I know in my house growing up, whenever one of our dogs suddenly yelped in pain for no known reason, we got mad at the dog and "guessed" that she "clipped herself" and told other people that that's what happened. It's honestly the only normal and logical thing you would even do in that situation.
How do you think he knew that she "clipped herself"?
Why do you think Hasan said she "clipped herself" when he wasn't looking and had no idea why she might have suddenly yelped? Do you think he's in the habit of coming up with glib explanations on the spot for why his dog suddenly yelped in pain, that explain them away, while using a condescending and dismissive tone of voice towards the entire type of the question?
Or is he maybe linked to the dog, like a twin, so that he felt her pain at the instant she felt it no matter the distance between them, in space or time?
Do you agree with the Hasan subreddit that she obviously caught her dew claw on the bed? Or did she maybe just bump her leg on the bed and that was what caused her to suddenly yelp in pain?
(Edit: Fuck me, I'm saying "bed" now. It's a weird little hard platform, it's clearly not a bed.)
What misbehavior do you think he's upset about? Or what misbehavior could he be upset about? I won't ask you to read his mind, just asking for what a reasonable explanation could be about what she did that caused him to yell at her and then get all exasperated and sigh, like she's a lost cause as a dog and he can't even.
Being annoyed at your dog for literally just tentatively putting one paw down onto the floor quietly, and then jerking to a halt from what you were doing and glaring at her until she adopts a heartbreakingly submissive posture and gets back on her platform, yes 100% means you're a dickhead. It's a little dick headed to get annoyed at your dog for just quietly walking in the first place, yes, but maybe that could be excused if he's amped up because of what he's talking about and loses his cool a little bit for no reason. Not instantly walking it back and going over and comforting the dog once she gets scared like that, because it wasn't her fault, makes you a massive asshole. I don't even have words for how much of a self centered cock Hasan is showing himself to be in these clips. What's he going to do when he has kids? What if they do something actually misbehavior, and he's irritated by it but still has to keep his cool?
Like I say, it is mind blowing to me that you guys can watch these clips and you're okay with it. I probably won't continue to reiterate it for too much longer, but you keep reiterating "doesn't look like anything to me," so sure, let's keep talking about it I guess.
We can dress up like ICE, and probably just kidnap literally whoever we want and whisk them away. Maybe even bust our way into Hasan's studio so we can literally take Kaya's collar and remote to strap onto him for the show. Here, take a look at the business plan...
You guys are out of your fucking minds. I'm legitimately getting angry about this.
You can literally see the dew claw, on the back of her leg facing away from the "bed", in both the frame before, and the frame after, she yelps. It is nowhere near contacting the bed or anything else. I don't have time to make screenshots but I will make some.
I know that the Hasan subreddit is saying it was her dew claw. They're also saying it was an air tag collar (and ignoring the big box with the green light). You guys are out of your fucking minds and this man is a massive piece of shit.
Honestly that makes a certain amount of sense. The way he instantly "knows the answer" to whatever world event just happened and the reasons, and it always happens to be the most convenient ideological matchup with his particular tribe and whatever would be best for them and then he gets angry and calls someone stupid if they ever try to say that something different happened, is very much the sign of someone who didn't really reason their way into the positions they have, just wants to pick a side and have shock-value and make soundbites aligned with that side.
If only we could look for ourselves and see what actually happened frame by frame, instead of having to rely on personalities and the source or authority in order to make sense of what had happened.
So when he says, "Kaya! Please!", what misbehavior do you think he's upset about? He brags about how well-trained this dog is (as, somehow, a defense against people saying that he is abusing her), so clearly she knows exactly what the boundary is that she just crossed with her behavior and he's just helping to reinforce it. So what did she do?
Yeah. The behavior of people in this comments section really blows my mind. Just listening to the guy talk about his dog, or watching them interact, it is very clear that he's a POS. Also, the whole thing of "she's the most spoiled dog in the world" and how angry he is about that, instead of something like "and she deserves it because she is the best" or something, is so disgusting. Bro why the fuck do you even have a dog. Just get a little statue to be in frame for you on the platform, and let this dog go live its life away from your stress inducing stream.
I think it for real is very similar to MAGA. The whole concept of watching the video and coming to their own conclusion is alien to them. They need a tribe to be part of, and so anything bad someone says about the tribe needs somebody to motivate to say some stuff in defense. They're barely paying attention to the evidence, just trying to figure out how to muster the best counterpoint they can about whatever it is they've decided in advance is "the right side."
President Donald Trump has has long considered both the media and higher education as his enemies — which makes college media a ripe target. The arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk over an op-ed that she co-wrote for the Tufts University campus paper proved that student journalists are at risk, especially foreign writers who dared criticize Israel’s war on Gaza.
But one student newspaper is fighting back.
The Stanford Daily — the independent publication covering Stanford University — filed a First Amendment lawsuit suing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem earlier this month over two tactics they’ve used in targeted deportation cases.
“What’s at stake in this case is whether, when you’re in the United States, you’re free to voice an opinion critical of the government without fear of retaliation,” said Conor Fitzpatrick, an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, a civil liberties group representing the plaintiffs.
“It does not matter if you’re a citizen, here on a green card, or visiting Las Vegas for the weekend — you shouldn’t have to fear retaliation because the government doesn’t like what you have to say,” Fitzpatrick said.
Soon after Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by immigration agents in early March for his role in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, student journalists and editors around the country sensed a shift.
“That’s when we saw a significant uptick in calls,” said Mike Hiestand, senior legal counsel at the Student Press Law Center, who manages the nonprofit’s hotline.
Over three decades helping student reporters navigate censorship and First Amendment issues, Hiestand had never fielded so many calls focused on potential immigration consequences for coverage on campus, both for the journalists and their named sources.
Öztürk’s arrest just a couple weeks later sent the legal hotline “into overdrive,” Hiestand told The Intercept. He heard from reporters, editors, and even political cartoonists worried their work about Israel, Palestine, and student protests might make them targets too.
In early April, the Student Press Law Center put out an unprecedented alert with other student journalism organizations, which advised campus publications to consider taking down or revising “certain stories that may now be targeted by immigration officials.”
“ICE has weaponized lawful speech and digital footprints and has forced us all to reconsider long-standing journalism norms,” reads the alert.
The next week, the Stanford Daily editorsran a letter about the chill its own staff was facing on campus.
“Both students and faculty have been increasingly hesitant to speak to The Daily and increasingly worried about comments that have already been made on the record,” their letter read. “Some reporters have been choosing to step away from stories in order to keep their name detached from topics that might draw unwanted attention. Even authors of dated opinion pieces have expressed fear that their words might retroactively put them in danger.”
Following the editors’ letter, FIRE approached the Stanford Daily’s editors to sue the Trump administration. It’s not the first time the publication has fought for freedom of the press in court. In 1978, a case brought by the Stanford Daily over a search warrant targeting its newsroom reached the Supreme Court, which ruled 5-3 that the warrant was valid and did not violate the First Amendment.
The student newspaper’s current suit — filed with two individual plaintiffs suing under the pseudonyms Jane Doe and John Doe — challenges two broad, arcane legal provisions that have become Rubio’s go-to tools against student activists and campus critics of Israel’s war on Gaza.
The first provision, which was added to the country’s immigration code in 1990, grants the secretary of state sweeping authority to render noncitizens deportable if they “compromise a compelling United States foreign policy interest.” The second law is even broader, allowing the secretary to revoke visas “at any time, in his discretion.”
There are relatively few cases in which either statute has been the grounds for deportation, particularly compared to the tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has rounded up and detained since Trump returned to the White House.
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In fact, immigration scholars found that invoking the foreign policy provision as the sole grounds for deportation was “almost unprecedented,” according to a brief submitted in Khalil’s ongoing court battle by more than 150 lawyers and law professors. Based on government data, the scholars identified just 15 cases in which the foreign policy provision has ever been invoked, and just four in the past 25 years — most recently in 2018, during the first Trump administration.
“At a minimum, the government’s assertion of authority here is extraordinary — indeed, vanishingly rare,” the scholars wrote in their brief.
In Khalil’s case, the government identified only two others beside Khalil who had been targeted by Rubio under the “foreign policy” provision: although not identified by name, descriptions of the cases match Rubio’s orders against Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, and Badar Khan Suri, a scholar at Georgetown University. Oddly, the government failed to mention the case of Yunseo Chung, another Columbia undergraduate with a green card, whose deportation Rubio authorized in the very same letter as for Khalil.
The State Department greenlighted Öztürk’s detention, meanwhile, under the second, broader provision, court records show. The government has not made any similar accounting of how many times Rubio and his staff have invoked his “discretion” to revoke visas over alleged antisemitism. At one point Rubio claimed to have revoked as many as 300 visas, without specifying the authority under which he did so.
“The chill is the point,” Fitzpatrick, the FIRE attorney, said. “It doesn’t take deporting thousands of noncitizens to accomplish that chill,” since no one wants to become “the next Mahmoud Khalil or Rümeysa Öztürk.”
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In recent months, numerous courts have cast doubt on whether these two statutes can be used to target noncitizens based on their speech.
In Khalil’s case, which is currently pending in a federal appellate court, a district court judge in New Jersey ruled in June that the “foreign policy” provision is “very likely an unconstitutional statute.”
Similarly, in May a judge in Vermont ordered Öztürk’s release to “ameliorate the chilling effect that Ms. Ozturk’s arguably unconstitutional detention may have on non-citizens present in the country.” The government has also appealed that order, along with similar rulings that freed Mahdawi and Suri from detention, and another ruling that blocked the Trump administration from detaining Chung.
Now, the Stanford Daily is mounting a direct challenge to these two laws as deployed by the Trump administration. The student newspaper argues both provisions are unconstitutional under the First Amendment, at least when used to retaliate against protected speech.
“The Secretary of State and the President claim to possess unreviewable statutory authority to deport any lawfully present noncitizen for speech the government deems anti-American or anti-Israel. They are wrong,” reads their complaint, filed August 6. “The First Amendment cements America’s promise that the government may not subject a speaker to disfavored treatment because those in power do not like his or her message.”
Julia Rose Kraut, a legal historian who has written about the history of ideological deportation in the U.S., told The Intercept that Congress never meant for the foreign policy provision to be used “as a tool to suppress freedom of expression and association.”
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“Members of Congress intended for the foreign policy provision to be used in unusual circumstances, and only sparingly, carefully, and narrowly to exclude or deport specific individuals who would have a clear negative impact on United States foreign policy,” Kraut said, citing changes signed into law after the Cold War.
“What this case is seeking to establish is that political branches’ authority over immigration does not supersede the Bill of Rights,” FIRE’s Fitzpatrick said.
Briefing in the case is ongoing, and a hearing is scheduled for October 1.
“It’s gratifying to see a student newspaper upholding free speech at a time when many institutions are bending the knee,” said Shirin Sinnar, a law professor at Stanford, in an emailed statement. “Many students are afraid to protest the Trump administration’s actions not only because of the deportations, but because their own universities restricted speech and harshly disciplined protestors. I hope their courage inspires others to act.”
The post The Student Newspaper Suing Marco Rubio Over Targeted Deportations appeared first on The Intercept.
Actually, I do know precisely what I would do in that situation, because it happened to me. I was sleeping, and my cat made a noise of distress and pain, and I shot out of bed and ran to check on her, and she was tangled up in this wire shelving she had been climbing on in a way that was clearly causing her pain because she fucked up and fell into it. So then I helped her out of it and made sure she was okay.
Little did I know, I should have just told her "Stop!" in a really petulant tone of voice and then told people she "clipped herself." That cat actually was clumsy and tended to bump into things (probably related to the reason she managed to fuck up climbing on the shelves in the first place), so I could probably just rely on that and feel fully justified in being mad at her for being a living thing when I was busy with something.
Please teach me more about being a perfectly normal pet owner