Substitute “capitulate” for “make a deal,” of course. You’d think universities would learn from the examples of those law firms and Columbia. Show that you’ll give in and give up aomething, and soon you’ll just be asked to do that again and again.
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And, of course, at the worksite, one finds WORKERS. Who pay tax. Not the people Trump claims are doing so much harm to the country.
(Narrator: They aren’t doing any harm at all, anyway.)
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I’ve been a little… disappointed by the news media’s credulously repeating the claim that Musk was leaving DOGE. The media response amounted to: “We can just repeat the claim as fact. I mean, sure, they’ve lied about literally everything up until this point, but I’m sure they’re telling the truth now.”
In theory (for some purposes). But the only place where this 100 mile rule seems to ever get applied is along the Mexican border (e.g. with immigration checkpoints on US roads within that distance from Mexico). However, it seems like the feds don’t have the stomach to really test that idea out anywhere else, because that would mean most of coastal states would be border regions and some states would be entirely border regions (e.g. Florida). If you’re claiming you don’t have full rights in a border region, and then claiming this applies to an entire state (or at the very least all of the state’s cities) and 2/3 of the country’s entire population, this is very clearly problematic, and there’d be enough lawsuits piling up to force a rethink of the definition. So the feds haven’t pushed it, because they don’t want to lose the powers they currently have under that definition. At least, so far.
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ICE raids are a regular occurrence here in Seattle where we’re about 100 miles from the border (as the crow flies). As per usual, these raids are generally targeting brown folk.
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IIRC, it does mean it, as well as anywhere within 100 miles of any port of entry (e.g. an international airport).
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This is interesting.
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A stopped clock and all that. Longliners are the moustache-twirling kind of environmental catastrophe for profit.
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Very, very slight clarification: Leonard Leo did not help pick or confirm Thomas. Leo was a recent law school grad at the time who had just started working for the Federalist Society. He didn’t have much power or influence yet. But he had met Thomas, and the two liked each other, so Leo helped Thomas prep for his confirmation hearings. By the time Roberts and Alito were nominated, Leo had power and influence, and absolutely helped push their nominations and confirmations forward. But Leo was 26 years old when Thomas was nominated. He was just a newly minted lawyer who helped Thomas prep.
Leo has had an absolutely enormous impact, though, on the federal judiciary as a whole, and it’s a problem.
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The FDA isn’t a total loss.
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ain’t that the truth!
plus, 19 sharks?! totally unacceptable. sharks are dangerously overfished, as it is! and a goliath grouper can only be taken with a lottery-chosen stamp (official regulatory permission from FWC).
i don’t believe what the divers did was wrong. i still hate tRump.
that’s all I have to say about that.
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OAN suddenly needed to staff the Pentagon, so Cuccia was brought aboard as chief Pentagon correspondent. She personally renovated the office space into what she called a “Liberty Lounge” and chronicled the process on social media.
According to her Substack post, she soon grew skeptical of the Defense Department’s dealings with the press corps.
Echoing the concerns of the Pentagon Press Association — which Cuccia said she is not officially a part of, since “again hello I am MAGA” — she pointed out that the Pentagon’s top spokesman has only held one briefing since January.
“This Administration, to my surprise, also locked the doors to the Pentagon Briefing room, a protocol that was never in place in prior Administrations, and a door that is never locked for press at the White House,” she wrote.
“The Commander-in-Chief welcomes the hard questions… and yes, even the dumb ones. Why won’t the Secretary of Defense do the same?”
(emphasis added)
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Sir, what is 2+2?
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I’m holding out for TALLOW… no, I don’t have a backronym for it, but feels like it just fits with Trump.
Maybe “Trump Always Loquaciously Loses Over the World”? Bonus points for words he wouldn’t understand?
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Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February.
He’s currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says “trans people… just disappear.”
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Tallow taco! 
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- That’s exactly what you voted for.
- What are you gonna do about it? Not even the absolute bare minimum of not voting Trump in for a third term, I’ll bet.
More crocodile tears from the fascists who know they’re horrible people but would never become anything else no matter how bad things get.
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