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Los Angeles Times: 4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care
- In 2023, a Mexican girl with a life-threatening medical condition was allowed to enter the U.S. legally on humanitarian grounds.
- The Trump administration has now ordered the girl and her parents to leave the country.
- One of the girl’s physicians says that if her treatment is interrupted, “this could be fatal within a matter of days.”
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WSJ: Only Two Companies Make Parachutes for U.S. Troops. Deportations Would Crush One.
Immigrants from Ukraine and Nicaragua, who keep factory in North Carolina humming, are among 1.8 million workers with temporary legal protections.
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NY Times: A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained.
For 20 years, Carol Hui has served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small town of Kennett, Mo. Her detention and pending deportation to Hong Kong has hit the community hard.
(NY Times more…)
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Hill: Trump administration working to return Guatemalan man deported to Mexico
The Trump administration said it is working to secure the return of a Guatemalan man wrongly deported to Mexico — a shift after refusing to do so for others removed in error.
In a late Wednesday court filing, Justice Department officials said they were securing a flight for a man listed in court documents only as O.C.G.
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BBC Mundo: La hermética fábrica de Arizona que expone las contradicciones del plan de Trump para impulsar una nueva “edad de oro” en EE.UU.
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Es, en mi opinión, la fábrica más importante del mundo, y la está construyendo una empresa de la que quizá no haya oído hablar: TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
…Así pues, muchas corrientes de la economía mundial, de la vanguardia tecnológica y de la geopolítica fluyen a través de este único emplazamiento, y en él reside la contradicción esencial de la política económica y diplomática de Trump.
Él ve esta planta como el ejemplo de America First (EE.UU. primero), y de la salvaguarda de la superioridad económica y militar sobre China.
Sin embargo, la fabricación de estos modernos milagros miniaturizados en la frontera de la física y la química depende intrínsecamente de una combinación de las mejores tecnologías de todo el mundo.
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Aseguró que esto no habría ocurrido sin el palo de los aranceles que pretendía imponer a Taiwán y a los semiconductores. Las personas con las que hablo en TSMC se muestran diplomáticas al respecto.Pero gran parte de esto ya estaba previsto y subvencionado por la Ley de Chips de la administración del expresidente Biden.
(BBC Mundo more…)
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BBC: The terrifying new weapon changing the war in Ukraine
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When drones began to be used in this war in a big way, both militaries fitted their vehicles with electronic warfare systems, which could neutralise drones. That protection has evaporated with the arrival of fibre optic drones, and in the deployment of these devices, Russia currently has the edge. Ukraine is trying to ramp up production.
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BBC: Carney says he wants Canada to join major European defence plan
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he wants his country to join a major European plan to bolster defences by 1 July.Speaking to CBC on Tuesday, Carney said he hoped Canada would sign on to ReArm Europe – a plan to dramatically increase defence spending on the continent to in the next five years – in a bid to reduce reliance on the US.
“Seventy-five cents of every (Canadian) dollar of capital spending for defence goes to the United States. That’s not smart,” Carney told the public broadcaster.
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Jennifer Rubin: Foreign Policy Malpractice
When have we given up so much power so quickly?
Donald Trump insisted that America had become weaker, less respected in the world, and more vulnerable under his predecessor. Those claims look increasingly ridiculous. Once more, an unfounded accusation turns out to be a confession of Trump’s manifest ineptitude and instability.
Trump’s Memorial Day ranting hit a new high for incoherence and self-indulgence. His mean-spirited and vulgar attacks echoed his partisan and bizarre remarks at West Point. If he were an elderly relative, family members would be staging an intervention to prevent such public displays of distemper.
Had the corporate media cared more about the apparent cognitive decline and unhinged, disordered thinking of the current president, the debate about his fitness might have transpired before the election. (Even before the most recent episodes, Rex Huppke argued persuasively, “Despite Biden showing his age, it was clear more often than not that he remained sharp and had a deep knowledge and understanding of both politics and the world. . .Trump, on the other hand, seems to know little, and he has grown increasingly incoherent and rambling, often wholly detached from reality.”) Now they face second-guessing about their lack of acuity and aggression in covering (or not covering) Trump properly.
(Jennifer Rubin more…)Dean Blundell: Canada “Mulling” Expulsion of US Ambassador, MAGAT, Pete Hoekstra
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newser: One Punch 6 Years Ago Resonates Politically
Wall Street Journal traces Trump administration’s battle with universities to a 2019 altercation
Daily Beast: Why Melania Came Clean About Barron and Harvard
LISTEN UP
There’s a running joke about Barron Trump among White House staff, according to author Michael Wolff.Melania Trump issued a rare statement about her son this week after a joke that was swirling around the White House went public, author Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast podcast.
The joke suggested that President Donald Trump’s vendetta against Harvard University was revenge for the Ivy League school rejecting his youngest son.
Barron Trump, 19, is finishing his freshman year at New York University. The first lady said—via her spokesperson on Monday—that her son “did not apply to Harvard, and any assertion that he, or that anyone on his behalf, applied is completely false.”
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ABC: Trump administration backtracks on Harvard foreign student policy
Ahead of a federal hearing over Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, the acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a letter Thursday giving the school 30 days to challenge the administration’s revocation of that certification.
NewsNation: US will revoke visas of Chinese students, Rubio says
- Those with Communist Party ties or studying in ‘critical fields’ targeted
- Trump administration and China are currently involved in a trade war
- White House has also targeted visas for Harvard’s international students
TNR: Trump’s Rants About Harvard Get Darker as He Loses a Big One in Court
As Trump’s attacks on Harvard grow more unhinged amid a serious legal setback, a shrewd observer of MAGA explains why Trump actively wants you to think we’re sliding into lawlessness and terror.
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ProPublica: Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives.
(ProPublica more…)
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Reuters: US to ban foreign officials over ‘flagrant censorship’ on social media
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Rubio did not name any specific instances of censorship. But U.S. tech companies and the Trump administration have challenged U.S. allies in Europe, alleging censorship of social media platforms. Restricting officials from visiting the U.S. appeared to be an escalation by Washington.
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Fox: Trump commutes sentence of major political donor in latest round of clemency
Imaad Zuberi donated $1.1M to Republican committees after switching support from Democrats following 2016 election.
NY Times: Trump Gives Clemency to More Than Two Dozen, Including Political Allies
A blitz of pardons and commutations included those who have expressed political support or echoed the president in claiming they had been unfairly targeted.
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Liz Dye: Trump Announces Plan To Cancel NPR For ‘Bias,’ Is Immediately Sued For FIRST AMENDMENT, HOW DOES IT GO?
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No hearing has yet been set in the matter, but presumably by the time the parties appear in court, the president will have reiterated several more times that this decision is based wholly on his disgust with NPR’s programming.
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Daily: Calls For Trump’s Impeachment Reach A Town Hall In Red Iowa
A town hall held by Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) featured calls for Trump’s impeachment and constituents saying that they would never allow Trump to be a role model for their children.
Rep. Ashley Hinson showed up back home in Iowa and got an earful from her constituents, many of whom were criticizing and denouncing Donald Trump in a district that he won by ten points in 2024.One constituent asked Hinson, “ President Trump and his cabinet, in addition to being totally unqualified and inept, are breaking laws by ignoring federal judges’ orders. The checks and balances of our government includes Congress’s responsibility. To hold the executive branch accountable. My question for you is, when are you going to do the responsibility that you were elected for by holding the executive branch accountable up to and including impeachment?”
(Daily more…)
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Yahoo! Finance: Elon Musk is not leaving Washington quietly
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Law & Chaos: Court Cancels Trump’s Bigly Beautiful Trade War
Now we’ll never get to hear about those 200 fantastic trade deals.
AP: What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a court has knocked them down?
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 28, 2025
Today’s news continues yesterday’s.
Judges continue to decide cases against Trump, with a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of International Trade ruling today that President Donald J. Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs are illegal.
The judges, one appointed by President Ronald Reagan, one by President Barack Obama, and one by Trump himself, noted that the U.S. Constitution gives exclusively to Congress the power to impose tariffs. In 1977, Congress passed the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, often abbreviated as IEEPA, delegating to the president the power to adjust tariffs in times of national emergency, but Trump has used that power far beyond what the Constitution will permit.
Since he took office on January 20, 2025, the judges noted, Trump “has declared several national emergencies and imposed various tariffs in response.” But the IEEPA has “meaningful limits,” the court writes, and “an unlimited delegation of tariff authority would be unconstitutional.” The court blocked all the tariffs Trump imposed under the IEEPA, thus ending Trump’s tariff spree, although the administration will appeal.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)Dean Blundell: VIDEO: Trump Lost it When Asked About His “T.A.C.O.” Trade Policies
From China to Canada, Trump talks tough, threatens tariffs, tanks markets—and then backpedals. Welcome to the empty-calorie world of Donald Trump’s “T.A.C.O.” (Trump Always Chickens Out) Policy.
USA Today: Trade whiplash: Appeals Court allows Trump to keep tariffs while appeal plays out
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Waging Nonviolence: This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling Trump
Winning high-stakes fights against powerful opponents like Avelo, an airline working with ICE, requires undermining their key pillars of support.
On the surface, the pro-immigrant activists who took to the streets in Connecticut last month looked like every other recent march against Trump’s deportation machine: a multiracial crowd of all ages carrying witty signs and chanting. Their target was the commercial airline Avelo, which has proposed operating as an ICE subcontractor to carry out deportation flights.What made this protest different, however, is what happened next: The group New Haven Immigrants Coalition and its allies went beyond protesting to directly attacking Avelo’s key “pillars of support” in Connecticut. Like any public company, Avelo is effectively a Jenga tower — if several key pillars upholding the company are removed, the tower falls.
(Waging Nonviolence more…)MetaFilter: Joining the AntiTrump Resistance in the Most Scientist-iest Way Possible
Judd Legum: UPDATE: Oklahoma parents fight back
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters installed a new social studies curriculum that will require all of the state’s public school students to be taught conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the tenets of Christian nationalism. Walters said the new curriculum will allow “students to think for themselves” and “not be spoon-fed left-wing propaganda.”Now, a group of Oklahoma parents is fighting back.
A group called “We’re Oklahoma Education,” or WOKE, is distributing a form letter that allows parents to opt-out of aspects of the new curriculum, including lessons on “discrepancies in 2020 elections results” and “Judeo-Christian concepts of ethics and government as the basis for American civilization.” The letter also allows parents to opt their children out of instruction created by right-wing groups, such as PragerU and Hillsdale College. Parents can also request that their child not have “[a]ny interaction with State Superintendent Ryan Walters in any capacity, including viewing any video or audio recording of Mr. Walters.”
(Judd Legum more…)
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TNR: The MAGA War on Science Is Deadly—and It’s Just Getting Started
https://newrepublic.com/article/195801/trump-maga-war-science-deadly
NOTUS: The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
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Borowitz: Trump’s Birthday Parade Canceled After He Fails to Produce Birth Certificate
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
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