ICE don’t care about da law
Minneapolis resident today:
I watched a young man get snatched by ICE outside yoga this morning. I filmed the whole thing.
His name is Lucio Fabian Navos Nietos.
I know this because they just left his passport and all other identification in his car. And left his car.
They don’t care who he is. They will deport him anyway.
12:50 pm
Indiana resident (not me)
They just left it all??? Lord almighty. They’re not even pretending anymore. Thanks for filming it.
1:27 pm
Minneapolis resident
Yep. Allowed me and others to find out a lot about him in a short amount of time, get the info to immigration attorneys, etc.
He has a wife who’s 5 months pregnant.
At least she’ll know what happened to him. Why he went to work in the morning and never came home.
I’m so sad and angry.
1:34 pm
Me:
I wish that, just this once, POTUS would admit “I overpromised. We can’t deport a million per year in ways consistent with American law and ethos.”
1:59 pm
Another respondent:
@patrickrhone these fascists need to be sent to Nuremberg
2:19 pm
(Actual Social Medium exchange January 10)
Block that Metaphor!
I need to get “Even a broken clock is right twice a day” in the front of my mind. I reflexively go to “Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and again” even though it’s (a) kind of Appalachian and (b) stupid (scent, not sight, is the primary way pigs find acorns, as prototypical Appalachians doubtless know).
What am I missing?
Nellie Bowles turns over the soil to reveal something weird:
- Biden puts a $25 million bounty on Venezuela’s Maduro.
- Trump raised it to $50 million.
- The Trump sends in the armed forces, with a soupçon of DEA, and takes Maduro to the US in handcuffs and masked.
- “Dems are aghast. What did they think bounties meant? Vibes? Papers? No, of course they understood it was fake!”
Too big a tent
The Heritage Foundation made a strategic choice to adapt to the current political moment by refusing to exclude anyone from its boundless tent. That led Heritage to depart from its principles and embrace people who have no credible claim to conservatism, even at the expense of pushing out the brains that built the foundation. By obsessing over “what time it is,” Heritage lost sight of hard lessons learned from the past.
For more than half a century, the Heritage Foundation’s work has rested on five ideological pillars listed in its mission statement: “free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.” Yet in recent years Heritage has drifted from these precepts. Its trade policy centers on protectionism. Efforts to limit the federal government’s powers no longer seem like a priority. American values are shifting in unexpected ways. In 2024 Heritage flew the American flag upside-down to protest Donald Trump’s conviction in a New York criminal case. In foreign policy, the foundation has criticized longstanding alliances and is tending toward isolationism.
Josh Blackman, Ed Feulner, Ed Meese and the Heritage Foundation’s Exodus
Confabulation
If you don’t know how to explain something, why not just make it all up? Welcome to another important feature of the left hemisphere’s world: confabulation.
Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things, describing the left hemisphere when the right hemisphere is impaired or disabled.
Sounds a lot like AI, doesn’t it? McGilchrist has done wonders disenthralling me of AI techno-utopianism.
America is not authoritarian
“You’re not living in an authoritarian country. Except for the part where the president seizes unprecedented powers. And the part where he orders sham prosecutions. And the part where he invades countries to take their oil. And the part where his White House rewrites the history of his coup attempt,” – Will Saletan.
And the part where his masked anonymous agents gun down unarmed civilians in their cars. (Via Andrew Sullivan)
Panama, Venezuela
Our 1989 operation in Panama to capture Noriega was called “Operation Just Cause.” Our 2026 operation in Venezuela could be called “Operation … just cuz.” (H/T Carlos Lozado)
Shorts
- The silly charge of narcoterrorism is the WMD of this generation. (Terry Cowan
- Alan Jacobs describes his redundant stupidity-prevention system (SPS).
- Trump is busily trying to erect monuments to his own eternal awesomeness across DC. It’s how someone who believes in nothing but himself faces mortality. (Andrew Sullivan)
- “I never much cared for the U.S. Congress when it existed, but now that it’s gone I miss it,” – Walter Olson via Andrew Sullivan.
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 