David Cassetti, Ansonia's [CT} Republican mayor, is built for this coarse age, but he may found its limits this week.
Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake appears to have resolved any doubts about what she wants to do with the Voice of America. Lake seeks for it to look and sound a lot like the far-right One America News Network: on Tuesday night she announced that she had struck a deal to serve up the pro-Trump outlet's news reports for Voice of America's foreign audiences, at no taxpayer cost. read more
President Donald Trump lashed out at a Wall Street Journal reporter who was asking about his talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Sunday. The tense exchange happened on board Air Force One -- where the president held a brief gaggle with reporters. The footage (via CSPAN Networks) shows an unnamed reporter asking Trump a question that wasn't picked up by the network's microphone. But Trump clearly was put off by what the reporter was asking.
Archaeologists have discovered a hilltop in western Hungary that contains a vast hoard of ancient treasure dating back more than 3,000 years. The volcanic butte and its buried riches aren't protected by a fire-breathing dragon, but the discovery does feel like a story straight out of mythology.
The Trump administration is "decommissioning" a Department of Justice unit that has long been at the center of dismantling transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels and human trafficking rings.
An old Pink Floyd song from the Ummagumma album ...
Pink Floyd - Grantchester Meadows (1969)
www.youtube.com
What I call a "soundscape" song.
Describing a location ....
Enjoy.
@#9 ... I am the only one on this website that actually supplies links to back up my data. ...
Yeah, the bellringer alias also made a similar statement.
That aside, I do note that your current alias did not provide the numbers I asked for, but went into a "you dipsh@ts" mode.
So, where are the links?
@#23 ... Great - so pick any of the lies claimed in the article ...
I prefer to take a step back and look more at the overall approach instead of, say, one specific comment.
For example ...
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump
en.wikipedia.org
That article comes with this disclaimer ...
...This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. ...
OK, then there may be this ...
With 20 lies on Day 1, will Trump break first-term record of 30,573 untruths? (January 2025)
www.indiatoday.in
... Donald Trump delivered two speeches after his inauguration on Monday and several media outlets fact-checked him. CNN put the number of untruths at 20. Trump averaged 21 lies a day in his first term, according to The Washington Post. This is why Trump's Day 1 of his second term could herald a return to a fact-check era. ...
Of course, there seems to linger the question why Mr Bezos has terminated the Washington Post's fact-checking efforts?
Kissing up to the Emperor?
OK, a image-to-text conversion of the post cited in the article is (from the article)...
...David S Cassetti Top contributor
I don't know what happened to the Ansonia folks. Maybe it was the Covid shot but men there are some mentally ill people out there worried about a f@@king garbage can. I'm trying to transform the town to be more modernized especially with the garbage pick up and people are f@@king complaining kiss my ------------- ass. ...
Yeah, that's what your Mayor to say.
Wow,
Just friggin' wow.
(and, fwiw, kudos to www.imagetotext.info )
There's this ...
New data examines immigrants' role in U.S. food supply
www.weau.com
... New data is shedding light on the role immigrants play in America's food supply"from the fields to your local grocery store.
At the National Food Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., Valerie Lacarte, a senior policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute (MPI), spoke about the critical contributions immigrants make to the U.S. food system. MPI is a research and analysis think tank focused on migration trends and policy.
"We at MPI, especially, we're really interested in putting out data and facts that are relevant to the public discourse," LaCarte said.
Immigration has been a long-standing political issue, debated across multiple presidential administrations. But behind the rhetoric is a labor force that quietly keeps much of the food supply moving, according to LaCarte.
MPI's data shows that about 2.1 million immigrants are employed in roles related to growing, harvesting, processing, and selling food in the U.S.
While immigrants made up 17% of the overall civilian workforce from 2019 to 2023, they represent 21% of workers in the U.S. food supply chain -- a significantly larger share.
"We underestimate the extent to which farmers have a hard time hiring U.S. born workers because- the narrative sometimes that we hear is that immigrants are taking the U.S. born worker jobs," Lacarte said. " ... they say even when the U.S. born workers do show up, often the labor is so tough, that they don't complete the day. People don't realize how many migrants are actually working in those farms!" ...
@#24 ... how predatory student loans are. ...
Yup.
As a comparison, predatory lending for mortgages was a cause of the 2008 financial crisis.
And in response to the predatory lending practices of the finance industry, Pres Trump seems to be doing ...
US bank regulator lays out plans for 20% staff reduction, emails says
www.reuters.com
So, Pres Trump seems to be OK with the financial industry exploiting workers?