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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Jacobs told ABC News that officials at Guantanamo Bay said it cost $16 million to stand up the migrant camp, noting that each tent allegedly cost $3.1 million to construct, despite not being up to DHS standards.

    U.S. officials told ABC News the tents did not comply with ICE’s requirements for migrant detention, including provisions for air-conditioning and other amenities.

    How much is this tent? 3 million? Wow. Okay. It’s got air conditioning, though, right? No? Oh. How much is that one- y’know what, nevermind.

    What the fuck



  • I saw this kind of take a lot when he first started appearing in my feeds, and I just sort of accepted it since I didn’t read anything by him anyway.

    Now that I’ve read more, I think his books are well-researched and meticulously cited using primary sources from well-known publications. He’s a professor with degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard and I mention that because the original image I was given was he was some influencer or “citizen journalist” who just liked being incendiary, and that’s not the case at all.

    So are there some examples of his embellishing to share? I don’t understand this particular take on him. He’s very critical of Trump and has said he’s directly connected to the Kremlin (and shown it in the most detailed, and cited, ways), but I don’t think he’s someone to ignore for that.