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Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead

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Starved in Jail: Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

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Why ICE is really moving detainees hundreds of miles from where they were arrested | CNN

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Inside the DOGE immigration task force: led by Musk ally Antonio Gracias, it's providing the technical infrastructure for a sweeping set of actions aimed at revoking parole and terminating visas

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No evidence linking Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found

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Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador

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Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants: Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to transport detainees from the US to El Salvador.

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Wrongly deported man not leaving El Salvador prison, President Bukele says

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What are your rights if U.S. border authorities ask for your phone?

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DoJ Won’t Comply With Order on Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Live Updates

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Mixed Signals on Alleged Alien Enemies - The Supreme Court insists on due process but offers no specifics and leaves hundreds in a Salvadoran prison with no remedy.

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St. Louis Judges Embrace Ankle Monitors Amid Calls to Reform Bail

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Eric Adams Is Allowing ICE to Return to Rikers. Here’s What to Know.

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Los Angeles County Prosecutors allege retaliation over Menendez brothers resentencing memo

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Revealed: drug tests in California prisons yielded false positives, affecting thousands of people

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Virginia juvenile justice system strained by staffing shortages

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An algorithm used by Louisiana's prison system deemed this nearly blind 70-year-old prisoner a ‘moderate risk.’ Now he’s no longer eligible for parole.

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How Eric Adams and the NYPD Helped Create the Xenophobic Tren de Aragua Panic

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Amid DOGE Cuts Elsewhere, the DEA Is Actively Recruiting

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CIA is reviewing its authorities to use lethal force against drug cartels

  • Completely agreed, but I'm pretty sure we'll need new leadership for the Democratic party if we want them to make this happen

  • Nope, the vast majority of crimes require intent and criminal statutes that didn't make that a necessary element of the crime were frequently struck down as unconstitutional before our judicial system went to hell

    That being said, what "intent" means exactly to a judge gets really complicated and can lead to unexpected results (e.g. if you intended to just stand around as a non violent lookout while your friends robbed a store with an unloaded handgun that probably could be intent enough for you to be convicted of murder when one of your friends gets shot and killed by the store attendant)

  • Oh yeah, I didn't say they'd be arrested, I said they'd be an asshole. Not only are there tons of perfectly legal ways to be an asshole in America, it's usually a very effective way of personally enriching oneself.

  • Still blows my mind that no one seemed to see how [infuriating bullshit omitted]

    Tell it to Tyre Nichols family

  • Yeah, unfortunately it's far from the first time this community's mods have allowed misinformation to be pushed here

  • Yeah, I hope that plays out too, and it's never out of the question with how unhinged and drugged up Musk is, but unfortunately I think this is less Musk stepping back for real and more of a bullshit PR move to get some of the heat off of Trump and Elon both -

    The president remains pleased with Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency initiative, but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role, according to three Trump insiders who were granted anonymity to describe the evolving relationship.

    ...

    One senior administration official said Musk is likely to retain an informal role as an adviser and continue to be an occasional face around the White House grounds. Another cautioned that anyone who thinks Musk is going to disappear entirely from Trump’s orbit is “fooling themselves.”

    The transition, the insiders said, is likely to correspond to the end of Musk’s time as a “special government employee,” a special status that temporarily exempts him from some ethics and conflict-of-interest rules. That 130-day period is expected to expire in late May or early June.

  • Nope, if the patron has chosen to do business in a stupid shitty country like mine they should pay a reasonable tip or they're an asshole. I agree that it's a completely stupid system that needs change, but screwing the server for a stupid culture they have no control over is not cool.

  • Nope, a motion for cloture would end this speech and any other debate and move the Senate along to its next vote

  • What progress was obstructed here? He started at 7 in the evening and went through the middle of the night, I doubt Republicans had plans to move some critical legislation at 3am.

  • I mean, giving an extra long speech where you point out all the terrible things Trump is doing and read letters from constituents is doing something, it's just not a filibuster or anywhere near the level of intensity we need. Telling Republicans they're hurting people isn't going to change their minds.

  • Also, "can't" is bullshit, they just don't want to

  • Huh, I'd never considered that difference. Every grammar resource I've seen online says "in spite of" and "despite" currently have the exact same meaning and the emotional connotations of "spite" (which seems to have just meant "in opposition to" for longer than it's meant "in opposition to for vindictive reasons") never got inferred into the phrase "in spite of", but I actually think your reading makes more sense for how it should be (if only because there's no point in having "in spite of" and "despite" mean different things).

  • Then they would cease to be public media and would just be another non-profit news organization/content producer

    Also, federal funding is a tiny chunk of NPR and PBS, but the individual member stations that actually broadcast the stuff NPR and PBS produce tend to get a lot bigger chunk of their budgets through the feds (this is what they're talking about when they say the funding is "crucial to bringing public broadcasting to local communities")

  • I'd be ok with just ruling out that first option

  • I'm sure RFK's CDC will get right to the bottom of what happened here and prevent it from happening again /s

  • This isn't even the worst thing to come out of Rankin County in the past few years, they're home of the police department that the media dubbed the goon* squad for their habit of just straight up kidnapping and torturing people. Like, they only got caught because a dumb bastard forgot to unload his gun before doing a mock execution and accidentally shot the tongue off of someone and they couldn't come up with anyway to make the forensics on that look like anything other than what it was (they did try to argue they were somehow defending themselves for a few days).

    *Slang changes fast, okay?

  • "felt like a kidnapping."

    In related news, these snozzberries feel like like snozzberries