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@sadnthirsty @ShilohxxJulia @PopCrave oh no. questioning!

@ShilohxxJulia @PopCrave “travel INTERNATIONALLY” it doesn’t matter who you are, if you leave or attempt to return and they feel your passport does not match your presentation you can and will be flagged and detained for questioning or worse. it’s a huge problem for trans people traveling internationally

Caitlyn Jenner reveals she can no longer travel internationally after her renewed passport was returned with a male gender marker under Trump’s passport policy. She wrote a letter to Trump asking for help but has yet to receive a response.

@atomsnvoid @ju22703 @PopCrave why can't he go to Italy? I don't get it. the Italians won't let him in?

@ju22703 @PopCrave Ah yes, sorry you have the wrong amount of bundles of nucleic acids in each of your cells so you can’t go on your Italian vacay. Fucking moron

@kbbbackup @RichardHanania why didn't she just leave when her visa was up like normal people?

@RichardHanania Her husband died. She can't legally stay in the country. There is nothing wrong with her going back to France.

“Ms. Ross-Mahé moved to Anniston, Ala., last year after marrying a former American G.I. named Bill Ross whom she had met in the 1950s, when they were both teenagers working at a NATO base in western France. They had kept in touch for decades, and after both were widowed they fell in love, visiting one another in France and the United States.” The story ends with ICE detaining this 85 year old French woman for two weeks and then deporting her after her husband dies. nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/…

@MatthewJRoth @Chris_arnade You are right, but in reality we will get neither.

@Chris_arnade You sort of are The driver doesn’t have to also have transit police and to play security at the same time. You can just have police.

No way a driver-less public bus will work in the US, except a few very limited routes, given safety issues from the riders. Will be trashed/vandalized, and far too dangerous for most people to want to ride. What the technology will do, is push more people into private self driving options, like cabs, etc, where riders don't have to mix with the public.

@DarkMatters95 @DanFriedman81 You vastly overestimate the foundation that is required to advocate for an opinion on this website.

@DanFriedman81 Your broad assumptions are not enough to form any opinion you should feel comfortable advocating for

People who follow me know I am anti-crime and support harsh punishment for criminals, but I believe that misdemeanor assault is the right outcome in this case and might even be too harsh. The reason is that after a month, we don’t know the name of the victim. We haven’t heard from any of his family. Typically, the name of a victim is withheld pending family notification, and if the police still haven't released his name after a month, that means that they have been having a very difficult time reaching a next-of-kin to notify. I believe this means that the man Nassadir Tate punched was likely a homeless mentally-ill junkie who accosted Tate in some way — not merely a fellow commuter who accidentally bumped into him. Nobody but a street person can be killed on a subway platform and never be identified by name in the media. Meanwhile, Nassadir Tate is a guy with an apartment he pays rent for, no previous criminal record and a LinkedIn -- he is a reasonably solid citizen. A lot of people online are projecting assumptions into the absence of details surrounding the man who died in this case and imagining that Tate is a thug who murdered a victim for no reason. I think this is a Daniel Penny-type situation where a citizen defended himself against an aggressive homeless person. When there is a violent confrontation between a junkie and a citizen and the facts surrounding the case are ambiguous, I always assume the junkie is at fault. Also, a lot of people online assume the victim was white and that this may have been a random hate attack, but based on what I have read about the case, I am 90% sure the dead guy was black.

@dilanesper this may be a dumb question because I haven't followed this story, but what was the self interest he had in giving the bad advice?

Actually, he wrote a memo lying to his client that there were legal avenues that did not exist and would not work, and he wrote it that way because of pure self interest-- he was afraid to tell his client the truth and get fired.

@Legal_Fil I've won cases on legal theories I didn't believe. But, yes, I've seen many legal position argued that I thought were frivolous or near frivolous.

My general view is thay more lawyers should be disbarred for putting forward theories that they don’t believe. I’d make an exception to this rule in criminal cases, but as a general matter, we have a real problem with prioritizing cleverness over truth.

@Fred9025227577 @RichardHanania cosby had a lot of accusations constantly for decades

@RichardHanania Cosby didn’t have accusations either…until he did. The lack of prior accusations doesn’t make these untrue. The allegations themselves also don’t make them true. Need more information to decide.

A guy with no history of accusations of drugging woman is accused on doing so eight years ago in the midst of a media frenzy for the first time. That's a reason to be skeptical.

@phl43 he could go so much more retard if he wanted to

I'm not sure that Trump will actually be able to effectively blockade Iran, but if he does, between that and the decapitation campaign, this war will really be a great test of the "you just need to go full retard" theory of war.

@sensiblemoderat @mmatesky @ReubenR80027912 One way to test this would be something like compare the salaries between the two countries at the first quartile. That is around 30,000 pounds for the UK. statista.com/statistics/416… In the US, it's about $40,000. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252…. After exchange rate, these are similar.

@mmatesky @ReubenR80027912 I am answering the question — a higher % of their population can afford travel due to wage compression

Can a Euro enlighten me: a top 10% HHI in the UK is $105k…in the US it’s $215k Euros famously go on vacations all summer but they are poor vs Americans who complain about expensive Euro vacation prices All to say: *where are these ppl staying for 5 week vacays being not rich*?

@keithmancuso @thepickledvic @chicagotribune the legal ones get welfare? wtf!

@thepickledvic @chicagotribune They aren’t illegal immigrants you dolt

Roughly 16,000 immigrants may lose access to crucial food assistance in Illinois as a result of federal eligibility changes that took effect April 1. chicagotribune.com/2026/04/11/sna…

@dilanesper @SchizoLLC why the damn burst now though?

@SchizoLLC dams burst when they burst

I find the right wing talking point of "actually the subordinate 24 year old woman has the power" to just be outrageous. first, if they truly "have the power", how come over and over what actually happens is these women are afraid to talk for years about what happened to them?

@cremieuxrecueil This is the type of story that one should not believe unless backed by a very credible source. Yes, it could be true, and I have no evidence it is not. But it's the type of story that feels too good to tell, which is evidence it might be bullshit.

America has a lot of examples of gay entrapment. One interesting example comes from San Francisco:

@WatarmelonTrade @RomanAcleaf @TheRealJChubby I don't know, man. Somebody who doesn't have the discipline to not repeatedly steal from the same store after being caught might not be a responsible gun owner.

@RomanAcleaf @TheRealJChubby wow, the "law" says a thing, better take away his gun rights over 2.75

Prosecutor won't budge on a felony burglary charge wherein my client allegedly stole strawberry syrup from a grocery store (valued at $2.75). If they go down on it they lose their gun rights, ability to vote, and could serve real jail time. Over $2.75 worth of syrup. Insanity.

@crowley_gavin @dilanesper seems false. cnbc.com/2026/04/09/tru…

@Bridgeofforever @dilanesper Trump has, by the ceasefire, conceded to them the right to toll.

I am all for a ceasefire, but: 1. Will the straits open? 2. What was the point of the war if the endgame is the theocracy not only survives but gets to charge tolls on the straits?

@dilanesper if you paid it, you expect to enjoy consumer surplus! quit complaining.

One thing that seems to elude sports and concert fans is that you can just not go if tickets are too expensive. If enough of you don't go, it will force them to lower prices. If you say "I am so pissed I paid $1500 for world cup tickets", you're part of the reason for them.

@liemtatata @CharCrtp @danielgothits I would

@CharCrtp @Bridgeofforever @danielgothits Her value dropped 100%. No man would date Oprah and she’s a billionaire

Lol it’s 2026 and women still don’t understand what makes a guy want to marry someone

@SeanTrende @davidharsanyi what changed that they have control of the straight not but did not before?

@davidharsanyi If they come out of it with control and a steady revenue stream out of the Straits of Hormuz it will have been worth it for them. That's the problem.

Other than losing their entire navy, air force, a few strata of political leadership, top military minds, over 1,000 senior IRGC and Basij commanders, air defense and radar sites, numerous scientists, ballistic missile stockpiles and most launchers, drone and missile factories, proxies, etc.. Iran has the upper hand.

@crowley_gavin @dilanesper you think that iran can charge a toll now to use the straight but could not before because trump's messaging is inconsistent? seems pretty farfetched

@Bridgeofforever @dilanesper More committed would be not saying things like ... we will walk away, we won't keep it open, let other countries do it if they want, it doesn't matter to us etc.

@crowley_gavin @dilanesper trump literally threatened to genocide Iran if it didn't open it, lol. how much more committed could he be?

@crowley_gavin @dilanesper seems like the US is trying very hard to keep the straight open. also seems like if Iran, after being bombed to hell, can close it, then it could have closed it before being bombed to hell.