Snapshot · Pod Save America
When Trump took office, more than one million people were living in the US with Temporary Protected Status from countries including Haiti, Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
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The Haitian and Syrian cases are only the beginning. The Trump administration has moved to end TPS for nationals from Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. When Trump took office, over a million people held TPS. Now, in light of a ruling that guts judicial review of these decisions and excuses presidential racism, every one of those rescissions becomes nearly unreviewable [1] — Leah Litman "Largest delegalization in US history: Leah Litman described the potential mass rescission of TPS across multiple nationalities as the large…" 11:35 . Most chillingly, the people being targeted are those who followed the rules — they submitted to vetting, they do check-ins with immigration officers. The government knows exactly who they are and where they live. Justice Kagan's dissent says it plainly: the court is inviting the administration to put these people on the next plane.
The Supreme Court held that migrants physically stopped outside the US border haven't 'arrived' and can't claim asylum. The perverse result: those who sneak in illegally have more rights than those who present themselves lawfully at the door.
A total of 8 states have filed lawsuits against social media platforms, including an ongoing case in Tennessee, using product liability and public nuisance theories to seek accountability.
France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
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