2026 and your neighborhood bullies
Annyeonghaseyo!
I hope you opened the New Year with cheer, Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro notwithstanding.
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2026 and your neighborhood bullies
Annyeonghaseyo!
I hope you opened the New Year with cheer, Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro notwithstanding.
...
Edward R. Murrow: “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.”
What is a "Kavanaugh Stop"?
#Kavanaugh believes that the citizens and #immigrants who were illegally detained likely could not sue because “what matters is the ‘reality of the threat of repeated injury.’” Somehow, Kavanaugh decided that the plaintiffs have “no good basis to believe that law enforcement will unlawfully stop them in the future based on the prohibited factors - and certainly no good basis for believing that any stop of the plaintiffs is imminent.”
“The disconnect between the Trump administration and what’s really going on in the oil world, and what American companies want, is huge,” says Lorne Stockman, an analyst with Oil Change International, a clean energy and fossil fuels research and advocacy organization.
Nothing has changed.
#Trump Model Management, has profited from using foreign models who came to the United States on tourist visas that did not permit them to work here, according to three former Trump models, all noncitizens, who shared their stories with Mother Jones. Financial and immigration records included in a recent lawsuit filed by a fourth former Trump model show that she, too, worked for Trump’s agency in the United States without a proper visa.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
The trappings of law await Nicolás #maduro at the courthouse at 500 Pearl Street in lower Manhattan. There is an indictment. There will be prosecutors and defense counsel, a judge and briefs. In the end, when all is said and done, and if the #trump administration does not colossally bungle this case, there will probably be a conviction and a hefty prison sentence.
But we cannot lose sight of what has brought us here ...
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/04/trump-venezuela-legal-fallout-column-00710331
Wait for 2025!
149,070 #arrests by #ICE in 2024
by the two operational branches of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in fiscal year 2024. That includes 113,430 administrative arrests (76.1% of total arrests) conducted by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, as well as #criminal arrests: 3,032 by #ERO and 32,608 by #Homeland Security Investigations, the transnational criminal #investigative division of ICE.
https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-does-ice-arrest/country/united-states
#USAFacts
How many Americans have been diagnosed with #HIV ?
Which states have the highest #cancer rates?
How many people are enrolled in Affordable Care Act plans in the US?
What is the #labor force participation rate in the US?
What is the gross domestic product (GDP) in the US?
How much money do #doctors make in the US?
What is going on with #DOGE ?
How many people have a #disability in the US?
How many people are #unemployed laid off in the United States each month?
Merry Christmas🎄
"An unholy alliance of Russian oligarchs, South American drug lords, and tax evaders from around the globe – is successfully continuing its tactic of chipping away, bit by bit, at public access to company registers. "
Frank Felix Debatin
CEO, North Data
https://blog.northdata.com/money-laundering-lobby-scores-wins-in-malta-and-the-czech-republic