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The US draft system hasn't had college deferments since the latter part of the Vietnam war.
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This is the one that put up the stiffest resistance, in part because the guard on duty the first time DOGE showed up didn't have a key to the inner door.
They deserve recognition for that.
I'll not be whatabouted out of making it clear how bad things are.
There's a third type: those who think that the President should be bound by law and constition.
This happens to be a nonprofit, which while funded by congress, has some level of independence. The President isn't supposed to be able to shut it down like this, and it took coercing the guards's boss and having cops break into their offices to get to this point.
In the US, unless the outcome is changed as a result of an appeal, yes.
It's not a direct impact; it's that the ad buys get the oil folks access in a way that you and I don't have. The journalists end up at things like conference panels with oil folks, and not so much with activists or scientists, and the editors choose who to put on a given story.
The NYT takes huge ad payments from the oil industry. Industry reps get regular access to reporters in non-news contexts as a result, and this spills over into the background beliefs and attitudes a lot of them have
Both personal appearances at rallies and paying for votes
Gun owners mostly shoot:
- themselves
- their wife or girlfriend
- their kids
They apparently know now — she was taken to an ICE facility in Loisiana in violation of a court order.
She was transferred to Louisiana despite a federal judge’s order Tuesday night telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove Ozturk from Massachusetts without prior notice.
I had the impression that college deferment ended about a year before the draft did.
I don't expect college draft deferment to be a thing again until the boomers die.