White supremacists are going to white supremacists.

The propaganda tools that the 21st century authoritarians have are a lot greater than that of the 20th century regimes. Goebbels would have loved social media and YouTube. Just an easy way to lead people down the rabbit hole.

The first theory doesn't require DHS to prove things. All the Secretary of State has to do is issue a letter on why this person is a foreign policy embarrassment and the IJ will approve it. The second theory is a lot more risky because it puts the burden of proof on DHS. I hope that Khalil's lawyers are consulting with people who know immigration law though.

Resident immigration lawyer here. The immigration lawyer community believes that DHS is going argue one of these two theories for removal Khalil.

1. There is an obscure provision in the INA that allows the Secretary of State to remove non-citizens who are believed to be foreign policy embarrassments for the United States. This is a very rare but very broad power.

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2014/07/25/3400.pdf

2. They will argue that he made a material misrepresentation in his immigration paperwork by saying no to the questions regarding to material support for terrorism when he clearly supports the terrorist organizations of Hamas and Hezbollah. Material support for terrorism is again given a very broad definition under the law.

The money quote from the essay:

"So here’s where we get to my bill of indictment, based on my own lived experience (ahem) of these debates way back in the 1990s. In those days, when I was in college and grad school at Berkeley, a standard normie liberal critique of poststructuralism was that the anti-Enlightenment epistemic radicalism of the left, while overtly trained against the complacencies of small-l liberalism, would eventually “make space” for right wing critiques of liberalism.

This was a point that Jurgen Habermas made over and over again in his many debates with the likes of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Niklas Luhmann, and others. Having been raised in Hitler’s Germany, Habermas understood very well the risks associated with abandoning discourse ethics and embracing epistemic relativism, cynicism, or even nihilism. Habermas argued that the ideas these men were promoting, allegedly “from the left,” were sapping the epistemic foundations of democratic practice, which depended on the “regulative ideal” of reasoned, good faith discourse as a mechanism for achieving a “fusion of horizons.”

A lot of theories that originated in the Ivory Tower managed to escape it thanks to the power of the Internet. Now you have people who really don't have much background or training in those theories lecturing other normies about the inherent racism of whiteness.

This is something that I don't understand. California highways are filled with big electronic billboards remindins people that "buzzed driving is drunk driving" and "if tired, pull over and take a rest." This suggests that the government knows that driving is dangerous, many people are bad drivers, and they are going to drive under less than ideal conditions. They then set up a system that requires people to drive to get anywhere and go out at night.

I'm actually a bit pissed at the speed because it shows that a government can move fast on physical work when it wants to.

I'm sorry but the anti-Zionists always claim to not be anti-Semitic but then they do things like go to random Jewish neighborhoods and yell and hit at residents like a crowd of protestors did at Boro Park, Brooklyn in late February this year. They don't say what Jews should have done in light of the exclusion and persecution we faced. Many of them even pretend it never existed.

Anti-Zionists at best demonstrate serious antipathy towards the Jewish people and basically find us an ideological nuisance. They have this neat cosmology in their heads and Jews don't fit into it.

What I think they want is for the Jews to be seen and not heard. They want us to exist in obscure little islands that keep to ourselves while the big block groups that they love get to make a noise.

The Courts don't shut down immediately but they do eventually shut down.

Being a citizen comes with responsibility. I don't like how the trend is to permit the abrogation of citizenship responsibilities.

Has it ever occurred to you that maybe people can try to bel less evil overall rather than having the forces of liberalism continually have to compromise to get the votes of the less evil of the evil people?

The Jerusalem Post puts the vote for Harris between 63% or 71%. 66% is still an overwhelming majority if that is the correct figure.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-832086

American Jews voted overwhelmingly for Harris.

The gates are being put up fast.

Heritage Foundation drafts report calling for end of U.S. aid to Israel. So much that the Right is better for Jews:

https://jewishinsider.com/2025/03/heritage-foundation-prepared-report-calling-for-ending-u-s-aid-to-israel/

A lot of the Pro-Palestinian activist in the West argue that the only just solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is in fact the disappearance of Israel. Sometimes this involves a South African solution and sometimes this involves all the Jews going "home." This is why they adopted the specific framework of anti-Zionism and settler-colonialism during the protests and chanted "from the River to the Sea, Palestine should be free" and said that Israeli Jews should go back to Poland.

There is no evidence that they are lying when they say that or whether they, and the Palestinians themselves, will back down if given the WB and Gaza.

SF has been adding fair gate barriers that people can't jump over to the system. I haven't seen any bad behavior in months.

Just because inter-city passenger rail in the United States might not have made sense like it did in Europe, doesn't mean that we should have totally ignored intra-city transit. Like the gigantic sprawling cities create a lot of miserable driving experiences and road rage. Even with dispersed work destinations rather than everybody going downtown or to a few industrial areas for work, having everybody have to drive everywhere causes problems.

I take BART everyday. There was a problem with disorderly conduct but that has been cleared up.

I don't think this is accurate on how America abandoned public transportation and inter-city rail transportation. A lot of transit systems like BART, the DC metro, and MARTA were built during the height of the Cold War because it was clear everybody driving everywhere did not work. Other systems were planned but got nowhere. Plus, transit and rail transit was in decline long before the Cold War started and only the Great Depression and WWII rationing saved it a little. Transit ridership peaked around WWI and started crashing down fast after that.

By the mid-1930s, over one out of three American households had cars. In contrast, I think only around 4% of British households had cars at the time. Americans were wealthy enough to afford cars and the car also fitted our cultural self image as free wheeling and dealing people who went where we wanted when we wanted. So Americans took to the car in vast numbers and government policy followed them because of a combination that is what the people wanted, overall cultural love for the car that effected officials too, and a reluctance to give a tough no to a public that loved cars plus some other stuff like a belief dispersal is better defense policy in case of nuclear attack and a love for the single family home. A lot of the transit and rail companies were also hated during the early to mid-20th century.

Europeans also promoted the car a lot after WWII and Europeans took to the car when they could afford it. Britain, France, Italy, and other countries ripped up many of their tram networks and replaced them with buses just like the cities of the Western hemisphere. The reason why transit and rail was invested in was because fewer Europeans could afford cars until the 1960s and 1970s. Italy invested a lot more in roads than cars. Same with the United Kingdom. Only France really invested in rail like the United States did.

The bomb is kind of useless if it can never be used. If people think that Israel needs to withdraw from the West Bank and end the blockade of Gaza without any real deal and just endure a certain amount of terrorism, they should say so.

There seems to be a gigantic one way street where only Israel has agency and the Palestinians lack all agency. This one way street can be expanded to cover Jewish-Muslim relations globally, where the entire burden falls on Jews and we have to offer all olive branches while the Muslims get to treat Jews with horrible arrogance.

TL/DR version: With the left, I always get the feeling that they always want Jews to support them because of our history of persecution. At the same time, they would deny us the things they grant to other groups they like because we are wypipo doing wypipo things. It is absolute demand for support in one hand and complete denial of rights in the other hand.

Like Dark Matter says, there should be at least some consistency in this. There are people who can speak about the evils of Western imperialism in "Islamic lands" without irony but also lambast Israel for being an "evil racist ethnostate" at the same time. You can't have it both ways. You can't say that "Muslim state/lands good, Jewish state bad" unless you are an Islamic theocrat.

The other big issue is that we Jews are always taught to support this or that cause because of our history of persecution but at the same time not treated as a real minority. At best we get "well, I guess it's good that the Jews preserved their own culture" while celebrating other oppressed groups with masturbatory delight. At worse we Jews are called insular, clannish, greedy, and guilty of dual loyalty and international conspiracy for wanting the same things that other groups want.

FFS.