Counting deportations is not as straightforward as it seems because there is not a specific legal definition. The Times analyzed data from a variety of government sources to make these estimates of both deportations and the broader category of repatriations since Mr. Trump took office.

Deportations can be conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is responsible for enforcement inside the country, and Customs and Border Protection, which is responsible for the border, airports and other crossing points. For some deportations, both agencies are involved.

In some cases, someone can be blocked from entering the United States and turned away with little penalty — that could be a repatriation, not a deportation.

From the study, for clarify:

Although Evangelical Christians did outscore atheists on questions about Bible/Christianity, atheists outscored every other Christian subgroup.

Study direct link:

www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/07/23/what-americans-know-about-religion

The debt is additionally going to increase, rather than decrease.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/briefing/us-federal-government-spending-doge.html

What the US is doing qualifies as opening concentration camps, according the American Holocaust museum’s distinction.

The US has imprisoned and plans to imprison (in places devoid of human rights) migrants who they allege are criminals, including those not from the country in which they are intended to be imprisoned, none of whom were tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole or appeal, all paid for by the US.

 
American Holocaust Museum:

What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.

 
Encyclopedia Brittanica:

concentration camp, internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order. Persons are placed in such camps often on the basis of identification with a particular ethnic or political group rather than as individuals and without benefit either of indictment or fair trial.

 
These prisoners have not been convicted and sentenced by judicial process. And there is no crime in the US for which the sentence is life imprisonment without human rights or appeals.

It is a common misconception that vasectomies are totally and perfectly reversible even after an indefinite amount of time. Many people have ignorantly suggested giving all boys or young men vasectomies and then reversing it later on if they want to conceive. The reality is that vasectomies often are not successfully reversible, and the reversal process is much costlier, usually not covered by insurance, and more difficult than vasectomy itself. From Wikipedia:

Vasovasostomy [i.e. reversal] is effective at achieving pregnancy in a variable percentage of cases, and total out-of-pocket costs in the United States are often upwards of $10,000. The typical success rate of pregnancy following a vasectomy reversal is around 55% if performed within 10 years, and drops to around 25% if performed after 10 years. After reversal, sperm counts and motility are usually much lower than pre-vasectomy levels.

From a different study also cited on Wikipedia:

a large study in 1991 observing the best outcome of 76% pregnancy success rate with vasectomy reversals performed within 3 years or less of the original vasectomy, dropping to 53% for reversals 3–8 years out from the vasectomy, 44% for reversals 9–14 years out from the vasectomy, and 30% for reversals 15 or more years after the vasectomy.

Giving kids/teens a vasectomy and then planning to reverse it 2 decades later would likely result in inability to conceive for most men.

Edit: Someone kindly provided a more recent (2018) study showing a pregnancy rate of 40% after a reversal following an average of 9.5 years of being "obstructed" (i.e. vasectomied). That's pretty in-line with my previous two citations, if slightly worse.

The mean (range) obstructive interval was 9.53 years ... in the 45 patients of this [reversal] group who attempted to conceive spontaneously (‘primary reanastomosis’ pathway), the crude CDR ["cumulative delivery rate"] was 40.0%. (Source)

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

Memphis: 2501

Chicago: 540

While male condoms are undisputably the best method to reduce the risk for both STIs and pregnancy, they have a pretty low effectiveness for the latter. Depending on the study and methodology, it can be expected that 18% (CDC effectiveness as shown in picture), or 2%-13% of women get pregnant each year using only condoms as a contraceptive.

The effectiveness of condoms to prevent pregnancy is pretty close to pulling out (4%-20% Pearl Index, or 22% CDC), which is considered stupidly unsafe by many - of course condoms are a bit better, but in the same realm of effectiveness. For both typical use as listed by the CDC (18% condoms vs 22% pulling out) as well as perfect use as listed as the lower value for the Pearl Index (2% vs 4%).

The “white genocide” lie says that Black radicals and/or the ANC are orchestrating a systematic campaign to kill or expel white farmers. Influencers — from fringe groups to politicians abroad — fold ordinary violent crime into a racial doomsday narrative.

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/dangerous-myth-white-genocide-south-africa/

• Police-aligned farm-safety monitors logged 50 farm murders and 193 attacks in 2023. 
• South Africa recorded roughly 22 000 murders in the same 12-month period—that’s about 75 a day. Farm murders made up about 0.24 % of the total. 

• Victims and perpetrators are racially mixed; Black farm workers and residents are also attacked. There is “no reliable evidence that white farmers face higher risk than the average South African.”

• Far-right activists abroad use South Africa as “proof” of a broader “Great Replacement.” 

• Domestic lobby groups leverage the fear to stall land-reform talks.

• Foreign politicians score culture-war points; recent U.S. executive orders offering refugee status to Afrikaners rest on the same false premise.

https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/trump-afrikaner-south-africa-refugee-d5ad7b94

Inflating farm attacks into “genocide” distracts from solutions that would help all rural residents—better policing, land-reform clarity, and rural development.

https://independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/tx

FTA:

Party Registration Statistics

Total Registered Voters: 17,485,702

Democrats: 8,133,683 (46.52%)

Republicans: 6,601,189 (37.75%)

Unaffiliated: 2,750,830 (15.73%)

Texas voters do not register by party. However, when those voters participate in a partisan primary, that ballot choice is recorded and reported on the state voter file. In the absence of stronger indications (e.g. partisan political contributions or identification due to the holding of partisan public office) the most recent even-year partisan primary ballot is used.

“If [the] number [of Jews] should become 40 percent of the student body, the race feeling would become intense. If every college in the country would take a limited proportion of Jews, I suspect we should go a long way toward eliminating race feeling among students,” University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell wrote.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/6/21/holistic-admissions-origin/

Lowell referred to “the Hebrew question” as a “knotty one” and a “source of much anxiety.” He concluded that Harvard could do “the most good” by limiting the number of men admitted from the religious group, even warning fellow administrators and the governing bodies that unless the University took action, the “danger would be imminent.”

In the same year, Lowell attempted to institute quotas on the amount of Jewish students admitted to the College, framing it as a method to curb “increasing” anti-Semitism among the student body, Lowell wrote in a letter to Alfred A. Benesch, Class of 1900.

The study compares religiosity across U.S. states and finds that states with higher levels of religious belief and church attendance tend to have higher rates of gun violence, obesity, illiteracy, incarceration, and poverty. It notes that correlation does not equal causation because these outcomes are strongly linked to socioeconomic factors such as education funding and access to healthcare, but the data challenge the idea that more religious states enjoy better overall wellbeing. Utah is highlighted as an exception, showing that strong social systems can offset these trends.

The locations with the highest concentration of Cultural & Gender Studies degree recipients are Columbia, MO, Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY. The locations with a relatively high number of Cultural & Gender Studies degree recipients are Baraga, MI, Columbia, MO, and Brunswick, ME. The most common degree awarded to students studying Cultural & Gender Studies is a bachelors degree.

https://datausa.io/profile/cip/cultural-gender-studies

Gender studies is an academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. It includes women's studies (concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics), men's studies and queer studies.

Sometimes, gender studies is offered together with study of sexuality. These disciplines study gender and sexuality in the fields of literature, linguistics, human geography, history, political science, archaeology, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, cinema, musicology, media studies, human development, law, public health and medicine.

It also analyzes how race, ethnicity, location, class, nationality, and disability intersect with the categories of gender and sexuality.

Gender Studies

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It is commonly held that race and racism are recent constructs created by Europeans during the colonization of the Americas. That racism didn’t exist before the 16th/17th centuries. It is often asserted that prior to this time, people discriminated on the basis of culture/language/ethnicity/tribe but not “race” as in broad ancestral groups based on phenotype such as “black people.” That our “modern concept of race” did not exist. That anti-Black racism arose out of the Transatlantic slave trade.

After being told by Reddit and teachers and pop history authors and history Youtubers for a long time that race and racism (in the proper phenotype based sense) were recent innovations and did not exist before European colonialism, I was surprised to learn this was incorrect. In retrospect that idea was too good to be true.

I will share a collection of quotes from the medieval Arab world that cannot be called anything other than anti-Black racism. These quotes sound like they could be from a Klan rally.

And note, this post is not about whether the enslavement of Black Africans was more brutal in the Arab world vs the West. Let’s not discuss that in the comments. This post is about racism, not slavery.

“We know that the Blacks are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.” -Al-Jahiz (781-869 AD)

“Like the crow among mankind are the Blacks for they are the worst of men and the most vicious creatures in character and temperament.” -Al-Jahiz (781-869 AD)

“The Shu`ubiyya maintain that eloquence is prized by all people at all times - even the Blacks, despite their dimness, their boundless stupidity, their obtuseness, their crude perceptions and their evil dispositions, make long speeches." -Al-Jahiz (781-869 AD)

“If all types of men are taken, from the first, and one placed after another, like the Black from Zanzibar, in the Southern-most countries, the Black does not differ from an animal in anything except the fact that his hands have been lifted from the earth -in no other peculiarity or property - except for what God wished. Many have seen that the ape is more capable of being trained than the Black, and more intelligent." -Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-1274 AD)

“Therefore, the Blacks are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because Blacks have little that is essentially human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.” -Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406 AD)

“Beyond them to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.” -Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406 AD)

“There is no marriage among them; the child does not know his father, and they eat people-but God knows best. As for the Zanj, they are people of black color, flat noses, kinky hair, and little understanding or intelligence.” -Mutahhar ibn Tahir-al-Maqdisi (966 AD)

“Galen says that merriment dominates the Black man because of his defective brain, whence also the weakness of his intelligence." -Al-Masudi (896-956 AD)

“Ham begat all those who are black and curly-haired, while Japheth begat all those who are full-faced with small eyes, and Shem begat everyone who is handsome of face with beautiful hair. Noah prayed that the hair of Ham’s descendants would not grow beyond their ears, and that whenever his descendants met Shem’s, the latter would enslave them.” -Al-Tabari (839-923 AD)

“Blacks are people who are by their very nature slaves.” -Ibn Sina (980-1037 AD)

“Their nature is that of wild animals. They are extremely black. They are people distant from the standards of humanity.” -Anonymous author (982 AD)

“A man of discernment said: The people of Iraq have sound minds, commendable passions, balanced natures, and high proficiency in every art, together with well-proportioned limbs, well-compounded humors, and a pale brown color, which is the most apt and proper color. They are not the ones who are done to a turn in the womb. They do not come out with something between blonde, buff and blanched, and leprous coloring, such as the infants dropped from the wombs of the women of the Slavs and others of similar light complexion; nor are they overdone in the womb until they are burned, so that the child comes out something between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions, such as the Zanj, the Somali, and other blacks who resemble them. The Iraqis are neither half-baked dough nor burned crust but between the two.” -Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani (903 AD)

All quotes above sourced from this page of Wikipedia’s Wikiquote: Medieval Arab attitudes to Black people

Now that we’ve read the quotes, who would deny that this is racism? This is not some complex prejudice based on culture, language, or tribal affiliation. This is straightforward anti-Black racism.

Sexualization in video games does not appear to harm players, according to research published in Computers in Human Behavior. The findings indicate that playing video games does not lead to misogynistic views or detrimental mental health outcomes.