Admiral Beez
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It’ll happen like a lightning shot, with the new president calling “1800 Got Trump” and tossing everything, including the gold paint in the Oval Office in the trash.
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President Donald Trump's United States of America
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AlvinofDiaspar
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adma
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Case in point: a normal "walk of Presidents" would avoid overly moralizing talk about Nixon & Watergate, Hoover & the Great Depression, Harding & Teapot Dome, Jackson & slavery, etc
UtakataNoAnnex
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The fact they put her on mute speaks volumes...
Occupy Democrats
BREAKING: Rep. Joyce Beatty calls out Karoline Leavitt for lying about the “unanimous vote” to add Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center and reveals how they silenced her for speaking out! After Trump...www.facebook.com
Monarch Butterfly
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Trump-picked board votes to add his name to Kennedy Center
See https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-kennedy-centre-renaming-9.7021564
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lenaitch
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THE USN is working on a new class of ship. What do you think the odds will be what the class is called?
Under the topic of 'setting the groundwork' . . .
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Under the topic of 'setting the groundwork' . . .
Erika Kirk endorses JD Vance for president at conservative event
Conservatives traded criticims at this year's annual Turning Point USA America Fest conference.
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EBT
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The Grifters Episode 33 - "Christmas Special"
thettctransitfanatic
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- Trump plans to increase workplace raids despite political risks
- ICE and Border Patrol to receive $170 billion funding boost
- Trump approval falls amid aggressive immigration tactics
U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing for a more aggressive immigration crackdown in 2026 with billions in new funding, including by raiding more workplaces — even as backlash builds ahead of next year’s midterm elections. Trump has already surged immigration agents into major U.S. cities, where they swept through neighborhoods and clashed with residents. While federal agents this year conducted some high-profile raids on businesses, they largely avoided raiding farms, factories and other businesses that are economically important but known to employ immigrants without legal status.
ICE and Border Patrol will get $170 billion in additional funds through September 2029 - a huge surge of funding over their existing annual budgets of about $19 billion after the Republican-controlled Congress passed a massive spending package in July. Administration officials say they plan to hire thousands more agents, open new detention centers, pick up more immigrants in local jails and partner with outside companies to track down people without legal status. The expanded deportation plans come despite growing signs of political backlash ahead of next year’s midterm elections. Miami, one of the cities most affected by Trump’s crackdown because of its large immigrant population, elected its first Democratic mayor in nearly three decades last week in what the mayor-elect said was, in part, a reaction to the president. Other local elections and polling have suggested rising concern among voters wary of aggressive immigration tactics.
"People are beginning to see this not as an immigration question anymore as much as it is a violation of rights, a violation of due process and militarizing neighborhoods extraconstitutionally," said Mike Madrid, a moderate Republican political strategist. "There is no question that is a problem for the president and Republicans."
Trump’s overall approval rating on immigration policy fell from 50% in March, before he launched crackdowns in several major U.S. cities, to 41% in mid-December, for what had been his strongest issue. Rising public unease has focused on masked federal agents using aggressive tactics such as deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods and detaining U.S. citizens. In addition to expanding enforcement actions, Trump has stripped hundreds of thousands of Haitian, Venezuelan and Afghan immigrants of temporary legal status, expanding the pool of people who could be deported as the president promises to remove 1 million immigrants each year – a goal he almost certainly will miss this year. So far, some 622,000 immigrants have been deported since Trump took office in January.
White House border czar Tom Homan told Reuters Trump had delivered on his promise of a historic deportation operation and removing criminals while shutting down illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border. Homan said the number of arrests will increase sharply as ICE hires more officers and expands detention capacity with the new funding.“I think you're going to see the numbers explode greatly next year,” Homan said. Homan said the plans “absolutely” include more enforcement actions at workplaces. Sarah Pierce, director of social policy at the center-left group Third Way, said U.S. businesses have been reluctant to push back on Trump's immigration crackdown in the past year but could be prompted to speak up if the focus turns to employers. Pierce said it will be interesting to see "whether or not businesses finally stand up to this administration."
Despite the focus on criminals in its public statements, government data shows that the Trump administration has been arresting more people who have not been charged with any crimes beyond their alleged immigration violations than previous administrations. Some 41% of the roughly 54,000 people arrested by ICE and detained by late November had no criminal record beyond a suspected immigration violation, agency figures show. In the first few weeks in January, before Trump took office, just 6% of those arrested and detained by ICE were not facing charges for other crimes or previously convicted. The Trump administration has taken aim at legal immigrants as well. Agents have arrested spouses of U.S. citizens at their green card interviews, pulled people from certain countries out of their naturalization ceremonies, moments before they were to become citizens, and revoked thousands of student visas.
The administration’s planned focus on job sites in the coming year could generate many more arrests and affect the U.S. economy and Republican-leaning business owners.
Replacing immigrants arrested during workplace raids could lead to higher labor costs, undermining Trump’s fight against inflation, which analysts expect to be a major issue in the closely watched November elections, determining control of Congress. Administration officials earlier this year exempted such businesses from enforcement on Trump’s orders, then quickly reversed, Reuters reported at the time. Some immigration hardliners have called for more workplace enforcement. "Eventually you’re going to have to go after these employers,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director for the Center for Immigration Studies, which backs lower levels of immigration. “When that starts happening the employers will start cleaning up their acts on their own.”
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EBT
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thettctransitfanatic
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The inauguration ceremony of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York City is scheduled for 1 PM on January 1st. There will also be a block party on Broadway in addition to this. Trump will have a meltdown watching this!
kEiThZ
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Under the topic of 'setting the groundwork' . . .
Erika Kirk endorses JD Vance for president at conservative event
Conservatives traded criticims at this year's annual Turning Point USA America Fest conference.
As horrible as she is, I do feel bad for Usha Vance and the kids watching her husband and their dad get close to the Widow Kirk in real time, all so he can win power by overcoming the stigma of his brown family with the base. I wonder how long before the election till he divorces Usha and marries Erika.
Nah. It's Golden everything now. Golden Dome for air defence. Golden fleet for the navy. I wonder how long before the army is called the Golden Hoard. And given the utter gross disaster of their new frigate, I've heard it said that nothing represents the vapidity, impotence and ignorance of this administration than painting a Coast Guard cutter grey and putting in the Golden Fleet.
Admiral Beez
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Usha is horrible? I wonder if Usha's under pressure (and refusing) to become a Maga trad wife. I suppose being a brown person means she'd never meet that measure anyway. I remember how the GOP tried to white wash Nikki Haley, going to far to avoid any photos of her turban wearing father. Had that sniper had better aim, Haley might be POTUS now.
RUN, USHA, RUN!
And the timely arrival of "National Slam the Scam Day" at the Social Security Administration...
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lenaitch
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If a USN ship gets into heavy seas, will the bow spray be Golden Shower, or that something different.
UtakataNoAnnex
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His showers are probably golden too…
thettctransitfanatic
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Trump suspends all large offshore wind farms under construction, threatening thousands of jobs and cheaper energy
In the latest blow to the US offshore wind industry, the Trump administration announced Monday it is suspending the federal leases for all large offshore wind projects currently under construction, citing unspecified national security risks.It marks a major escalation in President Donald Trump’s attacks against offshore wind, a form of energy he has long railed against. The suspension could impact billions of dollars of investment and stall nearly six gigawatts of new electricity set to come online in the next few years.
The new sweeping order impacts five projects being built in the Atlantic Ocean, including a massive Virginia offshore wind farm that could eventually be the largest such project in the nation. Set to be completed by the end of 2026, it would supply electricity to Virginia, the state with the world’s largest cluster of power-hungry data centers — and skyrocketing energy costs partially tied to that growing demand. Other wind farms impacted are off the coast of New England.
The exact national security risks of concern are unclear. In a news release, the Interior Department cited “national security risks identified by the Department of War in recently completed classified reports,” but didn’t say specifically what those risks were. The release also noted the potential for wind turbine movement and light reflectivity to interfere with radar.
In a Monday Fox Business interview, Interior Sec. Doug Burgum said the Department of Defense has “conclusively” determined that large offshore wind farms “have created radar interference that creates a genuine risk for the US,” especially “our east coast population centers.”
CNN has reached out to the Department of Defense for comment on its new report.
In his Fox Business interview, Burgum said radar interference can “create real issues for trying to determine what’s friend or what’s foe in our airspace for our country” and suggested they could also create issues for commercial aircraft “given the proximity to all the large airports” on the East Coast.