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Republicans simply don't understand how the American economy works.

Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy has observed that more than 8 million undocumented immigrants are currently working in the U.S in fields such as construction, agriculture, hospitality, etc. In that sense, they could predict that mass deportations would not open these positions up, but instead lead to 44,000 fewer jobs for U.S-born workers, ultimately causing a 2.6% to 6.2% decrease in GDP over the next decade (Payan & Rodrguez-Snchez, 2025).
www.colorado.edu

The economic chilling effect of Trump's immigration crackdown
The U.S.-born workers most negatively affected, the economists find, seem to be men with "at most a high-school education" who work in sectors that rely on undocumented labor and were hit the hardest by ICE arrests and deportations.
"We find that for every six fewer undocumented workers working in a local labor market, that there is one fewer U.S.-born worker working in that labor market," East says.
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The Many Victims of Trump's Immigration Policy -- Including the U.S. Economy
Immigrant workers also contribute some of their wages to Social Security and Medicare, even though they do not receive benefits from those programs. In 2022, immigrants living illegally in the US paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes and $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes. The loss of this tax revenue concerns many economists since the Social Security fund is already expected to experience shortfalls by the mid-2030s.
So removing millions of existing workers, and intimidating millions more, is starting to shrink the workforce, drive up business costs and consumer prices, and reduce the economy's productivity.
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Last century my friend in the IDF and I scuba-dived in the Red Sea (Eilat).

On the seabed lies a Jordanian warship that sank in one of the wars-- probably 1967.

Undersea death trap

I don't recall the thought of going into the shipwreck itself passed our young military minds.

Scuba-diving, and sky-diving for that matter, are just a bit more dangerous than the industry and vendors will let on.

"Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!"

Explainer: What do we know about the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus?
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... Is there a test for Bundibugyo?

Tests for Bundibugyo exist but are not widely used.

Initial analysis of samples in the current outbreak using standard tests did not detect the infections.

"Because early tests looked for the wrong strain of Ebola, we got false negatives and lost weeks of response time," Dr Matthew Kavanagh, director of the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Policy & Politics in Washington, DC, said in a statement.

"By the time the alarm was raised, the virus had already moved along major transport routes and crossed borders," Kavanagh said. ...


Donald Trump Makes Bizarre Comment About 'Good Looking Men'
www.yahoo.com

... President Donald Trump addressed Coast Guard graduates on Wednesday. The speech blended congratulations with comments on graduates' bodies. Trump gave the commencement address at the US Coast Guard Academy, where he praised students, made unsolicited remarks about their physiques ...

As a student honored for academic achievement approached the stage, Trump said, unprompted, "I hate good-looking men."

When the top fitness scorer came forward, Trump told the crowd, "I wanna check him out ... Look at the muscles on this guy! I just hit him on the shoulder and hurt my hand, it's like hitting a rock!" Trump framed the remarks by saying, "it's competition for me too. I have to compete with you now!" ...



@#8 ... "The Late Night Show with Colbert is costing CBS $40 million a season. Why should Paramount keep it going?" ...

Because to keep it going would have prevented the Trump approval of Paramount's merger.

As highlighted in a recent video Pres Trump posted ...

Trump posts AI video depicting him throwing Colbert in a dumpster and dancing
www.wivb.com

... President Trump late Friday shared an AI-generated video depicting him throwing former late night host Stephen Colbert into a dumpster and subsequently dancing " the latest instance of the president using artificial intelligence to mock his enemies.

The video, posted to Truth Social, shows Colbert onstage for the taping of the last episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" before Trump walks up behind him, grabs him by his shoulders and tosses him into a dumpster. Trump closes the lid to the dumpster and starts dancing to the Village People's "YMCA."

The official White House account on the social platform X also shared the video, with the caption, "Bye-bye." ...


Pres Trump wanted Mr Colbert gone, and the new MAGA owners of CBS were only too willing to comply.


Related:

It's 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump

FTA:

The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states.

President Donald Trump has taken twice as long when considering disaster requests from Democratic-led states compared to Republican states. | Alex Brandon/AP

President Donald Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

He approved just 23 percent of disaster funding requests from states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators since returning to office 14 months ago. For states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators, it's the opposite " Trump has approved 89 percent of their requests.

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