That is an entirely different issue. That is children arriving as UACs, or unaccompanied children. They are decidedly NOT being claimed as a family member by coyotes; instead, the coyotes just put them in a large group of people to cross together.

There’s a reason that I put “The Russians were beating us to it” as reason number one. I’m not sure why you’re disagreeing with me.

Yeah but like... what even is the joke? Trans people exist and someone might want to have sex with them?

Of course then a percentage of the adults would have been traffickers who would possibly hold them hostage to their real parents (traffickers do this often enough)

In one case, the government listed a father’s language as Spanish, when he really spoke an indigenous Guatemalan language. When the lawyers reached him, they didn’t have an interpreter, and had to call back.

After Lindsay explains to Frank in one scene that the minister is pansexual, she quips that maybe he got the gig for “fucking both the bride and groom.” “Because he would fuck, for example, a man who thinks he’s a woman?” Frank replies. “Or a straight woman who thinks she’s actually a gay man?”

as a hormone

Yeah, and going out into the sun for even 5 seconds without putting on sunscreen increases your chance of skin cancer, and despite that I still walk to work.

That’s a lovely way to think about it. He really was something special.

Exactly! JFK was super clear that it was basically A) doing it because we could do it, and B) if we didn’t do it, the Russians would, and then spends a whole portion of the speech saying “Now, I know this is going to cost us a shitload of money but think of all the great jobs we’re going to create in the sciences with…

It’s almost as if they’re the ones who’re revising history, to fit the narrative they want.

I expanded more in another response on why that’s bullshit, but I could have also gone into the ways in which the actual moon landing itself was very much an international event, televised across the world and presented very clearly the U.S. government as an international and human achievement, despite also crowing…

And to expand on why Pete Hegseth is dumb as a goddamn bag of bricks, it is revisionist bullshit to delcare that the Moon Landing was just “compelled by capitalism.” Go back and read JFK’s Moon Speech. The moon landing was compelled by two main things: The Russians were beating us to it, and also, the Moon was there.…

One country, compelled by capitalism, by free people, with a vision, said we’re going to do this. Yet revisionist actors in Hollywood then preach to us that it was a human achievement, and American had nothing to do with it?” 

Early on in her tenure at the White House I’d watch a few of the press conferences with the same “I’m actually curious what she’ll say” mindset. It was.... depressing.

I am actually curious as to what Hucks will say today.

Ah fuck, he worked on Public Charge. Sigh. No goddamn surprise there. That might also explain how incredibly awful the original draft of the Public Charge regulation was, and how all reporting suggests that, as bad as it is, it’ll never be as bad as the original draft.

I feel somewhat similar to how I feel about nutria; cats are definitely actively damaging local species and are an invasive species.

In June, Cuomo’s office sent Attorney General Barbara Underwood a letter calling for a six-month pause in the investigation

He thinks all 11 million undocumented immigrants are serious criminals that the government needs to bend enormous resources to get rid of... even the ones who came here as toddlers. He is genuinely sick.