Just got back to the US from an international trip and experienced the facial recognition tech immigration now uses. Incredibly creepy. They didn't scan our US passports, just had us look into the camera (including our two kids). Would not travel to a country that wanted my social media history.

I'm a US citizen preparing to move to Australia (hopefully forever:). Hard to understand why the Australian government would think this was a good time to be making deals with the US, which has been making it clear how little it values its allies (and is on a murder campaign in the Caribbean).

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

Yes, State Trooper is the song that made me appreciate Springsteen.