Be careful what you say
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After what happened to the German national, who is a legal permanent resident, I would not chance leaving the country with the intention of returning. Not at this time.
@Bernard Are you talking about this case?
I hadn't heard about his case before, but reading it makes me feel sick to my stomach.
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I'm deleting nothing. Fuck 'em and fuck him.
I'm giving an interview on CGTN IChinese media) Monday night on the administration's assault on the Department of Education.
I just don't care. I will not bend the knee, kiss the ass, or offer up prior obedience.
@Piano-Dad said in Be careful what you say:
I'm deleting nothing. Fuck 'em and fuck him.
I'm giving an interview on CGTN IChinese media) Monday night on the administration's assault on the Department of Education.
I just don't care. I will not bend the knee, kiss the ass, or offer up prior obedience.
I admire you a lot for that. Hope I will do the same when the time comes.
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Was wearing a shirt with a Human Rights Campaign logo in an airport securtity line when I noticed a masculine woman staring bullets at me. I saw her signal a man, talk to him while glancing at me.
I got the most thorough body and carry on search possible. It was very rudely done. It was years ago.
Rights today? -
With AI, it will make it easier to review everything from every post ever made to every like on every article or post.
In reviewing grants and the budget, the people working with Musk are hindered by their lack of expertise and the state of AI - but every month AI improves. 1984 will seem quite quaint by the end of Trump's term.
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@pique said in Be careful what you say:
seems like it is that or go to Japan and stay there
The problem is that it is not clear that this is what would happen.
We could go to Japan, come back in two weeks and have zero issues getting back into the country. And that is as it should be, both of us have done nothing wrong, and he has legal permanent residence.
The real problem is that there's no assurance that things actually play out as they should.
@ShiroKuro said in Be careful what you say:
@pique said in Be careful what you say:
seems like it is that or go to Japan and stay there
The problem is that it is not clear that this is what would happen.
We could go to Japan, come back in two weeks and have zero issues getting back into the country. And that is as it should be, both of us have done nothing wrong, and he has legal permanent residence.
The real problem is that there's no assurance that things actually play out as they should.
Right. Which is why I think--at this moment in time-- your options are don't leave the country at all, or leave and don't try to come back. I think your fears are entirely justified. I personally wouldn't risk it.
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The embedded links in this op-ed have a lot of info that's potentially relevant to @ShiroKuro ....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/24/donald-trump-imperial-plan-usa-peoples-rights
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Another incident:
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Green card holders are officially Lawful Permanent Residents of the United States, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. But being a resident of the United States is very different from being a citizen.
Lewelyn Dixon immigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii 50 years ago. She graduated from Farrington High School and has been working as a lab technician at the University of Washington.
Dixon was returning home to Seattle from a family trip to the Philippines.
“She was there for like a couple of weeks. And then she returned on Feb. 28. And she was stuck in customs,” said her niece, Emily Cristobal.
“We got the news, I think it was March 2, that she go taken by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and then detained in the Northwestern detainment facility,” she said. “We haven’t officially been told why she’s being held. They just keep saying that they’re waiting for documents.”
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/22/immigration-crackdown-now-hitting-green-card-holders/
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The embedded links in this op-ed have a lot of info that's potentially relevant to @ShiroKuro ....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/24/donald-trump-imperial-plan-usa-peoples-rights
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Wired has an article about this...
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Wired has an article about this...
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You ain't whistlin' Dixie. I'm sorry to say there's more good news. From the Intercept:
Trump Wants Immigrants on U.S. Soil to Hand Over Social Media Accounts to Apply for Citizenship
Trump is demanding social media handles for citizenship, green card, and visa applicants whether they're already in the U.S. or not.
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I just listened to a lengthy post by a young Canadian woman who was flying into the State to for a friend's birthday party. She was pulled aside and was asked for her phone. The agent asked more questions that anyone has likely any of us - and very intrusive. The agent found some intimate photos of her and her boyfriend. She spent 7 hours in detention and was refused entry because the agent decided she was an escort. She looked nothing like Melania.
The handful of Canadians (and folks from other nations) who might have thought of visiting the US - ain't gonna be coming. The ill will from other such pro-US initiatives is such that Canada, Europe and China could remove tariffs - and no one will be buying anything US. The US may become one giant Amish community in few years.
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I just listened to a lengthy post by a young Canadian woman who was flying into the State to for a friend's birthday party. She was pulled aside and was asked for her phone. The agent asked more questions that anyone has likely any of us - and very intrusive. The agent found some intimate photos of her and her boyfriend. She spent 7 hours in detention and was refused entry because the agent decided she was an escort. She looked nothing like Melania.
The handful of Canadians (and folks from other nations) who might have thought of visiting the US - ain't gonna be coming. The ill will from other such pro-US initiatives is such that Canada, Europe and China could remove tariffs - and no one will be buying anything US. The US may become one giant Amish community in few years.
@kluurs said in Be careful what you say:
The handful of Canadians (and folks from other nations) who might have thought of visiting the US - ain't gonna be coming. The ill will from other such pro-US initiatives is such that Canada, Europe and China could remove tariffs - and no one will be buying anything US. The US may become one giant Amish community in few years.
Seems to me the MAGA true believers will be happy to have a locked down, isolated America; one free from any and all foreigners.
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I've just decided this morning that I am going to do the travel I was planning to do over the next year. One trip to the Yukon, another to Bhutan. Have to, while I have the resources and the physical capacity still (the later may be questionable). I'll be 70 next February and it will be the 30th anniversary of when Mr Pique and I met next March.
If this ridiculousness is still going on, I will put my electronics, including my phone, in a bank lock box here at home, and get a burner phone for travel. Both trips are for extremely remote areas on horseback, so I'm going to go full Luddite, if I can manage it.
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I've just decided this morning that I am going to do the travel I was planning to do over the next year. One trip to the Yukon, another to Bhutan. Have to, while I have the resources and the physical capacity still (the later may be questionable). I'll be 70 next February and it will be the 30th anniversary of when Mr Pique and I met next March.
If this ridiculousness is still going on, I will put my electronics, including my phone, in a bank lock box here at home, and get a burner phone for travel. Both trips are for extremely remote areas on horseback, so I'm going to go full Luddite, if I can manage it.
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@kluurs I think everyone would be wise to come up with a Plan B. I don't want to plan to leave my country, but yes, by February I think it's going to be one of two things--either the Resistance is gaining ground or has even overthrown this nightmare, or, we are in what looks like the USSR. Except with raging capitalism.
The billionaires have decided that democracy is very inconvenient for them. How we take our power back is the dilemma to work out asap.
My own Plan B: I'm making tiny, incremental progress towards obtaining a European passport by right of descent. One major hurdle I just overcame a day ago--I got a photograph of my grandmother's birth record from 1897 and now know I can get a certified copy from the historical archives. For a long time I was pretty sure I would never find it.
Of course, Europe may fall to Russia, the way things are going. Then maybe on my European passport I can gain residency in Canada as a refugee.
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Years ago, I got to meet Paul Gastris as he was an invited speaker to one of the associations I worked with. He was smart and funny - and had delightful anecdotes of his time as Bill Clinton's chief speechwriter. The hopeful part of his talk was that the founding fathers of the country made it challenging to effect big change in the country - much like turning a huge tanker at sea. Sadly, I don't think he, like all of us, didn't think something like Trump would be possible.
His first term he had the kinds of people that might challenge bad ideas. This term, if he wants demonstrators shot in the legs, there’s a very good chance of that happening. We may see Elon Musk integrate AI to search the web to identify "traitors". Trump has historically weaponized the legal system against people - innocent people. It isn't a reach to think of him weaponizing the full resources of the government to stifle opposition. It's clear that big tech read the writing on the wall - and felt the safest course was to bow and pledge fealty to the new king.
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When I moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, less than a year ago, I could never have imagined that writing a critical piece about the US government could put me at risk of deportation, threatening the life and career I’ve built here. But today, that threat is very real.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/29/trump-ice-deportation-universities
