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I am at a production of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. Nothing like seeing the prototype for a Trump voter in the Mr. Botard character formulated decades ago. I mean the whole thing is anti-fascist, so I guess I should say nothing like seeing the average trump voter doing a pale imitation of the past.
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All the practice is paying off.
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It’s really prettty impressive. Trump plays his driver like a fiddle.
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Trump administration revoking all visas held by South Sudanese, Rubio says
Trump administration revoking all visas held by South Sudanese, Rubio says
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders for failing to accept repatriated citizens.
www.usatoday.com
“Secretary of State Marco Rubiosaid Saturday the U.S. is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders, accusing the country's transitional government of refusing to accept its repatriated citizens deported by the Trump administration.
It marks the first time the Trump administration has singled out passport holders of an individual country as President Donald Trump warns nations to accept migrants deported from the U.S.
… The Biden administration granted South Sudanese nationals Temporary Protected Status in 2023, with the designation set to expire May 3.
About 155 South Sudanese are in the U.S. under the TPS program. …”
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Trump Administration Revokes Visas of South Sudanese in Clash Over Deportees
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was making the move because the transitional government of South Sudan had refused to accept its citizens in a timely manner.
“… Mr. Rubio said on March 27 that he had revoked perhaps 300 or more visas and was signing papers daily to deport more people.
The most prominent foreign citizen to have had his visa revoked was perhaps Óscar Arias Sánchez, the former president of Costa Rica and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr. Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. government had informed him that the visa in his passport had been suspended, weeks after he wrote on social media that Mr. Trump was behaving as if he were “a Roman emperor.” …”
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Duke’s Maluach is from South Sudan. Imagine if that storyline had impacted the national championship game.Trump administration revoking all visas held by South Sudanese, Rubio says
Trump administration revoking all visas held by South Sudanese, Rubio says
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders for failing to accept repatriated citizens.
“Secretary of State Marco Rubiosaid Saturday the U.S. is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders, accusing the country's transitional government of refusing to accept its repatriated citizens deported by the Trump administration.
It marks the first time the Trump administration has singled out passport holders of an individual country as President Donald Trump warns nations to accept migrants deported from the U.S.
… The Biden administration granted South Sudanese nationals Temporary Protected Status in 2023, with the designation set to expire May 3.
About 155 South Sudanese are in the U.S. under the TPS program. …”
Obviously I hope it doesn’t impact him (or the other South Sudanese) regardless.
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I had not thought of that connection.
In any event, South Sudan has a transitional government for the usual bad reasons — and are on the edge of falling back into civil war. It was unlikely this Administration would have extended their protected status when it expires in May regardless, but canceling the visas of 150 people because their barely competent government won’t accept deportees is so unnecessary.
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Why US Secretary of State visa edict may cause problems for Duke basketball freshman
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/duke/article303588896.html#storylink=cpy
“…While Khaman Maluach was helping Duke’s basketball team in a fierce matchup against Houston in the Final Four on Saturday night, his immigration status became uncertain due to a state department decree from Washington.
…Saturday could also have been Maluach’s final game in a Duke uniform anyway. After the Blue Devils’ loss Saturday, each of the team’s three elite freshmen — Maluach, Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel — could enter the 2025 NBA Draft.
After the game, Maluach did not appear publicly in the locker room during the team’s media availability.
Duke athletics director Nina King, who watched Houston defeat Duke at the Final Four at the Alamodome, told The News & Observer that the university is “looking into” the situation and had no further immediate comment. …”
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Nothing funnier than Stephen Miller causing problems for dook.Why US Secretary of State visa edict may cause problems for Duke basketball freshman
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/duke/article303588896.html#storylink=cpy
“…While Khaman Maluach was helping Duke’s basketball team in a fierce matchup against Houston in the Final Four on Saturday night, his immigration status became uncertain due to a state department decree from Washington.
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Saturday could also have been Maluach’s final game in a Duke uniform anyway. After the Blue Devils’ loss Saturday, each of the team’s three elite freshmen — Maluach, Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel — could enter the 2025 NBA Draft. After the game, Maluach did not appear publicly in the locker room during the team’s media availability. Duke athletics director Nina King, who watched Houston defeat Duke at the Final Four at the Alamodome, told The News & Observer that the university is “looking into” the situation and had no further immediate comment. …”
Y'all unleashed him on all of us. Enjoy.
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I feel for the young man.
Houston’s comeback win probably keeps this from becoming a bigger issue:
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He may need to go pro in Europe just to avoid deportation ahead of the NBA draft. It's not like Stephen Miller cares about basketball.
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“Marine Le Pen convened a meeting of her party’s European Parliament lawmakers in June 2014 to discuss a vital matter: how to spend the 6.5 million euros the European Union had earmarked for them to hire assistants.
The sum was significant, more than double the entire payroll of Le Pen’s far-right party, then known as the National Front. Le Pen, according to court documents, asked the lawmakers to sign off on a system that allowed the Le Pen family to hand out contracts and cut paychecks to members of her inner circle and other party officials.
“What Marine is asking us is equivalent to signing for fictitious jobs,” one of the lawmakers, Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, wrote in an email at the time to the party’s then-treasurer, Wallerand de Saint-Just. “And it is the lawmaker who is criminally responsible for his or her own money, even if the party is the beneficiary of it.”
De Saint-Just, a trained lawyer who had groomed Le Pen to lead the party, responded: “I believe that Marine knows all this.”
Le Pen’s instructions to lawmakers were at the center of an embezzlement trial that ended Monday with judges banning one of France’s most prominent politicians from future elections, including the next presidential race. …”
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“Marine Le Pen convened a meeting of her party’s European Parliament lawmakers in June 2014 to discuss a vital matter: how to spend the 6.5 million euros the European Union had earmarked for them to hire assistants.
The sum was significant, more than double the entire payroll of Le Pen’s far-right party, then known as the National Front. Le Pen, according to court documents, asked the lawmakers to sign off on a system that allowed the Le Pen family to hand out contracts and cut paychecks to members of her inner circle and other party officials.
“What Marine is asking us is equivalent to signing for fictitious jobs,” one of the lawmakers, Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, wrote in an email at the time to the party’s then-treasurer, Wallerand de Saint-Just. “And it is the lawmaker who is criminally responsible for his or her own money, even if the party is the beneficiary of it.”
De Saint-Just, a trained lawyer who had groomed Le Pen to lead the party, responded: “I believe that Marine knows all this.”
Le Pen’s instructions to lawmakers were at the center of an embezzlement trial that ended Monday with judges banning one of France’s most prominent politicians from future elections, including the next presidential race. …”