ICE to TSA positions

The bully is talking about stationing deportation thugs in airports to substitute for TSA agents watching exits from the secure area (to ensure no one enters through them).

If that's all they do, I suppose it is safer to have them there doing that, than to have them walking around your town, jailing unauthorized immigrants, authorized visitors, authorized permanent residents, and sometimes US citizens too. And shooting protesters.

But I have to wonder: if they are willing to stretch the law, can they find excuses to harass people and jail people while nominally watching an airport security exit? I'm expect the bully has looking for ways they can harass people while working there.

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How freshwater fish migrations are doing

*Freshwater fish populations worldwide have crashed by about 81% since 1970.*

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Satire: Airstrikes on US gas stations

(satire) *[The bully] Threatens Airstrikes On U.S. Gas Stations.*

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New coal seam exploitation, AUS

*Australia approves new coal seam gas expansion.* Is that really "Like lighting a cigarette while trying to quit"?

In my view, that comparison is not quite valid. Rather, extending the gas mines is like taping extender segments onto the mouth end of the cigarette, so that it never burns out.

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Renaming AI to SALAMI

*Let's forget the term AI. Let's call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI).*

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Putinesque Iran to target water, elec.

*Iran says it will "irreversibly destroy" Middle East infrastructure if US attacks energy sites.*

It is a war crime for either side to destroy civilian energy infrastructure, and this would be a disastrous one. But the bigger evil would be that of whichever country starts doing this. The wrecker says he plans to do so.

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Israel still hitting West Bank territory

*Israeli settlers have carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, setting homes and vehicles on fire and wounding several Palestinians in what witnesses described as coordinated raids on communities.*

The fanatical and violent "settlers" have been carrying out terrorist attacks on Palestinians for more than a decade, with police and border patrol watching passively, escalating step by step as they shift the government's stance.

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Ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended US-Iran nuclear talks

*How ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended [US-] Iran nuclear talks.*

They had made substantial progress before they were abruptly ended when the US and Israel started to attack instead.

*Oman claims Israel pushed US into Iran war when deal [with Iran] was possible.*

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WATCA bill

The WATCA bill, which is one way of taxing the rich more, will provide only a small benefit for non-rich Americans. That's because its main method of helping them is by reducing their income tax, and poor people's income tax is already low.

In and of itself, WATCA is better than nothing, but we should focus on supporting other bills that would tax the rich more than that in order to help the non-rich more than that.

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The imperialist says Israel attacked Iran gas wells without telling him

The imperialist says Israel attacked Iran's gas wells without telling him, and he has ordered Israel not to attack them again.

Whether or not he is telling the truth about what happened, it is at least somewhat of a relief that he seems to realize how much any further such attacks would backfire.

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Heavy-handed actions accelerating US's decline

Owen Jones: *[the Bully] thinks brute force will arrest the US's decline. His heavy-handed actions in Iran are only accelerating it.*

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Gulf of Hormuz closure sending enormus profits to rich people

The closure of the Gulf of Hormuz is sending enormous windfall profits to a few rich people. There should be a windfall profits tax in place all the time for the sake of future fossil fuel price spikes, so that governments won't need to act fast.

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Parents deported to Honduras had no chance to arrange childcare for their children

* In interviews with dozens of parents deported to Honduras, as well as physicians and psychologists, government officials and staff at reception centers for deportees, researchers found that many parents were deported quickly after they were [jailed], without a chance to arrange for the care of their children.*

We understand the cause of this: deportation thugs are acting out hatred towards immigrants in general, and are eager for the chance to be cruel.

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Christian Zionists want to help Israel conquer Middle East

Christian Zionists want to help Israel conquer much of the Middle East, believing that then sacrifices will trigger biblical prophecies which will result in forcing Jews to convert to Christianity or else be damned.

It is not easy to get along with fanatics like that. It is unlikely that the prophecies would actually come true, but there is no telling what might they do if the situation arises and the prophecies do not come true.

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Amazon Alexa to better understand speach uttered in a relexed manner

A new upgrade of Amazon Alexa will be better able to understand speech uttered in a relaxed, usual manner. The better to snoop on you with, my dear.

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US courts generally rejecting equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism

US courts are generally rejecting attempts to equate criticism of Israel or support for Palestinians' rights with antisemitism.

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New York City cops pressed charges against snowball fight participants

New York City cops have pressed charges against some of the participants in a snowball fight which they entered, apparantly as an excuse to find fault with Mayor Mamdani.

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Bondi treated Congress with contempt

Bondi treated Congress with contempt by refusing to take an oath for her testimony.

At least she showed a minuscule level of respect for the oath to tell the truth — by refusing to take the oath and then lie anyway. That is a start, at least. Perhaps in the future she can be convinced to show truthfulness a little more respect, and then a little more, and so on.

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Connection focused platforms less harmfull than algorithm-driven apps

* World Happiness Report finds platforms focused on connection less harmful than algorithm-driven apps.* For example, Instagram was more damaging to mental health than WhatsApp.

Both of the client programs are nonfree software, thus damaging to users' freedom.

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Pentagon ordered to cease political censorship policy

*A judge ordered the Pentagon to cease its new political censorship policy for press coverage.*

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