I love this for them!
When is it worth enough to use as TP?
And yet governor Shapiro thanked Donnie for his “support” in the governor’s comments after the attack on his family. I like the guy, but I’d respect him a whole lot more if he had gone the route of fully pinning this attack on the violent rhetoric of potus and his supporters.
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, “He’s not the one.”
The other said, “Take him anyway.”
So they did.
Video at link
FOXTROT DELTA TANGO
Archive link:
https://archive.ph/ot8qt
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Officials said the guidance for all staff travelling to the US included a recommendation that they should turn off phones at the border and place them in special sleeves to protect them from spying if left unattended.
The advice was unsurprising, according to Luuk van Middelaar, director of the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, a think-tank.
“Washington is not Beijing or Moscow but it is an adversary that is prone to use extra-legal methods to further its interests and power.”
Van Middelaar recalled that the administration of President Barack Obama faced allegations of spying on the phone of then German chancellor Angela Merkel in 2013. “Democratic administrations use the same tactics. It is an acceptance of reality by the commission.”
There is an additional risk when travelling to the US, where border staff have the right to seize visitors’ phones and computers and check their content.
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This is a subtle but notable change in relationships.
Even anyone who didn’t want to know about it couldn’t pretend it wasn’t happening after Snowden. The USA in general and the NSA in particular has their ears and eyes on everybody, friend or foe, whenever and wherever they possibly can. There had been halfhearted talks about it during the Obama administration, but what we saw was mostly a display of cowardice in the face of amity. You don’t piss off your most important ally (who picks up the bill for this and that more often than not to boot) until you absolutely have to. And this is what is happening right now.
Good sauce.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/trumps-trade-war-and-wall-street
William Cohan, co-founder of Puck News and author of many books, including Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon (Penguin Random House, 2022), offers analysis of the latest twists and turns of President Trump’s trade war, and how Wall Street is reacting to the chaotic rollout (and rollback) of the tariffs.
Intelligent and informed indignation.
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rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the
federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement
in principle.