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That will teach them to steal jobs from American workers. https://www.ladbible.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-tariffs-penguins-sub-antarctic-islands-838363-20250403

Apparently Musk 2025 is not as popular as Trump 2024 in Wisconsin. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wisconsin-votes-high-profile-judicial-race-after-millions-spent-by-musk-2025-04-01/

Why due process is important. From WaPo: The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing that it had wrongly deported an immigrant living in Maryland to a mega-prison in El Salvador despite a court ruling prohibiting it, but alleged that U.S. officials are unable to pressure the Central American nation to return the man to his family in the United States. Officials deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is Salvadoran, on March 15 as part of a surprise airlift of purported gang members to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, where they were surrounded by armed soldiers and hooded police who shaved their heads and locked them inside high-walled cells. His removal came six years after an immigration judge found that Abrego had testified credibly that he could be harmed or killed by gang members in that country. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers acknowledged in court records that they were aware of internal forms forbidding them from sending Abrego to El Salvador, and called his removal an “oversight.” “On March 15, although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the government wrote in a declaration, first reported by the Atlantic.

And who's going to pick all those crops to stop them rotting in the fields? And mow my lawn!

OK, but other than that......?

400 in TX as of Friday. 480 total in US.

Guess which media outlet took these positions in its editorials: (Hint, it's not The Daily Beast): Politicizing the judiciary is a “disreputable racket.” Trump must act “within the bounds of American law.” The administration is pursuing the “Fool’s Gold of a Crypto Reserve.” Hegseth shut down the Pentagon’s internal think tank “for no good reason.” Trump’s “willy-nilly” tariffs “Whack Trump Voters” and “someone should sue” him for claiming emergency powers. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “dangerous to public health.” Ending Secret Service protection for former aides facing threats from Iran is a “vindictive whim” and a “new low.” The Oval Office showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Vance instigated “only helps Russia’s dictator.” The administration’s “rehabilitation of Vladimir Putin is especially hard to take.” Witkoff “parroted one specious Russian talking point after another.” Vance promotes an “abandon Ukraine strategy”; Trump “won’t tell the truth about which country started the war”; and the president’s vision is “less a brave new world than a reversion to a dangerous old one.” Pardoning the Jan. 6 offenders is a “rotten message from a president about political violence done on his behalf. ... What happened that day is a stain on Mr. Trump’s legacy. By setting free the cop beaters, the president adds another.” Surprise! It's the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal.

Montgolfier was a scientist. He observed that smoke, unlike water, rises. Reagan just combined that smoke with mirrors,

So Trump is now taking over the Smithsonian, keeper of the nation's history. How much longer before we have a Ministry of Truth?

Perhaps if Herman Cain had done that he'd still be alive.

Why is it that the GOP, which for decades has hypocritically added more to the debt than the Dems while preaching fiscal conservatism, has now decided to do something about it on the backs of the poorest and most needy members of society while promising big tax breaks to billionaires and hobbling the IRS's efforts to identify wealthy tax cheats.

I'd like to know what Trump voters here (if any are brave enough to admit they did it) think about stuff that's happened in the past 2 months: Pardons that bless and invite insurrectionary violence, the purges of career lawyers at the Justice Department and in the Southern District of New York, inspectors general across the government, and senior FBI agents. The attorney general’s command that lawyers obey the president over their own understanding of the Constitution, the appointment of people such as Kash Patel who view their loyalty to the Emperor as more compelling than their constitutional oath, the emperor’s declaration that he and the attorney general are the sole authoritative interpreters of federal law for the executive branch. The transformation of ordinary spending responsibilities into tools to punish perceived enemies, the stripping of security clearances from opponents including the previous president, the threat of criminal prosecutions for speech deemed unfavorable, and the verbal attacks on judges for enforcing the law. Among other things.

It's all disturbing, but that is what I find most distressing of all.

Well, the Supreme Court upholds Biden Administration’s limits on ‘Ghost Guns’, 7-2. Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion. No prizes for guessing which two justices dissented.

379 in the TX/NM/OK outbreak. Also cases in Alaska, California, DC, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

The children will be fine. There will be plenty of unemployed civil servants to work in the fields, put up drywall, and mow lawns.

And think Orwell wrote "1984" in 1948. Prescient!

Right on both counts.

If convicted of a crime you were always subject to being deported. What's new is being deported for expressing an opinion that the emperor doesn't like.

Only time I went to the Fitz boogie I had to have Fortson Rumble translate for me in the fast food place we went for supper. No, not an immigrant, just a rural southerner taking the orders.

The mother of the child who died of measles appeared in a video on Monday with Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine organization. “We would absolutely not take the MMR. The measles wasn’t that bad" she said. So having your child die "wasn't that bad"? What kind of moron is this?

The only reason given for some of these affronts to common decency is that the Secretary of State's opinion is that based on something they wrote on social media they present "a danger to US foreign policy". No law was broken, no crimes charged. It's intimidation pure and simple - in the land of the free and the home of the brave with a Constitutional right to free speech, keep your mouth shut or else.

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Probability of death from catching measles: 0.1% Probability of death from making a skydive: 0.0001% Perspective.

When Canada, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Australia and Finland issue warnings to their citizens about travel to the USA words fail me.