Well, off we go

essentialsaltes · Jun 15, 2025

After ICE Detains Wife Of Marine Vet, Lawyer Says 'There Needs To Be Exceptions'

I never thought the deporting people's wives party would deport MY wife.

[The lawyer] went on to criticize President Donald Trump’s blanket approach to immigration enforcement, noting that a policy of mass arrests means people get punished when trying to go through the process legally.

“Trump, let’s face it, he was elected to do what he’s doing,” Holliday told the outlet. “But, there needs to be exceptions made.”

essentialsaltes · Jul 6, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
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‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status

Cynthia Olivera, a 45-year-old mother of three US-born children, thus joined a growing list of examples contradicting the Trump administration’s claims that the immigration crackdown it has spearheaded since the president’s return to the Oval Office in January has prioritized targeting dangerous criminals.

In 2024, toward the end of his presidency, Joe Biden’s administration granted her a permit allowing her to work legally in the US. She had also been navigating the process to obtain legal permanent US residency – colloquially referred to as a green card – for years.

They learned she would in fact be affected by her immigration status when she went for a green card interview in Chatsworth, California, on 13 June. She was detained there by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents, according to a change.org petition pleading for compassion on behalf of Cynthia.

Olivera has since been transferred to an Ice detention center in El Paso, Texas, to await being deported.

[Sending the Canadian to El Paso? Well, at least it's not South Sudan (yet).]

As she fought back tears, Olivera said to KGTV: “The only crime I committed is to love this country and to work hard and to provide for my kids.”

[Well, that and illegally reentering the country 25 years ago after being deported the first time.]

[Her husband] told KGTV that Trump’s promises to deport criminals en masse appealed to both him and Cynthia.

Desk trauma · Jul 6, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status
Cynthia Olivera, a 45-year-old mother of three US-born children, thus joined a growing list of examples contradicting the Trump administration’s claims that the immigration crackdown it has spearheaded since the president’s return to the Oval Office in January has prioritized targeting dangerous criminals.

In 2024, toward the end of his presidency, Joe Biden’s administration granted her a permit allowing her to work legally in the US. She had also been navigating the process to obtain legal permanent US residency – colloquially referred to as a green card – for years.

They learned she would in fact be affected by her immigration status when she went for a green card interview in Chatsworth, California, on 13 June. She was detained there by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents, according to a change.org petition pleading for compassion on behalf of Cynthia.

Olivera has since been transferred to an Ice detention center in El Paso, Texas, to await being deported.

[Sending the Canadian to El Paso? Well, at least it's not South Sudan (yet).]

As she fought back tears, Olivera said to KGTV: “The only crime I committed is to love this country and to work hard and to provide for my kids.”

[Well, that and illegally reentering the country 25 years ago after being deported the first time.]

[Her husband] told KGTV that Trump’s promises to deport criminals en masse appealed to both him and Cynthia.

Why did the thing we voted for happen?

essentialsaltes · Jul 29, 2025

Reuters: This construction project was on time and on budget. Then came ICE.

Rawstory version

In an interview with Reuters published Monday, construction site superintendent Robby Robertson expressed frustration at the way the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policies have impacted his business.

He said that trouble at his site began in late May, shortly after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on a construction site in Tallahassee, Florida, which he said scared off nearly his entire workforce for several days afterward. Even though nearly two months have passed since then, he said a little more than half of his workforce has come back.

[Even legal Hispanic ones.] "They are scared they look the part," Robertson explained.

"I'm a Trump supporter," Robertson told Reuters. "But I just don't think the raids are the answer."

"The contractor world is full of Republicans," explained [construction company CEO] Harrison in an interview with Reuters. "I'm not anti-ICE. We're supportive of what the president is trying to do. But the reality of it is our industry has to have the Hispanic immigrant-based workers in it."

essentialsaltes · Aug 19, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
Millions at risk of losing health insurance subsidies after Trump's victory
Subsidies to buy insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplaces are set to expire at the end of 2025. If they're not extended, coverage could become unaffordable for many. Since the 2021 subsidies went into effect, enrollment in ACA plans with reduced payments doubled, particularly in Southern red states,

[Op-Ed] 'Unacceptable': Arkansas gov whines about cost increases fueled by GOP policies

Rates for individual plans are set to rise by an average of 36% next year, according to proposed 2026 rate filings by BlueCross and Centene, the two companies that sell policies on the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace.

Last week, Gov. Sarah Sanders said the companies’ proposed rate hikes are “unacceptable” and called on the commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department to reject them.

If she truly cared about preventing rate increases for Arkansans, she’d call on Congress to keep the current ACA subsidies in place, or she’d find money elsewhere.

From the beginning ... there was a problem with the ACA marketplace: The subsidies were too stingy. Some people signed up, but many others still found individual plans to be prohibitively expensive even with the subsidy. So while Medicaid expansion was very successful in getting more Americans covered, the marketplace was less so — until the COVID pandemic created an opportunity.

President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan made the ACA subsidies larger for everyone and also removed a cap on the upper end of the income sliding scale. [And Arkansan participation ballooned from 64K to 166K.]

The enhanced ACA subsidies are set to expire at the end of 2025, though, and Republicans have shown no interest in extending them.

essentialsaltes · Aug 25, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
[Op-Ed] 'Unacceptable': Arkansas gov whines about cost increases fueled by GOP policies
Rates for individual plans are set to rise by an average of 36% next year, according to proposed 2026 rate filings by BlueCross and Centene, the two companies that sell policies on the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace.

The enhanced ACA subsidies are set to expire at the end of 2025, though, and Republicans have shown no interest in extending them.

[Florida] has the highest number of Obamacare enrollees in the country, and millions of low- and middle-income residents have used the subsidies to afford health coverage since their creation in 2021. Florida, an epicenter of the MAGA movement, also has a disproportionately large number of small business owners and employees who are heavily dependent on the tax credits.

Not a single Republican voted in favor of creating the subsidies when then-President Joe Biden pushed them through, but the reliance of Sunshine State residents on them could give GOP representatives and senators cause to change their minds. Insurers, hospitals and business groups are mobilizing to push them on the issue. Polls show voters are likely to react poorly to skyrocketing insurance premiums, especially when combined with cuts to Medicaid and the ACA that Republicans enacted this summer.

Insurers are already submitting rate filings for 2026 to state regulators, and their median national proposed rate increase is an 11-percentage-point jump over last year, as some insurers factor in the expiration of the subsidies, according to a KFF analysis.

However, some beneficiaries will be hit much harder than others, depending on the size of the subsidy they receive. For instance, a low-income enrollee making 166 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $26,000, annually, ... would see a spike of 573 percent to their premiums for a silver tier plan

KFF gave an example of a 45-year-old making 432 percent of the poverty level who would see a premium increase of $941 a month.

About 88 percent of small business owners and self-employed and part-time workers in Florida depend upon ACA premium tax credits, according to Florida Blue, the largest Obamacare insurer in the state. Last year, Floridians received about $2.1 billion in enhanced subsidies, according to KFF.

eclipsenow · Aug 26, 2025

rambot said:
Musk asks voters to brace for 'hardship' from spending cuts in potential Trump Cabinet role

i wonder how many Leopards ate my face stories and how quickly we will be hearing them.

The richest country ever with an oligarchy of the richest people ever has to "live within its means"? That's a LOT of means. Maybe people don't have to suffer.

Or nah. Maybe they really need to have those values made very clear.

Come on - stop whining - what's so unfair?
What a great country when the top ONE GUY (Musk) can own more than the bottom 165 million people? (Bottom half!)
Surely that's fair!

Then put him in charge of cutting services that might give the average citizen a little bit of help or hope. That's a GREAT look!

Or - with Trump's BBB - why not rejoice that his billionaire mates are all getting 10 to 100 million tax cuts while the bottom 16 million Americans are thrown off Medicaid? It's only an extra 50,000 deaths a year - what's to worry about? I mean - if we did things fairly - the Oligarchs might not be able to have their third chalet in the Swiss alps - and we can't have them suffering like that can we?

ozso · Aug 26, 2025

eclipsenow said:
Come on - stop whining - what's so unfair?
What a great country when the top ONE GUY (Musk) can own more than the bottom 165 million people? (Bottom half!)
Surely that's fair!
Then put him in charge of cutting services that might give the average citizen a little bit of help or hope. That's a GREAT look!

Or - with Trump's BBB - why not rejoice that his billionaire mates are all getting 10 to 100 million tax cuts while the bottom 16 million Americans are thrown off Medicaid? It's only an extra 50,000 deaths a year - what's to worry about? I mean - if we did things fairly - the Oligarchs might not be able to have their third chalet in the Swiss alps - and we can't have them suffering like that can we?

Some people work hard at becoming successful. Other people don't.

Nithavela · Aug 26, 2025

ozso said:
Some people work hard at becoming successful. Other people don't.

What's the saying? "If hard work made you rich, the donkey would own the farm."

But good job boiling things down to the good old conservative mainstay of treating economic hardship as a personality problem.

ozso · Aug 26, 2025

Nithavela said:
What's the saying? "If hard work made you rich, the donkey would own the farm."

But good job boiling things down to the good old conservative mainstay of treating economic hardship as a personality problem.

It's working hard at becoming successful.

And the liberal mainstay is becoming economically successful is evil and everyone who's poor is a victim who's entitled to money made by those who work hard at being successful. I say this as a poor person. Elon and whoever else is in that financial bracket don't owe me a single cent. The rich CEO I work for owes me the wages I agreed to work for, and that's it. I don't care if he has a hundred billion dollars. That's his money, not mine. I do know most rich people contribute bucket loads of money to charity. The left never gives credit for that though. It doesn't matter if so-in-so donated a hundred million dollars to a cancer research hospital.

Nithavela · Aug 26, 2025

ozso said:
It's working hard at becoming successful.

And the liberal mainstay is becoming economically successful is evil and everyone who's poor is a victim who's entitled to money made by those who work hard at being successful. I say this as a poor person. Elon and whoever else is in that financial bracket don't owe me a single cent. The rich CEO I work for owes me the wages I agreed to work for, and that's it. I don't care if he has a hundred billion dollars. That's his money, not mine. I do know most rich people contribute bucket loads of money to charity. The left never gives credit for that though. It doesn't matter if so-in-so donated a hundred million dollars to a cancer research hospital.

People on the left give plenty of credit to rich people who give to charity, like Bill Gates. Conversely, he gets reviled by many people on the right.

Would you not prefer if a billionair paid taxes on that money, instead of shifting things around until he no longer pays any taxes?

ozso · Aug 26, 2025

Nithavela said:
People on the left give plenty of credit to rich people who give to charity, like Bill Gates. Conversely, he gets reviled by many people on the right.

Not for being successful.

Nithavela said:
Would you not prefer if a billionair paid taxes on that money, instead of shifting things around until he no longer pays any takes?

AI Overview says:
As of the 2022 tax year, the top 1% of income earners paid 40.4% of all federal individual income taxes. This share of the tax burden is nearly double their share of total income, which was 22.4% in the same year.

Nithavela · Aug 26, 2025

ozso said:
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ozso · Aug 26, 2025

Nithavela said:
AI Overview says:

There are several brands of edible glue used in cooking.

Nithavela · Aug 26, 2025

ozso said:
There are several brands of edible glue used in cooking.

I'll argue with an AI overview every time you eat an eighth of a cup of non-toxic glue.

ozso · Aug 26, 2025

Nithavela said:
I'll argue with an AI overview every time you eat an eighth of a cup of non-toxic glue.

I probably already have many times. Especially when it comes to bakery items.

The definition of glue is: an adhesive substance used for sticking objects or materials together.

The keyword is NON-TOXIC.

Technically the white stuff in Oreo sandwich cookies is glue.

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Sorry, I'm sure you thought you had a really good gotcha, but you don't.

eclipsenow · Aug 27, 2025

ozso said:
Some people work hard at becoming successful. Other people don't.

Some President's work hard at skewing the entire system so that 16 million EXTRA Americans are thrown off healthcare (resulting in an extra 50,000 deaths a year) while giving enormous tax cuts to the uber-rich. Other President's don't.

A new Republican-backed bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” could deliver massive tax breaks to the 10 wealthiest Americans — to the tune of $3.1 trillion over the next decade — according to CNN and estimates from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

India Times.

Why do the 10 wealthiest multi-billionaires need an extra $300 million in tax breaks across this decade ($30 million a year for each of the 10 billionaires * 10 years). Single mums have to work 2 jobs to pay rent, let alone spend time just being with and trying to encourage the next generation of American workers?

I'm not an 'equality of outcome' Communist. I'm Ordo-Liberal / Social Liberal.
The wealth disparity in society is bad for the poor, bad for society, and corrupts the rich.
They truly seem to go a bit mad about it all.

America is basically becoming an Oligarchy, even to the point of almost being Feudal.

ozso · Aug 27, 2025

eclipsenow said:
Some President's work hard at skewing the entire system so that 16 million EXTRA Americans are thrown off healthcare (resulting in an extra 50,000 deaths a year) while giving enormous tax cuts to the uber-rich. Other President's don't.

You know who threw me off healthcare for years? Obama. Obamacare destroyed a wonderful health plan I had for 18 years. And I'm sure many others in that working class industry of over one million suffered as well.

Now you know the part CNN didn't tell you about.

A2SG · Aug 27, 2025

ozso said:
You know who threw me off healthcare for years? Obama. Obamacare destroyed a wonderful health plan I had for 18 years. And I'm sure many others in that working class industry of over one million suffered as well.

Now you know the part CNN didn't tell you about.

Sounds like a good reason to get rid of the entire for-profit health insurance industry, and switch to a single payer system. This way, you wouldn't be at the mercy of whatever changes your private, for profit health insurance company chooses to make to whatever plan your employer chooses to offer you.

I agree with many of the criticisms of the Heritage Foundation created ACA. It's a conservative, market based plan that only bolsters the private for profit health insurance industry. I'll grant you that it's better than nothing, but not by a lot.

-- A2SG, but I hope you realize that President Obama personally didn't make any changes to your company's chosen health insurance plan....

eclipsenow · Aug 27, 2025

ozso said:
You know who threw me off healthcare for years? Obama. Obamacare destroyed a wonderful health plan I had for 18 years. And I'm sure many others in that working class industry of over one million suffered as well.

Now you know the part CNN didn't tell you about.

I didn't know that - thank you for explaining that to me.
So you like the fact that Trump made this WORSE for 16 million extra Americans?

Well, off we go

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