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In other words, the vast majority of the $45 billion in reconciliation funding is going to go to the new system of warehouse detention camps.

The other $6.8 billion will presumably serve mainly to keep the existing system of detention running without any other major changes.

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

"ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers."

Senate Democrats: Do not appropriate any more funds for ICE.

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Racial cooperation in America: Why the United States is not as divided as it may seem | Brookings Please join the Brookings Center for Community Uplift on Wednesday, February 18, for a discussion about new research on the state of racial cooperation in America.

Is the United States as divided as it seems? Join us on Feb 18 to hear the results of a new study with @gallup.com on the state of racial cooperation in America.

The GOP as a brand is dead inside statewide Californian politics. The problem with how utterly defeated the Republicans are. Is that you just pretend to be a Democrat at this point and continue on.

Conservatives are doing the same thing in🇨🇦. Running as the party most likely to win, claiming they’re THAT party, until they win & then vote w Conservatives to further their extRW agenda.🙄

Would think that’s what’s going on here. Another Fetterman.🤮

Strategy: Plant pseudo-democrats, achieve dystopian agenda.

Exactly. With our jungle primary system, they're watering down the pool of Democrats in order to help Republican candidates. I hope voters see this for what it is & vote accordingly.

To draw votes away from an actual Democratic candidate.

The Plot Against America A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record. This site documents their statements, investments, and connections.

Exactly. Divide and conquer
Anyone who’s funded by the ghouls listed below should be a hard AVOID

theplotagainstamerica.com

www.authoritarian-stack.info

www.vcinfodocs.com

> Why is he funding a Democrat?

If he takes Palantir or other #NerdReich money, he is not a Democrat, he's a hedge for them to continue their plans when MAGA crashes and burns.
See Ro Khanna x David Sacks, Ruben Gallego x Marc Andreessen.
Probably Newsom too, idk if he has direct cryptobro links.

A new poll shows Mahan...with 3% support from California voters.

But the tech billionaire money is pouring in. Keep an eye on this one. 🍿

We need nothing less than Nuremberg 2.0.

(3) some of these crimes have broad jurisdiction, but also—citizens of other countries are being harmed here. This makes it in their interest and in their remit to seek answers and justice

Couple of notes:
(1) human rights law is weak; states are strong. One way human rights law works is by mobilizing state pressure against violating countries, helping make it in violators’ interests to change their practices
(2) international investigations can help facilitate accountability later

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What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.

We need to shut this country down until this stops. This is sociopathic behavior done with our money and in our name.

Who supports this?

Futbol Is a Country We want to present a more global, postcolonial (for want for a better word) take on world football.

The course on Global Football and World Politics would run for six weeks, and would be taught by @tonykaron.bsky.social and@seanjacobs.bsky.social, the engine behind the legendary blog, Fútbol is A Country:

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The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology "CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.

and it's all propped up by a shitty establishment press:

I think the thing that enrages me the most about Musk is that he presents himself as some sci-fi nerd hero doing everything possible to save humanity by going to new planets.

If your plan for saving humanity doesn’t include the people already on earth, you’re just a racist piece of shit.

Lawyers for the gov, appearing virtually before Judge Vargas, say the DOT sent payments to the Treasury but they'll take a business day to process—meaning the states won’t get paid out until Tues, after the holiday. Judge says gov appears compliant, no meaningful relief to grant.

Motion for Conference – #58 in State of New Jersey v. United States Department of Transportation (S.D.N.Y., 1:26-cv-00939) – CourtListener.com Motion for Conference

20+ hrs after the Trump admin was supposed to disburse $200M withheld from the Hudson River tunnel project, “there is no sign of a wire transfer of any money,” the NJ and NY AGs say in a new filing, requesting an emergency status conference this afternoon
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Correct me if I’m off-base here, bluesky historians, but it seem to me that by the time they’re out of power, this regime will have—by some distance—killed more human beings around the world than any U.S. government since World War II.

The Trump-Vance admin is trying to bulldoze East Potomac Park and turn its golf course into an exclusive space for the president and his friends.

We're suing to stop them from turning a public park into Trump's playground. https://bit.ly/4rPBiTm

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

“You're seeing SSA becoming an extension of Homeland Security,” Dudek said. “Why would the public trust SSA anymore?”

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Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

Leland Dudek, the former acting commissioner for the SSA, says a directive to share details about in-person appointments would be “highly unusual,” particularly because SSA is meant to be a “safe space” for people to come to, regardless of immigration status.

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

“If ICE comes in and asks if someone has an upcoming appointment, we will let them know the date and time,” an employee with direct knowledge of the directive says. In-person appointments might include noncitizens and people with accessibility or translation needs.

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

NEW: Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information about in-person appointments with ICE agents, WIRED has learned, in a move that goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.