John Conor Ryan

Look, body-shaming is bad and whatnot but seriously: this dude vs Bad Bunny, c'mon, he's Adonis personified. And the intellect: awesome. We should all be so eloquent, well-informed.
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Sat on an airport floor (DCA) with baseball legend Wilt Chamberlain for an hour some night when all flights were late. He watched my bags while I went to the restroom; I watched his in turn.

I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"

. . . And aren't suspected of any crime.

But off to The Camps.

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*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

1. Would like to ask for a big favor.

Would love for you to please follow two Iranian women reporters who were just laid off from the Washington Post.

I will link to their latest investigation in the post below, but please follow @ntabrizy.bsky.social and @yjtorbati.bsky.social!!

Is there a GoFundMe or something to start a successor to the late, lamented WashPo? The Washington Independent or something? Raises enough take over . . . $10M or $30M to get going? I'm not anywhere near wealthy, but I'd dig painfully deep into my wallet for that.

The March for Life is going to end up killing *actual babies* with measles in the name of non-existent, hypothetical babies.

which is the most perfect distillation of the American MAGA worldview that I think I’ve ever seen.

One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"

Boston Prudential Center windows lit up to spell GO PATS

There's a game tomorrow?

At minimum, Bezos has acted incredibly dishonorably. He purchased a historically important newspaper, he has more money than g-d, and rather than funding and otherwise supporting it, or even letting it go and selling it to someone who gives a crap about it, he’s killing it.

Snow bunny on MIT campus

On the one hand, Boston drivers are *far* more polite than they used to be.
On the other, winter here is nasty.

(Growling)
"You overlooking work of C. Monster et al."

One reason some POTUS & VPOTUS teams have had the humility to not visit disaster sites and fancy galas and sports events.
But, yeah, importing US food to Italy.

Ugh.
10? years ago, I was in DC, and had nice lunch with a friend and his friend, a GOP rep. Rohrabacher stopped by to shake hands. As he left, the GOP rep said, out loud: "he's the member for California's 48th, but represents Moscow."

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Being mentioned does not equal all that. I know a super-bright woman who is mentioned several times. All of which is JE saying he'd like to meet her and the intermediary doing nothing to enable that.

I read somewhere that we were lucky to live during the brief period of human history after the invention of the photography/video and before it was trivial to mimic reality with AI. Now enjoyment of any cool image or video is tainted by the concern we’re being tricked. I think about that a lot

in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits

Wrong.
We demand an end to fascism.
We demand a return to streets safe from unwarranted seizure.
We demand that our constitutional rights be respected.

Man up or get out.

There was exactly one person born in the US on the project: the CEO. This was his point: his firm's ability to craft its new future lay *entirely* in the hands, on the shoulders, and in the imaginations, of immigrants.

I once led a technology strategy project for a vaunted, century-old US firm. The final work session had perhaps 20 people in it. At one point, the CEO called a halt and asked for each person to say their name and where they were from.

the highly-educated (from Sundar and Sergey at Google to, well, me and millions of others) to those who just want to work hard and be paid honest wages (Haitian nurses, Guatemalan contractors, Ethiopian cab drivers . . . ) The futures value of this talent is beyond calculation. /

Without looking at the raw data and methodology summary (I'm on a plane as I type this), I imagine this as a current-year cash surplus estimate. In fact, the benefit from immigrants is far larger with the US as a magnet for talent of all stripes (a tiny thread in response)

Truth.

or at least a fully-executed Judicial warrant?
2. And insofar as ICE/BP lacked a valid warrant, it cannot claim all the immunity granted to law enforcement when engaged in its authorized activities?
(IANAL, obviously)

So, honest questions about who ICE/BP was trying to seize when they killed Alex Pretti:
1. Since that man, Huerta-Chuma, was in the US legally and had no criminal charges (but a later-dismissed 2018 misdemeanor charge for disorderly conduct): does that mean that ICE/BP did not have a warrant (more)

Of course, this is the England I left and part of why I left.
Most bskyers won't recognize the name. Coutts is a famous bank - but only for the landed 'aristocracy'. You and I should not dirty their polished oaken floors.
She's the daughter of the 9th Baron Latymer. Of course she needs help.