Wondering_among_the_masses

Working on being a better person

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

JD Vance holds a JD from Yale Law (and so do I). Presumably, he knows that he is disregarding the law here, and being deceptive about the protections it affords.

Non-citizens physically present in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are entitled to due process protections under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. It is not relevant whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is sympathetic, or how much you believe an (apparently shaky) claim from an informant that he had gang connections. The disposition of this case, based on a judge’s review of the facts, was to grant Abrego Garcia protected legal status, preventing his deportation. Abrego Garcia‘s due process rights, under the law, required the government to go back to immigration court and make the case, if they wanted to terminate that protected status. There is no good faith legal reading in which his right to due process was respected; indeed, the government has conceded that it erred, and is essentially arguing that it doesn’t matter enough to address it. This is because they assume people will not care. But everyone in the United States should care—we all depend on these basic legal rights being predictably upheld.

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

BREAKING:

China blocks $23 billion sale of Panama Canal ports to American company BlackRock.

[Wondering_among_the_masses @stef_daedalus]

@jimstewartson If you know anything about the ancient regime of pre-revolutionary France, you would know it was the complete opposite of liberal. The French Revolution was a revolution FOR liberalism! This is so ass backwards

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

A stern warning to separatists in Taiwan: China Coast Guard conducts law-enforcement patrols around Taiwan in accordance with ONE-CHINA PRINCIPLE.

[Wondering_among_the_masses @stef_daedalus]

@OlenaRohoza Fuck you, Russia 🇷🇺

[Lincoln Square @LincolnSquareHQ]

🔥🔥@Rep_Stansbury explains the scam that Elon Musk & DOGE are running on the American people---and lining his own pockets.
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Who else loves Melanie Stansbury as much as we do? THIS is what we need from Democrats in Congress.

[Wondering_among_the_masses @stef_daedalus]

@MyLordBebo So stupid. Automate that sh*t!

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@donkoclock 💙

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@YearRooster @Billbrowder Academics will usually have a body of research that they’ve established over years. If that research becomes influential, either scientifically because aids in our understanding, or commercially, universities will complete to hire them as something like an investment.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

In case anyone was wondering, we are here:

[Wondering_among_the_masses @stef_daedalus]

@void_zero2 C++ is backward compatible with C, so ya, it will never be memory safe by design.

[Wondering_among_the_masses @stef_daedalus]

@slowalgorithm @lauriewired Lol… Senior dev here. Seniors should encourage learning, adaptability, and open-mindedness, not language tribalism. Using Java doesn’t make you senior. Writing good code, making tradeoffs clear, and mentoring does. Java was great, now there are better options.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Two photos that should deeply disturb you.

The first photo is of a young Venezuelan named Andrys—a 23-year-old gay makeup artist who was disappeared by the Trump administration, recently identified publicly for the first time.

Last week, he was deported into a Salvadoran mega-prison without due process, without a court hearing, and without evidence—solely based on suspicion of gang ties.

The second photo was captured by an American photojournalist embedded inside that same mega-prison in El Salvador. The journalist documented the experiences of detainees, including American residents who've had their constitutional rights suspended.

This quote from the article should turn your blood cold:

"The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, 'I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.' I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster."

Did this journalist unknowingly witness Andrys’s abuse and imprisonment?

Why must we—citizens of the United States—piece together these horrifying details while politicians ignore our courts, our Constitution, and the basic principles underpinning American democracy?

If they can do this to Andrys, who's next?

"Repulsive" and "evil" don't even scratch the surface—this is one of the darkest periods in American history, and we're living through it right now.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

US interest payments are set to rise even higher:

US interest expense on national debt hit a record $1.2 trillion over the last 12 months.

To put this into perspective, defense spending was $900 billion during the same period.

If rates remain FLAT, interest payments are set to hit $1.5 trillion by the end of the year, doubling in just 4 years.

Even if the Fed cuts rates by 100 basis points, interest costs will still hit ~$1.3 trillion in 2025.

This all assumes the economy will avoid a recession or any material economic slowdown.

This is a crisis.

[Wondering_among_the_masses @stef_daedalus]

@LimburgGarth @TonyKorologos Booo no

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Why hasn’t the Epstein list been released yet?

[Wondering_among_the_masses @stef_daedalus]

@Dispropoganda Audience capture and/or they’re into it

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@BrianRoemmele Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher

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@AaronBergman18 Building down has many nuanced complexities, from geological to HVAC systems. While these aren’t unsolved issues they are very expensive. So they are expensive and windowless.