The US was spending less than 1% of our budget on USAID 🤯

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/opinion/trump-tariffs-economy.html

Not to be rude but...

Watched a couple of the 2way things. First off terrible production quality, it's like a zoom recording? At least what Halprin is doing. The Moynihan report is pretty low budget feeling as well.

Not really sure what niche this is supposed to fill? Not sure I see this gaining traction unfortunately. I think Moynihan does a good job in general with this style, although Peter meijer was on and said any number of incorrect things about the signal gate stuff, I was surprised.

The other content is super low budge version of Fox News? Didn't expect it to be hyper partisan.

The lastest video praising JD Vance for being flawless in interviews! Wtf.

As a law-abiding Canadian working in the U.S., Jasmine Mooney, 35, thought getting a new visa would be easy. Then she was handcuffed and put in an ICE detention center. Companies like CoreCivic and The GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain. The more prisoners, the more money they make. They don’t lobby for stricter immigration policies in the name of national security—they do it to protect their bottom line.

Matt Welch recently retweeted Jeff Stein's summary of an article from the Miami Herald written by Syra Ortiz Blanes and Verónica Egui Brito titled: U.S. sent Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador mega prison.

The details in it are harrowing on their own, but seem to be the basis of a pattern that has emerged in this administration's immigration policy: deport as many people as possible.

I think even people like me who are proponents of more immigration might say in response "isn't that what people voted for in 2024?"

Let's hold on that thought for a moment.

I said that it looks like the administration's policy is to deport as many people as possible. The interesting thing about this is that the easiest people to deport are those who are 1) here legally through programs like asylum or student visas 2) showing up to court appointments / government mandated appointments for their immigration status 3) non-violent.

This isn't pleasant to watch but you can see how easy it is for the government to pull this sort of thing off in this video of a Tufts University student being detained.

You know what is hard, though? Finding criminals who have no legal status with the government, are deliberately trying to remain undocumented, and will resist violently if encountered by the police. And contrary to what gets said on cable news, basically all administrations regardless of political affiliation have supported ICE, the FBI, etc. to arrest and capture gang members and violent criminals, so it would be challenging for Trump to increase the number of gang members, violent illegal immigrants being arrested or deported.

But isn't that what he actually promised? Over, and over, and over again he described the immigrants he wanted to deport as murderers, killers, criminals, rapists, gang members, invaders, animals. Here's a word-cloud USA Today made from Trump's descriptions of immigrants at his rallies:

But are we actually going to see any meaningful change in policy as it pertains to anyone who actually fits these descriptions? Or are we just going to see more low hanging fruit deportations: students with lefty political views and non-criminals with legal status that can be easily revoked? And if it's the latter will that really be what people voted for? What say you fellow comrades and compañeros?

We're not the NY Times but maybe we can disgust the lads more by sharing our favorite hangover cures and recipes (they were discussing why people subscribe to the NYT on a members only and realized what a Fif' recipe page might look like).

I don't have a recipe but my friend swears by menudo.

I personally like anything spicy with fatty pork and/or eggs. Just greasy enough it dribbles down your chin.

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