Welcome to CaturSaturday, February 7, 2026. It’s shabbos for Jewish cats, and National Fettuccine Alfredo Day, celebrating my favorite pasta dish.
It’s also “e” Day (the first two digits of that irrational number are 2.7, and today is 2/7 in English notation), Ice Cream For Breakfast Day, International Pisco Sour Day (a good drink when properly made), National Patty Melt Day, and Ballet Day.
Here’s Mikhail Baryshnikov, now 78, doing his stuff. Although I’m not a real ballet fan, I love it when the male dancers do stuff like this. There is good explanation of his more difficult moves, which made me appreciate the art more.
Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the February 7 Wikipedia page.
Da Nooz:
*According to the NY Times and satellite image analysis, Iran has resumed work on building missiles, though progress on nuclear enrichment and nuclear bombs is apparently slow. Is anyone surprised that they’re busy building missiles again? This gives the U.S. and Israel another reason to attack Iran, as Itan and its proxies can use missiles against Israel.
Iran appears to have rapidly repaired several ballistic missile facilities damaged in strikes last year, but it has made only limited fixes to major nuclear sites struck by Israel and the United States, a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery suggests.
The uneven pace of reconstruction offers clues about Iran’s military priorities as the United States amasses forces near it and President Trump weighs new military action. If the United States were to attack, Iran would most likely retaliate with ballistic missiles targeting Israel and U.S. assets in the region.
The United States and Iran were expected to meet in Oman on Friday in an attempt to stave off another conflict. The scope of the talks was not immediately clear, but Iran’s nuclear program was likely to be a key focus.
Experts who closely track Iranian nuclear and missile programs corroborated the analysis by The Times, which looked at around two dozen locations struck by Israel or the United States during the 12-day conflict last June. The Times found construction work at more than half of them.
The experts cautioned that the full extent of the repairs remains unclear, given that satellite imagery offers only an aboveground view of the construction.
Satellite images analyzed by The Times show that repair work has been carried out over the past few months at a dozen missile facilities or more, including production sites.
. . . .Intelligence assessments have found that Iran has largely rebuilt its ballistic missile program since the attacks in June.
“The emphasis that’s been put on rebuilding the missile program stands in contrast to the nuclear program,” said Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, Calif.
The White House’s National Security Strategy, published in November, says that the strikes “significantly degraded Iran’s nuclear program.”
Experts say that despite some visible work, Iran’s three main enrichment facilities — Isfahan, Natanz and Fordo — appear inoperative.
Since December, Iran has erected roofs at two of the facilities, which makes it hard to determine whether any rebuilding is happening inside the structures. Experts say that could mean it is trying to recover assets without being observed from above. Much of the other aboveground damage caused in June remains visible.
Putting roofs over nuclear facilities does show that they don’t want anybody to see them, whether or not they are active. They likely want to keep their activities secret, for if nothing is happening, they can still use the threat of nukes as a bargaining chip, and if something is happening, they don’t want to give the U.S. and Israel a chance to attack. What is certain is they have not abandoned their plans to create nuclear weapons.
*The Palestinian Authority (PA’s) Martyr’s Fund, known more accurately as the “Pay for slay” program, is a fund that pays off terrorists who kill Israeli Jews and go to prison, or pays off their families. It takes up 7% of the PA’s annual budget, and of course has been widely criticized. Last year, PA President for Life Mahmoud Abbas promised to end the fund, but the Free Beacon (yes, a right-wing source, but corroborated by the Times of Israel) indicates that the fund is still active:
The Palestinian Authority is set to distribute $315 million this year to terrorists and their families in blatant violation of President Mahmoud Abbas’s pledge to end its “pay-to-slay” program, according to a new analysis by Palestinian Media Watch shared exclusively with the Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo. The pay-to-slay payments typically go to Palestinians in Israeli prisons for terror offenses—as well as to their families—and to families of Palestinian terrorists who died in suicide bombings and other attacks on Israel.
The report finds that the PA is quietly routing money through its civil service, Palestinian Security Forces, as well as its pension system, allowing more than 23,500 recipients to collect monthly stipends of up to $3,800, a sizable sum in the region. Abbas’s government, Palestinian Media Watch says, “is not voluntarily disclosing that 10,000 terror reward recipients are hidden in the civil service, the PASF, and as 50-year-old PA pensioners.”
The findings reinforce last week’s State Department determination that the PA has merely disguised its terror payments rather than ending them. After Abbas, 90, declared the program dead in February 2025, international donors resumed funding some Palestinian Authority programs, unaware that terror payments had been rerouted through agencies like the Palestinian National Economic Empowerment Institution. Telegram messages reviewed by Palestinian Media Watch show recipients confirming that “the situation … has returned to how it was before,” with prisoners and wounded fighters now classified as pensioners and paid accordingly.
The report also documents more than $86 million flowing to 13,500 terrorist families in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt via the Palestine Liberation Organization, the PA’s parent organization, which faces less scrutiny.
As Abbas seeks renewed Western backing, the evidence suggests the incentive system he promised to dismantle is actually secretly expanding. A State Department official says the deception disqualifies the PA from eventually governing postwar Gaza—which is part of the American plan for the territory—warning that “attempts … to conceal payments to relatives of those who have murdered both Americans and Israelis are unacceptable.”
This is no surprise to me. While everyone seems to think the PA would be a good organization to run Gaza under a “two state solution,” in fact the PA, like Hamas, is dedicated to promulgating terrorism. And it have been suggested by Trump as one of the parties to run Gaza in the interim. Nevertheless, Gazans and Hamas hate the PA, and killed many of them when Hamas won the last election in Gaza——beating Fatah, the PA’s political party. In the last two decades, Hamas has allowed no elections in Gaza. Does the UN object to that, or anybody else save Israel, for that matter? Of course not.
*I didn’t know that Emily Yoffe, a liberal who’s been writing about gender activists, has been writing for the Free Press, but I just discovered it with her FP article, “The rise and fall of youth gender medicine.”
Here’s a snapshot of something commonplace just five years ago: During a lecture on endocrinology, one medical school professor begged the students to forgive him for his offensiveness. His wrongdoing? Saying “pregnant women.” Another doctor received so many online complaints from students in real time while she was lecturing that when the class finished she burst into tears. Her misdeed? Saying “male” and “female.”
These incidents, and many more, were reported in a pathbreaking story, “Med Schools Are Now Denying Biological Sex,” by Katie Herzog, published in July 2021 in The Free Press, or Common Sense as it was then named. It was our first story about a gender mania that was sweeping the country and undermining institutions, from education, to government, to the media, to—most shockingly—medicine itself.
This ideology had come on so quickly, and was enforced by activists so fiercely, that using the wrong pronoun could and did put one’s job in jeopardy. People were told that biological sex was a fiction. Many, depending on their profession, were forced to say they believed this. Remember the attestation that “trans women are women”?
. . .Dozens of stories later, we have done just that. And now we find ourselves at a promising, and perilous, moment of change. We have gotten here because of journalists willing to investigate and tell the truth, because of victims and whistleblowers willing to speak up, because of clinicians willing to say harm was being done to patients, and because of lawyers willing to bring suits.
Consider that earlier this week we published an exclusive account, “A Legal First That Could Change Gender Medicine,” by Ben Ryan, about the first malpractice case by a detransitioner to reach a successful jury verdict. (A detransitioner is someone who, after transitioning, later returns to living as their biological sex.)
. . .Which brings us to today. It now seems safe to (quietly) take the pronouns off your email signature. And you can probably say “pregnant women” without fearing the gulag. But the issue is far from resolved.
Upon retaking office, Donald Trump made ending gender transition of minors a high-profile domestic issue. In response, some blue states are offering themselves as sanctuaries for these minors, and their families, seeking medical intervention. In Leor Sapir’s December 2025 piece for us, “‘We’re All Just Winging It’: What the Gender Doctors Say in Private,” Sapir warns that our penchant for headlines about the end of youth transition may be premature. Envisioning a Democratic president eager to undo what Trump has done, Sapir writes, “There is the looming question of whether we will simply ping-pong between Democratic expansion and Republican restriction.”
Sapir notes such expansion would be against the desires of the majority of Democratic voters. He writes, “More than seven in 10 Americans, including more than half of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, believe minors should not be offered puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, according to a recentNew York Times/Ipsos poll.”
Yoffee gives the Free Press has been responsible for much of the change in attitudes, but I think they are taking too much credit, for right-wing sites have been banging this drum for a long time. Nevertheless, the MSM has largely ignored the problematic acts of those who, for example, say that biological sex is a spectrum, so perhaps the site has had an effect on the Left, which is largely behind the more harmful gender activism. Yoffee clearly applauds the changes she describes, and so do it.
*Oy! Nellie isn’t here for her weekly snark-and-news summary at The Free Press; she’s replaced by Suzy Weiss (nepotism) and Sascha Steinfeld, whose replacement column is called “TGIF: Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone.” I’ll steal a few items, but they don’t have Nellie’s panache.
→ Newsom gets the Beto treatment: Here’s how a new profile of Gavin Newsom begins: “He is embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his final State of the State address.” Hello! This sounds like the beginning of a sex thing, and I don’t know if I want to be a part of it. The piece went on, and on, and on, and on, about how the governor is “lithe, ardent, energetic, a glimmer of optimism in his eye; Kennedy-esque.” And don’t forget “his stunning wife and four adorable kids, and the executive strut of a self-made millionaire.” They should’ve asked if I was 18 or older before I was prompted to read this.
I threw in the towel on this profile around when I got to “Newsom’s lanky frame was folded onto a sofa a bit too low-slung for him. This made him lean back—away from me,” because that seemed like a private moment, though you can read the whole thing here. One funny note: Newsom describes his “undiagnosed dyslexia” as a source of confusion over where he fit in the world. Which is rich. I applied to college (very poorly). I know how this goes. You gotta drum up some sob story to get the adversity points up, but low-grade dyslexia? Sir. That’s like the quarterback saying he felt bullied because he only got 15 high-fives instead of 20 after the homecoming game. I can buy that he’s “gregarious and aloof” and “sensitive” and all the other fuzzy adjectives about Newsom, but I refuse to believe that he was ever some sort of outcast. Look at his silver-seasoned hair!
→ The jury has reached no verdict: A jury in the United Kingdom reached partial or no verdicts on charges of “criminal damage and violent disorder” for a group of Palestine Action activists accused of breaking into a factory owned by Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense firm, while finding them not guilty of aggravated burglary. One of the defendants was accused of slamming a female police officer’s back with a sledgehammer, fracturing her lumbar spine. The leader of the Green Party celebrated the win: “Pleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here—it’s the politicians who continue to provide cover.”
Ah, yes: The real criminals are the politicians and the cops, and the real victims are the burglars wielding sledgehammers. You see, in England now, nonviolent resistance means breaking a police officer’s back. Peaceful protesting is drop-kicking a taxi driver. Stabbing your neighbor is just registering a formal complaint.
→ Expired parts: A new cosmetic trend has women injecting sterilized, “ethically sourced” cadaver fat into their breasts and buttocks. One patient admitted that this “can sound jarring at first,” (no. . . really?) but insisted it is safe, regulated, and effective. “It’s like we’re recycling,” said Stacey, a 34-year-old who spent nearly $45,000 on the injections, adding that the results “outweigh any creepiness.” Any? Forget a black market for organs—by this time next year teens are going to be buying other people’s lips to sew onto their faces. Nothing says “transhumanism won” like walking around with someone else’s tushy. I defended Ozempic, which to some is already spiritually in question. But just because I’m not comfortable with the ankles I’ve been given by God doesn’t mean I’m going to rob someone’s crypt over it. Instead, I will do the dignified thing and never wear shorts outside.
One more, and who is paying for this?
→ Must remain seated: A Craigslist ad that circulated in the Boston area claimed moviegoers could earn $50 per occupied seat to attend a screening of the Melania Trump documentary during its opening weekend, on the condition that they “must remain in seats” for the entire film. Are they supposed to wear diapers? Maybe if I sit for back-to-back screenings for a whole week, I could buy myself a certain black-and-white wide-brim hat I’ve been eyeing. The movie apparently did better than expected—$7 million in its opening weekend—and we can’t wait for the sequel: Barron. By then, it will be mandatory viewing in all public schools. By the time we get to Part III: Ivanka and Others, it will be the only thing on cable.
*Funding for Homeland Security and ICE will expire soon, and it may need Democratic support to pass. The Democrats have now put their demands for such funding on the table.
Republicans immediately criticized Democrats’ proposals as excessive. Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Alabama), who is representing Senate Republicans in negotiations with Democrats, described it as “a ridiculous Christmas list of demands.”
Democrats have threatened to block funding for DHS when it expires at the end of the day Feb. 13, giving the two sides barely a week to strike a deal and avert a shutdown of the department. The brunt of a shutdown would fall on agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency because Republicans last year sent DHS tens of billions of dollars in extra border security and immigration enforcement funding.
Schumer called on President Donald Trump — who said Wednesday that the administration could “use a little bit of a softer touch” after federal agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis — to press Republicans to strike a deal.
“President Trump knows things have to change,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “He should lean on Republicans in Congress to work with Democrats and deliver.”
Some Republicans dismissed most of the Democrats’ demands as nonstarters, but others said they saw room to compromise on some of them if Democrats are willing to negotiate.
“There’s some room in there to negotiate,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) told reporters Thursday. “I think there’s some things that could get done. But you have to have people at the table to do that, and as of right now there’s only one side of the table that’s filled.”
You can see the Democrats’ letter here; it has ten demands, all of which seem reasonable to me, including standardized uniforms for agents of a given type. It doesn’t ban ICE, nor restrict their actions to detaining only undocumented immigrants who have committed some crime beyond illegal entry. It is standard law enforcement, and I’m frankly surprised that more Republicans don’t just accept the compromise. Even the conservative Wall Street Journal op-ed section has an article calling Trump’s ICE tactics unacceptable.
*As if we haven’t heard enough about EpsteinGate, the latest batch of released Epstein files show a bunch of notables (some of whom have denied ties with the man) consoling him about his legal troubles, and showing Epstein to have been a real kvetcher, especially because he got off easy in his first trial.
Since Jeffrey Epstein’s death, a parade of powerful people who associated with him have insisted they were ignorant of the true nature of his crimes. Many have issued carefully worded statements of regret.
But private correspondence recently made public in government releases and email leaks tells a different story.
Some prominent people in politics, business and academia didn’t just maintain ties with Epstein after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution. They actively consoled him, cast him as a victim and in some cases offered advice on how to rehabilitate his image.
In February 2019—long after Virginia Giuffre went public with her sex-trafficking allegations and newspaper investigations put a spotlight on Epstein’s activities—the political activist and professor Noam Chomsky sent Epstein a message.
Responding to Epstein’s request for advice on how to handle his “putrid press,” Chomsky counseled him to stay silent: “What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts.”
He went further, dismissing the broader reckoning with sexual abuse: “That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.”
Five months later, Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.
Chomsky, now 97, was hardly the only famous associate who was privately consoling Epstein or giving him advice to rehabilitate his public image. Their messages, however, were hidden until the recent release of the FBI’s files into the Epstein case and other document disclosures last year.
The others include Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew, and Peter Mandelson, the European Commissioner for Trader. Here are a few emails and communications courtesy of the Department of Justice and reproduced in the Wall Street Journal (click to enlarge):
Prince Andrew:
Chomsky:
Richard Branson:
“As long as you bring your harem”? Oy! Now it’s no crime to be friends with Epstein, or to console him, but the emails above make me cringe with consolation for pedophilic crimes. Prince Andrew has already been demoted from the Firm for his dalliances, and we can expect that the others will have their reputations plummet in light of the correspondence—and that’s proper. Chomsky, of course, is too old to care, but I wonder if, in retrospect, his works will suffer cancellation.
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is, as a Jewish cat, filled with worry. Look at that face!
Hili: All of this worries me.
Andrzej: What’s bothering you, sweetheart?
Hili: I just said – everything.
In Polish:
Hili: Martwi mnie to wszystko.
Ja: Co cię martwi, kochanie?
Hili: Przecież powiedziałam, że wszystko.
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Because it’s Caturday, we have all cat memes today.
From CinEmma, a Lego cat set and a real cat that looks just like it:
From reader David:
From All Things Anime Otaku:
From Masih: a video that I can’t embed but you can watch (Warning: gory!) by clicking on the tweet. Iranian security forces went to hospitals and killed the wounded protestors. Now they’re arresting doctors and nurses who helped injured protestors! Masih is one of the best sources of news from Iran.
Have a gander if you have any doubts about Mamdani’s antisemitism:
Again, twelve BILLION dollar deficit, but somehow plenty to divert health department resources to do irrelevant BS activism on behalf of Hamas.
What does this have to do with New York?
Hey, remember during the debates when Zohran refused to answer that question about Israel and… https://t.co/9XggLj1nyW
— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) February 5, 2026
From Simon, re Epstein, of course:
You buy the season pass but they close the island pic.twitter.com/VvDQLtqMfa
— Earl of FrunkPuppy (@28delayslater) February 6, 2026
Khelif has finally admitted having a disorder/difference of sex determination, so the “female” boxer was really a biological male. Emma Hilton comments:
Plenty of us pushed back against the nonsensical and dangerous IOC rules for Olympic boxing at Paris.
Plenty of us have criticised the IOC guidelines in the mainstream and academic press.
We have called for sex screening.
We have spelled it out loud and clear. pic.twitter.com/ofa8aJN2vU
— Emma Hilton (@FondOfBeetles) February 6, 2026
From Malcolm, a very lazy cat:
Bro trust the whole world😭 pic.twitter.com/uJZbsRPWXv
— Cats with Aura 😺 (@catwithaura) January 31, 2026
One from my feed; a marvel of animal behavior (imagine how it might have evolved):
This is a Tailor Bird. It makes a nest by stitching leaves together.pic.twitter.com/yNjDuvrSPk
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 6, 2026
One I reposted from the Auschwitz Memorial:
This German Jewish girl was gassed as soon as she arrived in Auschwitz. She would have been 90 yesterday had she lived.
— Jerry Coyne (@evolutionistrue.bsky.social) 2026-02-07T11:08:26.766Z
And one from Dr. Cobb. This starts a lovely albatross thread. I could have gone to Dunedin when I was in NZ, but didn’t. Sad.
In 1981, when I was ten, I visited Christchurch, New Zealand with my parents. I loved birds, especially albatrosses, and learned that tantalizingly close—360 km to the south—was the royal albatross colony in Dunedin. It was not meant to be that trip. But 44 years later, I finally made it happen.
— Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com) 2026-02-06T09:44:42.604Z
Apparently, the attitude of Democratic Socialism toward Jews is little if any different from that of National Socialism.
How is today 2/7 in English notation? It’s 7/2 there it’s really only the US (and apparently Belize) that uses MDY notation
It’s because of how we speak. We say; “Today is February seventh”. We can say; “Today is the seventh of February”. However, the former is the preferred usage as the latter sounds more formal, especially if in response to a question. “What is today?” “February seventh” vs “The seventh of February”.
I understand that in some combinations the month/day usage can be confusing for those who don’t use it, but we get along just fine.
Yeah, it was the “in English notation” rather than “in American notation” that I was noting. I think ou are correct, that Americans tend to say the dates one way round, and Brits the other, although it’s not written in stone in either place. The formality comment was interesting in that there is a tendency to say “The Fourth of July” rather than July Fourth, reflecting that it is a formal holiday (?).
Even after 33 years I still periodically write dates the “wrong” way round, which is fine as long as it’s the back end of the month.
With “Pay to Slay” – it was laughable they’d give that up: like expecting Japan to give up eating fish. Killing Jews is their ENTIRE thing, it is the cornerstone of their society, culture and national vision.
My question is why are they getting aid AT ALL? What legit claim do they have on the international dole for what? 80 years now?
It demeans us to take their moral claims seriously.
D.A.
NYC/CT
With regard to breaking the wall of silence around gender transitions, I think we have to give a lot of credit to Elon Musk. If he had not bought Twitter and stopped its censorship of topics like gender, even the conservatives sites and Trump might not have been enough to embolden people to speak up.
On the ICE demands, I find many of them reasonable (although revealing their names and faces would, undoubtedly, lead to more attacks). There are two things in there that I think are bad. The first is the demand for “judicial” warrants. Right now ICE can arrest people with an immigration warrant, which is different. A judicial warrant is a higher standard, and liberals judges in places like Minnesota would obviously just deny them. Second, in the list of “sensitive places” that ICE should stay away is polling places? Why? It’s not a church or a school? It is likely, though, that in many sanctuary cities there will be illegals at polling places. ICE needs to be there. Under Federal law illegal aliens cannot vote and it would be ridiculous to stop enforcement there. Clearly the Dems want it, though.
I see some political theatre in the polling place proposal. The Dems can say, “Why would you want to put ICE near polling places? No alien can vote, not even legal ones, so why would you expect to find the illegal aliens you’re interested in at a polling place? Should be the last place you look. You’re just trying to intimidate brown citizens into staying away on Election Day for fear of being harassed by racist agents profiling them.”
The GOP can reply, “Yeah, but our base believes aliens are voting illegally. So we can’t agree to keep ICE away from polling places because that would be our admission that you are right: aliens really aren’t voting. Besides, naturalized citizens are often elderly and will need help from their younger alien family members to get to the polls, including some we have immigration warrants for and that’s a fruitful place to find them.”
I think in general, law enforcement should be able to go anywhere they think the law is being broken, with warrants to enter private dwellings and seize property. Their leadership shouldn’t consent to bar their agents from any “sensitive” location any more than the Chief of a regular municipal police force would.
I’m not surprised that Iran is preferentially rebuilding its ballistic missile capability, (possibly) putting less emphasis on its nuclear facilities for now. The ballistic missiles would be more of a deterrent to the U.S. attack that may be in the offing, so they are more important to Iran in the near term.
Nellie is notably better at TGIF than others, but Suzie can get in some hilarious lines too. The Orange Toddler, not one to be aware of what a monstrous fool he is, went off on a reporter who asked him… I dunno… a question. Told her to smile more. That man is a shit and dumber than a bag of hammers; that was like shouting “Release the Kraken”, or saying “BeetleJuice” for the third time.
Here’s Suzie;
It is episodes like this, almost daily, that make me disgusted at defenders of the Orange Toddler. No matter what the merits of the policies he’s enacted, or how good he is at getting under the libtards’ skin, this kind of behavior is ignored and they continue to support the ass. Well, it says as much about them as it does about him.
Bush did not make fun of reporters. However, there was Iraq, the GFC, and the Border.
“Yoffee gives the Free Press has been responsible for much of the change in attitudes, but I think they are taking too much credit”
I agree. In my opinion, JKR and Jesse Singal have been more influential. That said, the Free Press has done good work this subject.
On the Democrats’ immigration enforcement demands, which are a mixed bag of the sensible and necessary, along with cleverly-written attempts to significantly hinder deportations:
1) Judicial warrants. Please note that the Democrats are demanding such warrants for entering “private property.” They and the media then immediately pivot to talking about “homes” because, as the WP notes, that word polls well. Words matter: one option is in line with constitutional norms; the other could significantly hinder deportations depending on how it is defined (open or public-access spaces at private employers, etc.).
2) IDs and masks. Badge numbers will suffice without names. I don’t like masks, but I also do not know what to do about doxing of agents and their families; it is a legitimate concern.
3) Sensitive locations. This would bar enforcement “near sensitive locations, including medical facilities, schools, child-care facilities, churches, polling places, courts, etc.” Define “near.” This stipulation would essentially carve out huge non-enforcement zones in urban areas where such “sensitive locations” are common and close together.
4) Ensure state oversight. This attempts to give states veto authority over much of federal immigration enforcement, such as large-scale raids at employers.
5) Fire Kristi Noem. Yes.
If the Democrats were interested in reasonable deportation policy, I could get on board. Unfortunately, their actual policy after the Clinton Administration appears to have morphed into one of de facto open borders: minimal border enforcement; refusal to deport unless someone is convicted of a felony (“But she’s a mom.” “It was only for drunk driving.” “He pays taxes.” “He was only charged with child rape and not yet convicted.”); and insistence on citizenship for everyone they let into the country. I read their ten proposals in that light.
I can’t see myself being interested in documentaries about any First Lady, but 50 bucks to take an afternoon nap seems like a pretty good deal. Especially for people in the northeast these days. Do the homeless know that they could spend some time a a nice, heated theater, earning good money?
A BIRTHDAY THOUGHT:
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. -Emo Phillips, comedian, actor (b. 7 Feb 1956)