MAGA - NOT! Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs, Study Finds. According to a new study, construction was impacted more than any other industry studied, with American-born workers losing more jobs than immigrants as a result of the deportations.

Holy Cow! When is Congress going to stop this grifting!

What has Mamdami done for NYC in four months?

Amen Marshawn, amen!

Astounding!

Wow, quite a Republican success!😳 “The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months”

A fascinating (also sad and horrible) read!

Loving May 1st (and The Guardian reporting)! 🎉💕

Holy cow, it’s starting…..😳

Making America Great Again 😳”President’s proposed budget slashes health department by 12% while throwing $1.5tn – a 42% increase – to the military.”

Ah yes, Trump and Republican priorities! “To Boost Military Budget, Trump Targets Popular Programs at Home. Amid the war with Iran, the president has proposed to scale back some of the very programs meant to ease families’ financial burdens.”

Trump’s immigration thugs detained the wife of a newlywed soldier who was training to deploy in the next few months. ICE detentions and deaths are still at record highs. Even though it’s not in the headlines, ICE is still carrying out Trump’s campaign of cruelty. Never forget this.

Good ideas!

Hallelujah 🎶 Hallelujah 🎉

Hatshepsut, who was forgotten to history for over three millennia and is still not quite a household name. While Cleopatra and Nefertiti are much better known, no female ruler of the ancient world was as adept and successful as Hatshepsut

Gotta love Abigail ❤️(and history) happy 31st!

Australians being smart, building transport infrastructure & offering it for free. Great ideas, both! “Starting Tuesday, public transit across the Australian state of Victoria, will be free of charge for a month, in an effort to insulate residents from the widening oil shock from the Iran war.”

Heartbreaking 💔 “One month on from the Minab bombing, no one has been held accountable for the strike that killed at least 160 children and teachers. The US military has said it is “investigating”. President Donald Trump has denied the country was responsible.”

Wow, that’s going to stymie the World Cup! “A newly expanded policy from the Trump administration could require travelers from five World Cup-qualified countries to front a bond of up to $15,000 in order to enter the United States for the tournament.”

Proud of you Delta, keep it up! BTW when are other Corporate leaders going to lead?

“There was a deal on the table to reopen DHS and fix the airport chaos—and Trump personally blocked it. TSA agents are still not being paid. Travelers are still stuck dealing with delays and uncertainty. And the shutdown is now in its 37th day”

Ah yes, I remember it well!

Ah, if only Gov. Kemp could read, learn, and develop empathy. Eh Georgia!

Is he near death and has decided to come clean?

😳🙏

Ah, good ol’ history repeating itself, eh?

Quite the Confederacy of Dunces!

Oh oh! “Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center supporter of Donald Trump, resigned from his position on Tuesday. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and we started this war due to pressure from Israel.”

“Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war. Powell thought progress had been made in Geneva.”

Hello?

“Seven in 10 Americans say Donald Trump’s tariffs have led to them paying higher prices, according to an exclusive new poll for the Guardian. The Harris Poll survey presents Republicans with a major problem in the battle for the upcoming midterm elections.“

“US immigration agents in Oregon used a custom-made app to identify neighborhoods and people to target, and had daily arrest quotas they sought to meet during operations, courtroom testimony has revealed.“

One man has decided for himself to make this war. A lone person has initiated this mayhem without gaining Congress’s approval, without getting the approval of allies, without even articulating a clear reason for it.

“In the space of eight minutes, Trump proceeded to upend half a century of US foreign policy, renege on his campaign promise to avoid the risk of forever wars and leave the Fifa boss, Gianni Infantino, with some explaining to do about why he gave Trump a made-up peace prize.”

Sums it. “The first war of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace era has begun – an unprovoked attempt at regime change in collaboration with Israel, with no legal foundation, launched in the midst of diplomatic efforts to avert conflict, and with minimal consultation with Congress or the American public.”

So, I guess it’s not all about “Obamacare” any more, it’s worse! JD Vance announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” more than a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid reimbursements to the state of Minnesota, escalating Donald Trump’s newly announced “war on fraud”.

“Trump was moulded by the 1970s. His political DNA was formed in that era’s crises and he governs as if America were still in the Nixon era of shock politics. There are parallels. The political mobilisation around economic insecurity echoes that period, as does distrust in elite authority.”

“The guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,””

Measles, just like the old days, potential eyesight loss, hearing loss, and even death! Vaccines work BTW!

“An F.B.I. search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that a criminal investigation into 2020 election results in Fulton County, Ga., was set off by a leading election denier in the Trump administration and relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.” No surprise!

So Natalie Harp, eh?

Was Kennedy lying?

“Where do we go from here? How do we reverse America’s decline? How do we create an economy that works for working people and not just billionaires, a vibrant democracy and a foreign policy based on international law? The answer is not complicated.“

Ah the hew Tudors, also begins with a “T”!

“Donald Trump has apparently added a framed photo of himself standing with Vladimir Putin to the White House decor, prompting criticism from a senator, members of the media and beyond.” Kind of goes with the gaudy gold decorations (can’t wait to see the new ballroom 🤮).

“Trump is not the first president to grow intoxicated with the fruits of state violence, and to forget that wars do not only empower presidents. They destroy them too.”

A true hero! “We stand here today with all those who stand against the made-up, fake, what you can call ICE, professional law enforcement,” I don’t call them none of that. I call them made-up, fake, wannabe law enforcement. Because what they do is against not only legal law, but the moral law.”

“The ‘plan’ includes absolutely no detail even though the president and the administration have been promising a credible health plan within two weeks for many, many years. This plan is more about increasing the number of uninsured, on top of the 10 million who will already lose coverage under HR1”

Nothing like history repeating itself! “As it did in 2003, the US is underestimating the potential for instability as Trump resurrects one of the Iraq war’s biggest myths.”