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Canadian-American-San Franciscan, on the bus. This was going to be an account about bicycles but it seems to be about immigration now.

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 21d

It's no longer totally accurate to say this account is about bicycles so here's a new pinned post

I have a blog

blog.carfree.city

s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 3h

it was important to some reply guy to note that technically the organizations all had different names before the post 9/11 reorg. I didn't list them because it doesn't matter to this thread but you can assume I too can read the wikipedia pages

s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 3h

all of those functions existing prior to 9/11 is also part of the point I'm making if you read the rest of the thread

s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 3h

I deliberately didn't use the actual names of each because then I'd have to explain a bunch of irrelevant stuff to my point, and I'd hoped by deliberately not using the names CBP and USCIS but using more general terms I would avoid people feeling the need to explain these details

s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 5h

my main concern would be that if parts of ICE get reshuffled into USCIS then USCIS will get infected with their incredibly toxic culture

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 5h

the underlying problem needs to be solved via fundamental changes in immigration law. But there is a very notable difference in how the law gets interpreted by bureaucrats and lawyers vs some guy who wasn't qualified for his local police force

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 5h

splitting it back up and putting it under other, more reasonable organizations wont' totally fix the problem but it does seem that creating an entirely superfluous, redundant organization with the worst possible mandate that only hires people who couldn't get hired anywhere else was a bad idea

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 5h

re: ICE, until pretty recently, all of its responsibilities either fell under customs and border patrol or under immigration services. ICE as an organization dates back to just after 9/11, it is probably one of the easiest possible government institutions to get rid of

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 5h

that would basically be the same as USCIS though, and I definitely don't think we should let ICE handle immigration and naturalization services (they currently do not, with a few exceptions)

s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 13h

is there going to be a big line for the ARC Gloria

I have usually avoided Fleet Week but I might go look at the boats since everything is canceled

s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 17h

Surprisingly large number of signs threatening to shoot people in SF of all places, as I discovered from knocking on doors

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 17h

The age of the petrostate is coming to an end.

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 17h

Good news I think? If I understand correctly

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

I think Greg is arguing in good faith here but I don't think viewing the barriers to oil investment as primarily legislative makes sense. Even if you got rid of the tanker ban and production camp, recuperating operating costs post-construction seems like a stretch, given IEA oil projection

Greg McLean @gregmcleanyyc.bsky.social · 18h

Alberta must identify private sector proponents. Fed Govt must remove legislative barriers to investment: Bills C-69 & C-48, O&G production cap & industrial carbon tax. They must assure investors they won't change rules part way through. And they must stop pretending the responsibility isn't theirs.

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Antti Rasinen @ars.iki.fi · 21h

I’ve made three sets of cinnamon* buns today. First, the control group is the regular bun.

The first experiment is from Sabrina Ghayour and uses tahini instead of butter for the filling.

The second experiment replaces cinnamon with garam masala.

Tahini spread over the flattened dough. The layer is thicker compared to butter, because tahini was much stickier.

The buns take a short nap before glazing and sugaring

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 1d

they need to invent a type of microwaving vinegar that doesn't make everything smell like vinegar

s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 1d

this is really the best possible illustration of how the enemy of your enemy is not your friend (or rather how the enemy of the enemy of your enemy is not their friend)

s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 1d

I don't actually know how "photography" works but I realized today I don't appreciate that downtown looks kind of cool when you look up

Looking up, 7 skyscrapers of various heights and architectural styles

looking up next to 100 montgomery, three tall buildings reflecting each other in their windows

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 1d

are the tariffs on china to stop people from buying inflatable frog costumes

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 1d

Both flags have rather similar colour schemes too I've realized

s @yarnbike.bsky.social · 1d

Only boats from places called Col(o/u)mbia this year

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely sad. Sounds like his daughter is now orphaned.

‘He was her whole world’: San Francisco hit-and-run victim identified as 30-year-old father

The man killed in a hit-and-run collision in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights was identified as Binod Budhathoki, a 30-year-old immigrant from Nepal who leaves behind an 8-year-old daughter.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Michael O’Shaughnessy @mdnoshaughnessy.bsky.social · 1d

this is downstream of the dems not really having centering political values or ideology imo. 'ideology' is just another way to say 'the world we want to build'

if you asked the same question about AOC or Bernie you wouldn't get these results

Searchlight Institute @searchlightinst.bsky.social · 2d

We checked in on what voters think Democrats and Republicans want for them. The good news for Democrats is that they’re narrowly winning on “feeling stable in your personal life.” The bad news for them is that Republicans dominate on everything else: wealth, marriage, kids, and more.

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