"Across the country, farmers are struggling. Prices for nearly every major crop are below what it costs to grow them. Much attention has been paid to Midwestern soybean growers, whose crop was at the heart of the trade war between the US and China. But farmers in Mississippi are perhaps worse off than farmers in the rest of the country. Rice is one of their biggest crops, and almost no one is buying."
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US President Donald Trump says his administration is "reviewing everything" after the fatal shooting by immigration agents of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday. The administration has defended the officer who shot Pretti. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Pretti was shot because he was "brandishing" a gun. Read more
The Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) is proposing a plan to slash the number of regional networks from 18 to five, just as the US Senate released a scathing report on the catastrophic damage the Donald Trump administration inflicted on the organization that cares for American military Veterans.
Trump War on US Veterans
This bill requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress after the decennial census indicating the number of persons in each state exclude noncitizens. (This statement is the basis for reapportionment of U.S. Representatives.) The bill also requires any questionnaire used in the decennial census to include a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is (1) a U.S. citizen, (2) a U.S. national but not a citizen, (3) a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) lawfully residing in the United States, or (4) a non-U.S. national unlawfully residing in the United States. The Department of Commerce must make public the number of persons in each state, disaggregated by each of these four categories
Alex Pretti was murdered in cold blood and a judge just had to block Trump's govt from destroying and altering evidence in the case. Bovino and Miller and Noem are bald-faced liars and they know it. They want these lawless violent criminal "agents" to be free to shoot you in the street and get away with it. This is the America they want for us. We will not allow this to become the future of this country. Read more
More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history. Read more
"On 23 Jan, at the direction of Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth, JTF Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the strike. USSOUTHCOM immediately notified the USCG to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor."
Murder-Death-Kill Map
In this episode, I get my Chinese drivers license and temporary license plate and get to explore Kashgar - an ancient city on the old Silk Road.
HE HAD A GUN, ONLY CRIMINALS CARRY GUNS ON OUR STREETS...
A new White House meme depicting President Donald Trump crossing snow-covered ice in what's supposed to be Greenland"alongside a penguin holding an American flag -- has sparked a wave of reaction on social media Friday night.
Trump, 79, began his posting spree by claiming he had helped to save TikTok by announcing the Chinese social media company would now operate in the U.S. under a majority American-owned joint venture.
Settler violence has forced over 100 people out of a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, rights groups say. The pattern of harassment is also being repeated elsewhere.
A lot of us are simply pining for that day when Donald Trump will simply say, "I've had enough." And walk away to never bother us again.
Unfortunately, Trump is not going to give up being the center of attention in every single major event in the world. His ego simply demands that that continue.
However, we will have a brief reprieve on Super Bowl Sunday. Read more
Peggy Flanagan, the progressive pick in the race for Minnesota senator, says the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is beyond fixing. Her opponent in the Democratic primary, centrist Angie Craig, isn't so sure. "We need a system to enforce immigration laws in this country, but ICE has completely lost the trust of the American people, and they continue to act in ways that are illegal and unconstitutional," Flanagan, the state's lieutenant governor, said in an interview. "We need to completely overhaul this agency and start over." Craig, a Minnesota congresswoman who represents a swing district, said she's opposed to Trump's "version of ICE," but warned that Democrats risk going too far in their response and could alienate independent voters
