Tuesday, June 3, 2025
The Three Huge Lies Trump is Telling Republican Senators about his Medicaid Cuts — to finance a big tax cut mostly…
The Three Huge Lies Trump is Telling Republican Senators about his Medicaid Cuts — to finance a big tax cut mostly for the wealthy
MSNBC: The Weekend Primetime
A REMINDER: Plundering Black America
THIS IS NOT NEW, BUT IT'S TIME TO ADDRESS RACISM & BLACK POVERTY IN THE U.S.
WE HAVE JUST PASSED THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD.
WHAT'S CHANGED?
TRUMP ET AL ARE ILLEGALLY DEPORTING DARK COMPLECTED 'IMMIGRANTS' & WELCOMING WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS....
SOUTH AFRICA SUPPORTED HILTER.
APARTHEID PROMOTED THE EXPLOITATION & OPPRESSION OF BLACKS
NAZI MUSK BROUGHT THAT LEGACY WITH HIM...HIS $$$ ORIGINATED FROM THE
EXPLOITATION OF NATIVE BLACKS.....
MASS MAGA GOP SUPPORTING ICE GESTAPO ABUSE & LAWLESSNESS
IF REPUBLICANS DIDN'T LIE, NO ONE WOULD ELECT THEM!
MASS MAGA GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES DISTRACT!
MASSACHUSETTS HAS 2 WEALTHY FAILURES WHO THINK THEY CAN
DISTRACT BY FOCUSING ON IMMIGRANTS - THE REPUBLICAN BOOGEY
MAN!
REPUBLICANS HAVE NO SOLUTIONS!
IF CRIME IS DROPPING...WHY THE LIES?
COULD IT BE BECAUSE THE MAGA HAS NOTHING
TO OFFER?
THEY: THE WEALTHY BOZOS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR: WILL BOTH BENEFIT FROM THE BIG BEAUTIFUL DISASTER PASSED
BY THE MAGA GOP MISFITS IN THE HOUSE - SLASHING MEDICAID, SLASHING
FOOD PROGRAMS, SLASHING GOVERNMENT SO IT NO LONGER WORKS....
U.S. CREDIT RATING DOWNGRADED DUE TO TRUMP/MAGA FAILURES,
ENDLESS DEFICITS, U.S. DOLLAR DEVALUED.....
THE BUDGET DEFINES THE MORALITY OF ITS PROPONENTS...IS THIS WHO WE ARE AS A NATION...DENYING FOOD & HEALTH CARE TO AMERICANS?
IF REPUBLICANS DIDN'T LIE NO ONE WOULD ELECT THEM!
Let's work together to spread the TRUTH & FACTS! We can't afford not to!
The MAGA GOP HOUSE BILL will DESTROY THE ECONOMY!
We know it will destroy MEDICAID
1 IN 5 AMERICANS ARE ON MEDICAID
Increasing UNINSURED will force many to use EMERGENCY ROOMS & costs will be shared or care will be non-existent. Many will be forced to wait until their emergency care will not protect them from preventable issues & they'll DIE.
Included in the MONSTER BILL are DECREASES IN MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENTS TO PROVIDERS each year by 5% which will force PROVIDERS to abandon MEDICARE.
As you know, the U.S. is the only INDUSTRIALIZED NATION that fails to provide UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE! Let's work to change it!
There are numerous other issues included in the MAGA GOP MONSTER that we need to oppose including ATTACKING JUDGES, RESCINDING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS, DESTROYING EDUCATION with VOUCHERS...+ 1,000 PAGES OF ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION authored by PROJECT 2025 & RUSSELL VOUGHT!
WE CAN PROTECT DEMOCRACY & OUR FELLOW AMERICANS BY WORKING TOGETHER!
As we know, MEDICARE only covers 80% plus there are DEDUCTIBLES which require MEDEX coverage to fund. It's reasonable to anticipate that MEDEX costs will explode.
Let's be PRACTICAL! FOREIGN STUDENTS MAKE $$$ FOR THE U.S.:
June 2, 2025
Foreign Students Aren’t Just a Large Source of Export Revenue, They Were a Rapidly Growing One
Dean Baker
Remember when Donald Trump was worried about our trade deficit? Yeah, that must have been days ago.
But anyhow, as I and others have pointed out, the tuition and other expenses that foreign students pay to study at places like Harvard is a major source of foreign exchange earnings. Last year, we got more than $56 billion in revenue from these students.
However, foreign students are not just a large current source of earnings; they have been a rapidly growing source. Here’s the picture since 2000.
COUNTER PUNCH
U.S. BRAIN DRAIN
TRUMP'S ATTACKS ON HARVARD & SLASHING RESEARCH FUNDING ARE CAUSING A BRAIN DRAIN OF THE BEST & BRIGHTEST WHO ARE BEING SOLICITED BY OTHER NATIONS & WILL HAVE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES...READ PAUL KRUGMAN'S COMMENTS:
Economist Paul Krugman says Boston's 'Jenga tower' economy teeters on Harvard
WBUR https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/05/28/krugman-harvard-funding-trump-economy
MUST READ! ICE GESTAPO ABUSE HAS BEEN WIDESPREAD & CONTINUES TO BE DOCUMENTED!
A DAD WAS PICKED UP ON A SIDEWALK & A CHILD WAS LEFT UNATTENDED!
There is so much ICE GESTAPO ABUSE, you just can't keep up! NO DOCUMENTATION! NO FACTS! NO WARRANTS! NO NAMES! NO DUE PROCESS!
THIS DOCUMENTS THE OUTRAGEOUS ICE GESTAPO TACTICS - NO IDENTIFICATION! NO WARRANTS! NO INFORMATION AVAILABLE! PEOPLE DISAPPEAR! NO DUE PROCESS!
MASS MAGA GOP CLOWNS SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE & TRUMPER MIKE KENNEALY ARE DEFENDING THIS LAWLESSNESS!
— ICE impact still felt in New Bedford by Kevin G. Andrade, The New Bedford Light: “New Bedford continues to feel the effects of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations that have so far detained at least 28 men, mostly from Guatemala, in the city since the inauguration of President Donald Trump.”
ICE GESTAPO USED A BATTERING RAM TO ENTER A HOME, NO WARRANT, NO IDENTIFICATION, POINTED GUNS AT CHILDREN EATING BREAKFAST, NO DUE PROCESS
excerpts:
According to two minors and one young adult present for the raid, agents dressed in military fatigues used a battering ram to enter their home without permission and did not show a warrant seeking either Garcia or Socop. The youth said agents pointed guns at them during the operation and only released them after they proved legal presence in the U.S.
“We’re still working through what happened,” Leticia told The Light Wednesday in Spanish.
As of Friday, a search through the ICE detainee locator found no results for Socop, though a Guatemalan named “José Garcia” was located at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana, a common holding sight for deportees just before their flights to Guatemala.
Two Guatemalans detained in early morning ICE raid in New Bedfor
The Viall Street raid is one of at least three that occurred in New Bedford this week.
NEW BEDFORD LIGHT
ICE impact still felt in New Bedford
Several New Bedford immigrants – mostly Guatemalans – have been deported, pleaded guilty to re-entry or released on bail.
May 30, 2025
https://newbedfordlight.org/ice-impact-still-felt-in-new-bedford/
ICE GESTAPO USED A BATTERING RAM TO ENTER A HOME, NO WARRANT, NO IDENTIFICATION, POINTED GUNS AT CHILDREN EATING BREAKFAST, NO DUE PROCESS
excerpts:
According to two minors and one young adult present for the raid, agents dressed in military fatigues used a battering ram to enter their home without permission and did not show a warrant seeking either Garcia or Socop. The youth said agents pointed guns at them during the operation and only released them after they proved legal presence in the U.S.
“We’re still working through what happened,” Leticia told The Light Wednesday in Spanish.
As of Friday, a search through the ICE detainee locator found no results for Socop, though a Guatemalan named “José Garcia” was located at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana, a common holding sight for deportees just before their flights to Guatemala.
https://newbedfordlight.org/two-guatemalans-detained-in-early-morning-ice-raid-in-new-bedford/
Two Guatemalans detained in early morning ICE raid in New Bedford
The Viall Street raid is one of at least three that occurred in New Bedford this week.
NEW BEDFORD LIGHT
Guatemalan immigrant in U.S. for 30 years arrested by federal agents
Juan Ramón Alegría Rodas is the 18th confirmed detainee in New Bedford since Jan. 20. He says he has been detained in a case of mistaken identity.
excerpt:
Rodas was arrested on Monday in the North End of New Bedford while on his way to pick up his daughter from school. On Tuesday, he called Patricia from the Plymouth County Correctional Facility, telling her that agents are mistakenly identifying him as José Chaclan Cienfuentes, a friend and former roommate whom Patricia said Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported in 2009. As a result, Rodas told Patricia, federal authorities are accusing Rodas of illegal re-entry after removal — a felony offense. But Patricia said Rodas has never left the U.S. after coming in the 1990s.
NEW BEDFORD LIGHT https://newbedfordlight.org/guatemalan-immigrant-in-u-s-for-30-years-arrested-by-federal-agents/
FROM POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: A slippery immigration slope
MASS GOP FAILURES BARK WITH NO INFORMATION ABOUT ICE GESTAPO ABUSE THEY SUPPORT LAWLESSNESS, LACK OF DUE PROCESS, DEFYING COURT ORDERS, ILLEGAL DEPORTATIONS TO NATIONS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES! ICE GESTAPO KIDNAPPING PEOPLE ON THE STREET, WITHHOLDING INFORMATION, MAKING INFLAMMATORY ACCUSATIONS no warrants! SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE BRAGS ABOUT JIS FAILURES AT MBTA - LEFT A DISASTER FOR INCOMING GOV. MAURA HEALEY TO CORRECT! TRUMPER MIKE KENNEALY FAILED TO DO HIS JOB - WANTS ANOTHER CHANCE? READ RON FILIPKOWSKI'S DHS COMMENTS: | ||||||
"R" VOTERS ARE CONSPICUOUSLY UNINFORMED, REFUSE TO RESEARCH OR INFORM THEMSELVES, EMBRACE CONSPIRACY THEORIES & PROPAGANDA. TRUMP ET AL RAN ON 2 LIES BECAUSE HE HAD NO MEANINGFUL PLATFORM BEYOND HIS BEST FICTIONAL FRIEND HANNIBEL LECTOR! DEMENTIA IS CONSPICUOUS! TRY INFORMING YOURSELVES ABOUT ICE GESTAPO ABUSE: ICE impact still felt in New BedfordSeveral New Bedford immigrants – mostly Guatemalans – have been deported, pleaded guilty to re-entry or released on bail Guatemalan immigrant in U.S. for 30 years arrested by federal agentsJuan Ramón Alegría Rodas is the 18th confirmed detainee in New Bedford since Jan. 20. He says he has been detained in a case of mistaken identity. Today in Politics, Bulletin 143. 6/2/25 excerpt: … Stephen Miller summoned 50 senior ICE officials from around the country for a bonkers emergency meeting about deportation numbers, according to a new report from the conservative Washington Examiner. One official after the meeting: “They’ve been threatened, told they’re watching their emails and texts and Signals. That’s what is horrible about things right now. It’s a fearful environment. Everybody in leadership is afraid. There’s no morale. Everybody is demoralized.” … “Miller came in there and eviscerated everyone. ‘You guys aren’t doing a good job. You’re horrible leaders.’ He just ripped into everybody. He had nothing positive to say about anybody, shot morale down. Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. ‘Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?'” … One official stood up and told Miller that DHS and the WH said they were only supposed to be focused on migrants who had criminal records: “Miller said, ‘What do you mean you’re only going after criminals?’ Miller got into a little bit of a pissing contest. ‘That’s what Tom Homan says every time he’s on TV: ‘We’re going after criminals,'” the ICE official told Miller.” … Apparently what they say to the public is not the same as what they are saying internally to senior ICE officials. … The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that DHS’s controversial list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” for immigrants has been taken down from their website. … Immigration expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “The amateurs running DHS put up a list of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ which included county governments which don't exist, misspelled cities, and sheriffs' departments which say they DO fully collaborate with ICE. The list has already been taken down after intense pushback.” … Reuters reported that Trump’s new FEMA chief David Richardson stunned his own staffers today when he said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season. Reuters: “The US hurricane season officially began on Sunday and lasts through November. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast last week that this year's season is expected to bring as many as 10 hurricanes.” BORDER LINES — Republicans point to immigration as one of the forces driving the gains they made in state elections last year. GOP candidates for governor are betting Bay Staters’ frustration over the state’s migrant and family shelter crises will extend to immigration issues more broadly amid a wave of federal immigration action in Massachusetts. Look at last week: When Gov. Maura Healey criticized ICE after dozens of people were arrested on Martha’s Vineyard last week, both former MBTA executive SLOW ZONE Brian Shortsleeve and TRUMPER Mike Kennealy, the state’s former housing and economic development secretary, used the moment to hit Healey for failing to work with the federal government on immigration. BRAIN DEAD SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE IS AN UNINFORMED LIAR WHO IGNORES THE NUMBERS OF MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENTS WHO WERE HOMELESS DUE TO CAPITALIST VULTURES GOBBLING UP RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES! WE KNOW WHAT CAUSE THE HOUSING PROBLEMS - NOTE THAT MASS MAGA GOP INCOMPETENTS HAVE NO SOLUTIONS! SLOW ZONE Shortsleeve accused Healey of “turning Massachusetts into a migrant magnet, ” while TRUMPER Kennealy LIES said Healey “can’t expect to be included in federal operations while she’s publicly bashing the federal government and attacking ICE.” And after federal officials announced Monday they had seized 1,500 people in Massachusetts during a flurry of arrests they dubbed “Operation Patriot,” SLOW ZONE Shortsleeve said Healey’s “warped sense of justice has made the commonwealth less affordable and less safe for our people,” and urged the governor to “apologize to every taxpayer and every victim.” Healey, meanwhile, has taken a more critical tone on the White House’s immigration agenda in recent days, while maintaining she supports the detention of people with criminal backgrounds. The operation on the islands was “disturbing,” she said last week. “The fear and the uncertainty, the anxiety that is created in these communities, I think, is totally unnecessary,” she said. On Monday, she called for the release of an undocumented 18-year-old Milford High School student who was detained over the weekend on his way to volleyball practice (Federal officials said Monday the student’s father was the intended target.). Progressives and immigration advocates, however, have called on her to take things a step further and declare ICE “a rogue federal agency operating outside the law.” A MassInc poll from March found that 13 percent of Massachusetts voters believe immigration is the single biggest issue facing state government (Only housing and cost of living ranked higher.). But some of the more high-profile ICE detentions — like the student in Milford — have prompted serious backlash locally and among Democratic electeds and advocates that could swing the immigration issue back in Healey’s favor ahead of the 2026 election. ***ICE GESTAPO MADE AN ALL TOO COMMON MISTAKE...GOT THE WRONG PERSON!**** MASS MAGA GOP NEED TO STOP DEFENDING ICE LAWLESSNESS! — Emergency order blocks ICE from transferring Milford student out of state by Esteban Bustillos and Sarah Betancourt, GBH News: “A federal judge issued an emergency order Sunday blocking federal immigration authorities from transferring an 18-year-old Milford High School student of Brazilian nationality out of Massachusetts for at least 72 hours, court records show. The order came on the heels of a habeas corpus petition, in which his attorneys challenged the constitutionality of Marcelo Gomes Da Silva’s detention.” — In East Boston, wives of men arrested by ICE tell their stories by Miriam Wasser, WBUR: “While federal immigration officials touted the nearly 1,500 arrests they made in Massachusetts during May, three women whose husbands had been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement sat in front of a crowded room in an East Boston community center and described — at times through tears — what the experience has been like for their families. The event was part of a community roundtable event convened by Rep. Ayanna Pressley to amplify the faces and stories behind the government's arrest statistics.” excerpts: "Just a few blocks from our home, I noticed flashing lights behind us," she said. "I was driving, so I pulled over. Suddenly, several unmarked cars surrounded us; about five officers approached both the driver and passenger sides." The agents smashed the passenger side window, sending fragments of glass into the backseat where her children — ages 14, 12 and 3 — sat, Guerrero said. " The officers reached inside the car through the window they shattered, they unlocked the door, they grabbed my husband and slammed his face on the sidewalk," she said. "Everything happened so fast." Guerro said the officers never identified themselves or presented a warrant. She also said her husband, who is from Mexico, didn't resist. The law clearly states that law enforcement officials cannot open the car door without justification," he said. "What happened to Mrs. Guerrero and her family ... is nothing short of a violation of their well-established constitutional rights under federal law and state law." Mercedes Pineda of East Boston said her family is struggling after her husband was arrested at work and detained for two days at an ICE facility in Burlington. " We are deeply traumatized," Pineda said through an interpreter. "My husband and I can't sleep. I'm afraid to go out. I'm afraid to take my daughter to school. Our 12-year-old daughter who was born in this country has anxiety attacks." Pineda said her husband, who is from El Salvador, had temporary protected status, which gave him the right to live and work here. But the ICE agents who detained him, she said, told him that "only people born here have rights." While the Trump administration has revoked temporary status for people from a number of countries, it extended the status for El Salvador in January. In a third case discussed at the meeting Monday, a woman from Randolph said the immigration officials who arrested her husband wrongly accused him of theft. Caitlyn Burgess, a senior attorney with MacMurray and Associates who was in attendance, said her office has heard a lot of cases like this. "We are seeing a fabrication of allegations made by ICE," she said. "We [are seeing] an erosion of due process." State Sen. Lydia Edwards, whose district includes East Boston, said she worries about how the "narrative" around immigration is changing in this country. "There's a criminalization of immigration in and of itself," she said. The Trump administration “wants to deport en masse. So in order to do that, they need to detain en masse. In order to do that, they need to criminalize en masse. And in order to do that, they create more crimes." At a press conference in Boston on Monday, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said the agency arrested 1,461 immigrants in the state during May, including 790 officials said involved “significant criminality.” The officials who spoke said they consider all people in the country without legal status criminals. Gov. Maura Healey and other state officials havedemanded greater accountability from ICE during arrests, some of which have turned chaotic. In most cases, the agency doesn't release details of why people are being arrested or where they’re being taken. " The federal government's desperation to fill jails with immigrants has torn families apart and inflicted deep emotional trauma," Pressley said. "This has nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with power and control and intimidation." Related:
***ICE GESTAPO ABUSE & LIES!*** — Worcester father of 4-month-old deported after ICE ‘violated his rights,’ attorney says by Adam Bass, MassLive: “The Worcester father of a 4-month-old child was deported to Fortaleza, Brazil, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials signed a deportation authorization document in his name without his permission, according to his attorney.” Community Unites Against Arrest Of High Schooler and More Terrible News For Trumpexcerpt:Community Unites Against Arrest Of High Schooler and More Terrible News For TrumpRepublican throws fake town hall, huge protest against Trump, Warnock refuses to take the bait, and more
As we start another week of Trump’s absurd antics—this time peddling a QAnon claim that former President Joe Biden is a robot clone—I’m happy to share another edition of Great News with you today. Let’s jump in. A huge group of community members showed up for a mile-long march, followed by a protest against Trump’s ICE yesterday in Milford, MA. Some of them had just graduated from high school, still wearing their caps and gowns. They were there to demonstrate, following the arrest of high school student Marcelo Gomes Da Silva. The crowd chanted “hands off our kids,” while holding signs that read “free Marcelo,” and “stop kidnapping now.” Marcelo, who has lived in Massachusetts since he was 5, is an honor student with no criminal record. MA Gov. Maura Healey is already involved, saying: “I’m demanding immediate answers from ICE about the arrest ... where he is and how his due process is being protected.” We all know that Republicans have been told to not host town halls, because the response to them has been absolutely terrible. So now, they're staging so-called “town halls”—that are nothing more than private get-togethers. |
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