Khalil, who has a green card, is a lawful permanent resident. In ordering Khalil's deportation, Rubio relied on a rarely used federal statute from the 1950s that played a major role in shaping American immigration during the Cold War. The McCarran-Walter Act, or the Immigration Nationality Act of 1952, gives the secretary of state authority to decide that a noncitizen's presence in the United States threatens the country's foreign policy goals. [emphasis added]

I think it's telling that, 30 years since the Cold War's conclusion, news outlets are still steering clear of describing what the war was actually fighting against: socialism. The statute was developed during the second Red Scare and was an outgrowth of McCarthyism, a series of anti-communist witch hunts. 30 years later, the mass media are still Inventing Reality.

China diverts doomsday asteroid... to maintain its big panda paw's grip on the world's rare earth mineral supplies. Don't look up!

Billions of folk's keyboards are connected to the internet and the vast majority of them have no idea. It's absolutely ludicrous that we've gotten to this stage with surveillance capitalism. Internet-connected keyboards are malware, plain and simple.

That's commendable in my book.

That's some serious lib shit.

We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. But taking on controversial topics because we believe they make the internet better for all of us is a key feature of Mozilla’s history. And that willingness to take on the hard things, even when not universally accepted, is exactly what the internet needs today.

But you're not doing the hard things. You're doing the easy thing. Capitulation to surveillance capitalism is the easy thing.

So far as I know, the opposition doesn't claim that it has raw ballots. It claims that it has mesa-level receipts, which show vote totals for the candidates. It has posted them here:

https://resultadosconvzla.com/

I've been digging into it along with a couple other folks on X:

https://octodon.social/deck/@aspensmonster/112884327977911215

A small sampling of the receipts they've put forward

https://diode.zone/w/dGcCfyH9zPYT8LfpdToDec

shows that only nine percent of these receipts have actual inked signatures or fingerprints from the poll workers. The remainder only have the digital signatures, that are gathered ahead of time, and are used to compare against the actual inked signatures. I.e., it certainly looks like, for most of their receipts, they just asked a voting machine to print out a receipt, and then scanned it and put it on their website. The actually important part, where poll workers validate the results and certify them with their physical signatures on the receipts, is not documented by what the opposition has posted thus far.

The companies hawking e-cars have much larger advertising accounts with NYT than those hawking e-bikes.

Scratch a liberal and a fascist will bleed.

Scratch a liberal and a fascist will bleed.