Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Immigration holds, by their very terms, are only supposed to last 48 hours. Not at all clear that this would have prevented it. Seems like he went home and shot a family member. A lot like second-guessing bail decisions. An interesting note not reported in that article, there apparently was a mental-health warrant issued for his arrest shortly after his release, but apparently last only eight hours.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
The real story on his prior charges, not filtered through ICE or right-wing Twitter. https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/12/19/man-charged-with-murder-for-fatal-reston-shooting/ According to online court records, Morales-Ortez had previously been charged with six different crimes, though the charges were later dropped in each case. Among other cases, he was arrested in June 2020 as a 17-year-old for the June 23, 2019 murder of Jose Lorenzo Guillen Mejia, a 24-year-old Reston resident whose body was found on the footpath behind Hunters Wood Plaza. After more than a year in jail, Morales-Ortez was ultimately released from custody and the charges against him were dropped in 2021 when “it became clear that he was ultimately not the perpetrator,” Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office spokesperson Laura Birnbaum says. * * * Most recently, Morales-Ortez was arrested on Sept. 14 on charges of malicious wounding and brandishing for an incident that occurred two days earlier, online court records show. The charges were dropped on Dec. 15 — the day before this week’s fatal shooting — because prosecutors had “insufficient evidence to move forward” with the case, according to Birnbaum. “The victim told police that they had moved out of the country and would not be coming to court to cooperate in proceedings, regardless of timing,” she told FFXnow. “Sadly, without the victim’s necessary testimony, we could not move forward.” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told WJLA that it had sought to detain Morales-Ortez prior to the incident, claiming that he’s a native of El Salvador illegally residing in the United States. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office told FFXnow that, without a court-issued warrant, the jail had no grounds to keep him in custody, but ICE could’ve picked Morales-Ortez up upon his release.
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Trump’s America
Yeah, the need for anything bigger than a DDG is highly questionable. The Ticonderoga class CG, now obsolescent, was originally considered a DDG and is to be replaced by more Burkes. Cruiser-class replacements have been canceled twice.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Well, that tweet doesn't mention the guy's immigration status. If he has no status, he can be deported on that basis alone. No criminal charges or convictions necessary. If he has some status, depending on what it is, he can only be deported upon conviction of a crime. "He's been charged for seven crimes since 2020" . . , ok, where are the convictions? Now, I suppose you could argue that already deportable immigrants should be prioritized once they've racked up a few criminal charges, but as far as I know, charges alone are not the basis for deportation.
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Trump’s America
If it did, it would be a helluva thing. Takings have been a big Bundy-wing conservative shibboleth for a while. The cognitive dissonance on the court would be audible from here. Not that that would stop them from ruling in Trump's favor.
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ICE activity/raids
Didn't see it posted anywhere, but the Milwaukee judge, Dugan, was convicted on one felony count of obstructing federal agents. She was acquitted on the misdemeanor count. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/12/18/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-found-guilty-of-felony-obstruction/87675227007/ Appeal incoming.
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TIL there’s something called fraud tourism. Congrats, Minnesota.
The point is not whether there's fraud or not. There is. The point is that this is racist propaganda.
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TIL there’s something called fraud tourism. Congrats, Minnesota.
Yep, it's like a lot of things Trump. Somewhere buried in all the bullshit, there's a nugget of truth.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
UK hitting 0.080 and DeLeye negative.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Ah shit.
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TIL there’s something called fraud tourism. Congrats, Minnesota.
The point is not that the fraud announced in this particular release is de minimis or that fraud doesn't exist. The point is, the United States Department of Justice used this relatively small fraud involving a small number of people to take shots at political enemies in the form of the State of Minnesota, Tim Walz, Somalians and so on, without any evidentiary basis to do so. That's not DOJ standard operating procedure.
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TIL there’s something called fraud tourism. Congrats, Minnesota.
No one's denying that fraud occurs, even on a massive scale. But they're alleging $9B in fraud, without evidence (as media likes to say), and slandering Somalis in the process. There may be a pony in there somewhere, but this is a load of shit. Also, look at how legitimate DOJ press releases that allege massive fraud work in the past: they cite indictments and actual loss numbers, even if those may be subject to proof and "optimistic" or overstated. Rarely do you see a $2.1M indictment, not against Somalian defendants, that leads to an unsupported speculation of $9B in losses attributable to Somalis.
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TIL there’s something called fraud tourism. Congrats, Minnesota.
For some reason, Africans seem to be perpetrators of these medical frauds, Nigerians especially. One reason, it seems a fair number of them have medical or patient-care credentials.
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The Lost Generation essay
Yeah, as noted on the thread where this first came up, this is a "common good" site. They're the more intelligent and polite variant of MAGA. The common-gooders do analyze problems pretty well, but their solutions are too moralistic for and probably most of us.
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TIL there’s something called fraud tourism. Congrats, Minnesota.
No one has said fraud isn't a problem. We've doubted the amount, locale, and perpetrators of the fraud.
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The Lost Generation essay
Yeah, white engineers are typically male and kinda have it made, even to this day. Make it a little more rarified and slap a law degree on there and it's still white dude heaven. In firms, we always highly prized women and POC applicants because they were pretty rare. And, as brisket notes, in a field where academics are prioritized, women are highly likely to have beat all the male asses.
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The Lost Generation essay
Marine biologist. But screenwriter may be worse.
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Trump’s America
Yeah, what she seems to have meant was the profit margin dropped from 1000% to 600%.
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TIL there’s something called fraud tourism. Congrats, Minnesota.
Yep. Rat chere in Texas. https://www.fox4news.com/news/48-texans-charged-nationwide-14-6-billion-healthcare-fraud-takedown Biggest takedown supposedly in US history. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/national-health-care-fraud-takedown-results-324-defendants-charged-connection-over-146 But here, the numbers actually add up. Also, funny, not a single one in the D. Minn.
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TIL there’s something called fraud tourism. Congrats, Minnesota.
Probably pretty important to note that "expired US Attorney appointment" pretty much means the appointee is unconfirmable by the Senate. And the Senate confirmed Judge Janine. So, we're talking assclowns like Ed Martin, Alina Habba, and Lindsey Halligan. Add Joe Thompson, the commenter here.
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Trump’s America
Probably. But a lot of the people behind Trump, like P2025, Thiel and the weirdos, are the kind of Republicans that could never get elected. Trump gave them a free pass From the comments: Thanks for helping us understand how folks end up voting for Trump.
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