You’re joking but this is more or less the law with minor exceptions. Basically everywhere near an airport is covered so it’s mostly remote areas that are not.

Edit: or maybe I misremembered? I can’t find anything on the airports.

I think it’s just intentional but it’s still ridiculous. What percentage of people do not live within 100 miles of a border, coast, or international airport? The number is not large.

It’s just clickbait.

“ongoing bilateral engagement”

Yeah this is gonna turn into another CECOT isn’t it.

He can’t be sent to El Salvador but I believe they can send him elsewhere unfortunately.

More accurately, they’re both separate descendants of ethnonationalism which was a popular ideology at that time. And still today, evidently, though it seemed to be in decline for a bit during the post-war period.

They’re not rolling over. They’re actively supporting ongoing ethnic cleansing and military occupation in LA. They are traitors to their own people.

If they just stayed home the LA community could solve this themselves.

Abolish the LAPD.

Citation needed.

The shortage is so severe that any housing helps, though it’s certainly not the most efficient way to go about it.

And he’s just one of many sent there, most are still experiencing this.

Lesser evil voting is fully rational in the system we have. You don’t have to like it. You can fight to change it. But that’s just a fact.

These people need to get behind electoral reforms then. There’s no reason another party is going to do better than the existing third parties. There’s a reason there has never in American history been more than two viable parties at once. The duopoly is fully enforced by our electoral system.

There might be some things the mayor could do, like joining boycotts, etc.

Certainly he can stop or interfere with the crackdown on pro-palestinian dissent in the city which has been extreme under Adams and Trump.

That’s the conventional wisdom. But the power of the state was so much weaker back then.

Shifting baselines. It makes me wonder if people in the bad old times of monarchy might have actually been more free than we are now.

Won’t someone rid us of this turbulent shitstain?

It seems like it might finally be materializing. I don’t know every detail of Mamdani’s politics but they do seem genuinely left by American standards. I can’t think of a further left candidate that has won a prominent election in this country.

Should be, but NYC has a surprisingly conservative streak. Just look at their past mayors.

Yeah it’s complicated. It might help more radical campaigns to launch but the actual tally should favor consensus candidates who I expect to be moderate. But it will be interesting to see what happens.