US politics

US politics

My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. President Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice and on the bench.

If there's one belief that unites Americans across the political spectrum, it's that other countries are the reason we can't have nice things. "We sent $250 billion to Ukraine," the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk wrote on X in January. "And yet we can't get water to fight fires in California." In 2023, Assemblyman (and now New York City Mayor-Elect) Zohran Mamdani told an audience at a Democratic Socialists of America conference that

"This is actually really harming both our allies and partners and US industry to actually deliver a lot of these critical capabilities overseas," a senior State Department official told Axios.

One morning in March, as ICE was building momentum in carrying out President Donald Trump's mass-deportation campaign, dozens of people who had recently been detained throughout Virginia were being rushed through preliminary hearings. The government was using Zoom to save time, so Judge Karen Donoso Stevens sat in a mostly empty courtroom, adjourning some proceedings in less than two minutes each.

It's hard to argue you care about the working class while you're fighting to not fund SNAP payments. It's hard to argue Democrats are to blame for the shutdown when your party controls all of Congress. It's hard to argue prices are coming down everywhere when they're obviously going up for coffee, orange juice, ground beef, energy and housing.

My family, originally from Portugal, moved to America when I was three. We became naturalised US citizens, though we always kept our Portuguese citizenship. I now have settled status in the UK, having lived here for five years. Miles is from Cornwall, I have friends in Devon so I know there's rivalry about the proper way to do scones and cream and jam.

That also applies to the elder ones! We're not sitting around knitting and playing Canasta. You've read about my new musical venture in a previous article. The short version is that we've started a new chorus for Q+ Elders and Allies: the Portland Sage Singers. We only started last February. But, off we went, faster than any of our aging legs could carry us.

In his final days at the White House, Dick Cheney proposed an epitaph. His, he suggested, had been "a consequential vice presidency." It was an understatement, and characteristically oblique. Consequential might describe Lincoln or Lenin, Gandhi or Genghis Khan. Cheney was speaking of influence, and for once he acknowledged his own. He knew he had changed the nation's course, and he professed to have no regrets. After all this time, I'm still not sure whether to believe that.

Across the country, Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants has shaken neighbourhoods, torn apart families and engendered a sense of panic among communities. But in New York, on Tuesday night, Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of New York, and an immigrant from Uganda, chose to underline his identity. New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant, he told an ecstatic crowd at Paramount theater in Brooklyn.

The Associated Press revealed in a new report Saturday that four of the more than 60 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on boats were, in fact, running drugs from Venezuela but that's where the facts diverged from President Donald Trump's claims. The Trump administration has boasted of killing what it called narco terrorists and cartel members since launching the attacks in September.

Magical thinking is indispensable to understanding Team Trump's economic policymaking. The White House often seems to believe two opposing policies can work together while one policy can do two or three contradictory things. A heavy dose of hocus pocus will be needed to make the administration's dollar policy work in the interest of the United States, for it appears that they want to end the US dollar's supremacy in global finance.

On October 20, in response to a Gateway Pundit article reporting on Judge Michael Nachmanoff's decision not to accelerate the government's bid for a privilege review, a guy writing under the moniker Spaceman Chuck claimed "we already have a team on" making sure that Comey "go[es] down" if he is not convicted. A month earlier, in response to John Brennan's criticism of the Comey indictment, Spaceman Chuck commented that their safety is not guaranteed. As CourtWatch reported, Spaceman Chuck, AKA Greg Formicone, was arrested Wednesday for these threats, as well as others targeting Letitia James (also in response to a Judge's decision) and Hunter Biden.

The agency, which handles employment authorization renewals, said its current processing time is four months in 80% of cases. But immigration experts said the agency will likely take longer than that in certain cases. And because visa holders can only apply for work permits a maximum of six months in advance, some H-4 holders may not get their permits re-approved before they expire. Foreign workers must immediately stop working if their employment authorizations lapse.

Fox News anchor Tomi Lahren warned Republican voters and lawmakers to listen to the wake-up call they received this week, with Democrats winning multiple key races, including democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani being elected the next mayor of New York City. Lahren, while co-hosting The Big Weekend Show, shared her thoughts on Dems winning the governor's race in New Jersey and Virginia, Mamdani becoming mayor, and Prop 50, the redistricting measure pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), passing in California.

Voter anger over the cost of living is hurtling forward into next year's midterm elections, when pivotal contests will be decided by communities that are home to fast-rising electric bills or fights over who's footing the bill to power Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers. Electricity costs were a key issue in this week's elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, a data center hotspot, and in Georgia, where Democrats ousted two Republican incumbents for seats on the state's utility regulatory commission.