and, as more and more municipalities and states (looking at you Gavin Newsom) criminalize homelessness, you have another boon to the private prison/legal slavery indistrial complex.
lose your home, lose your freedom. now those people can perform the menial labor that deported migrants used to do.
america first?
Cue the exploding heads on the right.
trump has “just signed” some executive order (shoved under his nose) to ban entry into the U.S. people from 7 more countries in addition to another 12. ((maybe))
The proclamation signed by Trump also partially restricts travel to the US by nationals from seven other countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
United States President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a full travel ban on people from 12 countries and restricting the citizens of seven other countries, The Associated Press news agency reports.
The banned countries include Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The proclamation fully restricts and limits the entry of nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The entry of people from seven other countries: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela, will be partially restricted, the official said. The travel proclamation was first reported by CBS News.
“President Trump is fulfilling his promise to protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors that want to come to our country and cause us harm,” Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, said on X.
The countries facing the total ban were found “to be deficient with regards to screening and vetting and determined to pose a very high risk to the United States,” according to a statement provided by the White House.
During his first term in office, Trump announced a ban on travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations, a policy that went through several iterations before it was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.
Former President Joe Biden, a Democrat who succeeded Trump, repealed the ban in 2021, calling it “a stain on our national conscience.”
(some sort of active distraction from big abominable bill imbroglio perhaps)
And redirecting it directly to the Trump family… 
The nationals of Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be “fully” restricted from entering the US, according to the proclamation. Meanwhile, the entry of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela will be partially restricted.
Distraction alert!
Not that this isn’t awful, terrible bullshit, but this really appears to be rage bait while the senate workson the Big Billionaires Bill. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer is on…a book tour!?!
Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen… Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela
The US president said that he “considered foreign policy, national security, and counterterrorism goals” in deciding the scope of the ban.
I interpreted that as “the US president said that he ‘considered how likely it was that someone in one of those countries had a damn good reason to flee, so, stay lost.’”
Robert Reich reveals why Medicaid cuts are a feature in 
's Big Budget Bill:
I call it the Big Billionaires Bill.
Republicans just love self-abuse.
Fucking hell…
A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million grant program intended to help communities combat violent extremism.
The White House appointed Fugate, a former Trump campaign worker who interned at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, to a Homeland Security role that was expanded to include the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships. Known as CP3, the office has led nationwide efforts to prevent hate-fueled attacks, school shootings and other forms of targeted violence.
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Typically, people familiar with CP3 say, a candidate that green wouldn’t have gotten an interview for a junior position, much less be hired to run operations…
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Accounts of Fugate’s arrival and the dismantling of CP3 come from current and former Homeland Security personnel, grant recipients and terrorism-prevention advocates who work closely with the office and have at times been confidants for distraught staffers. All spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal from the Trump administration.In these circles, two main theories have emerged to explain Fugate’s unusual ascent. One is that the Trump administration rewarded a Gen Z campaign worker with a resume-boosting title that comes with little real power because the office is in shambles.
The other is that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism lanes and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations. In this scenario, Fugate was described as “a minder” and “a babysitter.”
Gosh, neither of those possibilities is reassuring…
What I’m expecting is that because the ability to detect and prevent domestic extremism is being destroyed, the feds will be totally unprepared for the coming explosion of domestic terrorism, and then some future government will be playing desperate catch-up to recreate the programs it once had to deal with the issue (and getting the blame for it). Which is pretty much what’s going to happen with a lot of issues (destroying the ability to detect/prevent disasters, then the disasters happen), though some of those chickens will come home to roost in a matter of months and some will take decades…
There isn’t even a country called Burma anymore. Makes me wonder how they will enforce a travel ban.
Ooh, green Yucateco, good call Obama.
That could be tricky. Maybe he’ll need Siam’s help.
I hope those meetings in Constantinople will go well.
The party afterwards will be in Sarmathia.
