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Raleigh man accused of rape while threatening to deport victim, police say

Scams apparently involving fake ICE agents have left some people concerned and confused across the Triangle.
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When you have masked, anonymous law enforcement, not only will they abuse their authority, others will easily usurp and abuse it for their own ends. Marginalizing and terrorizing immigrant communities will embolden monsters to prey on them.
 
I'm old enough to remember when littering was a mar on our country and a tear was shed. Perhaps it is time for an ad campaign featuring Lady Liberty shedding a tear for democracy.

 
heelinhell said:
I'm old enough to remember when littering was a mar on our country and a tear was shed. Perhaps it is time for an ad campaign featuring Lady Liberty shedding a tear for democracy.

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You know he was Italian, don't you?


ron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) was an American actor of Italian descent who portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films,<a href="Iron Eyes Cody - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a> including the role of Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about pollution in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements from the group Keep America Beautiful.<a href="Iron Eyes Cody - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a>
 

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon​

The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.​


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Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon

The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.
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“… The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. To enable the removal of four hydroelectric dams considered especially harmful to salmon, the government promised to invest billions of dollars in alternative energy sources to be created by the tribes.

It was a remarkable step following repeated failures by the government to uphold the tribal fishing rights it swore in treaties to preserve.

The agreement is now just another of those broken promises.

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday pulling the federal government out of the deal. Trump’s decision halted a government-wide initiative to restore abundant salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake rivers and signaled an end to the government’s willingness to consider removing dams that blocked their free flow.

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Key provisions were already languishing under Biden. After Trump won the presidency, his administration spiked most of the studies called for in the agreement, held up millions of dollars in funding and cut most of the staff working to implement salmon recovery. Biden’s promise to seriously consider the removal of dams gained little traction before it was replaced by what Trump’s energy secretary, Chris Wright, called “passionate support” for keeping them in place.

The chair of the White House task force to implement the agreement quit in April because of what he saw as Trump’s efforts to eliminate nearly everything he was working on.…”
 
nycfan said:

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon​

The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.​


www.propublica.org

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon

The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.
www.propublica.org www.propublica.org

“… The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. To enable the removal of four hydroelectric dams considered especially harmful to salmon, the government promised to invest billions of dollars in alternative energy sources to be created by the tribes.

It was a remarkable step following repeated failures by the government to uphold the tribal fishing rights it swore in treaties to preserve.

The agreement is now just another of those broken promises.

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday pulling the federal government out of the deal. Trump’s decision halted a government-wide initiative to restore abundant salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake rivers and signaled an end to the government’s willingness to consider removing dams that blocked their free flow.

…
Key provisions were already languishing under Biden. After Trump won the presidency, his administration spiked most of the studies called for in the agreement, held up millions of dollars in funding and cut most of the staff working to implement salmon recovery. Biden’s promise to seriously consider the removal of dams gained little traction before it was replaced by what Trump’s energy secretary, Chris Wright, called “passionate support” for keeping them in place.

The chair of the White House task force to implement the agreement quit in April because of what he saw as Trump’s efforts to eliminate nearly everything he was working on.…”
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“… Trump signed an executive order in April to “restore American seafood competitiveness” but in revoking the Columbia River agreement has canceled millions of dollars to support the programs that seed the ocean with fish to catch. He signed a separate executive order on his first day in office to “unleash American energy dominance” but has now reversed a commitment, made under the Biden salmon deal, to build new sources of domestic energy. This week’s action has sent federal agencies back to court, where judges have repeatedly shackled power production at hydroelectric dams because of its impact on the endangered fish.…”
 
finesse said:
You know he was Italian, don't you?


ron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) was an American actor of Italian descent who portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films,<a href="Iron Eyes Cody - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a> including the role of Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about pollution in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements from the group Keep America Beautiful.<a href="Iron Eyes Cody - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a>
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Thanks @finesse that was going to be my exact response. 😁

But I do understand the point that heelinhell was making. We have really made some mistakes as a country.
 
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"Real" Americans = white Trumpers. In a healthy democracy you don't view your opponents as evil "unreal" Americans who need to be totally destroyed, you see them as fellow citizens who just happen to hold different opinions on various issues from your own. Claiming that you're the only "Real" Americans makes it so much easier to discount the views of anyone who disagrees with you and to justify taking radical and drastic actions to "save" the country.

His tweets also make it perfectly clear that their goal is to occupy Democratic-voting cities and thus try to destroy the Democratic party by intimidating or keeping Democrats in those cities from voting. The more chaos they can cause in blue-voting areas, the less likely they'll suffer heavy losses in next year's elections.
 
DiehardHeelFan said:
This reads like a 4th grader wrote it 😐
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One of the key rules in composition is to write at a level the intended audience will understand. I read my older sister's PhD dissertation on writings by Midieval Carthusian Monks. I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. If it reads like a 4th grader wrote it, then that reflects what the writer thought of the intellectual capacity of the intended audience.
 
05C40 said:
One of the key rules in composition is to write at a level the intended audience will understand. I read my older sister's PhD dissertation on writings by Midieval Carthusian Monks. I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. If it reads like a 4th grader wrote it, then that reflects what the writer thought of the intellectual capacity of the intended audience.
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Thing of it is, he’s not even reaching a consistent 4th grade level. He’s not modeling good spelling, punctuation, capitalization, or basic grammar and vocabulary.

I’m probably taking this more to heart than I should. But given that a large part of my professional life has been dedicated to breaking down key scientific/medical concepts and government policies into bite-sized pieces for public consumption, Trump’s messages always piss me off.

There’s a difference between (a) speaking/posting in “plain language” for a lay audience, and (b) speaking/posting like an actual 4th grader who gets held back a year and is the class bully.

I don’t think Trump is intelligent or savvy enough to purposefully and consciously take either approach.

Rather, I think he really has the psychological and intellectual capacity of a 4th grade bully.
 
I remember reading in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s that newspapers, including the “paper of record,” The New York Times, and, the Washington Post, were written so that 8th graders could read them.

In 1968, our parents were in Prague when the Soviets invaded to end the Prague Spring.

Our grandparents chose to keep silent the info that our parents were in Prague when the Soviets invaded; except, we’d already known our parents were headed to Prague.

The NY Times and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle were delivered each day. So, newspapers were readily available.

Grandad started pulling the TV out of the closet (as a rule, my grandparents didn’t watch TV - unless it was a major news event). We knew something was up when the TV was brought out of the closet.

Anyway, my brother and I were devouring news because our parents were in a bad place. My brother was 2 grades ahead of me. I don’t know if he was reading and I was following along. He’s never been a big reader.

But, we were at my grandparents for 4-5 weeks. The last 3-4 weeks, I was devouring the local papers - especially the Prague news.

In 1968, I entered 1st grade at Estes Hills Elementary. My older brother entered 3rd grade.

Along with 6 other classmates (not grade mates, classmates), the teacher and librarian thought we read at the 7th-8th grade level……on Day One of 1st grade - none of us were geniuses - we grew up in educated households that valued the 3R’s and we had older siblings, and our parents and grandparents and aunts/uncles read to us.

To us, reading the newspaper in 1st or 2nd grade was no big deal.

To Trump, who doesn’t read (that’s not saying he can’t read), reading The NY Times or WAPO or WSJ at any age is unheard of.

One could write the paper for a kindergarten level and Trump wouldn’t read it.

Write it at the WSJ or WAPO level and Trump likely couldn’t understand it.
 
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