 minutes ago, Derka said:

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I’ll say it until I’m blue in the face, there are a TON of white dude votes that are gettable with a relatively minor amount of effort.

It’s not even moving the platform to the center, it’s simply venturing into white dude spaces and refusing to let your enemy define you. 

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7 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Really worth reading this article. ICE are intimidating lawyers at their home at 11:30pm for helping fellow community members with immigration issues. This lawyer lives in D/FW. 

The Courage to be Decent
 

 

I said it a long, long time ago: everyone at ICE needs to be fired with no possibility for rehire.  The whole thing is corrupt up and down the bureaucracy.

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2 minutes ago, elfenix said:

I said it a long, long time ago: everyone at ICE needs to be fired with no possibility for rehire.  The whole thing is corrupt up and down the bureaucracy.


more than just ICE

 

 

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14 minutes ago, elfenix said:

I said it a long, long time ago: everyone at ICE needs to be fired with no possibility for rehire.  The whole thing is corrupt up and down the bureaucracy.

put them in the factories

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Pete has been all over the place for years. You have to be a completely ignorant rube to not know who he is. 
 

 

 

 

oh

So a trump voter

Posted
1 hour ago, Derka said:

like pretty much every boy born in the 80’s, i grew up playing with gi joes, and thinking that all of these suited-and-booted special forces looking guys on my tv were so badass. now every time i see someone who looks like this:

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all i see is a scared little piece of shit pussy who’s LARPing as a hero while carrying out the most vile and cowardly work imaginable. the more tactical gear you have on, the more giant of a pussy i assume you are. fucking losers.

pussies

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2 hours ago, Derka said:

like pretty much every boy born in the 80’s, i grew up playing with gi joes, and thinking that all of these suited-and-booted special forces looking guys on my tv were so badass. now every time i see someone who looks like this:

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all i see is a scared little piece of shit pussy who’s LARPing as a hero while carrying out the most vile and cowardly work imaginable. the more tactical gear you have on, the more giant of a pussy i assume you are. fucking losers.

I.e. Kyle Rittenhouse.

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5 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

An EO to end the Civil Rights Act.

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That's one he can't end unilaterally. It's a statute, only Congress can repeal a statute, or SCOTUS hold it unconstitutional.

This does, however, direct executive agencies and departments with the authority to pursue discrimination cases based on "disparate impact," as opposed to proof of actual discriminatory intent or disparate treatment not to pursue those cases.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

That's one he can't end unilaterally. It's a statute, only Congress can repeal a statute, or SCOTUS hold it unconstitutional.

This does, however, direct executive agencies and departments with the authority to pursue discrimination cases based on "disparate impact," as opposed to proof of actual discriminatory intent or disparate treatment not to pursue those cases.

So basically, not enforce the law?

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2 hours ago, Derka said:

like pretty much every boy born in the 80’s, i grew up playing with gi joes, and thinking that all of these suited-and-booted special forces looking guys on my tv were so badass. now every time i see someone who looks like this:

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all i see is a scared little piece of shit pussy who’s LARPing as a hero while carrying out the most vile and cowardly work imaginable. the more tactical gear you have on, the more giant of a pussy i assume you are. fucking losers.

GI Joe's generally didn't hide their faces (outside a few with special reasons) but the bad guys certainly did.

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I don't know shit about the law, but one thing I find weirdly encouraging is learning that they give enough of a shit to debate how best to argue a case in front of a judge, meaning there's some element left that respects the law enough to some sort of degree to even bother trying.

And that's about the most optimistic thing I could possibly say.

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8 hours ago, Derka said:

“restoring meritocracy”, said the most anti-meritocratic white house ever. absolute fucking embarrassment.

It's insane how the title of basically every one of these EO's is the exact opposite of what they're actually doing. It's like some kind of test to see how stupid people are. The answer is very stupid.

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10 hours ago, bolverk said:

So basically, not enforce the law?

Yeah.  But, that kind of thing is more or less the usual prerogative of a normal administration, but it's less performative than this.

A decent bit of civil rights litigation stems from private plaintiffs rather than the government, at least that that leads to "landmark decisions."  But, there's probably a good bit more "administrative" civil rights enforcement (EEOC, etc.) that influences corporate and institutional behavior without going to litigation, or very far in litigation.

And a lot of this is judicially created law, so almost impossible to change "on a dime."

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19 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

And a lot of this is judicially created law, so almost impossible to change "on a dime."

[Laughs in Roberts Court]

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4 hours ago, Okie State said:

It's insane how the title of basically every one of these EO's is the exact opposite of what they're actually doing. It's like some kind of test to see how stupid people are. The answer is very stupid.

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13 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

That's one he can't end unilaterally. It's a statute, only Congress can repeal a statute, or SCOTUS hold it unconstitutional.

This does, however, direct executive agencies and departments with the authority to pursue discrimination cases based on "disparate impact," as opposed to proof of actual discriminatory intent or disparate treatment not to pursue those cases.

 

 

 

clarance thomas is rest to shit can it 



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