Honestly what are you talking about?

More than Abrego Garcia? Probably because he had a court order not to be deported.

Maybe the staff don’t want to come back after being doxxed.

I think this is the wrong time to be having that argument. Particularly since the issue here isn’t truly admissions criteria. It’s about crushing dissent. I don’t love Harvard for a lot of other reasons, but we can talk about that maybe after the wannabe dictator is dealt with.

There is no way that these two didn’t talk about how to answer that question before the press event. This isn’t the president of El Salvador saying he doesn’t want to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, it’s him saying that he is on Trump’s side.

It does have to pass the Senate. I can’t see this overcoming a filibuster.

Criticism is not censorship. You’ll just have to learn to live with the fact that people can tell you when they think you’re being an ass. Free speech, you know.

Most Americans are not MAGA. If this guy gets back to a US court, and he can deliver testimony about what Trump’s DHS is doing, and what things are really like in this Salvadoran gulag, that’s the kind of primetime drama that gets people’s attention.

I for one agree that kind of sexualized criticism is inappropriate. I think a reasonable person would read it as trying to demean Schumer by associating him with other-than-straight behavior.

I dunno pretty sure they consume groceries

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/united-healthcare-ceo-killing-poll

This is exactly what needs to happen. Every government fundamentally runs on the voluntary cooperation of the people involved. Every government is susceptible to a breakdown of that cooperation. “Or what?” is not the biting political analysis you think it is.

But I’ll spell it out. The administration will comply with the order or they’ll be found in contempt. If they’re found to be in contempt, they’ll either comply with the remedies, or we’ll have ourselves a proper constitutional breakdown.

The point is that it’s all on the record, black and white, in public. If things really go wrong it is critically important that every media outlet, and every civic institution can point to these public facts so that it is abundantly clear that the administration has become lawless.

It would be much worse if the courts were already so submissive to the will of the executive that they won’t even rule against them. Then maga would get to continue doing what they’re doing with a pretense of legitimacy, and it would be many times harder to muster public resistance.

Really not sure how to muster any solidarity with prison guards. Let’s see what their demands are. Oh. They’re mad about being investigated for the deaths of inmates in their custody, and restrictions on the use of solitary confinement. Hmmm.

This is not true. The United States v Trump ruling was that a president can not be held criminally liable for their exercise of the powers of the presidency. It does not mean that anything the president does is legal. It does not even mean that every presidential action is legal. Courts can still rule that a president’s actions are illegal and order injunctions, or even find contempt if court orders are not followed. This has already happened several times in the last month.

It’s a bad ruling but making it more catastrophic than it actually is does nobody any good.

Sure there’s the maga cultists, but that is not the majority of people who voted for Trump. I honestly think a self-inflicted recession may turn out to be a good thing.

Right now Trump is behaving like, and being treated by the opposition like he’s invincible. But I do not think we are at the point where maga has such a hold on power that they can withstand being broadly unpopular. There is still a lot of the government and civil society that remains intact, and could be a platform for stopping the authoritarian takeover, but they are going to need a huge amount of public support. Causing a recession when your mandate was to improve the economy may be enough for this.

The longer this festers, the more maga will be able to destroy or compromise the state and civil society. I think we need to force the crisis sooner rather than later.

As soon as there are no more hostages in Gaza, it will be destroyed. A deal with either Netanyahu or Trump is worth less than nothing.

I don’t know of any reason that the proportion of ESL writers would have started trending up in 2022.

You guys are only working on one project at a time?

Any alternatives you like?

The permanent veto holding members of the security council are specifically those countries capable of starting a nuclear conflict. Those vetos are expressly for reducing the risk of that happening. Not saying the world can’t do better today, but let’s remember why it is the way it is.