There are plenty of details throughout that indicate the procedures predate the current administration. An email from an employee complaining about these flights was delivered last year. The company they worked for - GlobalX - made reference to these ICE flights and what the employees do on them during an earnings phone report in 2023. In another section a quote from an ICE official regarding some of their protocols is from 2021. There is in reference to the controversial use of a particular restraint during flights, seen in a DHS report – that is from 2024, regarding the use in the previous year. //

Yet despite the timing of these interviews ProPublica never managed to issue this report until now? Even if there is some form of explanation made regarding the timing of publication, how do you speak to these employees in 2024 regarding what they experienced on flights that year and those prior and never managed to reference these were practices and policies made during the Biden administration?

This entire presentation is about using prior examples to demean what is taking place under the new leadership. Nowhere in this report is there a cited detail about what the current ICE flights are engaged in. It is a sham that all the objectionable actions are offloaded onto the current administration. //

C. S. P. Schofield
4 hours ago
So, once again the Democrats want to blame a Republican President for something a Democrat President did.

Yawn

How tiresomely predictable.

Once non-citizens living in the United States have a SSN, opportunities to commit fraud become clear.

Selecting the right differential for your rearend build is an important decision that will be with you for a very long time - if you get it right.

Below are short, not-too-technical, overviews of some of the most frequently asked about differential options for Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, and Muscle Trucks. //

Detroit Truetrac - Helical-gear limited-slip (worm differential) is the modern replacement for the classic clutch-type posi. //

Trac-Lok/Posi-Trac – Clutch-type limited-slip (Posi), offered as original equipment in many GM and Ford performance cars, these units rely on clutches (friction plates) to transfer power to the wheels. //

Detroit Locker - Automatic "ratcheting-style" differential is known for its reliability, rugged construction, and fully-locked performance on any surface. When power (torque) is applied in either forward or reverse directions, the unit locks both axles together like a spool. When coasting or rolling through a corner (no torque applied), the unequal speed of the inside and outside wheels causes the unit to unlock momentarily, before abruptly locking when power is applied.

"Hey, this is a very precarious situation we're in." //

As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore, had to take manual control of the vehicle. But as Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the direction he wanted to go. //

Wilmore added that he felt pretty confident, in the aftermath of docking to the space station, that Starliner probably would not be their ride home.

Wilmore: "I was thinking, we might not come home in the spacecraft. We might not. And one of the first phone calls I made was to Vincent LaCourt, the ISS flight director, who was one of the ones that made the call about waiving the flight rule. I said, 'OK, what about this spacecraft, is it our safe haven?'"

It was unlikely to happen, but if some catastrophic space station emergency occurred while Wilmore and Williams were in orbit, what were they supposed to do? Should they retreat to Starliner for an emergency departure, or cram into one of the other vehicles on station, for which they did not have seats or spacesuits? LaCourt said they should use Starliner as a safe haven for the time being. Therein followed a long series of meetings and discussions about Starliner's suitability for flying crew back to Earth. Publicly, NASA and Boeing expressed confidence in Starliner's safe return with crew. But Williams and Wilmore, who had just made that harrowing ride, felt differently.

Wilmore: "I was very skeptical, just because of what we'd experienced. I just didn't see that we could make it. I was hopeful that we could, but it would've been really tough to get there, to where we could say, 'Yeah, we can come back.'"

So they did not.

JHW252
5 hours ago edited
If tariffs are so bad why is the rest of the world using them against us ? My father was a successful businessman who owned a small engineering firm. He predicted everything that is happening now back in the 80’s.
“If they sign NAFTA that’s the end of manufacturing in the United States”
“There is no substitute in an economy for the blue collar worker and his paycheck”. //

Blue State Deplorable
6 hours ago
In general, I agree tariffs drive up prices and discourage trade or so I was taught as an Econ major.

But, I think that analysis fails to capture what Trump seeks. This is a gambit. He’s leveraging the power of the American marketplace to encourage other nations to trade fairly. If you wish to export to the US, you’ll eliminate the tariffs you impose on American goods (and subsidies to your manufacturers that allow them to compete unfairly) or suffer the consequences in the form of retaliatory tariffs. Trump’s betting most nations will fold. Whether it works, remains to be seen.

At the same time, Trump is wooing investment from abroad to create jobs and reinvigorate America’s manufacturing base. He’s also seeking to incentivize American manufacturers to produce goods in the US. Why? Well jobs, as I said, but it’s more strategic than that.

Trump sees a dangerous world and with it, declining US power. He believes that a weakened US makes the world more dangerous and less stable. To shore up US power, he’s looking to re-establish American manufacturing and wealth (particularly middle class wealth). Why? So that America can continue to project power to ensure a stable, less dangerous world and wield that power lethally when it becomes necessary.

The tariffs Trump’s imposing are designed to reset America’s trade relationship. They are intended to be short term in nature and predicated on the assumption that most of the world will play ball. As I said above, whether it works remains to be seen. //

Blue State Deplorable anon-lier
4 hours ago
Yes, “unequal tariffs” make those imports more expensive for American consumption, but they remain cheaper than goods manufactured here. Why? For a lot of reasons. Some of it has to do with the cost of producing in a first world economy, some of it has to do with direct and indirect subsidies that importing manufactures benefit from like Chinese slave labor and the like.

Trump’s view of the world is a little different though. His goal is not higher prices or reduced trade, it’s trade on an equal footing, it’s more manufacturing in America, it’s more good paying American jobs. Could we see higher prices? Possibly, but if real wages go up, it doesn’t necessarily matter.

It’s a complex issue, but I do heed Thomas Sowell’s warning (see above). Make no mistake, Trump’s gambling. It could pay off handsomely, but there could also be severe consequences. //

Outerlimitsfan
6 hours ago edited
Meanwhile Rand Paul is Saying tariffs and protectionist policy was a political disaster for McKinley in 1890. Yes, McKinley(a Congressman) and his party lost badly soon after.

Rand failed to mention though that McKinley later became President in 1896 and reelection for a second term. Rapid economic growth occurred under his protectionist/tariff policies as President. Highest tariffs in U.S. history occurred in late 1800s/early 1900s.

Also Alexander Hamilton and many of the founders supported tariffs and protectionism. //

surfcat50 Outerlimitsfan
6 hours ago
People forget, or may not know, that prior to the constitutional amendment bringing the income tax to life in the US in 1913 (using the same lies then that only “the rich” would pay it), the federal government was funded entirely through duties, excise taxes and . . . TARIFFS.

Boswell first confronts Johnson with Hume’s ideas in late July 1763, just a few months after his first meeting with Johnson. He spoke of the Politician and agriculturalist George Dempster whose principles had been poisoned by a ‘noted infidel writer’ that is, Hume.

Johnson’s response was that

Hume and other sceptical innovators are vain men and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to error. Truth is a cow which will yield such people no more milk and so they are gone to milk the bull.[4]

But what Johnson went on to say is also important:

Everything which Hume has advanced against Christianity had passed through my mind long before he wrote. Always remember this, that after a system is well settled upon positive evidence, a few partial objections ought not to shake it. The human mind is so limited that it cannot take in all the parts of a subject, so there may be objections raised against any thing [5].

anon-rjsc
6 hours ago
President Trump’s tariffs are much more than a simple tool to get concessions and/or collect money. He’s setting a new global baseline for international relations. For 40 years, the baseline has been zero US tariffs, high tariffs into other countries, and we impose sanctions when we want countries to change. The new baseline is a bilateral reciprocal tariff. From there, we reward a country AFTER it does something beneficial to us, like lowering their tariffs. This new baseline opens countless opportunities way beyond tariffs.

anon-ai01
3 hours ago
Since Jimmy Carter founded the Dept. of Education in 1978 as a payoff to the teachers' unions for their support, educational achievement for US students has gone from #2 in the world to #40. So many children cannot read. It is a crying shame. Teachers' unions oppose teaching phonics. Returning power to the local level weakens union control. Thank you, Pres. Trump and Sec. McMahon!

According to ESA, Sentinel-6, one of the most advanced altimetry satellites, has a sea surface height measurement accuracy of <4 cm. NASA echoes similar numbers, claiming satellite altimetry achieves 2.5 to 4 cm accuracy over the global oceans.
So let’s be clear: they’re detecting micron-scale accelerations using instruments with centimeter-scale noise. That’s a factor of 1,000 between the noise and the signal. Even with years of averaging, extensive noise filtering, and meticulous data modeling, this veers between pseudoscience at best and scientific fraud at worst. //

Scott Simmons @sjsimmons
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3/ The analysis is based on thousands of measurements from satellites, and uncertainty decreases with =SQRT(N). So the measurement error is much larger than the error of the mean GMSL value. With your Ph.D. in earth science, you certainly learned this. You're being dishonest.

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SomewhereAroundBarstow said:
And that's as close as you're going to get an active astronaut to saying that what some people call the Deep State is actually where the heroes that keep everything from falling apart work.

What actually makes you a "steely-eyed missile man" isn't bravery, mojo, having XY chromosomes or white skin, it's to

sit in their cubicle for decades studying their systems, and knowing their systems front and back. And when there is no time to assess a situation and go and talk to people and ask, 'What do you think?' they know their system so well they come up with a plan on the fly

What role did religion play in Johnson’s life? Boswell tried to present him as a High Anglican Tory and Christians today of a conservative inclination today see Johnson as an antidote to what they consider to be the optimistic rationalism of some enlightenment thinking. //

Nicholas Hudson, in his book Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth Century Thought, sums this up:

Few writers were so knowledgeable or sociable to combine many sides of contemporary thought into an understanding of life distinctive for its humanity and good sense. His learning and complexity make his writings especially useful as the starting point for a broader investigation of eighteenth century thought. [18]