Unfortunately over the past 8+ years reality itself has demonstrated that it’s far too unbelievable to be a movie script.

Good to see sanity prevailing.

Next question is how the Trump administration will respond. My guess is that they’re not going to do anything about everyone they’ve deported illegally at this point.

The article itself notes that the mothers were not given adequate time and given the complexity of having children who are legally US citizens, it can be readily argued that due process was denied in these cases:

One of the US children removed from the country has “a rare form of metastatic cancer” and was deported without medication or medical consultations, the ACLU said.

Gracie Willis of the National Immigration Project said the mothers weren’t given a fair opportunity to decide whether they wanted the children to remain in the United States. Willis said the 4-year-old and the 7-year-old were deported to Honduras within a day of being arrested with their mother.

The cruelty is the point.

If this gets to the courts and they determine that this was done illegally (which as far as I can tell it was), then I expect the Trump administration to refuse to do anything about it, just like they’re doing with Garcia.

They’ve really doubled down on “evil is good and good is evil” (to paraphrase Isaiah 5:20).

The efforts to correct for historical systemic prejudice and provide actual equal opportunity (which is a step towards the meritocracy they claim to want) is painted as being evil, whilst a return to the “equal outcome” (for the rich and white, regardless of skill or effort) is represented as good. They have deliberately gotten the two scenarios backwards in that EO.

I think they’d start with the neurodiverse; a badge for them is more easily “explained” as “making it easy to identify people who need support”. That’s not what it would be used for, of course.

Sadly, this doesn’t surprise me. I expected something like this was coming.

Consigning Black people to live in filth is incompatible with serving all Americans with “dignity and respect,” unless Black people don’t count as Americans.

(emphasis mine)

Isn’t that the whole point?

His attorney said that as of 28 March, the day after his arrest, his F-1 visa was still active. [Harsono’s lawyer] Gad said the government revoked it without any notice to him, and then claimed he had overstayed. The revocation was backdated to 23 March and allegedly based on his 2022 misdemeanor conviction for graffitiing a semi-truck trailer. Gad said that this is not a deportable offense under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The completely unethical (and hopefully illegal, but I’m not familiar enough with US immigration law) behaviour by the government here clearly has one purpose: intimidate immigrants to get them to leave voluntarily.

Dr. Edwards should lose his medical licence and be banned from working with children forever. How sociopathic do you have to be to be working whilst knowing you are carrying one of the most infectious diseases in existence? This is utterly inexcusable, especially since he is supposedly a qualified doctor and should be well aware of the danger he is putting his patients in.

Finally a semblance of good news - confirmation of life. I’m not holding my breath that the Trump Administration will do anything to get him back, though.

Thankyou, I needed that laugh!

They denied to let the visiting senator see him, so my gut feeling is that he’s been dead a while now, sadly.

I think you’re overgeneralising here. Those are genuine, high-priority concerns, but there are plenty of people (both in the real world protesting and online) who are concerned with the activity of the US government, amongst other things.

Firstly, I’m not American, so I have an outsider’s view of their impact on the world (albeit still a western one).

Secondly, I don’t think you’re going to get a clear yes/no answer to your questions. You’ve presented at least three different types of situation:

1. Citizens of a country (Israel) having restricted travel rights in a second country (US) due to objections raised by the second country with regards to how the first country (Israel) is treating a third group (Palestinians).
2. Wartime actions where a country (US) took action against an aggressor (Japan).
3. The violation of sovereignty of another nation (Iraq or Afghanistan) by a larger military power (US) due to terrorist activity and/or highly questionable security concerns (e.g. the false claim of WMDs in Iraq).

Each of these has different complicating factors and a different answer depending on whether you are looking at whether it would be understandable for a country to implement restrictions, or whether it would justifiable (particularly by some moral standard).

I feel like this is trying to ask if people have a consistent set of ethics or if they preference their own nation higher than others.

Ugh, I’m getting the bad feeling that the poor guy is dead.

At this point I’d be demanding proof that he’s still alive and well.

Agreed.

There’s already talk-to-your-dog/cat products such as FluentPet. Probably the biggest issue with cats in particular is that their “vocabulary” is quite limited (usually less than a dozen distinct “meows”), but some of the FluentPet users (examples on Youtube such as BilliSpeaks) seem to suggest basic reasoning. A full-blown language is beyond them, but they do seem capable of understanding more concepts than we give them credit for.

The ultimate goal is to speak dolphin, if indeed there is such a language. The pursuit of this goal has led WDP to create a massive, meticulously labeled data set, which Google says is perfect for analysis with generative AI.

So they’re aiming for a real-life version of SeaQuest DSV? Considering Season 1 was set in 2018-2019, we’re 7 years behind schedule so far…

One can only conclude that either this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US (and by extension much of the west), or just another monumentally stupid idea brought to life by their limitless incompetence.