Anyway that’s for people who’ve just come in. (I didn’t pick the passage!) For people who’ve been living here unlawfully for a while, all it says is “more deportation flights.” Don’t think the availability of flights is the hold-up.
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Apr 21, 2025
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NOT SO FAST, FRENCH: This seems near-complete fiction. Most of the alleged virtues listed have to do with stopping the flow of new entrants at the border, which is not the issue here–Trump’s already accomplished that. Lankford does mention unspecified “fast deportations.” In https://t.co/0Vevd074eR
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Apr 21, 2025
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Link to Ganesh column with photo: https://t.co/0gYEvilwYy
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Apr 20, 2025
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Is the goal of “abundance liberalism” only to defang populist movements–through building things (Klein/Thompson) or providing order (Ganesh)? Republicans can do that. I thought liberalism was about something else, having to do with some kind of equality** …
** I would say
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Apr 20, 2025
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The Mayorkas/Lankford “bipartisan” border bill pushed by Democrats allowed relatively low level asylum officers to decide claims of illegal migrants in “non-adversarial” interviews — and in effect grant asylum on the spot. Why not empower similarly low-level DHS officials to https://t.co/rsBAKxAoWV
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Apr 20, 2025
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Is the goal of “abundance liberalism” only to defang populist movements–through building things (Klein/Thompson) or providing order (Ganesh)? Republicans can do that. I thought liberalism was about something else, having to do with some kind of equality** …
** I would say
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Apr 20, 2025
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Re: Epstein files https://t.co/Dtvs16ugir
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Should say “grant asylum on the spot,” not amnesty. Will post a corrected version.
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Should say “asylum on the spot”… https://t.co/Lx3yvhLVdh
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Links: https://t.co/gNNhzfmCD6 [search for “on the spot”] and https://t.co/ZWFSPajImS [search for “I Called It”]
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The Mayorkas/Lankford “bipartisan” border bill pushed by Democrats allowed relatively low level asylum officers to decide claims of illegal migrants in “non-adversarial” interviews — and in effect grant amnesty on the spot. Why not empower similarly low-level DHS officials to https://t.co/rsBAKxAoWV
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Apr 20, 2025
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The Mayorkas/Lankford “bipartisan” border bill pushed by Democrats allowed relatively low level asylum officers to decide claims of illegal migrants in “non-adversarial” interviews — and in effect grant amnesty on the spot. Why not empower similarly low-level DOJ officials to https://t.co/rsBAKxAoWV
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Apr 20, 2025
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Huh? That seems absurdly overoptimistic–like saying “I don’t see why civil service protections would set back attempts to speed firing federal workers.” Of course they would. Maybe there’s some bare-bones due process system that wouldn’t dramatically slow down deportations. https://t.co/TK7rN7IGlU
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Apr 20, 2025
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What did happen with the Epstein files? https://t.co/IeJIU5VgKm
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Apr 19, 2025
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“Howard Lutnick, who detests Mr. Bessent.” Am I the last to know this? https://t.co/IjnQ0l3RXD
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Apr 19, 2025
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On yesterday’s brash, transgressive Revolution-Has-Come David Brooks column … https://t.co/oljK2Af61y
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Apr 18, 2025
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Seems like a wildly implausible strategy for Dems to “ride…to a midterm victory” … https://t.co/ya67swu23e
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Apr 18, 2025
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.@DLeonhardt praises Obama’s “hardheaded approach to … deporation,” presumably c̴o̴n̴n̴e̴d̴ impressed by the same bogus stats https://t.co/VD5RU9vvaX https://t.co/gnXnLOo1aD
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Apr 18, 2025
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Shapiro vs. Schumer https://t.co/2COm437uRj
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Apr 18, 2025
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Obama’s high deportation numbers were bogus, inflated by counting “removals” that wouldn’t have been counted in previous years https://t.co/0htTliFr1F https://t.co/W9Cfa0Br6q
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Apr 18, 2025
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Link to Friendly article: https://t.co/DYrFwNrms6
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Apr 18, 2025
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Friendly does not seem to grapple with the possibility that even the most rudimentary due process “hearing” (stopping short of the right to call witnesses, etc) for a clearly important interest (loss of ability to stay in the country) might be sufficient to jam up the system so https://t.co/Q8YVa45Fz9
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Apr 18, 2025
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Link to Brooks column this is about (maybe X will give it a picture): https://t.co/dQZfaRfT5U
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Apr 18, 2025
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Shorter (but more pretentious): You don’t get Aufhebung with Thermidor, mister. https://t.co/oljK2Aeyc0
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Apr 18, 2025
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Part 1: Pre-Trump, Law firms and USAID and civil servants were the “sinews of civilization,” built up over centuries. Trump threatens all of it.
Part 2: “Whether it’s the universities, the immigration system or the global economy, we can’t go back to the status quo that— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
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