Ah, I guess I missed that part when reading. So, they’re likely cooperating with investigations of other cartels.

What’s stopping us from using similar techniques in hot climates now? Why aren’t we building similar structures as homes in Phoenix instead of the standard suburban homes?

I have a few questions:

• Why?
• How long will they be here?
• How big was the bribe?

I forsee the auto industry fighting this tooth and nail. They invested in EVs for many reasons, but partially because the tax credit is there. Pulling the tax credit now will be yet another blow against the auto industry.

My guess at how this plays out is that they’ll drop the tax credit, then spend even more on corporate subsidies.

I actually wouldn’t mind if mine were smaller. They’re taking over my garden.

In CO my Columbine have turned into bushes and are ready to give me hundreds of blooms! I have no idea why they’ve become such monsters but they’re probably three foot diameter spheres.

I’m not in any way defending this. This is going to get people killed, including people who are here with legal status. Likely even citizens.

They don’t appear to be accepting just anyone off the street, though. The order talks about deputizing existing law enforcement officers as ICE agents.

So, we’re going to have even more poorly trained ICE officers rounding people up to be sent to concentration camps. People who have no idea how to validate documents. People who don’t understand the different types of legal statuses. People who want nothing more than to round up anyone with brown skin, regardless of their status. People who know that due process is dead because we can’t afford five million trials.

Ignoring what anyone thinks of undocumented immigrants, people with legal status are going to get caught in this. Some of them are going to go to camps. Some of them are going to be deported. Some of them are going to die. There will be more and more “mistakes” with no attempt at remediation.

I have no doubt that even citizens are going to die as a consequence of this.

“Troops” is in the title of this post but not in the executive order. It’s editorializing to make a point.

How about if we just act in the oligarchy’s best interests? I bet a war between India and Pakistan would increase weapons sales and they might even want Starlink! Good for everyone who matters!

It should be criminally punishable for public servants to blatantly lie like this. I don’t mean little white lies should be illegal. I don’t mean that statements where there is even a smidge of room for disagreement should be illegal. I mean that big, damaging, blatantly disprovable lies should be illegal.

In this case, he is saying that the IPCC has said the exact opposite of what the IPCC has said. He is lying about something that can be found in black and white in the IPCC reports.

Dude… yeah, brush your nose, there’s something on there. Almost got it! There! It kind of looked like cheeto dust.

Of course they are! They’ve engineered their appliances to get the energy star label. If that label disappears they lose their investment because that label will no longer be there to quickly distinguish the efficient products.

They do appear to call him “The Eye of Sauron” so, maybe the person writing this wasn’t really interested in making him look good and phoned it in.

Tweaker doesn’t mean the same thing where I’m from.

It looks like taxidermy!

Yep, I agree with you and I did read the article before replying. The other poster still said that government employees are “public property” and that it isn’t illegal to dox them. I was replying to that more than I was responding to the article.

“Government Employee” covers a lot more people than the DHS employees whose jobs you disagree with. Should it be legal for right-wing nuts to start doxing EPA employees? Just because you disagree sith someone’s job isn’t a reason to dox them. Go after the ones breaking the law and the political appointees, but there are legal ways to do that.

I’ll repeat; I disagree with what ICE is doing and think they should be held to account but government employees are not “public property” any more than you are the property of your employer.

What the fuck do you mean government employees are public property? Government employees are people working for an employer, just like everyone else, and deserve not to have their job follow them home unless they’re breaking the law.

Go after the agencies and the political appointees, not the hired help!

And, yes, this is likely illegal to publish the employee’s addresses in this way since the goal is to threaten or harass them. Publish their workplace info, not their home addresses.

I do want to say that ICE needs to be stopped. They ARE breaking laws. They SHOULD be held accountable. I’m just taking offense at the idea that government employees are public property and can be treated as such.

That just seems like good advice for any law enforcement interaction. If that is grounds for arrest, we’ve fallen even farther than I thought already and I thought we’d fallen pretty far.