DHS Cites Cuba And Venezuela As Law Enforcement Models For ICE In a social media post, DHS listed Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE.

Kristi Noem's DHS searches totalitarian states around the globe for ideas. 'In a Feb 11 social media post, the Department of Homeland Security listed oppressive regimes like Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE agents.' www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Interesting that 17 of the top 20 most selective universities in the country are on this list.

Done. Thanks for providing the contact info.

I believe the word you want is “Weltschmerz”, literally “world pain”. It is the weariness and anguish arising from your awareness of evil and suffering in the real world that clashes with your ideals.

The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society. The privacy issues are not fixable with regulation and there is no balance that can be struck. Ring should be shut down immediately and not brought back.”

I come back to this open letter (from 2020) a lot, and I’ll give it the last word. amazonemployees4climatejustice.medium.com/amazon-emplo...

The Mutombo/Mourning era saw some fabulous games.

I’m a Hoya who whole-heartedly agrees. Yes, we still have the Nova Games to get excited about, but nothing compared to the electricity in the crowd when we played the Orange.

Not just himself, but those of us who are actually sane and live in Oklahoma.

Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"

The survey question about whether he had been better, worse, or as expected is likely even more negative. Many of ius predicted he would be terrible so they have put “as expected”.

"This Court does not have the power to impede removal proceedings, but it does have the power to ensure that the Government follows the law when it detains people," Dalton wrote in ordering the release of a Venezuelan man. "In this country, we don’t enforce the law by breaking the law."

"Judges across the country—the vast majority who have considered this question—have told the Government many times in the past few months that its interpretation of the law is wrong," Dalton, an Obama appointee, wrote. He added: "Members of this Bar have a duty of candor to the Court."

Not to mention that Elon Musk, Melania Trump, and many others in Trump's own circle would have been deported for violating their visas and lying on their immigrant applications.

Just a reminder that if Trump's policies had been in effect in the past, there would be no Apple (Steve Jobs is the son of Syrian immigrants), no Google (Sergei Brin immigrated from the USSR), and no WhatsApp (Jan Koum immigrated from Ukraine).

65% of all top tech companies has immigrant founders.

I think they, and Mike Johnson, deliberately avoid reading/watching social media and the news just so they can claim they don’t know.

“Central bank gold buying is NOT driving the rise in gold prices. .. [it] is part of something much bigger.

“We’re at the start of a global debt crisis, with markets .. fearful governments will attempt to inflate away out-of-control debt.”

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I had the thought to check if raisins are safe for dogs after mine ate two off the floor. So grateful to the vet who promptly treated her when I found out how toxic raisins are to canines. She is doing great!

Miller’s only overlooked the Nazi claim that the blood of Christian (or in this case it would be American) children was shed for their ritual food.

One December I was waiting to pay for some Christmas ornaments at Pier 1 when Taylor Hanson (from Hanson during the time when “MMM Bop” was hot) came in to shop. Cashiers stopped what they were doing to fangirl. It was annoying that an already slow line came to a halt.

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Large budget cutbacks mean that districts have drastically cut back on bus service. In our district, kids living within a 1.5mi radius don’t have a bus.

He has obviously never had to price insurance from the high risk pool: it’s chokingly expensive. Back in the day I had to turn down a job offer because they didn’t want to hire me as a regular employee and told me just to go buy myself some coverage.

Die Hard, the famous Christmas movie.

Aww, I miss lentils! I didn’t discovery them until I was 22 (my mom didn’t like them) and I loved them, only to find that they didn’t like me back. (Yes, multiple trials of different lentil dishes. All had the same results.) Enjoy some for me.

Yes. I “lost” the genetics lottery. Healthcare IS taking care of myself!

“Son, you got a panty on your head.”

Thank you so much for your courage in speaking out, especially when it is as such a great cost to you professionally.

Unfortunately it gets worse: wait until perimenopause when you can have a cycles more frequently than once a month.

I left the other place. Would you post the rest, please?

When I lived in a cultish community, they often used “unity” as a method to silence those who expressed disagreement or who were victimized by the system.

Same dynamic here. One sided “unity.” Unity for me, not for thee.