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Anyone willing to encourage tourism to America by being such a guide would probably take your money and then find a reason to get you arrested by ICE anyway. Not like you could take it up with a consumer protection agency now.

They are absolutely desperate to fill their quotas, they're selfish cowards who know how quickly their Dear Leader will throw them under the bus if they don't

I couldn't find a complete transcript of the interview anywhere, but I did find a slightly longer CBC article discussing it with more quotes (archived).

That is important context, thank you. I still kind of think that taking an assertive stand against what the United States is doing to Germany citizens is the kind of clear call this minister probably ought to feel empowered to make, but on the other hand I have a deep appreciation for government workers who feel their obligations to upholding democratic systems, so this is a hard call to make I suppose.

Interestingly, only young Trump supporters in our study became more likely to vote after Trump’s first election.

This is your country on neoliberal Democratic party leadership

e; and unchecked voter suppression laws coming out of Republican state governments (but as to who that check will be, see my original comment)

Not that they owe my country any favors or anything, but given their own history I would have hoped this German government agency could do something a little stronger than "this is not a travel warning, just reminding all you plebs to listen to border guards if you don't want to be tortured"

Also just gathering troops in a blue state's territory for [redacted], nothing to see here.

Platforms’ content moderation of terrorism-related content currently sits at a troubling equilibrium, at which platforms anticipatorily adopt a very broad reading of the law, thus preventing the government from having to explain the law’s true reach, let alone attempt to enforce it against social media companies. This equilibrium is the product of platforms’ self-interested risk aversion, an erroneous assumption by the Supreme Court about what the effects of allowing the government to restrict even peaceful speech as “material support” would be, and no one having both the incentive and capacity to change the status quo. As a result, a U.S. law, and the Court’s interpretation of it, has encouraged the suppression of core political discourse, not just beyond the borders of the United States but also within them. The Court’s decision in Humanitarian Law Project thus casts a long shadow over us all.

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Man, if that bolded phrase doesn't just describe everything in 2025

Anyway, related 5-4 podcast (archived)

I don't see how people are seeing that Roberts statement as a rejection of Trump. He didn't say Trump's name or call out anything specific Trump's done and he's demonstrated that he's perfectly capable of doing that

Roberts then issued a rare public rebuke, according to Fox News.

“This morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside. Senator Schumer referred to two Members of the Court by name and said he wanted to tell them that ‘You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,'” the statement said

“Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort [blah blah blah]

Archived

I searched for "mike flood town hall" filtering out results after November of 2024 and found a bunch of news stories across 2023 and 2024 talking about him holding townhalls but never found any saying that he'd had a bunch of people show up to yell at him. Seems like whatever this is it's something different.

It shows the marine band capitulating to the will of this shitty evil scumbag president, and it shows kids having to make do with an improvised group of individuals who will not have the same ability to preserve their program as a government backed effort.

It's resistance, which we desperately need and which we desperately need to be getting into news cycles, but it's no kind of triumph, and confusing it for one will only make it harder to fix the damage this shitty evil scumbag has done.

Also a lot of Democratic leadership's

Yeah, sure, so long as they're all getting along with each other, and so long as they can coordinate who has what and what might be needed, and so long as no one state tries to cut costs on emergency planning and rely on other states bailing them out, yeah, we might end up with a much more expensive system that with almost the same capacity to clean up disasters as our current one

Yeah, the fact that they're immediately putting these workers the courts are forcing them to rehire onto administrative leave (where they still get paid but just aren't allowed to do any work) is a pretty clear demonstration it's just about stopping the government from doing things Republicans don't like

Because Netanyahu doesn't want to testify at his corruption trial and because the United States has not stopped giving them weapons to carry out this war, regardless of what they did and or who the US president was. Israel know there's no limits on their behavior.

The moment they ignored the laws to destroy the capabilities of the US federal government, so since day 1

At what point will it be treated like the treason it is and how many lives will the fascists destroy before that happens? No idea.

Why the hell is a guy who resigned in disgrace even getting ANY support right now.

Because the dollars of this country that are available to be donated to political campaigns are largely held by dirtbags and I'm guessing those dirtbags know a bunch of other skeletons that are in Cuomo's closet which could be broken out if he ever tried to defy them

The moment the US figured out the US has oil this was bound to happen

That would actually be more honest than what he's doing - he's violating court orders and ignoring the constitution while claiming he's not, so now all the pundits will say "Is America in a constitutional crisis? It's hard to say..." when it very much is not.