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Captainant

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  1. American citizens, deported to El Salvador. """IF""" it's legal lmfao. Yeah, I'm sure Uncle Clarence is getting right on that, working round the clock shifts.
  2. https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/1526014/brussels-police-arrest-us-state-secretary-rubios-bodyguard-tbtb A Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) shift supervisor assigned to Rubio was taken into custody after reportedly arguing with staff at Brussels' iconic Hotel Amigo – where Rubio was staying – and fighting with responding police officers, the Washington Examiner reports. The DSS veteran was a senior agent on the advance party to Belgium, which was responsible for securing the hotel and conducting final security preparations at the various sites in Brussels for Rubio's visit. Two sources with direct knowledge of the situation told the Washington Examiner that the agent in question was "behaving erratically" and "became irate" when hotel staff refused to reopen the bar beyond its normal hours, the US media reports. Staff reportedly attempted to persuade the agent to return to his room, but he became physically aggressive. After police were called, the agent got into a fight with responding officers – eventually leading to his arrest.
  3. Crazy. ICE agents are unilaterally deciding who is and isn't a gang member, without any due process https://www.axios.com/2025/04/08/immigration-ice-gangs-deport-decisions Immigration agents are the "principal" deciders on whether a detainee is linked to a gang and should be deported immediately, border czar Tom Homan told Axios in an exclusive interview. If agents determine the answer is yes, Homan said, the Trump administration believes that detainee's rights to due process are limited. Not so fast, the Supreme Court said late Monday. The court signaled that detainees designated as "enemies" of the U.S. could be deported, but should have some way to challenge their removal.
  4. Jesus fucking Christ. But hey Hartzell is doing a great job amirite???
  5. Oh, and attorneys representing protesters and dissidents are getting hassled at customs now. This is tinpot dictator shit https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/04/07/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone/82978891007/ So be aware, surlyites. ICE and CBP are looking for fuckin any reason to stop and interrogate anyone.
  6. No no no no, I have it on good authority that acting with haste is what the bad guys do, and therefore we cannot do anything but let them run roughshod over justice.
  7. It's not about the cost - it's about making a big fucking scene and daring people to protest it so that he can start deploying blackshirts
  8. Crazy how an $8/mo blue checkmark was able to move trillions of dollars.
  9. Historically speaking, that's usually what happens after an authoritarian fascist leader is in power for an economic collapse. It's just in this case, he had to DIY his economic collapse
  10. Had to pull a link to see what you meant https://www.reuters.com/world/us-iran-direct-talks-over-nuclear-program-trump-says-2025-04-07/ Good fucking god, he tore up the old nuclear deal. Now he wants a nuclear deal. Fuck me.
  11. I can't tell how this is gonna affect tariff movement
  12. "During planning for the site, TxDOT cited the ability for employees to work remotely as a reason to scale back plans for more parking."
  13. They're down like a quarter point from February, at least ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  14. The thing is - most factories use orders of magnetude less labor than they used to. There's a whole phenomena of "lights out factories" where there's maybe a dozen people on-site to manage a whole assembly line. It takes less man-hours to build widgets than it used to, so building more factories doesn't really mean more jobs anymore either
  15. This is all just regurgitated Fox News talking points what the fuck? None of this is based on fact or reality. It's the next iteration of the "many people are saying" okeydoke groupthink that gave us litter boxes in school bathrooms and other ridiculous shit that you described as democratic issues
  16. Who could have guessed that "they're eating cats and dogs" and "your children will come home from school a different gender" would be a more resonant message than "we will protect medicare/medicaid and social security"? Those are not serious ideas or messages. How do you reason with a person living a completely different reality?
  17. Russia is certainly enjoying the carnage (Translated headline) Russia gloats over Trump's tariffs: "Our country will become a great superpower and Trump will help with that"
  18. To MAGA, the greatest sin is to question the Imperial Presidency. Whatever Dear Leader says MUST be the truth.
  19. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca4.178258/gov.uscourts.ca4.178258.13.0_1.pdf 4th Circuit of Appeals denies the trumpco request for an immediate administrative stay, and affirms the order to return the plaintiff to the US by no later than 11:59 PM April 7, 2025. come get your flowers @futureman and @ChickenSandwich, yall were hella jazzed about all these Venezuelans getting blackbagged back in February.
  20. I don't think the tariff action is gonna slow down. This is from 30 minutes ago:
  21. Republicans want to turn our military into the russian armed forces. They've been slobbering overthem for fuckin' years. See: ted cruz drooling over their ultramasculine propaganda and criticising our "WOKE!!!" servicemembers.
  22. That dead cat sure is bouncing fast
  23. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14575733/Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-stock-market-treasury-bills-donald-trump-tariffs.html
  24. That's just classic shitbird executive bully stuff. Really nice. America is FINALLY being ran like a Fortune-500 business
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