Trump administration halts immigrant visa processing from 75 countries | Trump administration | The Guardian
Cites welfare. Cato research shows that's garbage.
Research contradicts administration claims about immigrant welfare use. In February 2025, the libertarian Cato Institute published a paper showing that native-born Americans consumed, on an average per capita basis, more welfare and entitlement benefits than all immigrants. The study found immigrants consumed 21% fewer welfare and entitlement benefits than native-born Americans on a per capita basis in 2022.
"Trump has a rare and underestimated talent for finessing these internal fissures. His rhetorical style is rambling, dishonest, and inconsistent, which makes it hard to pin him down on specific commitments. As a result, voters often see in him what they want to see."
Trump has a rare and underestimated talent for finessing these internal fissures. His rhetorical style is rambling, dishonest, and inconsistent, which makes it hard to pin him down on specific commitments. As a result, voters often see in him what they want to see.
President Donald Trump blitzed through a prime-time address to the nation on Dec. 17, but while short, Trump's speech contained a number of inaccurate or misleading claims, many of which he has repeated in public speeches for months.
Was That a Speech or a Breakdown? - by Thom Hartmann
A stark look at the speech that blurred the line between leadership and losing control on the world stage…
This is now about whether we’re willing to normalize sickness in power.
Whether we tell ourselves comforting stories because confronting the actual reality in front of us is frightening.
Whether we allow cruelty, lying, and instability to become the cultural baseline simply because calling it out makes dinner conversations awkward or costs us friends or clicks or donors.
US supreme court issues emergency order blocking full Snap food aid payments | US federal government shutdown 2025 | The Guardian
"Shortly after 9.30pm, attorney general Pam Bondi shared a note on X saying that the supreme court “just granted our administrative stay in this case. Our attorneys will not stop fighting, day and night, to defend and advance President Trump’s agenda.”
The agenda is cruelty.
Shortly after 9.30pm, attorney general Pam Bondi shared a note on X saying that the supreme court “just granted our administrative stay in this case. Our attorneys will not stop fighting, day and night, to defend and advance President Trump’s agenda.”
USDA bars SNAP discounts during government shutdown
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) emailed grocery stores prohibiting them from offering discounts to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients amid the government shutdown. The email, shared Sunday by MSNBC’s Catherine Rampell to the social media platform X, said that grocery stores “must offer eligible goods at the same prices and on the same…
Bernie’s democratic socialism is still compatible with liberal democracy. Trump’s national socialism is not. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
Julian Lucas profiles Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and a co-founder of Inrupt, on the occasion of his memoir, “This Is for Everyone.”
Trump kept a N*zi quote book besides his bed | Last Week Tonight With John Oliver | BINGE
The quote book besides the bed is wild.Stream a new episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver now on BINGE.#LastWeekTonight #WhatToWatch #LastWeekTonight...
US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts | Trump administration | The Guardian
Federal workers say they have little choice but to depart, with 100,000 leaving under deferred resignation program
They cited comments from Russell Vought, Trump’s head of the Office of Management and Budget, who said of federal workers last October: “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.”
'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' to return to the air Tuesday after suspension for Charlie Kirk comments, ABC says
Sinclair stuff here is not normal
Sinclair released a statement saying it would not broadcast the show until “appropriate steps” had been completed, including a demand that Kimmel make a direct apology to Kirk’s family and make a sizable donation to Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA.
During an April 2 speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee, President Donald Trump once again attacked wind power, falsely claiming that noise from turbines causes cancer and that turbines sink property values by 75 percent. Both claims are unsubstantiated.
16K likes, 733 comments - louie.1107 on April 24, 2025: "In 2011, George Bush warned about the rise of fear…
During a Q&A on C-SPAN, President George Bush reflected on what he saw as a resurgence of familiar currents in American politics: isolationism, protectionism, and nativism. He pointed to the 1920s as a moment worth revisiting — an era marked by “America First” sentiment, more restrictive immigration laws, and skepticism of global trade, all of which some historians connect to the economic struggles that followed.
His message wasn’t a condemnation, but a caution: history has patterns, and it’s worth asking where those patterns might lead. What stood out most was his hope for a future shaped by thoughtful, forward-looking immigration policy.
More than a decade later, it’s still a question worth considering: how does history inform the choices we make today?
#Politics #GeorgeBush #Immigration #Government #Throwback".
