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Friday, April 25, 2025

I understand why Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become the face of Donald Trump's monstrous policy of sending migrants to a gulag in El Salvador. But Abrego Garcia is not alone. read more


Sunday, April 13, 2025

Economically, the trade war may be bad news for Xi Jinping, but ideologically and politically it is a gift. As Donald Trump bragged to his acolytes in Washington that foreign leaders were queuing up and "kissing my ass", Beijing was announcing a "fight to the end". Trump may be about to discover that it is unwise to insult Beijing. The harder he plays it, the harder Beijing will play it back. read more


Saturday, March 29, 2025

Phil Klay: So now it's clear: The Trump administration has not kept sensitive details of national security secure. read more


Saturday, March 22, 2025

Only a "fraudster" would care if they miss a Social Security check, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in a new interview this week. Lutnick discussed how he believes Americans would respond to going a month without a Social Security check during an interview on the podcast All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg. During the appearance, Lutnick said the average American, using his mother-in-law as an example, would not complain about not receiving their checks for a month but that someone who was hacking the system would do so. "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this months. My mother-in-law is 94, she wouldn't call up and complain. She just wouldn't. She would think something got messed up and she'd get it next month," he said. "A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining." read more


Monday, February 24, 2025

Dominic Lawson: Republicans who think the US president will fight for Taiwan are deluded. read more


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From www.theguardian.com

For as long as anyone can remember Andry Jos Hernndez Romero was enthralled by the annual Three Kings Day celebrations for which his Venezuelan home town is famed, joining thousands of fellow Christians on the streets of Capacho to remember how the trio of wise men visited baby Jesus bearing gold, frankincense and myrrh.

At age seven, Andry became a Mini King, as members of the town's youth drama group Los Mini Reyes were known. Later in life, he tattooed two crowns on his wrists to memorialise those carnival-like Epiphany commemorations and his Catholic roots.

Most Capacheros get crown tattoos, often adding the name of their father or mother. We've lots of people with these tattoos " it's a tradition that began in 1917," said Miguel Chacn, the president of Capacho's Three Kings Day foundation.

The Latin American tradition appears to have been lost on the US immigration officers ... .

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