US US politics 2025

[Tillimint]

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China

As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,” an expert said.

www.propublica.org

ProPublica is out here doing god's work! I've been a fan of them for a long time, really excellent journalism!

 

[Second Summer]

I've seen some news stories and social media posts about the conditions at the ICE facilities. They're not good. People have died, and they're being denied basic necessities.

https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2025/03/27/miami-ice-facility-overcrowding-poor-conditions

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302968939.html

 

[Andy_T]

For a change, a musical interlude.

2.2K views · 87 reactions | Good luck getting this out of your head. | By Waking Up America - Facts Matter Edition | Facebook

Good luck getting this out of your head.

www.facebook.com

 

[Andy_T]

Even worse, they are just rounding up immigrants with tattoos…

‘He is not a gang member’: outrage as US deports makeup artist to El Salvador prison for crown tattoos

Andry José Hernández Romero sent to an El Salvador prison after claim ‘crown’ tattoos proved he was a gang member

www.theguardian.com

'Scandal of historic proportions': Outrage as baker deported over autism awareness tattoo

As President Donald Trump dukes it out with federal courts over the power to deport people he suspects of being affiliated with transnational criminal gangs, new details are coming to light about just what the Trump administration is using as evidence to identify potential gang members.And...

www.rawstory.com

"NEW: @MotherJones reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism," noted Reichlin-Melnick. "An ICE agent told Neri Alvarado 'We're finding and questioning everyone who has tattoos,' and that's why he was arrested. Stunningly, after Neri explained his autism tattoos' meanings, THE ICE AGENT SAID HE WAS CLEAN. And yet he stayed detained — then got sent to El Salvador!"

‘Oopsie … Too Late’

Today on TAP: The several cases in which Trump is defying court orders are coming to a head. We will soon learn whether the rule of law still applies in America—or whether we are too late.

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