Donald Trump’s plans to give himself sweeping powers on “day one” of a new administration include sending vast numbers of U.S. troops — potentially “hundreds of thousands” — to close the southern border and to help build a new network of immigrant detention camps, three people familiar with the situation …
Read More »Trump Could Tap Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theorist as Attorney General: Report
On Tuesday, Donald Trump made a vague promise to only personally abuse the powers of the presidency on “day one” of the second administration he hopes to have. For his long-term agenda, Trump is planning to staff major government offices with a crop of the most extreme, vitriolic, and sycophantic …
Read More »Trump Serves Food to Soldiers and Police, Complains There's None Left for Him
Former president Donald Trump tried to do a charitable thing Sunday, handing out food to Texas National Guard soldiers, troopers, and others who will be working at the border during Thanksgiving. But he then complained that there wasn’t enough food left for him. “The food looked very good. I wanted …
Read More »Trump Says He'll Ban Immigrants Who 'Don't Like Our Religion'
Donald Trump has long been painting a picture of what he’ll do to the United States should he win back the White House next November. His plans include everything from pulling America out of NATO, as Rolling Stone reported on Monday, to a sweeping, multi-faceted crackdown on immigration — which …
Read More »'It Lives Inside' Is More Metaphor Than Horror Movie
What the fuck is in that jar? That’s the first question that It Lives Inside throws at you, and the one that has Samida (Never Have I Ever‘s Megan Suri) wondering if it has something to do with the odd behavior of her classmate, Tamira (Mohana Krishnan). Once upon a …
Read More »A White Trump Official Is Launching a Group Called Black America for Immigration Reform
You might think that the person launching a group called Black America for Immigration Reform is a person of color. But you’d be wrong. It’s William W. Chip, a white man who served in Donald Trump‘s Department of Homeland Security. According to Politico, Chip is the only agent named on …
Read More »'Fremont' Is the Best Kind of Indie-Movie Throwback
A long time ago, in what might as well have been a galaxy far, far away, Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) was a translator for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. Now, this young woman lives in the Bay Area town of Fremont, a stone’s throw from Silicon Valley and a dozen …
Read More »Migrants Are Stuck in NYC's Shelter System. What's the City Doing to Get Them Out?
It’s midday in midsummer and dozens of men and women are crouching, splayed out on cardboard, or standing in midtown Manhattan, beaten down by the heat. After a journey that’s taken many of them across an ocean or through a dangerous jungle — past multiple border enforcement agents demanding payment …
Read More »CBP Admits Death of 8-Year-Old Migrant Child Was Preventable: Report
A border patrol official has conceded that a 8-year-old girl who died in U.S. custody would still be alive had officials reacted differently to her parent’s pleas for medical intervention, according to a statement given to CBS. In May, 8 year old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez and her family spent …
Read More »David Corenswet Is the First Jewish Superman. Here's Why That Matters.
David Corenswet may be the first Jewish actor to play Superman, but the Man of Steel himself is as Jewish as matzo ball soup. As you may or may not know, Superman debuted in 1938, the creation of American and Canadian Jewish teenagers, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. But that …
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