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Immigration

Maybe they met on eHarmonster…

by Betty Cracker|  July 7, 20201:14 pm| 106 Comments

This post is in: Immigration, Open Threads, Politics

Rachel Maddow did a segment last night on Trump’s monstrous family separation policy at the border and the monsters who implemented it, making the point that these same cruel and incompetent people are now running the botched response to the coronavirus, with predictable results. It’s worth watching, IMO, even if Rachel ain’t your cup of …

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Voter Suppression and Life Suppression Go Hand in Hand

by Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix|  May 6, 202010:50 am| 59 Comments

This post is in: The Brown Enemy Within, Fuck the Poor

This story about the Seattle Indian Health Board requesting medical supplies and getting body bags and toe tags instead is making the rounds. I’m not surprised. My dad was a physician in what was at the time called Indian Health Service (IHS) in the late 50’s and early 60’s — I spent my first few …

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COVID-19 & National Security Part I: Customs & Border Protection

by Adam L Silverman|  March 16, 20209:17 pm| 67 Comments

This post is in: America, Civil Rights, Covid-19 & National Security, COVID-19 Coronavirus, Criminal Justice, Domestic Politics, Election 2020, Immigration, Open Threads, Politics, Silverman on Security

As we have seen the completely botched implementation of the President’s ban on travel to and from the European Union over the past three days, Customs & Border Protection (CBP), especially the Customs part has come under some harsh criticism. Friends, lurkers, commenters, lend me your eyes. I come not to burry Customs, but to …

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Federal Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy

by Cheryl Rofer|  February 28, 20204:33 pm| 33 Comments

This post is in: Immigration

Partially good news. A federal court on Friday upended a central pillar of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, ruling that asylum seekers must be allowed into the United States while their cases weave through American immigration courts. In their opinion on Friday, the judges said the policy is “invalid in its entirety”  Additionally, In a …

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Cheap Snark Open Thread: Being Mean to MAGAt Morons

by Anne Laurie|  February 12, 20201:18 am| 46 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, Immigration, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Right to Vote, Your Place Is In The Resistance

I actually love the idea of a mandatory citizenship test for everyone. Birth rights are dumb. It’s not an achievement to be born and nobody should be rewarded for it. I also find it hilarious that Republicans think this will play to THEIR advantage. https://t.co/PDhvKKPzKj — Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) February 4, 2020 Citizenship tests, @benshapiro? …

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The Retaliation Begins

by Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix|  February 6, 20202:57 pm| 140 Comments

This post is in: Immigration

Trump just suspended NEXUS enrollments for New York State residents: The Trump administration will no longer allow New York residents to enroll in Global Entry or other Trusted Traveler programs, citing new “sanctuary” policies that limit federal access to state driver’s license data, acting homeland security secretary Chad Wolf said on Fox News late Wednesday. …

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Popcult Open Thread: *Best* Part of the Superbowl!

by Anne Laurie|  February 3, 202011:09 am| 80 Comments

This post is in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Music, Open Threads, Popular Culture, Sports, The Brown Enemy Within

Yeah, TaMara posted this last night — but it’s a long Monday, and if this doesn’t pump you up a bit, you might be clinically dead… I think Jennifer Lopez just won the Iowa caucus — Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) February 3, 2020 Jennifer Lopez and Shakira brought out J Balvin, Bad Bunny and J Lo’s …

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You really have to understand how huge Shakira’s performance was for the Middle Eastern community. She had belly dancing, a mijwiz and a derbeke, performed “Ojos Asi” which was one of the few Shakira songs to have Arabic in it, did a Zaghrouta, all love on the biggest stage

— Danny Hajjar ???? ???? ???? (@DanielGHajjar) February 3, 2020

What is going to produce the most protests over this halftime show?

— Alyssa Rosenberg (@AlyssaRosenberg) February 3, 2020

Moral panic from one of the lead organs in support of a President noted for banging porn stars. https://t.co/BjVzhULtn3

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 3, 2020

I love that the actual final score is a tiny little sidebar below all of the hyperventilating. pic.twitter.com/zQfP4xS6a2

— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 3, 2020

Look, when the alternative ‘entertainment’ is the kind of sad, defensive jingoism Dave Roth mocks…

Please join me in celebrating football and America. https://t.co/LKVFh4T2e4

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) February 2, 2020

… When Fox has the broadcast rights to the Super Bowl, as it does this year, you had better believe those horns are going to be in play. This year, as in past Fox years, you’ll hear some patriotic tootling and snare drum rum-dum-dumming playing under footage of various NFL personalities reciting the Declaration of Independence as they walk through historic buildings, or while surrounded by troops and first responders and military hardware, or while towering over youth football teams. In 2008, Michael Strahan and a bunch of New York firefighters in their dress uniforms did their part while standing over the still-raw pit at Ground Zero. Usually it takes a long time for a tradition to become a tradition, and even more time after that for it to become opaque and abstract and rote in the way that traditions do. Fox’s determination to make Super Bowl Sunday a celebration of America skipped a bunch of those steps. It started out confusing and overdetermined and then pretty much stayed that way…

After two decades of leveraging and re-leveraging the actual thing that has value here—a game, in this stupid and beautiful and preposterous sport, that people really do want to watch together—this is the celebration we’re left with. More than that, there’s the sense that it can only get bigger, broader, bloatier, that the people invested in staging it can only ever do more. Not because the show isn’t big enough, and certainly not because anyone is demanding more of this politics-of-no-politics pomp, or more fife-and-drum goonery, or more and more desperate reiterations of those first panicked gestures towards purpose and togetherness. The audience is less important than the gestures, and the gestures long ago supplanted and replaced the message they sought to convey. It can only get bigger, and only ever becomes more uncanny as it grows. The same could be said of the NFL in many ways, but all of this delusion and desperation together produces something wildly abstract and stilted; there’s an uneasy but undeniable comedy to the way it all expands without ever quite growing. All this trouble, for all these years, all because some powerful people were frightened that doing less would look like admitting defeat.

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