it’s impossible to keep up with all the news. At least for me it is!
I had no idea that Title 42 was being lifted until commenter Josie sent me an article – was everyone aware of that but me?
Governor Greg F. Abbott (the F. stands for Fucking) is doing his best to gum up the works. No surprise there. I cannot believe we don’t have a tag called Republican fuckery. I had to settle for Jump, You Fuckers!
Josie knew about it because Beto wrote to her:
Dear Josie,
You have probably been following the news about the surge of migrants and asylum seekers who have been arriving in El Paso recently as well as the court battles around Title 42 and our country’s immigration and asylum policies.
While we can’t control the outcome in the courts, there is something we can do this holiday season to relieve the suffering these families — many of whom have traveled thousands of miles by foot to escape crushing poverty, brutal violence or political repression — are going through.
Our local independent online newspaper, El Paso Matters, has put together a list of opportunities to help meet the demand we have in our community. There are many ways to help, from giving money to volunteering (and volunteers are in high demand right now).
Please take a moment to learn more and find a way to contribute.
My best to you and your family over the holidays,
Beto
From the article:
El Paso’s humanitarian organizations need help as they aid migrants who are passing through El Paso, and with border crossings expected to rise next week when public health policy Title 42 lifts, community leaders are predicting a situation that will require all hands on deck.
One of the biggest unauthorized border crossings in El Paso history occurred this past weekend when thousands of migrants waded across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juárez. For most migrants – who hail mainly from Nicaragua, Cuba, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic – El Paso is a temporary stay until they can depart for their intended destination. People continued to cross the border throughout the week, but since shelters are at capacity, federal agents are releasing migrants into the streets, including nearly 200 people today, according to a city dashboard.
Temperatures are expected to drop below freezing tonight. An encampment has formed outside the Greyhound bus station, where individuals are bringing water, food, blankets and other supplies, including a mattress. After reports of limited access to public restrooms, the city set up several portable toilets in a nearby parking lot.
On Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked the state’s attorney general to investigate nongovernmental organizations which he claims are helping migrants illegally cross the border near El Paso. In his letter, Abbott did not provide any evidence supporting his allegations and local nonprofits accused the governor of trying to criminalize groups for providing humanitarian aid to migrants.
Despite the governor’s language, NGOs in El Paso are calling on people to support their work. Here are ways you can help.
There’s much more in the article if you are interested in volunteer and donation opportunities to help in El Paso.
What is Title 42 and what could its end mean for the border and migration?
Bottom line, a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to stop using Title 42 by Dec. 21, stating that it was “arbitrary and capricious.” The ruling followed a lawsuit from families seeking U.S. asylum.
The administration had tried to stop using Title 42 sooner, but was blocked by a federal court in Louisiana. Other legal wrangling is ongoing, including an effort by several Republican-led states to keep Title 42 in place, arguing that an increase in migration would harm them.
bbleh
Last I read, Roberts (as Supremo to whom emergency appeals from the DC CA are assigned) temporarily blocked the lifting, but response from the administration was due TODAY, which to me (IANAL) suggests it was pro forma and the fix is in unless the red states really pull a rabbit out of their hats.
Old School
CaseyL
Am I remembering correctly, that for a while the Biden Administration used Title 42 as a response to RW-GOP-MSM screeching about Biden letting “illegals” in without screening them for Covid?
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: You are.
CaseyL
@WaterGirl: Thought so. It was and has been confusing, since Biden opposes Title 42 on principle, but found it a handy way to counter the OMIGOD FOREIGNERS WITH COVID foaming.
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: Any port in a storm?
David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch
The party in Buenos Aires to celebrate victory at the Copa de Mundo (photo)
bbleh
@WaterGirl: @CaseyL: I think also (1) they couldn’t just rescind it because it was statutory law, and it took time to work that through the courts, and (2) it also bought time for them to start fixing the immigration/asylum system, which the Trump people deliberately damaged as badly as they could
(The irony that Republicans angrily supported a public health measure aimed at COVID presumably goes without stating.)
David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch
Anyone notice how the endless media stories about “crime”, “inflation”, ‘gas prices” vanished after the “red wave” fizzled out?
It’s as if the media was trying to help the gop at the ballot box with…. dare I say it… fake news.
WaterGirl
@bbleh: Yes and yes!
bbleh
@David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch: sadly, I think it’s also testament to the comparative effectiveness of the two parties’ publicity machines. The Republican Puke Funnel is just much more efficient and responsive. And of course the media by nature resist walking back anything they’ve previously said, even if it’s proven conclusively to them that they were led by the nose into promulgating total falsehoods.
WaterGirl
@David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch: Most of the media is shameless.
WaterGirl
@bbleh: I don’t know. Biden and others have done a fabulous job of putting information out there, but the media only bites on the crap that helps Republicans.
eclare
@David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch:
Wow!
WaterGirl
@David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch: Holy shit, are those PEOPLE?
Ruckus
@David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch:
FAKE NEWS?
Say it isn’t so, surely every word on TV and in print must true or they couldn’t print it/say it – right?
Just in case it wasn’t surely, completely, absolutely, oh my fucking god obvious, the above is a bit of snide joke.
Qrop Non Sequitur
@WaterGirl: Must be but at first I thought I was looking at black sand up close, with maybe a pebble in the middle. But the pebble turned out to be an obelisk
@Ruckus: The news was real, it was just devoid of useful context and heavily promoted in ways specifically tailored to assist Republicans.
Old School
@David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch:
It’s a decent turnout. Here’s another angle.
Lapassionara
I wish someone would do some stories on the benefits of immigration. I saw a piece about a motel owner in Topeka, KS who cannot find enough employees to help clean rooms, etc. I have seen stories about some communities that have benefitted from immigrants settling there. Also, there should be some stories about the causes of the waves of migration from South America. As I understand it, many of the people crossing now are from Cuba. I thought we gave Cuban migrants “special status,” but I hear nothing about those issues in the press.
All the Republicans have to say is “look, more scary brown people,” and it makes headlines.
Starfish
El Paso is overwhelmed by the number of migrants right now and has been sending them to other cities that have capacity. Denver is one of the cities that took about 100 migrants. There are temporary jobs for bilingual English/Spanish speakers to help the people who were sent to Denver. Here is one story that was requesting stuff for the migrants.
When there were first stories of migrants, it was not clear if people were being dumped here due to the earlier Abbott and DeSantis stunts.
Later, we learned that El Paso just did not have the resources for the number of people. There is a scaremongering thing in the New York Post saying that there are at least 20,000 waiting to cross into the US once Title 42 expires.
rebelsdad (fka texasboyshaun)
Petition to add a new tag called “Lone Star Fuckery,” because the fuckery from Texas Republicans is galaxy-brained level compared to standard GOP fuckery.
On a related note, has anyone else seen that AG Paxton asked the Texas DPS for a list of the 14,000+ Texans who have received a gender change on their state licenses/IDs? I’ve been sounding the alarm about their cruel intentions for years now but so many other Texans, even liberals, told me I was paranoid.
Omnes Omnibus
OT: This is why I will miss Twitter
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
Yes, yes they are. I’d bet somewhat happy people.
I’ll also bet that just about every human in Buenos Aires is at that party.
eclare
@Lapassionara: When my parents were in the hospital a few years ago, probably half the people that treated them, from orderlies to doctors, were immigrants.
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus: Awesome.
David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch
@Old School:
This!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
WaterGirl
@Old School: 5 million is a lot of people. I would be worried that the bridges or whatever those were would collapse under the weight!
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: wow! This seema like a BFBD to me!
Sister Golden Bear
@WaterGirl: Yes, they are. Helluva party at the Plaza de la República.
zhena gogolia
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Wow.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
LOL. I remember that from years past.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@eclare: In Iowa, at least 3/4 of our docs were immigrants. I don’t know who will provide medical care in rural American if immigration is barred
WaterGirl
@rebelsdad (fka texasboyshaun): done!
We now have:
Lone Star Fuckery
and
Florida Fuckery
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: There will be a lot of reasons to miss Twitter if it does, indeed, disappear.
Qrop Non Sequitur
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Typically the anti-immigration folk I hear from make an exception for highly educated professionals.
I’d like us to get to the point where migrant farmers don’t need to justify their existence in the minds of bigots.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I hope they are smart enough to already have President Zelenskyy here before they made that announcement.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think they just said on MSNBC that this is still tentative, details being finalized. I imagine the reporting makes it harder
Qrop Non Sequitur
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m sure security was a consideration. Who’s to say he’s even leaving from Ukraine? He could presumably depart from any friendly neighboring country.
Gin & Tonic
@Qrop Non Sequitur: Everybody who travels to and from Ukraine these days does so via Poland.
Qrop Non Sequitur
@Gin & Tonic: Well there you have it
I’d hope they had him securely in Poland before the announcement or a secure route where Russia won’t reach him.
Mai Naem mobile
@Old School: https://twitter.com/realfutebolnews/status/1604637834400481281?t=ZNMyh0nlYmaiLBweUN62pQ&s=19
This drone one is a good one as well.
Anne Laurie
Ahem: Republican Venality. All-purpose & much used!
Qrop Non Sequitur
@Anne Laurie: Obviously we need tags for every nuance of Republican misdeeds.
Scout211
Have we heard an update from Humboldt Blue yet?
Latest from the earthquake area is that at least two people have died due to medical emergencies during or after the quake and at least 12 people are injured. 70,000 people are still out of power and there has already been over 80 aftershocks. More aftershocks are predicted and residents are told to be prepared for a possibility of a large aftershock of 5 or higher magnitude.
Starfish
@Anne Laurie: You are keeping us in line? I could have sworn this was a WaterGirl comment. 😂
piratedan
in AZ, where Kari Lake still has a pending lawsuit in play alleging election shenanigans….
the judge threw out 7 of her 9 claims as frivolous, meaning she has two outstanding where the judge essentially informed her legal team, show up with something resembling proof or I will toss the remaining two counts…
Neither of the two claims allowed by the judge has to do with Arizona Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, whom Lake had accused of malfeasance in her role as Arizona’s secretary of state.
Apparently confused in regards to what constitutes proof, Lake continued to insist that she was going to have the actual Governor elect testify… and now, Lake’s team has rescinded the subpoena issued to Hobbs… probably as a twofer, they would have gotten the truth and the Judge would have eviscerated her for bringing Hobbs in to testify….
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I wouldn’t trust a single Republican to know in advance.
NotMax
Down Amir’s way.
Retrograde to da max. Witchcraft? Oy vey.
Dan B
@WaterGirl: There is drone footage of the crowd that goes for more than a mile from this spot and it’s SOLID people.
WaterGirl
@Dan B: Wow. I feel like 36,000 people at a Jimmy Buffett concert is more than enough for me.
Roger Moore
@Qrop Non Sequitur:
It highlights the difference between truthfulness and honesty. It’s possible to use 100% truthful stories to give people a dishonest impression of reality. It’s not enough that the news media present information that’s factually correct; they need to provide context. If they deliberately focus on just a few things and ignore others, people will get a distorted view of what’s happening.
Dan B
@Scout211: I’m worried because the quake was at the southern end of the Juan de Fuca plate. You know, the one that could cause a magnitude 9 quake off the Washington and Oregon coasts. We stay at a resort a few miles from where evidence of the quake and tsunami that caused the tsunami in Japan memorialized in the painting The Great Wave of Kanagawa. That quake caused the ocean floor to drop 60 feet and the coast to drop so much that the ocean flooded a mile in the Copalis River drowning a forest.
Mike in NC
If Zelenskyy addresses Congress, how many Republicans will heckle him?
zhena gogolia
@Mike in NC: MTG and Boebert are on the outs, but maybe they’ll do it separately rather than together as they did at SOTU.
zhena gogolia
I’d love to see Putler get his just deserts, but I really want to see Margarita Simonyan get hers.
Dan B
@Mike in NC: Howler Baboons Lauren, Marge, and Paul G presumably will howl. They’ll discover that Zelenskyy has skills from years as a comedian and a degree in Law.
mrmoshpotato
@David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch: Party on! (I hope they enjoy the truckloads of Budweiser. 🤣)
lowtechcyclist
When they say “Title 42,” they don’t mean the whole shebang, because it covers all sorts of stuff, from Federal flood insurance to solid waste disposal.
Any of you legal eagles know which particular section of 42 U.S.C. they mean by “Title 42”?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@bbleh: Right. I had the same reaction. “Sp let me see if I understand. TFG was simultaneously telling us COVID was basically the flu, no big deal, and would be gone by Easter, and also declaring a public health emergency that would require closing the southern border?”
lowtechcyclist
@zhena gogolia:
Julie Brown – Girl Fight Tonight
lowtechcyclist
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Depends on which stance was best at a given moment for owning the libs or sticking it to some other group they dislike. It’s not like they have any real policy preferences beyond that.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@WaterGirl: Which makes it doubly impressive that the Jan 6 Committee managed to bypass the filters of Our Media Betters and reach the people directly.
TriassicSands
Um, you are aware of the concept of “infinite,” aren’t you?
It is simply not possible to have a tag for every possible “nuance of Republican misdeeds.” We’d need servers with more capacity than crypto has sucked up in all its years of existence.
TriassicSands
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Yes, but sadly, the Committee only reached those people willing to watch and listen. That included virtually none of the people who desperately needed to be reached.
We see that constantly in comment sections, where RWNJs continue to call the Committee’s work a partisan witch hunt. The stupidity of those comments is appalling, but predictable.
I consider the televised January 6 Committee hearings to be the best use of television in my lifetime.
Miss Bianca
@lowtechcyclist: lol, perfect!
David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It isn’t right forcing Bernie to come to work on Festivus Eve
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Terengganu is one of two states (the other being its neighbour Kelantan) where the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) always wins statewide elections. PAS is a fundamentalist party, the only one in Malaysia, and it has never had anything to offer its voters but pietistic bullshit. Like these new rules, like mandating gender-segregated checkout lines at the supermarket, and things like that.
Geminid
I finally got around to reading the Sunday Washington Post’s Metro section and saw that Virginia “Jinx” Holton died. In 1970, she and her husband Linwood Holton Jr., the new Governor of Virginia, made national news when they enrolled their three oldest children in Richmond public schools.
Technically, the Governor’s mansion is not part of the city Richmond and they could have sent their kids to a private school, or to one over the Henrico County line where Richmond’s white elite had fled to avoid desegregation. Instead they decided that it was a good time to set a good example, and it was.
Born in 1925, Virginia Harrison Rodgers originally wanted to be a lawyer, but her attorney father argued against it, joking that she was already argumentative enough and needed no further training. So when she graduated from Wellesley College in 1946 Ms. Rodgers completed a French-English secretarial course in New York and went to work at the U.S. Embassy in Brussels.
Homesick, she returned to Virginia and worked at CIA headquarters. Then in 1953, on a trip back to her hometown of Roanoke, Ms. Rodgers met her future husband on a blind date.
While Virginia Holton never made it to law school, her daughter Ann did. Ann Holton practiced family law in Richmond and ended up Chief Judge of Richmond’s Domestic Relations Court. She resigned from the bench in 2005 when her husband, Tim Kaine became Governor. Since then Ann Holton has taught law, and served as Virginia’s Secretary of Education from 2014 to 2016.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Jim, Foolish Literalist
just noticed the timestamp– I wonder if he’ll add mustard and mayo to his redecorating
Another Scott
@lowtechcyclist:
42 U.S. Code § 265 – Suspension of entries and imports from designated places to prevent spread of communicable diseases
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.