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Without getting into detail, I know for a fact that they're running every fedlaw agent they can through shake and bake training at Glynco to support ICE. "Barely qualified" doesn't begin to cover it. Accountants, Excel Rangers, fresh grads, all sent out with zero field experience.
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I want to be very clear. Yes, this is different. Yes, this is worse. No, it did not come out of nowhere. This is exactly the sort of thing that people have been warning about for years about policing in general and ICE in particular. You ignored the canaries in the coal mines. Now here we are.
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Yep. The average HSI agent knows they have to get charges to stick in front of a federal judge and is trained accordingly.
The average ERO officer knows that case law says that anything they write in their arrest reports is by law presumed to be accurate in immigration court, and acts accordingly.
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once again:
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Read the full list of dangerous actions Trump and his administration have taken to dismantle US democracy and constitutional order: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
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The major AI industry leaders stood next to Donald Trump at his inauguration. They talk about replacing artists and writers and creatives as a feature, not a bug. AI is deeply conservative and it astonishes me that people who are opposed to the conservative project would rely on it so carelessly
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Any "deal" with Trump is a victory for Trump's authoritarian project. It doesn't matter if Harvard does not do anything they weren't planning on doing anyway because the perception will be that Trump attacks and the democratic institution gives in.
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I really can’t stress enough that this is a very specific argument. It’s not new. It comes directly from the Ku Klux Klan. More here: docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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one reason this is important is that it makes so much about the period more emotionally legible. when lafayette is asking washington why he won’t just free his slaves, it isn’t an abstract thing; dude is literally at mount vernon and seeing all of these human beings in bondage!
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Idk man, if you're worried this would bankrupt the institution (which frankly, is silly), that should tell you something about *the magnitude of injury* the institution has perpetrated!
It's not the fault of enslaved people that you forced them to dig the hole in which you now find yourself!