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  • Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights

    03/19/2025 8:17:46 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 33 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 19, 2025 | BY JOSHUA GOODMAN AND GISELA SALOMON
    MIAMI (AP) — Franco Caraballo called his wife Friday night, crying and panicked. Hours earlier, the 26-year-old barber and dozens of other Venezuelan migrants at a federal detention facility in Texas were dressed in white clothes, handcuffed and taken onto a plane. He had no idea where he was going. Twenty-four hours later, Caraballo’s name disappeared from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s online detainee locator. On Monday, his wife, Johanny Sánchez, learned Caraballo was among more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants flown over the weekend to El Salvador, where they are in a maximum-security prison after being accused by the...
  • Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire, worth $420 billion, is dismantling our democracy.

    02/08/2025 1:40:16 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 91 replies
    X.com ^ | 11:04 AM · Feb 7, 2025 | Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib✓@RepRashida
    The GOP is protecting him at every turn. No one voted for Elon Musk. This is a constitutional crisis.
  • NATO Ally 'Utterly Freaked Out' After Donald Trump Call: Report

    01/25/2025 11:20:03 AM PST · by hardspunned · 57 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 1/24/25 | Newsweek
    President Donald Trump had a "fiery" phone call with Denmark's Prime Minister last week, putting the NATO ally into "crisis mode," the Financial Times reported, citing officials briefed on the matter. European officials told the FT the call did not go well and that Trump was aggressive and confrontational with his Danish counterpart. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment Friday afternoon via email. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's office said it "does not recognise the interpretation of the conversation given by anonymous sources" and pointed Newsweek to Frederiksen's official press release detailing the phone call.
  • Trump suspends funds to support Ukraine

    01/22/2025 12:07:51 PM PST · by bimboeruption · 118 replies
    News By ^ | 1-21-25 | Unknown to me
    One of Donald Trump's first executive orders as president was to suspend any aid to foreign countries for 90 days. The consequences of this decision are still difficult to assess. On the one hand, we can talk about stopping the transfer of money and weapons to Ukraine. Trump believes that about 200 billion dollars was allocated to this country in the form of equipment and finance, and not only by America. However, Washington intends to audit the rationality of the use of these funds. On the other hand, the appropriations for aid to Ukraine were approved by the Congress, and...
  • Leftist Latin American Governments Panic over Potential Trump Deportations

    01/21/2025 2:32:38 AM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 40 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 20 Jan 2025 | CHRISTIAN K. CARUZO
    The governments of ten Latin American nations expressed concern over the “threat” of mass deportations under President Donald Trump in a joint statement released over the weekend. Last week, foreign ministers and representatives of Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela gathered in Mexico City for a “Meeting on Human Mobility on the Northern Route of the Continent,” a joint initiative of the far-left Presidents of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum and Honduras’s Xiomara Castro. According to the Mexican government, which served as the gathering’s host, the meeting sought to discuss actions aimed at “protecting the human...
  • Trump says he’s withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement again

    01/20/2025 3:12:16 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 42 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 3:10 PM CST, January 20, 2025 | MATTHEW DALY and SETH BORENSTEIN
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he will again withdraw the United States, a top carbon polluting nation, from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies.The White House announcement, which came as Trump was sworn in Monday to a second term, echoed Trump’s actions in 2017, when he announced that the U.S. would abandon the global Paris accord. The pact is aimed at limiting long-term global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels or, failing that, keeping...
  • Migrants break down in tears as Trump shuts down border entry app just minutes after taking office

    01/20/2025 12:43:00 PM PST · by Morgana · 51 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | January 20, 2025 | Jon Raasch
    A stunned migrant woman wailed in anguish at the southern border after President Trump shuttered an app that made it easier for migrants to cross into the US. Margelis Tinoco, a Colombian woman awaiting entry to the US, was overcome with emotion after the president axed the CBP One app moments after he was sworn-in. She had been hoping to cross into El Paso from the neighboring Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez when the app suddenly went dark, leaving her stuck. Also filmed in a state of despair was Cuban migrant Yaime Perez, who had hoped to use the CBP...
  • Trump's Worst Nightmare: Jennifer Rubin Leaves Washington Post To Launch 'Pro-Democracy' Website

    01/13/2025 3:56:06 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 90 replies
    WFB ^ | 13 Jan 2025 | Andrew Stiles
    Rubin, widely regarded as the most courageous and intellectually dynamic opinion columnist in the history of American journalism, finally “resigned” from the Washington Post on Monday and launched a “pro-democracy” website, the Contrarian, on Substack. In a note announcing her alleged resignation, less than a week after the Post laid off roughly 100 employees in an effort to stop losing $77 million a year, Rubin accused the paper’s owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, of sabotaging journalism’s “sacred mission” of “defending, protecting and advancing democracy. The Contrarian is built on a premise some would describe as delusional. In Rubin’s view, the...
  • This town was built on migrants’ cash. Now it fears Trump’s deportations. | President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan could upend life in Mexican villages that depend on remittances from relatives in the United States.

    01/05/2025 1:09:08 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 83 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | January 5, 2025 6:30 a.m. EST | Mary Beth Sheridan
    FRANCISCO VILLA, Mexico — Over the past 30 years, this corn-growing hamlet in central Mexico emptied out. Around half the 3,000 residents moved to the United States. As the migrants went north, the dollars flowed south. They were construction workers and gardeners, cooks and nannies. They became the saviors of this village of tiny adobe homes. They helped establish the town’s first high school. Their donations paved the dirt streets. They bought computers for the classrooms. “The kids had no idea what they were,” recalled one of the town’s migrant benefactors, Rubén Chávez. Now, a current of fear is running...
  • California police officers are still stopping, searching Black drivers at higher rates

    01/03/2025 1:34:20 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 50 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 2, 2025 | By Bob Egelko
    California police officers stopped Black and Latino drivers and pedestrians at much higher rates than white people in 2023, repeating a trend that has been documented every year since law enforcement officers began collecting data.
  • Ivanka Trump is done with politics and says she isn’t coming back

    12/22/2024 4:16:03 AM PST · by deport · 49 replies
    CNN ^ | Sun December 22, 2024 - 4:00 AM EST. | Betsy Klein, CNN
    For Ivanka Trump’s entire adult life, she worked for her father.When Donald Trump was a real estate mogul, she was designing his next hotel. When he was on a reality TV show, she was in his television boardroom. When he was running for office, she was on the campaign trail. When he was president, she had an office in the West Wing. But in January of 2021, for the first time since she was 23 years old, she left Washington – and his employ.That statement remains true after Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, sources close to Ivanka Trump said, as she...
  • Trump is going after Canada now - but everyone else is next

    12/17/2024 11:32:13 PM PST · by paudio · 27 replies
    CNN ^ | Dec 18, 2024 | Stephen Collinson
    Donald Trump is stoking political mayhem in Canada ...
  • Scientists Say Our Sun Could Release a Deadly ‘Superflare’ At Any Moment

    12/16/2024 8:27:09 AM PST · by Red Badger · 86 replies
    The Debrief ^ | December 13, 2024 | Christopher Plain
    Artist’s impression of a superflaring sun-like star as seen in visible light. Image: © MPS/Alexey Chizhik Scientists Say Our Sun Could Release a Deadly ‘Superflare’ At Any Moment A new study led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Solar System Research (MPS) has revealed stars like our sun emit a massive burst of energy called a “superflare” that can prove dangerous or evenly deadly roughly every 100 years, meaning our Sun’s next event is already overdue. Previous research has suggested that superflares, which release more than one octillion joules of energy within a short period, may occur less...
  • Russia could launch another hypersonic missile at Ukraine soon, US official says

    12/11/2024 8:37:19 AM PST · by Navy Patriot · 31 replies
    Rooters ^ | December 11, 2024 | Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt
    Russia could launch another hypersonic ballistic missile in Ukraine in the coming days, but Washington does not consider the Oreshnik weapon a game-changer in the war, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. Russia first fired the Oreshnik missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Nov. 21, in what President Vladimir Putin cast as a response to Ukraine's first use of U.S. ATACMs ballistic missiles and British Storm Shadows to strike Russian territory with Western permission. Putin has previously said Russia may use the Oreshnik again, including to hit "decision-making centers" in Kyiv, if Ukraine keeps attacking Russia with long-range...
  • Mexican President Worried Trump Will Give Her Back IllegalMigrant Aliens - Concerned About Impact to Mexico

    12/06/2024 8:27:31 PM PST · by hardspunned · 45 replies
    Conservative Treehouse ^ | 12/6/24 | Sundance
    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is very concerned that President Trump will return the illegal migrants to Mexico. Perhaps Mexico should have thought about this before allowing millions of illegal migrants to travel through their country on the way to the U.S. southern border. President Sheinbaum is now telling people she wants an agreement with President Trump so that her country does not suffer from millions of illegal aliens swarming Mexico. The irony is too thick.
  • Trump Is Running His Transition Team on Secret Money

    11/24/2024 9:55:19 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 44 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Nov. 24, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET | Ken Bensinger and David A. Fahrenthold
    President-elect Donald J. Trump is keeping secret the names of the donors who are funding his transition effort, a break from tradition that could make it impossible to see what interest groups, businesses or wealthy people are helping launch his second term.Mr. Trump has so far declined to sign an agreement with the Biden administration that imposes strict limits on that fund-raising in exchange for up to $7.2 million in federal funds earmarked for the transition. By dodging the agreement, Mr. Trump can raise unlimited amounts of money from unknown donors to pay for the staff, travel and office space...
  • Can Ukraine stop the flood of soldiers deserting the frontlines?

    11/21/2024 3:28:25 PM PST · by Its All Over Except ... · 19 replies
    Ukraine is struggling to fill its ranks on the eastern frontline, in part because of a sharp increase in the number of desertions - more than 30.000 this year alone. This has prompted the government to decriminalise the offence for first-time offenders, allowing them to avoid jail if they return to duty. ...
  • Veteran news editor expects Trump 'to go after the press in every conceivable way' (delusional drama queen alert)

    11/20/2024 6:03:01 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 45 replies
    NPR ^ | November 20, 2024 | Terry Gross
    Heading into a second term, New Yorker editor David Remnick says Donald Trump's anger "has been never so intense as it's been against the press." The president-elect has referred to the news media as the "Enemy of the American people," has threatened retribution against outlets that have covered him negatively and has suggested that that NBC, CBS and ABC should have their licenses revoked.Marty Baron, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, says he expects the incoming administration "to go after the press in every conceivable way ... [using] every tool in the toolbox — and there are a...
  • Behind the Scenes at a Secretive Gathering of Rising MAGA Donors | The Winklevoss twins, Rebekah Mercer, allies of Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and top Trump campaign aides recently joined a conclave of right-wing donors who are suddenly flush with power.

    11/20/2024 10:52:05 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 24 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Nov. 20, 2024, 10:24 a.m. ET | Theodore Schleifer
    Just four days after being named the next White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles was waiting patiently for an espresso drink at a five-star hotel in Las Vegas.Overnight, she had become one of the most powerful people in America. The value of a minute of her time could not be higher during the presidential transition: Republican strivers are hounding her for desirable gigs, and back at Mar-a-Lago, President-elect Donald J. Trump has kept courting controversy with his picks.Yet here she was thousands of miles away, flanked only by a security guard, alone in line at a Four Seasons coffee...
  • This Is the Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump’s Return

    11/15/2024 7:52:27 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 43 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Nov. 15, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ET | M. Gessen
    For those bewildered by why so many Americans apparently voted against the values of liberal democracy, Balint Magyar has a useful formulation. “Liberal democracy,” he says, “offers moral constraints without problem-solving” — a lot of rules, not a lot of change — while “populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints.” Magyar, a scholar of autocracy, isn’t interested in calling Donald Trump a fascist. He sees the president-elect’s appeal in terms of something more primal: “Trump promises that you don’t have to think about other people.” Around the world, populist autocrats have leveraged the thrilling power of that promise to transform their...