Economists Criticize Trump Plan To Deport Longtime Immigrant Workers Economists believe deporting millions of unauthorized immigrants would harm U.S. workers and the American economy. 05/12/2024 - 2:44 am | View Link
False accusations won't keep children safe I’m writing in response to a letter to the editor regarding the peaceful protest and counterprotest that took place at the Roundhouse (“Drowned out,” Letters to the Editor, April 21). 05/11/2024 - 4:00 pm | View Link
‘Cooking Up Murder’: Where is chef César Román now? After several years in prison, César Román has spoken out about the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Netflix’s new true crime documentary “Cooking Up Murder” follows the case involving Román, a successful ... 05/11/2024 - 10:01 am | View Link
An asylum-seeker who died in ICE custody was sick for months. Advocates fear other ill people are not getting proper care. A man who died earlier this year in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody had been sick for months, his condition seeming to worsen as he was held at a troubled detention center in Louisiana, ... 05/10/2024 - 12:22 pm | View Link
Two lawsuits filed over Iowa’s attempt to usurp federal immigration law and set up its own deportation system Two lawsuits challenging the attempt by Republicans in the Iowa Legislature to let the Reynolds administration appropriate power belonging to the federal government in order to arrest and deport ... 05/10/2024 - 8:33 am | View Link
Trump threw a hissy fit on his social network over Paul Ryan (who is a Fox board member) saying he wouldn't vote for Trump. Via Vanity Fair:
“Rupert Murdoch should fire pathetic RINO Paul Ryan from the Board of Fox,” Trump scream-wrote on Truth Social. “Ryan is a loser, always has been, and always will be.
In a move to become the first state in the country to categorize abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances, Louisiana is threatening incarceration and fines if someone possesses the pills without a valid prescription or outside of a medical practice. Via the Washington Post:
A pregnant woman obtaining the two drugs “for her own consumption” would not be at risk of prosecution.
Sen. Bob Menendez is set to face a weekslong trial over charges of taking bribes including gold bars, cash and a luxury car to help push U. S. aid and weapons to a foreign government. Via CNN:
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, who faces 16 charges including conspiracy to commit bribery and conspiracy to obstruct justice, has rejected calls to resign and, while he won’t run in the state’s primary for his seat, has left open the possibility for an independent run following his trial.
The senator told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill last week, “I am looking forward to proving my innocence,” when asked repeatedly whether he would resign in the face of a potential conviction.
Prosecutors say Menendez and his wife, Nadine, helped several New Jersey businessmen – all of whom were charged in the conspiracy – obtain lucrative contracts with Egyptian and Qatari officials and attempted to pressure authorities to stop investigations into the businessmen and their associates.read more
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) could not come up with a good answer Sunday when Fox News guest host Benjamin Hall pointed out that President Joe Biden had a similar Israel policy to former President Ronald Reagan.
As Scott was criticizing Biden for not providing enough support to Israel, Hall noted that he was not the first president to withhold arms from Israel.
"And I suppose, you know, one of the big news this week is that President Biden is withholding weapons from Israel," Hall said.
On this date in 1967, The Supremes scored their tenth No.1 single in the US with “The Happening.”
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Arizona’s first congressional district, entirely within Maricopa County, is one of the swing districts the Democrats are counting on to flip the House. Biden beat Trump there by one and a half points. And 2 years later the Republican incumbent, David Schweikert barely survived a challenge by an under-financed Democrat who was basically ignored by the DCCC— less than a point separated them.
We think that Conor O’Callaghan is the Democrat who will finally defeat MAGA extremist David Schweikert in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District.