Originally published at: Trump Admin Stonewalls Another Judge With Incompetent Witnesses - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The big news coming out of yesterday’s hearing in federal court in Baltimore was that more than 100 asylum seekers have been wrongfully deported in violation of a court-approved settlement agreement involving unaccompanied minors. I happened to be the only journalist in attendance at the evidentiary hearing in front of U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher,…
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Shoring up your adversary in an armed conflict you initiated in a desperate attempt to mitigate the consequences of your elective war may forever stand as the paramount example of Donald Trump putting his personal and political interests above the national interest.
I just want to note that.
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entire country like we did after WW2 in Japan
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Want the truth on the media companies out there? Left? Right? Truthful? Apparently, the FTC thinks you can’t handle it.
What brought this on? It gave Newsmax a rating of 20/100 “this website is unreliable because it severely violates basic journalism standards.” Oopsie!
NewsGuard’s lawsuit, filed last month in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, accuses Trump’s FTC of “brazenly using its power not for any issue concerning trade or commerce but rather to censor speech simply because it disagreed with NewsGuard’s judgments about the reliability of news sources.”
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…strategy could backfire
Israel has carried out dozens of targeted killings throughout its history, but Palestinian and Lebanese militant groups have often endured and grown even more powerful after the loss of top leaders.
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struggling U.S. families
With Big Oil poised to profit from a price spike driven by the US-Israeli war on Iran, congressional Democrats on Wednesday revived an excise tax that proponents say would put money back in the pockets of struggling American workers.
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For Your Climate Change Radar …
In what could be the seminal challenge to President Trump’s attempt to wreck U.S. climate policy, a coalition of states and cities has sued to reinstate the EPA’s endangerment finding on greenhouse gas emissions.
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Today it will hit 100° for the second of 4 projected 100+ days in Arizona. It has never hit 100 in March before…
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The troops will be wearing Florsheim “floating air boots”. Their feet won’t touch the ground.
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They will have their boots on the ground on Kharg Island, not Iran. Anyone can see that’s not the same thing
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Yelling at our allies is not going to work big boy. You got the U.S. into this mess and it’s your responsibility to clean it up.
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Much like if the Chinese ever invade Catalina Island, they won’t have boots on the ground, since Catalina Island is not the same as the USA.
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We have royally fucked over the entire planet.
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Adam Smith -D WA is not mincing words.
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Kharg Island is not even technically “ground.”
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From prior observation, I’d say that an item falling to the ground when you drop it would be an “unforeseen” consequence for this particular subculture.
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Let me counter with this…
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Except Kharg Island is Iranian territory no different than, say, Catalina Island is part of California. But you do describe how the goobers will cast it.
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