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Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

i’d be vulnerable if i knew for a fact that i would not get hurt

Based on my many interactions with him, Brian Romanchuk is certainly not psychotic or intellectually deficient even though he laughed at MattY.

Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): “Mr. Abrego Garcia must be returned immediately before he is killed in one of the most dangerous prisons in the world. Enough with the fake bravado. This is not America. The Supreme Court must aggressively enforce its order immediately.”

I feel safer saying it on this app. The space thing with Katy Perry and co. is gross. So much wasted money and resources that could be used on so many more productive things.

men make their own history: haha fuck yeah!! yes!! but not under circumstances of their own choosing: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck

Literally I don't think I'd know who Ozymandias was unless he'd built a big fuck off statute of his own head and inscribed it: "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair" - and the works didn't even last! Clout is eternal so long as you chase it hard enough, and it's the only thing that is.

if the reality is worse, then the claims weren’t hyperbolic were they

To paraphrase Byron, I wish he would clarify his clarification.

When I sweated out this piece, I was trying to get across an intuition that, more than anything else besides perhaps 1/6, what we saw in the bipartisan response to Palestinian solidarity protest portended the descent of genuine fascism if Trump become president again. prospect.org/politics/202...

The American President pardons guilty insurrectionists but allows innocent men to rot in foreign prisons.

www.yahoo.com/news/trump-w...

I am reminded of a thing I like to say about lying and it being bad for the health of society

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

If I had any kind of power and realized I had sent a person to prison by mistake, I wouldn't be able to rest until they were released. What kind of psycho can just go on with their life?

“Government action so heinous and absurd that even Justice Alito disagrees” Challenge unlocked.

I really was not planning to do a first thing in the morning piece, fuck

The cool thing about getting rid of FDIC personnel is that when the banks start dropping like flies, they might not have the capacity to shut them down quickly. Oh, what fun we will have when depositors are posting about frozen accounts in dead banks on social media!

The penguin uprising begins

I would really enjoy hearing a proponent of the efficient market hypothesis explain the last two days of stock market activity.

This only leads down very evil roads.

That time George Osborne committed the UK to austerity, genuinely killing 100,000s (www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive...), all based on an excel spreadsheet error? (www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/ge...) Actually a core part of 40k's backstory, as it created the daemon infused into Guilliman's soul.

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So much of cybersecurity is "We must secure the Orphan Crushing Machine so that unauthorized people do not crush the orphans," and not "Why the fuck are you building an Orphan Crushing Machine in the first place?"

everyone at a university who is not in AAUP and/or a union should fix that ASAP

A midnight hello from Morton Tankus, retired Vice President of Morgan Stanley in charge of the COBOL system which determined Financial Advisor compensation, and Nathan Tankus newsletter writer, payments & money expert, and sudden investigative COBOL journalist.

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

Not just fear (though that is totally justified). Also #BoycottUSA. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Bro why would I wait for a marshmallow there's one literally right here bro? Think about it bro.

This is how a hegemon that has several decent universities sets its trade policy.

"The decline of the West is not necessary or historically inevitable. It is the result of choosing policies dictated by its rentier interests." -Michael Hudson

BREAKING: The House will vote on the SAVE Act today. If this bill becomes law, millions of American citizens could be blocked from voting. 1/