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@Fredy31 ADL is a mess; you see its history -- it has supported language antagonistic to Palestinians. When they defended this neo Nazi, they hot so much backlash that when this man started posting Nazi jokes, the ADL CEO had enough of it.
 
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> The use of military planes for deportation is the result of a Trump executive order signed this week but deportation flights are not new.

The series of social media posts from the White House were mocked by immigration advocates who noted that deportation flights have been ongoing.

“Are these people seriously trying to suggest the deportation flights have not already been going on?” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council wrote on X.
> “They’re lying to you. The Biden administration had already ramped up deportations from the border to a higher level than it was under the Trump admin.”
> [T]hose figures are also not a sharp departure from the levels that were under Biden, with Reichlin-Melnick saying the Trump administration was “slap[ping] a ‘mass deportation’ sticker on the side of normal ICE operations.”

The ramp up in action has also led to backlash.
> Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) late Thursday accused ICE of conducting an “unconstitutional raid” in Newark, N.J. Local officials said agents detained undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens without producing a warrant.
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> U.S. President Donald Trump's Federal Trade Commission chair began his stint at the helm of the key agency this week by shutting down requests for public comment on corporate surveillance pricing and other exploitative tactics that were a focus of the FTC under the leadership of Lina Khan.
> Meanwhile, with no such fanfare, Ferguson shuttered FTC requests for information and public comments on corporate mergers and acquisitions, "protecting workers from illegal business practices," "predatory pricing," and "surveillance pricing practices," which refer to companies' use of personal data to set individualized prices.
> Democratic FTC commissioners expressed alarm over Ferguson's early actions and said they're a telling indication of his priorities.

"Andrew Ferguson could have made his first public act as chairman a motion to study the rising cost of groceries," Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said in a statement Thursday. "He could have acted on a pending public petition from a group of wall and ceiling contractors to investigate how lawbreaking contractors can effectively rig contract competitions in the commercial construction industry."
 
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Trump says Canada would have ‘much better’ health coverage as a state ctvnews.ca/world/article/…
All he does is lie
I can't believe we've got at least 4 more years of this. America voted for this.
It's honestly unbelievable that the POTUS is making what are essentially declarations of war against a long time ally
@Wipqozn woww. This man is going delusional at a staggering rate.
@Wipqozn this man has wreaked havoc. And we are not even past a week.
> Some of Kennedy’s fellow anti-vaccine activists have advocated taking immediate and concrete steps likely to undercut immunizations. That has worried other Kennedy allies and Trump officials who have urged a more measured approach centered on encouraging greater study of vaccines and their potential side effects.
> The more far-reaching options that Kennedy has discussed with allies include disbanding the main panel of experts that advises the government on vaccines, evaluates their safety and recommends which vaccines should be routinely administered to children and adults. Its decisions can also affect whether public and private insurers cover the shots’ costs for patients.
> The Treasury Department on Friday officially removed U.S. sanctions against dozens of Israeli groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank as part of President Donald Trump’s major reversal of Biden-era policy in the region.

The action carries out Trump’s Day One move to rescind former President Joe Biden’s February 2024 executive order that authorized the financial sanctions as punishment for Israeli individuals and settler groups accused of violence against Palestinian people or destroying their property.
> During the past year, the penny's costs have only continued to rise, with the U.S. Mint's 2024 annual report finding that one cent now costs about 3.7 cents to manufacture and distribute.

Pennies are mostly made of zinc, with a copper overlay to give them their distinctive color. While zinc's price fluctuates from year to year, its cost per metric ton is now double what it was in 2016, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Federal officials have proposed suspending the penny in prior years, with former Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew pushing the idea in 2015. Some e
Dude cheats in video games, dude makes nazi jokes. And we expect he is going to do something substantial.
Goes to show that even though they have a lot of bad ideas they also have some good ones
That's the point. It should not come from him always.
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Would really love to see the penny go away considering it costs close to 4 times the value of it to make it
People have been trying to get rid of it for years
But it is big money to the people who supply the materials to make it
@JoeW who are supplying the materials?
I would love to see if DOGE or whatever that is can cut the defense budget.
Their main target is now to slim down the federal work force, which doesn't cover a big fraction of the total budget.
I am pretty sure that he can't do away with FEMA simply by an executive order.
This administration is on steroids right now to destroy every thing.
Main thing is
> Still, the cent's $179 million in costs represents mere metaphorical pennies when it comes to DOGE's mandate to cut federal spending. President Donald Trump has said DOGE will provide recommendations to "slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures and restructure federal agencies." Musk has said the group will aim to trim $500 billion in annual federal spending.
> Manifesto calls for drastic cuts to federal forecasting of severe storms and aid given to shattered towns and cities
@User1865345 Various companies that are contracted to supply the metal to the mints and it works out to tens if not hundreds of million a year
I see.
It isn't going to save the budget but it is sill a cut that should be made
 
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> While Trump can direct the US geological survey to change how it denotes the Gulf of Mexico, such a name change would be unlikely to be recognized internationally.

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