'Late Night Signal/Ing' ...
'Late Night Signal/Ing' ...
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Emil El Zapato (26th March 2025), modwiz (27th March 2025)
#oops
^^^
Late Night Talking in the Live Lounge ...
Harry Styles
3:34 min.
Last edited by Gio, 26th March 2025 at 18:20. Reason: OOPS
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modwiz (27th March 2025)
Last edited by Gio, 26th March 2025 at 18:48. Reason: That's ShowBiz
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Emil El Zapato (26th March 2025), modwiz (27th March 2025)
Ya think ...
Trump is increasingly hostile to Europe, says Zanny Minton Beddoes
| GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
Mar 25, 2025
2:30 min.
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Emil El Zapato (26th March 2025), modwiz (27th March 2025)
hmm ...
‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student
4:10 min.Mar 26, 2025
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
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Emil El Zapato (27th March 2025), modwiz (27th March 2025)
Jesus, that is horrifying. How to avenge that kind of behavior. Yes, I said it.Originally posted by Gio
Why would anyone comply to an order of that nature.
“El revolucionario: te meteré la bota en el culo"
Gio (28th March 2025)
Apparently ...
Tufts student's visa was revoked due to activism, Rubio says ...
Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested as she was headed to break her fast.
The government revoked Tufts doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk's visa due to her pro-Palestinian activism, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who added the State Department may have revoked more than 300 student visas since the beginning of the second Trump administration.
"It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa," Rubio said during a press conference in Guyana on Thursday.
Ozturk, a Turkish national, was arrested by immigration authorities as she was headed to meet her friends and break her fast during Ramadan on Tuesday.
She is listed in the ICE database as "in custody" and appears to be held at an ICE processing center in Louisiana.
Rubio plainly said Ozturk's visa was revoked by the government.
"If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us the reason you are coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus -- we're not going to give you a visa," he said.
"If you lie to us and get a visa and then enter the United States, and with that visa, participate in that sort of activity, we're going to take away your visa. And once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States. And we have a right, like every country in the world has a right, to remove you from our country. So it's just that simple," Rubio said.
Last year, Ozturk was the co-author of an opinion piece in the Tufts Daily newspaper, demanding the university administration "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide" and disclose and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel.
She made no mention of Hamas in the op-ed though a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said she "engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans."
"She's softspoken, she doesn't want to hurt you when she's talking," her friend, Reyyan Bilge, an assistant teaching professor in Northeastern University's psychology department, told ABC News. "She makes sure that she doesn't offend anyone, let alone possibly incite violence. I've never heard her swearing, believe me, this is the kind of person we're talking about."
The secretary said it was "crazy" and "stupid" for any country to issue visas to any individual that intends to be disruptive on college campuses.
"If you invite me into your home because you say, I want to come to your house for dinner and I go to your house and I start putting mud on your couch and spray painting your kitchen, I bet you you're going to kick me out," he said. "Well, we're going to do the same thing if you come into the United States as a visitor and create a ruckus for us."
"We don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country, but you're not going to do it in our country," he said.
The mayor of Sommerville, Massachusetts, where Ozturk was approached and detained, said it appears the Tufts doctoral student was detained over the exercise of free speech.
"I am deeply concerned to see a student with legal status detained for what appears to be the exercise of free speech. Rumeysa Ozturk has a First Amendment right to free speech and a right to due process and that must be upheld, just as all immigration detainees have rights that must be respected without exception," Mayor Katjana Ballantyne said in a statement.
"Our rights are being threatened in a variety of ways right now and Somerville will make use of the law and our voices to defend them. My administration recently filed a joint lawsuit with Chelsea against federal officials to do just that. We cannot sit by idly," the mayor said.
ABC News
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Emil El Zapato (28th March 2025), modwiz (28th March 2025)
And speaking new reality ...
Trade wars, federal cuts complicate lives of some Nebraskans
who put Trump back in office
PBS
6:48 min.Mar 27, 2025
President Trump’s sweeping measures, from tariffs to federal worker cuts, are taking shape in Washington, but their impact is already rippling far beyond. Lisa Desjardins visited rural Nebraska where livelihoods are on the line.
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Emil El Zapato (28th March 2025), modwiz (28th March 2025)
Off topic: I was adopted from St. Thomas Aquinas orphanage in Lincoln (and my younger adopted brother). Half of my bio family lives in Omaha. It would not surprise me that they are red...Those Nebraskans for the most part are a**holes.
The Omaha area and county are pretty blue.
So typically Red, the Feds subsidize their educational services but the idiocracy hates them because they were beaten by the Blues in the Civil War...end result: self destruction and more complaints about Federal Government. I'm shaking my head, that is the very definition of lunacy.
Last edited by Emil El Zapato, 28th March 2025 at 08:43.
Will share this uninterrupted recent speech ...
Bernie Sanders Issues Epic Takedown Of Trump, Musk,
And 'The Greed Of The Oligarchy'
Forbes Breaking News
30:41 min.Mar 25, 2025
During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about rising wealth inequality and President Trump's attempts to dismantle federal agencies and freeze congressionally appropriated funding.
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Emil El Zapato (28th March 2025), modwiz (28th March 2025)
"There is no bigger test of the Constitution than Trump" ...
Why Bob Woodward worries about Trump's America
Washington Post
23:41 min.Mar 28, 2025
What does Bob Woodward think of all this? Colby Itkowitz poses that question to the renowned Washington Post journalist in his first sit-down interview about President Donald Trump since Trump’s second inauguration.
Over 50 years ago, Woodward’s reporting of the break-in at the Watergate with his colleague Carl Bernstein exposed the Nixon administration’s plan to spy on and sabotage his political adversaries and the cover-up that followed. After President Richard Nixon’s resignation, Congress would go on to enact new limits on presidential power, which Trump is now challenging.
In the years since Watergate, Bob Woodward has continued to report on presidents – interviewing Trump and writing three books about him that reveal the president’s approach to power.
“So much of it is Trump just asserted himself, taking on the role of the courts, taking on the role of Congress,” Woodward told Itkowitz. “So we are entering a moment where there is going to be a clash of those traditions and laws and Trump's will.”
Special thanks to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
Chapter highlights:
00:00 Intro
02:49 - On whether the U.S. is still "a great republic" and "a government of laws and not of men"
06:07 - Would Republicans today take a stand against Trump like they did in the Nixon era?
07:14 - Trump, power and fear as a method
08:47 - On Trump's plans for his second term
11:29 - America now vs. America during the Nixon era
13:58 - Trump's assertion of power
15:05 - What Woodward sees as Trump's end goal
15:46 - Trump and tariffs in 2018
19:04 - How worried should journalists be about retribution compared to the Watergate era?
21:51 - "Everything is mine"
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Emil El Zapato (29th March 2025)
Coming back ...
How a small North Carolina town is recovering six months after Hurricane Helene
CBS Saturday Morning
Mar 29, 2025
It's been six months since Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 storm and caused $79 billion in damage, with the devastation stretching from Florida to the mountains of North Carolina. In Marshall, North Carolina, recovery is ongoing — but a surprising group is making their way back to the town.
7:06 min.
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Emil El Zapato (30th March 2025), modwiz (30th March 2025)
And speaking recovery ...
California wildfires left behind 9 billion pounds of toxic ash and debris
| 60 Minutes
Mar 31, 2025
After the wildfires ravaged homes in Los Angeles, California, cleanup crews faced a new challenge: electric car batteries that can explode when damaged.
16:13 min.
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Emil El Zapato (31st March 2025), modwiz (31st March 2025)
Meanwhile ...
Trump gambles on the economy and his future ...
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modwiz (1st April 2025)
Attempting to make sense of it all ...
Can Trump Use Economic Warfare to America’s Advantage?
| Amanpour and Company
18:14 min.Mar 31, 2025
Delving into the U.S. economy, author Edward Fishman speaks with Michel Martin about why he believes that leveraging America's economic power carries great risks, both to the nation's economy and to the global world order.
Originally aired on March 31, 2025
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modwiz (1st April 2025)
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