The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

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Law used to kick out Nazis could be used to strip citizenship from many more Americans

a woman talking on a cell phone with the words well isn 't it ironic

For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize, or strip, citizenship from criminals who falsified their records or hid their illicit pasts.

That power, under the new Trump administration, may be broadening.

According to a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, attorneys should aim their denaturalization work to target a much broader swath of individuals – anyone who may “pose a potential danger to national security.”

The directive appears to be a push towards a larger denaturalization effort that fits with the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies. These could leave some of the millions of naturalized American citizens at risk of losing their status and being deported.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X25001838

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“Hey, there’s this guy over here in a big white house who is absolutely endangering national security - drops bombs, threatens allies with invasion, puts drunks in charge of the military - please do something about him”

Oh, “national security” - I see - I thought you meant national security.

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Can they do practice runs every day T**** is there?

The F-35 has a crash rate of 1.6 per 100,000 flight hours.

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The Social Security Admin is emailing out pure partisan propaganda.

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Unsubscribed and reported as spam.

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You’re being kind: it’s phishing. They’ll be liaising with GICEtapo.

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Ayup, the juxtaposition was rather jarring, I took a screenshot yesterday:

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To be fair, that’s not something I would promote as being an example of how awful his choices have been.

Many major cities do this: have discounted or free entrance to places that are at least partly covered by taxes in that municipality, for the exact same reason: if you’re paying taxes that help maintain a museum, why pay the same entrance fee as a tourist from elsewhere?

But, it’s usually that locals are discounted or get in for free, not that the price remains for the locals and tourists now pay more.

And this meager increase will not help our massive debt, so it shouldn’t be considered a line item at all.

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That might as well have Mamdani’s name on it. Fuuuuck…

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ICE officers will now be stationed outside every national park entrance and a detention center on the other side of the gate. But they’ll collect the entrance fee first.

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Perhaps Pedo Island is an actual connection that requires the “good relationship”.

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Some good essays today:

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Out daughter is at Greenfield Village for their annual Detroit Symphony Fireworks display.

It’s a full concert ending with the 1812 Overture and real cannons.

If you ever get a chance it’s an awesome show.

This is the shirt she’s wearing.

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And they’ll build a special theatre to hold these fights, or should because it’s a sport, maybe we should call them “games”. And they’ll expand UFC, so they’ll be allowed to wear armour and weapons, and we can call the combatants murmillones and retarii, and on special occasions they’ll bring in refugees and let them fight lions.

We don’t need to reinvent chariot racing: NASCAR already exists.

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Speaking of games he also announced this.

This doesn’t sound horrible, except for rfk leading it.

Additional America 250 celebrations announced by President Trump at the kick-off celebration include the Patriot Games, an athletic competition for high school students across the country.

Led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Patriot Games will be a nationally televised first-of-its-kind youth athletics competition featuring athletes from all 50 states.

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