Chuck De Nomolos?
Isn’t he the guy that played ‘opposing lawyer’ in a million legal dramas?
I find myself singing this A LOT lately
And trying to figure out this very same thing. Some malevolent sheriff are prison guard or something.
Heil myself
Heil to me
I’m the kraut
Who’s out to change our history
Heil myself
Raise your hand
There’s no greater
Dictator in the land!
Everything I do, I do for you!
Apparently if you leave Vizio smart TVs idle they just start autoplaying Trumpaganda.
I’m not even going to bother quoting the most recent story of masked thugs with ICE badges kidnapping yet another PhD student and sending them to a detention facility for deportation – this is just a recurring story.
The bottom line here is this. If (a) you’re a non-resident in the US on a student visa, and (b) you’ve participated in a student protest in favour of Palestinians or against Israeli atrocities, or written an op-ed supporting such, or exercised your First Amendment rights in any way that Trump doesn’t like, and especially if (c) you have brown skin, or a Middle Eastern name, or – God forbid, a woman who wears a hijab – then you will be targeted for arrest, detention, and deportation.
That seems to be the unfolding reality. These students came to the US for education and to do post-graduate research. Now they are like Jews in late 1930s Germany.
I went to the supermarket the other day, and I saw four people (at least one woman) walking to their car. They were all wearing black uniforms. I suppose the could have been Blaine PD. Sheriff deputies wear olive drab uniforms. I’m not sure what the border patrol wears. They were going to a small, private car and not an official vehicle. I was wearing a pin depicting crossed U.S. and Ukrainian flags. It occurred to me that if ICE decided to arrest me for supporting Ukraine, I’d have no way to prove I’m an American citizen. I’d just disappear, and neither my wife nor our cats would know what happened to me.
I told this to my wife after she said she might start carrying her passport with her as a matter of course. I said, ‘Ve must carry our papersss!’
Someone wondered in one thread if a Real ID license was sufficient to prove citizenship or at least legal residency. I don’t know the answer.
I feel like … if you got grabbed up under questionable pretenses … your wife could go all action movie hero and fetch your happy ass out pronto:
Most of the rest of us? Screwed.
Are they going to bring back those who they just sent down to El Salvadore?
I doubt they will do that even if a majority of SCOTUS tells them they have to bring them back and give them their day in court.
Yeah. That would fall under the ever-growing list of “Or what?” responses.
They autoplay commercials. The Trump administration has purchased some commercials, so those might get played.
It definitely doesn’t prove citizenship. I think it does prove legal residency.
Our Vizio TV is dying and I was looking to replace it with another, Trump commercials or no, the fact the feature can’t be turned off makes it a hard no for me.
Yeah, the wife and I are going to Puerto Rico in a few weeks. I looked at her today and said “It sounds stupid since we’re not leaving the US, but I think we should bring our passports.” Her response was, “Yeah, I was going to mention that. I agree.”
Fucking sad.
I was singing that for a while. I’ve moved on to Dylan:
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I’ll follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I’ll stand over your grave
'Til I’m sure that you’re dead
I’m not proud of it, but I can’t get it out of my head.
Your comment completes the rhyme. 
A strange case:
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.
Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at Indiana University’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, a fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a tenured professor at Indiana University at Bloomington…
As reported by the Bloomingtonian and later the Herald-Times in Bloomington, a small fleet of unmarked cars driven by government agents descended on the Bloomington home of Wang and Ma on Friday. They spent most of the day going in and out of the house and occasionally transferred boxes from their vehicles.
So it’s not clear if this a deportation or Chinese spying or something else.
In normal times, we would assume this is related to espionage — a longstanding sleeper agent having been uncovered, or a false accusation of same, or some such.
But right now, it’s extremely difficult to give the Trump authorities the benefit of the doubt that this is a normal case being handled in normal ways.
It still could be, of course. Maybe even probably. But… my mind resists the formerly routine conclusion.