As most have predicted and feared, the US Administration appears to now be testing if they can push one step further towards enforcing an authoritarian ethno-state: threatening a full-on US citizen by-birth with detainment and deportation (to where, exactly, if they are a born US citizen?). Someone who, “coincidentally”, is an immigration lawyer, someone who might defend other targets of their deportation agenda.
First they came for …
EDIT: a thread indicating this has been a mass email to others https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h
I always forget how Aussie politics is weird. Your liberal party is Labour but without the ‘u’, and your mainstream conservatives are the Liberals. Canada doesn’t have a “Labour” party, so our Liberals are the left wing (our “Labour” party is spelled NDP). And then there’s the UK where they don’t really have a “Liberal” party so their extremes are Labour and Conservative.
Yeah, it took a bit of getting used to when I started following politics and everyone was referring to “liberals” as left-leaning! The Liberal/National Party (LNP or Coalition) is more libertarian than liberal.
Labor (the ALP) is centrist. The biggest left-leaning party are the Greens. There are a host of smaller parties and independents that usually get a handful of seats too.