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Immigration

Weaponized Mourning

by 15 flush mistermix|  December 10, 20194:09 pm| 84 Comments

This post is in: Immigration

I grew up two hours from Bismarck, ND – it was one of the “big towns” where we’d go to get specialist medical care or shop for anything fancy. So it pains me to hear that they had to have a fight to accept refugees, though I’m heartened to know that those who fought, won, …

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Seasons’ Greetings

by Anne Laurie|  December 9, 20195:22 am| 126 Comments

This post is in: Election Year, Immigration, Impeachment Inquiry, Open Threads, The Brown Enemy Within, All Too Normal, Lock Him Up...Lock Them All Up

I chatted today with the pastor of a Claremont church which erected a nativity scene depicting Jesus, Mary and Joseph as refugees separated in cages https://t.co/MGl82HTZ3n — James Queally (@JamesQueallyLAT) December 9, 2019 … Ristine, who has served as the church’s lead pastor only since July, said the church often uses its Nativity scene to …

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Some Context on the Naval Air Station Pensacola Shooting

by Adam L Silverman|  December 6, 20192:08 pm| 86 Comments

This post is in: America, Domestic Politics, Education, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Military, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Silverman on Security

NBC/MSNBC is now reporting that the shooter at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola is a Saudi national. Which will, of course, turn a tragedy into an absolute shitshow. I wanted to just take a moment and provide some context here for our readers and commenters who don’t have a lot of exposure to the US …

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Good news for basic human decency

by David Anderson|  November 20, 20196:56 pm| 28 Comments

This post is in: Crimes against humanity, Mexico, Open Threads, Racial Justice, The Brown Enemy Within

BREAKING: Dr. Scott Warren found NOT GUILTY on all charges for providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to two undocumented men. Yet again, No More Deaths has withstood the government’s attempts to criminalize basic human compassion. — No More Deaths (@NoMoreDeaths) November 20, 2019 This was not a mistrial. This was not a judge …

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Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Another ‘Forthright, Outspoken Conservative’ Disappoints the Pundits

by Anne Laurie|  November 19, 201912:56 am| 36 Comments

This post is in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, Open Threads, Post-racial America, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, The Brown Enemy Within, Assholes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Our Failed Media Experiment

A little late-night nostalgia bait for those of us who used to hang around TBogg’s site, back before Cole got smarter. Alternate title: ‘Another GHWB-vintage rightwing icon tries to update their Q score, overshoots, embarrasses former supporters’… Malkin 2004: japanese internment was good and we should do it again to muslims Conservatives: wow this is …

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I love big problems that solve themselves pic.twitter.com/30bGhYnhof

— kilgore trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 18, 2019


(‘Twitchy’, IIRC, is Malkin’s homegrown ‘alternative to lamestream media’ channel)

they’re not saying anything new, fellas, you’re just embarrassed because you got caught

— kilgore trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 18, 2019

"There is no room for leopards in the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party"

— Michael P Breen (@mpbreen21) November 17, 2019

Veterans Day 2019: Veterans in Exile

by Adam L Silverman|  November 11, 201910:47 pm| 71 Comments

This post is in: America, An Unexamined Scandal, Domestic Politics, Immigration, Military, Politics, Silverman on Security, War

Senator Duckworth is a national treasure. I refuse to let them believe that everyone in government has forsaken them. So I crossed the border to Tijuana to spend #VeteransDay with them, recognizing the sacrifices they made for the country they love. pic.twitter.com/JUyZNl9OBw — Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) November 12, 2019 These are daughters and sons who …

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Pence Administration Declares War on Orphans

by Major Major Major Major|  November 2, 20195:09 pm| 52 Comments

This post is in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, Health Care, Immigration, LGBTQ Rights, LGBTQ Rights Are Human Rights

…and refugees, the sick, the elderly, the homeless… but only if they’re LGBT or the wrong kind of Christian, of course. These people aren’t complete monsters. Daniel Reynolds at The Advocate writes: The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new rule Friday that would allow adoption agencies and other programs that receive HHS grants …

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Some Good News to End This Week!

by Adam L Silverman|  October 11, 201910:55 pm| 121 Comments

This post is in: Activist Judges!, America, Civil Rights, Crimes against humanity, Domestic Politics, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Open Threads, Politics

The Federal courts have worked diligently to make America great again and provided us with three items of good news to end this most infrastructure of weeks. 1: President Trump lost his appeal to stop a House subpoena of his tax documents: "In a 2-1 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the District of …

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Repub Venality Open Thread: Trump Wants His WAAAAAHll & He Wants It NAOOOOW

by Anne Laurie|  August 28, 20198:46 pm| 50 Comments

This post is in: Election Year, Grifters Gonna Grift, Immigration, Open Threads, Trumpery, All Too Normal, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, We Are All Mayans Now

“When aides have suggested that some of his orders are illegal or unworkable, Trump has suggested he would pardon the officials if they would just go ahead, aides said.” https://t.co/eR13aozsqh — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 28, 2019 They’re a bunch of damaged middle school boys drawing up plans for their Fortress of Evil. Disgusting …

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Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper is expected to approve a White House request to divert $3.6 billion in Pentagon funds to the barrier project in coming weeks, money that Trump sought after lawmakers refused to allocate $5 billion. The funds will be pulled from Defense Department projects in 26 states, according to administration officials who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the matter.

Trump’s determination to build the barriers as quickly as possible has not diminished his interest in the aesthetic aspects of the project, particularly the requirement that the looming steel barriers be painted black and topped with sharpened tips…

Tang the Conqueror is retreating to his safe space; I remember stories about him fussing over the choices for carpets and wallpaper when his casinos were going into bankruptcy. Narcissists are always most dangerous when they feel threatened, but it’s good that he’s uncertain enough about the future to be pushing for one last smash’n’grab before the next election.

I feel like maybe, maybe, a President who encourages people to break laws with pardon promises might, might be breaking the law himself.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 28, 2019

ETA:

New Quinnipiac poll:

Trump is deeply underwater on immigration, at 38-59.

Even noncollege whites are evenly divided, at 47-48 (!!!)

Yet restrictionists *still* manage to snooker pundits into claiming Trump has magical powers on this issue.https://t.co/sg6qJGcFPG pic.twitter.com/wuB1l5OZtz

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 28, 2019

The Goal Is To Hold the Line

by Adam L Silverman|  August 27, 20199:18 pm| 115 Comments

This post is in: America, Civil Rights, Climate Change, Criminal Justice, Domestic Politics, Economics, Election Year, Environmental Rights, Foreign Affairs, Health Care, Immigration, LGBTQ Rights, Military, Open Threads, Politics, Racial Justice, Silverman on Security

Those Who Seek to Control Others Know Power, Those Who Seek to Control Themselves Know the Way* — Lao Tzu; The Tao Te Ching There’s been a lot of sturm and drang in the comments recently, not just today, about all is lost, there’s no way out, we’re doomed. This has often been married to doom …

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Election 2020 Open Thread: Pete Buttigieg Has A *Lot* of Good Proposals

by Anne Laurie|  August 18, 20196:00 pm| 82 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Election Year, Immigration, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

There is clearly no strategy for dealing with the trade war—a trade war this president started—in a way that will actually lead to results for American farmers or American consumers. pic.twitter.com/qSW2jdXguB — Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) August 18, 2019 Whether or not those ideas take him to the Oval Office in 2020, all indications are that …

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NEW: Ahead of Iowa visit, @PeteButtigieg rolls out policy aimed at helping rural America, in part through apprenticeships, high-speed internet and addressing climate change. “Rural America should be growing,” Buttigieg tells me in interview. https://t.co/3opcDX7G0x #iacaucus

— Barbara Rodriguez (@bcrodriguez) August 13, 2019

Buttigieg received a standing ovation at the #WingDing pic.twitter.com/udIeyvKvXJ

— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) August 10, 2019

BIG response for @PeteButtigieg from this Iowa Wing Ding crowd. He continues his campaign's theme of generational change. "If we want to win, we can’t look like we’re the party of back to normal. What we have isn’t working. But 'normal' wasn’t working either," he says.

— Brianne Pfannenstiel (@brianneDMR) August 10, 2019

When Pete Buttigieg walked into the military recruiting office in his hometown, the recent Harvard graduate said his field of study might come in handy: Arabic. The recruiter duly wrote down the kid's minor: "Aerobics." The latest in our Pursuit series. https://t.co/CGNUXbe0k4

— Marc Fisher (@mffisher) July 29, 2019

If he does get the nomination — even as VP, which IMO is his best bet right now –this clip will be in the convention video:

“I shook Robert Kennedy’s hand in 1968,” a woman tells Pete Buttigieg. “So you’re good luck?” he asks. “Not really— he was shot a month later,” she tells him. pic.twitter.com/RiW0fw1uwB

— DJ Judd (@DJJudd) August 13, 2019

Anti-American Open Thread: The GOP Wants to Make America Smaller

by Anne Laurie|  August 13, 201911:00 pm| 94 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Immigration, Open Threads, Republican Venality, All Too Normal, Evil

Here's acting USCIS director Ken Cuccinelli saying on NPR this morning that the Statue of Liberty plaque should be changed to read, "give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet, and who will not become a public charge." pic.twitter.com/q8OoNn3k6r — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 13, 2019 I asked …

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“I don’t want to get off into a whole thing about history here, but the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty and lighting the world. It’s a symbol of American liberty lighting the world,” Miller said. “The poem that you’re referring to, that was added later, is not actually a part of the original Statue of Liberty.”

Miller’s talking point didn’t really help matters, as it echoed one commonly used by white nationalists like David Duke and Richard Spencer to suggest that Lazarus somehow perverted the true meaning of the statue, which was a gift from France to the United States and originally conceived to be “a symbol of democratic government and Enlightenment ideals as well as a celebration of the Union’s victory in the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery,” as the National Parks Service puts it…

Hilariously Cuccinelli was the guy leading the last ditch Ted Cruz floor fight at the RNC against Trump. Trump has every reason to despise him with one of his endless petty grudges. But they both love racism and cruelty more than their own dignity.

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) August 14, 2019

This is *not* what your mother taught you, Mr. Cuccinelli…

Ken Cuccinelli's mother told The Washington Post in 2013 that this is how he was raised: “As a matter of faith, care of the poor, of your neighbors, was always very conscious and upfront. If someone is starving, you want to bring him a meal, not a book on how to cook.” https://t.co/oU1EBtX9sR

— Matt Katz (@mattkatz00) August 13, 2019

And it’s not what the Founders wanted, either, so-called conservative ‘foundationalists”:

And here are Abraham Lincoln’s thoughts on the matter.

But maybe Ken Cuccinelli & Donald Trump are the guys to have really figured this out. pic.twitter.com/zGdpvDbnqs

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 14, 2019

“Respite” Open Thread: Tucker Carlson on Unplanned Vacation

by Anne Laurie|  August 8, 20196:24 pm| 119 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Post-racial America, Repubs in Disarray!, Television, The Brown Enemy Within, Assholes, Flash Mob of Hate, Go Fuck Yourself, Just Shut the Fuck Up

A monster turned a transcript of Carlson's show into a manifesto and then killed 22 people. His career depends on no one pointing this out. https://t.co/cJVZdr2eIQ — LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 7, 2019 What time of day does Fox News transition from "the celebrity used bad language" to "do not be deceived by the rootless cosmopolitans …

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Holy Toledo

by Betty Cracker|  August 5, 201911:05 am| 428 Comments

This post is in: Gun nuts, Immigration, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, The War On Women, Assholes, General Stupidity, Our Failed Media Experiment

This is just…well, watch for yourselves if you didn’t see it live: Donald Trump cares so little about mass shootings that he says it happened in the wrong city ("Toledo"). What's worse, he seemingly read it off the teleprompter, meaning the entire White House didn't care enough to get it right, either.pic.twitter.com/OKLVs6nj5V — VoteVets (@votevets) …

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“The call is coming from inside the (White) House…”

by Betty Cracker|  August 4, 20199:17 am| 219 Comments

This post is in: Gun nuts, gun safety, Guns, Immigration, Open Threads, Post-racial America, Our Failed Media Experiment

While we wait for details on the most recent mass murder (the one in Ohio), further evidence is emerging that the El Paso shooter was a Trump-supporting, immigrant-hating white supremacist who was radicalized online and committed his horrific crime to achieve political ends. In other words, a terrorist. Many lines from the so-called manifesto the …

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idiots screaming blue lives matter while cheering as the President calls the FBI scum is 2019 in a nutshell

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umm, Hemingway's assertion was easily fact checked and disproved by *CHECKS NOTES* turning on your fucking television.

Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald

Any criticism or revelation of corruption on the part of the NSA, the FBI or DOJ would offend the bulk of their news staffs, which are now composed of ex-agents of those agencies, so suppressing all of these unpleasantries is almost like a matter of corporate etiquette #StateTV https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1204804524365496320

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At the first ever Virginia AG's cannabis summit, hearing from experts in states that have legalized and regulated cannabis.

Excited to announce that I've reintroduced my bill to legalize it, and I look forward to making the bill better this year as HB87.

http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB87

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God damn

RT @dusttodigital: Remembering Big Mama Thornton, born on this day in 1926 in Ariton, Alabama. Here she is performing “Hound Dog” in 1965 with Buddy Guy, Eddie Boyd, Jimmy Lee Robinson and Fred Below.

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How are you feeling today @CharlesPPierce ? The day after is usually worse

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The President of the United States just called the FBI scum. Happy Wednesday.

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someone fucking tell john roberts

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This Is What Racism Sounds Like in the Banking Industry

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