He also brought out that old chestnut about 2% of the population commits 90% of the crimes, which some have used promoting white supremacy, though the percentages aren’t always the exact same.
I think we white non-supremacist milk-drinkers will be fine if we just go on drinking milk in a normal, non-ostentatious way without making a big deal of it. Lots of non-supremacists of all races drink milk.
Anyway, putting their fellow white people at some slight risk of having their milk-consuming actions misconstrued as a racist dogwhistle is very far from the worst thing that white supremacists are doing nowadays.
True. But they have always hacked a lot of things I love: medieval history, Celtic Studies, Norse Studies, and Classics (not so much in academia, but elsewhere), werewolves, blackletter fonts… it’s like they’re following me around and tainting all of my nerdly joys.
Oh, believe me, I do. I work in an academic department in a major university, and I am pleased to say that we are all committed to being anti-white supremacist; it’s an important part of my day job.
New DHS memo outlines plan to detain refugees for further vetting
Resettlement organizations said the updated guidance represents a dramatic shift in how refugees are treated after being legally permitted to enter the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a memo Wednesday stating that federal immigration agents should arrest refugees who have not yet obtained a green card and detain them indefinitely for rescreening — a policy shift that upends decades of protections and puts tens of thousands of people who entered during the Biden administration at risk.
The new policy rescinds a 2010 memo that said failing to apply for status as a lawful permanent resident within a year of living in the United States is not a basis for detaining refugees who entered the country legally. Two Trump administration officials wrote in the new directive that the previous guidance was incomplete and that the law requires DHS to detain and subject those refugees to a new set of interviews while in detention.
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My bold.
Lock 'em up first. Ask questions later. Maybe.
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The memo appeared in a court filing one day before a scheduled hearing in Minnesota federal court, where a judge temporarily blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in late January from detaining 5,600 refugees in the state after several organizations sued. Immigration officers arrested dozens of resettled people from countries including Somalia, Ecuador and Venezuela for further questioning as part of an enforcement surge dubbed Operation PARRIS that the Trump administration has said was aimed at combating fraud. Immigration lawyers say many were quickly transported to Texas detention centers and later released without their identity documents.
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I like some of these and agree with you that it’s sad, but on the other hand, I’m somewhat glad that they also have a hate-on for modern architecture. (For instance, the administration specifically prohibiting Brutalism in federal building, which seems oddly specific.) I guess what would be even better is if they didn’t have an opinion either way on classical versus modern architecture, but it’s better that some of them make classical architecture part of their personality than modern.
Yeah, that was one strange video. Working out while wearing jeans is odd enough, and jumping into a river with jeans on, well, maybe that’s a spur of the moment thing. But getting into a tank of water at your home while wearing jeans? What the everloving Funke? He has got to be the weirdest member of the trump administration, and that is saying a LOT. At least Tobias Funke wore cutoffs.
“This building was built for peace. Nobody knew what to name it, and then Marco named it after me. I had nothing to do with it. I swear. They said, ‘There’s a surprise coming.’ I thought they were gonna give me a lot of money or something. Maybe cash. Can always use some extra cash.”
Trump falls asleep on camera - again
“We have a man at the end … you and your new friend … these are two tough people”
“I thought when I saw this note – ‘I’m excited to announce that Norway’ – I thought they were going to say they’re giving me the Nobel Prize. Oh. This is less exciting. But I don’t care. I don’t care about Nobel Prize.”
“I’ve had a good relationship with the UN other than at my last speech they did turn off my teleprompter. First I had an escalator that stopped. I was lucky my movie star first lady was in front of me. Because I put my hand on a certain part of her body and I was able to stop my fall.”
“President … Mirssssssurooyev of Uzbekistan. One of the most difficult names in history.”
I don’t know; why would he want to? If he doesn’t like the US then supporting Trump makes more sense. I would suspect that any scandalous material he has is going to be aimed at the US political & business class in general, not Trump, he’ll want Trump to stay in charge as long as possible.
I am reminded of how Osama bin Laden periodically released videos whenever Bush’s poll numbers flagged, in (according to the CIA) a successful attempt to get Bush’s poll numbers up and re-elect him. The Ayatollah is more likely to help Trump than hinder him.
Dementia Donny thinks Obama gave out “classified information” about extraterrestrials.
“Barack Obama said that aliens are real. Have you seen any evidence of non-human visitors to Earth?” Doocy wondered.
“Well, he gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that,” Trump replied.
“So aliens are real?” Doocy pressed.
“Well, I don’t know if they’re real or not,” Trump insisted. “I can tell you, he gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake. He took it out of classified information. No, I don’t have an opinion on it. I never talked about it. A lot of people believe it.”