Wikipedia is an amazing resource. If you use it frequently, as I do, now would be a good time to toss it a few bucks in recognition of its value, which (quelle surprise) is under attack by the Trump regime:
You can also create an account for yourself on Wikipedia (as I have), which gives you the ability to amend any article on the site that contains inaccurate information, subject to the site’s existing rules that attempt to insure impartiality.
Good point. I’ve donated a small amount on rare occasion. Probably about once a year. Considering how often I’ve benefited from it I’ve decided to commit to a small monthly instead.
The U.S. government has never released data on how many U.S. citizens have been wrongfully detained or deported by ICE. But independent investigations have revealed that ICE has arrested, detained, deported and issued detainers — requests to local jails to hold a person in custody — for thousands of citizens since the agency’s creation in 2003.
It would seem that ICE is itself, to use @colewd’s words, “a criminal origanization”, and that the feckless SCOTUS is incapable of reining its lawlessness in. <sarcasm> Please somebody remind me again that the US is a constiutional republic. </sarcasm>
My current favorite is his “Xi called me” lie. It’s not just that Trump is a liar (most politicians are, to some extent), but that he’s so often a moronically dumb liar. In this case:
it is blindingly obvious that Xi would rather cut his own throat than lose face by calling Trump first; and
the lie just further exacerbates the tension with China.
So it is dumb on two levels.
Yes. We have zero respect for Trump, and little respect for any shithole country that would knowingly elect this shithead as leader.
Meanwhile, as tariffs and negative growth threaten the economy, Texas politicians (including the governor) are focusing on an imminent threat: alleged furies in public school classrooms and the litter boxes schools are allegedly providing for them.
Is it at all embarrassing when even the state’s Fox News affiliates expose the urban legend and the fact that no such occurrence has ever been confirmed in Texas schools?
If it weren’t for Trump, 70% of Americans would have OD’ed on fentanyl. Apparently, a single pill can kill 15 Americans. And American teens are so desperate for Tylenol they end up buying fentanyl off the streets, thinking it’s Tylenol.
It’s simple: if Kamala Harris had won, she would have had these 22 million fentanyl pills cut up into tiny pieces, mass distributed to 75% of the US population and slipped into their food to kill them. Thus Trump saved 258 million lives.
You might think that being sent to a hellish prison in El Salvador is the worst thing that could happen to people who (rightly or mistakenly) fall into ICE’s clutches. But it could be worse:
The Trump administration earlier this year urged the Ukrainian government to accept an unspecified number of U.S. deportees who are citizens of other countries, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post, an extraordinary request of a nation at war and dependent on American military and financial support for its survival. … The documents do not indicate how officials in Kyiv responded to the late-January proposal, relayed by a senior U.S. diplomat, that called for sending third-country nationals to Ukraine amid Russia’s deadly, devastating invasion — and despite the absence of a functioning airport there because of continual air attacks.
If Trump’s plan was to make Canada acquiesce by destroying its economy, it’s not working so far:
Canada’s trade deficit narrowed to C$506 million ($366.34 million) in March, beating expectations as imports fell at a faster rate than the drop in exports, data showed on Tuesday.
Exports to the United States dropped by 6.6% but were almost compensated by an increase in exports to the rest of the world.
Reuters reported on Tuesday that small and medium companies in Canada are pivoting from the United States and seeking new markets as tariffs or the uncertainty around them is making doing business difficult with the biggest market in the world.
“One exciting story that comes out of the data is clearly there’s an indication of interest in markets outside of the United States,” said Stuart Bergman, chief economist at Export Development Canada.
At the Offshore Technology Conference I have found myself apologizing to representatives from a great many countries for our felonious orange menace who has made it impossible for them (and us) to negotiate business deals.
Numbers of exhibitors and attendees was also down sharply from the past. Surprise. Surprise.
The conclave chose an American cardinal, Robert F. Prevost, as the next pope.
At press time it was not clear if Vatican City retaliatory tariffs will apply to this import from the USA.
PEDANTS: It’s just a joke. I am well aware that Trump exempted Vatican City from his list of tariff-applicable countries. (I’m not sure why Trump didn’t also exempt various islands with no human inhabitants. But I guess he wanted to come down hard on those arrogant penguins who never import anything from the USA.)
