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It's really quite likely that it's performative fodder, weaponization of the government, AND a case of that judge breaking the letter of the law.

there are certainly some judges i can think of that i wouldn't mind being arrested for breaking the law congress members as well hell even a president!

People will try and re-write themselves looking better and knowing that Joe was slipping, but most of us either didn't know at all or did but didn't want to believe it, until the debate made it too obvious to ignore. Still, the whataboutism is bogus. Even if he was fully Weekend at Bernie's, he was surrounded by a competent cabinet successfully steering the ship in a way that was quite alright to many, and at least not notably catastrophic. A pretty uninspired distraction from Trump's lack of a grip on reality being served and slobbered over and facilitated by cronies who absolutely love playing the heel to America.

ICE Ambushed Mohsen Mahdawi in a 'Trap' and Had a 'Clear Plan to Ship Him to Louisiana' The Palestinian Columbia student’s legal team says Mahdawi signed a pledge to defend the Constitution, and then ICE showed up. Mohsen Mahdawi attended his US citizenship interview, raised his right hand, and answered all the questions asked of him, before signing a document to pledge that he was willing to “defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign, and domestic.” And then, shortly after, the immigration official he was working with walked out, saying he needed to “check” on something and he’d be right back. Masked and visibly armed ICE agents subsequently marched in and shackled Mahdawi, took him to a car, and immediately set out on “a clear plan to ship him to Louisiana,” over 1,000 miles away. That’s according to Mahdawi’s legal team in a Tuesday legal filing making a motion for his release from detention. “It was a trap,” his team concludes. Mahdawi, a green card holder, was detained by the Trump administration nearly two weeks ago. The Palestinian Columbia student had been active in pro-Palestine and pro-peace protests on campus during the last 18 months. After his arrest, a leaked memo revealed that the State Department was attempting to justify his arrest by fielding the spurious claim that he threatened the “Middle East peace process” due to his "threatening rhetoric and intimidation." Mahdawi’s lawyers call the allegations “baseless.” In a statement via his legal team on Wednesday, Mahdawi said: “I am in prison but am not prisoned. A system of democracy guarantees freedom of speech. Speaking of Palestine does not only qualify as freedom of speech but it is also about our humanity.” According to his Tuesday filing, the government was planning to send Mahdawi to Louisiana, in the same fashion it has rushed off other people it has detained in recent weeks, including Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, as well as Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri (who is now being held in a Texas detention center). Mahdawi’s legal team told Zeteo that agents had tickets printed to transfer Mahdawi via a commercial flight from Burlington, Vermont, just hours after detaining him. The agents were apparently kind to him, but when he felt sick, they denied him medical care and insisted on taking him to the airport. Because he was feeling sick, he went to the bathroom, which subsequently made him miss the flight – perhaps the only reason he wasn’t sent to Louisiana before a judge could weigh in. His legal team said that agents had discussed driving him to Massachusetts in front of Mahdawi, but a judge had already signed a temporary restraining order that prohibited the government from moving him from the state. Still, at approximately 5:57 pm, Tuesday’s filing states – nearly three hours after a judge issued a restraining order preventing the transfer of Mahdawi – "the automated case information system for the Executive Office for Immigration Review still listed the venue of Mr. Mahdawi’s Master Calendar Hearing to be in Louisiana under Judge Sherron Ashworth” on May 1. Sending detainees to Louisiana appears to be part of the Trump administration’s effort to separate detainees from their families and legal teams, and to “shop” for judges who might be more apt to rule in favor of the attempted deportation. ICE did not immediately respond to Zeteo’s request for comment.

Usually pretty accurate. Pope Francis was a revelation and I'm quite sad we've lost his leadership and servitude in the world. Hopeful for more continuation of the Franciscan and contemplative influences in Catholicism.

We had an arab foreign exchange student at my incredibly small Nebraska high school when I was a senior. His two main nicknames (few knew his actual name) were Towelhead and Jihad, both originated by his host father and passed through the community. He was a sweet, helpful and courageous kid that put on an incredibly brave face daily, but i saw him break more than once when he thought nobody noticed. Nasty folks everywhere.

All sorts of innocent, and a few not so innocent, possible reasons for the discrepancy between that sworn statement and reality, which is why...ya know, due process and burden of proof are cornerstone pieces of how our country works.

when is someone gonna hold teach accountable for everyone being a f#&%ing idiot?

A helpful guide for dealing with idiots and otherwise slippery characters who are a waste of your time

I know I'm late but this is insane.

I've never met a single person in life that is a 'rule of law' absolutist, or if I have, they've been insufferable obnoxious dorks. There's no 'gotcha' in observing how people have differing degrees of caring about the law being upheld in certain circumstances. Who among us can claim they care as much about the offense of jaywalking as they do about rape? Why would anyone ever care about the rule of law nearly as much in the case of people desperately trying to work around a broken system to provide for themselves in a way that ultimately massively benefits me and my country (and is a crucial component of our GDP/economy), as compared to, say, caring a bit more about the rule of law when the most powerful man on earth and the richest country in the history of the world start disappearing innocent people who actually did everything the right way to foreign prisons with no accountability or checks?

He's completely right but for the completely opposite reason of what he thinks.

that's a PS3 screenshot, has to be

lol @ "you liberals would be so mad if clinton was president shutting down military bases in europe" like, no???

It sounds like you care.

You're all over the map man. First you don't care, then you want people prosecuted, then you say it doesn't matter, then claim someone else is the one who thinks laws should apply to the powerful. We all know how to walk and chew gum at the same time, and caring about the equality of justice doesn't prevent us from caring about anything else.

This tweet is so insanely sensationalized to the point of not being true. Boeing didn't lose anything. China has, for the time being, stopped accepting any jets (not just from Boeing). This could theoretically continue into the future long-term, in which case Boeing will have lost out, but you can't lose something you don't have yet. Also, the 8,830 plane number isn't like a deal that China made with Boeing or anything. It's just the total number of planes that Boeing expects China to purchase in the next 20 years (not just from Boeing, but total).

Here's the brass tacks. Does the government or the President have the right to accidentally throw someone in a foreign prison without a trial and then actively defy the supreme court’s orders to get him back: yes or no? If yes, f#&% off you're wrong. If no, you should be pissed and alert to the ways in which the White House is breaking the law with impunity, and wondering in what other ways might they like to break the law and simply ignore the courts.

Have y'all tired yourselves out of spending literal days getting sucked into the slop of irrelevant minutia with someone who will happily and blissfully ignore the larger picture?

something something "every republican accusation is a confession"

Obviously for fighting the good fight and speaking truth to power. A good cautionary tale for those of us who came after to be on our best behavior

Pareto distributions and good common sense tell us how having means makes acquiring more means easier, and being poor is incredibly expensive and can easily spiral into being more poor, even without a lazy entitled attitude. Tell me again why we're focusing on the alleged teet sucking attitudes of the people with the least, meanwhile Boeing, Exxon Mobil, Amazon and the like siphon off hundreds of billions of dollars of our money, despite their infinite resources and lobbying power? Even if the binary of "GOP supports hard work!! DNC supports lazy freeloaders" were true (something you'd expect to see on the 'I'm 14 and this is deep' subreddit), at best they come to a draw when it comes to sucking off major corporations at the expense of the citizenry.

You know, on one hand, we've got folks being disappeared and deported for such crimes as having tattoos or protesting against inhumane war crimes, as well as government agencies presenting actual credible assaults on free speech. But ya know, on the other hand, some elite out of touch professors who say "Latinx" are really annoying, liberal cancel culture has ended a handful of high profile careers, and trans folks shouldn't have the right to request that we refer to them in a way that feels respectful. Real slippery slope, 1984 dystopian stuff.

My great uncle, still alive but wheelchair/walker bound due to guillian barre late in his life, back in the day would post the most boomer anti obama/DNC memes on facebook all day, including the occasional post that he wrote himself. When I pointed out to him that he would literally be dead or bankrupt without the ACA, his response was, "Nope. Obama sucks!!!" These days he shares about 5-20 slop posts per day, all following the token pre-K level understanding and disapproving sentiment towards any right wing boogeyman, wasting away the rest of his days on disability.

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