pearberr.bsky.social
🏠Activist focused on the housing crisis & urban development.
đź“Š Economics & politics enthusiast. Future policy leader?
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🏀 You can find me at the park getting double doubles
I love nature, science, and beautiful skies!
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As a Californian I consider the Supreme Court to be entirely illegitimate.
No rulings without representation!
Give us more senators!
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Same thing happened in 2007, 2014 and 2018.
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This thread gives me hope that we are turning the corner on housing.
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As much border surveillance and security as Republicans are willing to pay for. Full funding for efficient, easy, and relatively cheap Visa, Green Card, and Citizenship acquisition. Decriminalize border crossing without authorization.
Deportations should only be available for criminal offenses.
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Yup! They just made it illegal one day and left it at that. The Border Patrol was founded soon after and posted up at El Paso. For most of these people they became criminals suddenly, without knowing it or knowing why.
And of course they had no say in the matter. So much for consent of the governed
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Now I don’t support that law AT ALL. I think it’s morally repulsive.
But if you’re going to pass this law it is the moral obligation of the government to provide these people notification and to provide them with the means to become documented with ease.
Congress did not care to pay for that.
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In 1929 it became a misdemeanor to enter the United States without authorization, and a felony to do it after being deported.
To my knowledge the only border crossing station was in El Paso.
People who lived life as they always did became criminals because of a law they did not know or need.
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Regular people are sloppy with their language and should be given some grace.
There is a big difference between, “I’m worried deportations will increase the cost of my landscaping,” and “I want to keep the laws broken and oppressive so that I can benefit from stealing people’s labor.”
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I use that talking point too it’s not a celebration of exploitation. Instead of seething ask those libs to clarify what they mean. Do they support keeping them undocumented and exploitable, or are they worried about the economic consequences of removing 3-5% of their neighbors?
The latter is valid.
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Californians shouldn’t be bound to Supreme Court decisions since we get so few Senators.
No disappearing people without representation!
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Some in the business/corporate community enjoy this situation for this reason, and the ghouls among them actively fight to keep the status quo for that purpose.
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The difference between rational immigration reform and mass deportations is probably at least $100bn if you add lost tax receipts and the expenses associated with human trafficking a few million people.
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SCOTUS recent decision to allow the government to do expedited deportations is dangerous. As Sotomator said it enables the government’s lawlessness.
I think it could go down in the annals of SCOTUS history alongside the Dred Scott decision.
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Law enforcement should NEVER use quotas.
Deportation is a SERIOUS punishment, not a mere civil procedure. Deportation should always require due process and the signature of a judge. All people the gov seeks to deport should be given counsel and have access to bail hearings.
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I didn’t get angry people on my thread but I live skied a Dodger game recently and got complete crickets, I think I got 1 like on a half dozen skies.
I have a lot of followers who are Dodgers fans, and I’m not a big account. What gives folks? Like my fun stuff too!
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Not a big fan of the slo-me replay showing that thing snap. Hopefully it was his calf and not his Achilles.
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Even if it was true, the fat is much more likely to save you from a cold night without heat or from extended hunger than it is from a bullet. Even if something crazy like a Civil War broke out, starvation will kill more people than firearms.
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Democratic donors need to spend more and be more shameless, and Democrats need to stop throwing big cash at consultants and start paying people to be good members of their team.
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Thats close to the magic 3.5% number. Not there yet.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Give ICE a break. It’s not going to be easy to traffic one million people.
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Randall is a former community organizer. You have no clue what her financial situation is.
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I believe that Correa has been in Orange County attending to his besieged constituents. I’m not sure what the excuse is for the others.
I’d rather focus my ire on Johnson and Republicans refusal to allow televoting, which today disenfranchised people in Washington, Ohio, New Jersey and California.
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Netanyahu will wage war on the world to avoid being prosecuted for his many, many crimes. Not good that their system is allowing him to stave off prosecution until after Israel’s wars are over.
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Israel bombs Iran. Then Iran tries to bomb Israel but everything gets shot down. Rinse and repeat as long as Netanyahu desires.
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I think I was probably not even ten when I learned about emergency declarations and powers and wondered, “what if the President just declared it in bad faith,” and my dad probably told me that would never be allowed.
I’m so happy he’s not alive to see all this he’s doing cartwheels in his grave.
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It should help that the Secretary of the DHS said they were here to Liberate Los Angeles from socialists and burdensome leadership.
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Every single day should be a filibuster, one after another for the next 1.5-3.5 years.
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Getting straight answers from these freaks is so hard.
Good on Moulton for turning the screws.
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If this is the standard millions of Californians have engaged in felonious acts these last few weeks.
I wish the Feds the best of luck in prosecuting that many people when it takes them 8 years to hold a hearing for an asylum seeker.
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Even if immigration is a contributing factor the structural flaws created by NIMBYism, low property taxes in states like CA, and a few other issues are at fault.
Immigrants are the victims of these bad policies, not the cause of this problem.
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I struggle with this too.
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Are you up late or early?
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The Republican Party are stochastic terrorists.
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I’ve been curious how the police would handle the inevitable attempts to sleep deprive ICE ever since I heard federal agents were coming to town en masse.
Home field advantage has its advantages.
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Grace! Good to see you in this thread!!!
There is hope for Redondo Beach! If your council starts calling everybody pedophiles you can defeat them lol.
It’s a low bar but… it’s a bar!
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When FDR was President they fought a two front conflict against two massive empires and still managed to provide ice cream boats.
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It also promotes a general lawlessness as people are trained and raised to not really worry about breaking the law because 🤷‍♂️
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The law enforcement action feeds itself as the saying goes.
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TFW I am represented by one of California’s republican senators lol
He never even bothered responding when I contacted him about SB79, and I’ve had coffee with the guy! NIMBYass