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MolotovCocktail says

Seems to be true:

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-rwanda-relocates-iraqi-refugee-omar-ameen

A US State Department cable was sent from the American Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 13th with some major news: Rwanda said it was willing to accept deportees from the United States who are unable to be sent to their country of origin for fear of persecution. A copy of the cable reviewed by The Handbasket in March confirmed the news. And now according to a new cable, which has also been reviewed by The Handbasket, the first person has officially been deported from the US to Rwanda via this new arrangement.

Patrick says

unable to be sent to their country of origin for fear of persecution

Something says that this is going to clear up a lot of the alleged 'fear of persecution' that the invaders claim. Fine, we'll send you to a country that agrees not to persecute you, LOL!

Why would Rwanda agree to take our illegals?

HeadSet says

Why would Rwanda agree to take our illegals?

We pay them $5 a head?

HeadSet says

Why would Rwanda agree to take our illegals?

Free slave labor.

https://patrick.net/post/1384438/2025-05-02-trump-signs-executive-order-defunding

Trump signs executive order defunding PBS, NPR

Trump is halting the laundering and kickback Pharma connection at the root. They won't be able to pay the lobbyists and bribes any more, either, or generate false profits for favored political investors.
MolotovCocktail says

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/us-senate-votes-block-california-2035-electric-vehicle-rules-2025-05-22/

US Senate votes to block California 2035 electric vehicle rules

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to bar California's landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035 that has been adopted by 11 other states representing a third of the U.S. auto market.

The vote sends to President Donald Trump the measure to repeal a waiver granted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President Joe Biden in December, allowing California to mandate at least 80% electric vehicles by 2035.

If upheld by the courts, rescinding California's rules will make it easier for automakers to delay or cancel some EV production. Automakers had warned in the coming months they might have been forced to limit gas-powered vehicles in some states.

California's rules require 35% of light-duty vehicles in the 2026 model year to be zero-emission models. Automakers say it is impossible for them to meet that figure given current EV sales, which are 10% or lower in some states adopting the rules. Vermont and Maryland have delayed compliance.

Now next they can take away California's 'privileges' the old Clean Air Act grandfathered in. Like the ones unelected CARB have imposed that impact cars sold in all 50 states. And the special blend of gasoline CA makes and gets to ban all others.

zzyzzx says

US Senate votes to block California 2035 electric vehicle rules

I don't like the California rules, but this seems like a clear case of infringing on states' rights.

Patrick says

I don't like the California rules, but this seems like a clear case of infringing on states' rights.

How so? Feds have supremacy over environmental law - especially air and water - because pollution can't be bounded by state lines.

California was GRANTED a grandfathered exemption to the US Clean Air Act in the 1970s. And the EPA has granted exemptions beyond that. The entire premise of CARB is pretty much based on those exemptions, for example.

MolotovCocktail says

Feds have supremacy over environmental law - especially air and water - because pollution can't be bounded by state lines.

I don't think the Constitution makes an exception for pollution.

zzyzzx says

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to bar California's landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035 that has been adopted by 11 other states representing a third of the U.S. auto market.

Ohhhhhhhh.... hmmmm

Patrick says

I don't think the Constitution makes an exception for pollution.

I think at this point we can all quit using the constitution as a pro/con point on any topic. It's a piece of paper with no teeth.

I realized this with the SCOTUS ruling on Keto. The tortured logic used to justify eminent domain because it would increase the property tax base marked the end of my belief that SCOTUS was on the constitutions' side.

Patrick says

don't think the Constitution makes an exception for pollution.

Primarily the Commerce Clause:

Some pollution sources, such as automobiles and ships, move in interstate commerce; other sources manufacture products that do so; pollution affects such mainstays of interstate commerce as agricultural commodities, livestock, and many raw materials; pollutants themselves can be seen as products, or at least byproducts, moving "in commerce" across state lines.

But also other parts: Federal lands in states that can be impacted by pollution open the door for federal supremacy as well. Treaties. Congress has supremacy rights over rivers, etc.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/politics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/environmental-regulation-and-constitution

Only California can get a waiver from the EPA. And got three of them for their zero emissions crap. Also, states can then demand to have those California waivers apply to them too. 18 have done just that. And not via their legislative processes, either. EPA can't stop that from happening, either.

Zero Emission cars don't just involve differing catalytic converters on the same car. This is the entire engine, transmission system and fuel system replaced. This is enough to force California vehicle manufacturing rules nation wide because most car manufacturers will simply choose to build & sell zero emission cars, period.

This was the plan by the Left all along. So much for 'States Rights' or even Congress voting on this shit. Quite the opposite.

Congress simply is now using its power under the CRA to override these waivers of federal regulation by the EPA.

A pro State's Rights argument would be to force CARB's bullshit to only impact vehicle manufacturing IN California. All the car manufacturers bailed on CA long ago except the EV ones, anyway. But it wouldn't fuck over Texan car buyers like this EPA shit - should it be allowed to stand - would do.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chabria-ice-arrested-a-california-union-leader-does-trump-understand-what-that-means/ar-AA1Ghkzw