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Payton Alexander retweeted
here's my take on the Samuel Sey thing:
0. the existing polity gets to decide who joins it. It has done this by enacting laws.
1. if, as it appears, Sey illegally overstayed his visa, he should be deported
2. if, as it appears, he was working on a tourist visa, his employer should be investigated
3. if he was working and remained uncaught for a long time, these are aggravating, not mitigating, factors
4. a judgement as to whether he's a good person is unnecessary to draw the right conclusion here. good people may not illegally overstay their visas or work on tourist visas.
5. Joel Berry is upset because it's somebody he likes. He should've thought about this ahead of time and either:
5a. (preferable) steeled himself to accept the possibility that immigration enforcement might get somebody he likes and make peace with that, or
5b. not demanded immigration enforcement that might get somebody he likes
Late-stage democracy is more descriptive than “end-stage capitalism.” What you’re seeing is a predictable failure mode of a system in which people can vote themselves more money. That’s not a failure of capitalism, that’s unrestrained democracy robbing capitalism.
I'm in my 40s. I'm a lawyer. My wife is a lawyer. We both work full time.
We cannot afford the house my parents purchased on a single electrician's income in their 30s.
We cannot afford the house my immigrant grandparents purchased on a single MTA bus driver's salary in their 30s. They had SIX CHILDREN.
For 30 years, politicians in Washington & their oligarch allies convinced regular people that this was just about avocado toast and fancy coffee.
In reality, this is end-stage capitalism. Everyone is stuck in place. It's impossible to buy a home. It's too costly to move. We work too much to have passion projects. We don't have enough savings to start our own businesses. We can't afford to go without healthcare to do it.
Thanks for writing this article @troy_closson. Would be very happy to discuss further.
nytimes.com/2026/10/25/nyreg…
Payton Alexander retweeted
Stunning admission by California during yesterday’s Ninth Circuit hearing.
California admitted they do nothing to check the citizenship status of voters and will count the illegal ballots of noncitizens who vote. This is why we’re seeking an emergency order. We cannot allow California to dilute legal votes in the upcoming election.
Judge: You agree that if a non-citizen votes and we don’t stop it now, that vote will be counted, correct?
California: That’s absolutely correct.
It’s simply not true that we can’t collect unpaid rent from people who “can’t pay.” We need to learn from the success of child support collections and apply those lessons here. There should be no cap on wage garnishing. Public benefits should be subject to garnishing. Vehicles and personal property should be subject to seizures and liens. Inheritances, windfalls, and all sources of income should be subject to garnishing, with no statutory cap. We are not reaching hard enough. We are leaving too much of their money untouchable. No one has “no money.” They are supporting themselves somehow!
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official, published DSA positions include but are not limited to: abolishing the senate, the supreme court, and the executive branch, abolishing prisons and ICE, opening the border, and seizing most major industries
UNDERCOVER: GAVIN NEWSOM SAYS THE DSA IS "GOING TO BE DOMINANT" AND "MAINSTREAM" IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
"The DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for bold change, not incremental change, is very much going to be dominant. I mean, that's going to be a mainstream Democratic movement. Absolutely. No question about that."
That's California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential candidate, speaking to an undercover journalist while campaigning in New Hampshire.
Asked by a "younger voter" who said "we don't want Kamala Harris, we want more democratic socialist policies":
"No one is arguing to manage the status quo and fail more efficiently."
"You can't play in the margins anymore. The system's broken. It's completely unbalanced, and we can't manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine."
Payton Alexander retweeted
You’re settling in for a good bro movie in the 23rd century:
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Lula is an ally of Russia and China, but low IQ Tim Walz reflexively supports him because his worldview is so blinkered and shallow that he will take the opposite position of Trump no matter what it is. Insane that this man was almost Vice President.
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BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro:
It is impossible to recognize the election results in the context of how these things happened.
We are going to use our legal team, we are going to request the annulment of these elections.
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The last two years of Obama were all bad news, all the time. Gun running, hacking reporters’ computers, the emergence of ISIS, and the JCPOA.
Nothing he says here is true.
You can criticize Trump’s approach to Iran, but the JCPOA was feckless with a side effect of funding Iran’s proxy terror campaigns across the Middle East for a decade.
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This illegal alien is @60Minutes poster child for what it claims are wrongful deportations. I pulled his file. His claimed reason for fearing Mali was that he is “gay,” just in case you’re wondering how bad the immigration fraud problem is.
“It feels really empty without him,” says 16-year-old Corey Diawara, whose father was deported in July.
His father had lived in the U.S. for 25 years and had no criminal record. Moussa Diawara says he was deported without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge. He was eventually sent to Mali, a country a U.S. immigration judge ruled he could not be deported to.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for his safety.” DHS also questioned the credibility of Diawara’s arguments for fearing persecution in Mali. cbsn.ws/4etdVdW
SNAP trafficking over $100 is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. These people take their EBT cards, or buy card details from others cashing out, and load up at grocery store hot food bars, then resell the food in styrofoam containers on social media. A federal food assistance program intended to prevent hunger and malnutrition is absurd enough in a country like ours, where our poor actually have the opposite problem, but reaches new heights of insanity when you realize we are spending 5x the budget of NASA every year to fund trashy Facebook marketplace Uber Eats. There is no reason for this to exist. It’s just completely fake. Loads of federal spending is like this.
Payton Alexander retweeted
“Great nations do not remain great by being caretakers of history, but by continuously making history.”
Apollo should never represent the upper limit of what @NASA can achieve. It should be a standard we continuously strive to exceed.
We’re bringing that intensity, discipline, and engineering ownership back to this agency. Great nations do not remain great by being caretakers of history, but by continuously making history.
Payton Alexander retweeted
Bolsonaro stronghold regions had already closed their polling stations. My understanding from elections past is that once the vote is finalized in the machine you can’t just turn it back on for more voting. Leftist areas did not shut off their machines or close polling stations. They were prepared. This is an attempt to steal the election.
Payton Alexander retweeted
I want a city on Mars.
I want AI.
I want data centers in space.
I want humanoid robots.
I want flying cars.
Payton Alexander retweeted
They are channeling Beria
