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  • Trump is now threatening to deport legal immigrants

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  • The federal government uses the term "terminate" rather than "revoke" to describe the decision not to extend TPS, but even the article the OP posted (which is very critical of Trump's plan) interprets what he said as "not extend".

    Now Trump plans to forcibly uproot this group of roughly 18,000 people who pay taxes, own homes, have jobs, and support their families. But that’s only the beginning: Up to 2.7 million people could lose protection from deportation if Trump allows immigration programs such as Temporary Protected Status, DACA, and humanitarian parole to lapse during a second term, according to Forbes.

  • Trump is now threatening to deport legal immigrants

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  • The interviewer was the one who used the word "revoke" but Trump does seem like the kind of person who could attempt to end the TPS designation early rather than waiting for it to simply expire a year into his term. Such an attempt would have very little chance of success. Decisions to terminate (as opposed to revoke early) TPS status during Trump's past presidency are still going through the courts (see Ramos, et al. v. Nielsen, et al.) and not in effect.

  • Trump is now threatening to deport legal immigrants

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  • Trump and the interviewer are talking about Temporary Protected Status, which is temporary.

    A TPS designation can be made for 6, 12, or 18 months at a time. At least 60 days prior to the expiration of TPS, the Secretary [of Homeland Security] must decide whether to extend or terminate a designation based on the conditions in the foreign country.

    Source.

    TPS eligibility for people from Haiti will last until February 3, 2026 unless it is extended. If during a Trump presidency, the federal government does not extend TPS for Haiti, it would be acting well within its established authority.

  • Tim Walz Said He Was in Hong Kong in 1989 During Tiananmen. Not True.

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  • The Washington Free Beacon makes no attempt to present itself as non-partisan but does provide photos. I can't verify that those photos are authentic but I assume that the NYT, CNN, etc. have verified them before publishing this story.

    Edit: I also found this additional newspaper clipping, which appears to be the source for the following claim:

    And a story published in another Nebraska paper on August 11 that year said he would “leave Sunday en route to China” after having “about given up participating [in WorldTeach] earlier this summer during the student revolts in parts of China.”

  • 'Extremely offensive': Massive naked Trump statue stuns Nevada

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  • It's pretty tame, and I wouldn't even have been sure that it was meant to be critical of Trump rather than a misguided attempt to support him if the article hadn't said so.

  • Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic

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  • Doing things like this when you're certainly being recorded is a great idea. Wait, hold on...

  • Well this is awkward

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  • She's single, you know...

  • Well this is awkward

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  • Meanwhile Simba has a perfectly good mother.

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  • Every day I'm undlatin' undlatin', undlatin'

  • CNN Anchors Won’t Stop Lying About Something Rashida Tlaib Never Said

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  • Steve Neavling is the author of the original article in the Detroit Metro Times which included Tlaib's quote. He wrote

    “We’ve had the right to dissent, the right to protest,” Tlaib says. “We’ve done it for climate, the immigrant rights movement, for Black lives, and even around issues of injustice among water shutoffs. But it seems that the attorney general decided if the issue was Palestine, she was going to treat it differently, and that alone speaks volumes about possible biases within the agency she runs.”

    Nessel is the first Jewish person to be elected Attorney General of Michigan.

    There's a clear implication (by Neavling) that Tlaib's statement about bias refers to Nessel's Jewish identity. Ten days later, Neavling wrote a follow-up article titled "Fact-check: Tlaib did not say Nessel charged pro-Palestinian protesters because she’s Jewish" which says

    Tlaib never once mentioned Nessel’s religion or Judaism. But Metro Times pointed out in the story that Nessel is Jewish, and that appears to be the spark that led to the false claims.

    The funny thing is that there's no mention in the follow-up article that he's the same guy who wrote the original article. Neavling doesn't come out of this looking like a good journalist.

    Edit: Here's what Tapper actually said. I'm transcribing the video available here.

    First he correctly quotes Tlaib's accusation of bias. The he correctly quotes Nessel's claim that what Taib said is antisemitic. Then he asks the governor

    Do you think Tlaib's suggestion that Nessel's office is biased was anti-semetic?

    This is a valid question to ask the governor, but after she refuses to answer it Tapper says

    Do you think attorney general Nessel is not doing her job because congresswoman Tlaib is suggesting that she shouldn't be prosecuting these individuals that Nessel says broke the law and that she's only doing it because she's Jewish and protesters are not. That's quite- quite an accusation. Do you think it's true?

    Note that he said "Tlaib is suggesting..." He didn't say that Tlaib explicitly said this (and he presented the correct quote from Tlaib seconds earlier) so he didn't technically lie but he should have known better than to mix together facts and his own (or Nessel's) subjective interpretation of those facts. What he ended up saying is quite misleading.

    The governor's response was

    Like I said, Jake, I'm not going to get in the middle of- of this argument that they're having.

    Then she changed the topic. I get why she didn't want to get involved but I'm still not very impressed by her (lack of) leadership.

  • IT DOES NOT MATTER, VICTORY WILL BE SWIFT AND-oh, you make some good points, I'll be off

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  • In the original Fallout you could defeat the final boss just by talking to him, but in addition to the speech skill you actually had to find and bring the evidence that his plan was doomed to failure. The issue wasn't a matter of opinion - you needed scientific proof.

    You could also choose to let him convince you that he was right, which was one of the ways to get the bad ending.

  • High pressure

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  • Think of it as assertiveness training.

  • Avoiding if-else Hell: The Functional Style

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  • My issue with this is that it works well with sample code but not as well with real-world situations where maintaining a state is important. What if rider.preferences was expensive to calculate?

    Note that this code will ignore a rider's preferences if it finds a lower-rated driver before a higher-rated driver.

    With that said, I often work on applications where even small improvements in performance are valuable, and that is far from universal in software development. (Generally developer time is much more expensive than CPU time.) I use C++ so I can read this like pseudocode but I'm not familiar with language features that might address my concerns.

  • A Comic Wherein a Fox Tells a Hilarious Joke

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  • Is this ich_eil?

  • The fool should learn to fly.

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  • I think the general population always knew that there was a transparent substance all around them which had to keep going in and out of their lungs or they would die - the "breath of life" from the Bible. I mean, even an uneducated peasant in ancient times could blow bubbles underwater and see that there was something coming out of his mouth.

  • The fool should learn to fly.

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  • No, that means we have transcended the petty limitations of biological sexuality. We are like gods.

  • The fool should learn to fly.

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  • I think the saying about fish not being aware of water is nonsense. People are aware that there's air around them, without having to know any science. They can feel the wind, their own breath, etc. Fish have that plus they need to push against water in order to move. A fish that didn't know what water was would be like a land animal that didn't know what the ground was.

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  • It will be the perfect place to restore the Roman Empire.

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    What's the most interesting or your favorite amino acid and why?

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  • Alanine. No baroque ornamentation, just the beauty of simplicity. A timeless classic.