@#33 ... If America is making ANY money on tariffs, it's because Americans are paying more in taxes. ...

Highly regressive taxes, I might add.

Affecting lower income more than the uber-wealthy, as a percent of income.

@#25 ... Keep trying to push your Globo-Homo on people ...

Huh?

... you just spew nonsense. ...

Looking in the mirror again?

@#31 ... cheap Chinese made crap ...

If it is, as your current alias states, "cheap Chinese made crap," why are US companies selling that stuff?

Is your current alias stating that US companies are more interested in cost than quality?

If so, well, that may be a whole different thread.

@#18

A salient point.

@#19

From the link your current alias cites (and thx for finally providing any manner of substantiation of its comments ...)

...It is true that in 1964, Milk, then 33 years old, entered a relationship with Galen McKinley, who was 16 years old, according to the Milk biography, "Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death." The relationship started in New York City. ...

Later, the pair spent time in California, where the age of consent has been 18 years old since at least 1920. Their California sojourn occurred around 1969, when Galen McKinley was 23 years old. The two remained a couple until at least 1970 and they stayed in touch for years after that.

In sum, while it is possible Milk's relationship with Galen McKinley may have violated the laws of consent in the state of New York in 1964, it does not appear that modern psychological standards would deem him a pedophile.

So, did he sexually assault a 16-year-old boy, as your current alias asserts? Or was it consensual?

... The US Ambassador to the UN, Dorothy Shea, said the resolution would "undermine diplomatic efforts" to reach a ceasefire, ...

How might this resolution undermine diplomatic efforts?

Would it be similar to when the US voted in the UN to side with North Korea and Russia against Ukraine?

For some reason this song popped up into my mind ...

@#27 ... We shall all find out. ...

I do not disagree.

More from the article ...

... The Biden administration spent about three years developing rules and procedures for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) fund and then evaluating plans submitted by each US state and territory. Republicans repeatedly alleged that Democrats should have distributed the grants more quickly, but the Trump administration halted progress after taking over.

"States are ready to put shovels in the ground and have been waiting for months to get started... Additional delays and onerous changes to the program at this stage threaten to further stall urgently needed deployment and leave communities behind," Senate Democrats wrote in a May 30 letter to President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The letter was sent by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Sen. Ben Ray Lujn (D-N.M.).

Trump's Commerce Department reversed the Biden-era decision to prioritize the building of fiber networks in the BEAD program. The move to a "tech-neutral approach" is expected to result in much of the funding being distributed to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite program, even though fiber networks are faster and more reliable. ...

@#9 ... Literally nobody has ever said there's zero. Ever. ...

Indeed.

My guess would be that the Liberals chastised in #2, without evidence, btw, would want Government fraud and waste to be identified and eliminated as much as DOGE seems to.

But it is not the end goal, it is the process to achieve that end goal that matters.

So, what did DOGE do?

It seems to have used a chain saw when a scalpel would have been more appropriate.

That's the concern I have.

The world's richest person depriving the world's poorest people of life-sustaining assistance.

How can that act be justified?

@#4

Should they have been deported, or not?

They are awarded their day in Court by the Constitution.

More from the cited article ...

... U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher in Colorado found that deporting the family "without process" could cause irreparable harm and said he was issuing his order "due to the urgency this situation presents."

He scheduled a hearing in the case for June 13. ...

@#28 ... Putin's nukes are likely as effective as his conventional arms.

Problem is, nobody wants to push that to find out. ...

Mostly in agreement.

Stated differently, ... do not ask the question you do not want to hear the answer to.

@#11 ... I m sure some lefties view this as a bad thing. ...

Why?

I mean, if your current is "sure" it must have a reason. No?

So, what might be that reason?

From the cited article, there is also this ...

Trump issues travel ban specifically targeting Harvard

... Along with the travel restrictions on 19 countries that Trump announced tonight, he has also signed an order to restrict foreign student visas at Harvard, his latest attack in an escalating row with America's oldest university.

"President Trump wants our institutions to have foreign students, but believes that the foreign students should be people that can love our country," the White House said in a fact sheet.

The fact sheet alleged Harvard was the top overseas academic institution for Chinese Communist Party officials, noting that President Xi Jinping's own daughter had studied there in the 2010s.

The Trump administration last month tried to revoke Harvard's certification to enrol foreign students on campus under the Student and Exchange Visitor Programme (SEVP).

But a federal judge blocked that order and the Trump administration said it would give Harvard 30 days to prove it meets the requirements. ...

From the cited article ...

... Many Cuban-Americans in Florida voted for Trump. This news will cause mixed feelings ...

Seeing the travel ban extended to Cuba will cause both celebration and consternation in Florida.

Many conservative Cuban-American voters gave Donald Trump their vote in November and carried the state for him easily in the election. They have long advocated for harsh sanctions against the island's government and its leadership.

For its part, the Cuban government staunchly disputes its classification as a "state sponsor of terrorism" - the reason cited by the White House for the island's inclusion in the ban. It says the entire premise is unjust and intended to further harm its economic interests by forcing its isolation from the international banking system.

However, the idea that ordinary Cubans applying to reach the US through family reunification, or under other visas and legal pathways, might be prevented from doing so by this decision may stick in the craw of many Cuban-Americans, even in Miami -- the home of anti-Cuban Government sentiment.

There is already a growing resentment among some in Florida at seeing the Trump administration deport Cubans back to Cuba. They have always enjoyed a privileged migration status in the US, stretching back to the Kennedy administration. ...

... and the rationale behind this ban is ...?

@#25 ... Thanks for not wasting our time with your usual paragraphs of nonsense. ...

Yup.

Or, if I may add, just reciting from an apparent list of Pres Putin's talking points.

@#15 ... Milk sexually assaulted a 16 year old boy. ...

Got a link for that?

And why did that not seem to be mentioned in Sec Hegseth's explanation?

More from the OpEd ...

... To state the obvious: Our species has fully entered the Age of AI. And AI is here to stay.

The fact that AI chatbots appear to speak human language has become a major source of confusion. Companies are making and selling AI friends, lovers, pets, and therapists. Some AI researchers falsely claim their AI and robots can "feel" and "think." Even Apple falsely says it's building a lamp that can feel emotion.

Another source of confusion is whether AI is to blame when it fails, hallucinates, or outputs errors that impact people in the real world. ...

Look, I'll give you the punchline in advance: The user is responsible.

AI is a tool like any other. If a truck driver falls asleep at the wheel, it's not the truck's fault. If a surgeon leaves a sponge inside a patient, it's not the sponge's fault. If a prospective college student gets a horrible score on the SAT, it's not the fault of their No. 2 pencil. ...

@#22 ... Trump's ruining the America ...

I'm not there yet.

My view is that America still has the grit to last through what Pres Trump has been doing so far.

The Justice branch stepping up to Constitutional Checks and Balances in A Good Thing, in spite of the threats.

My concern does, however, rise when I look ahead to the next years of his term.

@#1 ... RFK is an idiot. ...

Idiot? I'm not there yet.

I mean, after all, he is now in the position he is in.

With no visible medical qualification, beside an apparent adulation and obsequious worshiping of Pres Trump.

So, who is the idiot here?

Sec Kennedy for exploiting Pres Trump?

Or Pres Trump for allowing himself (or wanting himself) to see such unfettered adulation of Pres Trump?

@#16 ... Putin's ballwasher is trying his best. ...

Yeah, we seem to have a new effeteposer here. A bit more aggressive, but just as obvious.