Either choose to participate in capitalism or they stick you in a box and commodify your imprisonment

And the way he raped children with his good friend Jeffrey Epstein, really doesn’t want people talking about that

Look, I’ll be the first to say that Republicans are all revolting, but this headline way oversells the article underneath it

Sen. Roger Marshall posted on Facebook Tuesday that he would defend the Wichita workforce while sharing Trump’s objective of increasing U.S. production.

“I’m going to fight to keep Bombardier’s over 1,200 Kansas jobs,” Marshall wrote. “I’ve already taken that concern inside the Oval Office.”

He said he and the administration “agree on the mission” of bringing well-paying manufacturing jobs to Wichita and expanding Bombardier’s U.S. production, pointing out that American buyers account for more than 50 per cent of the company’s sales.

“I remember when my classmates’ parents worked at Learjet — later Bombardier — when it employed well over 3,000 people,” Marshall said. “Bombardier is obligated to grow that footprint in Kansas again.”

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Wichita Mayor Lily Wu said in a statement Monday that Trump’s post “certainly creates some uncertainty,” but she is hopeful the situation will work itself out.

Wu wrote that the city appreciates Bombardier’s continued investment, adding that she plans to meet with the company to better understand what the news could mean for its local operations.

In her post, she quoted U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, who said he “reached out to the Trump administration to make certain the President is aware of the significant contributions of Bombardier to Kansas and the importance of its presence in Wichita to many Kansas workers at Bombardier and in the Bombardier supply chain.”

Now you know how the tens of USFL fans felt

The founders didn’t really give the Presidency that many powers, things just kinda devolved that way over the years because Congress didn’t want to make tough votes, e.g. the Vietnam war wasn’t ever technically a war because Congress didn’t want to own it by declaring one, so they just told Eisenhower/Kennedy/LBJ/Nixon to figure it out for them with a bunch of vaguely worded resolutions and lots of military funding in budgets.

Also, it is the founders’ fault that they gave us a system with an undemocratic Senate where Wyoming gets as many votes as California that distorts everything in our politics because they wanted to protect the little state government fiefdoms they’d made for themselves.

Like some kinda shitpost?

That “though” tho

I do method acting, like “in this next scene I am going to play an extrovert who enjoys making small talk at professional conferences with potential customers and employers”

If they really believed money is speech then forcing us to give it to a business to exercise our legal rights really should be a clear cut 5th Amendment violation, but of course they don’t believe in anything besides power

Basically every single song from the Moby album Play was in basically every single commercial on TV

Thinking the stupidity meme won’t jump from one species to the next is just a lazy cop out, regardless of the species we just have to stop being stupid and there’s no one single switch that can be flipped for that

So in other words more than a 60% supermajority of Americans don’t support ICE

For MAGA Republicans

Cult members gonna cult. What percentage of likely voters are identifying as MAGA now and what was that same number in January 2025? Because I’d bet that’s gone down

Thank you for the link!

Six in 10 Americans disapprove of the job ICE is doing, while about 3 in 10 approve.

So in reality about twice as many people oppose ICE as support them. I think Americans have a lot of opinions they need to reconsider, but the ICE problem isn’t being driven by that, it’s being driven by a government that can pursue extreme and violent policies regardless of public opinion, which is a whole different problem to deal with, and I think that problem is only made worse by overstating the degree of popular support ICE has.

The question people need to be asking themselves about this issue is not “Why do so many people support this?”, it’s “Why doesn’t our government listen to us?”

I cant believe it

Good, you really shouldn’t believe random bullshit people say without any evidence

half of Americans still support ICE

Citation needed

The influential group

Citation needed

Also, denying someone in your custody medical care really ought to be considered torture, which really ought to be some sort of crime

No, ICE and CBP are separate agencies, they just both happen to be appallingly racist (even by the standards of US law enforcement). The county board successfully forced the sheriff to ban ICE agents, but in response to that she went out of her way to hold a press conference to tell the board they better not try to ban CBP agents too or else, which is probably more just deeply annoying to me than it is actually consequential at this point, but could turn into a lawsuit if the county does try to ban CBP I’d suppose.

But of course pigs are still pigs

Kelly Martinez, San Diego County’s elected sheriff, said after the vote… CBP could continue using a county facility, setting up a showdown with the supervisors, who are also elected. The sheriff made a lengthy defense of CBP’s work…

Related articles, “The Legacy of Racism within the U.S. Border Patrol” (arc) and “Border Patrol has a history of excessive force. Critics say they’re out of their depth” (arc)

Related story from 2023, “Government’s own experts found ‘barbaric’ and ‘negligent’ conditions in ICE detention” (arc)

In Michigan, a man in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was sent into a jail’s general population unit with an open wound from surgery, no bandages and no follow-up medical appointment scheduled, even though he still had surgical drains in place.

A federal inspector found: “The detainee never received even the most basic care for his wound.”

In Georgia, a nurse ignored an ICE detainee who urgently asked for an inhaler to treat his asthma. Even though he was never examined by the medical staff, the nurse put a note in the medical record that “he was seen in sick call.”

“The documentation by the nurse bordered on falsification and the failure to see a patient urgently requesting medical attention regarding treatment with an inhaler was negligent.”

And in Pennsylvania, a group of correctional officers strapped a mentally ill male ICE detainee into a restraint chair and gave the lone female officer a pair of scissors to cut off his clothes for a strip search.

“There is no justifiable correctional reason that required the detainee who had a mental health condition to have his clothes cut off by a female officer while he was compliant in a restraint chair. This is a barbaric practice and clearly violates … basic principles of humanity.”

These findings are all part of a trove of more than 1,600 pages of previously secret inspection reports written by experts hired by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. In examining more than two dozen facilities across 16 states from 2017 to 2019, these expert inspectors found “negligent” medical care (including mental health care), “unsafe and filthy” conditions, racist abuse of detainees, inappropriate pepper-spraying of mentally ill detainees and other problems that, in some cases, contributed to detainee deaths.

These reports almost never become public.

For more than three years, the federal government — under both the Trump and Biden administrations — fought NPR’s efforts to obtain those records. That opposition continued despite a Biden campaign promise to "demand transparency in and independent oversight over ICE.

The records were obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by NPR. After two years, a federal judge found that the government had violated the nation’s public records law and ordered the release of the documents.

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