Libby Kalmbach Clark

Borders as Fictions By Libby Kalmbach Clark Witness Magazine by Libby Kalmbach Clark The most obvious thing one can say about international borders, although not therefore an uninteresting thing, is that they are fictional. I was born in Northern Michigan, arou...

What even are borders?

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My general rule of them is if you or anybody else finds yourself saying “why didn’t you just…” that’s a good indication that there is a deeper complexity at work that countless smart people have tried to fix

krispy kreme near neutral zone

Say this with love but why do so many white dudes love being wrong on the internet so much

The real DOGE administrator is the friends we made along the way

What's that you say Big Cases Bot? The Securing the Border rule has been vacated???!

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Look how overly optimistic I was lol

This is such a slay

This is honestly evergreen content

The gov't obeying the court order and taking steps to bring him back...would be the most obvious explanation in a different timeline. The thing that might support that explanation here in the bizarro timeline is, Xinis's clear unwillingness to tolerate malarkey means she wouldn't do it lightly 🤷

Fortunately the middle of the Venn diagram of ‘people who care what I think’ and ‘people who read what I write on Bluesky’ is quite small.

I love waking up every morning and trying to figure out exactly where we're at in the constitutional crisis story arc

Glowing letters are generally always more helpful than not. I think there’s about a .1% chance that the IJ would google a person who provided a letter of support.

British man's tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US government document A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, despite the man having no connection to th...

"Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked to find his forearm featured in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to help identify alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a transnational criminal organisation." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Got this at Pullman National Historic Park a while ago. Art by Ricardo Levins Morales.

If you are depressed about the state of the world then quite possibly the best thing you can do to improve the state of the world is attend to your mental health.

I did not say deportation has always been widespread. But it has always happened. I do not think it's a prediction to say that certain citizens are currently more vulnerable than in the past, I think that's reflective of what the legal community is seeing. But of course others are free to disagree.

The status quo doesn’t have to change for that to be true because it’s always been true. It’s just a lot more true now because there is a lot less concern about following the law and a lot more process-free deportation.

I mean listen. “Citizens aren’t vulnerable” is at best an un-nuanced take. “People don’t understand which citizens are vulnerable and why” is an absolutely accurate take. Where illegal deportation is widespread, citizens of color with barriers to advocating for themselves are absolutely vulnerable.

Honestly day MADE. I see a lot of people saying it should've been 3-0, and while I get that sentiment, the outcome was actually seriously in doubt. So TAKE THE W.

I think you’re absolutely right, yet also - if there’s no due process then there is no real guarantee that USCs will be able to exercise their rights. During 1.0 I wouldn’t have believed it but now it doesn’t seem like the biggest reach, especially for the party of birtherism and “real Americans.”

TLDR if you don't like asylum call your representatives, don't support autocracy. I mean - I doubt anyone who wants to eliminate asylum is reading this. But if so - maybe learn more about what asylum is and who it helps before you make those calls. It's a widely recognized international right.

If we as a country decided we didn't want to offer asylum anymore, congress, the representative branch of the government, could change the law. Congress hasn't done that. It would be a hugely unpopular move, b/c ultimately it's an obsession of white nationalists rather than "the will of the people."

One great confusion is whether the president somehow has the power to suspend or ban asylum. The answer is nope. Asylum is the law passed by congress. The executive has certain leeway in how it's enforced but cannot take action that totally nullifies the law. Doing so eliminates checks and balances.

Facts continue to be of little value in the "immigration debate" (whatever that even is). It's an ultra complex issue and I think many people just fall back on confirmation bias because it's so hard to make heads or tales of. I sympathize. But better to listen to experts than bros with opinions.

Just a reminder for those who are still unsure about this adamisacson.com/did-joe-bide...

A photo of an orange and white tabby cat sleeping on a cardboard box in between rows of small potted cacti and other plants at a home improvement store

Somebody's cat went missing in Back of the Yards, and was found sleeping peacefully on a box in the garden section at Home Depot

Boston Globe reports antics of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at Vermont/Quebec library that sits on Canada-U.S. border. She repeatedly stepped over taped boundary marker in middle of the library, referring to Canada as the "51st State" every time she stood in Canada.