Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled. https://cnn.it/4kHhwqR
— CNN (@cnn.com) February 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Some good news, to start the day… Per CNN, “ICE can’t take Kilmar Abrego Garcia back into custody, federal judge rules”:
Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot be re-detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, dealing the Trump administration another blow in its effort to keep him locked up while it attempts to deport him again.
The injunction issued by US District Judge Paula Xinis, of the federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, follows an emergency order she handed down in December that similarly blocked officials from taking Abrego Garcia into immigration custody. But unlike the earlier ruling, the government can appeal the new one up to a Richmond, Virginia-based federal appeals court.
Tuesday’s decision is the latest judicial rebuke of the government’s maneuvering in Abrego Garcia’s case, which has come to symbolize the administration’s hardline — and, at times, slapdash — approach to immigration enforcement. Abrego Garcia was unlawfully deported to El Salvador last year and, following a series of court rulings, brought back to the US to face federal human smuggling charges in Tennessee…
“The court easily concludes that there is no ‘good reason to believe’ removal is likely in the reasonably foreseeable future,” she wrote in the 10-page decision. Federal officials, Xinis continued, “have done nothing to show that Abrego Garcia’s continued detention in ICE custody is consistent with due process.”
Though Abrego Garcia has for months said he would prefer to be sent to Costa Rica, where officials previously said they would give him some form of legal status, the Trump administration has given no support for that desire, mystifying both his attorneys and Xinis.
“In her decision today, she recognized that if the government were truly trying to remove Mr. Abrego Garcia from the United States, they would have sent him to Costa Rica long before today,” said Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, a lawyer for Abrego Garcia. “Instead, they’re flailing about trying to deport him to Africa – why? It’s clear that the only reason is to punish him for having the courage to stand up for his rights.”
Since he was first released from immigration custody in December, Abrego Garcia has been living in Maryland under the strict pre-trial release conditions imposed on him by the judge in Tennessee. Those conditions include being under the custody of his brother and not being able to travel outside of Maryland without permission from the Tennessee court…
Meanwhile, the legitimacy of his criminal case in Tennessee faces a major test next week as the federal judge overseeing his trial hears arguments over Abrego Garcia’s claim that he’s being unfairly targeted. The judge has already indicated through several rulings that he’s sympathetic to those arguments.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
rikyrah
Never ever forget
Mr. Abrego Garcia
WAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR
THAT’S HOW ALL OF THIS STARTED😡😡😡
Chief Oshkosh
@rikyrah: Good morning!
Gloria DryGarden
Good morning. The sidebar photo is wonderful.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Chief Oshkosh
@rikyrah: One of many, many reasons that I will support any Democrat whose plan is to NOT just look forward, but to also back in order to bring justice. Take all the BBB funding slated for ICE and CBP and spend it to create an Internal Affairs Division for DHS, with it’s own, newly-hired-but-well-trained-and-experienced investigators and attorneys who can work up cases that then get sent to DOJ for full prosecution. Once ICE and CBP numbers are small enough to be drowned in a bathtub, I want both agencies dissolved and MAYBE replaced with something shiny new. The IF people can be seconded to the IRS, EPA, and other agencies that need their services.
ETA clarity. Maybe.
ArchTeryx
@rikyrah: You’re wrong.
Mr. Abrego Garcia was a demonstration of power. Fascists never make administrative mistakes. They are infallible. That’s why they will move Heaven and Earth to cover any mistakes up. Because Big Brother does not make mistakes. It’s one of the fundamental tenets of fascism.
Parfigliano
Deport to Africa? I doubt he has ever been there. I’m surprised they aren’t trying to deport people to Antarctica.
JML
Mr. Abrego Garcia continues to be harassed because these scumbags in charge of the federal government simply cannot admit to being wrong about anything ever. (A reminder that all of the flunkies take their cues from Dear Leader) They continue to try to pull this kind of cruelty because it’s the only way they think they can win, and winning at all costs is the top priority, the only priority for them.
Truly, the worst of the worst. None of them should ever be allowed to work in government again. (Frankly, I can’t see why anyone would hire these incompetent and evil fucks for anything. They’re proven to be stupid, incompetent, lying fools who are more likely to get you sued than accomplish anything.)
Tony Jay
Watching the Curling at the Olympics and I’d just like to stand and applaud the intensity of the US team’s just concluded anti-ICE protest. /s
I’ll get my coat.
Geminid
There was good news for Rumeisa Oztürk last week. She’s the Turkish grad student who was snatched off the streets of Somerville Massachusetts a year ago. Video of Oztürk’s abduction by masked ICE agents went viral in the US and in Turkiye.
Anyway, court filings by Oztürk’s attorneys indicated that an immigration court had terminated deportation proceedings against her. That court found that she had not committed a deportable offence when she signed on to an editorial in a Tufts University student newspaper calling for the U. to end it’s ties to Israel because of the Gaza war.
Ms. Oztürk’s, a Fulbright scholar, was released last May and apparemtly can continue her studies in early childhood education unmolested.
ArchTeryx
@Tony Jay: You have good taste. Curling matches aren’t exactly adrenaline pumping displays, but more like watching a team chess match
The folks that do it also tend toward the more liberal side of the political spectrum, even way up in Northern Minnesota, where a lot of the U.S. Olympic curling teams come from.
Betty Cracker
Less than a year ago, Pam Bondi said this about Abrego Garcia:
Have all the fucking seats, Pam.
And once again, I’ll express admiration for Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) for having the courage to stand up for his constituent when pundits were warning that doing so would be politically risky.
@Geminid: That is great news. All of the ideologically motivated deportations were outrageous, but her case was especially egregious.
Belafon
That two month old that was choking on his own vomit? Now that he’s made people feel angry at the government, the administration has deported him and his family.
ksat.com/news/local/2026/02/17/2-month-old-held-at-dilley-detention-center-taken-to-hospital-amid-he…
Geminid
@Gloria DryGarden: Hey Gloria, if your friend PollyannaFH notices a strange smell tomorrow, it would be Donald Trump speaking at Rome Georgia.
The ostensible topic will be affordability, but early voting has begun in the GA-14 special election primary and Trump’s people want to boost their chosen candidate. That would prosecutor Clay Fuller, who they likely see as more a team player than Colton Moore, the boat-rocking, gun brandishing state Senator.
It’s a jungle primary with 15 Republicans in the mix, and the 2024 Democratic nominee is expected to clinch one of the two runoff spots.
ArchTeryx
@Betty Cracker: Pundits, particularly corporate media pundits, are wrong about everything and paid seven figure salaries to fill column inches saying so. I’ve dealt with Chris Van Hollen’s office in the past when he was a Maryland Congressman. No fear but plenty of favor for the working stiffs. He fought like hell to get me (an NIH postdoc) unemployment despite the fact that I wasn’t “in the system.” DOL’s response was deny, deny, deny. So his office contacted the Labor Commissioner of the state and told them to get it done. There was nothing in the books that said a postdoc wasn’t eligible for UI, and I had been a full time taxpaying worker for 3+ years. So I got it!
LAC
Another unnecessary death due to ICE actions:
wtoc.com/2026/02/16/savannah-teacher-killed-crash-by-man-fleeing-ice/
She matters too…
suzanne
This is an aspect of the whole system I don’t understand. I thought deportation was sending people back to their country of citizenship. I might disagree with that, but that isn’t inherently a cruel thing (obvs there are circumstances that could make it cruel, but on its face it is the sensible thing). But sending someone to a country/continent where they know no one, don’t speak the language…. literally, the cruelty is the point.
ArchTeryx
@Tony Jay: Also: Minnesota. The state that’s been under sustained siege by ICE for well over a month now. The U.S. curling team had extremely strong motivation to publically tell ICE to fuck themselves during the Olympics.
ArchTeryx
@suzanne: As above, the explanation is simple. It’s a fascist display of power. It never was about deportation of immigrants. It’s to make sure they die or are murdered out of sight of the American public. Garcia started out an error, but once he became a cause celebre of the fascists, they are never going to let him have a day of peace, courts be damned, until they are out of power.
Soprano2
@Geminid: I’m sure they’re now searching her background to see if they can find any excuse at all to deport her. They don’t like judges telling them “no”.
prostratedragon
@ArchTeryx: I’ve been amazed that I find it mesmerizing, after all these years.
Betty Cracker
@LAC: Read something about that yesterday. So sad and unnecessary. Dr. Davis is yet another victim of the Trump goon squad’s hyper-aggressive tactics. She almost certainly won’t be the last either.
suzanne
@Betty Cracker:
Toilet seats. Appropriate for shit people.
evodevo
“Though Abrego Garcia has for months said he would prefer to be sent to Costa Rica, where officials previously said they would give him some form of legal status, the Trump administration has given no support for that desire, mystifying both his attorneys and Xinis.”
Because it’s not about deportation – it’s about the cruelty and making an example of someone at random to frighten the others…this administration is evil to the core.
suzanne
@ArchTeryx: Yes, I understand.
The core of it is to create a culture of fear. Just like terrorism. It’s not just to hurt Garcia, it’s not to enforce immigration laws. It’s to scare people into submission.
prostratedragon
@Soprano2: You’d think they’d be used to it by now. From Politico,
Belafon
@prostratedragon: Everyone knows 180 > 3800.
ArchTeryx
@suzanne: You got it perfectly well (sorry for the mansplaining).
Picking some random dude off the street fits that goal perfectly. That Garcia was an error makes him an even better target. If they can send him to his death, they can do it to anyone, and that’s the message. They CANNOT allow him to escape or the entire system starts showing its cracks. Just by a bad draw of the Lottery, his life will never be safe until they’re gone. ALL of them.
Old Man Shadow
“But he committed the worse possible treason against the United States! He made the president look stupid!”
ArchTeryx
@prostratedragon: I refer to it as an ice-based team shuffleboard, but taken to a skill level far, far above your average shuffleboard match. Skip determines where’s the best place to put the rock, the sweepers are there to make sure it ends up where he wants it. And you can tell when the latter screws up long before that rock reaches its end.
When I tried it the arena had house sweepers for folks who wanted to give the game a whirl. They weren’t Olympic caliber, but they were quite good, and it was a great introduction to the sport.
SFAW
@ArchTeryx:
Fixed.
Matt McIrvin
@suzanne: ICE has detained people (here on legit visas) who were on their way OUT of the United States. They could have just not let them back in– that may have been unjust but it was an option, if keeping them out was the point, rather than inflicting hurt.
hueyplong
@Old Man Shadow: “But he committed the worse possible treason against the United States! He made the president look stupid!”
A “treason” that is literally impossible for any targeted person to avoid.
LAC
@Betty Cracker: You are right. Sadly, she will not be. I am so sick of this.
SFAW
@ArchTeryx:
I just realized, that’s one of the things that (mildly) annoys me about the “sport.” I guess there’s some perfectly reasonable history-related justification for it, but the idea of the stone-thrower having help to get his/her stone where he/she wants it, rather than based on his/her own skill, seems a little thumb-on-the-scale-ish.
This is today’s curmudgeonly thought from yours truly. Now if all you curling-lovers would kindly GET OFFA MY LAWN!
suzanne
@Matt McIrvin: Like, it is inherently legal for a country to decide who gets to be in it and who its citizens are. That’s a core principle. But cruelty and fear are not required to do that.
SFAW
@suzanne:
She’ll have to fight Junior over them, especially if she wants to do coke. Or so
I’ve heard“some people are saying.”ETA: “Junior” in this case was supposed to be RFK Jr, but I guess it could also apply to Piggy Junior
Soprano2
@SFAW: I have to think “normies” are revolted by the thought of our HHS secretary thinking it was OK to snort cocaine off a toilet seat, especially the women. We’re weird about bathrooms.
RevRick
@ArchTeryx: This case wasn’t just a demonstration of power. Fascists are men — and it’s always men — of action. They are contemptuous of thought, debate, or reflection, seeing such things as treasonous impediments to action. For that reason, they are constantly seeking ways of corralling the judicial system, with the hopes of finally co-opting it.
SFAW
@Soprano2:
Hey, I’m not a normie, and I’m revolted.
suzanne
@Soprano2: The amount of fecal bacteria on a toilet seat makes it unsanitary. I don’t really care if someone is a cokehead, but don’t shit where you eat/snort.
Tony Jay
@ArchTeryx:
Love the curling. Giant-size billiards mixed with darts. How these athletes manage to curl those stones such distances with so much accuracy and consistency boggles my mind.
different-church-lady
I guess I can take some heart from the fact that people are pushing back on the Roberts Court’s “Do whatever the fuck you want” ruling.
prostratedragon
@ArchTeryx: Having never played shuffleboard I’ve been thinking of it as like linear billiards with one pocket. Does look like something I’d try if ever I was near a rink.
Baud
@Soprano2:
@SFAW:
I’m a cocaine addict, and I’m revolted.
(Not necessarily an entirely true statement.)
SFAW
@Tony Jay:
I think if they really wanted to make it a sport, they should require each stone-thrower down a pint of bitter or three before starting the match.
prostratedragon
@SFAW: I’d be surprised if that never happens, though maybe not at the Olympics.
SFAW
@prostratedragon:
Glad you included the “maybe.” Without it, my response would have been “then what’s the bleedin’ point?”
Betty Cracker
@Baud: I mean, the keys were right there in your pocket, Junior! (He’s not in it for the hunting, is he?)
prostratedragon
Tony Jay
@SFAW:
And stand on a moving stone while downing them.
Get this idea to the X-Games.
different-church-lady
Bupalos
@rikyrah: I think Garcia was an “administrative error” in the same sense the ICE shootings were: the predictable and even desired result of aggressive priorities.
It’s good that as Teumpnis losing power it looks more like the judiciary can stay afloat for now as a democratic institution and dictate what happens with high profile slam-dunk cases like Garcia’s. On the other hand we’ve got like 5 shootings and 2 murders that don’t seem to be being pursued very vigorously. Every day that the officers who shot Pretti are not in custody serves to eat away at norms of justice. Pretti particularly because all the evidence is right out in then open and it’s a similar slam dunk to the Garcia case. It’s simply proceeding under a new standard of justice.
Matt McIrvin
@suzanne:
Yes, though *our* country also has very strong rules about this that our current government regards as trivial impediments to be discarded or worked around.
gene108
@Belafon:
I read an article of another family seeking asylum that agreed to be deported, because their daughter was getting sick in the Dilley detention center and not getting necessary medical care.
The conditions in Dilley are horrendous on purpose to force families to self-deport to escape from the torture.
One thing that struck me when I read The Gulag Archipelago is a lot of the torture inflicted on political prisoners wasn’t beating them up. It was keeping them in crowded prison cells, with lights always on, poor conditions regarding hygiene, etc. until they “confessed” to their crimes.
Basically the sort of thing that we are doing with ICE detention.
Scout211
In local news. Emerson College Poll is out with a look at our “cast of thousands” governor primary.
The poll also included Californians’ opinions of other pols and of issues in the state:
rikyrah
@Geminid:
the courts are grinding…slow they be…but, they are grinding.
different-church-lady
@Scout211: It blows my goddamned mind that people who live in “expensive” states never seem to consider what will probably happen to their incomes when they move to the “cheap” state.
Chief Oshkosh
@ArchTeryx: That’s great to hear.
SFAW
@Tony Jay:
I like the way you think.
Bupalos
I think you should reconsider this. There are absolutely fascist women, both as active fascists and fascist symbols. Joan of Arc has long been the avatar of right-wing ultranationalism in France and I’d argue an exemplary fascist herself, before we had the term. But there are lots of other female characters in the history of fascism, it’s actually pretty interesting. Even as the top of the political hierarchy codes male, with its emphasis on force and violence.
Of course men do not always have to have a monopoly on even this aspect of right-wing ultranationalism, particularly as modes of state violence become much less dependent on human muscle.
Chief Oshkosh
@LAC: The DHS statement at the end of the newspaper article is just so, so shitty. The article does a good job of pointing out that the teacher was killed because ICE is a bunch of violent cowboys breaking the law (in this case, the county does not allow chases to apprehend suspects, but that’s what ICE did, killing the beloved teacher).
DHS basically blames it on sanctuary cities.
Yeah, doesn’t make sense to me, either.
Anyway
Also arbitrarily changing the rules is not kosher. People with asylum claims were considered temporarily legal but their status was yanked on a whim etc
ETA – plus immigration offences were considered civil but this administration treats them as criminal.
Anyway
@gene108: To think I laughed when Romney said “self-deportation” was the answer to the immigration “crisis”.
Silly me.
Baud
Amusing reddit thread
rikyrah
Mike Madrid
@madrid_mike
All these conservatives praising Marco Rubio saying we need a Latino President are the same ones who couldn’t handle a Latino half-time show last week.
7:10 PM · Feb 17, 2026
x.com/madrid_mike/status/2023927989512401237?s=20
Belafon
@SFAW: We should also have a version of NASCAR where the drivers have to jump out and pump their own gas.
Almost Retired
@different-church-lady: Anecdata from a California employment lawyer (me), but for awhile during the pandemic, remote workers were retaining their California salaries while working from a cabin in Bugtussel. Then the “return to work” orders started coming and companies began adjusting salaries for remote workers who wanted to remain in the Holler. I got a lot of whiny “that’s not fair” calls from potential clients, but none of them could point to an agreement or policy that made their salary portable.
rikyrah
Pablo Manríquez
@PabloReports
SCOOP: Trump’s embattled DHS secretary Kristi Noem ordered historic buildings demolished at headquarters. Now her workers are inhaling asbestos on the daily — and are not very happy about it.
x.com/PabloReports/status/2023929029099667704?s=20
Soprano2
@different-church-lady: Yep, they seem to think they’ll keep the high pay from the more expensive state. That can happen if you’re working remotely.
trollhattan
@Baud:
Starting with the cocaine costing much more than a dang toilet seat.
rikyrah
Acyn
@Acyn
Crockett: We actually received a phone call a little bit earlier today—they explained that they actually told CBS that they could go ahead and move forward with the interview of James Talarico. They just needed to offer me equal time… I’ve been on Colbert multiple times..
x.com/Acyn/status/2023945678494593531?s=20
rikyrah
The AZ – abc15 – Data Guru
@Garrett_Archer
A “striker” bill will be heard in the AZ Senate tomorrow that would require county election officials to enter into an agreement with ICE allowing them to enter vote centers and polling places.
x.com/Garrett_Archer/status/2023813159111573594?s=20
Baud
@rikyrah:
Thankfully, AZ has a Dem governor.
rikyrah
Josh Dawsey
@jdawsey1
In all-hands meeting tonight on Capitol Hill, Trump’s political team is encouraging his Cabinet to visit competitive 2026 midterm districts and highlight affordability issues and administration’s work on prescription drug prices ahead of midterms, people familiar say.
5:39 PM · Feb 17, 2026
x.com/jdawsey1/status/2023905198561796101?s=20
Baud
@rikyrah:
That’s how the rule works. Who knows what they told Colbert, however.
Bupalos
@Bupalos: dawns on me that as you look at the public face of resurgent European fascism, that might well be disproportionately female right now…Meloni, LePen… and this isn’t as new as our framing makes it seem. Fascism and right wing ultranationalism runs through themes of purity, purge, and national cleansing of vice. This is a garment that in some ways fits better on women, even as the tooth, muscle, and bone of it traditionally codes male.
Baud
@Bupalos:
From what I’ve seen, although there was some concern early on, Meloni has been conservative but not fascist.
Captain C
@SFAW:
AFAIK Piggy Junior has never admitted in public that he enjoyed blasting rails off of toilet seats. (Yes, I could definitely see him doing so.)
Geminid
@Baud: And Arizona also has a Democratic Secretary of State, Adrian Fontes.
Baud
@Geminid:
True, but I don’t know what the SoS can do to stop this legislation.
prostratedragon
@Baud: Some heartbreaking stuff there. Never would have expected the NBF statue (glad to hear it’s been taken down) to have such fierce competition, but the headline one might have pulled the upset.
rikyrah
Little Susie Collins is so CONCERNED
Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur
New: Trump’s election bill tops 50 Senate votes
@SenatorCollins
is #50 for SAVE America Act, per
@BasedMikeLee
.
House passed it.
Trump supports it.
The 60-vote rule is now the only thing preventing it from becoming law. Democrats vow to filibuster it.
x.com/sahilkapur/status/2023867653438501262?s=20
rikyrah
Cuckturd
@CattardSlim
Trump & his kids are opening their own Polymarket. They can now personally profit off every House vote, press conference, executive order, Tariff decision. You name it.
Haven’t heard the Trump’s talk about Burisma for a while. 🤔
x.com/CattardSlim/status/2023916924846141550?s=20
Bupalos
@rikyrah: I’ve been saying, this actually is a fairness issue. I mean, that’s not what the R’s are worried about here, they pretty clearly want the racial matchup rather than the religious one and I have little doubt that the R’s new plaything SeeBS is pushing their interests and basically intervening for Crockett in a way they would never consider for the general.
But Colbert’s really is intervening for Talerico. Talerico’s social justice religious identity was made in a lab to appeal to Colbert. Though I personally think it was also made in a lab to appeal to a potentially gettable slice of the Texas electorate that could be decisive. And I think Republicans think that too.
Really sux that two of our best have to compete.
Geminid
@Baud: I just like to get Adrian Fontes’s name out there; another Hispanic American holding statewide office.
Mr. Fontes’s family move to what is now southern Arizona in the 1740s.
rikyrah
Andrea R. Flores
@Arosaflores
A must read story about the transformation of USCIS. This is why the current moment is much bigger than just the future of ICE, because this admin is transforming every immigration component into an enforcement agency.
x.com/Arosaflores/status/2023779709767606730?s=20
Jonathan Blitzer
@JonathanBlitzer
US Citizenship & Immigration Services is an agency most Americans rarely hear about. It administers the *legal* immigration system. Under Trump, the agency has turned into an enforcement tool in service of the broader crackdown. My latest
@NewYorker
x.com/JonathanBlitzer/status/2023768813574258963?s=20
Captain C
@rikyrah:
This sounds like something the Pitchbot would come up with.
suzanne
@Geminid: Adrian Fontes is awesome. He helped me personally with an issue with SuzMom’s voter registration when he was the County Recorder. I have met him a few times.
Shakti
@suzanne: That and:
TL, DNR: wingnut logic. Also I’m just sad for people whose highest vision of their country is place divided between prison wardens and prisoners.
1.They want to do everything to confirm the bias that immigrants are societally disruptive. One way to do that is to forcibly remove people to third countries in which they have no connections, no rights, and don’t speak the language. Then the host country
is paid for keeping them under lock and keyjails them or they have a refugee on their hands. Refugees are harder to deal with than nice “skilled labor” immigrants in fields with demands, and need more support from the state they reside in, and more traumatized, and less “productive” as a rule.“See? Migrants are disruptive!”
2. “Look no country wants these criminals!” An essential part of calling a bunch of immigrants violent criminal scum (let’s just collapse the contexts and categories) is asserting that nobody wants these people and they are trash.
Deporting them to a country that says they’ll accept them and give them some kind of legal status put the lie to that.
Deporting them to countries they already look down upon confirms it.
2. Cheap labor outsourcing. The third party countries use the deportees from the US as a cheap source of labor they can subcontract out to various private companies.
Bupalos
@Baud: some concern? In her personal, she’s simply a fascist, whose power comes from fascist themes and imagery…I’d say to a similar degree to Trump. Now whether said fascist can govern as a full open fascist is a different question. She’s not a dummy and she’s in a parlaimentary system that gives her much less freedom of movement than Trump.
Check out her personal history and I think you might agree she’s an honest-to-god dyed-in-the-wool fascist.
prostratedragon
The Epstein files as an archaeological wonder:
prostratedragon
@Captain C: His from yesterday:
Kelly
We picked a tick off Daisy yesterday. I’ve lived my entire life in the Willamette Valley and the Cascade foothills. Flea and tick season used to run from April to October. Year round now.
different-church-lady
@Captain C: Naw, it’d be more like “Controversy over health benefits of asbestos divide workers on political lines.”
Shakti
@Matt McIrvin: It’s that sweet prison company pork payola they get paid per head, I suppose. If a judge is involved they help some ICE agents meet their quotas, and who knows, maybe they get kickbacks like Conahan and Ciaverella did. I’m recklessly speculating but considering the piles of money sloshing around for ICE, CoreCivic and GeoGroup and the secrecy behind government building contracts —
well I’m not thinking it’s not happening unless it’s disproven.[
I think Conahan should have been left out of Biden’s pardons because fucking up the sentencing of juvenile detention, ruining kids lives so you can get… boats? threatens the belief in the legitimacy of the system itself. Unfortunately I am not a prison abolitionist.]Ohio Mom
@ArchTeryx: Even when justice prevails, as in Abrego Garcia’s case, it feels less like a hint that the rule of law still has a toehold, still could be fully reinstated, and more like whatever justice still exists is completely arbitrary.
Justice can not be assumed or counted on. That gives our totalitarians in power more power. We have no solid ground under us, we remain at their mercy.
Or, what you said.
SC54HI
Can anyone explain why these assholes who consistently defy court orders and are thus in contempt of court never get punished? No fines, no jail time, nothing.
Canʻt help feeling that if I defied a judgeʻs order as openly and blatantly as this administration does, it would not be the same.
Baud
@Bupalos:
She’s been in power for a while now. I don’t read Italy news on a daily basis, but what I’ve seen indicates she’s not governing like a Trumpian fascist. If you have info to the contrary, feel free to share it
I don’t care what’s in her heart. Congress could also stand up to Trump but Republicans won’t, because fascism.
UncleEbeneezer
Still bummed this morning over Amber Glenn. Amber is one of the top women’s figure skaters and she was the last to skate yesterday in the short program. After nailing her hardest jumps and delivering a stellar program she slipped up on a triple and made it a double which cost her seven points and now she’s effectively out of the running for a medal. It was really tough to watch. And of course, because she’s a queer woman from Texas, who has criticized Trump and even brought an LGBTQ Pride Flag on the ice, she’s getting all kinds of nastiness from MAGAssholes.
Geminid
@Bupalos: I consider Meloni a normal European conservative. She strikes me as a smart, pragmatic woman.
But I mainly know Giorgia Meloni from watching clips from her speeches on international matters in the years since she took office.
And also from the many videos on Turkish YouTube showing her and R.T Erdogan warmly shaking hands and smiling at each other. There’s usually romantic music playing in the background.
Aziz, light!
@SFAW: Ha ha. Now do vegans.
Why do assholes need to piss on the fans of sports they don’t enjoy?
Belafon
@SC54HI: You don’t control the enforcement agencies.
Belafon
@UncleEbeneezer: We need to strap all of these people to skates and tell them to get to performing.
Captain C
@Belafon: Perhaps with the Hanson Brothers zipping among them during their routines.
Shakti
@rikyrah:
Marco, “one of the good ones but not actually blond like his surname” Rubio keeps trying to act like he’s a peninsulares (at best his parents would be white in Cuba) like it matters to the kind of rabid Eurocentric fools who like that speech in Munich. Marco, “I’m Spanish! So Spanish!” If having parents from Spain made you “white” to those types of people in the US, Margarita Cansino would be famous with her original hairline, hair color, and face and name. His former colleague would not go by Ted, etc.
Conditionally white people are going to overcompensate with extra racism so you don’t doubt they are white, ininitum. They also get so angry when you point that out to them.
Mike S
The Grift continues apace. They know the cult wants to name everything after dear leader so they are trademarking his name for airports.
Mike S
“Applications filed by the Trump Organization with the federal trademark office are seeking exclusive rights to use the president’s name on airports and dozens of related things found there, from buses shuttling passengers to umbrellas and travel bags to flight suits. The filings come amid debate in Florida over a state bill to name the Palm Beach airport after Trump and a dispute over funding of a tunnel between New York and New Jersey that is tied up with proposals that both it and Dulles…”
jonas
@different-church-lady: A lot of Californians who move to other states are often in for a rude surprise when they get their property and school tax bills. There may not be a state income tax, but you’ll pay in other ways.
My parents still live back in SoCal and while they’ve owned their home for years, utilities and insurance are killing them. They recently installed a heat pump thinking it would be more efficient/sustainable than a gas furnace, but didn’t really pencil out how it would affect their electric bills, particularly during cold spells in the winter. Yikes. It was brutal.
Baud
prostratedragon
@UncleEbeneezer: Didn’t see it, but 7 points sounds like a lot just for stepping down the difficulty on just one.
Jager
@SFAW: On the local level in Minnesota, there is a lot of drinking before, during, and after the matches.
Belafon
@Baud: Is Netflix willing to sue to win?
Belafon
@prostratedragon: I watched some of the skiing the other day, and a single level change in difficulty would cost the skier 20 points.
NotMax
Dismal doesn’t begin to describe the trend — the plasma boom.
Baud
@Belafon:
My guess is no.
CliosFanboy
@Kelly: it just came for the sking
prostratedragon
@Mike S: Often I am reminded of the afterlife of Akhenaten …
scav
@SFAW: Do you have a similar beef about all those large men cluttering up the field and getting in the way of the throwy man tossing the pointy ball towards the silly gate?
Dave
@Anyway: This is a huge part. You break faith with people who are operating in good faith and it’s very intentional from these, I need to learn Klingon for a properly gutteral insult, and you undermine so much and it’s gross especially for those with power to capriciously alter the rules.
Which is of course these dudes point they want everyone to know they can’t count on any sort of consistency from them.
Soprano2
@Baud: Did you see the show last night? Because he burned them again. LOL They put out a press release claiming that they told him he could do the interview if he had the other candidates on too. He said that wasn’t true. Hmmmmm, Bari Weiss-run CBS or Stephen Colbert, it’s so hard to decide who’s telling the truth…../s/s/s/s
AxelFoley
@suzanne:
That’s why it’s always grossed me out in movies or TV shows when you see a character put his/her face in the toilet (ESPECIALLY a public toilet) to vomit. I’m like, “Someone shit/pissed there. Why would you put your face in it?”
I don’t even puke in my own toilet. I’ve always used the sink whenever I’ve had to upchuck.
dc
@Baud:
The “rule” does not apply to talk shows, the FCC asshole said he was “considering” doing away with the exception (only for broadcast TV, of course), but CBS decided to obey in advance, only for Colbert’s show. The ass covering come from CBS now makes everything worse because first they punish Colbert so they can worship at the altar of the Asshole-in-Chief, then they lie about having done just that.
CliosFanboy
Selling plasma ? Damn, I did that in grad school for pizza money
CliosFanboy
@scav:
Ha! Love it. All sports get boring fast if you don’t know what is going on
Kelly
@CliosFanboy: Oh Yeah. We used to do most of our XC skiing on Forest Service roads well below mountain pass levels. Often as low as 1500 feet vs 4000+ up on the passes. Recent years the snow level taunts me by hovering just above pass levels. Or snows at night the rains during the day.
Chief Oshkosh
@rikyrah: So Bari’s CBS legal braintrust is both cowardly AND incompetent.
Tracks.
Baud
@dc:
Agreed. Where the rules applies, however, it doesn’t prohibit interviews but requires equal time to the other candidates.
CBS isn’t trustworthy.
Bupalos
i think the second part is what determines perceptions of the first part. She’s a politician of the possible. And also a fascist. Or as I guess Euro journalists are calling it now, a post-fascist.
She has tended towards the Modi/Erdogan side of right-wing nationalist authoritarianism rather than Putin, but Trump doesn’t lavish praise on a leader unless they’re at least…post-fascist.
She’s amping up controls on dissent, trying to centralize power, always playing on themes of decline and disorder and the corruption of Italy by outsiders. I really think it’s a case of “put it in a dress and people don’t see it.” There’s no binary here, but by her literal Mussolini-youth personal histor, the way she tacks towards whatever room she has on the authoritarian right, the way she sends signals to the out-n-proud fascists that support her, and the imagery… she’s a fascist. Or “post-fascist,” if we’re queasy about the term short of people getting gassed.
Gloria DryGarden
@Geminid: ive started asking him if he early voted.
His car has gone kaput, so he’s more dependent on rides and the bus. I did warn him to stay out of Rome. We’re trying to get him a Shawn Harris yard sign, tho he lives on a tiny cul de sac. it’s tricky. I contact them via Facebook, await a reply, then pass on communications. He’ll vote for sure. The Rome democrats are aiming to put up a protest. Wasn’t it yesterday? Yuk.
Incidentally, PollyannaFH is giving a concert in Summerville on the equinox. He’s written a bunch of songs over the years. Wonder if any semi local jackals might like to drive a scant hour out of Atlanta or Chattanooga to go hear him.
UncleEbeneezer
Anti
Semitic-Zionist Twitter is big mad that LeBron James said he’d like to visit Israel someday (OMG, the horror!!!). For decades the Left has pushed the notion that antizionism is a prerequisite for being pro-Black. But LeBron is about as Pro-Black as it gets. So him having a common-sense attitude towards Israel as just one of countless countries rather than the central driver of all evil in the world, is so unacceptable that they are now calling him a war criminal and sharing disgustingly racist (and antisemitic!) memes about him. What a lovely movement.UncleEbeneezer
@prostratedragon: Once they commit to a triple loop, if they don’t attempt it they get zero points. Plus her double was still a mess so deductions for that. Ironically if she just went for the triple and fell she probably would’ve gotten less deductions. But they heavily penalize anyone who pulls out of jumps like that.
Captain C
@dc:
I think at this point we can safely assume that in early 1940s Germany, Bari Weiss would have enthusiastically volunteered to be a kapo, even before they came for her.
geg6
@Bupalos:
Bullshit. I personally have seen Crockett on his show multiple times. And there has been a carve out for late night shows for years. CBS didn’t want Talerico on because he is currently polling ahead of both Republican candidates. The RSCC wants to run against Crockett. I think they’re wrong but that’s the motivation and there was no reason for CBS to do what they did. Accusing Colbert of bad faith is bullshit.
Baud
@UncleEbeneezer:
How did that question come up? Quite apart from the political situation, that whole area has a lot of historical significance and sites worth visiting. I too would like to visit one day.
JoyceH
Hey, guys? In the news has been New Mexico’s decision to investigate what went on at Epstein’s ranch there. Plenty of his criming took place at his Manhattan mansion – is NY investigating that? Florida won’t, of course, because… Florida.
Baud
Meanwhile in Texas
Melancholy Jaques
Immigration thread! Opportunity for me to ride my hobby horse.
That asshole has given us Democrats an opportunity to do the right thing on immigration. And by that I mean address the issue of an estimated 14 million unauthorized residents. The most practical, moral, and humane thing to do is allow almost all of them to stay.
The criminals all have to go, nobody is going to be convinced otherwise. The question there is what we are going to consider a crime.
The remaining people should be divided into three groups based on how long they’ve been here. The actual times are open for debate, but long term and people brought here as children, path to citizenship. Medium term, temporary permission to stay & work with reporting requirements. Short term, most of them have to go, except asylum claims which will be decided under existing law.
The money for this has already been allocated for ICE, we can repurpose the funds.
Anyway, this is our time to make the case. There are more people willing to listen now because we can see that the other people are just assholes and even this nation of callous morons won’t want to watch 14 million people rounded up like this.
Baud
@Melancholy Jaques:
Hate to say it, but the time to make the case is after the mid terms. Doing it now would just distract people from Trump while they pick apart our plans. IMHO.
jonas
@JoyceH: Florida did investigate at one point. That’s when he got his sweetheart plea deal from US attorney Alex Acosta back in 09 that basically let him off with a slap on the wrist
ETA: IIRC, local Palm Beach law enforcement and other investigators were livid at the decision — given what they knew about the extent of Epsteins criming — which Acosta has never satisfactorily explained.
Baud
@jonas:
I remarked the other day that the Epstein Files release hasn’t given us more insight into what happened.
JoyceH
@jonas: Bowing out to the Feds was their first mistake. But I would like to see some state investigations opened up. That would stir the pot for sure.
Anyway
@UncleEbeneezer: So much of figure skating is about the visuals/presentation and her makeup was AWFUL. It was distracting. Yeah she should have taken the fall and might have ended up in the top 5 or 8.
NutmegAgain
FC ST Pauli, of course. I have FC st Pauli stuff all over the back of my car… They’ve been proudly anti-fascist since 1911. One of their brand identity symbols is a big fist smashing a swastika, and it says, “St Pauli, Gegen Rechts” (St Pauli against the far right). They’ve been fairly not-so-great as a football team, but as an organization and representative of Hamburg, they are top notch. This link has the logo and an article.
Paul in KY
@suzanne: Fucking them over is how they get their jollies.
Bupalos
@geg6: I didn’t accuse Colbert’s of bad faith, and most of what you’ve written after “bullshit” is a restating of what I’m saying, not disagreeing with it. The gop is intervening through their cats paw SeeBS because they want to run against Crockett. But in “fairness doctrine” terms, Colbert really is working for Talerico here I think, the timing is significant. Which advocacy I’m not really criticizing or saying is “in bad faith” or outside the norms. Talerico is espousing the view that Colbert has expressed for decades about social justice Christianity, it’s absolutely THE position most unique to him as a public persona on the left.
I am saying there probably should be a question of whether we want folks with control of the airwaves making these kinds of decisions. There is a legitimate fairness doctrine question here that is worth thinking about, even as the gop is obviously not thinking about it but using it as an excuse for THEIR advocacy.
where we may disagree is in the value of the timing. Colbert has had Crockett on, but not as someone running for this senate seat. And he could have her on now. And she wants on. And he doesn’t want to do that apparently.
Anyway, why do you think Crockett is the more formidable candidate for a general?
Paul in KY
@SFAW: The sweepers add a layer of mirth to the game.
Paul in KY
@Bupalos: She was anti-English and Burgundian, that’s for sure. Also a believer in divine right of kings. Was murdered by English.
Gloria DryGarden
@UncleEbeneezer: in the pairs, if you drop the rotations, and double or single a jump, Iirc, they deduct a point, then grade the lesser jump from its base.
I’ll have to catch up on the single womens. I don’t think it goes to zero. I better watch again, it’s al a bit confusing.
Paul in KY
@CliosFanboy: I was tempted in college. Managed to avoid that route. Knew several people who did that regularily.
Paul in KY
@Baud: Agree. Up to mid-terms: Slag TACO and his evil policies every day 24/7.
Bupalos
@Baud: different flavor than Trump, more in the Orban mold and probably simply smarter and more effective. She absolutely is seeking to change the form of Italian democracy to make it more like the U.S. which is of course more centered on a single, more powerful popular national figure and thus friendlier to a fascist. Which I think she is. Also a bunch of structural authoritarian stuff, need more ‘real Italian’ babies and no more immigrants stuff, anti-lgbtq stuff… the idea that this is just “conservative” business as usual maybe speaks to the way the goalposts are moving.
If you’re interested in the issue, I think this is a good discussion here
catclub
@jonas:
2008. Acosta was a GwBush USA, definitely NOT an Obama appointee.
catclub
@different-church-lady: They do consider, and decide to keep the job in the expensive place.
Paul in KY
@Bupalos: All real/true Christianity is supposed to be ‘social justice’, IMO.
geg6
@Bupalos:
I really don’t think Colbert had Talerico on for any sort of “Christian” solidarity reasons, which you have now implied twice. So no, I read what you said and don’t agree that I restated what you said. But you love to make statements and then try to gaslight anyone who disagrees. Whatever. I’d hate to have to interact with you in person.
Scout211
OT, an update on missing backcountry skiers near Truckee California.
It is now the deadliest avalanche in California history.
Elizabelle
@Scout211: So very sad.
Europe is getting clobbered w avalanche deaths too.
Melancholy Jaques
@Baud:
I agree with you that the details should be after the midterms. I kind of assumed it would take at least that long just to get the broad outlines worked out.
sab
@geg6: I agree with your basic argument but the you get so ad hominem in your attack.
You disagree with him. Okay. Reasons differ.
But then…
Back to the pie filter for you. I am embarrassed that I even peeked
ETA Sometimes when people retire and let their freak flag fly immediately, we have to wonder what kind of harm they did in their last few years of work.