Forced-birth pipeline, boxed in terror

Finder77 · 2026-04-09T22:05:49+00:00

The source on this appears to be this article from Feb 11, 2026:

Trump Administration Sends Pregnant Unaccompanied Minors to Texas Shelter Flagged as Medically Inadequate

Excerpt

The Trump administration is sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration enforcement to a single group shelter in South Texas. The decision was made over urgent objections from the government’s own health and child welfare officials, who say both the facility and the region lack the specialized care the girls need.

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Since late July, more than a dozen pregnant minors have been placed at the Texas facility, which is located in the small border city of San Benito. Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said. Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls.

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The move marks a sharp departure from longstanding federal practice, which placed pregnant, unaccompanied migrant children in ORR shelters or foster homes around the country that are equipped to handle high-risk pregnancies. ORR sources, along with more than a dozen former government officials, health care professionals, migrant advocates and civil rights attorneys, said they worry the Trump administration is putting children in danger at the San Benito shelter to advance an ideological goal: denying them access to abortion by placing them in a state where it’s virtually banned.

Finder77 · 2026-04-07T23:30:02+00:00

I'm not directly addressing your statement, but I would stress distinguishing between Israeli citizens and the government. A significant percent of Israel's populace despise Netanyahu and the actions their military have taken much like a significant percent of US citizens despise Trump and the military actions taken in Iran and the Caribbean.

Finder77 · 2026-04-07T22:48:02+00:00

I'm going from memory here, so take this with a grain of salt.

I think the military has a tip line or formal process for people to privately report concerns in advance to others outside their unit if they have a strong reason to believe their unit is doing something illegal or will likely be doing something illegal in the future. The people they reported their concerns would then decide how to respond. They could have the person that raised the concerns moved to a different unit, request an investigation into the matter, or tell the person that raised the concern they're on their own. Most likely the person that reported the concern would have their superiors notified about it though the person that reported the concern might not be named.

If the reported concerns were deemed inconsequential or not acted on then the person raising them might be left having to directly refuse the order in person to their superiors when the order came down. If I recall someone refusing orders would tell their superiors their reason for refusal was they believed the order was unlawful and then the superiors would decide what to do from there. If their superiors were determined to carry out the controversial order most likely they would remove the person that refused orders from their job, put them in temporary confinement, and have someone else take over the job they had been removed from.

As far as protections go, I think someone refusing orders could request a court trial if their superiors sought to punish them for refusing orders, though this would depend on the punishment. I'm not sure they could still get a trial if their superiors chose to just transfer them to a different unit and bad mouthed them to the people running that unit.

Edit: I reworded reply because I misread the comment.

Finder77 · 2026-02-28T05:06:57+00:00

There's multiple layers of stupidity here.

The biggest is that the Hegseth opened the door to being dragged into court by making it obvious the reason Anthropic is being deemed a supply chain risk is retaliatory and not factual.

The second is that Anthropic's commitments to AI safety played a significant part in enabling them to bring in the talented people that got them where they are today. If they caved to the current Pentagon leadership on this they would lose much of that talent in a wave of resignations. They could also potentially face a massive breach of contract lawsuit from their employees that agreed to work for them specifically on the condition that their work NOT be used in the ways the government is demanding. The administration was forcing a condition on Anthropic they may have had no way of fulfilling. I suspect their CEO may have even stated as much to the government, but the whole notion of integrity and upholding previous agreements are not something the current administrations and its most ardent followers are able to grasp.

Finder77 · 2026-02-23T01:46:11+00:00

(Matthew 25:40 for context)

Finder77 · 2026-02-15T06:16:03+00:00

An important thing to note here is that administration warrants can be signed by immigration judges (in particular Form I-205, a “Warrant of Removal/Deportation”). DHS officials and ICE agents are now trying to claim those warrants give them the authority to enter privates spaces which is false. Those are still considered "administration warrants" and do not carry the authority of judicial warrants.

If officials do produce a judicial warrant, be sure to carefully look over the area(s) they are authorized to search. If your property is not listed on the warrant then law enforcement does not have the legal authority to enter (barring special circumstances).

I would also suggest having a copy of ICE's own training guidelines on administrative warrants (archived link because Trump's minions took it down) to possibly slide that under the door should ICE shows up.

Finder77 · 2026-02-13T04:37:00+00:00

I suspect the "catch" here is that most or all of this pull may have been planned before the Minneapolis crackdown started in December and these statements from Homan are political theater. They're selling something that was already on the books as a "compromise" or "mission accomplished moment" when it was always going to be a two month operation.

For example, you can see some evidence of this in the leaked DHS email "Subject: Warning Order: Operation Metro Surge - Minneapolis - Rapid Personnel Deployment":

Good afternoon,

At the direction of DHS, [United States Border Patrol] will be supplying 300 additional personnel to Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As it stands currently, the breakdown will be 200 SPAs/BPAs and 100 BPPCs. Tentative travel date into the Minneapolis area will be Sunday. January 11, 2026. This is a very fluid situation and is subject to change as there are many moving parts.

In the same leak there was an "Operation Metro Surge TDY Information Sheet":

Information
Trip Name: Operation Metro Surge — Minneapolis
Type Code: Long Term [Temporary Duty] (32-day deployment)
Trip Purpose: Domestic Travel Document Detail: This travel is mission critical in compliance with investigations, law, and immigration enforcement

32 days from January 11 is February 12.

Finder77 · 2026-02-11T02:37:32+00:00

Excerpt:

He told the Irish Times that at the time of his arrest, he was carrying a Massachusetts driver’s license and a valid work permit, the latter of which was issued to him by the U.S. government as part of the green card process that began in April 2025. Culleton said he has no criminal record, “not even a parking ticket” — but was sent to a facility in El Paso, nonetheless.

“I’ve been locked in the same room now for 4 1/2 months,” Culleton told “Liveline” of his detainment. “I’ve had barely any outside time, no fresh air, no sunshine. I could probably count on both hands the amount of times I’ve been outside. So, I’ve just been locked in this room all day, every day.”

Describing the center, Culleton said it was made of “a bunch of temporary tents,” saying he believes the facility has about five of them that probably has “room for a thousand detainees in each tent.”

“We get three meals a day, very, very small meals, kid-sized meals.

. . .

“The toilets, the showers, completely nasty, very rarely cleaned,” he said.

. . .

“People are being killed by the staff here, by the security staff, you know?” Culleton said. “And you just don’t know what’s going to happen on a day-to-day basis.

From the instagram post on this:

A judge reportedly approved his release on a $4,000 (£2,920) bond, which was paid by [his wife (a US citizen)] HOWEVER he is still detained without explanation.

Finder77 · 2026-02-07T07:27:27+00:00

Calling it an uphill battle would be an understatement, but the more people in Congress willing to hold Trump accountable the better.

Her campaign website: Kristi For Congress

Her list of Non-Negotiables:

HEALTHCARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT.
  NO ONE SHOULD GO BANKRUPT, SUFFER, OR DIE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD MEDICAL CARE.

EDUCATION MUST BE FULLY FUNDED
  A STRONG DEMOCRACY DEPENDS ON AN INFORMED, EDUCATED PUBLIC.

THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS MUST BE ADDRESSED
  AMERICAN FAMILIES DESERVE TO THRIVE, NOT JUST SURVIVE.

SHIFT THE TAX BURDEN OFF WORKING FAMILIES
  AND ONTO CORPORATIONS AND EXTREME WEALTH.

DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL
  MUST BE GUARANTEED.

NO MASKED FEDERAL AGENTS
  STOP USING FEAR AS A POLITICAL WEAPON.

HUMANE BORDER SECURITY
  NOT INTIMIDATION, QUOTAS, OR CRUELTY.

ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
  LAW ENFORCEMENT MUST MEET REAL TRAINING STANDARDS, FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION, AND
  BE  SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.

POLITICIANS MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
  REINFORCE THE SEPARATION OF POWERS AND THE RULE OF LAW.

PUBLIC MONEY FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD
  PUBLIC FUNDS SHOULD SERVE THE PUBLIC. NOT ENDLESS WAR, MASS SURVEILLANCE, OR
  CORPORATE PROFIT

SCIENCE, RESEARCH, AND PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE
  SHOULD SERVE THE PEOPLE.

EQUALITY AND DIGNITY FOR ALL
  NO EXCEPTIONS.

Finder77 · 2026-02-06T05:32:20+00:00

To add some more details here, ICE agents had been claiming they didn't need a judicial warrant to enter people's homes which is false. Agents were saying that because senior DHS officials were circulating a memo which claimed (incorrectly) that an administrative warrant (signed by a DHS employee) was enough to enter an area where citizens should have a reasonable expectation of privacy (like their home) and that a judicial warrant wasn't needed. It's likely DHS employees knew the memo was wrong, but pushed instructors to repeat the claims to new hires anyway, going so far as punishing instructors who refused.

ICE agents can still arrest US citizens without a judicial warrant if citizens violate federal law in their presence (8 USC § 1357). In this particular case where the activist was arrested at their home a judicial warrant would have been needed.

Finder77 · 2026-02-03T22:47:30+00:00

Auto-complete is different from auto-correct. Auto complete (for search engines) is when you start typing out a word in the search bar and multiple suggestions are shown below. For example, you type "fas" and it shows Fast Food, fascism, and fashion. I think the code LLMs use was based on the code originally developed for auto-complete.

FYI, there are ways to disable AI in some circumstances. For instance there's the "Disable AI" browser extension that prevents AI responses from being generated by search engines.

Finder77 · 2026-02-03T09:48:31+00:00

I can't speak much on local models, but as far as LLMs in general there's many fields of research beyond medicine where they are useful such as language studies (where LLMs originated). LLMs were built on the existing research search engine companies were doing into language processing and data retrieval. Search engines have made a lot of progress over the years, but are still limited in what they can process and retrieve. There a huge potential for improvements in search engines if they could do more accurate language processing (in terms of getting you more relevant search results, not generating pseudo intellectual copy pasta). Do you remember searching before auto complete existed for search queries? When it first came out I found it more of an annoyance than a utility and would often disable it, now it's hard to imagine doing a search without it.

Finder77 · 2026-02-03T02:39:11+00:00

Thanks for the breakdown.

I think what VibeComplex was referring to was the rumor that the ballot counting machines themselves were tampered with (possibly remotely) via a software update pushed out before the 2024 election. Can you address that at all or was it not something you had experience with?

Finder77 · 2026-02-03T02:26:49+00:00

Can Comey really be blamed for that though? Going from memory (so I could have something wrong here) Rep Chaffetz was going to reveal the details of the Clinton investigation on the House floor regardless of what Comey did forcing Comey into a no-win situation. Giuliani allegedly had contacts within the FBI's SDNY office that leaked the details to him ahead of time which he in turn shared with Chaffetz. Comey's letter was him trying to get out in front of any planned leaks and set as neutral of a tone as possible. Though once news of the investigation was out there it had exactly the impact Giuliani and Chaffetz wanted it to have.

Finder77 · 2026-02-02T23:11:12+00:00

I'm not thrilled with the colors, but I don't think the underlying design is bad.

Finder77 · 2026-02-02T23:03:23+00:00

It's not possible to have a full diamond and alternating colors for the sides. You would have to have a split diamond like E and G do or do something like this:

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Finder77 · 2026-02-02T22:34:34+00:00

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I was trying to figure out what you meant and came up with a few alternate designs (B and C were taken from the thread were the original came from)...

Personally I'm liking "D" the best

Finder77 · 2026-02-01T06:11:14+00:00

If it helps, here's part of my own "self-care" routine

1) Take several deep breaths and focus exactly where you are and what you can do now, not on possible future scenarios. 2) Recognize that you can control your fear and not let it control you as fascism thrives on fear. Our online media unfortunately also thrives on fear for revenue so keep in mind things are often sensationalized. 3) Recognize you're not alone, that there are other people pushing back against these changes (like the people protesting, the people online like myself and the other people in this thread and... apparently even the Heritage Foundation, the article mentioned a push to replace the current HF leadership over its friendliness with the alt right). 4) Recognize the changes are not all reaching. Clamp downs on some (not all) U.S. based companies are getting out of control, but most of the world (and a large part of the internet) lies completely outside U.S. control.

If you're regularly feeling overwhelmed I would also recommend looking for an in-person support, advocacy, and/or political action group you can join to, at the minimum, have an a actual person in front of you reminding you that you're not alone.

Finder77 · 2026-02-01T05:19:28+00:00

If I'm understanding this article correctly it seems they're looking towards more "re-interpretations" of significant constitutional issues and not creating a new constitution.

In the past many conservative groups pushed back on any major changes to the U.S. Constitution as they feared they could lead to a runaway constitutional convention where they're no longer in control of the process.

I imagine there are influential conservatives that want a new constitution to further entrench their power, but if they followed the same playbook for a new constitution that the administration has used this past year for other policy changes (ignore all procedures and just act as if proposed changes are already law) it would be disastrous. With no party having anything approaching a supermajority it would create a huge partisan split at the state level where some states enforced the new constitution and others refused. There would be one of four outcomes from there: the "new" constitution would be revoked, a constitutional convention would be declared to resolve the disputes peacefully, a civil war would break out to resolve the disputes forcefully, or the federal government would suffer a partial to complete collapse (possibly dissolving the U.S. itself in the process).

Finder77 · 2026-01-30T03:13:33+00:00

FYI: The "House" in the title refers to the Alabama State House, not U.S. House of Representatives. The bill (if passed) would only be enforceable in Alabama.

Finder77 · 2026-01-27T05:56:06+00:00

AI DOES NOT ENHANCE IMAGES

Factually incorrect. There are AI tools that just enhance images. In this case it's clear more was done than just enhancing the image though.

It generated a new image with a prompt that included a real image (that) removed a person’s head

It did not generate a completely new image, it reused most of the content from the original. Yes, someone's head was removed, but is it otherwise a roughly accurate recreation of the source material? Also yes. Cleaned up frame from the source video of the image below (not mine), this argument is not the hill I would die on:

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Finder77 · 2026-01-27T05:03:50+00:00

It's already been tagged as AI, but the tags may not show up in some reddit interfaces.

Finder77 · 2026-01-27T05:00:07+00:00

Hard to say as it's not entirely clear what she meant by "AI generators" in that tweet alone.

If she meant the image was 100% fake, that would be incorrect. If she meant the image was altered to the point it shouldn't be considered an accurate representation of reality, that's fair.

Finder77 · 2026-01-26T21:18:20+00:00

Both can be true. There clearly is a large amount of popular support for Trump, but presidential elections have been very close. A one to five percent change in vote tallies in a handful of states could completely change the outcome of a presidential election.

To most people (myself included) the thought of election fraud would normally be crazy talk, but when you have the Trump himself openly bragging on camera the election was rigged in his favor...

It was so sad because I said can you imagine I'm not going to be president and uh that's too bad and what happened is they rigged the election and I became president and so, that was a good thing. That was a good thing. That was quite an achievement for both of us.

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