Stephan: This is America under Trump. Aren't you ashamed? I certainly am.
The Gojcaj family
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On Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director Thomas Homan boo-hooed that folks are just being so darn mean about the mass deportation agents that have been tearing families apart, saying, “I’m sick and tired of the constant vilification of these men and women … when you have a congressman who said, quote, ‘the cowardly acts of ICE officers … that terrorize innocent immigrant communities.’ ICE does more protect the immigrant community than any politician ever has done.”
The next day, at 4 AM, Michigan dad Pete Gojcaj found out that his wife, an undocumented immigrant who had been in detention for nearly a month after being arrested at an ICE check-in, had been deported to Albania. Cile Precetaj, who had no criminal record, had lived in the United States for nearly two decades, and is the mom of three young U.S. citizen children, was not allowed to say goodbye to her family:
“My kids are devastated. They can’t stop crying,” Pete Gojcaj told the Free Press Thursday morning. “My […]
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RJ Reinhart, Reporter - Quartz
Stephan: There have been 18 schools shootings since Parkland. There is no other developed nation in the world that has this kind of madness, and the country's political leadership is entirely absent. Why? Because they are owned by the NRA and the christofascist voters whose fear, racial fear in many cases, has led to their obsession with guns. You have to be very frightened, whether you admit it to yourself or not, to feel the need to walk around with a concealed weapon.
And that fear, and that obsession with guns, has created a society where regular mass murders are the norm. I'm sorry, I don't find that acceptable, and I think the 2018 election is going to be the date of change, because millions of first time young voters demand better gun laws, and I think they will prevail.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans were faced on Friday with another deadly school shooting, this time in Santa Fe, Texas, where at least 10 people are reported dead. As the pace of major school and other mass shootings has picked up in recent years, so too has public support for tougher gun control legislation.
Americans’ support for tougher gun laws hit a 25-year high in March. In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in a March Gallup poll, 67% of Americans indicated their support for tougher restrictions on guns. This was the highest level of support for more stringent gun laws in the U.S. since 1993. Americans’ support for tougher gun laws has generally trended up since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, and has now returned to levels last seen prior to 2000.
There is a stark partisan divide in support for gun control. As with many other issues, Republicans and Democrats are strongly divided on the issue of tough gun laws. Roughly four in 10 Republicans say they favor tougher regulations on […]
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Georgia Logothetis, - Daily Kos
Stephan: Your fears and prejudices have to be so overwhelming you have lost your moral compass for you not to be aware of the awesome corruption of the Trump administration. There is no precedent in American history for this level of criminal activity to be centered in the person of the president.
I lived through Watergate and knew many of the people involved, and I remember how long it took for the general populace to understand that Nixon's criminality transcended party, and partisanship. And Nixon was small beer compared with Trump. But it got to a tip point and then there was a shift. I think we are getting to that point with Trump, as this suddenly occurring sequence of editorials suggests.
We begin today’s roundup with Ryan Cooper’s analysis at The Week of the Trump administation’s corruption:
Are we really to believe that [Trump’s desire to help Chinese phone company ZTE] has nothing to do with China loaning $500 million to a huge Trump-branded development in Indonesia days beforehand? It simply beggars belief — indeed, there is practically no other comprehensible explanation.
Then there is the Russia investigation. As David Klion writes, the thing to remember about “Russiagate” (an unfortunate appellation, but one which seems to have stuck) is that Russia as such is only an incidental part of the story. Nearly all the major players are American, and if Russian efforts to influence the election did actually succeed to some degree, it’s only because America’s democratic institutions are rotten nearly to the core. Nations meddle in each other’s elections all the time, for good reasons and bad. The United States has done it dozens of times, and often immensely more aggressively than anything Vladimir Putin allegedly did in 2016. The remarkable thing was that such relatively moderate and cheap efforts […]
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