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“They are also preparing to impeach Mayorkas on the grounds that he has failed to meet the requirements of the Secure Fence Act, “which defines operational control of the border as a status in which not a single person or piece of contraband improperly enters the country.” As Brooks and Beitsch point out, “not a single secretary of Homeland Security has met that standard of perfection.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-2-2024

“By a few years later, though, I’d largely lost that hope, convinced that the battle had been won by the people who had made the internet a tool for maniupulation and undermining ordinary people’s power. I didn’t count on them being such sore winners, though. And I should never have underestimated the passion and resilience of the people who create the good internet, those who never stopped making things just for the love of the medium”

https://www.anildash.com/2024/01/03/human-web-renaissance/