Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
First amendment? Never heard of it.
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I thought the main issue is the $200 per package fee, rather than the percentage-based one, since it’s either one or the other according to the original executive order:
All relevant postal items containing goods that are sent through the international postal network that are valued at or under $800 and that would otherwise qualify for the de minimis exemption are subject to a duty rate of either 30% [Later revised to 145%] of their value or $25 per item (increasing to $50 per item after June 1, 2025). [Later revisions raised this to $200] This is in lieu of any other duties, including those imposed by prior Orders.
So assuming the Bluesky poster is right and it’s now up to $200 or 145%, whichever is greater, $200 a package is going to be the major obstacle for most items people buy. However, I don’t see where he got the “whichever is greater”, because the EO doesn’t actually seem to specify how they choose which duty rate to apply. Even though it kinda seems like it should??
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Social Security classifies thousands of immigrants as dead, as part of Trump crackdown
The tactic is aimed at putting pressure on undocumented immigrants to leave the country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/self-deportation-immigrants-social-security-dead/
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Every time I think they’ve hit a new dystopian low, they manage to dig the hole a little deeper.
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In any decent world, that conversation would be Exhibit C-145T
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Mr Belton’s tattoo - a clock face with the date and time of his daughter’s birth - was included in a set of nine images for “detecting and identifying” TdA members. Other tattoos featured stars, crowns and a Michael Jordan “jumpman” logo.
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Mr Belton said it was a “bit strange, bit funny at first” but is now worried the family trip he booked to Miami with his wife and daughter in August might end up “being a six month all-inclusive holiday to Guantanamo”.
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I still think the bond market excuse is retconning rationality to T****’s actions.
It makes sense. Even if someone else had taken the action to put the insane tariffs in place to begin with, it would make sense for that person to “pause” them after seeing the impact.
That hypothetical person isn’t T****. If there’s one thing we can reasonably say, it’s that T**** doesn’t do what makes sense. He didn’t just suddenly start listening to experts. He didn’t sleep with his head on an economics textbook and learn about bond markets overnight through osmosis.
Insider trading would make sense, since he’s corrupt. Maybe Musk was pissed that Navarro was getting his way and threatened T**** and T**** offered him a way to make a hundred billion or so with insider trading to make up for Tesla’s loss in value.
But if he said he did it because of the bond markets; if his spokespeople say it was because of the bond markets; then the one thing we know with absolute certainty: he didn’t do it because of the bond markets.
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I think it’s possible it was the bond markets, if someone he currently trusts (e.g. Navarro) told him “this is bad”.
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FTA:
The US military said it had lost confidence in Colonel Susannah Meyers’ ability to
leadfollow blindly.
Fixed
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Ah, I see.
(reaches for bingo card)
We’re at this phase now:
ETA:
(reaches for bingo chip…)
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Goddam it Il Douche, coal is dead. It’s not regulation, it’s economics. You can’t bring it back. You can kill people though, and I guess that’s just as good. And, you can blame Biden/Obama/Clinton/Woke/Green New Deal/etc for it and have MAGAts believe you.
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“Sure, he committed perjury, but it was to get Biden! It was justified!”
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If they are going to fire everyone who takes exception to Vance’s insipid babbling, they’re going to have to fire almost everyone. 
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You know, I think they would be OK with that.
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“There’s no law, there’s no law anymore” - Joey Ramone
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