You might not be political, but the Nazis are, and they don’t really mind sending non-political people to the camps.

I honest to fuck have no idea at this point

The cruelty is the point. I know you’re probably used to seeing that in some kind of melodramatic context, but that’s actually what it is in this case. The government’s narrative is that the people that they’re grabbing are all insane and violent gang members and that they all deserve life in the harshest conditions possible- conditions that, I presume, are not possible under the already barely enforced eighth amendment. The Trump administration already tested those waters in Trump I with refusing to give detainees such luxuries as beds, blankets, soap, toilet paper, and lights that turn off at night, and got shut down; if they send them to El Salvador, there is no constitution (or pretense thereof) to step in and say “no, you can’t do that”. They’ve said repeatedly and out loud that the terror is the point.

Here’s the big, huge, glowing hot problem that remains, even with news media now reporting that Kilmar’s wife sought a restraining order or something in 2021:

A bunch of these folks were NEVER charged with a crime. The government never had to prove their case to a jury, never got a sentence from a judge, and never even attempted to say what crime these folks committed. They just scooped them up and sent them to a life term in supermax for ??? That’s bad, like really, really, really bad. This puts us squarely in dictatorship territory, and let me be totally unambiguous here: when the government can arbitrarily sentence people to life in prison without even claiming a crime or trying the case before a jury, that is a dictatorship. We are living, right now, in this moment, in a dictatorship. If they can do it to them, they can do it to you-- and they will. In fact, they’re currently discussing avenues for stripping citizenship from US citizens so they can “deport” them to El Salvador, and they’ve confirmed to the press that they’re having those discussions. So, yes, they’re coming for you, too, just not quite yet.

P.S. if you think you’re safe because you’re not political, that doesn’t matter, because they’re political, and they think that sending you to die in an El Salvadorian prison for being gay/atheist/furry/said anything bad about Trump ever/whatever is just dandy.

Central America, and technically North America since it’s north of Columbia.

We’re literally paying El Salvador to take these folks. We hold the purse strings in this case.

I wonder if he’s part of that Quiver Full cult

That’s a lot of index files

This is just super fucking cool. It’s so rad they can pick out chemical signatures from the light passing through a planet’s atmosphere from a star 120 light years away. Absolutely gonzo bananas, the JWT is too cool. I will go on a personal mission to punch Donald Trump in the taint if they actually do cut the Roman telescope.

Oh shit, glad to hear it. May the spirits be ever in your favor.

The FOIA staff got DOGEd real early on. They were one of the first people to get it.

Thank you!

Oh, shit! I’d really appreciate a source for that, if you have it handy

Damn, when did Jacobin get soft?

Wake me up when literally anybody in this administration gets anything besides a stern lecture.

Got it, thanks

Tried that one too. Shit gets pretty fucky with how celestial bodies traverse the sky, as well as equatorial and southern hemisphere travel times pretty quick.

Ehhh, don’t trust LLMs to be factual, but one of the places where they actually are useful is low stakes summarizing. There’s still a risk of hallucination, but I’ve used ChatGPT is sort of “living docs” before and it probably saved me hours.

I’m sorry, tripcode?

Feeling cute, might also keep that sob Kissinger from dying peacefully in his sleep.

TIL I’m a girl.