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Measles vaccination rates too low
Around 100,000 children died from measles in 2023. That's a consequence
of having 10 million who did not get vaccinated.
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Magats vs environment
The magat bill to fund environmental agencies undermines or weakens
various specific means of protecting the environment and wildlife.
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UK repression
Thugs in Britain have taken a further step into repression, beyond
prosecuting people for stating support for the prohibited organization
Palestine Action. Now they assert that it is a crime to endorse any
of the positions that it stood for, such as "free Gaza" or talking
about "genocide".
The leap that the thug made is irrational, and not logically valid.
We can easily see that the decision to ban that organization, unjust
though it was, does not imply what the thug asserted.
That does not guarantee that his error will not become government
policy. Repression often advances by leaps of illogical like this one.
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Weaponized FCC
The bully has weaponized the FCC, and uses it as an instrument
of arbitrary power, according to a former head of the FCC.
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UK channel crossings
If the UK wants to discourage refugees from crossing the Channel in
small overloaded boats, it needs to convince them long before they reach
the French shore. By that time, they have put themselves in great debt
for the channel crossing and can't afford to change plans.
Those refugees generally do not come from Europe. I wonder
if they had to put themselves in unbearable debt just for the first stage,
getting into the EU.
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ICE secretly deports green card holder
Chilean Luis León received asylum in the US; but recently he lost the
physical green card that represented his right to live in the US. He
visited the INS to get a replacement. The deportation thugs were
waiting; they jailed him and deported him to Guatemala, failed to make
any record of doing so, and told the family that León was dead.
I don't think such a chain of nonstandard events could happen by
mistake. Some official must have decided to break rules in order to
cause suffering. A variety of such incidents have happened this year,
all different. The only explanation I can think of is that magats
have encouraged the deportation thugs to use their imagination to
invent new ways to make immigrants suffer.
Every official who participated in choosing this treatment of Mr. León
ought to be fired, at least. Their mission is to do their work
justly, not cruelly, and they neglected that completely.
I have a theory that might explain part of it. it is standard
practice nowadays to arrange for an authorized immigrant to come to an
appointment as w way to arrest per. When León made that appointment,
officials could have seen some irregularity and chosen to respond in
the most horrible way.
I wonder why Guatemala accepted a Chilean deported by the US, and why
they didn't send him to Chile, now that that country respects human
rights and is no longer the murderous dictatorship he fled in 1987.
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Deregulating US product safety
*The
US
supreme court let Donald Trump on Wednesday remove three
Democratic members of the government’s top consumer product safety
watchdog, boosting his power over federal agencies set up by Congress
to be independent from presidential control.*
This decision strikes directly at a part of the system of checks and
balances, explicitly set up by Congress and the then president.
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Rightwing canceling of citizenships
Right-wing politicians in various countries are proposing to
cancel
citizenship of dual nationals
if they are convicted of crimes.
This says to all dual nationals, "You don't really belong here, so we
will exile you if you do anything wrong." It is an effective way of
drumming up hatred of immigrants, which right-wing haters can take
advantage of.
France
already has legislated this for terrorism.
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Gang prison descriptions, SLV
Venezuelans that the bully deported to El Salvador to be imprisoned for months
in the special prison for alleged gangsters report on
the
special cruelty and violence carried out there. They made this
report after being sent to Venezuela.
It is unjust to subject anyone to that, no matter how heinous per
crimes. Even the corrupter and his officials do not deserve it.
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