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Venezuelan Little League team forced to skip World Series after Trump denies visa President revived travel ban in June and put partial restrictions on Venezuela

Trump probably heard that a group of Latino youth was coming to the US with a plan to steal bases.
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I'm guessing it's very similar to 2012, when Obama did not have a good approval rating. But when you dug into the numbers, one in six of the people who disapproved said it was because he was not liberal enough. I took that to be a positive because those one in six were not going to vote for Romney.

I just checked and the forecast for tomorrow is partly cloudy with a 100% chance that Trump is on the Epstein list.

I can't say for certain what will happen to Trump when he dies, but perhaps what he deserves would be for God to give him a conscience and let him live with that for eternity

Alligator Alcatraz needs to be repurposed in the future to hold the Trump Administration members and ICE agents responsible for wholesale civil rights violations.

I remember when MAGAs were insulted by the term "deplorable". Now "deplorable" is something they actively aspire to achieve (with considerable success).

In 1911, the Triangle Factory Fire killed 146 garment workers. There hasn't been a second because the GOVERNMENT enacted regulations to ensure there wouldn't be another. I'm not ready to blame Trump for what happened. But I sure will blame the govt if it doesn't act to prevent another such tragedy.

Republican: someone who doesn't believe that humans can collectively release greenhouse gases that affect climate, but believes that an individual flying a crop duster can control the weather.

Texas says they didn't evacuate because the NWS didn't forecast the amount of rain they actually received. Thanks to Trump, more than half of NWS offices are understaffed by 20%+. Do we know understaffing caused this miss? No. But understaffing will cause more misses, and bad forecasts costs lives.

While some people mark the birthdays of those who've died, I don't. Therefore I'm not celebrating anything today. The USA is dead. It has no compassion for the poor, the immigrant, the outcast. Therefore it has no soul. It is a lifeless body being kept "alive" through money and military might.

The only difference between Squid Game and the "big beautiful bill" is that in Squid Game the people have a chance to win.

Dear Congressional Republicans: you're literally murdering people to keep your jobs. And most of you are millionaires who don't need jobs.

When an idea is directionally sound but it is dismissed as "impractical", the problem is with the status quo that makes the idea impractical, not the idea. In such a circumstance, work to change the status quo, not the idea.

I find it ironic that Boomers protested in the '60s with the slogan "don't trust anyone over 30" and now are incredibly reluctant to hand the reins of power over to younger generations, whether we are talking about politics, the church, or corporate life.

Historically, one of the greatest predictors of the impending fall of a govt/society is the extreme concentration of wealth. That's the real danger signal for the US.

Win or lose, Mamdani's surprising showing in the NYC primary is a wakeup call to the Democratic establishment that their ways are dead. They better adopt a stridently populist economic stance. And just as Trump outperformed his polling, corporate media underestimates the power of populist movements.

Violence is always the result of failure at peacemaking. Even the "necessary" violence of defeating Hitler was actually the result of the onerous Treaty of Versailles that made Hitler possible. Had the Allies been gracious, Hitler never happens. The US created the menace of Iran with the 1953 coup.

Will Iran retaliate with a terrorist attack? That would be exactly what Trump WANTS so that he can justify an authoritarian crackdown. And Iran just might relish the thought of retaliating *and* hastening the end of American democracy.

The way the troops carried themselves in the parade yesterday means that it was either the product of a complete breakdown in discipline or open rebellion against having to participate. There are no other explanations and both of these are bad.

Screen capture of Trump announcing the Trump Card. The program to buy a green card for $5 million at Trumpcard.gov

The green cards for sale are now officially being called Trump Cards. It's so embarrassing.

Trump wants Kent State 2.0. But how'd that work out?

The Trump-Musk relationship appears to have undergone rapid, unscheduled disassembly. 😁

One has an ego the size of the Titanic and the other is as stubborn as an iceberg. The result is predictable.

Trump spent the week pardoning criminals and deporting the innocent.

Trump says he is doubling tariffs on imported steel to 50% – US politics live President makes announcement that he is raising tariff from 25% at Pennsylvania rally celebrating US Steel and Nippon Steel ‘partnership’

Trump says the new steel and aluminum tariffs will take effect on Wednesday, June 4. What are the odds that means June 3 will be TACO Tuesday?

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I'm so hungry I think I could eat 8647 tacos.

Stouffer's still makes the creamed chipped beef. My supermarket carries it.

Somehow, people who believe Trump is 6'4", 224 lbs also believe Biden's medical team lied about his cancer.

Trump might claim China tariff victory – but this is Capitulation Day | Heather Stewart The president’s retreat suggests he might negotiate elsewhere, but leaves corrosive uncertainty in its wake

Trump caved.

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Bill Gates Has Harsh Words For Elon Musk’s Effect On Humanity “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” the Microsoft mogul said bluntly.

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Gates said.

Bill Gates Has Harsh Words For Elon Musk’s Effect On Humanity
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