lonegamer78
@lonegamer78.bsky.social
Kid from the City of Angels & STILL wearing my mask! Research nerd, VG/manga/anime fan. Banner by @catanaart.bsky.social. RTs ≠ endorsements. 📎日本語はまだです。 Also, fark Nole Ksum.
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The Trump regime is currently firing immigration court judges who aren’t harsh enough. At least 98 of the roughly 700 judges have been fired so far.
Trump’s goons have the power to do that because these “judges” are part of the executive branch.
The U.S. system is a joke.
Trump’s goons have the power to do that because these “judges” are part of the executive branch.
The U.S. system is a joke.
Immigration courts thrown into chaos as Trump administration purges dozens of judges
The president has ousted about one-seventh of the DOJ judges weighing whether to deport noncitizens.
www.politico.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The Trump regime is currently firing immigration court judges who aren’t harsh enough. At least 98 of the roughly 700 judges have been fired so far.
Trump’s goons have the power to do that because these “judges” are part of the executive branch.
The U.S. system is a joke.
Trump’s goons have the power to do that because these “judges” are part of the executive branch.
The U.S. system is a joke.
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“Immigration courts are administrative courts within the U.S. Department of Justice. […] They are separate from the courts that operate within the judicial branch, established under Article III of the U.S. Constitution.”
The Immigration Court System, Explained
Most immigrants facing deportation are entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge, but their legal rights differ from those in criminal cases.
www.brennancenter.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
“Immigration courts are administrative courts within the U.S. Department of Justice. […] They are separate from the courts that operate within the judicial branch, established under Article III of the U.S. Constitution.”
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It’s weird that we even call them judges. It gives the impression that they’re independent.
“The Tucson Immigration Court falls under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, which is a component of the Executive Office for Immigration Review under the Department of Justice.”
“The Tucson Immigration Court falls under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, which is a component of the Executive Office for Immigration Review under the Department of Justice.”
Simply incomprehensible that any judge would allow this
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM
It’s weird that we even call them judges. It gives the impression that they’re independent.
“The Tucson Immigration Court falls under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, which is a component of the Executive Office for Immigration Review under the Department of Justice.”
“The Tucson Immigration Court falls under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, which is a component of the Executive Office for Immigration Review under the Department of Justice.”
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This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.
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Can you tell the difference between these two videos? Because I can’t. 🙃
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Can you tell the difference between these two videos? Because I can’t. 🙃
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This insane post is from a former IDF solider
Insane not only because it claims Mr Rachel “controls the world”—but because the quote is NOT Voltaire. It’s Kevin Alfred Strom, a neo-Nazi & convicted pedophile.😳
Zionists are quoting Nazis to claim Ms. Rachel’s advocacy for children is antisemitic🤦🏽♂️
Insane not only because it claims Mr Rachel “controls the world”—but because the quote is NOT Voltaire. It’s Kevin Alfred Strom, a neo-Nazi & convicted pedophile.😳
Zionists are quoting Nazis to claim Ms. Rachel’s advocacy for children is antisemitic🤦🏽♂️
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This insane post is from a former IDF solider
Insane not only because it claims Mr Rachel “controls the world”—but because the quote is NOT Voltaire. It’s Kevin Alfred Strom, a neo-Nazi & convicted pedophile.😳
Zionists are quoting Nazis to claim Ms. Rachel’s advocacy for children is antisemitic🤦🏽♂️
Insane not only because it claims Mr Rachel “controls the world”—but because the quote is NOT Voltaire. It’s Kevin Alfred Strom, a neo-Nazi & convicted pedophile.😳
Zionists are quoting Nazis to claim Ms. Rachel’s advocacy for children is antisemitic🤦🏽♂️
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President Donald Trump was photographed with visible bandages on the back of his right hand for the fifth day in a row.
Trump’s Bandaged Hand Shows Up for Kennedy Center Honors Dinner
The president has been sporting bandages on his right hand for several days running.
trib.al
December 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
President Donald Trump was photographed with visible bandages on the back of his right hand for the fifth day in a row.
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All across Europe, as well as in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, US allies are reading Trump's national security strategy and realizing that it was authored by people who view them as enemies while idolizing Vladimir Putin and plagiarizing from his recent speeches.
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
All across Europe, as well as in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, US allies are reading Trump's national security strategy and realizing that it was authored by people who view them as enemies while idolizing Vladimir Putin and plagiarizing from his recent speeches.
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“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE...
People are leaving in droves"
Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE, which offers $50,000 starting bonuses, tuition reimbursement & better pay than the prison system
✏️ by: @keribla.bsky.social
for @propublica.org
People are leaving in droves"
Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE, which offers $50,000 starting bonuses, tuition reimbursement & better pay than the prison system
✏️ by: @keribla.bsky.social
for @propublica.org
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE...
People are leaving in droves"
Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE, which offers $50,000 starting bonuses, tuition reimbursement & better pay than the prison system
✏️ by: @keribla.bsky.social
for @propublica.org
People are leaving in droves"
Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE, which offers $50,000 starting bonuses, tuition reimbursement & better pay than the prison system
✏️ by: @keribla.bsky.social
for @propublica.org
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I wrote that siding with Trump on this “would not be a difference of opinion, an alternative path, or even a politicized decision. It would be a decision effectively overturning a key portion of the Fourteenth Amendment, and it would need to be treated as such.”
Birthright citizenship, firing powers, the National Guard, and Trump's made-up "peace prize"
A Trump era Friday in December is not a normal Friday in December.
www.lawdork.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I wrote that siding with Trump on this “would not be a difference of opinion, an alternative path, or even a politicized decision. It would be a decision effectively overturning a key portion of the Fourteenth Amendment, and it would need to be treated as such.”
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Well, this is a very bad way of describing this.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Well, this is a very bad way of describing this.
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… Also, that’s my dad you’re talking about here, and your scare-quote insinuation that he wasn’t fully American is both ludicrous and offensive.
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
… Also, that’s my dad you’re talking about here, and your scare-quote insinuation that he wasn’t fully American is both ludicrous and offensive.
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Stephen Miller thinks it’s terrible that I can vote
December 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Stephen Miller thinks it’s terrible that I can vote
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Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
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"What’s impossible to ignore are the parallels between the slow normalization of extremism from 1918 onwards and what we see happening in the United States now."
Friday Round Up! 12/5/25
Thinking about lessons from history.
by @asharangappa.bsky.social
asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...
Friday Round Up! 12/5/25
Thinking about lessons from history.
by @asharangappa.bsky.social
asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...
Friday Round Up! 12/5/25
Thinking about lessons from history.
asharangappa.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"What’s impossible to ignore are the parallels between the slow normalization of extremism from 1918 onwards and what we see happening in the United States now."
Friday Round Up! 12/5/25
Thinking about lessons from history.
by @asharangappa.bsky.social
asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...
Friday Round Up! 12/5/25
Thinking about lessons from history.
by @asharangappa.bsky.social
asharangappa.substack.com/p/friday-rou...
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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
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crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"
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It's true that European countries didn't have Jim Crow laws. It is also true that they modeled other laws and policies in ways that created the same segregated results
December 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It's true that European countries didn't have Jim Crow laws. It is also true that they modeled other laws and policies in ways that created the same segregated results
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Everything here. And let me add as someone who lived outside the US for several years, many countries that pride themselves on being better than the US simply choose a different target for the same bigoted laws. See the way Roma & Travellers are treated
The thing about being an US born person of immigrant extraction who has also lived in a couple of other countries and traveled to a bunch more is... I can be both very clear eyed in the way the US sucks while also being aware of how other countries use the USA's failings to distract from their own.
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Everything here. And let me add as someone who lived outside the US for several years, many countries that pride themselves on being better than the US simply choose a different target for the same bigoted laws. See the way Roma & Travellers are treated
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Also, part of why this imbalance happens is for lots of reasons the world tends to know more about the US than the US knows about the world. So we don't tend to push back.
And in some places, people know more about US politics/policies than they do the politics in their backyard!
And in some places, people know more about US politics/policies than they do the politics in their backyard!
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Also, part of why this imbalance happens is for lots of reasons the world tends to know more about the US than the US knows about the world. So we don't tend to push back.
And in some places, people know more about US politics/policies than they do the politics in their backyard!
And in some places, people know more about US politics/policies than they do the politics in their backyard!
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My point is not: The US is less racist.
It is also not: France is more racist.
My big takeaway is racism in the US is just... transparent. It's easy to see, because of the legacy of slavery and Black people in this country, the racism is loud.
It is also not: France is more racist.
My big takeaway is racism in the US is just... transparent. It's easy to see, because of the legacy of slavery and Black people in this country, the racism is loud.
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
My point is not: The US is less racist.
It is also not: France is more racist.
My big takeaway is racism in the US is just... transparent. It's easy to see, because of the legacy of slavery and Black people in this country, the racism is loud.
It is also not: France is more racist.
My big takeaway is racism in the US is just... transparent. It's easy to see, because of the legacy of slavery and Black people in this country, the racism is loud.
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It gets even better.
In French universities, depending on your study, exams are oral.
There's no real paper trail.
A racist prof can just fail you.
In French universities, depending on your study, exams are oral.
There's no real paper trail.
A racist prof can just fail you.
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
It gets even better.
In French universities, depending on your study, exams are oral.
There's no real paper trail.
A racist prof can just fail you.
In French universities, depending on your study, exams are oral.
There's no real paper trail.
A racist prof can just fail you.
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What do I mean?
It is very easy to look at the US and point to the reams of data about racial disparities.
I'm a Black woman. I get it.
And then you go to France and hear a French person tell you racism is not a problem there.
How would they know?
France doesn't track racial data.
It is very easy to look at the US and point to the reams of data about racial disparities.
I'm a Black woman. I get it.
And then you go to France and hear a French person tell you racism is not a problem there.
How would they know?
France doesn't track racial data.
December 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
What do I mean?
It is very easy to look at the US and point to the reams of data about racial disparities.
I'm a Black woman. I get it.
And then you go to France and hear a French person tell you racism is not a problem there.
How would they know?
France doesn't track racial data.
It is very easy to look at the US and point to the reams of data about racial disparities.
I'm a Black woman. I get it.
And then you go to France and hear a French person tell you racism is not a problem there.
How would they know?
France doesn't track racial data.