Notices by Stacey Campbell (stacey_campbell@aus.social)

An excellent follow-up to the ABC story about Alistair Kitchen's interrogation and deportation at LAX.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-19/us-visa-waiver-program-esta-rights-at-border/105426744

And of course this never ending stream of stories about CBP and ICE cruelty, aggression and overreach is absolutely hammering the US tourism industry. Especially in places like Nevada where *checks notes* they voted for Trump in the 2024 Presidential election.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jun/19/trump-policies-hostile-to-tourism-damaging-to-peop/

#uspol #trump #ice #stephenmiller

Australian tourists, come visit the good ole USA, you'll have a great time...if you make it out of the airport.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-16/australian-denied-entry-united-states-israel-gaza-columbia/105419154

#uspol #auspol

Two worlds collide. Those worlds being oligarch GOP vs MAGA GOP.

Pretty sure Stephen Miller is about to get an earful from a bunch of GOP mega-donors. Doubt it will change much though.

Caught in the middle are the exploited undocumented immigrants that provide the cheap labor used by the meat, dairy, poultry, and big ag industries.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-immigration-raid-omaha-meat-plant-cuts-staff-fuels-food-production-worries-2025-06-11/

#uspol #trump #stephenmiller #ice

Other than the pure racism, the point of immigrant crackdowns (and Congress blocking immigration reform since Reagan) is to maintain a large highly exploitable labor force.

That's why ICE is hitting up day laborers at Home Depot parking lots and small Los Angeles businesses, and not, for example, shutting down the entire US meat and dairy industries which have relied on that exploitable labor for decades.

#uspol #ice #losangeles

#ice #stephenmiller #uspol #trump #xkcd

Looks like the GOP mega-donors have gone over Stephen Miller's head. All they want is a large vulnerable and exploitable labor force and Miller has crossed a line.

A line where they stop making money.

Of course Big Ag doesn't want meaningful immigration reform, that defeats their business model. The status quo was working nicely for them.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-12/trump-says-his-deportation-drive-is-sparking-concerns-over-jobs

#ice #uspol #trump #stephenmiller

@twrling Well, that was a depressing read. All the way down to the last para:

"The last remaining Los Angeles Times opinion section staffer announced in late February that she would take a buyout and leave the paper [...]"

The spouse cancelled her decades-old sub last year after the endorsement debacle.

Never thought I'd see the day when the United States is a coin flip away from allying with Russia and North Korea in an illegal invasion of another country.

Might be time for all ranks of all US services to re-familiarize themselves with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the US Constitution, and the outcome of the Nuremberg trials.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/world/middleeast/us-un-russia-ukraine-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk4.rhIw.DJwfVQeDMLMF&smid=url-share

#uspol #ukraine

@timrichards @skinnylatte It does a reasonable job for people living south of the Santa Monica Mountains, but it's woefully inadequate for the million plus LA residents who live in the San Fernando Valley, esp the central and western parts of the Valley.

There's talk of plans to improve things, but any completion date is going to be well after my expiration date.

This is the problem with being born and raised in Melbourne, it spoils you for public transport, and everywhere else is a let down.

https://laist.com/news/transportation/subway-or-monorail-for-the-sepulveda-pass-metro-and-local-residents-weigh-their-options

@glynmoody '“The only place where we give medicine away like this is the refugee camps, war zones, and the US,” Jørgensen said.'

Wow.

It might just be me, but I've found local TV news coverage of the LA fires to be mostly terrible. It's low on information and high on disaster porn/drama, and a fair bit of it has been wildly misleading. They cannot shake their bog standard reporting templates for this critical event.

- On-scene reporters asking people who are literally running around putting out spot fires at their house if they could stop for an interview.
- Picking through the ashes of houses and putting burnt photo albums and other destroyed personal items on camera.
- Certain helicopter reporters yelling mostly low information nonsense for half an hour.
- Obviously wholly unqualified opining on emergency response, and evacuations that has caused massive confusion (no, NBC4, all of LA isn't under a boil-water alert from the DWP).

There's an opportunity here for local TV news to be a useful asset for the community, and they're all too frequently blowing it.

#lafires #PalisadesFire #EatonFire

@w7voa Well dingbat Musk wasn't on a H-1B when he started working in California. He was on a J-1, and wasn't authorized to work.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/28/us/elon-musk-immigration-washington-post-cec/index.html

@skinnylatte "Yes" to Singapore breakfast choices!

@tek My 10 cents on this when I heard:

https://aus.social/@stacey_campbell/113306249308955264

@aral Shogan has published a strong rebuttal that WSJ arti...oh no, wait, she's doubled down, nvm.

https://aotus11.blogs.archives.gov/2024/10/30/a-message-from-the-archivist/

@timrichards "If a machine made bad decisions that had disastrous consequences, who would the responsibility fall on? It's a major question facing the banks."

Australian banks could try the Air Canada defence, their AI is "responsible for its own actions".

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

The Electoral College has massive built-in quantization error and often results in the winner being the 2nd place popular vote-getter.

It's impossible to think of a way to make this garbage voting system even wor...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/us/politics/nebraska-trump-electoral-vote.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU4.N6wJ.xa3q1h2HbF-k&smid=url-share

#uspol #trump

@ai6yr Nice safe yellow color, and labels that repel thieves. Not sure there's much more to do for aesthetics.

@MissingThePt Trumpy might want to create an account on Wikipedia and edit* the Historical rankings of presidents of the United States, 'cos currently it's ass-backwards according to him.** His presidency is dead last and Biden's around 14.

* - Page is semi-protected, I wonder why?
** - Citation needed of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

#uspol #trump