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AOC has certainly become more impressive in recent months. I listened to her in Denver today and she was extremely well spoken in her opposition to Trump. I like her very much as a person would support her against any MAGA Republican for sure if those were my choices. Alas she is, however, simply too leftist for my tastes. Unless she changes her views (or unless I misunderstand them and I don’t think I do) I could never support her in a Democratic primary.

A Few Goodfellas

Well there are at least 7 more George Foreman's. He was a very forward thinking fellow. RIP.

I give fat Tim 6 months before he is publicly endorsing AOC and thinking she’ll win like Kamala and Hillary.

https://x.com/DiggingInTheDi1/status/1903097541450928607/photo/1 If you removed black / Hispanic students from the stats White Americans rank #7 in the world in academic test scores Blacks rank #51 & Hispanics in the #40’s We don’t have an academic problem. We have a diversity problem. It has made us collectively dumber & less competitive

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this is a real treat on a Friday night. I voted for this https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-revokes-legal-status-530000-cubans-haitians-nicaraguans-venezuelans-2025-03-21/ Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans Summarize Ted HessonMarch 21, 20258:17 PM EDTUpdated 6 min ago WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration. The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year "parole" granted to the migrants under former President Joe Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they had U.S. sponsors. Get weekly news and analysis on U.S. politics and how it matters to the world with the Reuters Politics U.S. newsletter. Sign up here. Trump, a Republican, took steps to ramp up immigration enforcement after taking office, including a push to deport record numbers of migrants in the U.S. illegally. He has argued that the legal entry parole programs launched under his Democratic predecessor overstepped the boundaries of federal law and called for their termination in a January 20 executive order. Trump said on March 6 that he would decide "very soon" whether to strip the parole status from some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the U.S. during the conflict with Russia. Trump's remarks came in response to a Reuters report that said his administration planned to revoke the status for Ukrainians as soon as April. Biden launched a parole entry program for Venezuelans in 2022 and expanded it to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in 2023 as his administration grappled with high levels of illegal immigration from those nationalities. Diplomatic and political relations between the four countries and the United States have been strained. The new legal pathways came as Biden tried to clamp down on illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Trump administration's decision to strip the legal status from half a million migrants could make many vulnerable to deportation if they choose to remain in the U.S. It remains unclear how many who entered the U.S. on parole now have another form of protection or legal status. In a notice set to formally publish in the Federal Register on Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said revoking the parole status would make it easier to place the migrants in a fast-track deportation process known as "expedited removal." Under a Trump-era policy implemented in January, expedited removal can be applied to certain migrants in the U.S. for two years or less. Reporting by Ted Hesson and Kanishka Singh in Washington; editing by Mary Milliken, Matthew Lewis and Shri Navaratnam Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Purchase Licensing Rights Ted Hesson is an immigration reporter for Reuters, based in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on the policy and politics of immigration, asylum and border security. Prior to joining Reuters in 2019, Ted worked for the news outlet POLITICO, where he also covered immigration. His articles have appeared in POLITICO Magazine, The Atlantic and VICE News, among other publications. Ted holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and bachelor's degree from Boston College.

Game/set/match Unfortunately, her family will be rich beyond their wildest dreams within the next year or two. Reward stupidity, that's the new American way.

He would want that.

I'll prepare something on the George Foreman grill that's been in my closet for the last 25 years tomorrow.

How did they do that without the mighty Minnesota gophers...lol

Escape from Ridgemont High

Mention that famous line and then ask WHO knocked down Frazier ... 99% say Ali. You and me are in the 1%.

Tomorrow I like all the favorites aside from possibly McNeese and Arkansas. so if I had to I would probably parlay Houston ML, Texas A&M ML, and Auburn ML if you need a 3rd. Maybe Wisconsin ML if you want a better payout on it.

Trump has to show the voter fraud so that there is no option but to change the laws. Kind of like how just coming out and telling people Israel is guilty will just galvanize democrats and Israel. He has to show how they are involved.

Update: new minor league baseball logo has just dropped. https://x.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1903189333450035370

I will probably watch that until UConn comes on at 1pm ET and then switch to the WVU game at 2pm ET…

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that both of you are ok with all of this, but I am. Is it that you just don't believe Trump is breaking laws and going rogue on the constitution, or do you not care because the outcome is all that matters?

Yes, Illegal Aliens commit crimes against real Americans every day. You look nice so you can stay, you're a murderer so you have to go. Wait, your both illegal and shouldn't be here. There can't be a line

Because maga are sick focks incapable of common sense, like the woke left

I don't get why some of you are celebrating some of these detainments and/or deportations. While on an intellectual level I can say that all illegals should be deported, that's not the humanistic reality. Some of these cases are heartbreaking to me. As much as possible we should focus on the recent border crossers Biden let walk in, and criminals of any length of time here. But going after people who are married to Americans and have been here 30 years? Not a priority and, if we can get the situation under control, it would be nice if we could find a compromise on those type of illegals. All that being said, I blame our government for putting us in this situation in the first place. If we just secured our border and enforced immigration law it would be a minor issue and not one that may have decided a Presidential election.

Smokey & The Bandit/Cannonball Run

Consider Jerce Reyes Barrios, one victim of the deportations: a professional soccer player who had fled Venezuela after protesting against dictator Nicolás Maduro and was living peacefully in the U.S. until the government snatched him up and deported him to El Salvador. ICE’s accusations were based on two things. First, Barrios has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball that, federal immigration authorities allege, “is proof of gang membership.” In reality, Tobin wrote, the tattoo was inspired by the Real Madrid soccer team, which is also circular in shape and features a crown. Second, Barrios posted a photo of himself on social media in which he’s gesturing with both hands, with his middle fingers down. This, federal agents claimed, was also proof of gang membership—except that Barrios’ hand gesture actually means “I love you” in sign language and is also commonly used as a symbol of rock ’n’ roll. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/immigration-trump-news-mass-deportations-tren-de-aragua.html

So there were Swastikas painted all over the Columbia campus during the hostile takeover. Where was the FBI? Imagine there was a rope on one of the garages used to pull it down ?

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