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This all started, NYT explains, when Rubio (he of the unanimous confirmation) signed a deal w/Nayib Bukele. Nothing abt this deal makes sense (they had to invent the TdA deportees from tattoos) except insofar as Bukele had to thwart MS-13 prosecutions in the US.

Fight drug war by inventing it.
The seeds of militarizing the approach to Mr. Maduro and Venezuelans were planted in February, when Mr. Rubio struck a deal with Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian leader of El Salvador, at his lakeside villa: The United States would pay nearly $5 million to send about 300 Venezuelans accused of being gang members to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT. Soon after his visit with Mr. Bukele, Mr. Rubio designated eight Latin American criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations. Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, topped the list. Mr. Miller had already landed on a legal tool to bypass due process: the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law that permits immediate detention and deportations of citizens of a country that has invaded the United States or is at war with it. Mr. Trump signed an executive order in March invoking the act, with a title warning of “the invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua.” In retrospect, the order was an important opening salvo against Mr. Maduro: It was the administration’s first formal framing of Mr. Maduro and the United States as being in a type of war. Contrary to a secret U.S. intelligence assessment, it said Tren de Aragua was an instrument of Mr. Maduro. Many of the more than 250 Venezuelan men sent to El Salvador had no ties to Tren de Aragua or notable criminal records, and some have described widespread torture and abuse at the CECOT prison. Courts soon ruled that illegal immigration does not count as the kind of invasion that justifies using the wartime deportation law. But Mr. Miller later talked about reviving the use of the Alien Enemies Act if the United States were in an actual war with Venezuela, a former U.S. official said.
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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also rob pike designed go with active contempt for his userbase, so he can also get fucked
December 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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@ennui.org I find the mystification oddly enjoyable.
Apparently one issue of complaint today was the pitch having 10mm of grass instead of 7mm. It’s scandalous. Wouldn’t be tolerated anywhere but Melbourne! LOL.
December 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM