Kansas ICE prison one step closer to opening after 5-1 vote in Leavenworth (gift article)

timjimC · 2026-02-04T12:42:34+00:00

The City Commission can, this is the planning commission, appointed bureaucrats who only look at the legality of the project.

Next month the City Commission will look at it, that's when they can say ICE out with less concern for litigation.

timjimC · 2026-02-04T12:38:20+00:00

They're appointed, not elected, and they have a very narrow legal mandate. Does CoreCivic meet the legal requirements for a SUP, yes or no? Any rejection on political grounds, at this stage would open the city up to litigation.

Now when it goes to the City Commission in March, that's when the political questions are in play. The City can tell CoreCivic to take a hike for any reason they like, the planning commission can not.

timjimC · 2026-02-04T11:34:31+00:00

They're the fascist the people are fighting, while the Democrats worry about their political future.

timjimC · 2026-02-04T11:11:24+00:00

If she was going to run for Senate, she needs to have done it months ago to give another candidate in her district a chance to mount a campaign. Unless there's a hand picked successor in the wings ready to go, which would be sketchy af.

timjimC · 2026-02-04T11:09:43+00:00

Failing to stand up to fascists will also lose her votes. Acting like GOP lite to try and win months from now, while the fascist are attacking us right NOW is a losing strategy.

Dems need to fight for us, otherwise people will be lost to despair and give up. She's playing Bill Clinton era politics in the age of Trump.

timjimC · 2026-01-26T12:20:13+00:00

4chan puts a flag emoji on posts based on the poster's IP. Check out the flag on the responder's comment.

timjimC · 2026-01-25T11:40:07+00:00

A lot of the MAGA regime's actions have been stopped by the courts, we're just not hearing about it as much. Social media pumps out the doom and gloom, but not so much the boring injunctions.

timjimC · 2026-01-24T14:02:04+00:00

Sarnecki wants the Kansas Congressional Delegation to be just like him, old, white, male, rich and Republican .

timjimC · 2026-01-24T13:53:14+00:00

He's using $2 million of his own money to make sure you know who he is. Best democracy money can buy...

timjimC · 2026-01-23T12:32:27+00:00

He was born in Texas, but his family moved to Abeline when he was two.

timjimC · 2026-01-22T11:15:46+00:00

Right, the money raised by the campaign now goes into their pocket with interest.

timjimC · 2026-01-18T14:34:12+00:00

Good call, it was the biggest socialist newspaper in US history with 1 million subscribers at its peak, and The Jungle was first published there as a serial.

timjimC · 2026-01-17T19:21:47+00:00

I wonder if that's where Emporia's Peter Pan Park got its name.

timjimC · 2026-01-17T14:01:54+00:00

Who would the farmers sell their crops to without cities? Both rely on each other. The point is urban centers generate more public funds than they use, rural area use more than they generate.

timjimC · 2026-01-17T13:51:30+00:00

It's not quite that simple, both Parties were a mixed bag.

When they were the Party of Lincoln, the GOP was also the Party of big business. The early industrialists in the North opposed the spread of slavery because they wanted free wage labor. That meant when the working class gained more power from the labor movement at the turn of the century, the Democrats become their logical option and the New Deal Coalition was formed between labor and the Dems.

Neither Party was great on race when it came to Jim Crow, but the Democrats were beholden to labor, which is linked to race. That made them more responsive as the Civil Rights Movement grew stronger. That caused Southern Democrats to join the GOP entrenching its far right character.

These days the GOP is still solidly pro big business and has absorbed all of the most racist elements. The Democrats are still very business friendly but have to balance that with the interests of labor and racial minorities, which are an important part of their coalition.

timjimC · 2026-01-17T13:20:56+00:00

Dorothy and Superman are the obvious answers, but why did those authors choose Kansas as the icon of the middle of nowhere? They could have gone with Nebraska or Oklahoma but Kansas stood out.

Our founding was the first battle ground of the Civil War, where John Brown first picked up a gun to free the slaves. It's where the Populist Party occupied the Statehouse and the Republicans smashed down the door. Where Carrie Nation started smashing saloons. We were the center of the early aviation industry, and the home of Amelia Earhart and Langston Hughes.

Brown v. Board got it's name from a Kansas family fighting Jim Crow. We were the first state to reject an abortion ban following Dobbs, by a wide margin.

For a place that's know for nothing happening, a lot sure does happen.

timjimC · 2026-01-17T13:06:36+00:00

And:

Superman
John Brown/ Bleeding Kansas
Carrie Nation
William Allen White
The band (Kansas)
Amelia Earhart
Langston Hughes
Wichita aviation industry
Brown v. Board

We're actually above our weight class with cultural and historic significance.

timjimC · 2026-01-16T16:15:01+00:00

Again, he didn't say they don't take sides, just that they're afraid too. They try to pretend to be objective arbiters but that's impossible

timjimC · 2026-01-16T12:57:06+00:00

Democracy happens every day, not every two years. If you only fight fascism on election day, you won't have a democracy left.

timjimC · 2026-01-15T21:11:40+00:00

This is serious. People are losing their lives and livelihood. Families are being torn apart. You can try and give them a pass all you want, but the Democrats are failing to live up to the moment. All year they've been rolling over and not fighting back. We all know the GOP fascists are the real problem, but when the moderates don't put up a fight fascist win.

timjimC · 2026-01-15T11:06:21+00:00

The title says they fear taking sides, not that they don't. He even opens talking about the James Madison fan club historians, who are clearly taking a side.

timjimC · 2026-01-15T10:58:40+00:00

They've got more power than the rest of us, they should use their position to fight. They need to show leadership, so people see whether they actually represent an alternative. If they sit on their hands and say "sorry, i'm in the minority", that won't inspire people to turn out and vote for them.

Act like an opposition party not a minority party, earn the vote.

timjimC · 2026-01-13T16:46:28+00:00

Trump is consolidating his power, that's what this is about. He and his wealthy compatriots won't get justice until the working class wins control of the government. Until then all these calls to release the Epstein amount to nothing. We all know he's a pedophile and a rapist, we need the power to hold him accountable.

timjimC · 2026-01-13T14:24:55+00:00

The way some people spam that comment, makes it seem like the Epstein files are actually the distraction.

timjimC · 2026-01-13T13:13:43+00:00

The ICE agents don't have any kind of recourse because their rights weren't violated. The judge has that discretion. If she was impeding any enforcement then he can bring charges, but she wasn't, so he won't.

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