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US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations

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David Rosenberg - fuck the USA

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United States President Donald Trump thinks the rest of the world is ripping off the U.S., when the reason for its trade deficits reflects the fact that Americans are spending more of their after-tax incomes than virtually every other country on the planet.

The personal savings rate scale is at the very low end of the global range. You cannot, at the same time, have a society where economic success depends on mass consumerism that will ever not coexist with a trade deficit. What part of this do Trump and his team not comprehend?

As part of this consumerism, the U.S. is the only major country with neither a national sales tax nor a value-added tax. It is, therefore, completely natural for a country that pursues consumer-oriented spending to be the one with trade deficits.

The balance of payments must always balance, so if Trump crushes the current account deficit, he ipso facto crushes the capital account surplus. That, in turn, means financial conditions will have to tighten.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The Trump administration could well force a voluntary debt restructuring, but that doesn’t address the underlying issue, which is that even excluding interest costs, the deficit would top US$1 trillion.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/david-rosenberg-united-states-blaming-153950629.html

Pardoned J6er re-arrested on child sex charge

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https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/arrest-trump-pardon-insurrection/
A Houston man who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection has been arrested on an outstanding child sex crimes charge.

Andrew Taake, 36, was taken into custody on Thursday after spending more than two weeks as a fugitive, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said. He had previously been charged with online solicitation of a minor stemming from a 2016 incident in which he allegedly sent sexually explicit messages to an undercover law enforcement officer who was posing as a 15-year-old girl.

Taake was among the roughly 1,600 people, including 120 Texans, who were charged for their roles in the U.S. Capitol riot, which ultimately resulted in five deaths, injuries to 140 police officers, at least $2.8 million in damage and roughly 1,575 federal criminal cases.

Federal prosecutors said Taake used bear spray and a metal whip to assault officers, and that he was caught after bragging about the incident to a woman he met on an online dating app. Screenshots of his messages to the woman, who later alerted law enforcement, show that he sent a selfie of himself to the woman that he said was taken “about 30 minutes” after the incident, according to court records.

In June, he was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty in 2023, but was released from federal prison in Colorado following Trump’s sweeping Jan. 20 pardon of those charged for partaking in the melee.

Taake’s release was condemned by Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, who said that his office had faxed a copy of Taake’s outstanding warrant to the Federal Bureau of Prisons five days before he was pardoned. After about two weeks on the lam, Taake was located and arrested at a residence in Leon County, Texas, the Harris County DA said Thursday.
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CHILD SAFETY CHARITY targeted by Trump for defunding

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/doj-orders-child-safety-authority-comply-trumps-gender-ideology-order-rcna191282
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the primary U.S. nonprofit fighting child sexual exploitation, said Friday that it is removing all references to transgender people from its public materials.

The move is in accordance with an executive order President Trump signed last week, which bars federal funding that goes to “gender ideology” and makes it the official policy of the federal government not to recognize their gender identity.

“Earlier this week, like many federally funded non-profits, NCMEC was directed by DOJ to comply with Executive Order 14168,” a NCMEC spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “We are responding to this direction in a balanced way reviewing our publicly facing materials to ensure compliance while not impacting our 40-year mission of child protection.”

As a nonprofit, NCMEC relies heavily on grant money from the Department of Justice. It is the nation’s largest private sector organization to search for missing and exploited children, and it coordinates with law enforcement and tech companies to identify and remove child sexual abuse material.

Derrick Driscoll, NCMEC’s chief operating officer, told NBC News in a phone interview that the organization’s primary operations would not change, but the executive order compelled it to remove materials that mentioned transgender adults and children. He declined to speak about specific reports.

“The direction from DOJ, our grantor, was specifically to review our public-facing platforms and materials for compliance,” he said. “Our ability to locate and recover missing children and to protect victims of child sexual exploitation remains unchanged and will remain unchanged.”

News of the shift at NCMEC was first reported by independent reporter Marisa Kabas.

The White House and Justice Department did not respond to requests for comment.
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U.S. funded Columbian transgender opera.

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>"A grant for $25,000 was awarded in 2021 to a university in Colombia “to raise awareness and increase the transgender representation” through the production of an opera, with an additional $22,020 coming from non-federal funding."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/claims-about-usaid-funding-are-spreading-online-many-are-not-based-on-facts/ar-AA1yCpAD
To be clear, the article states that USAID did not fund the opera, though the taxpayer did fund such an opera. I'll post more below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdw31c6HPCI
Where can one obtain this transgender opera? Was it ever written? Does an English translation exist?
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Trump: highest ever approval ratings

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Trump currently has the highest approval ratings of his entire political career, leaving CNN absolutely stunned (pic kinda related)
Even The Daily Beast agrees that Americans are aligned with his leadership in the second term and probably think he is making good on his promises.
This only further proves that the lefties will continue to have melties until their morale improves.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/whoa-whoa-whoa-trumps-high-approval-rating-stuns-cnns-harry-enten/
‘Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!’: Trump’s High Approval Rating Stuns CNN’s Harry Enten

CNN’s data analyst Harry Enten has been left stunned by President Donald Trump’s high approval ratings in his second stint at the White House.

The senior data reporter noticed that Trump’s approval numbers for his first three weeks were much higher than those during his first term, the New York Post reported.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! Entire first term. Just 11 days, Donald Trump had a net positive approval rating” during his first term, Enten said during a segment of Monday’s CNN News Central with co-anchor Sara Sidner. Comparatively, the president now has enjoyed a net positive approval rating for 21 days in his second term

“Every single day of Trump’s second term so far, he has been on the positive side of the ledger. Twenty-one days, all three weeks. That’s already 10 more days than it was in his entire first term!” the CNN political analyst noted.

A new CBS poll captured the historical surge in Trump’s approval ratings, which shows that he has reached a 53 percent level, showing a majority of Americans are happy with the man in the Oval Office.

The shift also indicates that Americans are aligned with his leadership in the second term and probably think he is making good on his promises. This is in stark contrast with the April 2017 poll that indicated only 46 percent of Americans believed he was staying true to his word. By Feb. 2025, that number rose to 70 percent.
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Elon Musk uses new powers to sabotage children's welfare funds & more

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https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/02/09/what-is-elon-musk-getting-up-to-with-americas-payment-system
ON THE MORNING of January 28th April Mullins-Datko, the director of ADVOCAP, a social-services provider in Fond Du Lac, a city of 40,000 people in Wisconsin, put in her usual request to draw down $250,000 to pay staff salaries and other expenses connected with Head Start, a federal programme that provides child care, education and food to families on low incomes. Every other time ADVOCAP has done this the money has arrived within 48 hours.

This time it did not. As of February 9th ADVOCAP has received just $44,000 of the $250,000 they were expecting. To pay their workers, they have had to use bank credit. If the money does not materialise soon, they will have to begin laying off staff and shutting down their Head Start programme. The result will be 202 children without services and 80 staff members without jobs.

ADVOCAP appears to be a victim of Donald Trump’s seizure of the federal government’s payment systems. Its money should not be missing, according to the White House. A memo that froze much government funding, issued late on January 27th, was quickly rescinded after an outcry and a court ruling. Yet ADVOCAP’s money has not turned up and nobody seems able to explain why.

Ms Mullins-Datko says she has been calling anyone she can, but “they’re not responding. I’ve heard nothing from them.” She has received only one insight: “I called the Office of Head Start central office in DC and they said, ‘Oh, we’re sorry. This isn’t an Office of Head Start problem. This is a Treasury Department issue.’” Guidance sent to NGOs by the National Head Start Association, which represents service providers, confirms they too have been told that the problem is with the Treasury.
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Elon's FuckBoys

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Who is Kash Patel? Donald Trump's FBI Director pick, and all about his personal life

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https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/who-is-kash-patel-donald-trumps-fbi-director-pick-and-all-about-his-personal-life/ar-AA1xNqOG

A prominent figure in American politics, Patel is an Indian-origin lawyer, who has been at the helm of many key positions in the US government.

Ever since Trump's nomination, Patel has been in the spotlight, and everyone is eagerly waiting to see how he adds to the President's 'America First' agenda. His speech, “My name is Kash Patel, and I ain’t going anywhere,” at the inauguration ceremony emphasizing his commitment to values and principles that define the American dream has grabbed the attention of the world.

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As all eyes are on Kash Patel, let’s take a look at his early life.

Kash Patel has roots back in India. He was born on February 25, 1980, to Gujarati parents in New York. He graduated from the University of Richmond. After that, he earned a Juris Doctor from Pace University School of Law. Patel, who began his career in law as a public defender, and has handled multiple sensitive cases ranging from murder, narco-trafficking, to complex financial crimes in jury trials in state and federal courts.

Is Kash Patel married?

There is no credible information about Kash Patel being married although there have been rumors of a secret Hindu ceremony.
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Atheist group’s lawsuit fails to restrict college students’ religious rights

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‘Students at public institutions of higher education who are members of religious student groups will be free to select their own leaders’

A federal court recently ended a four-year-old court battle waged by an atheist advocacy group seeking to reverse a Trump-era regulation barring universities from restricting students groups’ religious freedoms on college campuses.

The U.S. District Court for the District Court of Columbia on Jan. 15 ruled in favor of Trump’s 2020 “Free Inquiry Rule,” which allows student groups to have leaders who reflect the organization’s beliefs.

The Secular Student Alliance had sued Biden’s Department of Education in 2021 seeking to overturn the rule, arguing it is discriminatory.

“The rule gives religious student clubs the absolute right to use religion to discriminate while still receiving official university recognition and funding,” the alliance previously stated.

“The rule thus undermines the nondiscrimination policies that many colleges and universities have enacted to ensure that clubs don’t reject students from membership or leadership positions on the basis of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or other protected characteristics.”

The lawsuit had been placed on hold in the courts as the U.S. Department of Education considered revoking the Free Inquiry Rule through the proper administrative channels, but still had not concluded that process at the time of Trump’s reelection.


https://www.thecollegefix.com/court-ruling-kills-atheist-groups-lawsuit-seeking-to-restrict-college-students-religious-rights/
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