WAIT, HOW DID WE HAVE CLIMATE CHANGE BEFORE SUVs? Duke Scientists Uncover Stronger, Ancient Versions of El Niño and La Niña.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 24, 2024
LIKE SPACESUITS? How Prada’s fancy Artemis III spacesuits work. I just hope that they’re compatible with SpaceX connections.
NEWS FROM MY NECK OF THE WOODS: Tennessee AG Exposes Federal Release of Illegal Immigrants Convicted of Dangerous Crimes.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti today announced that following a successful lawsuit by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) was forced to produce previously undisclosed information about the agency’s release of thousands of detained migrants, including dangerous convicted criminals. The hundreds of pages of documents obtained shed light on federal authorities’ since-abandoned plan to transport potentially thousands of “single adult” immigration detainees into Tennessee.
The records show that ICE’s plan to release migrants into this State was derailed by pushback from Tennessee’s Governor and U.S. Senators and ultimately stopped through successful litigation by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and other States. The information further reveals that although ICE abandoned its failed plan for the mass release of detainees into Tennessee, the agency nonetheless released over 7,000 detainees directly from its Louisiana facilities at that time, including more than 30 who were assigned ICE’s highest security-threat level. Released detainees had criminal records, including homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault with a weapon, armed robbery, kidnapping, smuggling aliens, drug trafficking, burglary, and fraud.
“The federal government’s single most important job is to keep dangerous people out of our country and instead it has let killers and rapists illegally cross our border and walk free on our streets,” said Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. “While the urgent work to fix our broken immigration system continues in Washington, my Office will keep fighting for transparency and accountability.”
In December 2022, the Governor’s Office learned that ICE had been coordinating with local immigration-rights groups and Nashville officials to release large numbers of detainees into Tennessee before the anticipated termination of the federal government’s Title 42 public health order. With support from the Governor, the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office immediately worked to obtain answers from the federal government. When federal authorities failed to respond to Tennessee’s Freedom of Information Act requests, the Attorney General’s Office filed suit.
As a result of the litigation, ICE searched for and produced hundreds of pages of responsive records that revealed the following:
Coordination between ICE, Nashville city officials, and a Tennessee immigration nonprofit to arrange for the mass release of detainees into Tennessee
ICE originally planned to release thousands of single, adult, non-citizen detainees from its Louisiana detention facilities into Tennessee
Data from ICE showing the release from its Louisiana detention facilities of non-citizen detainees with violent criminal records, including murder, rape, and kidnapping
You can find the documents from ICE here.
Pathetic, and I think the nonprofits, city officials, etc. should face some accountability. But nice work from the Tennessee AG’s office, and from AG Jonathan Skrmetti.
CDR SALAMANDER: Lies, Damn Lies, and Shipbuilding Plans.
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Columbia anti-Israel group echoes terrorist rallying cry to ‘besiege the embassies.’ Besiege the Hamas supporters. Turnabout is fair play.
DON SURBER: Gillette, Bud Light, Kamala: Calling an entire sex toxic is no way to sell blades, beer or candidates. “The problems are there. Women are 50% more likely to get into college and men are 9 times as likely to be in prison. The media and the government repeatedly try to emasculate men as they want to turn us into drones for these queen bees. The gender gap merely shines light on the problem. After decades of this stereotyping of men as evil and the constant discrimination against men, males have had it. The backlash may have begun with Hillary but it later torched Gillette, which launched a ridiculous ad campaign on attacking toxic masculinity.”
AND GIVEN WHAT HE’S DONE TO THE COUNTRY, THAT’S KIND: Biden will be remembered as a laughingstock.
IT’S A CLOWN SHOW WHERE MOST OF THE CLOWNS ARE CORRUPT AND ENTITLED: John Lucas: Fisking the Brass: Analyzing our self-proclaimed “National Security Leaders’” 2020 Presidential endorsement reveals their lack of expertise and reliability.
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: My chat (+transcript) with space journalist Eric Berger on SpaceX and America’s New Space Age.
Related: Two new anti-space books. For some people, the only invention they approve of is the wet blanket.
Also: Some Columbus Day Thoughts About Elon Musk: Big achievements and the hatred of the petty-minded.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Harris Campaign Ejects Muslim Leader from Detroit Rally.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Home Sales on Track for Worst Year Since 1995.
Sales of existing homes in the U.S. are on track for the worst year since 1995—for the second year in a row.
Persistently high home prices and elevated mortgage rates are keeping potential home buyers on the sidelines. Sales of previously owned homes in the first nine months of the year were lower than the same period last year, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.
Existing-home sales in September fell 1% from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.84 million, NAR said, the lowest monthly rate since October 2010. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had estimated a monthly decrease of 0.5%.
September sales fell 3.5% from a year earlier.
After a sluggish 2023, economists and real-estate executives widely expected activity to pick up in 2024.
More unexpected bad news.
CAN WE GET EVE PLUMB TO GO “HITLER! HITLER! HITLER!” FOR AN AD?
Democrats Explain Trump Was Going To Be Hitler During His First Term, But He Forgot https://t.co/qI3TQ53yZN pic.twitter.com/lCXjKRaDV2
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 23, 2024
THEY’RE HATING THE MCDONALD’S THING: Ron Hart: Democrats Seek to Establish No-Fry Zone.
Trump highlighted Kamala’s unsubstantiated claim that she worked at McDonald’s by going to work at the fry station at one in Pennsylvania. In his patented way of breaking through and around the mainstream media hatred of him with an act of swashbuckling showmanship, Trump scored a political win with this stunt. . . .
Trump likes McDonald’s and identifies with the working class. It seems odd for an entitled New York billionaire, but he does. The Internet is suggesting that Kamala must do something to try to match Trump’s successful McDonald’s campaign event. It burnished Trump’s brand; to match him, you wonder if Kamala will do Five Guys.
The left dismisses the very clear lie that she worked at McDonald’s. It is such a simple question, one easy to verify, and it is journalistic malpractice that the media have not pressed her on it. . . .
Trump seemed to fit right in working at that McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. He would have been Employee of the Month, until human resources wrote him up for talking about Arnold Palmer in the shower.
When he left McDonald’s, he promised, if elected, to fix the ice cream machine and make Taco Bell pay for it.
You can tell he scored by the sour reactions, from Democrats and from the media — but I repeat myself.
October 23, 2024
IT’S NOT PRETTY, AND THE CONSEQUENCES WON’T BE:
Perhaps the biggest attraction of the Left was the cool factor it conferred. You became sophisticated, elite. You were admitted to all in the in-jokes. You left the McDonald's crowd and all those terrible places where people actually said prayers before they ate.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 23, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.