Win win for Republicans. Get to hunt illegals and destroy trust in the government
The Internal Revenue Service is nearing an agreement to allow immigration officials to use tax data to confirm the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally, according to four people familiar with the matter, culminating weeks of negotiations over using the tax system to support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
Based on my youtube algorithm, it’s to eat bbq and visit Buc-ee’s… But more generally in addition to having all of the typical reasons why someone might go somewhere, I could see how Texas might represent a sort of uniquely American experience to someone from another country. Like, if I lived in Tokyo or London a trip to New York might be fun, but I can see how Austin or Houston or Dallas might seem more unique.
it’s all about speed and efficiency, not accuracy They’ll be lucky to see the light of day again someday in the future. It’s quite the culture shock from the US to that. That’s for sure but that’s where we’re headed.
For a long time I thought the Scottish band Texas was from the state but turns out there’s no real connection. (They liked the soundtrack of the movie, Paris, Texas by Ry Cooder.) Who knows what might want to make a person visit a place. Strangely enough this song just randomly came up in my playlist while I typed out this post:
It’s mostly Mexicans visiting Texas. Mostly because it’s the closest US state. I’d guess quite a bit is visiting family, but then you also get rich Mexicans coming to Texas beaches, cities, etc.
Was in the brewpub in Christiania (quasi-anarchist commune in Copenhagen) last fall and the bartender said he wants to go to Texas for his first trip to America for exactly that reason.
politics
5 billion dollars from that special yellow card for rich immigrants
boston mayor doubles down on sanctuary city
usa vs canada soccerball tomorrow
contract being drawn up on dividing territory from the ukraine war. It’s as ironclad as the big show’s.
musk is really mad about tesla drivers getting low uber ratings. This is sure to help with that by bringing massive amounts of liberal attention to it.
apparently some italians got forwarded the what did you e-mails and they responded I believe with bullet points each one saying fuck off.
kitty dukakis passes away at 88
irs deal with ice
pentagon to polygraph people in the leak investigation
apparently a few people in maine tried to shame susan collins into holding a town hall, she hasn’t in 25 years. So I’m sure she will go up there and do it or not and easily win re-election yet again this year, one of the two.
This stuff freaks me out logistically. Luckily I am very white and can pass as “nonsuspicious” but im always very nervous around armed police or at any kind of crossing like this, it brings to mind horror scenarios where things get bad and trying to flee the country and them searching all your devices and finding like, anti trump stuff or whatever you can imagine they dont like and sending you to guantanamo or something. it sounds hysterical but not really out of the realm of possibility anymore. I guess if you’re leaving the country, just back everything to cloud and bring no electronics across the border. That alone might make you suspicious though.
