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Yeah, but suck it libs/non-MAGA!!! That's the important thing.
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They are already claiming it is because Trump is so respected and feared that immigrants quit coming and many here self-deported rather than face his wrath.
I do thing a lot of immigrants without legal status have become much more cautious about movements in public — gone to ground to the extent possible so as not to be an easy target and hoping that they won’t be nabbed at work. Not sure how long that will last.
I heard a story on CNN this morning about a permanent legal resident and military veteran who was nabbed by ICE on January 22 and remains in detention today even though he and his wife have documented his legal resident status.
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Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct
Trump executive order ends National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which he proposed creating in 2020.Loading…
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“The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed, deleting a resource that experts said improved public safety by helping to prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records.
The database was first proposed by Trump in 2020 in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. But it wasn’t created until two years later when an executive order from President Joe Biden launched the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database. Trump issued an orderlast month revoking Biden’s orders, and the database.
The national database encompassed nearly 150,000 federal officers and agents, from the FBI and IRS down to the Railroad Retirement Board. And though it launched only in December 2023, by the end of last year all 90 executive branch agencies with law enforcement officers had provided thousands of disciplinary records dating to 2017, a report issued by the Justice Department in December said.
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“President Trump believes in an appropriate balance of accountability without compromising law enforcement’s ability to do its job of fighting crime and keeping communities safe," the emailed statement from the White house said. "But the Biden executive order creating this database was full of woke, anti-police concepts that make communities less safe like a call for ‘equitable’ policing and addressing ‘systemic racism in our criminal justice system.’ President Trump rescinded the order creating this database on Day 1 because he is committed to giving our brave men and women of law enforcement the tools they need to stop crime.” …”
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“… Lauren Bonds, executive director of the National Police Accountability Project, said, “Trump has made clear through actions such as this that he doesn’t think law enforcement accountability advances public safety.”
Though the database includes only federal officers, Bonds noted that covers “a potentially impactful group who can impact a lot of vulnerable people’s civil rights” in areas such as immigration and Border Patrol. “Even though databases are the bare minimum of tracking, it’s a low bar, but it’s still a bar we should have in place.” …”
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#MAGAFeelfactsBlogGrandpa must’ve gotten into the stims this morning — he is rip-snorting ready to go for his CPAC appearance.
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Very clear-eyed analysis of the reality of the end of the post-WWII world order and the need for Europe to recognize that Trump is aligned with Xi and Putin to see the world as being carved up into spheres of influence based on hard power (military might). He urges Europe to understand they have no seat at the table based on soft power or reliance on rules-based international organizations — the ticket to a seat at this table is hard power.
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On Trump — Russia believes that Trump is buying what they are telling him, which diminishes his leverage. “… and I saw this happen in Afghanistan where he gave away the biggest concession before we even started. It’s a strange ‘Art of the Deal’ honestly …”
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From the link:
“… So, you know that DOGE staffer who goes by “Big Balls,” otherwise known as 19-year-old Edward Coristine—an alleged former member of online cybercriminal organization The Com and a cybersecurity worker who reportedly got fired from his job for leaking company secrets? Well, turns out there’s another layer to his dubious background. According to independent journalist Jacob Silverman, Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov, a former KGB spy.
Per Silverman’s research, Martynov was an officer in the technical espionage division of the Russian intelligence agency back in 1980, when he was sent to the United States to serve as an undercover agent at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. About two years into his stay, Martynov got flipped by the FBI and started to feed the US government Soviet secrets.
Martynov was eventually identified as compromised by KGB counterintelligence officer Victor Cherkashin, who had himself successfully developed sources within the US intelligence agencies. In order to get Martynov back to Russia without him suspecting that he was found out, Cherkashin was asked to escort another Soviet spy back home (it’s a long story that Silverman explains in detail). As soon as the plane touched down, Martynov was arrested and ultimately executed.
His widow eventually moved to the United States permanently, where she and her children would settle, marry, and have kids—including Edward. …”
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That could impact border encounters. I don’t think it would have any impact on deportations. At least not yet.
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GSA says workers who took ‘fork’ won’t get a full payout — then reverses itself
The inconsistency marks the latest twist in an error-plagued rollout of the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to incentivize federal workers to quit.Loading…
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“Officials with the General Services Administration told staff in emails sent last weekend that probationary workers who took the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer would not necessarily be paid through Sept. 30, going back on a guarantee made to all federal workers.
Instead, GSA leaders wrote in messages obtained by The Washington Post, probationary staff would see their payments stop when their probationary period expired, if that date came before the end date of the resignation program.
Hours after The Post contacted the U.S. Office of Personnel Management about the issue, GSA reversed itself, communicating the decision in a note from the agency’s chief of staff that said, “Things change.”
Probationary employees will receive their pay through Sept. 30 “regardless of their probation end date,” he wrote in an email obtained by The Post.
The inconsistency marks the latest twist in an error-plagued rollout of the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to incentivize federal workers to quit — a deal the government promised repeatedly would permit all approved employees to get paid for not working through September. Dozens of probationary workers in recent interviews have detailed challenges with taking the deal, as agencies raced to implement a Trump administration directive to shed those jobs.
In particular, some probationary employees who accepted the resignation offer reported they were fired anyway, spurring confusion and chaos. When The Post contacted OPM to ask about the firings, agencies began reinstating terminated workers to the resignation program. The mistaken firings and corrections transpired at several agencies including the Education Department and the Agriculture Department, The Post found. …”
You haven't seen those millions of people in caravans headed south for a change?
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Trump ends deportation protection for 500,000 Haitians
Trump ends deportation protection for 500,000 Haitians - BBC News
The move comes amid deteriorating conditions in the Caribbean country.
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“The US government will end the temporary protected status (TPS) for 500,000 Haitians living in the country in August, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
This comes despite deteriorating conditions in the Caribbean country, with gangs controlling about 85% of the capital and sexual violence against children increasing by 1,000% last year, according to the United Nations.
TPS is granted to nationals of designated countries facing unsafe conditions, such as armed conflict or environmental disasters. …”
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Their gross incompetence is our only hope.
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The New Meaning of ‘Munich’
After J.D. Vance’s bizarre speech, a word synonymous with appeasement may now signal the voluntary surrender of global hegemony.
“…the U.S.-orchestrated global order—which, for most of the past 80 years since World War II, U.S. officials of both political parties fully supported—was starting to fall apart even before Trump began suggesting that he was no longer interested in being leader of the free world.
But by brazenly treating some of Washington’s key allies as adversaries—and its autocratic adversaries as partners—Trump may be administering the death blow to a once-stable world system in which Washington served as overseer of a powerful alliance of democracies.
As another Munich attendee, Georgetown University scholar Charles Kupchan, put it to me: “The atmosphere in Munich was that of a funeral.”
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Indeed, Vance’s bizarre speech on Feb. 14—which had nothing to do with security and everything to do with culture and politics—should probably be seen mainly as an appeal to his MAGA home audience and perhaps the effective start to his 2028 presidential campaign.
“There are folks inside the administration who are simply thrilled to be bringing tears to the eyes of the Europeans,” said one Republican international relations expert familiar with the Trump officials’ thinking, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
“There is a lingering anger from Trump’s first term toward the bien-pensant crowd in Brussels who openly criticized Trump’s domestic politics and came out against the Dobbs decision.” …”