Thank you Gabe for the audio! I am an older American who is most interested in what you share with all of us. Every word and thought is well considered and substantiated, - it is so much easier to listen than read anymore. Your work is clearly stated and much appreciated. Your generation is where my hope resides - thank you!
Thank you Mary, like many in my age group I am having trouble finding my way around the tech - but I am trying! I will swallow my pride and get some help from someone who finds it ‘intuitive’!
Audio is not just for us older peeps! I work in higher ed, developing online courses and we’ve heard over and over from students that they love audio and video from their instructor - much more personalized and somehow easier than text.
Thank you for this Lisa! I believe you. When Sesame Street came into the culture, children were offered learning through a variety of approaches and I could see more children picking up on concepts much more quickly. There seemed to be a drop in attention span too, but any clear pathway to learning is a good one.
It makes sense to use every option available to reach all generations in this crisis - if tech got us into this mess, I am grateful that now it is helping us to dig out of it!
2. How to stop trump and his astonishingly cruel administration from sending people to a foreign country’s gulag?
3. How to get those men already sent to El Salvador back so their cases can be properly handled here?
4. How to stop Rubio, Bondi, Holman and the disgusting prison porn video queen Noem now before they start targeting anyone who doesn’t worship trump and musk?
5. How to reach a much wider audience on how fast America is sliding into a dictator (trump/musk) run fascist state?
6. Explain exactly what tech billionaires zuckerberg and thiel (and others) are attempting to do with so-called “Freedom Cities”.
7. Research the potentially dire consequences of having End Timers in government office and anywhere near trump. (The first time it was, among others, Pence and Pompeo.) To dismiss this influence could be quite tragic.
8. Perhaps you could stop reporting on musk as though he were a legitimate member of our government. “The first elections of the DOGE era.” Seriously?
All the money!!! All the requests for donations!!! Who, in their grade school civics classes, would have thought that our great system was actually all about the money? How do we put more emphasis on the great parts?
Others have reported that the man deported to El Salvador was found NOT to be a member of MS-13, and was granted protection from deportation to El Salvador in 2019. No evidence of gang affiliation has been produced. You wrote that a judge ruled he was a likely member of MS-13.
Hi Kiersten, thanks for writing. Here is what the immigration judge wrote in 2019: “After considering the information provided by both parties, the Court concluded that no bond was appropriate in this matter. The Court first reasoned that the Respondent failed to meet his burden of demonstrating that his release from custody would not pose a danger to others, as the evidence shows that he is a verified member of MS-13... The determination that the Respondent is a gang member appears to be trustworthy and is supported by other evidence in the record, namely, information contained in the Gang Field Interview Sheet. Although the Court is reluctant to give evidentiary weight to the Respondent's clothing as an indication of gang affiliation, the fact that a ‘past, proven, and reliable source of information’ verified the Respondent's gang membership, rank, and gang name is sufficient to support that the Respondent is a gang member, and the Respondent has failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion.”
Later, a judge ordered the he be removed from the US but that he couldn’t be sent to El Salvador because of fears of persecution. The US violated that order by sending him to El Salvador anyway, an error the government acknowledges (while also claiming they are unable to remedy). But I do think a fair summary of the judge’s finding above is that he was a likely member of MS-13.
Hi Gabe. I have a theory that the Wisconsin results are less incongruent than meets the eye. Reason: Wisconsin is maybe slightly moderately conservative on economic issues such as the November election dominant issues, and moderately liberal on social issues, such as such as abortion, which apparently the winner of the election in Wisconsin emphasized. Thoughts?
Just watched the first five minutes of the first episode of Better Off Ted. Trojan horse. When you lay out the premise that there are “evil corporstions,” all you are really doing is the “few bad apples” argument. In reality, the difference between a “good” corporation and a “bad” corporation comes down to prevailing market conditions. If there ever was such a thing as a truly good corporation, it would have been dismantled by corporate raiders years ago.
Great piece as always, Gabe. One thing that I wish was better understood about Wisconsin is that its political geography makes it very hard to draw a Congressional map that's fair and proportional.
Democrats are distributed across Wisconsin in such a way that two House seats will always be very blue, two will be light red, and the remaining four will be strongly Republican.
Thank you Gabe for the audio! I am an older American who is most interested in what you share with all of us. Every word and thought is well considered and substantiated, - it is so much easier to listen than read anymore. Your work is clearly stated and much appreciated. Your generation is where my hope resides - thank you!
If you use the Substack app, there's also an AI generated audio option! Not as nice as hearing the actual person, but helpful at times.
Thank you both for listening!! Glad you like the recording -- will try to do more of them!
Thank you Mary, like many in my age group I am having trouble finding my way around the tech - but I am trying! I will swallow my pride and get some help from someone who finds it ‘intuitive’!
At 40 it's starting to happen to me too! I'm sure you're doing great. I think the "play" button is at the top of each post. Right side.
You just made my day - I did find the arrow and now I’ll be comfortably informed! Thank you and now I’ll see about following you☺️
Glad to help!
Audio is not just for us older peeps! I work in higher ed, developing online courses and we’ve heard over and over from students that they love audio and video from their instructor - much more personalized and somehow easier than text.
Thank you for this Lisa! I believe you. When Sesame Street came into the culture, children were offered learning through a variety of approaches and I could see more children picking up on concepts much more quickly. There seemed to be a drop in attention span too, but any clear pathway to learning is a good one.
It makes sense to use every option available to reach all generations in this crisis - if tech got us into this mess, I am grateful that now it is helping us to dig out of it!
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1. How to legally get musk out of our government?
2. How to stop trump and his astonishingly cruel administration from sending people to a foreign country’s gulag?
3. How to get those men already sent to El Salvador back so their cases can be properly handled here?
4. How to stop Rubio, Bondi, Holman and the disgusting prison porn video queen Noem now before they start targeting anyone who doesn’t worship trump and musk?
5. How to reach a much wider audience on how fast America is sliding into a dictator (trump/musk) run fascist state?
6. Explain exactly what tech billionaires zuckerberg and thiel (and others) are attempting to do with so-called “Freedom Cities”.
7. Research the potentially dire consequences of having End Timers in government office and anywhere near trump. (The first time it was, among others, Pence and Pompeo.) To dismiss this influence could be quite tragic.
8. Perhaps you could stop reporting on musk as though he were a legitimate member of our government. “The first elections of the DOGE era.” Seriously?
All the money!!! All the requests for donations!!! Who, in their grade school civics classes, would have thought that our great system was actually all about the money? How do we put more emphasis on the great parts?
Others have reported that the man deported to El Salvador was found NOT to be a member of MS-13, and was granted protection from deportation to El Salvador in 2019. No evidence of gang affiliation has been produced. You wrote that a judge ruled he was a likely member of MS-13.
Hi Kiersten, thanks for writing. Here is what the immigration judge wrote in 2019: “After considering the information provided by both parties, the Court concluded that no bond was appropriate in this matter. The Court first reasoned that the Respondent failed to meet his burden of demonstrating that his release from custody would not pose a danger to others, as the evidence shows that he is a verified member of MS-13... The determination that the Respondent is a gang member appears to be trustworthy and is supported by other evidence in the record, namely, information contained in the Gang Field Interview Sheet. Although the Court is reluctant to give evidentiary weight to the Respondent's clothing as an indication of gang affiliation, the fact that a ‘past, proven, and reliable source of information’ verified the Respondent's gang membership, rank, and gang name is sufficient to support that the Respondent is a gang member, and the Respondent has failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion.”
The full document is here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.11.1_1.pdf. He then appealed, and another judge sided with the initial judge here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.11.2.pdf
Later, a judge ordered the he be removed from the US but that he couldn’t be sent to El Salvador because of fears of persecution. The US violated that order by sending him to El Salvador anyway, an error the government acknowledges (while also claiming they are unable to remedy). But I do think a fair summary of the judge’s finding above is that he was a likely member of MS-13.
Hi Gabe. I have a theory that the Wisconsin results are less incongruent than meets the eye. Reason: Wisconsin is maybe slightly moderately conservative on economic issues such as the November election dominant issues, and moderately liberal on social issues, such as such as abortion, which apparently the winner of the election in Wisconsin emphasized. Thoughts?
Just watched the first five minutes of the first episode of Better Off Ted. Trojan horse. When you lay out the premise that there are “evil corporstions,” all you are really doing is the “few bad apples” argument. In reality, the difference between a “good” corporation and a “bad” corporation comes down to prevailing market conditions. If there ever was such a thing as a truly good corporation, it would have been dismantled by corporate raiders years ago.
Great piece as always, Gabe. One thing that I wish was better understood about Wisconsin is that its political geography makes it very hard to draw a Congressional map that's fair and proportional.
Democrats are distributed across Wisconsin in such a way that two House seats will always be very blue, two will be light red, and the remaining four will be strongly Republican.
As much as I enjoy your writing, also enjoy your humor, which you use quite sparingly.
The Politico link isn’t working for me, the one about the man deported with protected status. Did anyone else have that issue?