Author: hearseeno

Not just ‘bad hombres’: Trump is targeting up to 8 million people for deportation

2/5/17

Up to 8 million people in the country illegally could be considered
priorities for deportation, according to calculations by the Los Angeles
Times. They were based on interviews with experts who studied the
order and two internal documents that signal immigration officials are
taking an expansive view of Trump’s directive.

Far from targeting only “bad hombres,” as Trump has said
repeatedly, his new order allows immigration agents to detain nearly
anyone they come in contact with who has crossed the border illegally.
People could be booked into custody for using food stamps or if their child receives free school lunches….

“We are going back to enforcement chaos — they are going to give lip
service to going after criminals, but they really are going to round up
everybody they can get their hands on,” said David Leopold, a former
president of the American Immigration Lawyers Assn. and an immigration
lawyer for more than two decades.

Not just ‘bad hombres’: Trump is targeting up to 8 million people for deportation

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Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the black woman who invented that rock and roll sound 

You know what’s sad, before I even read this article I was ready to refute this because I grew up believing Chuck Berry created Rock and roll. It’s said how so many knew of this great woman yet none spoke on her greatness.

I also discovered Big Mama Thornton, who’s another hugely influential early inventor of rock and roll — I’m pretty sure Hound Dog was originally popularized by her, before Elvis stole it.

Love Sister Rosetta Tharpe! #BlackGirlMagic

A few of her performances:

Also I heard she was bisexual…

Happy Black History Month! 

Appeals Court Rejects Request to Immediately Restore Travel Ban

2/4/17

A
federal appeals court early Sunday rejected a request by the Justice
Department to immediately restore President Trump’s targeted travel ban,
deepening a legal showdown over his authority to tighten the nation’s
borders in the name of protecting Americans from terrorism.

In the legal back and forth over the travel ban, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco said a reply from the Trump administration was now due on Monday.

Appeals Court Rejects Request to Immediately Restore Travel Ban

White House moves away from plan for CIA ‘black site’ prisons

By Greg Miller  February 4 at 6:34 PM

The Trump administration is backing away from its plan to revisit using
the CIA to imprison and interrogate terrorism suspects, according to a
revised executive order on detention policy that has been shared with
senior officials…

The new draft appears to preserve some language from the previous
document, including a provision that would allow for new prisoners to be
detained at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

White House moves away from plan for CIA ‘black site’ prisons

I wonder if other countries genuinely believe Donald Trump represents the thoughts and opinions of America as a whole. Cuz as far as I’m concerned most of us see him as a mistake an an embarrassment. I wonder if they see what he does and think “that’s what all Americans are like, that’s what all of America wants” or if they see us as a captive audience to his bullshit

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I don’t know, hopefully the latter, but he’s pretty much every negative stereotype about Americans. 

jon shieber tweeted this, saying it’s “from an american friend of mine working with the un in iraq”:

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so if we’re worried about american image issues we better keep protesting

this is important for many reasons, but one of them is – i think we need to accept that we are going to lose a lot of these battles, and lose big, and it’s going to be fucking ROUGH. and in those moments we will need to remember that we can make a difference not just by winning, but by showing up to fight.

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US Holocaust Museum’s “early warning signs of fascism” sign is going viral

  • The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wants to make sure that fascism doesn’t make a comeback. 
  • A Twitter user snapped a shot of a poster from somewhere inside the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. 
  • Judging by dollar sign symbol in the lower right hand corner, the sign looks to be a poster for sale. 
  • The poster is derived from a 2003 article detailing the potential warning signs of an incoming fascist regime. Read more.

We have all of it in Russia. Really, every single point can be checked.

Soooo… According to this list we can expect a fight for net neutrality… Again?

 Trump taps net neutrality critic to lead the FCC 

                   By Brian Fung  January 23: Washington Post

“Chairman Pai has a record of promising to undo the agency’s landmark
2015 net neutrality rules as well as targeting consumer privacy while
refusing to stand against consolidation among telecommunications and
media giants,” the advocacy organization Public Knowledge said in a
release.

Source: mic.com