Adeline Dimond

When I was a kid in Los Angeles, I took the bus to the beach with my friends, and returned home barefoot and sandy. Now, kids walk to school through underpasses where people shoot up and have sex in cars. Dogs are tortured on Skid Row. Our current leaders deny this reality, and in an elegant twist LA didn’t see coming, it’s going to take a former reality star to save us. Vote @SpencerPratt open.substack.com/pub/pirate…

There are people in Congress who don't know what a war crime is, which is concerning

For those of you anti-ICE folks who have coincidentally decided that you are immigration law experts, you should follow this account and actually read BIA precedent decisions. If you haven’t been entirely brainwashed, it will give you a sense of 1) the due process afforded non-citizens and 2) the complexity of immigration law. Enjoy!

I hav questions about Joan Didion's parsley salad recipe. It seems to call for 11 1/3 cups of parmesan. Is this right?

@nithyavraman is not up for this, Angelenos, I’m sorry. The fact that she didn’t wait to determine that ICE was there to get a detainee medical attention tells you everything you need to know. It’s gonna be a chaotic and long four years. Buckle up.

I’m in New Jersey for a big Jewish Zionist wedding and I’m wondering which parts of LA are gonna burn down while I’m gone given the red flag warnings?

Just ordered from Zahav on @goldbelly. Hala Asraf, her Temu Kristallnacht and @TrekBikes can suck it. I’ve had Zahav’s salatim before and it’s off the charts delish cc: @StopAntisemites

Los Angeles is indubitably absolutely fucked. However, I’m old enough to know two things. First, it’s a joy to be wrong. I would absolutely love to be wrong in my assessment that a thin-skinned, dog-hating, drug user-loving socialist with a temper who will say and do anything to get elected (like hang out with Hasan Piker) will drag the city further into chaos. LA is my lady and I want her to thrive. So I would welcome being wrong! Second, sometimes humor is the only way. It’s gonna be funny when GenZ figures out that hyper-Yimbism does not = affordable homes. It equals homes that developers can profit from. Removing red tape for development is different; but we know that’s not what’s going to happen. (Again, would love to be wrong!) It’s also gonna be funny when GenZ realizes there are no jobs in LA, because the city is dead. I’ll feel bad for them but I’m also gonna be slightly amused.

Spoken like someone who has never had their elderly neighbors pistol whipped during a home invasion

Hey Chuck - I'm a (former) lifelong Dem who changed parties in July because I was told I had to support a guy with a Nazi tattoo. Now I'm being told that a woman who supported a candidate up until the very moment it became clear he wouldn't repudiate anti-semitism has betrayed the party? My Jewish great-grandfather didn't walk across Europe for two years eating potatoes and snow to escape the Nazis for this shit. I'm never coming back.

Think it's safe to say that the Democrats are not the big tent party

I used to respect this guy because of the integrity he showed in putting country over party. Now Stevens does the same, but to him it’s batshit because she has the integrity to push back against antisemitism. Got it.

This woman is completely unqualified for any elected office. To describe lawful arrests as “kidnapping” is offensive, sure, but it also shows that Nithya is a child who has zero curiosity about how anything actually works. She is a Tik Tok candidate. Non-citizens charged with removability appear before an Immigration Judge. That judge determines whether the non-citizen is removable from the U.S. If the judge makes this finding, the non-citizen has the opportunity to apply for relief from removal. There are several forms of this, including but not limited to asylum, withholding of removal, protection under the regulations implementing the Convention Against Torture, adjustment of status, cancellation of removal, among other forms of relief. Lawful permanent residents who are charged with removability based on criminal conduct can apply for certain waivers. If the immigration judge has found the non-citizen to be removable, then he or she hears these these above-mentioned applications for relief. The non-citizen is entitled to counsel during these hearings. If the immigration judge decides to grant the non-citizen’s application for relief from removal, the non-citizen is not removed from the U.S., unless the government appeals and wins. If the judge doesn’t find the non-citizen removable in the first place, they are not removed, unless the government appeals and wins. If the immigration judge finds the non-citizen removable, and doesn’t grant any form of relief from removal, the non-citizen can appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals. If the Board rules in the non-citizen’s favor, he or she cannot be removed - because a removal order is required to remove people from the U.S. (There are exceptions in which the removal order does not come from the judge, but they are limited). If the Board doesn’t rule in the non-citizen’s favor, the non-citizen can appeal to federal court, unless it has been stripped of jurisdiction over certain issue by the statute. But even then, the courthouse door is open; as the Ninth Circuit said, “we have jurisdiction to determine jurisdiction.” (Not verbatim, don’t @ me). Obviously, actual kidnapping victims don’t have three layers of due process - the analogy is just so stupid I can’t believe I have to write something that stupid. But what’s even more stupid is that all of the above is laid out plainly in the Immigration and Nationality Act, which for better or worse, Congress hasn’t meaningfully amended since 1996. Nothing is stopping Nithya or her advisors from cracking open that statute and learning something, other than her childish belief that if she just does what the cool kids are doing (hating on ICE) that’s somehow qualifies her to be mayor. It qualifies her to be an Instagram influencer but not a mayor. I personally like my mayors to have a grip on how federal law actually works. Either Nithya doesn’t actually know how it works or she does and she’s pretending not to. Both are disqualifying. To be clear, criticism of immigration policy is fine, but that’s not what’s happening here.

ICE has a public affairs office and its contact info is on its website ICE dot gov. And yet.

I am home for two weeks sleeping on the den floor with my dog while he recovers from TPLO surgery. I have watched all the television. Please send TV recs. I do like the shows where spouses murder each other but I think I’ve watched all those too

Oh look an elected official calling media he doesn’t like fake news where have I heard that before

Raise your hand if you’re a Jewish person in LA who can’t believe the chutzpah of Nithya explaining she went on Hasan Piker’s podcast because “that’s where the votes are”

So incredibly disingenuous. Just one of the many self-aggrandizing self-appointed quasi-intellectuals trying to pretzel explain why he did something shitty. The reason he did something shitty is to impress the other guys on this site who have also been stuffed into a locker one too many times. Own it and apologize.

Oh look, calls for violence, right on schedule

Section 241(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act governs third-country removals when a non-citizen has claimed he will be persecuted in his home country. It’s been on the books since 1952. But a candidate for mayor is “appalled” that the Supreme Court read the plain language of a statute passed by Congress. You guys, this is bad. (I mean, her rabid antisemitism is also bad, but deliberately skewing what SCOTUS did is a close second).