Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit. Mr. Musk has built a constellation of like-minded heads of state — including Argentina’s Javier Milei and India’s Narendra Modi — to push his own politics and expand his business empire. 05/11/2024 - 10:50 pm | View Link
Hamas Goes to the United Nations The General Assembly may grant Palestinians member status, doing an end run around the Security Council. 05/9/2024 - 9:45 am | View Link
If the United Nations grants Palestine ‘statehood status’ a future prez could cut off funding to UN The action provides the legal basis for a president — a future President Donald Trump, say, — to finally end all US funding to the world body. 05/8/2024 - 10:47 am | View Link
U.S. Repatriates 11 American Citizens From ISIS War Camps in Syria The group — the largest set of Americans retrieved from the war zone — was joined by a 9-year-old noncitizen whose brother is an American. 05/7/2024 - 12:14 am | View Link
I lived in Cuba for 20 years. Moving back to the US has me questioning the meaning of 'home.' Conner Gorry was in search of more community and less consumerism when she left New York for Cuba. Now, back in the US, she's finding it hard to readjust. 05/6/2024 - 1:14 pm | View Link
New York Times: “Running under the banner of Donald Trump’s populist political movement, Bernie Moreno, the Republican challenging Senator Sherrod Brown, humbly calls himself a “car guy from Cleveland” and recounts the modest circumstances of his childhood, when his immigrant family started over from scratch in the United States.”
Said Moreno: “We came here with absolutely nothing — we came here legally — but we came here, nine of us in a two-bedroom apartment.”
“But there is much more that Mr.
“Donald Trump has always surrounded himself with lawyers — all types of lawyers. There are the television-friendly talking heads. The polished criminal practitioners. The pit-bull litigators, the corporate suits and the legal advisers with their own legal troubles,” the New York Times reports.
“And then there was the singular Michael D.
“Donald Trump pledged to double down on tax cuts if he wins a second term as president, drawing a distinction with President Joe Biden who has called for tax hikes on businesses and the richest Americans,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Trump: “Instead of a Biden tax hike, I’ll give you a Trump middle class, upper class, lower class, business class big tax cut.”
Take two brothers, steep them in the great music of the Sixties, wind them up and watch them go. Brian D'Addario and Michael D'Addario have been making great records and touring since they were in their teens. (Now they're in their twenties.) Along the way, they've written some incredible songs.
But this latest album looks to be the one that might finally push them to the top.
“The person on the other side of the aisle is not an enemy. They’re a fellow American. Our enemies are like Hamas and Hezbollah and the people who are trying to kill us. These are our political adversaries.”
— Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), quoted by The Hill.
Donald Trump predicts that if President Joe Biden is reelected in 2024, the result will be a bloodbath, World War III, "and everything else”—presumably meaning the basic human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, and mass hysteria.
This all sounds pretty bad. Except, this isn't the first time Trump made this kind of prediction.