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ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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We have no choice but to primary all of these pro-war, Vichy democrats. We may fail, but we must try. No war but the war for freedom and democracy at home
June 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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the way to beat the hedonic treadmill is to simply live beyond your means when you have little money, and then don't adjust when your income increases. grad school is good for this.
May 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The main lesson of Biden’s presidency is that the president has to be able to go on tv and talk good
The main lesson of Biden's presidency is that voters would prefer high unemployment to minor inflation, and there is no electoral benefit to pursuing wage growth or industrial policy.
The main lesson of Biden's presidency is that decent people will not tolerate genocide, neoliberalism, and warmongering. Biden did everything possible to tee up overt fascism, from expanding the police to calling protestors antisemitic to building the border wall and carrying out mass deportations.
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This isn’t doomerism. This is reality. This is the whole constitutional ballgame. I need y’all to understand that. For Bukele to say this while the president smirks knowingly should be the end of the Trump regime. Trump must be impeached and he must be expelled. This is bigger than everything else.
*BUKELE: DEPORTED MARYLAND MAN WILL NOT RETURN TO US
April 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Genuinely no master plan y'all, it's the dam water in California again. Have you ever BEEN around a terminally rich person, they're just like this
April 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
like saying im at a “sandwich deficit” with a deli
Also I think economists fucked up when naming trading deficits
April 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Mr @Elonmusk We are hearing that the great Andrew Cuomo could use your support to stand up against the radical left . Please consider offering your powerful support
April 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.
Breaking: Cory Booker has officially delivered the longest Senate floor speech in US history, surpassing Strom Thurmond’s filibuster against the Civil Rights Act.
April 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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This argument would not be any different if the victim were a US citizen: sorry we "accidentally" disappeared a citizen, but he's a foreign policy matter now.

That is exactly the goal. They think they found an infinite gulag glitch that works on anyone, even citizens.
Despite admitting to having illegally sent a guy to El Salvador by mistake, and even though the U.S. is paying El Salvador to indefinitely imprison him, the DOJ is arguing that, well, nothing to do, it's not in our hands anymore. The general tone of their response is "welp, sucks to be him."
April 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Rümeysa's legal team is coordinating a fundraiser for her and her family to help them deal with this crisis, including medical costs since ICE has kept Rümeysa from accessing all her medications. Please donate if you're able:
Justice for Rumeysa Ozturk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
chuffed.org
March 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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There’s a very good chance we’re headed for a recession. But there’s also a chance we narrowly avoid one, and I think it’s vitally important that we fan the flames of a vibecession in that case. We need the media’s negativity bias to work for us.
MICHIGAN LONG-TERM INFLATION EXPECTATIONS HIT 32-YEAR HIGH
March 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Literally just kidnapping people off the street. Should we start roaming gangs to beat the shit out of plains clothed cops or something?
RUMEYSA OZTURK KIDNAPPING VIDEO

Here is a video of federal agents detaining Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk Tuesday night.

Rumeysa was abducted as she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast.
March 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This kills me because it was Republicans who spiked the Hunter Biden story! They wanted to spring it in October to repeat the 2016 surprise, so they held it. When it finally dropped press said no thanks we’ll get to it later. Not gonna dance on strings again. It could have been aired out in time!
NPR CEO Katherine Maher says that NPR was "mistaken" and "should have covered the Hunter Biden story more aggressively." She also said that NPR has acknowledged "that the new CIA evidence" about the Wuhan lab leak is "is worthy of coverage, and have covered it."
March 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.
March 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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it's not the anti-war activists or muslim-americans who lost interest in the war after it no longer served as an issue to hurt democrats, it's the mainstream press.
Update from our empire of bipartisan child murder
March 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology.
Trump says he will withhold federal tax dollars to Maine colleges unless the Gov of Maine personally apologizes to him.
March 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM