" A report published last week by the Cato Institute, written by director of immigration studies David J. Bier, found that the State Department and Department of Homeland Security were receiving millions of applications from immigrants whom Trump has made ineligible for legal status and pocketing the fees without ever processing the requests." https://www.commondreams.org/news/immigration-fee-fraud-state-dept
" In the United States the problem of one-man rule has become acute for two reasons. First, Congress has failed to perform its envisioned role as a safeguard against the natural tendency of an executive to become dictatorial, and equally failed to maintain or even exercise its own rights through the power of the purse." - Barbara W. Tuchman New York Times February 13, 1973
Remember the thrill you got when you saw Donald Trump wearing his new fundraiser to greet the return of the first US soldiers killed in his war with Iran>? Now, you, too can have a piece of history for only $55 from the Trump Organization store. The best part is that taking the hat off to show respect for the dead or the playing of Star Spangled Banner is optional!
@steter Trump was president when Epstein was arrested the second time and died in his jail cell. The feds were not "in business" with Epstein, but their boss was hip deep in Epstein's machinations.
During Trump's first term the feds told New Mexico to stop its investigation into activity on Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch and in exchange federal investigators would provide any information that would lead to prosecution. The NM Attorney General at the time said that nothing was forthcoming from the feds.
New Mexico House of Representatives, with Democrats outnumbering Republican reps 44 to 26, kills a bill to tighten gun control in New Mexico with tighter restrictions on automatic weapons.
" '...a highly unstable and dangerous Regime,' Trump wrote on Wednesday", referring to Iran and absent the sense of irony that the statement is being used around the worls to describe the US.
Private Equity medical care " Patient death rates increased in the emergency departments of U.S. hospitals acquired by private equity firms compared to similar hospitals not acquired by private equity, according to a nationwide study of hundreds of hospitals conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Chicago."
Semi-retired commercial artist living the life, painting, hiking, biking and spending way too much time on politics. I read A LOT, and continually.I post on a lot of different things, but mostly politics.Ex-Texan. I don't automatically follow back. There has to be some info on your profile.hee-haw