This is exactly what we have been saying would happen! When you force thousands of federal law enforcement officers to abandon their normal jobs and go after random migrants instead, it's a field day for the actual serious criminals out there doing things like drug trafficking.

Going down memory lane, I wrote this one in 2001, right out of college. I was a free speech apologist then (my very first book was on that topic). I am still one today.
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The bad news is that we’re cutting Medicaid, the good news is that we’re doing in order to increase the debt by many trillions.

I couldn’t resist :)

To be very clear a 3 day cease fire is not a cease fire.

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

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The presumption of innocence arises from the plain and rational principle, that it is more consonant to reason and justice, to suppose a man innocent, than to suppose him guilty, till proof be adduced to establish the contrary.

-James Wilson, founding father, justice in the first scouts and

Y'all laughed at George Lucas' riveting trade war as the opening scene of the collapse of the republic.

Do we want to retrospectively say I am sorry? 😂

Remember when Chatgpt would use delve for almost every single sentence? Well, now "it is not just" has become the new delve.

The current iteration of the LLM loves this "it is just not about XXX but YYYY" structure. These negative space sentences are so damn prevalent (that and an abuse of --).

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
-Dostoevsky

We now own the Salvadorian CECOT.

There is a very famous and funny old Reddit thread. I am thinking about it today, don’t know why. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

This whole anti Tesla movement had me thinking that, Interestingly enough, from an economic perspective, if you own a Tesla and oppose Musk, selling it doesn’t actually harm Tesla—it just introduces someone new to the brand, making them a potential future customer.

Federalist 78:
This simple view of the matter suggests several important consequences.It proves incontestably that the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of three departments of power;that it can never attack with success either of the other two; and that all possible care is requisite to

A relatively unnoticed change in the way chatgpt censors messages has brought the development of AI tech to a terrain that will be familiar to any lawyer: the AI is now judging the "spirit" of under primacy rules right out of a law school classroom.
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Former tax/NAFTA lawyer hat here 🙂 : A tariff is a tax imposed by the U.S. government on American businesses and consumers when they introduce foreign goods into the U.S. economy. A domestic tax obligation that must be paid before imported goods can enter commerce, directly increasing their cost.

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How a DeepSeek, a dingy Chinese startup just obliterated the American-led AI market in one weekend. rodrigonietogomez.substack.com/p/the-plumme...

President Polk seriously considered annexing a huge chunk of the Mexican territory and was stopped by southern states as that would dramatically change the demography and electoral geography in the country with all those brown Mesoamerica Catholics, non slavers joining the union.

One doesn't go and rename geographic cultural territories by decrees. They don't have birth names like children or Protected Designation of Origin like cheese. The Gulf of Mexico, the Sea of Cortez (that Mexicans call the Gulf of California)