Parental Opt-Outs for Controversial Books

Plus: Cornell's cancel culture case, Trump's immigration policy approval ratings, and more...

Book battles come to the Supreme Court: Mahmoud v. Taylor is before the Court this week, dealing with the Montgomery County Board of Education, which took away both parental notice and opt-outs for storybooks that celebrate transgenderism and pride parades, read to children as young as three and four. The plaintiffs are a coalition of religious parents from all different faith traditions, asking the Court to rule on "whether parents' rights to the free exercise of their faiths are burdened if public schools do not allow them to withdraw their children from classes on days" these themes are discussed, per a New York Times writeup. Oral arguments are happening now, and a decision is expected in June.

At issue are the books Pride Puppy, an alphabet book about a puppy that gets lost at a Pride parade (at which there are drag queens and leather); Love, Violet, about a girl who crushes on her female classmate; Uncle Bobby's Wedding, which is self-explanatory; Born Ready, about a transgender child; Prince & Knight, a "modern fairy tale" about two boys falling in love and getting married after working together to battle a dragon; Intersection Allies which asks kids which pronouns fit them; and What Are Your Words? which tells kids that pronouns can "change like the weather." (The school district has since removed two of the books from the curriculum, though they remain in school libraries.)

The lead plaintiffs are a Muslim couple—Tamer Mahmoud and Enas Barakat—who have a son in elementary school in Montgomery County. Other plaintiffs are Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox.

It's not just that these books are stocked in school libraries: In 2022, the school district added them to the language arts curriculum for students in pre-K through fifth grade. "At first, the Montgomery school system gave parents notice when the storybooks were to be discussed, along with the opportunity to have their children excused from those sessions," reports the Times. "But the school system soon eliminated the advanced notice and opt-out policy, saying it was hard to administer, led to absenteeism and risked 'exposing students who believe the storybooks represent them and their families to social stigma and isolation.'" Several justices, even the liberal ones, expressed surprise at the themes and images depicted.

The lawyer for Montgomery county is hampered by the fact that many of the justices have read the books in question.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) April 22, 2025

"The Supreme Court will determine whether the school board policy burdens religious rights," reports NBC News. "The justices could then determine whether that burden violates the Constitution, or they could send the case back to lower courts to make that determination."

Some of these books, like Born Ready, are teaching kids things that…are decidedly false (even if you agree with the transgenderism stuff):

So where does this surprising assertion come from? It's based on a moment in the book "A Boy Called Penelope", in which a trans child's Ghanaian grandfather accepts his gender identity, and tells him that in Twi they don't even use gendered pronouns.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) April 23, 2025

"Surprisingly to speakers of English and other Indo-European languages, gendering pronouns isn't actually all that common; most languages don't do it," posted Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle on X. "But the idea that this somehow means sex/gender isn't a 'big deal' in these cultures is Sapir-Whorfism run amok." Children might be walking away from these lessons thinking, for example, that Ghana is some promised land for gay rights, which is decidedly not the case.

Pride Puppy, meanwhile, has a section that asks pre-schoolers (the intended audience!) to search for images from a word list that includes "intersex flag," "drag queen," "underwear," and "leather." (That book has since been removed from the curriculum.)

"Despite faith differences, these parents believe the storybooks are age-inappropriate, spiritually and emotionally damaging for their children, and inconsistent with their religious beliefs," notes the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty (which is representing the plaintiffs) in a press release about the case.

Listen to some audio from oral arguments.

Too many parents objected to what we were teaching their kids, so we withdrew their ability to object

Oh okpic.twitter.com/lBRTyYeIM4

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) April 22, 2025

"It's not just exposure to the idea, right?" Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked. "It's saying this is the right view of the world. This is how we think about things. This is how you should think about things. This is like 2 plus 2 is 4."

"If the school teaches something that the parent disagrees with, you have a choice. You don't have to send your kid to that school," said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Several of the plaintiffs have withdrawn their children from the school system as a result of this, opting for private schools and homeschooling.)

It's not clear to me why Montgomery County schoolteachers and administrators would be so threatened by parents retaining their opt-out ability—unless it is, of course, about indoctrination into a particular set of ideas. Some teachers have claimed that the sheer number of opt-outs makes classroom management hard, to which my response would be: Interesting market signals you've got there! Maybe, just maybe, if the lessons are so broadly unpopular, they should be scrapped. (If I were put in this position—and I assume New York City will at some point spring this type of thing on me—homeschooling would be my move, personally.)

For an opposing (and admittedly more informed on constitutional law) view, Eugene Volokh and Yale Law's Justin Driver submitted an amicus brief supporting the school system. You can read it here.

Done with CECOT: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been moved to a lower security facility in Santa Ana, El Salvador, according to Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D–Md.), who visited him last week and has publicly exerted pressure on the Trump administration to ensure Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. is facilitated, in compliance with the Supreme Court's order. "The U.S. State Department said in an update to the federal district court in Maryland that Abrego Garcia was moved to the facility eight days before Van Hollen met with him in El Salvador last week," per a CBS News report. Meanwhile, Abrego Garcia's wife and kids have moved to a safe house, after the Department of Homeland Security posted a domestic violence protection order from 2021 that featured her address to X.

"I don't feel safe when the government posts my address, the house where my family lives, for everyone to see, especially when this case has gone viral and people have all sorts of opinions," Jennifer Vasquez Sura told The Washington Post. "So, this is definitely a bit terrifying. I'm scared for my kids."

"I just want my husband back, my best friend back, my kids' father back. I want our life back," she added.

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Scenes from New York: "Cornell University dropped a popular R&B singer from its annual campus concert over what the school's president said were antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments she had espoused," reports The New York Times. "The singer, Kehlani, has been an outspoken opponent of Israel's war in Gaza, speaking out at concerts and on social media. In a 2024 music video for the song 'Next 2 U,' Kehlani danced in a jacket adorned with kaffiyehs as dancers waved Palestinian flags in the background. During the video's introduction, the phrase 'Long Live the Intifada' appeared against a dark background."

This cowardly capitulation seems likely to be related to the Trump administration's investigations of antisemitism on university campuses, as well as the freezing, earlier this month of $1 billion worth of federal funds meant for Cornell (endowment: $10.7 billion).

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QUICK HITS

• On Tuesday, President Donald Trump began to walk back some of his comments about imposing a 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods, reports Bloomberg, mentioning he'd be willing to "substantially" reduce his tariffs on China. "We're going to have a fair deal with China," Trump told reporters yesterday. After those comments, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that "there will be no unilateral reduction in tariffs against China. The president has made it clear China needs to make a deal with United States of America, and we are optimistic that will happen." In other words, the administration itself doesn't seem to know which policy it's sticking with.
• First-term approval of Trump's handling of immigration policy vs. second-term approval so far:

New YouGov/Economist poll out this morning finds Trump is no longer popular on immigration. This was the last issue he had a positive net approval on.

This was very easy to see coming, esp bc individual components of immigration policy are so toxic: https://t.co/JoomDfQBi5 pic.twitter.com/xk42iO9ZLa

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) April 23, 2025

• Crucial distinctions between the normal deportation process and deportations under the Alien Enemies Act from today's Just Asking Questions guest:

Trump isn't using the ordinary deportation laws that Obama used to deport millions.

He's declared a *war* and is using war time powers to accuse people of gang membership to imprison them for life. That's when due process is needed: to test if those accusations are valid. pic.twitter.com/lou2rx45Mh

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 23, 2025

• I think this is not aspirational, actually, and would be a sign we're further creeping toward authoritarianism:

I am sort of open to the idea that we should be a country with a national ID card system and a rule that you're expected to have your papers on you at all times in case your citizenship is challenged.

But if that's what conservatives want, we need to create the card. https://t.co/hF7Af5Oozx

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 23, 2025

• How do Chinese propagandists capitalize on domestic turmoil? This and more are covered in the latest Just Asking Questions with Michael Beckley:

• "Of course you know I think it's good for the administration to consider pro-natalist ideas," writes Ross Douthat on X, linking to a New York Times piece about new family policies being considered, "but right now nothing would be more pro-natalist than avoiding an unnecessary recession." (We'll ask Douthat about this and more when he comes on the show next week.)

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been moved to a lower security facility in Santa Ana, El Salvador...

Our long international nightmare is over.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of narratives suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

[Dillinger]

funny.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Hey essey, I can't go back to El Salvador because they will percecute me.
Why?
Ohhh I robbed and murdered a few people there. It's all political

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

A right never granted to J6 citizens put in the worst jails while awaiting trial.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Reason's coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's kidnapping and illegal deportation has been so one-sided that I don't trust anything they report on it to be the truth, the full truth, and nothing but the truth. Too many errors of omission and commission.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/hlddeported-el-salvadoran-drove-vehicle-owned-alien-previously-plead-guilty

This article has its own confusions, but they can at least be sorted out.

The owner of the car in which Kilmar Abrego Garcia was stopped by police is Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, who pleaded guilty to smuggling illegal aliens into the United States in 2020, two years before Garcia's deportation was stopped driving Reyes' car with a load of passengers who were probably illegal immigrants. Reyes himself was deported after the guilty plea and returned to the country illegally.

In 2020, Hernandez Reyes, himself an illegal alien, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months in prison for smuggling fellow illegal aliens in the United States after he was stopped by law enforcement in Mississippi in a car with passengers from Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras. Homeland Security records indicate Hernandez Reyes’ “deport order” was reinstated in March 2021, as his 18-month sentence was nearing its end.

Despite this, the similarities between the traffic stops are striking. The Justice Department said that Hernandez Reyes and one co-defendant were stopped by police in Jackson County, Mississippi. The driver, Modesto Alvarez, was later determined to be Hernandez Reyes’ brother-in-law.

Investigators discovered that of the nine men, eight, including Hernandez Reyes, were illegally present in the United States. Three of the passengers—citizens of Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras—were determined to have been previously deported from the United States and had illegally returned, the Justice Department said. They were charged with unlawful reentry to the United States.

Officers determined that Alvarez and Hernandez Reyes were transporting the illegal immigrants from their home base of Houston, Texas, to different locations throughout the United States.

Abrego Garcia was stopped in Tennessee for driving erratically and speeding by a state trooper in late November 2022 and was found to be driving an SUV full of people also coming from Houston, Texas, according to the documents. Abrego Garcia’s expired driver’s license and lack of luggage in the car led the state trooper to suspect smuggling or trafficking was involved, the records show.

[sarcasmic]

Is that supposed to justify an "administrative error" wink wink that ignored deliberate defiance of a court order that said he wasn't supposed to be deported to El Salvador?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

What law was the judge following?

[Spiritus Mundi]

US immigration judges not only out rank the President, but all members of every government, everywhere.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Been asking this for a week.

No law supports this withholding order.

If the claims are true, asylum is the remedy. The judge denied the remedy. It doesn't apply to gang members.

Bloods can still be sent to prisons that contain crypts.

[Dillinger]

now Gorsuch seems to think so. or at least only likes to work M-F

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

The reason he wasn’t to be deported to El Salvador vanished. Thus, that part of the judge’s order is null and void, dipshit.

[Spiritus Mundi]

We can't deport this guy, who is totally not a gang memeber, to El Salvador because it is an unsafe country for members of the gang to which he belongs.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

How many times I gotta post this before you read it? I know you'll never understand it.

The proper judicial response to violating a court order is contempt of court, by the court in question.

The proper judicial response outside contempt of court for kidnapping and illegally deporting someone is a kidnapping investigation and prosecution.

Prosecutorial discretion means the choice is up to the prosecutor, just as it was when Obama ordered his prosecutors to not deport millions of illegal immigrants because their families included young children.

You claim to be a libertarian who wants the Rule of Law followed. Why are you expecting judges to violate the Rule of Law?

[sarcasmic]

The proper judicial response to violating a court order is contempt of court, by the court in question.

So hold Trump in contempt of court for telling courts to pound sand?

The proper judicial response outside contempt of court for kidnapping and illegally deporting someone is a kidnapping investigation and prosecution.

Do you mean the people who take orders, or the decision makers who give them?

Prosecutorial discretion means the choice is up to the prosecutor, just as it was when Obama ordered his prosecutors to not deport millions of illegal immigrants because their families included young children.

You're equating immigration enforcement officers with illegal immigrants? That's pretty dumb.

You claim to be a libertarian who wants the Rule of Law followed. Why are you expecting judges to violate the Rule of Law?

What laws are they violating? Is there a law against holding decision makers accountable? Because it looks to me like you're doing mental gymnastics to absolve Trump of any responsibility or culpability like you always do when the subject is anything but economics.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Poor sarc.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Pour Sarc.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Is a court ruling in violation of jurisdiction while setting himself up to be the "emergency judge" violating random judicial assignment an issue to you, or do ends justify the means?

It is amazing how some of you don't give 2 shits about courts violating their powers. Judicial supremacy if it fucks over your enemies i guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Here is a link for you to not read.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed78.asp

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

Yet you've defended these judges wielding both sword and purse.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Once again, Democrats suck at selecting martyrs.

[tracerv]

This x a trillion. Mike Brown. Trayvon Obama. St Floyd. Now MS 13 member. And they wonder why their numbers are in the shitter.

[Fats of Fury]

I'd like to know why those Tennessee cops stop the guy without a license and a car full of illegals just let them go.

[damikesc]

I do not trust their reporting/opinion on immigration --- PERIOD.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The U.S. State Department said in an update to the federal district court in Maryland that Abrego Garcia was moved to the facility eight days before Van Hollen met with him in El Salvador last week...

He can't even claim credit to the 20% of his constituents that care?

[Fist of Etiquette]

I don't feel safe when the government posts my address, the house where my family lives, for everyone to see, especially when this case has gone viral...

Getting rid of one domestic threat only to find another threat with an even bigger gang affiliation.

[mad.casual]

I remain unconvinced of the unbridled good of double plus secret protection orders of one citiz... er... woma... I mean birthing person... against another citiz... er... person.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

End government controlled schools.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

End government control.

[Diarrheality]

End government.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Cornell University dropped a popular R&B singer from its annual campus concert over what the school's president said were antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments she had espoused...

SHUT UP AND SING. It's actually good career advice.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

^+1.

[Social Justice is neither]

I see "good Liz" has decided genocide by Palestinians is the good stance to be defended.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

The correct term is palisitinians war on Isreal.

[Zeb]

Where do you see this? From what I've seen she's been pretty solidly on the pro-Israel (and their right to defend themselves) side.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...the freezing, earlier this month of $1 billion worth of federal funds meant for Cornell (endowment: $10.7 billion).

What. The actual. Fuck.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

DEI research is expensive.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Down to quoting Matty Yglesias now? That retard had never been right about anything yet people treat him like some sort of oracle.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

One more day of this and I'm starting the counter again

[Ajsloss]

Mike Masnick gets quoted tomorrow. Book it.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

How dare you.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

He doesn't even know about Real ID it seems.

[damikesc]

Didn't he argue that lying is justifiable?

[Minadin]

It's not so much that he's not right, it's that he's intentionally wrong for a cause. 'Fundamentally dishonest' as one person put it.

https://x.com/jkramlich/status/1915424015931314285

[Fist of Etiquette]

...the administration itself doesn't seem to know which policy it's sticking with.

The ultimate negotiation tactic.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

I wish some of these “journalists “ would take the time to read the book he wrote.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

They won’t. It’s icky, made by that icky orange man. Therefore, since the bad orange man wrote it, it must therefore be wrong and icky and terrible and horrible and might burst my blue bubble. Thus, they cannot and will not read the icky book by the bad orange man.

[Ajsloss]

Trump should write a book about a pride puppy. See how quickly schools drop it from the curriculum.

[Randy Sax]

I said weeks ago Trump should start using reverse psychology. New EO; "All illegals given 40 acres and a gay puppy". Judge will order mass deportation and extermination of all gay dogs.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Don’t be gay Sparky!

[Fist of Etiquette]

New YouGov/Economist poll out this morning finds Trump is no longer popular on immigration. This was the last issue he had a positive net approval on.

Lol. Corporate journalism, you still got it!

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

+70% to 'not popular' in just one poll. Ann Selzer's still working her magic somewhere.

[Quicktown Brix]

I said here before Trump was even inaugurated that the necessary ugliness of mass deportations would turn popular support against this policy.

Here Donny, take a little more rope.

[Fats of Fury]

Mass deportations? This is one guy. He may be fat but he's no mass.
The press isn't focusing on any of the plane full of Venezuelan gangs shipped out. One shot of someone with a tattooed face and even the AWFLs would back off.

[Quicktown Brix]

When you do mass deportations (or mass anything), mistakes will be made. This one guy is a mistake. The missing guy is a mistake. The citizen in custody for 10 days is a mistake. The prisoners in CECOT is a (political) mistake. This is exactly what I meant when I said it would get ugly.

[Jefferson Paul]

I admit I haven't done a deep dive on the guy in custody for 10 days. My understanding is he told border patrol that he was not a citizen. If that's true, it appears he was doing a stunt to try to show how citizens will get rounded up under Trump. If all of that is true, and I don't know that it is, his detention was not a mistake. One of the upsides of our system is that you can testify in your defense. He did the opposite, and the consequence was a detention until his claims (that he's not a citizen) could be shown to be false.

I'm against the death penalty. There was a movie with Tim Robbins, I believe, in which his character's wife committed suicide, but the two of them intentionally made it look as though he killed her. The goal was to get him executed, to show that capital punishment could result in an innocent person being killed. That scenario isn't a good argument against capital punishment, though, as they orchestrated the whole thing. I would liken it to this guy detained for 10 days.

[Quicktown Brix]

I don't know either.

I did read he was illiterate and has learning disabilities though. To soon to know the truth.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Not just told them that, signed a sworn affidavit. It took a few days for his parents to find out. Then a few more to verify the documents.

The entire issue was caused by Hermosillo.

But sea lioning leftists don't seem to care.

[Quicktown Brix]

Not just told them that, signed a sworn affidavit

Which supports the claim he was illiterate and had learning disabilities. Law enforcement works wonders with the feeble minded...but you know how that goes, I'm sure.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Corporate journalism. Telling Americans what to think, since, well, forever.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump isn't using the ordinary deportation laws that Obama used to deport millions.

He's using a novel legal theory?

[Eeyore]

Maybe if he just drone bombed them like Obama did - that would be ok?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Been watching as reason adopts the usual corporate media screams of due process, without understanding the regulations that describe applicable due process. It is not the same for everything the government does. Civil is different than criminal. Regulatory has different mechanisms. Etc. Etc.

So let's talk about what due process is for illegals.

It is called expedited removal.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/8/235.3

Who does it apply to?

provisions shall apply to the following classes of aliens who are determined to be inadmissible under section 212(a)(6)(C) or (7) of the Act:

Which includes:

LII Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) Title 8—Aliens and Nationality CHAPTER I—DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCHAPTER B—IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS PART 235—INSPECTION OF PERSONS APPLYING FOR ADMISSION § 235.3 Inadmissible aliens and expedited removal.
8 CFR § 235.3 - Inadmissible aliens and expedited removal.
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§ 235.3 Inadmissible aliens and expedited removal.
(a) Detention prior to inspection. All persons arriving at a port-of-entry in the United States by vessel or aircraft shall be detained aboard the vessel or at the airport of arrival by the owner, agent, master, commanding officer, person in charge, purser, or consignee of such vessel or aircraft until admitted or otherwise permitted to land by an officer of the Service. Notice or order to detain shall not be required. The owner, agent, master, commanding officer, person in charge, purser, or consignee of such vessel or aircraft shall deliver every alien requiring examination to an immigration officer for inspection or to a medical officer for examination. The Service will not be liable for any expenses related to such detention or presentation or for any expenses of a passenger who has not been presented for inspection and for whom a determination has not been made concerning admissibility by a Service officer.

(b) Expedited removal—(1) Applicability. The expedited removal provisions shall apply to the following classes of aliens who are determined to be inadmissible under section 212(a)(6)(C) or (7) of the Act:

(i) Arriving aliens, as defined in 8 CFR 1.2;

(ii) As specifically designated by the Commissioner, aliens who arrive in, attempt to enter, or have entered the United States without having been admitted or paroled following inspection by an immigration officer at a designated port-of-entry, and who have not established to the satisfaction of the immigration officer that they have been physically present in the United States continuously for the 2-year period immediately prior to the date of determination of inadmissibility.

What is the due process?

The Commissioner shall have the sole discretion to apply the provisions of section 235(b)(1) of the Act, at any time, to any class of aliens described in this section. The Commissioner's designation shall become effective upon publication of a notice in the Federal Register. However, if the Commissioner determines, in the exercise of discretion, that the delay caused by publication would adversely affect the interests of the United States or the effective enforcement of the immigration laws, the Commissioner's designation shall become effective immediately upon issuance,

January 25th was the date the Trump administration issued the notice.

What does it require?

When these provisions are in effect for aliens who enter without inspection, the burden of proof rests with the alien to affirmatively show that he or she has the required continuous physical presence in the United States.

What level of due process?

No entitlement to hearings and appeals. Except as otherwise provided in this section, such alien is not entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge in proceedings conducted pursuant to section 240 of the Act, or to an appeal of the expedited removal order to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

What about asylum claims... wait does that say no work permits?

determination by an asylum officer and any review of that determination by an immigration judge, the alien shall be detained. Parole of such alien shall only be considered in accordance with section 212(d)(5) of the Act and § 212.5(b) of this chapter. A grant of parole would be for the limited purpose of parole out of custody and cannot serve as an independent basis for employment authorization under § 274a.12(c)(11) of this chapter. Prior to the interview, the alien

Right to trial? Well no.

When an alien whose status has not been verified but who is claiming under oath or under penalty of perjury to be a lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or U.S. citizen is ordered removed pursuant to section 235(b)(1) of the Act, the case will be referred to an immigration judge for review of the expedited removal order under section 235(b)(1)(C) of the Act and § 235.6(a)(2)(ii). If the immigration judge determines that the alien has never been admitted as a lawful permanent resident or as a refugee, granted asylum status, or is not a U.S. citizen, the order issued by the immigration officer will be affirmed and the Service will remove the alien.

Just an immigration judge. Wow. Who knew.

Long post. Most of the leftists here will ignore it and fail to read it. Meh.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

“Nuh uh.”
- Lying Jeffsarc

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Best part is proof of valid residency per the law is required to be provided by the illegal immigrant.

And if course reason posts an article again being completely ignorant to actual due process requirements right after. Hilarious.

[Quicktown Brix]

Been watching as reason adopts the usual corporate media screams of due process, without understanding the regulations that describe applicable due process.

Yes, you have amply demonstrated you've been posting without understanding the regulations that describe applicable due process for some time now.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Didn't he just post the regulations?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Qb is a sea lioning leftist.

[Quicktown Brix]

I'm to the right of you on economic issues and without exception support less intrusive government and more individual rights than you.

So if I'm a leftist, what's that make you?

[Quicktown Brix]

He didn't post anything relevant to sending someone to prison in a foreign nation demonstrating he doesn't understand the applicable due process people are upset about.

[Sailor1989]

And once again you ignore that El Salvador sent him to prison. The US sent him home as was deemed necessary 6 years ago.

[Quicktown Brix]

Although he is imprisoned by El Salvador's authority, Trump and the US federal government is fully complicit in his imprisonment, without due process and illegally.

Venezuelans that were on the same plane are in prison in El Salvador? Why did Trump pay Bukele to take our deportees.

Even the lawyers on the Supreme Court can't justify your tenuous legal claim saying "To this day, the Government has cited no basis in law for Abrego Garcia’s warrantless arrest, his removal to El Salvador, or his confinement in a Salvadoran prison. Nor could it."

[damikesc]

El Salvadoran treatment of El Salvadoran citizens is not our concern.

You seem to be oblivious to this.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Exactly. The phrase “I don’t really care, Margaret” comes to mind.

[Quicktown Brix]

So don't care.

I still care about due process because I know we're just one fuck up away from that being me or you. I still care about liberty. I still care about rule of law.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

And you could also be the next murder victim. Which one are you willing to risk?

[Quicktown Brix]

Which one are you willing to risk?

I said it below. I fear the government way more than I fear immigrants. The difference in the power and reach between the 2 makes this a no brainer.

[Quicktown Brix]

El Salvadoran treatment of El Salvadoran citizens is not our concern.

No it's not. Due process within the US is a big concern. You seem to be oblivious to this. You seem to be oblivious to this.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

El Salvador has been locking up gang members since Bukele was elected. QB seems ignorant to this point.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

And crime dropped.

El Salvador has seen a dramatic drop in its crime rate, particularly homicides, with a staggering 98% decrease since 2015. In 2024, the country closed out the year with its lowest murder rate on record, at 1.9 homicides per 100,000 people, making it safer than any other Latin American country. This is a significant turnaround for a nation once known as the "murder capital of the world".

[Quicktown Brix]

We too trade rights and freedom for safety.

I prefer protection from our government more than protection from gangs.

[Quicktown Brix]

I am aware of this red herring.

[mad.casual]

And again, even by their old school arguments/premise there was reasonable suspicion not just to detain him but to question his citizenship.

Again, old Reason was against stop-and-frisk of Americans and second-or-further generation immigrants hundreds of miles from any border and for no apparent reason.

Then, in 2016, it became about explicitly letting as many illegal immigrants in as possible to say and do anything they wanted as long as they weren't Russians posting memes on Facebook.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I am sort of open to the idea that we should be a country with a national ID card system and a rule that you're expected to have your papers on you at all times in case your citizenship is challenged.

Ha. I would have expected this eagerness only with a Democrat in the Oval. Oh, wait...

[Eeyore]

You can't really travel in the US without your national id card (Real ID). You can't board a plane. You can't drive. You can't book on Greyhound.

I guess you can walk? Hitchhike? Paraglide?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'dealing with the Montgomery County Board of Education, which took away both parental notice and opt-outs for storybooks that celebrate transgenderism and pride parades, read to children as young as three and four.'

Board to parents, about their kids: "You didn't build that!"

Democrats then: "It takes a village to raise a child."
Democrats now: "The village takes your child."

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

“ we want your kids to be like the village people.”

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Straight trump supporters?

[Super Scary]

To be fair, those guys all had jobs.

[Ajsloss]

What job did the guy wearing the headdress have?

[Randy Sax]

I don't know about a job, but his WoW class is definitely shaman.

[Super Scary]

He used to stand in front of tobacco shops.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Hence the astronomical rise in the cost of spittin’ terbacky a couple years ago: Cultural appropriation lawsuits.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Professional cultural appropriator?

[mad.casual]

So... uh... am I the only one here who isn't clear on what job the guy with the chaps, leather jacket, chains, and cap had?

Not that there's anything wrong with you guys knowing what job he had, just like, being clear that it seems like you're all talking about a paying gig that you guys are all seemingly in agreement on "Yup. *That's* the uniform." about.

[Ajsloss]

Obviously, that guy worked at the Gothic Castle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ8RSz5S5NU

[Zeb]

Indian Chief is a sweet gig if you can get it.

[MK Ultra]

It takes a village to burn a witch.

[Eeyore]

If I wanted to make a book for kids that celebrates two preoperative transsexuals giving a little DA to another transsexual, could I force libraries to buy it? Are they violating my 1st amendment rights if they refuse to buy it? What if I just give it to them for free? Do they have to put it on the shelves?

[Fist of Etiquette]

...right now nothing would be more pro-natalist than avoiding an unnecessary recession.

"Of course my issue is applicable to this other unrelated issue of the day."

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

In stead of an opt out how about we just feed the pedos to a wood chipper?

I have said this before, but if there was a button in front of me where if I pressed it all pedos, and all pedo supporters would die, I would instantly press it.
The results would be
100% queer and trannies die
80% lgb portion die
75% dems die

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

That’s one way to keep Jeffy, Tony, and Shrike from shitting up the threads.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Proof the judges are intentionally setting policy through their rulings, look at the decision for VOA.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/federal-judge-orders-trump-administration-bring-back-voice-america

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that USAGM must restore the news outlet, and told the agency that it cannot prevent the outlet from serving as a “consistently reliable and authoritative” news source, according to The Hill.
..
Lamberth also directed the agency to bring back employees that had been placed on leave, and instructed it not to reduce the workforce while other litigation continues.
...

[Social Justice is neither]

Have the IRS garnish his wages and seize his assets to pay for it.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

These judges continue to violate the law requiring a bond when they issue these TROs. Requirement upheld by the SCOTUS multiple times who state the bond is required.

[Fist of Etiquette]

At issue are the books Pride Puppy, an alphabet book about a puppy that gets lost at a Pride parade (at which there are drag queens and leather)...

Run, Spot. Run!

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

The progressive establishment doesn’t have enough kids to win, because they tend to kill all theirs.

That’s why they’re so insistent on controlling other people's kid’s minds through "education".

If people don’t voluntarily hand over their kids to these public indoctrination camps, the progressive establishment can be destroyed in a generation.

[Randy Sax]

Volokh's opening statement is flawed from the beginning.

Petitioners ask this Court to hold that parents have
a constitutional right to interfere with the routine curricular decisions of public schools.

From Liz;
"whether parents' rights to the free exercise of their faiths are burdened if public schools do not allow them to withdraw their children from classes on days"

The parents aren't trying to change the curriculum, they are trying to opt out.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Welcome to the grade school California
Such a scary place (such a wacky place)
Such a twisted face
Plenty of room at the grade school California
Any pride of year (any pride of year)
You can see it here

[Think It Through]

"routine"

Is it "routine" to push a particular social agenda?

If not, then the whole premise doesn't apply.

If so, that's problematic in itself.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The lead plaintiffs are a Muslim couple—Tamer Mahmoud and Enas Barakat—who have a son in elementary school in Montgomery County. Other plaintiffs are Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox.

The libs can't like this one bit.

[Dillinger]

did anyone tell the Ukrainian Orthodox guy his church is closed?

[Jefferson Paul]

The high court in Ukraine did order Zelenskyy to facilitate the man's return to Ukraine so he can be drafted into the front lines.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

"I just want my husband back, my best friend back, my kids' father back. I want our life back," she added.

Why did you leave off "beater of my face"?

She also has hundreds of thousands of donations to make these pleas.

[Quicktown Brix]

LOL OK That's a good one.

[Fats of Fury]

Lol! The guy didn't marry her until he was thrown in jail and facing deportation.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

I think Hoe Math might have a video on that type of behavior.

[Jefferson Paul]

I haven't looked into it, but recently I saw some post showing the police report resulting from his wife's claim of DV. In it she she's quoted as saying, among other things, that her husband is in a gang. Perhaps it was fake, as you never know with things posted online.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Fuck Democrats. And I really, really hope they keep pushing the progressive agenda harder, since then I can kick back and watch while they fuck themselves.

[Randy Sax]

Tranny propaganda in skool is the exact kind of 80/20 issues that lost them the election.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump began to walk back some of his comments about imposing a 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods, reports Bloomberg, mentioning he'd be willing to "substantially" reduce his tariffs on China. "We're going to have a fair deal with China," Trump told reporters yesterday.

Walk back? This is what Bessent and him have said the entire time. If China changes their practices. This isn't a walk back.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that "there will be no unilateral reduction in tariffs against China. The president has made it clear China needs to make a deal with United States of America, and we are optimistic that will happen." In other words, the administration itself doesn't seem to know which policy it's sticking with.

It's the same fucking policy bad Liz.

At no time does he state a reduction without China changing practices.

Why is this so difficult for some of you?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Day 2 of quoteing yeglasis.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

So dreamy…

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Yglesias manages to make Sarc look honest at times. I know that’s a low bar, but…

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Papier, bitte.

[Marshal]

Yglesias is more honest in the sense that he openly supports lying if it helps move the Overton window left.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'It's not clear to me why Montgomery County schoolteachers and administrators would be so threatened by parents retaining their opt-out ability—unless it is, of course, about indoctrination into a particular set of ideas.'

Liz finally gets it. Now does she get that libertarians sometimes need to confront other people about their subversive agenda and actions?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Most of the reason believe in the rights of government and gov funded NGOs/democrats over the rights of citizens.

How many times have we seen not funding a group as a deprivation of their rights here.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Trans Hill Is the One Dems Want to Die On, So Let's Help Them

If a child manages to survive their abortion gauntlet, Democrats then want to claim the kid as a prize to be wrested from his or her parents... Republicans need to work tirelessly to get Democratic officials on the record about trans rights. If this is the hill they want to die on, let's do all we can to help them charge up the thing for a final, pathetic stand.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

G Elliott Morris
@gelliottmorris
·
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New YouGov/Economist poll out this morning finds Trump is no longer popular on immigration. This was the last issue he had a positive net approval on.

Ummm..

https://www.theblaze.com/news/majority-americans-support-deportation-illegal-immigrants

Four separate polls found deportation support ranging from 55% from the New York Times poll to 64% in a Marquette poll.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

Polls I have seen recently have his support on border issues over 50%.

On the economy Americans have figured out that the Con Man is full of shit. It is earnings season and CEO's are saying they are cancelling projects as fast as they can.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Speaking of con men…

Care to explain how you managed to get your original account banned.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-wipe of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Turn yourself in for your crimes against children.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'"If the school teaches something that the parent disagrees with, you have a choice. You don't have to send your kid to that school," said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.'

Fine. Then parents (and others) don't have to pay taxes for schools they don't use, right?

[Minadin]

She may be the dumbest justice on the court.

[Ajsloss]

"I just want my husband back, my best friend back, my kids' father back. I want our life back," she added.

And, with that, a delegation of Congressmen travelled to Gaza to get American hostages back. Oh, wait...

[Spiritus Mundi]

Don't think about all the families who lost loved ones fighting these shit pols' endless wars.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

Don't think about all the families who lost loved ones fighting these shit pols' endless wars from senseless murders.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

You'd better not be talking about urban black-on-black murders, cuz that would be racist.

[Fats of Fury]

Two illegals murdered another woman in Maryland. She was an illegal too. Will Van Hollen have to repack his bags for another trip?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

This is america where illegal immigrants get more care and rights than citizens.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

How else are we going to erase traditional America and right all the evil it did?

[Spiritus Mundi]

"I just want my husband back, my best friend back, my kids' father back. I want our life back," she added.

It has been to long since I caught a right hook with my face.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"I'm sorry I made him hit me."

[Jerry B.]

Can’t they deport all three of them?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

Obama leaves office as Deporter-In-Chief

It still amazes me how many nutjobs thought Obama was some pussy progressive.

Cut the Bush $1 trillion deficits in half.
killed our #1 enemy, droned terrorists
free trade TPP killed by populist assholes Bernie/Donnie
loosened gun regulations

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

He’s not the one who loosened gun regulations, dork. That would’ve been the Supreme Court following 2A.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the TDS-addled ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Remember when you told us democrats hate nation building?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"The singer, Kehlani, has been an outspoken opponent of Israel's war in Gaza, speaking out at concerts and on social media. In a 2024 music video for the song 'Next 2 U,' Kehlani danced in a jacket adorned with kaffiyehs as dancers waved Palestinian flags in the background. During the video's introduction, the phrase 'Long Live the Intifada' appeared against a dark background."

Did they stab baby dolls filled with fake blood?

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

They didn’t use dolls, and that wasn’t fake blood.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Is Kehlani an Alice Cooper cover band?

[damikesc]

Ironically, the Jordanians in Gaza would slaughter her for her immodesty.

That sounds like ironic justice.

[Super Scary]

No but they did bite the head off one, Ozzy style.

[sarcasmic]

How long until G Elliott Morris is sued for fraud?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Will you support it like the 1.5B judgment against Alex Jones?

[Spiritus Mundi]

How much is Mar-a-lago worth?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

He also defended defamation against Trump for him saying he didn't rape carrol.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Sarc is principled like that.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'First-term approval of Trump's handling of immigration policy vs. second-term approval so far'

Can we see a similar graph for Democrat/media handling of immigration policy propaganda?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'I think this is not aspirational, actually, and would be a sign we're further creeping toward authoritarianism'

So, ID cards are authoritarian? As long as some libertarians respect and desire the concept of a nation, we have two choices: either control borders so that anyone inside has the legal right to be their, or force us to use ID cards so that citizens can identify themselves.

[Ska]

I'm trying to picture a world where the libertarian position is national ID producible on demand.

I don't have to anymore, it's 2025 America.

[Zeb]

No. Control the borders, don't turn the country into a police state. If you need a state provided ID to be in public, then the government has a lot more power to control and track what you do. It's bad enough we need to provide ID to travel.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I agree. And by analogy, I am happy I don't need to ask family or close friends for ID, especially when they are in my house. Is that because I control who is in the house?

[Zeb]

No, it's because you know them personally and (presumably) want them to be there.

[Jefferson Paul]

If we did require a National ID to identify oneself as a citizen, which I'm against, it would only be a matter of time until illegals were issued National IDs as well. Then we'd have a national ID and it wouldn't prove citizenship, the worst outcome.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Trans college volleyball player at center of controversy calls season ‘darkest time of my life’"
[...]
"In a feature by Jason Zengerle in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday, Blaire Fleming, SJSU’s outside hitter and a transgender woman student-athlete, discussed her past and her trying senior season in 2024. The story also looked at the forfeit crisis in the Mountain West and the national political undertones of the issues with trans athletes in college sports. The interview is the first time Fleming publicly discussed being trans..."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/trans-college-volleyball-player-at-center-of-controversy-calls-season-darkest-time-of-my-life/ar-AA1DoExT?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Well, as a male, you should not be playing in female leagues. Is that so difficult?

[mad.casual]

Uncle Bobby's Wedding, which is self-explanatory

It is? Aunt Robert's or Uncle Jane's Wedding I might consider self-explanatory. Otherwise, whether Bobby is a motherfucker or a mother fucker is not self-explanatory.

[Spiritus Mundi]

"Bob's your uncle"

[Stupid Government Tricks]

A Brit I worked with told me a common alternative, back in the old days, was "And Bob's your Aunt Sally".

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

And now it comes true!

[Jefferson Paul]

"Please excuse my dear aunt Sally."

[Randy Sax]

My great-grandmother's legal first name was "Bobbie".

[mad.casual]

I don't think I know anyone who doesn't know that Billie Jean is just a girl who thinks that I am the one.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

But the kid is not my son.

/hee-hee

[Medulla Oblongata]

"I just want my husband back, my best friend back, my kids' father back. I want our life back," she added.

Nope. If he had been deported "properly" as he ought to have been, he'd be in Panama or Costa Rica or Honduras. If he returns to the US, he'd be subject to reinstatement deportation and could be immediately detained and deported again without further ado.

Lady, you need to get used to the idea that he's not going to be coming back to your "Maryland Father" life. You might be better off finding a different man, one who won't abuse you.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

What she really wants back is the rolls of cash he carried in his pockets.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What about the rolls of cash donated by compulsively compassionate virtue-signalers?

[damikesc]

Perhaps she is not deserving of any better...

[Spiritus Mundi]

Good thing Maryland isn't actually teaching kids to read. Otherwise they might actually 'learn' this nonsense.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"This cowardly capitulation"

Liz goes Nazi?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

For every problem there's a final solution

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

One that you can take to the showers.

[Randy Sax]

You’re the love of my life but it cuts like a knife
And I feel that I’m being mislead
See I’m a little concerned for I recently learned
Of the swastika tattoo on your head
And It makes you smile when you hear Sieg Heil
You love the smell of a burning cross in the yard
You do goose step salutes in your Doc Marten boots
And you quoted Mein Kampf in our fifth anniversary card

I think you’re a Nazi baby
Are you a Nazi
You might be a Nazi baby

[mad.casual]

Oh, weird, a music festival was cancelled because one of the performers was cheering for the Intifada.

I don't see how "No other possible interpretation than a cowardly response to Trump." is not a ****HYUUGELY MASSIVE WIN**** for Trump('s ego).

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Calling for intifadah is a straightforward call for violent genocide. I'm cool with people saying whatever they want. I'm not cool with using my tax dollars to sponsor it. Why does Liz find this complicated?

[mad.casual]

And, SSDD, with cowardice/cancel culture; You're RATM and you've been calling for it as per your kayfabe since the 90s, that's one thing. You're Waylon Jennings or Charlie Daniels making up for some shit you did 40 yrs. ago, that's another. You're Kanye West and you suddenly start spouting off out about how President Bush hates black people or The Jews Secretly run things, you should expect to lose a few gigs.

But again, I like the "They aren't really afraid of violent genocidal revolution that's been ongoing for a century between two religious ethnicities cris-crossing in and out of the region for millennia... the thousands of bodies piled up in the name of holy retribution... Really, they're afraid of Trump." narrative eclipse.

[Marshal]

Support for political violence is a valid reason to deny or cancel visas.

[Moonrocks]

I am sort of open to the idea that we should be a country with a national ID card system and a rule that you're expected to have your papers on you at all times in case your citizenship is challenged

What about vax status?

[Medulla Oblongata]

"New YouGov/Economist poll out this morning finds Trump is no longer popular on immigration. "

The MSM pounding on Trump's actions daily, every minute of every day portraying every single action as a negative is likely to have some negative effect.

What was the +D on this poll?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/yougov-media-bias

Left bias.

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/50704-kamala-harris-leads-donald-trump-yougov-latest-mrp-2024-presidential-estimates-very-close-race-poll

3 point win by kamala for prediction.

[Ajsloss]

I am sort of open to the idea that we should be a country with a national ID card system and a rule that you're expected to have your papers on you at all times in case your citizenship is challenged

You know who else required pieces of flair?

[Super Scary]

Applebee's?

[Randy Sax]

Jaguar commercial actors?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

The Coast Guard inspector? Oh you said "flair", not "flare".

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Chotchkee’s?

“You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?”

[Ajsloss]

I'm just saying that some people choose to wear more and we encourage that, ok?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Yeah. You know what, yeah, I do. I do want to express myself, okay. And I don't need 37 pieces of flair to do it.

[Jefferson Paul]

I need to watch that movie again.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Well, they tried handing us Biden again, which was promptly swept under the rug.
Now, we get a new D headliner telling us that "freedom" = free shit:
"Pete Buttigieg Takes Down Republicans With Precise Plan For 'Freedom' In America"
[...]
"Pete Buttigieg summed up his vision for America on Wednesday after comedian Andrew Schulz remarked that Democrats didn’t have a “message” that was loud or controversial enough to counter the GOP’s platform in the 2024 election.
The former transportation secretary, in an appearance on Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast, emphasized that Americans deserve affordable transit, well-paying jobs and parental leave..."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pete-buttigieg-takes-down-republicans-with-precise-plan-for-freedom-in-america/ar-AA1Dvqh6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=c4f3864211dc458594ce022fffa9beeb&ei=32

[mad.casual]

"Surprisingly to speakers of English and other Indo-European languages, gendering pronouns isn't actually all that common; most languages don't do it," posted Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle on X. "But the idea that this somehow means sex/gender isn't a 'big deal' in these cultures is Sapir-Whorfism run amok." Children might be walking away from these lessons thinking, for example, that Ghana is some promised land for gay rights, which is decidedly not the case.

Damn do I miss old Reason. McArdle isn't a beyond-next-level genius but "Don't say gay" vs. "Indo-European Languages... Sapir Whorfism..." It's like being forced to discuss science and history with Jerry Lewis and The Three Stooges, in character, for years and having Rand Paul or Jay Bhattacharya walk into the room. Even if you don't agree with them, they're self-aware enough not to hit each other with a hammer on the back swing and shout the predictable "Oy! With the pronouns and the schmonouns... whatever you say nice boithing person!"

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Ha!

[Dillinger]

ya lolz

[JFree]

It's not clear to me why Montgomery County schoolteachers and administrators would be so threatened by parents retaining their opt-out ability—unless it is, of course, about indoctrination into a particular set of ideas.

This is EXACTLY why schools should be managed - inside the classroom - only at the individual school level. Not the district level, not the state level, not the interstate compact level, and certainly not the federal level.

Curriculum, individual teachers, textbooks, etc benefit (formally speaking) individual students. Ideally, parents/teachers/students at an individual elementary school would be competent enough to make decisions about how that is rolled out at that elementary school. And parents/teachers/students would be the ones paying the entire cost for that element of education.

There would be no one at the Montgomery County Public School District - 210 schools (137 elementary schools) and 160k+ students - deciding on any of that shit. Because the only thing decided on at MCPSD would be stuff related to facilities, capital expenditures, muni bond payments, and other ed infrastructure that benefits the entire community of homeowners, prop tax payers, residents, etc.

It's even worse with both CA and TX who decide on curriculum shit at the state level for the sole purpose of forcing publishers into their preferred shit. Or federal level who fund all those non-teaching administrators who work at the school district level deciding on textbooks

[Stupid Government Tricks]

No, it's why governments should have no say in education, period.

No funding.

No control.

No testing.

No truancy.

No student loans.

No research grants.

No nothing.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

BUT WHO WILL INDOCTRINATE THE CHILDREN?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

PBS.

Oh wait.

[Medulla Oblongata]

DC District Judge Royce C Lamberth said administration was "arbitrary and capricious" when it shut down VOA and others. Orders funding an operations restored at various US propaganda agencies.

The Court will GRANT the Motion as it applies
to the defendants’ actions to shutter the USAGM entities Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks.

[damikesc]

I'd actually go along.

"You're rehired. Here is a script. You must read this verbatim. If you miss one word, that is insubordination and, thus, you're fired"

[JFree]

Who gives a fuck what moronic ideologues like you think? Your philosophy is vile and leads nowhere beyond 'segregation schools' in a post-Brown environment.

It does not even hearken back to a truly individualist past such as we once had in the US when deToqueville observed - on the American frontier in particular - Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite. Not only do they have commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but they also have a thousand other kinds: religious, moral, grave, futile, very general and very particular, immense and very small; Americans use associations to give fêtes, to found seminaries, to build inns, to raise churches, to distribute books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner they create hospitals, prisons, schools. Finally, if it is a question of bringing to light a truth or developing a sentiment with the support of a great example, they associate. Everywhere that, at the head of a new undertaking, you see the government in France and a great lord in England, count on it that you will perceive an association in the United States.

There is a case that can be made (and was made by AJ Nock) that government undermined those civic associations. But your ilk offers nothing as an minarchist voluntaryist alternative except the Unabomber living in a cabin in Montana shouting slogans and writing screeds. Vile.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Jfree goes full state indoctrination. Fuck free choice. Fuck parental rights.

Shocking from reasons other nazi.

Aligns with your kill all non vaccinated and censor all wrong think stances.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Who gives a fuck what evil totalitarian simps and fanatical fascists like you think, J(ew)Free?

You just want the state take people's children so you can lay your ideological eggs in their brains.

[Longtobefree]

"I just want my husband back, my best friend back, my kids' father back. I want our life back," she added.

Hasn't she raised enough money yet to move to El Salvador?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Isn't it still mud season?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Trump says he has ‘no intention’ of firing Federal Reserve chair"
[...]
"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has no plans to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, just days after his statement that he would like to terminate the head of the U.S. central bank caused a stock market selloff.
...
The U.S. president had previously insinuated otherwise as he said he could fire Powell if he wanted to, ..."
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/04/22/trump-federal-reserve-chair/

DID YOU HEAR WHAT TRUMP SAID!?!?!?!?
No, he didn't; jackass. You pulled that right out of your ass, fueled by your raging case of TDS.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I say that I could move to California if I wanted to. Does not imply any desire to do so (and in this case there is zero desire to do so), just stating that I do actually have the option to do it.

[Longtobefree]

" . . . outspoken opponent of Israel's war in Gaza,"

If only she were an outspoken opponent of Hamas' war on Israeli civilians - - - - - -

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Residents in S.F.’s Fillmore want a new grocery store. Could clearing red tape make it happen?"
...
"Regulations limiting chain stores in San Francisco neighborhoods could get in the way of an ongoing effort to backfill a recently vacated Safeway with a replacement grocery store..."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/red-tape-grocery-store-fillmore-20287285.php

Surprise, surprise!
Safeway closed the store as a result of rampant crime (thanks, Soros, you lefty shit!) and now efforts to get a new grocery in there are made even more difficult, since SF's virtue-signaling limits 'chain store' locations!

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

Safeway is a chain. Makes no sense.
Oh wait, San Francisco. Never mind.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Forget it, Jake. It’s Proggietown.

[I, Woodchipper]

: Mahmoud v. Taylor is before the Court this week, dealing with the Montgomery County Board of Education, which took away both parental notice and opt-outs for storybooks that celebrate transgenderism and pride parades, read to children as young as three and four

Get rid of public school. Problem solved.

[mad.casual]

I think this is not aspirational, actually, and would be a sign we're further creeping toward authoritarianism:

Reason *used* to specifically be about "The government shouldn't be allowed to stop and detain people, including US citizens, hundreds of miles inland from the border."

Then Reason specifically, intentionally, and knowingly fucked that up with "Borders are just, like, imaginary social constructs, dude." in order to hop and stay on the "Fuck the Deplorables! Orange Man Bad!" bandwagon with Bill Weld and Chase Oliver.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I heard Chase Oliver is gay. Not sure if that influences Reason opinions. Meanwhile Bill Weld presents as a hetero male just like every other gay pedophile.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Jeff repeatedly told us that Chase was a "fag".

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

"Now nobody will vote for him" - Jeffsarc

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Woah! Wait, what? Chase is gay?

Does Sarcasmic know?

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

You guys keep bringing this up is going to ruin his next run for president.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

China says Trump's trade optimism is all talk....
..
Two Chinese officials said that there are no ongoing talks with the US.
Their comments come after President Donald Trump said the two countries were "actively" talking.
The White House has signaled hope for a deal in recent days.
Bejing is throwing cold water on President Donald Trump's hopes for lessening tensions between the world's two largest economies, whose trade war has roiled global markets
...
On Wednesday, Trump told reporters that the two sides were "actively" talking. On Thursday, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said conversations had yet to begin.

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-trump-trade-talks-latest-state-2025-4

It is sad when you know your president is lying again and the Chinese are telling the truth.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

Crawl back into your fucking hole, you little barn rat.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Say, exactly how did you manage to get your original account banned? Something about posting dark web child porn links here, IIRC.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the TDS addled ass-wipe of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

You wouldn’t know what the fuck truth was if it bit you hard on the ass, Turd.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

"It is sad when you know your president is lying again and the Chinese are telling the truth."

It's sad when a pederastic troll thinks he can gaslight you into believing that the Uighur-slave-owning Chinese Communist Party is telling the truth about the other side of a trade dispute.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

The economy in China is at a standstill. This won’t take long.

[Yuno Hoo]

"whether parents' rights to the free exercise of their faiths are burdened if public schools do not allow them to withdraw their children from classes on days" these themes are discussed

"Hey, Jimmy, what did you guys talk about in class yesterday? I had to stay home, but it seems I missed something big."

[Gaear Grimsrud]

"Yeah we talked about butt plugs. I asked Mom to get me one for Christmas."

[Jefferson Paul]

"And you don't have to instruct me on how to use one, Mom, as teacher said he'd show me by demonstrating it on himself and then on me."

[I, Woodchipper]

As usual Matt Yglesias shows himself to be the biggest dipshit on the planet.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Considering there’s 8 billion people, and 1.4 billion of those are Indians, that’s saying something about how dipshitty Matty Yglesias is.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

Intel to lay off more than 20% of workforce, Bloomberg News reports

The once mighty Intel is dying. The premier US semiconductor company since the 1960s. Market value $97 billion. Chipotle Grill is $67 billion. Pathetic.

Trump Trade = SELL AMERICA.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a TDS addled lying pile of lefty shit.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

You got a cite and link for that, Turd?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Given turd's rep, it's quite likely to be 20% of the janitorial staff at a small installation.
turd lies. It's what turd does.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

"The once mighty Intel is dying."

In 2023, Nvidia became the seventh public U.S. company to be valued at over $1 trillion,[23] and the company's valuation has increased rapidly since then amid growing demand for data center chips with AI capabilities in the midst of the AI boom.[24][25] In June 2024, for one day, Nvidia overtook Microsoft as the world's most valuable publicly traded company, with a market capitalization of over $3.3 trillion.[26]

Shrike is too stupid to realize that Intel is dying because it failed to innovate and now another American company is eating it's lunch.

Intel's CPUs just can't keep up with NVIDIA's GPUs which are the wave of the future, but I bet a million dollars Pluggo doesn't even know what a GPU is and why it is the chip of choice for AI.

Buttplug is such a economically illiterate joke.

Nvidia to mass produce AI supercomputers in Texas as part of $500 billion U.S. push

Nvidia to produce AI servers worth up to $500 billion in US over four years

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

It is actually their CPU architecture that is failing. The missed the push of the market to new architecture design, a lot of it due to iOS and Windows 10 changes. Also their decline was noted 5 fucking years ago.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/rise-decline-intel-2024-10-29/

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

I’m betting they turn it around.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Buttplug is the Reason comments Jim Cramer.

[Marshal]

Some of these books, like Born Ready, are teaching kids things that…are decidedly false

Nothing could be less surprising than the left teaching things that are not true. Their entire process to develop the curriculum is:

1. Decide what we want people to believe, and
2. Teach whatever is necessary to achieve item 1.

The left considers determining the truth to be an illegitimate action because it could interfere with item 2.

The problem with this court case it that it will only re-establish the choice to opt-out. In reality this nonsense should not be taught at all, and everyone involved in creating this curriculum should be fired and permanently banned from the education system.

These actions are why the left worked so hard to take over the education system these last 50 years.

[Dillinger]

>>It's not clear to me why Montgomery County schoolteachers and administrators would be so threatened by parents retaining their opt-out ability

queue Under My Thumb ... and close the conformity factories.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1914667036262781067

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
If you watch a clip today, let it be this one of Elizabeth Warren stumbling all over herself as she’s repeatedly pressed on why she lied about Joe Biden’s senility.

[Dillinger]

that weirdo is my new hero.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

He kind of looks like Tiny Tim with straightened hair.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

As long as he doesn’t sing about tiptoeing through the tulips in a high falsetto, it’s cool.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

Busted!

[Dillinger]

>>Abrego Garcia was moved to the facility

so ... facilitated.

[Jefferson Paul]

that's a good one

[Dillinger]

>>Eugene Volokh and Yale Law's Justin Driver submitted an amicus brief supporting the school system.

they are correct. well, I agree anyway idk who I am saying they're correct lol.

the only solution is to shield completely your children from such monsters. don't send them to the conformity factories.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Or as an alternative just kill all of the lawyers.

[Dillinger]

I mean if you want to get all Maoist about it sure ...

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

That would be if he wanted to kill all of the birds

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Birds are real?!?

[Fats of Fury]

Bring back corporal punishment to the schools then cane the teachers and administrators. They'll probably compromise that the Muslims can opt out because of their faith, but the bigoted hateful Xtians cannot.

[Mickey Rat]

The Establishment Clause apparently does not apply the LGBTQ quasi-religion. It can use the government schools to compel children to be exposed to its doctrines. Eugene Volokh apparently supports this position.

[Dillinger]

I don't like the quasi-religion part either but I think the reasoning is sound

[Jefferson Paul]

Unlike you, I didn't read the brief, so correct me if I'm wrong. How is being able to pull your child out of a controversial lesson violating the law?

[damikesc]

Cut all funding.

It is bullshit that parents have to fund this bullshit.

[Dillinger]

it is.

[Dillinger]

>>I think this is not aspirational, actually, and would be a sign we're further creeping toward authoritarianism:

next time instead of taking on Yglesias how about just ignoring him?

[Dillinger]

>>"but right now nothing would be more pro-natalist than avoiding an unnecessary recession."

oh yay more media rooting for a recession. please. also, can I pay for it?

[Dillinger]

>>SCOTUS and others impose heightened due process when you want to imprison them for life in El Salvador under the AEA.

scotus outside its jurisdiction, and "others" lol Glenn Greenwald ... and "heightened" and somehow undefined due process lol Glenn Greenwald ... we'll see

[Medulla Oblongata]

I don't see SCOTUS having done any such thing.

SCOTUS: "The order properly requires the Government to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.

The way his case should have been handled was he was deported (without any further hearings) to NOT El Salvador. Bring him back from El Salvador, then when he gets off the plane, walk him over the plane waiting to take him to Honduras or Panama or Costa Rica.

[Dillinger]

no that time they told Boseberg he was outside jurisdiction ... but they have no guns to back up the "facilitate" part anyway so the vague and ambiguous language from SC was wrong of them in the first place

and I'm sorry I was referring more specifically to last Saturday's midnight "emergency" Order after not granting cert and being lied to by ACLU ... I can see where I caused confusion

[Medulla Oblongata]

Ah. But even then, I don't think they did quite as much as the press seems to think they did. The found that the AEA does, in fact, include a notification requirement, and a habeous right. I read the text of the law pretty plainly to do both...

"Provided, that aliens resident within the United States, who shall become liable as enemies, in the manner aforesaid, and who shall not be chargeable with actual hostility, or other crime against the public safety, shall be allowed, for the recovery, disposal, and removal of their goods and effects, and for their departure, the full time which is, or shall be stipulated by any treaty, where any shall have been between the United States, and the hostile nation or government, of which they shall be natives, citizens, denizens or subjects: and where no such treaty shall have existed, the President of the United States may ascertain and declare such reasonable time as may be consistent with the public safety, and according to the dictates of humanity and national hospitality.

[Although "...may ascertain and declare such reasonable time as may be consistent with the public safety, and according to the dictates of humanity and national hospitality." could allow for zero time after notice to vacate, if the President ascertains and declares it, but that might not be reasonable...according to the dictates of humanity and national hospitality."]

"That after any proclamation shall be made as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the several courts of the United States, and of each state, having criminal jurisdiction, and of the several judges and justices of the courts of the United States, and they shall be, and are hereby respectively, authorized upon complaint, against any alien or alien enemies, as aforesaid, who shall be resident and at large within such jurisdiction or district, to the danger of the public peace or safety, and contrary to the tenor or intent of such proclamation, or other regulations which the President of the United States shall and may establish in the premises, to cause such alien or aliens to be duly apprehended and convened before such court, judge or justice; and after a full examination and hearing on such complaint. and sufficient cause therefor appearing, shall and may order such alien or aliens to be removed out of the territory of the United States, or to give sureties of their good behaviour, or to be otherwise restrained, conformably to the proclamation or regulations which shall and may be established as aforesaid, and may imprison, or otherwise secure such alien or aliens, until the order which shall and may be made, as aforesaid, shall be performed.

[Dillinger]

>>This cowardly capitulation seems likely to be related to the Trump administration's investigations of antisemitism on university campuses

so the Rubicon wasn't too far across for your journey with Dave Smith? is this place lost to the river to the sea crowd?

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Poor bad and mediocre Liz:

“My favorite thing about Matt Yglesias is where he is a millionaire pundit who confidently & smugly tries to rewrite history and then he gets completely pwned by my favorite internet rando”

https://x.com/politicalmath/status/1915241387349385381

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

“I think people underestimate how fundamentally dishonest Ygelias and the rest of the soyed are
It's like a shoplifter who gets caught half the time; they still get away with it far too much
And I doubt this thing is capable of feeling shame either”

https://x.com/michaelmalice/status/1915416457392832942

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

He catches the perfect intersection of dumb and arrogant.

https://x.com/thedanpeters/status/1915244683472654669?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

[Eeyore]

When I ask my synonym finder for alternatives to Dunning–Kruger the first result is Matt Yglesias.

[mad.casual]

As a follicly-challenged individual I don't say this lightly; his head really does look like a dick.

Suddenly, still using the Simpson's face avatar years after everybody stopped using them makes sense.

[Super Scary]

"The liberal elite were all saying schools should be reopened (we were right)"

If people like this are lying about what happened during the lock downs now, imagine what they are going to say about it in 10 or 15 years. They will probably fully believe that the lock downs didn't happen at all.

[sarcasmic]

Fox News star stunned on air after new Trump approval poll unveiled with dire warning for administration

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14643903/Fox-News-star-stunned-air-new-Trump-approval-poll-unveiled-dire-warning-administration.html

He was discussing Trump's 44 percent approval rating, which is a point behind where he was at the same point in his first term.

By contrast, President Joe Biden was at 54 percent, Barack Obama was at 62 percent, and George W. Bush was at 63 percent – indicating that the second-term Trump is not enjoying any kind of comparable political 'honeymoon.'
..
A polling average produced by The Hill has Trump's approval just under 45 percent, with 52 percent disapproval. The Hill's pollster, Chris Stirewalt, says he was fired from Fox News after the 2020 elections after making the controversial decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden, who won the state and the presidency.

In another troubling sign foe the president, a Reuters poll last week gave Trump just 37 percent approval on the economy.

How long before the pollsters are sued or face sanctions? After all, Trump is awesome. He's an economic genius and he's standing up to leftists who demand due process. There's no way his poll numbers can be that bad. The polls have to be fraudulent.

[Super Scary]

"How long before the pollsters are sued or face sanctions? "

That depends. Did the democrats do it first?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

wrong place

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

How long until you stop posting stupid, lame, obtuse strawmen?

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

The only polling that is half ways accurate is RealClear Polling averages: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/political-leaders

And as much as it hurts Sarckle's retarded narrative cherry-picked from the DailyFail, Trump is killing it compared to the others:

Favorability Ratings: U.S. Political Leaders
Favorable Unfavorable Spread
Donald Trump 45.5 50.9 -5.4
J.D. Vance 41.7 46.9 -5.2
Mike Johnson 30.1 36.3 -6.2
Hakeem Jeffries 29.0 28.4 +0.6
John Thune 17.9 23.7 -5.8
Chuck Schumer 27.4 45.6 -18.2

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"How long before the pollsters are sued or face sanctions?"

Probably as soon as they lie in an attempt to influence an election, you lying pile of lefty shit.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

You personally should be aware that half the country has TDS. Look at how many false narratives you push. You're one of them.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Prosecutor Says Charging Tim Walz Official For Tesla Vandalism Would Risk ‘Public Safety’"
[...]
"A Minnesota prosecutor said she declined to bring felony charges against a state official whom police said vandalized six Tesla vehicles due to “public safety” and “recidivism rates.”
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty explained Wednesday why a fiscal policy analyst under Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration qualified for pre-charge diversion for causing more than $21,000 in damages to Teslas. The left-leaning prosecutor dismissed mounting accusations that she is soft on crime, and asked why the community wasn’t talking about gun control instead“If [defendants] go through the traditional system and they have a felony conviction on their record, they are much more likely to come back and commit a new crime,” Moriarty said at a press briefing. “That is because a felony conviction destabilizes their lives, they may lose their job, lose their housing and it can just lead to future criminal activity.”..."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/lib-prosecutor-says-charging-tim-walz-official-for-tesla-vandalism-would-risk-public-safety/ar-AA1DxS6n?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=e63816d5a75f441eb53caf2d0e589578&ei=14

Keying Teslas is just like gun control, according to brain-dead lefty shit.

[damikesc]

So, she is saying she will not prosecute ANYBODY because it might inconvenience them.

Good job, Soros fans.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Yeah, jail time is sort of supposed to interfere with your life as I understand it.

[Zeb]

And a little bit of confusing cause and effect there too, I think.

[Eeyore]

Time for a federal terrorism charge?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Gotta love The Bee:

CNN: Behind Closed Doors, Pope Is Still Focused, Sharp, And Energetic

VIDEO: Elon Disguises IRS Building As Tesla Dealership So Democrats Will Burn It To The Ground

Trump's Skin Returns To Normal Human Color After Ban On Artificial Dyes

White House Tells Americans To Reply ‘STOP’ If They No Longer Wish To Receive Hegseth’s Texts About Upcoming Military Strikes

[Medulla Oblongata]

Unpossible!

Associated Press

In rare criticism of Putin, Trump urges the Russian leader to 'STOP!' after a deadly attack on Kyiv

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rare-criticism-putin-trump-urges-124747837.html

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

JeffSarc ain't gonna like that narrative buster.

[Medulla Oblongata]

N. Mexican judge harboring suspected TdA member in his home dismissed and barred for life.

Link give "AI summary":

New Mexico Judge Jose "Joel" Cano resigned and is permanently barred from holding judicial office in the state.

Cano's resignation follows the February arrest of suspected Venezuelan gang member Cristhian Ortega-Lopez at Cano's home.

Ortega-Lopez, allegedly living in the U.S. illegally, faces charges for firearm possession and is suspected of ties to the Tren de Aragua gang.

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/crime/2025/04/24/judge-joel-cano-to-never-hold-office-in-the-state-again-supreme-court/83194921007/

New Mexico Supreme Court says Judge Joel Cano can never hold office in the state again

The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Jose "Joel" Cano could never again hold a judicial office, an order that followed Cano's resignation from the judiciary on March 3.

The April 22, 2025 order by the New Mexico Supreme Court barring him from office also means Cano can never again be a candidate for a judicial office in the state.

Cano's resignation is believed to be connected to the arrest of a suspected Venezuelan gang member, Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, at Cano's home Feb. 28.

Ortega-Lopez installed windows at the home of Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, court documents alleged. Photos in court documents showed Ortega-Lopez allegedly with the Cano family in their home, going out to eat and on Christmas Eve 2024, opening gifts.

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) launched an investigation into Ortega-Lopez in January 2025, following an anonymous tip. Ortega-Lopez, residing in the U.S. illegally from Venezuela, is suspected of being affiliated with Tren de Aragua, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

Ortega-Lopez is charged with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm or ammunition.

Ortega-Lopez will remain in custody pending trial, which has not been scheduled. If convicted of the current charges, he faces 15 years in prison, a news release from ATF read.

Ortega-Lopez filed a request for immigration relief April 24, 2024, which an immigration judge will consider as part of his removal proceedings, according to court documents.

ATF assisted with the investigation with enforcement assistance from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office, Albuquerque Police Department and New Mexico State Police.