Watch: The most wonderful moment of joy came when he entered a Nazi guard bungalow.
We are the last generation who can hear from these survivors directly. Do not take that lightly. Do not waste that opportunity. Do not forget your freedom isn’t infinitely guarenteed. And do not, do not, let it happen again.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, this twitter account is posting the names and photos (when available) of refugees turned away from America who became victims of Naziism. #NoBanNoWall #RefugeesWelcome
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1/27/17:
In Trump’s EO:
anyone who has “committed acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense,” meaning anyone the authorities believe has broken any type of law — regardless of whether that person has been charged with a crime….
“fraud or willful misrepresentation in connection with any official matter or application before a governmental agency,” a category that includes anyone who has used a false Social Security number to obtain a job, as many unauthorized immigrants do….
anyone who “in the judgment of an immigration officer” poses a risk to either public safety or national security. That gives immigration officers the broad authority they have been pressing for, and no longer requires them to receive a review from a supervisor before targeting individuals…
so basically anybody. Whether or not it can be accomplished is another matter:
in order to put the 15,000 additional immigration agents he wants in place around the country and along the border, Mr. Trump needs spending approval from Congress. Even then, additional detention centers would also be needed.
The most significant hurdle is the tremendous backlog in the immigration courts. Even if immigration officials initiated thousands of deportations immediately, court dates for those immigrants would be at least a year and a half away.
Trump’s Immigration Order Expands the Definition of ‘Criminal’
What is it about his controlled breathing that is so mesmerizing?
It’s tightly-wrapped Sam, again. Just keep tamping it down and breathing through the pain.
1/27/17, NY Times:
Mr. Trump appeared to embrace a proposal by House Republicans that would impose a 20 percent tax on all imported goods. The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, told reporters that the proceeds would be used to pay for the border wall…
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But the House plan would offset that revenue by reducing the 35 percent corporate income tax rate, and would thus generate no new federal revenue over all. It was unclear how that fit with Mr. Spicer’s repeated contention Thursday afternoon that revenue from the tax adjustment would help finance construction of the border wall.
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Moreover, the tax would not be paid by Mexico. It would be paid by companies selling Mexican goods in the United States. Some might raise prices, imposing the cost on consumers, while others might be forced by competitive pressures to absorb the tax, reducing their profits. Many economists also doubt that the change would end up penalizing imports or encouraging exports. They predict that the value of the dollar would rise, offsetting those effects.
All a recipe for inflation.
The Federal Reserve will then likely raise interest rates in attempt to keep inflation from getting out of control (which they have expressed the intent to do already). Raising interest rates reduces economic growth rates (which have already taken a small dip), and as a result unemployment rates climb.
Ah, the days of stagflation. I remember you well.
A key difference between The Great Inflation of the 1970s and now, however, is that wage growth is much lower than it was. And with the current political climate around the minimum wage, it’s not likely to get any better.
Stagnating wages + increasing unemployment + inflated prices = bad news
These are the kind of male feminists that we need! plus this art is incredible.
npr:
Gorgeous photos from NOAA’s newest weather satellite, GOES-16.
In the first picture, we see a composite color full-disk image of the Western Hemisphere captured on Jan. 15, 2017. According to NASA, the new weather satellite can image the Earth every 15 minutes, which is five times faster than current devices used by meteorologists and will allow more detailed observations of the atmosphere and weather systems.
“The image is much more than a pretty picture, it is the future of weather observations and forecasting,” said Louis W. Uccellini, director, NOAA’s National Weather Service, Silver Spring, in a news release. “The rapid-refresh of these images will allow us to monitor and predict the evolution of these systems more accurately.”
And yes, that is a real picture of the moon in the second photo. Stunning!
-Patrick
(Image Credit: NOAA, NOAA/NASA)
Start your day with spectacular photos from NASA! 🌔 -Emily
No! You did not just do that!
“President Donald Trump’s team made little effort to consult with federal
agency lawyers or lawmakers as they churned out executive actions this
week, stoking fears the White House is creating the appearance of real
momentum with flawed orders that might be unworkable, unenforceable or
even illegal…Inside the West Wing, it is almost impossible for some aides to know
what is in the executive orders, staffers say. They have been written by
Stephen Miller, Trump’s senior White House adviser for policy, and
Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, according to people familiar
with the matter. Ideas for some of the Trump executive orders came from
transition officials and so-called “landing teams,” sources say, who
weren’t working in the White House. “
I don’t know how factual all of this is, but if the idea that Steve Bannon is writing executive orders for Trump to sign with his fancy pens doesn’t terrify you, I don’t know what possibly could.
Hearseeno 