Members Contessa Donatella Posted January 24 Members Share Posted January 24 That is so beyond disgusting. In GH Zoom yesterday one of us who is from the Boston area said they were sending notes home from school telling people what to do about not being able to fetch their kids from school if they get picked up as illegal, whether they are actually legal, or not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members janea4old Posted January 24 Members Share Posted January 24 (edited) Immigration raids in Bakersfield, California - the Border Patrol rounded up anyone who looked like they might be a farm worker. (Bakersfield isn't at the border.) https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/surprising-immigration-raid-kern-county-foreshadows-what-awaits-farmworkers-and-businesses “It was profiling, it was purely field workers,” said Sara Fuentes, store manager of the local gas station. Fuentes said that at 9 a.m., when the store typically gets a rush of workers on their way to pick oranges, two men in civilian clothes and unmarked Suburbans started detaining people outside the store. “They didn’t stop people with FedEx uniforms, they were stopping people who looked like they worked in the fields.” Fuentes says one customer pulled in just to pump gas and agents approached him and detained him. .... a man and woman drove up to the store together, and the man went inside. Border Patrol detained the man as he walked out, Fuentes said, and then demanded the woman get out of the vehicle. When she refused, another agency parked his vehicle behind the woman, blocking her car. Fuentes said it wasn’t until the local Univision station showed up that Border Patrol agents backed up their car and allowed the woman to leave. “They were stopping cars at random, asking people for papers. They were going to gas stations and Home Depot where day laborers gather,” said Antonio De Loera-Brust. “It’s provoking intense anxiety and a lot of fear in the community.” The president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual said: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting. This sent shockwaves through the entire community. “People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school. Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.” Edited January 24 by janea4old 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members janea4old Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/legal-immigrant-deportation-trump-ice Late on Friday January 24: Trump administration followed up, announcing that it was expanding a fast-track deportation authority nationwide, allowing immigration officers to deport people without appearing before a judge. The administration said it was expanding the use of “expedited removal” authority so it can be used across the country, in a notice in the Federal Register outlining the new rules. “Expedited removal” gives enforcement agencies broad authority to deport people without requiring them to appear before an immigration judge. There are limited exceptions, including if they express fear of returning home and pass an initial screening interview for asylum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Maxim Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 Please register in order to view this content This song expresses EVERYTHING that is happening right now. [Verse 3] Instead of governing With thoughtful sensitivity Let's shock and awe the world With idiotic bigotry 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 This movie was so far ahead of its time that now it doesn't seem dated. Instead it may resonate. "This is the story of Howard Beale, the first person known to be killed because he had lousy ratings." - news announcer, NETWORK 1976 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 (edited) It never occurs to us that the ones we want rounded up and deported are the only ones willing to work the field jobs that the rest of us think we're too good to do. This is gonna devastate our labor force, and we have only ourselves to blame. Edited January 25 by Khan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 They don't care. They believe there are all kinds of people lining up for those jobs. Or, as some have speculated, they will just force prisoners to work the fields. Or once they gut Medicare and Social Security they'll put old people in the fields. I hope Maylene and Bobby are ready. And based on Trump gutting FEMA, they can just sleep in the fields instead of worrying about having a house. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 They know in NYC that without those workers, restaurants simply will be unable to function. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wendy Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 Oh, yay! A sexual abuser and alcoholic [that's Pete Hegseth, whose OWN MOTHER called him out!] is now the Secretary of Defense. What could POSSIBLY go wrong there?! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marco Dane Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 Please register in order to view this content https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/trump-dei-tuskegee-airmen-banned-air-force-20054637.php 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members janea4old Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 It insisted that I subscribe but I found a free open copy here https://archive.is/BZBU0 Obeying Trump order, Air Force will stop teaching recruits about Tuskegee Airmen A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. President Donald Trump’s assault on federal diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives has claimed a new victim – the Tuskegee Airmen. A video describing the exploits of the groundbreaking African American airmen, who flew combat sorties during World War II, has been removed from the instructional curriculum for new recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the hub of Air Force basic training. Trump, in his inaugural address on Monday, vowed to "end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life." The same day, he signed an executive order dismantling federal DEI programs. On Tuesday, the new administration placed DEI officials on leave and ordered agencies to remove postings or advertisements promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. The effects were felt almost immediately at Lackland. A memo circulated among Air Force personnel said that "in accordance with NEW DEIA Guidance," portions of the basic training curriculum were being revised "immediately." DEIA stands for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. The memo said a video on the Tuskegee Airmen, a second video titled "Breaking Barriers" and a third about the Women Airforce Service Pilots who supported the war effort during World War II had been removed from a course on "airmindedness." A video on diversity was stripped from a separate human relations course, the memo said. The 37th Training Wing, which oversees basic and technical instruction at Lackland, had no comment. An Air Force official, who asked not to be identified, told the San Antonio Express-News by email: “We are ensuring we implement all directives outlined in the Executive Orders issued by the President and are currently doing a thorough review of all applicable curriculum. We will provide status updates on curriculum changes as soon as we are able.” The official referred the Express-News to a memo issued Wednesday by an acting assistant secretary of the Air Force. It directed all Air Force commands and units to delete references to DEI from their websites and social media accounts and “cancel any DEIA-related training and terminate any DEIA-related contract.” Every year, more than 35,000 recruits go through Air Force basic training at Lackland. For years, the 7½-week regimen of weapons training, calisthenics and classroom learning has included instruction on the Tuskegee Airman and how the pioneering Black pilots played a vital role in the Allied war effort. Well before World War II, the nation’s troops had been racially segregated, in part because of an Army War College report that wrote off the role Blacks could play as aviators, saying they lacked the courage and fortitude to fly planes. African Americans were relegated to noncombat jobs, even in the war zone. The all-Black 332nd Fighter Group, based at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, shattered the race barrier. The unit had as many as 14,000 airmen 1,000 of them pilots. In the skies over war-torn Europe, they flew 15,533 sorties, racking up 112 aerial kills and earning 96 Distinguished Flying Crosses and three Presidential Unit Citations. As the decades passed, their legend grew as books, news media attention and a Hollywood movie brought their exploits into America’s consciousness. Some in their ranks went far in the armed services. Brig. Gen. Charles McGee lived through three wars and lived to see his 102d birthday. He marked the occasion by visiting Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph in late 2021, where he received the red carpet treatment and was celebrated as a hero, McGee was given a tour of a squadron and its planes and was treated to a simulator flight in the T-1A Jayhawk, a training aircraft. McGee spoke in a briefing room adorned with portraits of his onetime boss, Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who became the Air Force’s first Black one-star general. Another Tuskegee Airman, Daniel “Chappie” James, was the first Black officer to reach the rank of four-star general. His son, Lt. Gen. Daniel James III, would serve as commander of the Air National Guard and adjutant general of the Texas National Guard. Racial barriers continued to fall over the ensuing decades. Gen. C.Q. Brown, a San Antonio native, became the first African American to lead the Air Force in 2020. He is now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but not the first Black officer to hold the job. That honor belonged to the late Gen. Colin Powell. The removal of the instructional videos on the Tuskegee Airmen quickly drew scorn from people commenting on a Facebook page devoted to Air Force enlisted personnel, Air Force Amn/Nco/Snco. “None of that has to do with DEI, they should know the history of the Tuskegee Airmen,” one person wrote. “That’s so dumb, that has nothing to do with the woke DEI!” another wrote. “That is just stupid,” wrote retired Air Force Maj. Skeeter Lieberum, 72, of New Braunfels. “It's history, not DEI.” The Tuskegee Airmen, he told the Express-News, "are my heroes." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members I Am A Swede Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 I didn't think I could loathe that man more than I already did, but he has proven me wrong.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 (edited) And, now for a little political humor ... If you don't know about the Big Orange Head's comments about this giant faucet he thinks exists, look it up, it's well worth it. Edited January 25 by Contessa Donatella info 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sivad40 Posted January 25 Members Share Posted January 25 Trump could very life another fifteen to twenty years. Conservatives realize that they need to be perpetually in control of all levels of the government and the media for more than 8 years to achieve their ultimate goals. Somebody like Vance would have fifty years in him to rule the country n 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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