Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Been a big fan of disarming police ala UK for a long time. There's even less justification for arming mall cops like ICE.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
We got some rain/freezing rain in LH this morning, enough probably to be problematic for the roads, then some sleet. But doesn't look like enough to bring down power lines or trees, knock on wood.
- Trump’s America
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ICE activity/raids
Really good explainers on the warrant issue. DefaultCan ICE Enter a Home to Make an Arrest With Only an Admin...A tentative take, on both the rights and the remedies.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Also, note that I am not attempting to equate the Klan disrupting a black church service with what happened with the protest. But more the hazards of criminalizing conduct. If you draw up a statute that is designed to get the Klan, it's gonna get some other folks, more righteous ones, on occasion too. A part of me thinks that maybe statutes like 241 should have been left off and racial animus accounted for in sentencing. But that has problems, too. This is kind of the general debate around hate crimes. Do we really need a special statute for them? And if you think we do, what are going to be the unintended consequences?
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
This is such juvenile, play army bullshit.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
I was fairly igorant of the church protest, other than it happened. But here are some deets from the affidavit supporting the criminal complaints against the protestors and Don Lemon. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230687/gov.uscourts.mnd.230687.23.1.pdf Mind, this is biased from a Homeland Security mall cop. No ransacking involved. And Don Lemon (redacted since his complaint wasn't "sustained," that is the magistrate found no probable cause of a crime). However, I must say I think it was a bad idea for these protestors to enter into a church, private property, to protest. That's a trespass at minimum. Protest outside all you want, but there's no right to do it on private property. What they did also seems to fit the definition of 241. Imagine the Klan going into a black church, even without vandalizing and destroying it. No bueno.
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Minneapolis ICE Murder
Setting aside politics for the general case. I think in all but the clearest-cut cases of self-defense, including civilians, there needs to be a prosecution where a suspicious shoot or other homicide can be put through the factual wringer. That goes against my general dislike of the State going against citizens, but I think it's a necessary thing and especially when a government agent is involved.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Interesting discussion here. Yes, Kiffin has done well in his last two stops and seems to be a good coach and recruiter. But his latest antics re-raise his character issues that he had kind of lived down. LSU is another beast entirely. Could be a "good" or formidable beast or a total shitshow. They did win an NC under Orgeron, after all. I wonder how sustainable LSU money is.
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Greenland - Tassa Eller Asu !!!!
Oh Jesus. I didn't recognize "DOW" as department of war. I was trying to figure out who that was. I just cognitively reject DOW, as well as Gulf of America.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
And then the MAGAts are going to claim s/he canceled the Army-Navy game.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
That also sounds like a complete load of shit. Males have always been more valued than females, especially in a society that would have brothels.
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Will UT Bend the Knee?
Probably not ideal, but can't say that's outrageous. Back in my day, the two histories that satisfied the six-hour requirement were "US history founding to Civil War" and "US history civil war to present." One horror story about such a class that I heard was that without warning, for the final, the prof entered the lecture hall, pulled down the blackboard and wrote: Discuss every presidential election from founding to the Civil War, including candidates, platforms and major issues. I took history and government at juco during the summers.
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Greenland
One thing I think is that the techno-priests don't actually understand the "control panel." They may be smart as shit, but their EQ is deficient as is their education in humanities and liberal arts. They may understand that the control panel exist and how it works, but they don't see its value. And by that I don't mean they make an educated judgment as to its value, rather, they are blind to it. I am a technocrat first, but always acknowledged the value of the liberal arts and humanities, and got a dose of those subjects in application in law school. One thing I have always found interesting. When the US erected the "control panel," it often relied on academics from the Ivy League, guys that studied classics and whatnot. Here, I am referring to the Department of State and OSS/CIA. Now, a good part of that was just good ol' white boy episcopacy, but some of it was intentional, knowing, and obtained a certain result. As an example, Wild Bill Donovan was a dirty Catholic from a no-name college and insisted that the OSS be comprised of the best and brightest WASPs from the Ivies. James Jesus Angleton, the mole-crazed superspy was a big student of poetry and literary criticism at Yale. What techno-priests today would call underwater basket weaving. But guys like Angleton built the control panel.
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Greenland
Great post, or re-post. This is what I had sensed about our soft power but was unable to articulate. It's how good leaders in an organization wield power, with a velvet fist, not a sledgehammer.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I will point out that the general strength of a solid GPA from any degree at Texas likely was influential in grad school admissions. This was true even back when admissions was non-competitive. Admissions were non-competitive, but obtaining a degree was not. And doing it in four years with a 3.+++ GPA was known to be an accomplishment in the admissions offices of grad schools everywhere.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
No he's not in trouble you fucking twat. Journalists get to go where the stories are. First Amendment out front should have told you. Judge noped out on a criminal complaint, no probable cause crime committed. They also didn't "ransack" the church. Unplug from that shit. Slaves got fed!
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Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
They're going thru a bunch of pretrial shit. First, the media asked for cameras in the courtroom, granted. Then one of the media outlets used footage of Robinson and a lip-reader to publish what he allegedly said. And I think the judge banned any footage of Robinson where you can see him speaking. The other issue is a lawyer in the DAs office had a child on premises at the shooting, but not a witness. The defense has moved to disqualify the DA's office. Nothing about Tyler Robinson personally and whether he's trans, or woke, or a Democrat, or whatever.
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Minneapolis ICE Murder
Here's an explainer on federal civil rights charges, where the violation is usually 18 USC 242. https://www.justsecurity.org/129439/investigation-ice-jonathan-ross-renee-good/ Remember that these charges are intended to and usually are brought when the state prosecution/judicial apparatus either fails to act or acts corruptly. Although they are increasingly brought when the state acts properly and expeditiously, as in the cases of Derrick Chauvin and the Arbery murders in Georgia. I actually think that is serious overkill in most cases. Just SecurityOpening an Investigation of ICE Agent Who Killed Renee GoodAnalysis by a veteran of the Criminal Section of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division of the basis for investigation of ICE agent Jonathan Ross.Note the part that the statute requires the officer to act willfully, which can be a high hurdle. It may actually be legally easier to secure a conviction under Minnesota homicide law because the only barrier there is federal supremacy immunity.
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Non-political tariffs thread
Prestige! A very important element of diplomacy and peacekeeping! The UN is prestigious, the League of Nations was not. Same with NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
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Minneapolis ICE Murder
Ironically, a black woman protesting at a white church, not because it's white or a church, but because one of its pastors is an ICE agent/commander, is being prosecuted under an anti Klan law: 18 USC 241. Note the second clause, below. "If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured— They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death."
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
A lot of the fault here lies with Congress. The wrote a law that said "DOJ must release files by X," but didn't provide any "if not, then what." There are a fair number of constitutional provisions like that.