This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

In fairness, accusing the current pope of being the antichrist is one of Peter Thiel’s most traditionalist and conservative behaviors

Democracy dies in dampness

Bernie Sanders had centered economics as much as anyone — did that free him from being attacked in culturally coded terms? Uh, no. You don’t get credit for the distancing, you just demobilize your own people while your opponents define you anyway. 8/

The thing I wish people like Carville et al would realize is that you cannot have ‘pure populist economic rage’ if you leave out the ‘woke’ bits. It doesn’t work like that. It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out. 1/

That’s not true, and even if it were, it would be partial equilibrium thinking. The kind of member we get is at least partially endogenous to the compensation structure we create.

"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." --Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo newrepublic.com/post/203600/...

Everton had a man sent off for slapping his teammate in the face and are currently (correctly) being described on the postgame show as magnificent. God I love this sport.

I don’t think this is correct. This line pertains to Bondi’s October 31 “ratification” of the indictment — and at that time the case had not been dismissed. Now that it has, the statutory extension could apply. I don’t know if it would, but the opinion offers no insight into the question.

if i ever said something this insane on national television i definitely would not do so in front of a backdrop with my full name written all over it

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP. Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

The US stance has gone: 1) US plan to end the war that Ukraine better accept or else 2) Not a US plan, a list of Russian asks (which the US presented for, uh, reasons) 3) US plan with Russian and Ukrainian input Not a US plan and input from Ukraine likely both lies. Where will the lying go next?

people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

My favorite piece of content today.

Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others. Love all, help all. Go Jackets.

Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title. Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.

We made it to Dunshire!

This story is nuts. "ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

josh allen

Kash Patel's personal firing of the Pride flag-displaying employee was always absurd and unconstitutional, so I'm glad David Maltinsky is suing, but, wait. It was a flag FLOWN BY THE FBI that was given to him BY THE FBI?! Come on. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Deep cut

*First day as a drug dealer*: "is Pepsi ok?

Immediate grounds for impeachment

Not only that but every time he golfs he does it on one of his own properties & charges the government, putting tax money in his private coffers. Each golf trip is a self dealing grift and an unconstitutional emolument.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

Here I Dreamt I Was A Zoning Board

They're so fucking stupid and don't realize it. The only reason many white students can afford graduate degrees is because foreign students pay for the programs and allow them to be economically efficient. Without foreign students, many programs will now simply collapse. Genius.

ftr i do not think the revolution should start here. there are more appropriate places. places with more deserving targets. places where i am not currently seated.

Get in losers, somehow we're violating the Grand Jury Clause today

When a serial cooperator is faced with a serial defector in the prisoner's dilemma, one needs to defect a few times to see if the other side can be brought back around to cooperating at least sometimes. There are dangers to mutual serial defection, but otherwise you just always lose.

Very important for people to read this portion of the Epstein Files Transparency Act so you understand 1) why Mike Johnson was so upset today, and 2) what is NOT permitted to be redacted by the DOJ.

For me it's the way the press pool just quietly went along with it because he's the president The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office

i sneezed twice in a row so now i am being sent off to a seaside village to take dreamy walks and breathe the clean salt air until my inevitably swift demise

Yup.

ACC growth is out of control

This is exactly what it was like growing up in Florida.

This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

your honor, this love shack lawsuit is completely without merit. as we will prove, the sign — although a bit faded — clearly stated “stay away fools”

I’m gonna disagree with this one. What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why. We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.

The Vatican has a list of EVERY PROTESTANT* on its GIANT COMPUTER** in the PAPIST COMMAND CENTER*** *who is a member of the All-Churches Committee on Food Relief for Poor Orphans ** a 2017 lenovo desktop ***Father Gianni’s office at Our Lord of Miracles where he sends out the newsletter

One of the post-election figures that's most stuck in my head. As we wait for SCOTUS to maybe say "race and party can't be separated, so let's call everything partisanship," it's important to remember that these still can be parsed from one another in American politics

if you feed a labubu after midnight it turns into a teletubbie

At least two of the current Court probably hold more than half of their assets in gold bars so…

1/2 One of the big problems for the always-punching-left Democratic consultants is that they are waging ideological battles in public that actually _reinforce_ the left-wing image of the party that they are trying to fight. That is a risk they have decided substack.com/@lakshyajain...

ICE vs the clergy