Indeed. This was a f*ck up of epic proportions. A cabinet of Frat Boy Amateurs cosplaying Leadership is going to get us killed.
Disease, Poverty or War. Take your pick.
*taps foot* waiting on the rhetorical equivalent of Twister®.
While you can debate that aspect of illegal immigration what is not subject to debate is how it affects housing, especially affordable housing. You have 20 million new and mostly indigent arrivals the past 4 years that need housing and are directly competing against US citizens for the already limited amount of available housing. That increased and insatiable demand only drives housing costs higher for everyone. These shortages will persist.
Yes, that's a different aspect of immigration. I was pointing out the method of trying to argue a point using contradictory perspectives. That practice is not unique to any one side.
While you can debate that aspect of illegal immigration what is not subject to debate is how it affects housing, especially affordable housing. You have 20 million new and mostly indigent arrivals the past 4 years that need housing and are directly competing against US citizens for the already limited amount of available housing. That increased and insatiable demand only drives housing costs higher for everyone. These shortages will persist.
What you also can't argue is your lack of understanding for a complicated issue, and your continued willingness to align your political priorities (immigration and inflation) to generate a foolish response.
Ignoring the 20 Million claim (it's probably closer to 14) and that only a fraction (about 3 million) live in owner-occupied housing. But I'll agree that more people equals more need, so them being has to hurt housing availability and affordability...right?
Oh the irony...
If you deported all of the undocumented people in the US, the housing crisis would be worse. They represent 30%+ of the total domestic construction workforce, and are a net benefit to the housing shortage, helping to reduce it more quickly than if they weren't here. Without them...home prices go UP! If you're really worried about housing with regard to immigration...then you should ask more to come in.
For a guy that seems so worried about the cost of things... you sure support a party that's doing a lot of stupid shit.
like the Schrödinger's cat approach: these immigrants are going to take all the jobs and sit around doing nothing while collecting welfare.
While you can debate that aspect of illegal immigration what is not subject to debate is how it affects housing, especially affordable housing. You have 20 million new and mostly indigent arrivals the past 4 years that need housing and are directly competing against US citizens for the already limited amount of available housing. That increased and insatiable demand only drives housing costs higher for everyone. These shortages will persist.
To protect the private contact information of the U.S. politicians, DER SPIEGEL is not publishing the telephone numbers, email addresses and passwords it found. Furthermore, no tests were performed to determine if the passwords for the email addresses are still active. DER SPIEGEL informed Gabbard, Hegseth and Waltz of its findings.
Wow⦠just when you think they couldnât be any more inept⦠they prove you wrong.
Food banks face reduced supplies due to $1 billion in funding cuts
Emergency food funding paused, impacting food distribution nationwide
Local farmers lose sales as USDA programs are slashed
WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration, according to Reuters interviews with organizations in seven states.
Reuters spoke with food banks in seven states who said cancellation and pauses of the programs meant they expected to offer less produce, meat and other staples in the coming weeks and months, leaving scarcer food for those reliant on free supplies that helped stave off hunger.
One reason is fewer expected shipments from USDA's The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), one of the agency's core nutrition programs that buys food from farmers and sends it to food pantries, some of the organizations said.
Vince Hall, chief government relations officer for Feeding America, the nation's largest food bank network, said the USDA is reviewing the program and had paused half of TEFAP funding - $500 million - sourced from the Commodity Credit Corporation, which generally gives the department a broad discretionary funding pool for various programs.
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Feeding America has spoken with the Trump administration about the pause and urged it to make a quick decision on whether to unfreeze the funds, Hall said. That pause compounds losses from the agency's cancellation of the Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) program, which funded about $500 million annually for food banks, the organizations told Reuters.
Chad Morrison, head of Mountaineer Food Bank in West Virginia, said he saw on a weekly forecast from the state of West Virginia that about 40% of the organization's expected April deliveries of products like cheese, eggs and milk from TEFAP would be canceled. That will reduce the amount of food its network of 450 food pantries and other feeding programs provide, Morrison said.
Food banks are handling unprecedented demand as U.S. hunger rates climb after years of decline. In 2023, 13.5% of Americans struggled at some point to secure enough food, the highest rate in nearly a decade, according to the most recent USDA data. In rural America, the hunger rate is even higher, at 15.4%, the data shows.
To protect the private contact information of the U.S. politicians, DER SPIEGEL is not publishing the telephone numbers, email addresses and passwords it found. Furthermore, no tests were performed to determine if the passwords for the email addresses are still active. DER SPIEGEL informed Gabbard, Hegseth and Waltz of its findings.
Yeah, they'll try to attack it from both angles probably, like the Schrödinger's cat approach: these immigrants are going to take all the jobs and sit around doing nothing while collecting welfare.
Just saw a tweet on X claiming that "Project 2025 calls for using public channels of communication (like Signal) instead of secure government channels, to subvert FOIA requests and conceal damning information from the public. This was no rookie mistake. It's the plan."
Right. When the chat was first created, it had a "disappearing message time" of 1 week. That may be the default, I don't know, but it's right there so everyone can see it and everyone knows that's illegal. Later, Waltz changed it to 4 weeks and again: they all know that it's illegal to conduct business and not keep records of it, but they were reminded that the conversation will disappear (albeit less quickly) and so they're all guilty of that crime. Lock them up.
âForget Signal, just do it over a dating app, you might as well, that would be just as secure as what youâre doing,â the former White House official said."
The appâs security is viewed as fairly strong due to its robust privacy features and minimal data collection, as well as default end-to-end encryption of all messages and voice calls. The app also includes a function that deletes all messages from a conversation within a set time frame, adding an additional layer of data protection. But experts agree that it shouldnât be used by government officials as an alternative to communicating through more secure, sanctioned government communications â which Signal is not.
âItâs so unbelievable,â a former White House official, granted anonymity to discuss The Atlanticâs report candidly, said Monday. âThese guys all have traveling security details to set up secure comms for them, wherever they are.â
The former White House official pointed out that members of Trumpâs Cabinet â including the vice president, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, among others â were likely using personal devices, since in most cases, Signal cannot be downloaded onto official federal devices. This alone creates a host of cybersecurity issues.
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âTheir personal phones are all hackable, and itâs highly likely that foreign intelligence services are sitting on their phones watching them type the shit out,â the former White House official warned.
Jacob Williams, a former hacker at the NSA and vice president of research and development at cybersecurity consulting firm Hunter Strategy, said Signal is not âaccredited for classified data.â
One of the biggest risks of using Signal, according to Williams, is where the data can be stored.
âPeople can link Signal messaging to a desktop application,â he said. âThis means that Signal data is being delivered to potentially multiple desktop and laptop computers where it isnât being stored in a phoneâs secure enclave. That data is then at risk from commodity malware on the system.â
Signal users also arenât able to tell which contacts have accounts linked to their desktop, so the risk canât be adequately evaluated, Williams added.
Just saw a tweet on X claiming that "Project 2025 calls for using public channels of communication (like Signal) instead of secure government channels, to subvert FOIA requests and conceal damning information from the public. This was no rookie mistake. It's the plan."
Right. When the chat was first created, it had a "disappearing message time" of 1 week. That may be the default, I don't know, but it's right there so everyone can see it and everyone knows that's illegal. Later, Waltz changed it to 4 weeks and again: they all know that it's illegal to conduct business and not keep records of it, but they were reminded that the conversation will disappear (albeit less quickly) and so they're all guilty of that crime. Lock them up.
Just saw a tweet on X claiming that "Project 2025 calls for using public channels of communication (like Signal) instead of secure government channels, to subvert FOIA requests and conceal damning information from the public. This was no rookie mistake. It's the plan."
"It's not classified. Nothing to worry about."
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"We're going to prosecute this journalist for disseminating classified information!"
Yeah, they'll try to attack it from both angles probably, like the Schrödinger's cat approach: these immigrants are going to take all the jobs and sit around doing nothing while collecting welfare.
