Jan:Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests

Jan:Trump Team Focuses Deportations On Immigration Numbers, Not Criminals

Feb: Trump’s new deportation quotas are going to hurt a lot of people

March: Trump Administration Makes a New Push to Speed Up Deportations

April: U.S. deportation tracker: Counting arrests, deportations

May: Trump administration sets quota to arrest 3,000 people a day in anti-immigration agenda

June: ICE’s tactics draw criticism as it triples daily arrest targets

June:ICE sets quotas to deliver on immigration crackdown on employers

June: Even Donald Trump Is Starting to See the Absurdity of Stephen Miller’s Deportation Targets

On Thursday, Trump himself told supporters in farming and the hospitality business that more “common sense” was needed in how the Department of Homeland Security approached removals of “very good workers, they have worked for [American farmers] for 20 years.” Trump further acknowledged that his administration “can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back.” By Saturday, ICE leadership formally directed its agents to stop all enforcement on agriculture, restaurants and operating hotels, effective immediately. Investigations that have to do with human trafficking, money laundering or drug smuggling were given the green light to continue.

6 days ago:Judges press Trump administration on deportation quotas

5 days ago:Trump administration appeals order that halted immigration raids in Southern California

Friday: Judge Bars Expedited Deportations of Migrants Paroled Into U.S.

A federal judge in Washington barred the Trump administration on Friday from summarily removing hundreds of thousands of migrants who had been paroled into the United States after fleeing instability or violence in their home countries, blocking an aggressive push by the Department of Homeland Security to deport noncitizens.

The move came in a ruling by Judge Jia M. Cobb of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that blocked the administration’s termination of a Biden-era program that allowed migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to stay in the United States for up to two years. The ruling halted, for now, the rapid removal of individuals paroled into the United States “at any time.”

Also Friday, DOJ: “neither Ice leadership nor its field offices have been directed to meet any numerical quota or target for arrests, detentions, removals, field encounters, or any other operational activities that Ice or its components undertake in the course of enforcing federal immigration law.”

I wonder why anyone would even think they ever had quotas?

They give daily quotas. They’re saying they don’t so that people will be less hesitant to join up with Nazis. You should be hesitant.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/trump-administration-daily-quota-immigration-arrests

In a new court filing, attorneys for the Trump administration denied the existence of a daily quota for immigration arrests, despite reports and prior statements from White House officials about pursuing a goal of at least 3,000 deportations or deportation arrests per day.

In May, reports from both the Guardian and Axios revealed that during a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) leaders on 21 May, the White House adviser Stephen Miller and the Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people per day.

All maps for all states should be done by computer

I would be fine with that under any administration before this one. Any government related technology now comes with bullshit and theatrics baked in by executive order.

Oh, I think I can see where the mix up happened.

It sounds like your wife was trying to serve her country in order to help keep it running. If you want to be rewarded under this administration you have to be willing to betray your country in order to help dismantle it.

I think they give them quotas to make sure they’re bringing people in. And maybe even lists of names to detain? Like bounty hunters for the federal government.

At a time when the U.S. job market is slowing down and prices remain high, ICE is offering $50,000 signing bonuses and $60,000 in student loan repayment with a salary of about $50,000 to $90,000.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has already issued 1,000 tentative job offers, the Associated Press reported Friday. A spokesperson for DHS said many of the people offered jobs were “ICE officers who retired under President Biden because they were frustrated that they were not allowed to do their jobs.” These retired officers are being offered $88,000 to $144,000 along with a $50,000 bonus.

A. Fucking scumbags B. Please don’t let anyone forget that the BBB took away healthcare for millions of Americans in order to pay for these salaries

No bc laws only apply to people who don’t bow to the king. Trump insulted Ted Cruz’s wife in front of the nation, and he still puckers up to kiss that ring at every chance he gets.

Other slightly less worrisome and actually more likely worst case scenario.

Have they done it during Trump 2.0?

This is really insane. The president of the United States, is asking the state to redraw local districts to help keep (Republican) and his grip on power.

Hopefully

Trump: Hold my beer democracy

I’m just not putting anything past him right now. He wants an official constitutional crisis sooo bad. The war of passive aggression is only fun when people are bowing down to him.

I’m also just really worried since MAGA base hasn’t let go of Epstein, he would use something like this as a distraction. Especially with all those new ICE hires who I’m sure would jump at the chance to receive a medal for violating the constitution on behalf of POTUS. But that is also just me being anxious and trying to prepare for worst case scenario.

I’m glad they’re at least trying to resist bc this is insane, and he’s honestly left them with no other option. Even if they do just vote for it anyway, I’m not sure what else Dems really can do at this point? At least they’re doing something.

Hoping this is receiving local attention, but if TX news is looking anything like local news in my state rn I would guess that’s a no.

Refusing to attend legislative session is a civil violation, however, so Democrats legally could not be jailed and it’s unclear who has the power to carry out the warrants.

Texas: Hold my beer.

Definitely not a coincidence.

https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/reagan-and-heritage-unique-partnership

“We can’t trade innovation and efficiency for how we treat the people in our custody.”

That is exactly what you’re doing though. Efficiency first, everything boils down to making sure you maximize your dollar. Stop treating prison like a business you ignorant fucking jackass.

This is where the line is supposed to be drawn when it comes to “running the government like a business.” Human Rights do not take second place to efficiency!

The U.S. wants to be China, even if it means repeating the same mistakes and destroying any semblance of civil liberty. We’re on a fast track, and they don’t care who they hurt or what rights they violate as long as they can feel like they won.

I think it’s odd (and pretty terrifying) the U.K. and U.S. have been on such similar and almost coordinated authoritarian tracks over the last few years. It started with a lot of gradual steps and more recently they seem to be ramping things up (which also seems pretty common for authoritarianism/by the time most people notice something weird is happening it’s too late).

Both ramping up A.I. to spy on, and control/micromanage their own civilians while refusing regulations or any public accountability for the A.I. they’re developing.

April 2024: U.S., U.K. Announce Partnership to Safety Test AI Models

Feb 2025: UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration

May 2025: Brexit’s Failures Could Foreshadow Trump’s. Just Not in the Way You Might Think.

Sameish. I thought soap was supposed to damage it. I boil water, use a metal spatula to help lift anything stuck on there, dump the water, wipe it dry, then add oil and wipe it one more time and leave it on the stove so it’s ready to use again.

I’ll be honest, I still don’t really understand what “season” means, but I’ve been doing that several times a week for like ~7 years now without any issues (that I’m aware of, I guess).

You’re confusing personality and morality. that’s a shitty way to put that, sorry.

Those are two separate things.

I never argued that a personality change couldn’t occur. Personality change in humans following a brain lesion from an injury is neuroscience 101.

That is not what this is.

I’m arguing that Fetterman’s support of things that contradict who he (still to this day, claims to be) are harmful to the people he is supposed to represent should not be excused as simply a consequence of his stroke.

Edit: So this ended up making me interested in just looking more into the neuroscience of morality.

Damage to the prefrontal cortex is associated with an increase in utilitarian moral judgements. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements(2008)

Damage to the amygdala (vs frontal) actually seemed to cause a breakdown of utilitarian moral behavior Breakdown of utilitarian moral judgement after basolateral amygdala damage

Here, in humans with selective bilateral BLA damage, we show breakdown in outcome-based sacrificial moral judgements. Across dilemmas, healthy control subjects routinely opt for sacrifice, but BLA-damaged subjects rarely select the sacrificial option, even when thousands of lives can be saved. Our data suggest that value-based decisions to sacrifice another human for “the greater good” critically depend on the BLA.

Participants with hippocampal damage were also less likely to choose the utilitarian option Hippocampal Damage Increases Deontological Responses during Moral Decision Making

We found that the patients approved of the utilitarian options significantly less often than control participants, favoring instead deontological responses—rejecting actions that harm even one person. Thus, patients with hippocampal damage have a strikingly opposite approach to moral decision making than vmPFC-lesioned patients.

Conversely, this 2022 paper found brain damage itself is not a significant predictor: Intact moral decision-making in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury

Our results suggest that moral decision-making ability is not uniformly impaired following TBI. Rather, neuroanatomical (lesion location) and demographic (age at injury) characteristics may be more predictive of a disruption in moral decision-making than TBI diagnosis or injury severity alone. These results inform the neurobiology of moral decision-making and have implications for characterizing patterns of spared and impaired cognitive abilities in TBI.

A 2025 study looking at both frontal and non frontal brain damage found that individuals with brain damage did indeed seem to make incorrect judgments about intention and blame worthyness and we’re more likely to be punitive to an antagonist in scenarios they were presented compared to healthy controls. They also found in that in this scenario moral judgment ratings did not differ between frontal and non‐frontal lobe damage (but note a small sample size of frontal lobe damage). Impact of brain damage on moral judgment

This wasn’t a study of brain damage, but really interesting in terms of difference in morality networks of conservative vs liberals:

Moral reasoning displays characteristic patterns in the brain, with distinctions between moral categories

They discovered that a general network of brain regions was involved in judging moral violations, like cheating on a test, in contrast with mere social norm violations, such as drinking coffee with a spoon. What’s more, the network’s topography overlapped strikingly with the brain regions involved in theory of mind. However, distinct activity patterns emerged at finer resolution, suggesting that the brain processes different moral issues along different pathways, supporting a pluralist view of moral reasoning. The results, published in Nature Human Behaviour, even reveal differences between how liberals and conservatives evaluate a given moral issue.

Mounting evidence from survey and behavioral experiments suggests that liberals (progressives) are more sensitive to the categories of care/harm and fairness/cheating, which primarily protect the rights and freedoms of individuals. Conservatives, in contrast, place greater emphasis on the loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation categories, which generally operate at the group level.

“Indeed, our results provide evidence at the neurological level that liberals and conservatives have complex differential neural responses when judging moral foundations,” Weber explained. That means individuals at different points along the political spectrum likely emphasize completely different values when evaluating a particular issue.

If it could be shown that following his stroke and recovery, his brain for example re-wired to function in a morally conservative way, it would makes him less culpable for his actions, but it also raises an interesting question. If voters elected a Democrat who then “became a conservative,” should he have considered stepped down because he could no longer represent the people that elected him?

Everything is on the table. Something like production of speech into meaning can be damaged following a stroke, so that somebody could very clearly write down what they want to say but lose the ability to verbally express the same words.

There is no single area of the brain that fully regulates or controls moral behavior. Even with global damage you would expect to see decreased functioning of several areas. You might expect randomness or inconsistencies in behavior, but this seems like a pretty consistent pattern for him. That’s what makes it hard to believe brain damage is the full explanation.

The behavior that results following brain damage usually correlates with where the brain damage occurs.

To say that this would fully explain Fetterman is to pretend that there is a single imaginary area of the brain that works as a moral compass and his was completely wiped out following his stroke.

That’s not to say he couldn’t be more easily manipulated or persuaded by outside forces because of the brain damage.

One of my best friends has had multiple TBIs. She doesn’t always make the best decisions, but she is still a good person with the same morals and core values she has always had.

In the case of Fetterman, I feel like you’re really giving brain damage too much credit for his consistent willingness to do harm to other people.

Even other people with brain damage have spoken out against this guy.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/as-fellow-stroke-survivor-fetterman-disgusts-me-20341662.php