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> .. that the National Guard and the militarized approach to policing in our community ends immediately. There’s no reason for people to be beat on camera because they’re immigrants. And lastly, we want for every single agent who comes into this community to identify themselves. And as a policymaker, I will be making sure that the Department understands that this is a top priority to our city.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/25/narcisco_barranco
#ICEThugs #SantaAna #JonathanHernandez #AlejandroBarranco #uspol
“Inhumane”: Marine Veteran Calls for <span class="caps">ICE</span> to Release His Father After Video of Brutal Arrest Goes Viral

As ICE increases its raids on immigrant communities, footage of the arrest of one man, Narciso Barranco, shows seven federal agents — all masked — pinning the 48-year old gardener to the ground and repeatedly punching him in the head before pushing him into an unmarked vehicle. His son, Marine veteran Alejandro Barranco, recently visited him in an ICE detention center. “He looked beat up, he looked rough, he looked defeated. He was sad. It’s just not right,” he says. Barranco, whose three children have all served in the U.S. military, was arrested while working as a landscaper at an IHOP restaurant in Santa Ana. “We are seeing an extreme abuse of power on the screens of our phones,” says Santa Ana councilmember John Hernandez, who adds that Barranco is a “hardworking Santa Ana resident of over three decades, who has raised three children who have all decided to sacrifice their freedom for this country that we love.”

Democracy Now!

Q: What’s more hilarious than a predatory website turning my article into an #AI generated podcast without my consent?

A: The fact that the article BEGAN as a podcast made by me & @DrPinkeee

So basically glaciers were melted to turn our podcast into a worse podcast. #academicChatter #winning

> This was the predictable result of President Trump’s executive order rescinding ICE guidance, which required ICE to focus on public safety threats. As a consequence, the overall capacity of ICE to make arrests has grown thanks to shifting many resources from the military and other law enforcement agencies into ICE. It is also borrowing from end-of-the-year appropriations to pay for operations today, leaving it $1 billion in the hole.

#DavidBier #DavidJBier #ICEBudget #ICEDeficit
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🧵 > During the first two weeks of June, ICE brought into its custody.. 927 non-criminals... threefold increase compared to the rate of non-criminals booked in during the first week of this administration.
> This shift in policy resulted from White House Deputy Chief of Staff #StephenMiller.. at the end of May.. he ordered ICE to start arresting more non-criminals. “What do you mean you’re going after criminals?” ICE.. shifted.. roaming US streets and workplaces to round up.. #uspol
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Neither acquiescence in scepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry. In acting upon our beliefs, we should be very cautious where a small error would mean disaster; nevertheless it is upon our beliefs that we must act. This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy. But though difficult, it is not impossible; it is in fact the scientific temper. Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the sceptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when widespread, produce social disaster.


懐疑に'黙従'することも,独断に'黙従'することも,教育の生み出すべきものではない。教育が生み出すべきものは,①知識は,困難ではあるが,ある程度獲得できるものであり,②いかなる時代においても,知識として通用しているものは多かれ少なかれ誤っている可能性があるが,③しかしその誤りは'注意'と'勤勉'によって正すことができる,という'信念'である。'信念'に基づいて行動するにあたっては,小さな誤りが'災難'を招く可能性がある場合には,非常に注意しなければならない。しかしそれにもかかわらず,私たちは,'信念'に基づいて行動しなければならない。こういう'精神状態'は,かなり難しい。(なぜなら,この精神状態をうまくコントロールするには)感情を萎縮させずに,高度の'知的教養'を必要とするからである。しかし,難しいが,不可能ではない。それは,実は,'科学的な気質'(そのもの)である。知識は,他の良いものと同じく,困難ではあっても,獲得不可能なものではない。独断論者は知識獲得の難しさを忘れ,懐疑論者は知識獲得の可能性を否定する。両者は,ともに誤っている。そして,その誤りが世のなかに蔓延すれば,社会的な災難が引き起こされる。


#^http://russell-j.com/beginner/OE02-050.HTM

#RussellOnEducation #OnEducation #教育論 #レッセルの教育論
ラッセル教育論 第2章 02-05_「懐疑論」対「教条主義

> Reliable words are plain, and decorated words are unreliable.

> 信頼に足る言葉には飾り気がなく、耳障りの良い言葉は信頼するに足りない。

> 信言(しんげん)は美ならず、美言(びげん)は信ならず。

> 信言不美、美言不信

https://blog.mage8.com/roushi-81

#PlainStyle #平易文体 #老子文体 #LaoTseStyle #ちょんまげ英語日誌 #ChonMageLaoTse #LaoTzu #LaoTse #Laozi #LaoZiStyle

老子 第八十一章 信言は美ならず、美言は信ならず | ちょんまげ英語日誌

> ... Trump’s 1.5 percent popular vote victory is one of the smallest... fraction of Lyndon B. Johnson’s 22.6 percent landslide win in 1964. Trump failed to secure a majority of the popular vote, at 49.7 percent, unlike.. Bush in 2004 (50.3 percent)..Obama in 2008 and 2012 (52.9 percent and 51 percent) and.. Biden in 2020 (51.3 percent).. Trump won all seven swing states, his 312 electoral votes were only a handful more than Biden’s 306 in 2020..

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5094602-a-landslide-just-0-15-percent-of-all-voters-determined-trumps-2024-victory/
#uspol
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@ainmosni @isotopp @filippo @julijane
_The Corporation_ Legal Persons, immortal psychopaths... I should watch it again one day, and then the sequel too...

@filippo

Maybe, as a bank, you should not be using a random library taken from the internet, with a single maintainer and some 100 stars, and make it a critical dependency of your banking operations.

Maybe, as a bank, your IT should write and maintain such a library and open source it.

Maybe, as a bank, you should not continue to use the first library, and do the second thing after the first library was able to take down critical parts of your infra the first time.

Because we live in a society, and as a bank, you should be contributing to it, too.

But then, what do I know.

@julijane

@geonz
Even now, if you say there's an incident like Minamata in Vietnam: Taiwanese corporation's factory: with mass fish die-offs , sick people and government stonewalling, an "educated" person will ask if it's caused by methyl mercury.. as if the problem, the root cause would be fixed with a ban on one substance.. I wonder how easy it is to fall into the details with anything: like activists that are so knowlegeable about nuclear power they can overwhelm you with details. I love them but...