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  • To our self-proclaimed ‘King,’ Americans are all undocumented now

    03/23/2025 11:43:04 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 68 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | March 23, 2025 | By Joe Mathews
    We are all undocumented now. We Americans no longer have undeniable legal status in this country. Our rights, our organizations, our jobs, our health, our schools, our laws, our Constitution — all are now provisional, subject to the whims of the self-proclaimed “King” in the White House.
  • Canada election: Carney speaks after triggering snap vote

    03/23/2025 9:54:35 AM PDT · by Hieronymus · 75 replies
    CBC ^ | March 23,2025 | Jenna Benchertrit et al
    ‘Negativity won’t win a trade war,’ Carney says in shot at Poilievre CBC News Special | Carney kicks off Liberal campaign, Canadians set to vote April 28 ..... The Latest Voters will go to the polls on April 28. Carney says he will cut taxes for middle-class Canadians. Speaking earlier in Quebec, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he will stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump and his threats of annexation. We’re expecting to hear from all the other major national party leaders today as well. Polling suggests a tight race between the Liberals and Tories as the campaign gets...
  • News Analysis: Trump consistently frames policy around ‘fairness,’ trading on American frustration

    03/23/2025 10:58:22 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | March 23, 2025 3 AM PT | Kevin Rector
    From tariffs to Ukraine to cuts to the federal workforce, President Trump has invoked the idea of fairness.Experts said the focus is effective, tapping into the sense among many Americans that they have been left behind.In a sit-down interview with Fox News last month, President Trump and his billionaire “efficiency” advisor Elon Musk framed new tariffs on foreign trading partners as a simple matter of fairness.“I said, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do: reciprocal. Whatever you charge, I’m charging,’” Trump said of a conversation he’d had with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “I’m doing that with every country.”“It seems fair,”...
  • Keir Starmer on Putin, Trump and Europe’s Challenge: ‘We’ve Known This Moment Was Coming’

    03/22/2025 9:51:25 PM PDT · by McGruff · 46 replies
    NY Times ^ | March 23, 2025 | Mark Landler
    With a staccato burst, a horn sounded in the control room of the H.M.S. Vanguard, sending the crew of the nuclear-armed Royal Navy submarine to battle stations. The voice of the commanding officer crackled over the intercom. “Set condition 1SQ,” he said, ordering its battery of ballistic missiles to be readied for launch. It was just a drill, conducted last Monday for a visiting V.I.P., Prime Minister Keir Starmer... Back on a tugboat, taking us to shore in the Firth of Clyde, Mr. Starmer sat alone, staring out a window at the gathering clouds. It has been a defining, if...
  • How one MAGA hat incited hate and division within Sacramento’s LGBTQ+ community

    03/22/2025 4:55:51 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 44 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | March 22, 2025 | By LeBron Antonio Hill
    The hate and intolerance inspired by Donald Trump’s second presidency found their way into Sacramento’s gay community last week and the result was a sad reflection of the divisions plaguing our country. Emotions were triggered by a red MAGA hat that is a symbol of Trump’s rise to power on the promise to “Make America Great Again.” For many gay people, the hat is a reminder of the intolerance members of the LGBTQ+ community have felt since Trump’s far-right movement took off nine years
  • King Charles Is Rooting for Canada. You Just Didn’t Notice.

    03/22/2025 5:23:54 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 21 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 21, 2025 | Max Colchester and Paul Vieira
    The King of Canada wants President Trump to back off. Just don’t expect him to actually say that publicly. Britain’s King Charles III, who is also Canada’s head of state, is wrestling with an unprecedented diplomatic headache. The monarch wants to stand up for the largest country in his realm as Trump talks about turning it into the 51st U.S. state. At the same time he has to honor the British government’s desire that he keep Trump, who deeply admires the royal family, sweet. The result has been a master class in passive-aggressive pageantry from Buckingham Palace. Earlier this month,...
  • As Israeli bombs fell, wounded children overwhelmed this Gaza hospital. Dozens died

    03/22/2025 5:36:02 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 79 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 22, 2025 | BY SAMY MAGDY AND LEE KEATH
    CAIRO (AP) — When the first explosions in Gaza this week started around 1:30 a.m., a visiting British doctor went to the balcony of a hospital in Khan Younis and watched the streaks of missiles light up the night before pounding the city. A Palestinian surgeon next to him gasped, “Oh no. Oh no.” After two months of ceasefire, the horror of Israeli bombardment was back. The veteran surgeon told the visiting doctor, Sakib Rokadiya, they’d better head to the emergency ward. Torn bodies soon streamed in, carried by ambulances, donkey carts or in the arms of terrified relatives. What...
  • She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.

    03/22/2025 5:51:14 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 92 replies
    NBC News | Comcast ^ | March 22, 2025 | By Shannon Pettypiece (D-NBC)
    After Donald Trump won the presidency again, Rebecca Carlson was counting on this being the year things turned around for her 1,300-acre farm in northern Michigan. The farm has been in her family for generations but has struggled over the past several years amid the rising cost of fuel, fertilizer and other operating expenses. Then, last year, bad weather wiped out much of her crop. But the return of Trump, she thought, would help reverse things. Her farm had been awarded a grant worth $400,000 through the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help pay for the costs associated with hiring...
  • Iceland’s minister for children quits after admitting she had a baby with teen: report

    03/22/2025 7:46:22 AM PDT · by PilotDave · 47 replies
    NY post ^ | March 21 2025 | Emily Crane
    Iceland’s minister for children has abruptly resigned after shockingly admitting she had a baby more than 30 years ago with a 16-year-old boy — who ended up coughing up child support.
  • Some European countries and Canada issue advisories for travelers to the U.S.

    03/22/2025 9:53:26 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 30 replies
    NPR ^ | 03 22 2025 | Chandelis Duster
    Some European countries, as well as Canada, are warning their citizens who travel to the United States to strictly follow the country's entry rules or risk detention as the Trump administration cracks down on immigration enforcement. Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland and Canada have revised their guidelines at a time when some travelers from these countries have been detained by immigration officials. Here is what to know about the advisories. Why are these countries issuing warnings? The heightened advisories come after citizens from European countries have been detained and deported by immigration officials while traveling to the United States....
  • Big Tech’s AI pitch seeks a license to steal

    03/22/2025 10:02:56 AM PDT · by aspasia · 61 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | March 17, 2025 | editorial
    OpenAI and Google, having long trained their ravenous bots on the work of newsrooms like this one, now want to throw out long established copyright law by arguing, we kid you not, that the only way for the United States to defeat the Chinese Communist Party is for those tech giants to steal the content created with the sweat equity of America’s human journalists. “With a Chinese Communist Party determined to overtake us by 2030,” OpenAI wrote last week to the federal Office of Science and Technology Policy, “the Trump administration’s new action plan can ensure that American-led A.I. built...
  • Detentions of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America

    03/21/2025 4:05:03 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 58 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 20, 2025 | BY JULIE WATSON (D-AP)
    SAN DIEGO (AP) — Lennon Tyler and her German fiancé often took road trips to Mexico when he vacationed in the United States since it was only a day’s drive from her home in Las Vegas, one of the perks of their long-distance relationship. But things went terribly wrong when they drove back from Tijuana last month. U.S. border agents handcuffed Tyler, a U.S. citizen, and chained her to a bench, while her fiancé, Lucas Sielaff, was accused of violating the rules of his 90-day U.S. tourist permit, the couple said. Authorities later handcuffed and shackled Sielaff and sent him...
  • Chuck Schumer says a 'lawless' Trump has caused a constitutional crisis

    03/21/2025 8:21:40 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 78 replies
    NBC News ^ | 3/20/25 | Sahil Kapur
    When asked if he agrees with scholars who say the U.S. is in a constitutional crisis, Schumer responded, “Yes, I do.” “And democracy is at risk. Look, Donald Trump is a lawless, angry man. He thinks he should be king. He thinks he should do whatever he wants, regardless of the law, and he thinks judges should just listen to him,” Schumer told moderator Kristen Welker. The full interview will air on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
  • Kamala Harris is double-digit favorite to win 2028 Democratic Party nomination: poll

    03/21/2025 7:39:36 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 72 replies
    NY Post ^ | March 21, 2025 | Victor Nava
    From flop to favorite. Former Vice President Kamala Harris is the preferred 2028 option by a wide margin, according to a survey of Democratic voters released Friday. The failed 2024 presidential nominee received 36% support from Democratic and Democratic-leaning independent voters in the early 2028 primary poll conducted by Morning Consult. Harris, 60, has a stunning double-digit lead over her closest potential competitor, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who garnered just 10% support from his party. … Newsom was among three possible candidates who received 5% support in the Morning Consult poll, the others being far-left “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
  • Mark Carney calls Canada 'the most European of non-European countries' while in France

    03/21/2025 2:14:25 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 46 replies
    National Post ^ | Mar 17, 2025 | Tyler Dawson
    Prime Minister Mark Carney has declared Canada “the most European” nation outside the continent and has identified three foundational “peoples” for Canada — Indigenous, French and British. Carney chose to make his first trip as prime minister to Europe, seeking to strengthen ties with traditional allies, including France and the United Kingdom, amidst rising tensions between Canada and the United States. “I want to ensure that France and the whole of Europe works enthusiastically with Canada, the most European of non-European countries,” Carney said Monday. “Canada is a reliable, trustworthy and strong partner for France.” Carney met with French President...
  • California will launch methane-detecting satellites, Gavin Newsom announces

    03/21/2025 2:24:57 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 83 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | March 21, 2025 | Lia Russell
    After making a show of deference to Donald Trump in the wake of deadly Los Angeles County wildfires earlier this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to be back to challenging the federal government on climate change policies. Newsom announced Friday that his administration will launch satellite-mounted sensors to track emissions of methane, an odorless gas pollutant that is a major contribution to global warming, making good on a promise originally made by former Gov. Jerry Brown.
  • ‘He’s Incompetent, He’s a Thief, He’s a Nazi’: Jamaal Bowman Goes There in Fiery CNN Segment on Elon Musk

    03/21/2025 9:12:32 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 118 replies
    Mediaite ^ | 3/21/25 | Isaac Schorr
    Former Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called Elon Musk a “thief” and a “Nazi” during a fiery CNN segment Thursday night. After Joe Borelli, the ex-Republican leader on the New York City Council, argued that much of the discontent at Republican congressmen’s town hall events were protests organized by Democrats, Bowman interrupted to insist that “that’s not true.” “That’s not true. And this shows, again, the American people do not trust Elon Musk,” began Bowman. “And Elon Musk is incompetent in his position. And how do we know? Because they fired tens of thousands of people, it was challenged in...
  • The Left Knew They Were Lying to Us All Along

    03/20/2025 5:15:59 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 20 Mar, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson
    The left knowingly pushed falsehoods on COVID, Biden’s fitness, Hunter’s laptop, and the border—dividing the nation while facing no accountability. For years, the left has advanced utter untruths for cheap partisan purposes that it knew at the time were all false. And now when caught, they just shrug and say they were lying all along. Once it was known that the first COVID-19 case originated in or near a Chinese communist virology lab engineering gain-in-function deadly viruses—with help from Western agencies—the left went into full persecution mode. They damned as incompetent, racist, and conspiratorial any who dared follow logic and...
  • Fishermen want to go green but say DOGE cuts prevent that

    03/19/2025 8:03:45 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 54 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 19, 2025 | BY PATRICK WHITTLE
    BREMEN, Maine (AP) — Commercial fishermen and seafood processors looking to switch to new, lower-carbon emission systems say the federal funding they relied on for this work is either frozen or unavailable due to significant budget cuts promoted by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. The changes are designed to replace old diesel-burning engines and outdated at-sea cooling systems and are touted by environmentalists as a way to reduce seafood’s carbon footprint. Decarbonization of the fishing fleet has been a target of environmental activists in recent years. That is far less than agriculture, but still a significant piece of...
  • Trump Says He Doesn't Care if Liberals Beat Conservatives in Canada

    03/18/2025 8:24:43 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 31 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 18, 2025
    U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he wouldn't mind if the Liberal Party won the upcoming Canadian election, saying: "I'd rather deal with a liberal than a conservative." Trump has taken a tough stance toward Canada, imposing tariffs on Canadian imports and repeatedly threatening to make it the 51st U.S. state. During an interview on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle," host Laura Ingraham pointed out that Trump's treatment of Canada could propel the ruling Liberals to win the next election and lead a government that's hostile to the U.S. "I don't care," Trump responded. "I think it's easier to...