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The DUmpster / Re: My experience with DHS today
« Last post by DUmpDiver on September 04, 2026, 04:45:39 PM »Quote
the client will be deported to almost certain death.
Drama queen much?
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Drama queen much?
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The DUmpster / Re: OMG! They're not even trying and it's hilarious!
« Last post by DUmpDiver on September 04, 2026, 04:40:56 PM »The Republican National Committee holds about $130 million in cash on hand with zero debt, while the Democratic National Committee reports roughly $16 million in cash and about $17.9 million in debt.
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The DUmpster / Re: OMG! They're not even trying and it's hilarious!
« Last post by ADsOutburst on September 04, 2026, 04:10:45 PM »I heard there were some poorly-attended speaking events involving Democrats recently. I've also heard that some Democrats are actually campaigning with Republicans against one of the Democrats who's running for office (in Michigan, I believe).
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The DUmpster / Re: My experience with DHS today
« Last post by SVPete on September 04, 2026, 03:10:32 PM »Sounded like
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The DUmpster / My experience with DHS today
« Last post by CC27 on September 04, 2026, 02:28:41 PM »Quote
róisín_dubh (12,469 posts)
My experience with DHS today
Without divulging much, I want to share a personal experience I had with DHS today. I've been around these parts for a very long time (I think it was just my 22nd anniversary at DU, something like that...anyway). Some of you may know that I've got expertise in the Americas more generally and on human rights. I sometimes do country conditions reports for asylum seekers, who need these reports to strengthen their cases when going in front of immigration judges. Now, I generally don't like to testify because I have horribly anxiety- like, I can lecture in front of a class, I can have my research questioned by experts in my field, but put me in front of a lawyer or judge and I'll freak the **** out. No idea why, but it's why I knew I'd be a better researcher than lawyer.
Anyhoo, I've done a number of these reports, but I've never been called to testify. My reports are either sufficient to help the client's case or, well I don't know what happens. But I've never had to actually testify. Tonight I was ready. I had my prep last week, I spent my entire day reviewing stats and going over some finer points just to ensure I didn't trip over anything. I even wrote down why I'm an expert despite having left academia a few years ago and moved to abroad to take on a different, non-academic role (which, frankly, is none of anyone's business because I keep publishing in my field...but I digress).
I sat by my laptop waiting and refreshing my email for the client's lawyer to let me know it was my turn to hop on Webex and do my thing to help the client with my country conditions report. And I waited. And I waited. 35 minutes in, the lawyer contacted me that DHS submitted a motion to pretermit. I had no idea what that means, as it's not my job to know how the US immigration system works- or doesn't ****ing work as the case may be. But what that means is that the judge can just toss out the case and slate the person for deportation on technical grounds (usually) or on the grounds that the claimant doesn't meant the qualifications for asylum. So the lawyer and the DHS goons were duking it out while myself and the other expert waited. And waited. And waited for another hour.
And the judge tossed the case and the client will be deported to almost certain death.
And I'm ****ing sick with rage.
Thank you for reading my rant. I had to get it off my chest so I could go to sleep, because it's very late here.
https://democraticunderground.com/100221484351
Ten bucks says the numb nuts is lying.
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Breaking News / Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 9/4
« Last post by SVPete on September 04, 2026, 02:09:30 PM »Fauda Creator vs 180 Hollywood Jewish ‘Creatives’
https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/fauda-creator-vs-180-hollywood-jewish
Blood-Libelists are antisemites, blithering fools, or both. These being Hollyweirders, I'll go with both.
https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/fauda-creator-vs-180-hollywood-jewish
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Nevertheless, Tuesday morning, thanks to my friend Caroline Glick and British journalist Nicole Lampert, I found the following comments from a London conference held by Tel Aviv University that expressed pretty much what I thought, but from someone with more solid bona fides.
That someone is Avi Ischaroff, co-creator of the highly regarded Israeli television series Fauda.
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... Unlike the denizens of Brentwood and Malibu (stop being mean, Simon), he’s been there and done that for years as a journalist and scriptwriter in the Middle East, and he deserves the utmost attention. So here, thanks to Ms. Lampert, is a transcript of what he had to say, ex tempore, about our Hollywood friends at Tel Aviv University’s “Fact, Fiction & FAUDA” conference.Quote“Mark Ruffalo, saying genocide, genocide. You know that there's a kind of people that are ignorant. There are some people that are stupid. He is a rare combination of those two.
Sorry to say that. Do you understand what that means, genocide? Do you, as a lead actor, understand that when Israel allows every day 600 trucks of food and supply to go into Gaza, they are not intending or planning to kill the people of Palestine?
Do you understand?
If more people were born during the war in Gaza than died, then no one was trying to eliminate those people, and the only ones that were trying to commit genocide were the Hamas people.
What is about this guy and many other people don't get it? Even some Jewish people don't get it. Why? Because it's kind of cool and nice to come on stage and say ‘**** this’ and ‘**** Israel’.
I believe some day something way bigger will happen to make them understand reality better and won't surrender to all kinds of slogans and clichés and lies that are being spread.”
Blood-Libelists are antisemites, blithering fools, or both. These being Hollyweirders, I'll go with both.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 9/3
« Last post by SVPete on September 04, 2026, 02:05:43 PM »The reports of her professional demise ...
Statement From Maria Bartiromo's Lawyer Contradicts Reports of Her Parting Ways With Fox (Updated)
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/09/04/is-this-why-fox-news-fired-maria-bartiromo-n2206493#google_vignette
Statement From Maria Bartiromo's Lawyer Contradicts Reports of Her Parting Ways With Fox (Updated)
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/09/04/is-this-why-fox-news-fired-maria-bartiromo-n2206493#google_vignette
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Editor's Note: On Friday morning, Maria Bartiromo's attorney released a statement countering previously reported information regarding her employment status with Fox News:
...QuoteThe irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false. Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise. Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth.
Bryan Freedman, Attorney for Maria Bartiromo
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General Discussion / Armed Self-Defense Stories Underscore New Defensive Gun Use Data
« Last post by SVPete on September 04, 2026, 01:52:55 PM »Armed Self-Defense Stories Underscore New Defensive Gun Use Data
https://pjmedia.com/amy-swearer/2026/09/04/armed-self-defense-stories-underscore-new-defensive-gun-use-data-n4956889
No career advancement for you, Prof. English!
https://pjmedia.com/amy-swearer/2026/09/04/armed-self-defense-stories-underscore-new-defensive-gun-use-data-n4956889
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... And now, we can thank Georgetown professor Bill English for dealing a devastating blow to the gun control narrative — with hard data.
English’s 2026 National Firearms Survey (now available online) is a massive, comprehensive analysis of gun ownership and gun use trends in the United States. And the numbers tell a remarkable tale about the importance of the right to keep and bear arms.
Among other key findings, the survey estimates that, on average, American civilians defend themselves or others with firearms a staggering 2.2 million times every year. Just over 37% of American gun owners are estimated to have used a firearm to protect themselves, their families, or their property at least once, and a majority of those have done so on multiple occasions.
Most of these defensive gun uses will never even make it into a police report, much less national headlines. Gun owners report having to fire their gun in fewer than one-in-four defensive scenarios. The survey also found that 70% of the time, the defensive gun use was so successful that “no crime remained to be reported to police.”
No career advancement for you, Prof. English!
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The DUmpster / Re: I'll never forgive this
« Last post by ADsOutburst on September 04, 2026, 12:29:53 PM »My guess is that these are Haitians who came to the US after the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake with Temporary Protection Status.
Temporary means TEMPORARY unless Trump does it, then it's racism or some other evilism.
But of course, words never mean what they mean when Democrats are the ones saying them.
"Temporary": "Permanent, but we need to get our foot in the door first."
"Law": "The way we think the country should be run."
"Unconstitutional": "In violation of the way we think the country should be run."
"Dangerous": "Dangerous to our power."
"Our democracy": "Our way of doing things ('our', as in the way of us, your overlords)".
"Murdered by police": "Lawfully killed by police (in the great majority of circumstances".
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The DUmpster / Re: Hard facts for the MAGAs in your lives:
« Last post by CC27 on September 04, 2026, 11:32:39 AM »An update for DUmmie applegrove:
HUGE Jobs Report for August! Democrats Most Hurt.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/09/04/huge-jobs-report-for-august-democrats-most-hurt-n4956886
My emphasis. Under LIEden, revising previous months numbers downwards was the norm, sometimes adjusting downwards more than just once. Recent adjustments under Trump have been upwards, so August's 162,000 jobs may be similarly adjusted upwards. Somebody, back on 8/10, suggested such an upward adjustment was likely,.
Thanks for reporting!