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Haha, I was posting about Michigan at the exact moment. That was crazy.

It sounds like you haven't seen the multiple videos of the incident? The victim had his arms restrained by the multiple masked ICE agents, he had already been pepper sprayed at close range, and was on his hands and knees, being bashed in the face repeatedly with a metal spray canister... at this...

ICE seems to be hiring just about any warm body, as shown by Laura Jedeed's undercover reporting:

It sounds like Schumer was mocking Trump's claim he could 'bring democracy to Venezuela', which didn't happen in the first term. Similar to Trump's 2024 campaign promise to bring peace to Ukraine within a day of taking office. The Dems wanted Maduro out, but not via the method we're seeing...

I see people online talking about the future of the petrodollar and the new BRICS currency (the "Unit" which name makes me 😬), and the USA wanting to bust up a growing alliance between Vla and China for defense reasons. That all strikes me as complicated but likely. Call me a kuku but this...

I'm kind of surprised people are willing to go along with this.

Sounds like the "special account" method works better than actually renting a property out. I'm still in limbo after more than six months, plus the added hassle of leases and deeds getting updates and translation. It's the hard way. They haven't even looked at my file, and I don't blame them...

What are we to make of this? Do we suspect this was a special case or are they generally getting more prickly? https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/Tiktoker-volvio-a-Uruguay-y-se-entero-de-que-no-podia-reingresar-a-Argentina-por-que-uc947056

Sew you there!

Slightly off topic but doesn't the government have some bills coming due in January? Loans and bonds or something? I was under the impression Bessent would just bail them out until the tab reaches $20B.

My father's partner had to permanently hide his guns when his Alzheimer's started ramping up. She only told us after he died how afraid she was. He would see strangers that weren't there around sundown. I remember as a curious child coming across his pistol in a drawer; rifles and shotguns were...

I wish it weren't true, but I think that ship has sailed. Some of the most popular stories in the news are jubilados defending their houses against robbers, even shooting them in the back as they flee. There's so much mockery of the left on social media, and part of it is probably bots; but...

Haha I'm not sure I'm so adventurous, but short of relocating to El Chalten, I was curious if there was a 'hiking spot'. In NYC you could jump on the train and go a couple hours north to hiking (and obviously that's a big city too). I lived there for a decade before I realized it was possible on...

So what's the nature fun plan in the Delta? Can you row out beyond the residential part, or is that too far? Hop off on an island and hike (or would you sink in the mud)? I do have a friend with an island house, but it seems more like a yard than 'nature'. Where's the nearest nature-nature (as...

I'm with rl45, I miss some 'easy' products from the states in particular pancake mix. I know I could do it myself, but I never feel that ambitious in the morning. I miss crickets and cicadas chirping. And as a Coloradan, easy access to nature.

As a former New Yorker (15 years), I suspect our Taiwanese friend spent even less time there than in BA. Mamdani's proposals make sense to that particular situation, and that's why he won. As an American whose tax dollars are being spent to keep the peso artificially high (thus making life more...

Not the news I was hoping for as I'm seemingly stalled out in the process of getting from precaria to temporary visa rentista. Sounds like they want their own version of ICE? "The government is finalizing the technical details to formalize the creation of a new immigration agency that will...

Sorry, Javier: "No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/new-york-city-mayor-zohran-mamdani-real-estate-ceos.html

Our meetup is a tiny segment (at an awkward time for people with jobs, as you said, so it's mostly retired folks), but there's also Mundo Lingo, which is mobbed with young expats. I see a different crowd at Trivia night, and a different crowd at the philosophy meetup, etc. If the 30,000 figure...

Weird, my lawyer seems to be having problems uploading docs yesterday and today. Wonder if there's a system problem?