Denise Knight--What Was Stephen Miller Thinking?

Nic (Dark Politics Tarot) on the "Assassination Attempt" and why Shady was hustled out first

Stephen Miller wants a new pool of immigrants for ICE to deport

President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant push looks far different now than it did just a few months ago. We’ve seen a major retreat from the very public rampages across the states last year. But less visibility from Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasn’t meant an end to the crackdowns.

Instead of the chaotic sweeps that drew mass protests, the Trump administration is now busying itself stripping legal status from hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The calmer, quieter deportation campaign is less prone to grab headlines, but the administration is counting on it to create a new pool of targets for meeting ICE’s deportation quotas.

You need to look no further than a federal courtroom in Boston, where the Department of Homeland Security is fighting to remove more than 900,000 people admitted under the Biden administration. All the migrants in question used the CBP One app to schedule an appointment with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They were then granted two-year terms of humanitarian parole as a result while awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge.

The Trump administration attempted to roll back that decision last year in a mass email telling recipients it’s “time for you to leave the United States.” U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled against the administration’s efforts in March, noting that the sweeping order did not provide any reasoning for the decision to revoke parole for the recipients or provide proof to support that reasoning.

Last week, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley informed Burroughs that DHS means to try again. Foley noted in her filing that this time around, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection had issued a memo “explaining the reasons why, in his opinion, the purpose(s) of individual paroles for aliens who entered on parole after making an appointment through the CBP One App have been served, and why parole is no longer appropriate for those aliens.”

https://www.ms.now/opinion/ice-legal-immigrant-status-deportation-ruling

I say deport MILLER!

Her island has no hospital. So she chose to go to medical school.

Yihana Melendez Alejandro decided at age 7 she wanted to be a doctor.

Alejandro, now a first-year medical student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is from Vieques, an island eight miles off the east coast of Puerto Rico. Vieques has no hospital and had only one small primary care clinic that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017 and has yet to reopen. For Alejandro, this served as inspiration to pursue medical school.

She remembers a joyous childhood filled with family and softball and a tight-knit community.

“It’s a very small island,” Alejandro said. “So I knew my high school class since we were in kindergarten.”

But she also remembers stark barriers to getting medical care. All 8,000 residents shared two primary care doctors at the Susana Centeno Family Health Center, Alejandro said. And Vieques residents in need of emergency medical care usually had to take a ferry or fly in a small plane or helicopter to the main island for treatment.

That is, unless the weather was bad and restricted travel, in which case patients suffered and sometimes died.

“Unfortunately, a lot of people die because we have to wait until a helicopter arrives,” Alejandro said.

That included a classmate of Alejandro’s younger brother — a 13-year-old girl who died in 2020 because she was struggling to breathe and the island did not have a ventilator.

https://captimes.com/news/education/her-island-has-no-hospital-so-she-chose-to-go-to-medical-school/article_9f2fe23a-1161-4733-8ae7-1ca737d33269.html

The way Puerto Rico has been neglected is shameful. Period.

Adopted and Locked Away: Kids promised 'forever homes' instead confined in for-profit institutions

*Note: This is a horror story. Do not read all the way through unless you have a strong stomach OR are prepared to raise hell.

She was 13 years old and scared of the dark when she arrived at a residential treatment center that had promised her adoptive parents it would help her heal — from the pain of not knowing who her mother was or why she’d given her away.

Kate plugged in a night light in the dorm room. She had needed one since she was sexually assaulted at another facility, she said.

Her roommate turned it off. She panicked. She ran and then curled into a ball, heaving, weeping. Three employees followed her — to comfort her, Kate thought.

Instead, they threw her face first into the carpet, she said, yelling that she was “OIC” — “out of instructional control.” For what seemed like an hour, they held her down, Kate said, one on each arm, the third holding her legs.

Kate would be institutionalized for most of her adolescence — until she could sign herself out as an adult. The Utah facility was her third stop in a sprawling network of loosely regulated, for-profit residential treatment centers, wilderness programs and boarding schools that’s become known as the “troubled teen industry.”

https://apnews.com/article/adopted-children-boarding-schools-treatment-investigation-e5d8dab2e4db1f2f4c5abbfaf0d97c52

It gets a whole lot worse. I was ready to cry by the time I reached the end. This "troubled teen industry" needs to be ended once and for all. I thank Paris Hilton for the Her work on it, but more needs to be done NOW.

GOP senator grills RFK Jr. on abortion, measles, CDC leadership at health hearing

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was taken to task by a bipartisan Senate panel Wednesday afternoon over his leadership of the agency — a tenure that has included measles outbreaks and sweeping budget and personnel cuts.

Some of that grilling came from Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Bill Cassidy, R-La., a physician who has been publicly critical of Kennedy over his attempts to roll back federal vaccine policy. Cassidy cast the deciding vote to confirm Kennedy last February, but only after he received specific promises from Kennedy around vaccines — some of which he has since broken.

Despite Cassidy’s vote, the pair’s relationship has since deteriorated due to their disagreements over vaccines. The tension has spilled into Cassidy’s re-election race: A group run by one of Kennedy’s closest friends, the book publisher Tony Lyons, has committed to spend $1 million to back Cassidy’s primary challenger, Rep. Julia Letlow, who also has been endorsed by Trump.

Those tensions were on full display Wednesday, when Cassidy grilled Kennedy on federal health policy around abortion pills, measles, and CDC leadership.

Cassidy kicked off his opening statement by addressing affordability — a concept that Republicans have struggled to gain ground on — calling on the government to lower the cost of drugs and health insurance.

https://www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-senate-help-committee-hearing

I'm no fan of Cassidy, but at least he speaks from a position of knowledge, unlike Junior

Immigration officer charged after shoving protester to ground in Colorado

A Colorado district attorney on Tuesday announced criminal charges against a Customs and Border Protection officer who was recorded yanking a protester by her hair and pushing her to the ground last fall.

CBP Officer Nicholas Rice was charged with assault in the third degree and criminal mischief, District Attorney Sean Murray for Colorado’s 6th Judicial District, said in a news release. The charges are a misdemeanor and a petty offense, respectively.

Murray said he decided to file charges after “a thorough investigation conducted by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.”

The incident took place in late October outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango, a small left-leaning town in southwestern Colorado, where hundreds of people gathered to protest the arrest of a Colombian father and his two children.

Rice was recorded on video snatching a phone out of 57-year-old Franci Stagi’s hands and then grabbing her hair and shoving her down an embankment. Stagi told The Colorado Sun at the time that she had been recording the officer and asked him, “You’re a good Christian, aren’t you?” which she said set him off.

https://www.ms.now/news/immigration-officer-charged-colorado-protestor

That's a bit telling, isn't it? Apparently he's NOT!

CVS vows federal court challenge after TN General Assembly passes bill that could close 100+ stores

The Senate and House both passed a bill that could shut down over 100 CVS stores and impact where patients get their prescriptions.

The bill passed the Senate on Monday with 24 Ayes and nine Noes, and in the House on Tuesday with 86 Ayes and seven Noes.

Senate Bill 2040 focuses on pharmacy benefit managers — also known as PBMs — who are the middlemen between the pharmacy, the drug manufacturer and the insurance company. The proposed bill says companies can’t be both the pharmacy benefit manager and the pharmacy, as it has created conflicts of interest that can restrict patient choice, increase costs and jeopardize continuity of care.

Once passed, CVS said the only way they can comply with the law is to cease pharmacy operations, which would include the 134 CVS Pharmacy locations and two CVS Specialty locations, which would impact more than 2,000 CVS colleagues who live and work in Tennessee.

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/politics/tn-senate-passes-bill-that-could-close-100-cvs-stores/51-dc18aa6f-05a7-4d09-b540-49ff0d8925e4

On the face of it, it sounds like a good idea. Someone please explain to me what's wrong with it other than CVS having a tantrum.

MAGA Erupts After 'Disgusting' Blow to Trump

MAGA went into meltdown after voters in Virginia turned against Donald Trump in a critical referendum that could sway the result of the midterm elections.

Virginians approved a Democratic plan to allow them to redraw the state congressional map for the remainder of the decade. Subject to a state Supreme Court hearing later this week, the plan could give the party as many as four extra seats in the House come November.

The result means that Trump’s calls for redistricting in Republican-led states—which MAGA raced to back at the time—are now backfiring on the president as Democratic states rush to follow suit.

After 97 percent of the votes were counted, 51.5 percent voted yes to redistricting, while 48.5 percent voted no.
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Speaker Mike Johnson called the results “egregious”, claiming 46-percent of Virginia voters backed Trump. “That is why Democrats relied on rigging the ballot question in order to win. We fought this effort with money, manpower, and in the courts - and those fights will continue.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-melts-down-after-disgusting-blow-to-trump/

And the crap they pulled in Texas wasn't illegal? Come on, Mikey!

Top Trump Terror Official Exposed on 'Sugar Daddy' Site

A Department of Homeland Security deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism has been accused of picking up men on a sugar daddy website.
Julia Varvaro, 29, allegedly had a profile on Seeking.com, a site that is often used by young, attractive singles looking for older, wealthier partners to help fund their luxury lifestyles, according to the Daily Mail.

The profile, which was under the name “Alessia,” said its owner worked for a government agency and offered “seductive sophistication.”

It used the same photo as Varvaro’s Instagram account and described Alessia as “flirty, fun, and fond of sultry spaces,” as well as “drawn to a masculine man who’s attentive, protective, and quietly playful for mutually beneficial experiences.”

The profile was revealed by Varvaro’s ex-boyfriend, an older executive and divorced father identified by the Daily Mail as Robert B.

The two met on a different dating app, Hinge, and he spent $40,000 on her over the course of three months, including first-class trips to Aruba and Italy.

The relationship ended after Robert refused to spend even more on her, according to text messages he shared with the publication. He has since filed a complaint with DHS’s Office of the Inspector General exposing the alleged Seeking.com profile.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-donald-trump-terror-official-julia-varvaro-exposed-on-sugar-daddy-site/

More shit from the Shitlerians. Who's surprised? Not I.