"Davis...has been researching what rights businesses have during immigration enforcement operations in case agents were to show up at his store. 'I'm not going to let them do what they think they can do,” he said, “because they can't.'"

Orwell read about it in Eugene Lyons's book Assignment in Utopia, which he reviewed.

HSR is a technology that exists and we can get good at building it through repetition. We don’t have to do things that have never been done before, like launching the world’s largest tunnel boring machine or laying track on a floating bridge.

Cheney was the worst of us and the world would have been better if he had never lived. This compulsion to launder the war crimes, the selling of the state to private interests, the authoritarian groundwork he built, is a confession by moderates of their own complicity and guilt.