Trump’s Immigration Enforcement: Free The Criminals, Jail The Innocent:
They’re literally freeing dangerous criminals while manufacturing cases against innocent people…. The Trump admin is literally freeing a repeat violent offender in exchange for testimony against Abrego–a man with no criminal history who was working and raising a family.
And Trump cut a deal with Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele “to let actual top MS-13 gang leaders go free.”
— Mike Masnick at Techdirt
Welcome to the Age of Disappearance
[Trump’s tax and immigration bill] contains enough money to build a new system of immigration detention centers far bigger than the entire federal prison system. The American Immigration Council says that it will be enough to facilitate the “daily detention of at least 116,000 non-citizens.” It will let ICE hire more field agents than the FBI. Its $170 billion in funding for Stephen Miller’s rabid campaign to purge America of brown people is comparable to the total annual funding for the United States Army.
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This budget will give [Trump] the final piece of the puzzle that he needs to achieve his fever dream: a nationwide army of masked, unaccountable armed agents empowered to snatch anyone they like off the streets, and the physical infrastructure to imprison or deport those people at will. Thousands of men with guns, unrestrained by judges or local police, who do not answer to Congress, who point guns at the press, who arrest whoever they want, for reasons they do not share, and do whatever they wish with those people. The implications of this are going to make America a much darker place.
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Yesterday, Trump proudly attended the opening of a concentration camp. There will be many more to come.
Dave Winer: New York City is “a tough place to govern.”
The thing about NY that people might not understand is that the politics are dirty and fucked up. Dems tend to elect handsome young heros who when they have to deal with NYPD and the sanitation workers, the teachers union, and the federal government, also the ancient infrastructure, melt.
How do you save your best AI prompts for reuse? Do you just drop them in a text document on your desktop, or is there a better way?
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