to kids I say, in evil times it is even more important to show kindness and compassion - that those are strengths. To survive evil times we have to remember gratitude and appreciation even for the very little things. And, we should never, ever turn our hearts to their dark place.
i think we'd need to double check these stats. but less effective management can be more wasteful. Biden seemed to be highly effective to hire good management.. Trump seems to fill posts with Magafools
& just like the UK & Brexit didnt stop immigration.. Trump likely will face the same problems.
People are being moved, fired or otherwise put under pressure if they are not able to say they are mission-aligned, which is the phrase being used to mean to carry out orders of the president regardless of if lawful or not
I absolutely HATE takes like this! What is the moral of the story, that I should be pro-trump bc his policy IS actually better on immigration?
It reinforces the nationwide sentiment that "Both sides are bad. All politicians are hypocrites anyway so I may as well vote for the guy not in power."
They don’t care about immigration, that was just how they got people afraid. What are they really focused on? Purging the government of anyone that isn’t a loyalist.
The deportations are, to him, just red meat to throw at the base while the tech bros take over the treasury and destruct all oversight and programs that don’t enrich them.
That's because he intends to keep the criminally minded around, removing the upstanding people, so that he can very clearly point at what we should be afraid of and prove his false narrative that only the criminals are migrating here.
Agree with the point by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social.
And the intern who wrote this has to be told correct grammar is "fewer people and fewer criminals".
We don't need to put up with incompetent messaging when we're already dealing with an incompetent president and handlers.
Hmmm... but we all want a safe society and orderly immigration is part of that. So being more effective (emphasis on convicted offenders rather just whoever talks/looks different) is important.
Yes I agree — but we need to be careful to not to adopt & amplify THEIR framing. It should be a matter of fair policy and legal enforcement, not a meme-fuelled numbers game the other side will gladly play - they’re just getting started after all.
yeah, the emphasis on pure numbers makes it seem like Murphy views mass deportation as less of a necessary evil and more of an end in its own right. we shouldn't be trying to run up the scoreboard
Kakistocracy! Tiny hands spends $800k on a C-17 to Colombia. Biden $100k for the same flight and is allowed to land! No wonder tiny hands had 6 bankruptcies!
It's the ham-fisted approach of the Trump administration that I find appalling.
It is the reversal of Biden era humane & pro- legal immigration policies and protocols that I find anti-American.
It is the use of more expensive methods to carry out deportations that I find irresponsible.
I had a work crew on my roof from every Central American country this week. Today, my gay contractor is working on the ceilings where ice melt came in. My black husband of 29 years is at work earning the money to fix all this.
Trump doesn’t care about actually deporting people. He just wants it big and visible so he can say it’s happening. Throwing red meat to his base. Only thing Trump cares about is money and obedience.
In part, this is showmanship by Murphy, but one could assume that he ran so strongly on anti-immigration that he’d be up and running out the gate with a major comprehensive plan.
Depends on the metric that he’s using, but I would imagine some overlap exists.
I'm erring on the side of being more safe than sorry when it comes to protests, volunteering, etc. History teaches us not to underestimate fascists and it isn't like he wrote project 2025 on his own (he'd be incapable). I can't imagine what ICE will be like once they let Open AI's LLMs run loose.
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& just like the UK & Brexit didnt stop immigration.. Trump likely will face the same problems.
People are being moved, fired or otherwise put under pressure if they are not able to say they are mission-aligned, which is the phrase being used to mean to carry out orders of the president regardless of if lawful or not
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/trump-federal-workers-deep-state
It reinforces the nationwide sentiment that "Both sides are bad. All politicians are hypocrites anyway so I may as well vote for the guy not in power."
This whole f’ing mess, and the messes still to come, belong to the entire Republican Party. Every single one of them bears responsibility.
#GOPHatesAmericans
Do something to see that it is done
or
Do something to say you did something
The first one takes more thought and effort.
The second one is kind of Trump's brand.
And the intern who wrote this has to be told correct grammar is "fewer people and fewer criminals".
We don't need to put up with incompetent messaging when we're already dealing with an incompetent president and handlers.
What we are witnessing now, and the version I fear to come, is not necessary in fact it is horrifying.
It’s weird to point out that Joe Biden did the regressive Trump stuff better than Trump.
And by "Americans" I don't mean the scum making bank off it.
It is the reversal of Biden era humane & pro- legal immigration policies and protocols that I find anti-American.
It is the use of more expensive methods to carry out deportations that I find irresponsible.
I'm a rebel.
Why does he use Biden’s average and not his first week though?
Also, would there be some lag time for cases that were pending while the administration changes?
Depends on the metric that he’s using, but I would imagine some overlap exists.
My assumption is Trump will blow these #s out of the water (without title 42 expulsions) once he has momentum and full control of the bureaucracy.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-deportation-record
By the time they do figure it out, we will have removed him by force or in a full blown civil war tbh
If we stay silent, we may be safe in the moment, but we risk more down the line due to an effect called the Spiral of Silence.
Being loud and obnoxious is the safer bet.