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This is happening at the Bluebonnet detention center in Anson, TX and appears to be in DIRECT VIOLATION of the Supreme Court's ruling requiring notice "afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief." It's been <24 hours.

These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other. This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.

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This is why we have due process; because random people speculating about things is a terrible way to run a government. Without due process, we're all just vigilantes. At its core, that's what this is about. Due process and the rule of law. Everything else is window dressing.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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I find myself in an interesting spot as a *practitioner* of economics as opposed to an actual economist whenever people start getting factional about stuff. And it's interesting to see people reflexively defending MMT as a faction, because MMT is *much* more useful then established econ.

I want a candidate in 2028 to create a vague impression that they will do Obama style looking forward not back admin, and then once in power put these people in jail and possibly give them the death penalty.

Intolerable tyranny. No free people should stand for it and anyone who does is an enemy of freedom

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

all left wing people should oppose superstition and irrational beliefs, which are necessary in order to maintain class, racial and societal heirarchies and oppress mankind.

stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation. -You cannot legally deport people without due process. -You cannot legally deport citizens. -They are defining down deportation to break the law.

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

we should stop having presidents. call a constitutional convention and abolish them it's really the only path forward at this point that avoids a cycle where both parties feel that electing extremists willing to use massive executive overreach is the best way to get their desired policies enacted.

sure this sounds bad but remember this nation was founded on the principle of cheerfully tolerating large surtaxes on imported goods

“anything we can actually do, we can afford” stamp this on the head of anyone who asks how we can afford universal health care or universal child care or public pensions or free college

Worth noting that the "special privilege" here is mostly the privilege to get scammed.

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep its basic functioning has to discourage lying. rewarding it instead is suicidal

I supported the party that believed the 2020 election was stolen, that J6 was an inside job AND ALSO a patriotic day of love, that Covid vaccines were a bio weapon, that climate change is a hoax, and that Obama was born in Kenya…and I expected economic rationality to prevail.

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

What a sentence: "Contrary to the government's position, 'upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.'"

i am real bloodthirsty rn ngl