All 22 of these students should get their money back

Denmark should deliver the extra eggs, personally and ballistically, right to the White House door.

Thanks for the extensive quote, but that’s not even the worst part of the article. The second half outlines how the facility she is being held in is a privately-run prison. They get paid per detainee, and when the Biden administration was not detaining many people, the prison was losing money. But now, it’s doing well. Yay for them, I guess?

And is it just me, or are all the shenanigans lately with people being detained unnecessarily at the land borders? If any foreigners need to come to the US for any reason, they might want to buy a plane ticket. Yes, it gives immigration officers all your info ahead of time, but maybe that’s a good thing?

the Trump administration says

“Universal injunctions have reached epidemic proportions since the start of the current administration,” the filing says. “Those universal injunctions prohibit a Day 1 Executive Order from being enforced anywhere in the country, as to ‘hundreds of thousands’ of unspecified individuals who are ‘not before the court nor identified by the court.’”

While totally ignoring the fact that reason why there are so many injunctions is Trump keeps ignoring laws and the Constitution. An immediate injunction is entirely appropriate in that case.

Besides, it’s not like the lower court judge issues the injunction and that’s the end of the story. There is still litigation, and everything can get appealed. Limiting the scope of those injunctions will only serve to have Trump selectively ignore the Constitution for states what like what he is doing, which is not how it’s supposed to work at all.

This likely involved fraud, because that’s not a valid reason to reverse a payment.

Well, DOGE would totally say “No U” and assert that the program was fraudulent in the first place, because they don’t agree with it politically.

So, this is a special situation, as it was a scheduled payment under a contract with NYC, relating to a migrant housing program. The payment was made just before everything got DOGEd, and when DOGE found out, it lost its collective shit and forced the payment to be reversed.

However, all you really need to make a debit out of a bank account is a routing number, account number, and proper authorization.

DOGE can apparently manufacture authorization out of thin air. And I bet it has everyone’s routing info and account information from everyone who has ever filed a return with the IRS and used Direct Deposit (or paid by check in the mail).

They will get no concessions, because Republicans do not care if the Federal government shuts down. They want to drown it in the bathtub. Republicans are effective weaponizing the government shutdown because they know they don’t care, and Democrats do.

However, government shutdown in general are very unpopular. When Republicans go there, their immediate popularity takes a hit. The problem is that American voters have short memories, and are likely to forget before the next election.

An important thing you all need to understand about the Filibuster: it’s not the final vote. It’s basically a vote to stop talking and hold a vote. So all the Democrats can do with a Filibuster is delay (perhaps indefinitely).

But as a wise Canadian philosopher once noted: “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”. What to Democrats gain by delaying this indefinitely? Without some action, the government gets shut down. All they gain is a closed government and a bunch of fingers pointed at them. Republicans know this, and will not give any concessions for Democratic votes.

The best move is to allow the vote, and then vote against the actual bill. They make their objection known, but still allow the government to stay open.

He’ll issue an executive order establishing that the market can only go up