Most people who are here without authorization entered legally and simply never left. Overstaying a visa is a serious infraction and can be grounds for being deported, but is not a crime.

So it simply isn’t true to say that all these people are criminals.

Reddit was one of the most human places on the Internet, until King Steven the Turd decided that it’s human interactions were a valuable resource that he could sell.

Now, it’s all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.

Do keep in mind that kids assume ownership of UGMAs when they turn 18 though.

This varies by state. In my state, my oldest gained access to their UTMA when they turned 18, but I am told I will still have my access until they turn 25, unless one of us explicitly revokes my access.

A UGMA/UTMA is basically a vehicle to gift money to a child, and then optionally invest it on their behalf, while having any gains on that money accrue to the child for tax purposes. Since most children don’t have much earned income, this will often result in them owing zero taxes on any unearned income on the account (unless there is more than $1350 of unearned income – read up on the “kiddie tax” if the income exceeds that).

OTOH a 529 is not a gift at all, until it is paid out. The money is technically still “owned” by the giver, they just have to name a beneficiary when they make an account. So any gains in a 529 don’t count towards the kid’s income at all, and if they are spent on educational expenses for the beneficiary they are not taxed on the other end either.

And once a year you can change the 529 beneficiary. So someone with a large 529 who finds that the beneficiary gets a scholarship (or doesn’t go to college) can change the beneficiary to someone else – even themselves.

As outrageous as that sounds, I know a lot of professors/PhD’s, and many of them are that clueless. They have a lot of very specific knowledge in their field, but may not have much practical knowledge about the rest of the world.

Still, this is the type of instance where revoking his visa may still be justified, even if he ended up having most of his other consequences suspended.

It sucks to be on the side of history that still tries to be reasonable, even while the other side goes full throttle and wouldn’t give the same rational thinking any thought.

It’s not just someone getting an IV. It’s the blatant lying when asked about it. Nobody gets a bruise like that by “shaking hands”.

It’s not a departure from its traditional focus on bribery

Maybe he really is this shitty. Remember that the guy who used to have this job retired a few months ago. Maybe this guy was picked to replace him because he’s just as much of an asshole as the rest of them.

Still up, for now. Now that we all know it’s an unauthorized take on Ghostbusters, Columbia Pictures might have an opinion on whether it should stay up…

Didn’t Trump already pardon all of the Jan 6 insurrectionists peaceful protestors?

So, I was about to explain to our non-US people that the President’s birthday happens to fall on two minor commerarive days: Flag Day, and the anniversary of the formation of the Continental Army, which gives Trump supporters a low-key way of honoring his birthday indirectly.

But nope, I had to go and look it up. You have to scroll a bit to find it, though:

June 14: Flag Day/President Trump’s birthday

So, it seems like we are treating him like a King now.

Plus, they state that this free entry is limited to citizens and permanent residents. Furthermore, they are charging extra for others to visit even on non-free days.

I didn’t make the graphic, I just stole/hotlinked it. I am very familiar with PA, although it’s main redeeming quality is that it’s not New Jersey.

That’s not a thing here. The closest we have is a motion to vacate the speakers’ chair.

These Republican women might be pissed off enough to do that, but then the House is thrown into chaos, like last time. And we would probably get someone even more batshit crazy as a new Speaker, like Jim Jordan or Nancy Mace.

Heck, the Speaker doesn’t even technically need to be a House member. They could elect George Santos, as long as all Republicans agreed to it. Or Matt Gaetz. Trump himself got no small amount of votes the last time that happened.

It makes sense for them to be in open revolt. Republicans have always found women revolting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Iscariot

Judas’s epithet “Iscariot” (Ὶσκάριωθ or Ὶσκαριώτης), which distinguishes him from the other people named “Judas” in the gospels, is usually thought to be a Greek rendering of the Hebrew phrase איש־קריות, (Κ-Qrîyôt), meaning “the man from Kerioth”.[17][9][18][19] This interpretation is supported by the statement in the Gospel of John 6:71 that Judas was “the son of Simon Iscariot”.[9] Nonetheless, this interpretation of the name is not fully accepted by all scholars.[17][9] One of the most popular alternative explanations holds that “Iscariot” (ܣܟܪܝܘܛܐ, ‘Skaryota’ in Syriac Aramaic, per the Peshitta text) may be a corruption of the Latin word sicarius, meaning “dagger man”,[17][9][20][21] which referred to a member of the Sicarii (סיקריים in Aramaic), a group of Jewish rebels who were known for assassinating people in crowds using long knives hidden under their cloaks.[17][9] This interpretation is problematic, however, because there is nothing in the gospels to associate Judas with the Sicarii,[9] and there is no evidence that the cadre existed during the 30s AD when Judas was alive.[22][9]

A possibility advanced by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg is that “Iscariot” means “the liar” or “the false one”, from the Hebrew איש-שקרים. C. C. Torrey suggests instead the Aramaic form שְׁקַרְיָא or אִשְׁקַרְיָא, with the same meaning.[23][24] Stanford rejects this, arguing that the gospel writers follow Judas’s name with the statement that he betrayed Jesus, so it would be redundant for them to call him “the false one” before immediately stating that he was a traitor.[9] Some have proposed that the word derives from an Aramaic word meaning “red color”, from the root סקר.[25] Another hypothesis holds that the word derives from one of the Aramaic roots סכר or סגר. This would mean “to deliver”, based on the Septuagint rendering of Isaiah 19:4 (a theory advanced by J. Alfred Morin).[24] The epithet could also be associated with the manner of Judas’s death, hanging. This would mean Iscariot derives from a kind of Greek-Aramaic hybrid: אִסְכַּרְיוּתָא, Iskarioutha, meaning “chokiness” or “constriction”. This might indicate that the epithet was applied posthumously by the remaining disciples, but Joan E. Taylor has argued that it was a descriptive name given to Judas by Jesus, since other disciples such as Simon Peter/Cephas (Kephas “rock”) were also given such names.[24]

He’s a Republican, and there’s no “R” in “consequences”…

Another Royal Proclamation from King Steven the Turd.

Just ask Kristi Noem to take care of that watchdog

No, you are the one that is basically arguing that a Fed can just flash their badge and get out of a state DUI. It doesn’t work like that.

The Supremacy clause deals with state laws that specifically are in conflict with Federal Law (or a Federal court ruling or regulation): the Feds win those, as long as the Federal act is Constitutional to begin with.

I don’t think the Federal Government can win a case in court that says that it 1) needs to rent cars locally to do its business and 2) those cars need to not have any identifying info mandated by the state at all. Especially when legislation already exists that let’s Feds bypass local registration requirements entirely and buy their own shit.

Having license plates on vehicles is not in direct contradiction to any Federal act. The Feds are just being lazy.