https://archive.ph/PGZkK

cross-posted from: https://crazypeople.online/post/22932502

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The Trump administration is packing immigration courtrooms and giving less lead-time on hearings in an effort to clear a decades-long backlog. The result is a historic rise in the number of people missing court dates and being immediately ordered deported as the system struggles to keep up, new data shows.

Dozens and often hundreds of immigrants’ cases a day are being assigned to individual judges in courthouses across the country, in what are known as “mega” master hearings, which have seen a significant increase this year. More than 1,300 such hearings were held in June alone, a nearly threefold jump from the previous June, according to data analyzed by Mobile Pathways, a nonprofit that tracks immigration court data to help immigrants, their lawyers and other organizations.

At the same time, the data shows, courts have severely cut the length of time many people are getting to prepare for complex immigration proceedings, from about six months to often just a little more than a month.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46144497

Iran warned this ​weekend against any “adventurous action” by the U.S. and said it would retaliate decisively if American forces follow through on ‌President Donald Trump's threats of fresh attacks on Iranian targets.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi’s comments in separate phone calls on Saturday with senior Turkish, Pakistani and Saudi officials came just hours after Kuwait's army said it destroyed hostile drones launched by Iran against several vital facilities.

Speaking to Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir ​and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Araqchi said Iran would respond decisively to any "aggression" and discussed the consequences of “destabilizing actions" by ​the U.S., as well as prospects for heightened regional insecurity, according to Araqchi's Telegram account.

The threat arrives in plain language. “Failure to comply could jeopardize eligibility for state educational scholarship programs,” Uthmeier wrote, aiming at the funding stream that carried roughly 88 percent of Florida’s more than 94,000 Catholic school students last year. He gave the bishops until August 7 to respond — ten days before most Florida schools open for the new year.

Within hours, the attorney general announced the letter on X. “Ironically, they won’t offer religious exemptions as prescribed by state law,” he wrote. “This is troubling and may disqualify them from state scholarships and vouchers.”

I also watched over 2 hours of bonus features on the disc.

There are also some unrelated ones I mostly skipped.

Anyway, what I remember from the commentaries and interviews is that there could have been one more scene at the end with the forklift driving through a fiberglass wall, and the 2 guys scratching themselves.

Also, pig blood is cheaper than fake blood, so a lot of the blood is indeed real. Konstantin Graudus (Klaus' actor) also described the awful strong taste of the blood as that's what he got sprayed with.

Oh, and Microsoft Word kept mis-correcting the word "Staplerfahrer".

There's also a re-mastered version on Blu-Ray, but that would be over EUR 40 along with shipping, so nah. This one was 2.66... bumped to 7.45 by shipping costs (Austria -> Slovakia), plus some exchange fee because I got it from Momox on UK Amazon.
German DVD, purchased from British e-shop, shipped from Austria (at least that's what the shipping label says) to Slovakia.

Vincent Pastore, who played Big Pussy on 'The Sopranos,' has died. He was 80.