This the quintessential story of how sports reflects the state of the world. Thousands of fans have waited for Game 3 their whole lives and now they’re priced out of entering the game and can’t even celebrate outside because one billionaire gets to attend the game for free.
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. Learn more from @David_J_Bier.
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This video is almost indescribably impossible to watch. But we have to. We cannot look away from federal agents murdering Alex Pretti, an American citizen, in the street in Minneapolis today.
Mayor Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death…How many times must local and national leaders must plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this is not creating safety in our city."
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @RadioFreeTom.
Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: https://t.co/DeSGz8zJGZ
These are not political news cycle issues. Trump is transforming what the United States is as a country in the world into a far right, authoritarian, transactional, valueless oligarchy aligned with the world's autocracies.
Imagine if your country was invaded, tens of thousands of children were kidnapped, maternity wards bombed, tens of thousands killed, and you're expected to sit through lectures about you being the cause of the war and visits to Ukraine to see the truth called propaganda.