...he frequently went behind his staff’s back to kill legislation he supported to maintain conservative support, including reproductive choice bills. Only when push came to shove or he needed a win, would he push a bill through.

Plenty of Jewish people support Palestinian rights

While I’m not sure that excuse really holds water when the administration has had months following its electoral victory (and the amount of time it spent during the campaign decrying the brutality of our immigration system and the need for immediate change) to prepare for this exact situation — on top of the years…

So, just to be clear, you’re seriously suggesting that there is no better option out there at the moment than paying billions of dollars to privately-run facilities such as Florida’s Homestead, which Dem presidential contenders toured in 2019 and called “a stain on our country” while demanding its closure (it did, in…

This is why I was irritated by the people on the left deriding the new facilities for unaccompanied minors, as if they were more pleasant concentration camps.

The American Way: spend nearly the entirety of our national existence claiming Central and South America as our exclusive playground —> threaten, destabilize, and coup governments that don’t toe our line or allow their resources to be expropriated for our financial benefit, fund and support death squads and military…

Given that his own Vice President has admitted to her own previous use, I expect she’ll be resigning any minute now. That’s how this works, right?

I just don’t want to say this place is “deeply fucked” when the source doesn’t establish a baseline for what counts as a violation. Clearly at least a couple of the examples detailed to some degree are horrendous and speak of an out of their depth system but others sound vague.

So a few things there: one, that 57 violations over three years is “small compared to others detailed” is a fairly damning indictment of the industry as a whole, no? and two, that this is literally the same company that ran the facility under Trump, which...well, if you want to trust the Trump admin’s vetting of these…

Not only that, but the contractor running this particular facility, BCFS Health and Human Services, has a deeply fucked record when it comes to taking care of children:

Fuck Manchin for...well, almost everything? I guess, but the fact he looks to be the one likely to scuttle the Tanden nom is such hilarious poetic justice it’s tough to believe. If ever there were a place where “let them fight” applied...

I do what I can, you’re welcome — but based on this exchange I can’t help but wonder what proper rest and a more moderate intake might do for your reading comprehension. Worth a try!

Good questions, and I’m reading through the resource you’ve provided, which I very much appreciate — I have to dig in more deeply and learn what I can. Fundamentally, my thinking here is threefold: I have no problems with the concept of “deradicalization” or re-education, particularly when compared to how many states…

Man that’s a terrible thing — you should find the person who said it and tell them to go fuck themselves. Not quite sure why you made that comment to me though, as I’m neither from Texas nor suggested people in CA or NY deserve to suffer from their terrible governance.

When it comes to that miserable fuck the only appropriate way to speak of him is ill, but yeah I get you.

Good that he’s now roasting in hell but, like when Reagan died (or Kissinger finally kicks it) he did so after a lifetime of basically getting everything he wanted and remaking the world as a far worse place in exactly the way he desired; tough to be too happy about it in anything other than an “oh that’s nice”…

Thank you for actually keeping your attacks focused on elected officials and not the people suffering under them; the glee with which (largely coastal) liberals want to attack real human beings who’re currently hurting and dying, many of whom are poor, disenfranchised, and part of oppressed populations (the majority…

Deradicalization programs focused on educational and vocational trainings don’t seem like inherently nefarious ones to me, though I genuinely don’t have a strong enough grounding in the historical and present conditions to speak authoritatively there, so I don’t and won’t. I do, however, have a very strong aversion to…

That’s pretty much what happened, and this has been known for a while. They were missing soft tissues not because they wandered around eye-and-tongueless, but because they were dead, and scavenging animals tend to eat soft tissue (like eyes and tongues) first. Additionally, the traces of radiation found most likely…

Oh no I fully agree on the existence of those facilities; their purpose and what goes on (or went on, since they seem to be now mostly closed) are different questions, and ones it’s difficult to parse without either accepting PRC narratives wholeheartedly (and I fully get why people wouldn’t!) or taking what a guy…