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  • Facebook: You can't advertise this.

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    https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-smugglers-mexico-us-migrants-immigrants-52ba1b44126f3c2b7887b808307ffa96 At a time when legal pathways to the U.S. have been slashed and criminal groups are raking in money from migrant smuggling, social media apps like TikTok have become an essential tool for smugglers and migrants alike. The videos — taken to cartoonish extremes — offer a rare look inside a long elusive industry and the narratives used by trafficking networks to fuel migration north. and Narratives shift based on the political environment and immigration policies in the U.S. During the Biden administration, posts would advertise getting migrants access to asylum applications through the administration’s CBP One app, which Trump ended. Amid Trump’s crackdown, posts have shifted to dispelling fears that migrants will be captured, promising American authorities have been paid off. Smugglers openly taunt U.S. authorities: one shows himself smoking what appears to be marijuana right in front of the border wall; another even takes a jab at Trump, referring to the president as a “high-strung gringo.” Comments are dotted with emojis of flags and baby chickens, a symbol meaning migrant among smugglers, and other users asking for prices and more information. and One smuggler, who asked to only be identified by his TikTok name “The Corporation” because of fear of authorities tracking him down, said that other accounts would steal his migrant smuggling network’s videos of customers saying to camera they arrived safely in the U.S. “And there’s not much we can do legally. I mean, it’s not like we can report them,” he said with a laugh.
  • Lunch today

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    JollyJ
    @Klaus said in Lunch today: Well, if there's one person on TNCR who can eat this kind of food without having to worry about fat and calories it's you. My thoughts, exactly.
  • More Autopen

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    JollyJ
    Psst...Trump didn't come with that first ...
  • A Different View

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    JollyJ
    @LuFins-Dad said in A Different View: @Jolly I’m tired, have a headache, and a sour stomach. Please bitchslap this guy for me? I'm cleaning my pump right now. Had a crow aggravate my barn cat and that's crossing the line. I'll nail the crow up in the garden tomorrow. Crows are smart, they avoid a dead crow. So, if I had violent tendencies towards the lad right now, I'm afraid the end result would be permanent. Best not to do that, as he may have some redeeming qualities. I've heard that if you put your fingers in your ears and hum the Star Spangled Banner, he ain't a half bad pianist....
  • Giant White Houses (no not that one)

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    jon-nycJ
    What better evidence that we live in a white supremacist society.
  • Generation Xanax

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    jon-nycJ
    When my mom was dying home hospice basically kept her high on morphine for her final days.
  • Bondi Speaks

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    RenaudaR
    @Doctor-Phibes Both Enoch Powell and Tony Benn were highly Eurosceptic…. As was Margaret Thatcher. As well, Britain had spent much of the preceding four hundred years seeking to keep continental Europe divided so that it could pick and choose its continental allies according its own shifting interests. Hence the pejorative, perfidious Albion.
  • Elon's Inspiration

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    MikM
    The very definition of tongue in cheek.
  • I Can Has Cheezburger? Enters the AI Era

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    MikM
    @jon-nyc said in I Can Has Cheezburger? Enters the AI Era: That’s totally fake. Cynic.
  • Hold The Salt

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    MikM
    Yep. There's no free lunch. We could create dead zones.
  • Lutnick promotes Tesla stock on air ...

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    89th8
    @xenon said in Lutnick promotes Tesla stock on air ...: I watched a video of Nixon recently. It seemed like it was from a different universe. Kids these days are going to grow up thinking government is a clown show. I am hopeful we'll get back there eventually. Watch old debates between Obama and McCain (or Romney). Heck, even if it's Vance vs Libby McTolerance in 2028, I think at the minimum Vance will be respectful, similar to his VP debate style.
  • George bait

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  • Another lie

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  • Taiwan

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    89th8
    Somewhat related... https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/1jgeswz/chinas_no_2_zhang_youxia_military_uniform_is/
  • Ship Disguises in World War 1

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    89th8
    They'll never see me. [image: 1742562892647-13640749-77f7-45e7-ab68-654762b6fff6-image.png]
  • Another Plane incident

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    89th8
    They forgot the ending event of the PLANE FLIPPING UPSIDE DOWN.
  • Another plane near-miss today

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    89th8
    Was Harrison Ford the pilot?
  • Two new states today

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    89th8
    You know, when we met many years ago i was surprised how well you spoke English.
  • The Cybertruck is Crap

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    JollyJ
    Meh.
  • Good night and good riddance.

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    RenaudaR
    @Doctor-Phibes larly the comedies. When I see movies from the so-called golden age, the acting frequently seems really wooden, and so many American characters have that weird pseudo-British way of speaking in many of them that seemed so popular…. I think was called a mid Atlantic accent. It was vogue and state of the art in theatre and cinema throughout the 30s and 40s. Katherine Hepburn built her career around it. Even born Englishmen like Carey Grant had to cultivate it.