If the court read the Aliens Act Literally and how intended they will declare that Trump cannot invoke the law in this case.  That being said I have 0 faith in the current supreme court not to interpret the law how they want to instead of what written and intended.  It very clear there are 2 situations this law can be used.  During war and only congress have the power to declare war so that don't apply and during a invasion of the country and they meant the word invasion literary like we being invaded this second by a military/paramilitary force and it need to be repelled now there no time to get congress in session.

Trump is the first person to ever try to use the invasion clause and not in it intended literal meaning.  The other 3 times 1812,WW1,WW2 it was used after congress have declared war.

lmao..... kanye west and DT.  A match in crazy heaven

Americans worry Trump too closely aligned with Russia, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-worry-trump-too-closely-aligned-with-russia-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-03-13/

Greetings VGC!



Whelp it's now official: according to even the most conservative polling aggregator, Trump's job approval rating is back upside-down. The honeymoon's officially over. For anyone who doesn't know what I mean, as I explained here a few weeks ago, newly-elected American presidents tend to enjoy a kind of honeymoon period where they're popular at the start of their new terms because people don't know better yet, and typically the goodwill lasts a good while. Sometimes years. Even Joe Biden polled in net positive territory on average until September of his first year in office. Trump, by contrast, has burned through all of his post-election political capital inside of two months. Only 46 more of those to go!

What's the public liking and not about the new administration just under two months in? The most recent Daily Mail survey is instructive. They did the word bubble thing with people's responses to queries about what Trump's biggest achievements and screw-ups have been so far. The words people most commonly used to describe the new administration's biggest achievements to date were "border" and "immigration", followed by "illegal" and "immigrants", all of which are descriptors of the crackdown on illegal immigration, which one concedes has pretty much completely vanquished the entire phenomenon. Meanwhile, the word people most commonly used to describe the new administration's biggest screw-up to date by a wide margin was "tariff", followed by "Musk", "firing", "federal", (all terms describing the DOGE wrecking operation) and "Ukraine". I don't think I need to explain any of those things in further detail to this highly attentive community. 

To add something you might now already know though, the leaders of all those countries Trump has been accosting lately, ranging from Canada's previously struggling governing Liberal Party to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, are all enjoying a surge of directly consequent rally-around-the-flag patriotic popularity right now. (See the links.) The only party involved who isn't benefiting from a patriotic surge in popularity right now is, ironically, our jingoistic president, who's poll numbers are headed in the opposite direction and are now in fact upside-down. Everyone else is proud of their leaders. Everyone but us. And the specific reason why we're not proud of ours is because our increasingly broad-ranging and extreme trade war against the world is causing American consumers to worry about the direction of the economy and the cost of living. American consumer confidence sank this month to a two-year low specifically over fear of what the economic consequences of our rapidly escalating trade wars might be.

You can feel the culture continuing to shift. Congressional Republicans are avoiding town halls for fear of their constituents. X is the platform getting taken down by cyber-attacks these days. There's a wave of national boycotts happening. Dystopian literature is selling like discounted eggs from Canada. Liberal elites (the only people who ever bought them in the first place) are selling their Teslas now that they're fascist vehicles. There's a MAJOR nationwide protest against everything from DOGE and Trump in general to our slide oligarchy being jointly organized by a wide range of groups slated for April 5th that even I'm actually thinking of participating in. Andrew Tate's rescue from his rape and pimping charges by the Trump administration is proving mildly controversial with conservatives and seriously controversial with the larger public. (I wouldn't be much of a feminist if I neglected to mention it, would I?) In short, the resistance is back and it's starting to almost make me feel like there is hope for the future. Almost.

Why Mahmoud Khalil's arrest (also) matters for freedom of expression in Europe 🧵

In the latest attack on human rights by the Trump administration, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and detained by ICE agents. He has not been charged with any crime. https://t.co/I5LowJ3uwH

— Amnesty EU (@AmnestyEU) March 14, 2025

Mass protests in New York demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release

A video shows the protesters in Times Square, in the centre of New York, massing in support of the detained Columbia University student.

Yesterday, demonstrators flooded the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, in a show of solidarity with Khalil.

“Are we tired?” “NO!”
“Are we scared?” “NO!”
“Are we gonna stay in the streets?” “YES!”

A massive crowd of New Yorkers rallies to demand the release of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil! pic.twitter.com/fWj5JBU3w8

— Party for Socialism and Liberation (@pslnational) March 15, 2025

US strikes on Yemen part of ‘maximum pressure on Iran’

There has been a greater “appetite” to push back against the Houthis by the West, says Farea Al-Muslimi, an analyst at Chatham House.

The Houthis are associated with Iran in Trump’s mind, Al-Muslimi said. “So in a way, it’s a part of his maximum pressure on Iran.”

When Trump in 2020 ordered a drone strike to kill General Qassem Soleimani – head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – that same hour he ordered an attack against Abdul Reza Shala’i, the IRGC commander in Yemen, said al-Muslimi.

“So in his mind, it’s a part of a larger pressure against Iran,” he said, adding that US policy on this is consistent whether a Republican or Democrat is in the White House.

Peace president....

International travelers concerned about President Donald Trump's trade policies and bellicose rhetoric have been canceling trips to the United States, depriving the U.S. tourism industry of billions of dollars at a time when the economy has started to appear wobbly. Canadians are skipping trips to Disney World and music festivals. Europeans are eschewing U.S. national parks, and Chinese travelers are vacationing in Australia instead.

International travel to the United States is expected to slide by 5 percent this year, contributing to a $64 billion shortfall for the travel industry, according to Tourism Economics. The research firm had originally forecast a 9 percent increase in foreign travel, but revised its estimate late last month to reflect "polarizing Trump Administration policies and rhetoric."

"There's been a dramatic shift in our outlook," said Adam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics. "You're looking at a much weaker economic engine than what otherwise would've been, not just because of tariffs, but the rhetoric and condescending tone around it."

The number of overseas visitors to the United States fell 2.4 percent in February from a year earlier, government data shows, with the biggest drops in travelers from Africa (down 9 percent), Asia (7 percent) and Central America (6 percent). Meanwhile, travel from China — a frequent target of the president's ire — is down 11 percent.

Canadians, Other International Visitors Are Scrapping U.S. Travel Plans - The Washington Post