baltakatei
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/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user.
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- Comment on This Man Won Birthright Citizenship for All 1 week ago:
Trump may be pushing to break immigration laws to invigorate political support with his MAGA base, but ICE still deports people in an orderly manner.
For criminal warrants, which require a federal judge to sign off on, they may take into custody all people present to collect evidence and, conveniently for them, to run identity checks so they can deport undocumented individuals. US citizens may be temporarily detained until ICE can determine their legal status, but the Massachusetts immigration lawyer in the podcast, Matt Cameron, is not aware of lawless sweeps of neighborhoods or workplaces occurring today in which ICE does not perform identity checks during criminal warrant enforcement.
From a triage standpoint, more concerning are administrative warrants that require no federal judge generally comes in the form of ICE camping courthouses to interrupt local judicial proceedings to capture individuals be they defendants, witnesses, or victims. However, even this potentially unbounded method for accelerating deportations is limited by the number of ICE officers directly involved in enforcement removal operations. Cameron estimates only about 7,000 currently are active. See OA 1100: Mass Deportation is Much Harder Than Trump Thinks (2024-12-16).
I am not saying that Trump wants to follow the law. What I am saying is that the judicial system, and people’s belief in its efficacy, present roadblocks to even Presidential power. Judges must be replaced with loyal syncophants, corrupt ICE officers must be hired and retained, buy-in from local law enforcement (often annoyed that their criminal cases are being disrupted by ICE) must be obtained, and people’s expectations that paperwork accompany law enforcement must be eliminated. And at every step of the way, educated people like immigration lawyers are aware of the exact details of the evil being pushed by Trump. So, find one you can trust who is not fear-mongering; listen to or read their publications so you can spend your mental energy tracking developments that matter rather than less likely scenarios, such as US citizens being removed through accident or malice by ICE.
I hope other areas of government do not differ in that similar roadblocks exist to slow down Trump’s lawless orders. What I am saying is that within each domain of government under attack, we need to prioritize which norms deserve focused protests and which can be considered safe for now.
tl;dr: Immigration law isn’t safe, but we should prioritize our worries on the most plausible immediate problems within it.
- Comment on This Man Won Birthright Citizenship for All 1 week ago:
Here’s a transcript of an Opening Arguments podcast episode in which an immigration lawyer talks about the Wong Kim Ark case as well as Plyler v. Doe which says all school children have a right to go to school regardless of their immigration status. I recommend listening to it since their focus is to triage what is actually likely serious and what is just political grandstanding.
- Comment on 8 years ago...?! 2 weeks ago:
gets back from Pokemon Go Kingler event Still here!
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 3 weeks ago:
Session, an Australian fork of Signal with onion routing, seems promising.
- Comment on It's coming 3 weeks ago:
“Trust the Fungus.” –Luigi
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 weeks ago:
For an academic text on this subject with footnotes, I recommend Chokepoint Capitalism (2022) by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow. It calls what you describe “moat buulding” and an “anti-competitive flywheel”.
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The US didn’t even get the excuse of being forced to pay obscenely high war reparations to justify their fascism. Instead, it’s dissatisfaction with inflation which, in turn, is the predictable combination of the exponential depletion of scarce resources (real estate, water) and the consolidation of property into the hands of an ultra wealthy minority. If one must frame the emergence of fascism in a “war” context, then the cause is plutocrat beligerantes strategically fighting a social class war while most of everyone else think it’s a culture war.
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- Comment on Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace 4 weeks ago:
Background:
Benjamin Weiser. (2015-05-29). “Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Website, Is Sentenced to Life in Prison”. New York Times. Accessed 2025-01-21.
Ross W. Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, a notorious online marketplace for the sale of heroin, cocaine, LSD and other illegal drugs, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
Mr. Ulbricht, 31, was sentenced by the judge, Katherine B. Forrest, for his role as what prosecutors described as “the kingpin of a worldwide digital drug-trafficking enterprise.”
Mr. Ulbricht had faced a minimum of 20 years in prison on one of the counts for which he was convicted. But in handing down a much longer sentence, Judge Forrest told Mr. Ulbricht that “what you did in connection with Silk Road was terribly destructive to our social fabric.”
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- Comment on Trump Grants Sweeping Clemency to All Jan. 6 Rioters 4 weeks ago:
By pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists, Trump legitimized political violence so long as it is done in his name. This is fascism since it views political violence as an acceptable means for strengthening nationalism. The pardon bolsters his political power by quelling dissent from those who may check his power (e.g. the Supreme Court, Congress) since they show he will physically attack them through his supporters.
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- Comment on Back to the grind. 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator
In many countries, the term principal investigator (PI) refers to the holder of an independent grant and the lead researcher for the grant project, usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial. The phrase is also often used as a synonym for “head of the laboratory” or “research group leader”. While the expression is common in the sciences, it is used widely for the person or persons who make final decisions and supervise funding and expenditures on a given research project.
- Comment on [NY Governor] Hochul Signs Law That Penalizes Companies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1 month ago:
More of such laws, please.
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- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 2 months ago:
“ ‘Private property is the smallest unit of warfare’ - The Environmental Rescue Team Handbook”
— Annalee Newitz, The Terraformers (2023), chapter 15
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