They’ve really doubled down on “evil is good and good is evil” (to paraphrase Isaiah 5:20).

The efforts to correct for historical systemic prejudice and provide actual equal opportunity (which is a step towards the meritocracy they claim to want) is painted as being evil, whilst a return to the “equal outcome” (for the rich and white, regardless of skill or effort) is represented as good. They have deliberately gotten the two scenarios backwards in that EO.

I think they’d start with the neurodiverse; a badge for them is more easily “explained” as “making it easy to identify people who need support”. That’s not what it would be used for, of course.

Sadly, this doesn’t surprise me. I expected something like this was coming.

Consigning Black people to live in filth is incompatible with serving all Americans with “dignity and respect,” unless Black people don’t count as Americans.

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Isn’t that the whole point?

His attorney said that as of 28 March, the day after his arrest, his F-1 visa was still active. [Harsono’s lawyer] Gad said the government revoked it without any notice to him, and then claimed he had overstayed. The revocation was backdated to 23 March and allegedly based on his 2022 misdemeanor conviction for graffitiing a semi-truck trailer. Gad said that this is not a deportable offense under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The completely unethical (and hopefully illegal, but I’m not familiar enough with US immigration law) behaviour by the government here clearly has one purpose: intimidate immigrants to get them to leave voluntarily.

Dr. Edwards should lose his medical licence and be banned from working with children forever. How sociopathic do you have to be to be working whilst knowing you are carrying one of the most infectious diseases in existence? This is utterly inexcusable, especially since he is supposedly a qualified doctor and should be well aware of the danger he is putting his patients in.

Finally a semblance of good news - confirmation of life. I’m not holding my breath that the Trump Administration will do anything to get him back, though.

There are also deshedder brushes/combs that will help - the idea is that it removes all the loose fur, particularly from the undercoat. Depending on the time of year this can get rid of a lot of volume.

They denied to let the visiting senator see him, so my gut feeling is that he’s been dead a while now, sadly.

I think you’re overgeneralising here. Those are genuine, high-priority concerns, but there are plenty of people (both in the real world protesting and online) who are concerned with the activity of the US government, amongst other things.

Firstly, I’m not American, so I have an outsider’s view of their impact on the world (albeit still a western one).

Secondly, I don’t think you’re going to get a clear yes/no answer to your questions. You’ve presented at least three different types of situation:

1. Citizens of a country (Israel) having restricted travel rights in a second country (US) due to objections raised by the second country with regards to how the first country (Israel) is treating a third group (Palestinians).
2. Wartime actions where a country (US) took action against an aggressor (Japan).
3. The violation of sovereignty of another nation (Iraq or Afghanistan) by a larger military power (US) due to terrorist activity and/or highly questionable security concerns (e.g. the false claim of WMDs in Iraq).

Each of these has different complicating factors and a different answer depending on whether you are looking at whether it would be understandable for a country to implement restrictions, or whether it would justifiable (particularly by some moral standard).

I feel like this is trying to ask if people have a consistent set of ethics or if they preference their own nation higher than others.

Ugh, I’m getting the bad feeling that the poor guy is dead.

At this point I’d be demanding proof that he’s still alive and well.

Agreed.

On Monday, a federal judge in Vermont issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS from deporting Mahdawi for now. The order also forbade ICE from removing him from Vermont.

Unfortunately this isn’t going to stop the Trump administration.

Yes, it seems strange to re-make the franchise at this time. All 7 novels were adapted into a highly successful film series, so it’s not as though it is like The Chronicles of Narnia where no adaptation has ever completed the series.

Maybe he’s just transfixed by the camera. Shiny!

Why not both?

His efforts were only a dismal failure if the original intention was to improve government functioning whilst lowering costs.

On the other hand, if it was to gut the government and funnel money to Musk and co, then it’s been a roaring success.

Yeah, he raises a good point.

The question then becomes: how do we make the people who feel excluded (and hence want to burn everything down) feel included?

Thanks for this. Nice to see someone following the money back to actual companies.