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12 hours ago, freyguy said:

Really pissing me off seeing these ICE commercials during the UT broadcast.

The ICE commercials were far less offensive than the game coverage. 

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15 hours ago, Satchel said:

Was the semi automatic weapon legally possessed?

Did it even exist? These thugs aren’t following laws, why expect them to be honest? Shoot first, lie later.

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19 hours ago, David Dennison said:

State agents need to intervene. 

Come on, J.B. Let's see what you've got.

They need to go further than that. Offer 2 combat shotguns for any resident of Chicago willing to join a regulated militia and tell people to start using the 2nd to protect the 1st and 4th.

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9 hours ago, David Dennison said:

This thread is a good reminder that giving a shit about a stupid football team is kind of pointless.

What happened in Gainesville yesterday is a good reminder that giving a shit about a stupid football team is kind of pointless.

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On 10/3/2025 at 5:44 PM, bolverk said:

Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara deported Friday
Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been deported to El Salvador Friday morning at 4 a.m., according to Katherine Jacobsen with the Committee to Protect Journalists.

This came after the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected Mario Guevara’s ask to remain in the U.S. as his attorneys said he fears retribution in El Salvador for his media coverage.

“We’re not in the best spirits, but like I said earlier, he’s alive, and when this sadness passes, I know we [the family] will rise up and this time stronger. We’ll have higher spirits than ever,” he added.

Mario Guevara was arrested in June during a “No Kings” protest in DeKalb County. He’s from El Salvador and entered the U.S. legally in 2004. 

He was transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after his arrest, even though his charges were dropped. An immigration judge ruled he could be released from detention on bond, but the federal government appealed. 

Guevara had applied for asylum in 2005 and was denied, but appealed that decision. That appeal went unresolved and was administratively closed until 2025. He was in the process of getting a green card through his U.S. citizen son. 

After his arrest, the Department of Homeland Security reopened the unresolved asylum appeal and denied it. Guevara asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to temporarily pause his deportation, but that was denied Wednesday. 

The court indicated in its decision that while Guevara was within his First Amendment rights to report on the protest, he did not have the proper paperwork filed at the right time to stay in the U.S. 

“Taken as a one-off, you could write off the case of Mario Guevara as an immigration issue, that someone might not have had all of their immigration paperwork lined up,” said Jacobsen, who serves as the U.S., Canada, and Caribbean program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists.

“But I don’t think that that’s what the case is actually about. I think what we saw in this case is a really concerted effort from the government to try and deport a journalist who was very well known in the Atlanta Metro community, especially in Spanish language communities, and to curtail the ability of other reporters to go out with confidence that they could cover and live stream police activity without fear of retaliation government,” she added. “That’s what this case is about.”

CPJ reports Guevara has been the only journalist in prison or ICE detention in the U.S. this year.

I have a few questions- you say Mr. Guevara entered legally in 2004, and applied for asylum in 2005? How did he enter in 2004- student visa, tourist visa, or just (as was common once) walk across to a border town for a visit, just showing an ID?

 
His asylum request- is he legit at risk if he returned to El Salvador (hasn’t El Salvador’s governance changed a few times?)? Or, is that just a way to apply for legal residency after overstaying a visa? Is it correct to assume that at no point in the intervening 20 years that Mr. Guevara never visited El Salvador, because, you know, he was at risk?

 I notice that from 2005-2025, Dem administrations were in charge, and presumably not hostile to immigrants, especially asylum seekers and refugees. I’m curious as to why he was not able to gain legal status. 
 
A little googling shows that an asylum seeker may be employed, but must get a renewable permit to work. These permits must be renewed every 150 days. Honest question- is Mr. Guevara diligent about legal filings and the system is just that difficult, or was he lax about some elements, figuring it didn’t matter?

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33 minutes ago, statsman said:

I have a few questions- you say Mr. Guevara entered legally in 2004, and applied for asylum in 2005? How did he enter in 2004- student visa, tourist visa, or just (as was common once) walk across to a border town for a visit, just showing an ID?

 
His asylum request- is he legit at risk if he returned to El Salvador (hasn’t El Salvador’s governance changed a few times?)? Or, is that just a way to apply for legal residency after overstaying a visa? Is it correct to assume that at no point in the intervening 20 years that Mr. Guevara never visited El Salvador, because, you know, he was at risk?

 I notice that from 2005-2025, Dem administrations were in charge, and presumably not hostile to immigrants, especially asylum seekers and refugees. I’m curious as to why he was not able to gain legal status. 
 
A little googling shows that an asylum seeker may be employed, but must get a renewable permit to work. These permits must be renewed every 150 days. Honest question- is Mr. Guevara diligent about legal filings and the system is just that difficult, or was he lax about some elements, figuring it didn’t matter?

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42 minutes ago, statsman said:

I have a few questions- you say Mr. Guevara entered legally in 2004, and applied for asylum in 2005? How did he enter in 2004- student visa, tourist visa, or just (as was common once) walk across to a border town for a visit, just showing an ID?

 
His asylum request- is he legit at risk if he returned to El Salvador (hasn’t El Salvador’s governance changed a few times?)? Or, is that just a way to apply for legal residency after overstaying a visa? Is it correct to assume that at no point in the intervening 20 years that Mr. Guevara never visited El Salvador, because, you know, he was at risk?

 I notice that from 2005-2025, Dem administrations were in charge, and presumably not hostile to immigrants, especially asylum seekers and refugees. I’m curious as to why he was not able to gain legal status. 
 
A little googling shows that an asylum seeker may be employed, but must get a renewable permit to work. These permits must be renewed every 150 days. Honest question- is Mr. Guevara diligent about legal filings and the system is just that difficult, or was he lax about some elements, figuring it didn’t matter?

I have a question - why do you believe anything this administration says?

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18 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

I have a question - why do you believe anything this administration says?

Well, he's wholly supportive of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, so you can probably also guess that he's generally racist and is, therefore, quite content knowing some brown person is suffering somewhere. Whether he actually believes the regime doesn't really matter; he's just happy to see cruelty inflicted on his "lessers."

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Pretty powerful read from a former Daily Memphian columnist who quit when the paper refused to print this column: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/173nCDbP8A/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Yesterday, I quit my long-held position as a columnist for the Daily Memphian when they refused to run my column. I posted that column. Your support. has been overwhelming.

Thank you from my very soul. And just to keep me humble, a few of you found something that you felt must be corrected, bless your hearts.

I misspelled "indict."

I have corrected that and I'm reposting the column below.

I should point our that my lovely and brilliant daughter, Hallie Schorman, also posted the column. Hallie works in marketing and communications at Syracuse University and is also an adjunct professor there. She is also a grammar Nazi, actually, a grammar Hannibal Lector. You misspell or misplace something, she might just bite your head off.

She cut me some slack on indict.

0/3/25
DAN CONAWAY

SIMPLE VALUES FOR THE MOST COMPLICATED OF TIMES, AND THE TIMES' CALL TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US

"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country."

My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting a bit long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five.

He joined the Navy the week after Pearl Harbor.

"Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk."

"So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered.
Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city.

That was last week. This week changed everything.

This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia.

He told our country's top brass that their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities.

Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight.

The Commander in Chief told them that their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own.

Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield.

"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..."

As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government.

The president who would be king.

Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indict, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DAs in Georgia and New York.

A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish.

Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man.

You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong.

Nothing excuses this. Nothing.

Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front.

The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet.

We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible.

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart.

Here, ready to rumble.

Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble.

Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us.

Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice.

What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis.

"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.

One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us.

You're right, Dad. I know.

I'm a Memphian, soon under siege.

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1 hour ago, statsman said:

I have a few questions- you say Mr. Guevara entered legally in 2004, and applied for asylum in 2005? How did he enter in 2004- student visa, tourist visa, or just (as was common once) walk across to a border town for a visit, just showing an ID?

 
His asylum request- is he legit at risk if he returned to El Salvador (hasn’t El Salvador’s governance changed a few times?)? Or, is that just a way to apply for legal residency after overstaying a visa? Is it correct to assume that at no point in the intervening 20 years that Mr. Guevara never visited El Salvador, because, you know, he was at risk?

 I notice that from 2005-2025, Dem administrations were in charge, and presumably not hostile to immigrants, especially asylum seekers and refugees. I’m curious as to why he was not able to gain legal status. 
 
A little googling shows that an asylum seeker may be employed, but must get a renewable permit to work. These permits must be renewed every 150 days. Honest question- is Mr. Guevara diligent about legal filings and the system is just that difficult, or was he lax about some elements, figuring it didn’t matter?

Answered here. https://www.aclu.org/cases/guevara-v-francis?document=Petition-for-Writ-of-Habeas-Corpus-and-Complaint#legal-documents

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13 minutes ago, statsman said:

I read it. It sounds like Mr. Guevara has a good case. 

It's over.  He's gone.

Even if you agree that Biden's immigration policy was too lax, you have to answer why it is that people who didn't immigrate under Biden, have legal, but revocable, status, are not criminals, and have been leading productive lives here for decades are being deported en masse?

Not to mention all the indiscriminate sweeps detaining US citizens and those with legal and not revocable status.

This is not correcting some theoretical wrong, it's just pure anti-immigrant performance.

It's also ungodly expensive, highly intrusive, and an example of government overreach, which alleged conservatives are so opposed to.

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