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I picked a heck of a week to be scheduled to fly to Puerto Vallarta!

The US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal A woman who sought asylum in the United States after fleeing a country where homosexuality is illegal says the Trump administration's third-country deportation system sent her to another one.

The US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal

apnews.com/article/trum...

As a gay man, I understand the sentiment. But as a gay man native to the Bay Area, I’m shocked at the Thiel/Atlman/etc narrative. Sadly, living abroad it is correct that they tie down the unique South African white nationalist narrative

Zojirushi ride or die

I want Leo to visit ICE detention centers insisting on celebrating mass with detentees. Repeatedly. The ones in America after he visits the European ones.

I sometimes think about the worst people in the world. And then I think about financial corruption. And then I think about Ponzi schemes. And fascism. And a generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs microdosing. And I lost my train of thought because I have to enter the US again this year.

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Kavanaugh dissented?

I suppose he thought the tariffs would be briefly detained then returned to their owners automatically.

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

His alleged mistress left her precious heated blanket on the other plane, so Corey Lewandowski demanded the pilot turn the plane around to go get it.

When he refused, Lewandowski -- who has zero authority to fire anyone at any time -- tried to fire the pilot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIGHT.

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

#4 in so many events it’s silly. A single gold meant I missed the first two skates in the men’s individual final group. Including the winning Kazakh. Cause they had to interview his father and siblings. Welcome to GB in the Winter Olympics

It reminds me of when Simone got the yips. These are athletes being asked to risk their bodies on potentially life threatening stunts. If you have no basis to understand what they’re going through you have no basis to discuss it with them except through their emotional response

If a sportsperson has a disastrous run (and it has happened several times to GB this season [we’re #4!]) the press lets them work through the emotions. But figure skating is different. I did figure skating. Normies can never understand and I never got anywhere within comprehension of what they do.

I’m so happy that UK viewers missed the winning performance of the men’s ice skating to provide extended coverage of a single medal (albeit our only one so far). Didn’t even cut from a hockey match for it. I’d @ mention the BBC but the UK establishment only uses Twitter and boycotts Bluesky.

Absolutely shocked! He is gutted and still an amazing sportsman congratulating the winner.

Wanna watch a man drown and root for it?

Can someone mention me if this sack of DNA ever decides to come to the UK? Speech has consequences on this side of the Atlantic.

read this whole thread. Read till the end

Expat American here and the two things that 100% trigger an ID check visiting NYC or Chicago are buying alcohol retail or entering a gay bar. Or going into a high rise office block. I don’t carry one in London, I need it daily there but my UK drivers license works fine.

Deleted as I don’t want fake internet karma about being wrong

That’s entirely possible. I left North America decades ago. So my knowledge is very dated. If things have changed I’m very happy to get new knowledge!

Everyone should have enough to not die. Tax us relatively rich people more to fund it. Societies collectively would be a lot better for it.

I’m 100% agreed with that! Give me money from taxes and then tax me more!

I’m in the UK. We have a lot of “tax credits”. The administration costs a *fortune* and gets it wrong a lot. And results in situations where people earning money have cliffs where you lose all benefits unless you earn above the cliff. Just. Give. Poor. People. Money.

If you’re in the right tax bracket and 10-20k/year even enters your consciousness you’re a sociopath and should be hunted down like someone working for an ex-PayPal founder’s new company. You have a lot better use of your time. And are hopefully not a sociopath.

And just to be clear, I’m a high net income payer who fully supports UBI. Tax me more for UBI! I’m down for it!

UBI means a very low administrative burden (“you’re a person? You’re here legally? You get money!”). Negative income taxes are the opposite (lots of admin, massive chances for gaming the system). But also UBI is based on giving people money to see what they can do with no administrative burden.