It’s pretty unconscionable.

My guess is that the information on this will not be clarified for a long time, until the main perpetrators are basically out of the picture.

I think they are only talking about it now because Pres. Biden is now… dying. I do not relish the fact that he is, as I do not want anyone to die really, though I am at peace with the fact that people do die… I just want to observe, though, that I feel the real tragedy was how bad his health was, and how he was not there, so he is more along for the ride than the director of any of this.

I guess I am somewhat surprised how much traction this got - we got like 20 people visiting the Instance or subscribed to it from other places on Lemmy that are decidedly anti-socialist.

(Or anti-pink hair)

I did not expect that.

Senator Alex Padilla characterized the protests as “peaceful” and “passionate”. “The vast majority of protesters and demonstrators are peaceful. … When you come into a community like Los Angeles, the way the Trump administration has, you need to expect to be countered with people who are passionate about defending fundamental rights.”

This stuff is really tiresome.

You could also literally say this about the infamous J6, but it would not matter a lick. You would be called dishonest for saying it was peaceful because the majority are peaceful, but it’s standard policy to drag out this line when it is a left wing cause.

That’s great - we can be alike in many ways in terms of our goals.

It is a bit of a political football, isn’t it.

I think the interest comes from trying to frame transgenderism as a co-morbidity of other, often more severe, mental health issues.

Kilmer Garcia was not an American citizen. Or are you talking about someone else?

I got excited for a minute and thought there was an ADL post because Stephen. Miller looks so much like Jonathan Greenblatt.

I don’t think BlueSky or any sort of platform creates the sentiment. I think it comes from something else that already exists, right. Whatever that may be.

I am also here because it’s freer than X - I can criticize Israel as much as I want. Plus I do not want to be in an echo chamber. I get a lot out of the statements that people on the left make.

You were fucking taught about Nazis. Don’t be so fucking surprised that others got the message instead of falling in love.

See, this is where you are totally jumping the shark.

… But he’s not an actual Nazi…?

Sure, I understand believing that he dog whistles to racists and has bad intentions for the country… But you are saying that he is on the cusp of organizing a massive genocide, right? Like literally taking Jewish and minority citizens and sending them to death camps.

That is nowhere near reality.

Responding to a post on X lauding Navarro’s economic philosophy and bona fides, including his Harvard education, the Tesla CEO ripped the advisor for lacking experience.

‘A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing,’ Musk wrote on X early Saturday morning slamming Navarro.

‘He ain’t built s***,’ the SpaceX founder wrote.

LOL, I love this.

The clip claims Trump will crash the stock market by 20 per cent this month ‘on purpose’ to weaken the dollar and lower mortgage rates.

Very interesting.

I missed this detail y esterday:

According to the New York Post, Jeffrey Goldberg, who goes by “JG” on Signal, was accidentally added instead of the United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, whose initials are also J.G.

It is, but let me also say that Signal is the messaging app that government workers are told to use for business.

Not that they should be talking about super secret stuff there or anything, but that it is used for general communications that can be work related

On your first point, I think if it is established they aren’t a citizen, it is easy to deport them. I’ll never be at risk for deportation because even if I lose all my documents I exist in the database and even the briefest appearance before a judge can have me fix this. They are only able to resist deportation to some degree because of activist judges.

From your linked article:

On the heels of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s ill-conceived suggestion that Republicans are fine sacrificing white, women voters for “Julios and Jamals” (presumably meaning Latino and Black men), I think now is a good time to revisit a beat I’ve been on for the last several years: covering the GOP’s hapless attempt to sway Black voters.

Last week, failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy appeared to get a co-sign from rapper Meek Mill when the artist reposted a right-wing conspiracy theorist’s clip of Ramaswamy’s gushing endorsement of Trump in Iowa last week.

“Wait till yall see who the Black people in poverty vote for!” Mill posted on the social media platform X, somehow managing to load elitism, classism and an endorsement of Ramaswamy’s bigotry into a dozen words.

Meek Mill later posted that people shouldn’t listen to him because he doesn’t know anything about politics (as if we needed that tip). But not before Republicans, including Ramaswamy, gleefully re-shared the rapper’s post.

Elsewhere on social media, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recently shared a video from social media conspiracy theorist “Tasha K” to imply Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis deserves to face criminal charges related to allegations of impropriety recently made against her by Michael Roman, one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in his election-related RICO case. Tasha K is best known for defaming rapper Cardi B with gross and false sexual allegations.

And then there’s the raft of right-wing media who’ve been touting hip-hop radio host Charlamagne Tha God’s seemingly endless public attacks on President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. The “Breakfast Club” host has pitched himself in recent years as a political expert on Black voters (specifically Black men), rather than a deeply controversial shock jock. And right-wingers have seemed almost giddy to present his critique of the Biden admin as one that’s shared by Black voters (Fox News writes about him constantly, for example). I’ve seen little evidence to suggest he really has his ear to the culture, and I’ve disagreed with it even (with all due respect) when it’s been broached here at MSNBC.

There is a troubling trend of conservatives leaning on Black media figures and media outlets that target Black audiences, particularly tabloids and rappers, to spread their viewpoint. Successive elections have shown conservatives to be out of touch with most Black voters. Pew Research projects that this November, there will be more than 34 million eligible Black voters, and a whopping 92% of Black voters favored Biden in 2020.

Yet, the GOP is trying to make inroads by leaning on some of the Black community’s least trustworthy voices when it comes to politics. Republicans evidently believe rappers, YouTubers and raunchy radio hosts are the best tools to chip away at that advantage. All while the party engages in overtly anti-Black acts such as suppressing Black votes and restricting access to books about Black history.

That’s actually the whole article.

He isn’t a MAGA mouthpiece, but he is a black person that saysthings that generally benefit the American right wing, and so people are embracing that. Which… Is fine.

Do black people have a right to abandon the Democrat party? Do they have a right to forge their own identity? Of course they do, we would all agree. Since there is no known money exchanging hears or dubious motives for any of these people, it seems questionable to call him a MAGA mouthpiece.

Wow, it ain’t just DOGE

This actually only caught my eye because I was told that Trump’s people mistook “transgenic” for “transgender,” but it appears that there actually are experiments on the books that focus on gender with animals like this.

But it wasn’t - someone above posted the AP News link.

This is correct - so much so that I feel empathetic embarrassment for the original author.

In all fairness to the Trump campaign, it sounds like his own party blocked him:

With Donald Trump’s return to office, discussions on a potential remittance tax are gaining renewed attention. Initially proposed to fund a border wall, this policy could have lasting impacts on financial services, particularly cross-border payments. Historically, Trump’s earlier attempts at implementing a remittance tax faced significant resistance from within his own party. However, with a new team in place, supportive of bold policy shifts, the landscape has changed, making it likely that taxation on cross-border remittances could be implemented.

In Trump’s original proposal, Mexico was asked to make a one-time payment of $5–10bn or, alternatively, face a 2% tax on all person-to-person wire transfers to Mexico, along with other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. With fewer obstacles now, this tax appears increasingly feasible. According to GlobalData’s Remittance Analytics, the US received $7.2bn in inward remittances in 2023, projected to reach $7.5bn by 2028. Mexico is the largest contributor, with $1.9bn or 27% of all inbound transfers, followed by Puerto Rico at $385m. A tax could significantly disrupt these flows, raise consumer costs, and alter the dynamics of cross-border transactions.

Yahoo

So, Mexico will pay for it.