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Tabby Thursday

Steven L. Taylor
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Trump and his aides have repeatedly exaggerated the likelihood that such a program can be implemented under current law, and they have made no effort to introduce legislation to make it happen. Immigration attorneys and other legal experts say a president has no power to unilaterally create a new visa category, which would require an act of Congress.

The clearance rate — the share of cases that result in an arrest or are otherwise solved — was 58 percent in 2023, the latest year for which F.B.I. data is available. And that figure is inflated because it includes murders from previous years that police solved in 2023.

No doubt, tackling gardeners and rounding up day laborers is the best use of our resources when it comes to enhancing public safety!

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  1. Jay L Gischer Avatar
    Jay L Gischer

    “one widely retweeted comment stated that MacArthur Park is too full of “human feces… homeless encampments and gangs” for anyone to play there. (In fact, a Twitter search of “MacArthur Park human feces” reveals that this was a common claim that day.)”

    A fable they often tell each other out of jealousy, and to resist the idea that maybe what we do here actually works at least as well as whatever it is they are doing in their states.

    I think it’s ok to love your home and be devoted to it. Other Americans love their home, too. That’s as it should be.

    In Washington State, we used to trash-talk Californians all the time. Now I am one. I don’t hate it here. It ain’t perfect, and I love other places, such as my birthplace, too. It’s the leaning in to the hatred that is the problem. It doesn’t make anybody’s life better.

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  2. Jay L Gischer Avatar
    Jay L Gischer

    “The trick is not minding,” as G. Gordon Liddy famously said about holding his finger in a flame.

    I’m pretty sure that quote comes from Peter O’Toole’s portrayal of T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia

    Found it.

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  3. Kingdaddy Avatar
    Kingdaddy

    The MacArthur park show of force is a hugely important story, one that everyone should read (and also find some videos of the incident). Yes, it’s exactly what the linked article says: an effort to turn the National Guard, or any other military involved in “protecting” ICE, into a force using counterinsurgency methods against the US population.

    And if this isn’t a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, I don’t know what is. From the linked article:

    Treating Los Angeles as a foreign country with insurgents to be defeated, military and homeland security intelligence views MacArthur Park as a viper’s nest of illegality. An intelligence briefing produced by Army North, the task command overseeing military operation, says of the “symbolic significance” of the park:

    “The founding location of MS-13, MacArthur park represents an area of historic lawlessness where criminal organizations openly defy local and federal law, including immigration law.”

    The Park, the same briefing says, is also “the largest open-air market” of fake IDs facilitating human trafficking in the entire Southwest. Per the briefing:

    “MacArthur park functions as the largest open-air market of fake identification to enable illegal immigration and human trafficking in the Southwest United States. Entire sections of the 35 square acre park host open buying and selling of fake identification and other illegal goods in broad daylight. Federal agents confirmed that these activities continued at MacArthur park within the last week.”

    The execution may have been clumsy, but most early efforts are. The parties involved are likely to get better, over time.

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  4. Gustopher Avatar
    Gustopher

    From Shelly Palmer: What Happens When English Becomes the Only Programming Language You Need?

    English is a terrible programming language because of how imprecise it is. See, for example, “Elementary, Dear Data” from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

    The obvious solution is Esperanto.

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  5. Eusebio Avatar
    Eusebio

    A theme in Shelly Palmer’s piece is that the transformation will happen in 36 months.

    In 36 months, he says:
    “code and content will be free,” and
    “we’ll be competing with each other at the speed of thought.”

    But we will also be in the final-year throes of the trump administration. Thinking about Larry Diamond’s piece at The UnPopulist, I wonder where trump’s war on diplomacy, science, and higher education will leave us in three years. Not to mention his war on the working class, and specifically immigrants. For example, what kind of LA will there be for people to visit (or not) to see the 2028 Olympics after the feds have had three more years to upend the labor force in their push to detain as many immigrants–status be damned–as possible?

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  6. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    The tariff stuff is really starting to stink to high heaven. It very much feels like a pump & dump scheme, especially with today’s announcement about copper.

    I suspect someone, or multiple someones, are getting very rich manipulating the market right now.

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