When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets his Danish and Greenlandic counterparts next week, Denmark will be defending a territory that has been moving steadily away from it and towards independence since 1979.
A measles outbreak in South Carolina that began in October continues to rage, with the state health department reporting Friday that nearly 100 new cases have been identified just in the last three days.
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@#146 ... Some deportations won't have a criminal charge attached. ...
An ever-larger share of ICE's arrested immigrants have no criminal record (December 2025)
stateline.org
... Immigration arrests under the Trump administration continued to increase through mid-October, reaching rates of more than 30,000 a month. But, rather than the convicted criminals the administration has said it's focused on, an ever-larger share of those arrests were for solely immigration violations. ...
"The result stands in contrast to the administration's objective of arresting the worst of the worst,'" said Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. ...
The share of arrested immigrants who had been convicted of violent crimes has dropped from 9% in January to less than 5% in October. The share under Biden was consistently between 10% and 11% during the same period in 2024.
The same trend applies to people arrested solely on immigration violations: Immigration violations alone were behind 20% in April, then rose to 44% of arrests in October, according to Stateline's analysis.
In some states and the District of Columbia, a majority of arrests were for immigration violations alone: the District of Columbia (80%), New York (61%), Virginia (57%), Illinois (53%), West Virginia (51%) and Maryland (50%).
States with high immigrant populations also saw the most arrests this year. The largest numeric increases were in Texas (up 29,403, triple last year's figure), Florida (up 14,693, a fourfold increase) and California (up 13,345, a fourfold increase). ...
When will Pres Trump invade Iran to protect the protesters, and he has seemed to have promised?
Violent crackdown in Iran as Trump warns regime 'we'll start shooting' if more protesters are killed
www.nbcnews.com
... The fresh protests came as President Donald Trump again warned the regime that he would intervene if demonstrators were killed.
"I tell the Iranian leaders: You better not start shooting, because we'll start shooting, too," he said at a meeting with oil executives. ...
... only by obeying commands from federal agents do you "get to keep your life." ...
Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (1998)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
... This is about the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of people from around the world who volunteered to be part of the International Brigade fighting Franco's fascist army.
[Verse 1]
The future teaches you to be alone
The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shoot rabbits
Then I can shoot fascists
Bullets for your brain today
But we'll forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper
Turns me into a gutless wonder
[Chorus]
And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next
Will be next, will be next, will be next
[Verse 2]
Gravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain?
Holes in your head today
But I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas
But not with real intent
[Chorus]
And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next
Will be next, will be next, will be next
...
OpEd: RFK Jr. Joins the Anti-Vaccine Fringe (2014)
time.com
... There are lots of places to go if you want dangerous crazytalk. There are websites, blog threads, cable channels trafficking in all kinds of addled nonsense about birther conspiracies and one-world governments.
And then there was Robert Kennedy, Jr., the tireless, honest climate hero long famous for fighting the very good fight.
But that was then. RFK, Jr. may still know a thing or two about global warming, but he has taken a disreputable plunge into the world of anti-science with his new and inexplicable crusade: warning people about the dangers of vaccines. ...
@#4 ... At this point, it's probably a calculation that it will help her keep her seat. ...
I agree.
The phone call seems to be the result of Sen Collins representing her constituents, and not representing Pres Trump.
Susan Collins
en.wikipedia.org
... Collins is one of only two Republicans to represent a Northeastern state in the Senate.[3][4] Collins is the longest-serving Republican woman in the Senate,[5][6] and since 2019, the only Republican official holding statewide office in Maine. ...
During the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, Collins was one of the few Republican senators who voted to acquit him on both charges. During the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Collins joined most other Senate Republicans in voting to acquit on both charges. In his second impeachment trial, she was one of seven Republicans to vote to convict Trump of incitement of insurrection. ...
She's looking to be re-elected in 2026.
@#153 ... The share of arrested immigrants who had been convicted of violent crimes has dropped from 9% in January to less than 5% in October.
The share under Biden was consistently between 10% and 11% during the same period in 2024. ...
Wait, what?!?!?
Fmr Pres Biden's record of arresting the "worst of the worst" is better than Pres Trump's?