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Calling ICE or DHS a “law enforcement” organization is a joke.
They made no attempt to follow the law while there.
They were given permission to break the law, not follow it.
That has been their training,
and they have been following their training.
So if we pass new law why do we think they will follow it?

The Fight Ahead Of Us Is Not About Reining In ICE. It's About Reining In Trump
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A long time ago, when I was still going to school, I often thought about some class or other: "What's the point of this? I'm just wasting time on stuff I won't ever need. And my grades are going down because of it." So I supported all these bright ideas like having schools work the curriculum out with the industry.
Nowadays, I know better. The purpose of school is not to produce ready-made employees. It's to give people a wider perspective. Perhaps they won't use most of what they learn there, perhaps they'll have bad memories of some classes, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you learn how to learn, how to reason, how to think.
I hate what's been happening to schools lately. They are becoming conveyor belts: we throw children on them, throw specific knowledge at them and see what sticks, we do exams and classify them. We expect to get a thoughtless laborer at the end, someone ready to take a specific job immediately.
A human whose only purpose in life is mindless labor and mindless consumption. Metaphorically, someone who's just going to spend their time off by drinking beer in the front of the TV and breeding more babies. Babies who will eventually become more cogs in the machine, fueling the infinite growth, trying to prevent this mindless system from falling apart.
#AntiCapitalism

“The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a ‘seemingly threatening’ drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers said.”
https://apnews.com/article/military-la

US military uses laser to down drone and FAA closes more El Paso airspace, officials say
Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone. The Federal Aviation Administration responded Thursday by closing more airspace near El Paso, Texas. No commercial flights were affected this time. The FAA shut down the El Paso airport and the surrounding area just over two weeks ago after another use of an anti-drone laser. The Defense Department and Transportation Department referred questions to the FAA. The FAA, CBP and the Pentagon …

Asylzahlen halbiert, AfD trotzdem stabil. Wer noch glaubt, die Partei lebe vom Migrationsthema, hat ihren Markenkern nicht verstanden: Sie mobilisiert Angst vor sozialem Abstieg, Unsicherheit, Wut aufs System. Lösungen? Fehlanzeige. Merz' „populistische Plagiate", stärken sie, statt sie zu schwächen. Wir brauchen endlich eine konstruktive Erzählung – keine Kopie von rechts gegen die Anti-Partei. #T

"Das ist ein Irrglaube": Darum bleibt die AfD stark
Die Asylzahlen sinken, doch die AfD bleibt stark. Das liegt auch an der allgemeinen Unzufriedenheit im Land. Denn die Partei punktet längst nicht mehr allein mit dem Thema Migration.

Auf der Vogelseite schrieb ich vor vielen Jahren über die Barbie-Girl-Interrupted-Amsel - ein Vogel, der morgens zum Aufwachen immer die gleichen 5 Noten pfiff.
An unserem aktuellen Wohnort gibt's zwei ähnliche Vögel:
- Der Waschmaschinen-Pieper, der einen unnötig in den Keller runtersteigen lässt, weil du glaubst, die Wäsche sei fertig.
- der Auto-Alarm-Pfeifer, der wie eine in der Ferne ertönende Diebstahlsicherung pfeift

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🎵 All I’ll Ever Be
#FilmSchool
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We are, however, cautiously hopeful that we have won this battle and can move on to the next.
One theory is that this is all a ruse, and as soon as Congress funds ICE CBP, they’ll come roaring right back. That’s certainly plausible. My own gut feeling, however, is that this is not the case.
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Flying visit to York to visit la Daughter. We had to of course, pay homage to Long Boi

The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures.
Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal).
The bill states, among other factors, that "An operating system provider shall do all of the following:"
"(1) Provide an accessib…

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

A three-judge panel has denied a filing by California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta,
seeking a court order to stop the Riverside county sheriff’s department from continuing its recount of ballots from the November 2025 special election.
The LA Times reported that Bonta filed a petition with the fourth appellate district on Monday,
writing that “the sheriff’s misguided investigation threatens to sow distrust and jeopardize public confidence” in upcoming elections.
On T…