Isn't that the same show where Morgan Wallen walked off the set and then ran back to his private jet back to "God's country"?

I've hated country music since 2003 when they went after the Dixie Chicks for criticizing the Iraq war. It turned into bootlicker pop really quickly after that.

US judge orders student Mahmoud Khalil can continue to fight legality of arrest from New Jersey

The Columbia University student and US green card holder is being held in Louisiana. US authorities had been trying to move his case to that US state, which has the most conservative appeals court in the country.

The court in the state of New Jersey, meanwhile, is evenly split between judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.

US District Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled that Khalil’s case, which has become a symbol of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, will be heard by the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Jersey.

Khalil, a leader in the pro-Palestinian campus protest movement at Columbia, was arrested on March 8 at his apartment building in New York City.

Khalil held by US immigration but technically not a prisoner

It’s notable that Mahmoud Khalil has not been charged with any crime. You might wonder how can he be arrested and detained if that is the case. In immigration court he’s technically not a prisoner but a detainee, kept here for administrative reasons.

And even though that means some people can remain here for years, suffering from the abuses they allege, that means the US authorities can continue to hold them.

Germany is following the US. Although how is this going to work. Deport a US citizen to the US who won't let in protesters...

Germany seeking to deport four foreign residents over Gaza protests: Report

German authorities have issued deportation orders for four foreign nationals for taking part in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, even though they have not been convicted of any crimes, according to a report by The Intercept.

“What we’re seeing here is straight out of the far right’s playbook,” said Alexander Gorski, a lawyer representing two of the affected protesters. “You can see it in the US and Germany, too: political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters."

The authorities’ allegations against Cooper Longbottom of the United States, Kasia Wlaszczyk of Poland, and Shane O’Brien and Roberta Murray of the Republic of Ireland reportedly stem from their participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including an occupation of Berlin’s Free University building in late 2024.

According to the report, the deportation orders, issued under German migration law, were driven by “political pressure” and came despite internal objections from the head of Berlin’s state immigration agency.

Three of the people slated for deportation are European Union citizens who are normally entitled to freedom of movement within the bloc.

Wisconsin did it!

Suck it, Elon.

That said, in this administration it's not over until the electee is physically seated in their elected office. Literally nothing is beneath these crooks at this point.

So it is looking like a +15 percentage-point shift towards Democrats from November, given all of the special elections so far this year. That'd put a hypothetical 2026 HoR at about 260D 175R (excluding independents for convenience.) A super-majority would be 290D. Depending on when it becomes clear that we're destined for a Great Recession 2.0 at the least, and maybe even a depression-like economy, 290D could increasingly become a possibility (albeit an unlikely one.) 

A shift like this would also put states like Ohio and North Carolina as potential pickups for the senate. J.D Vance (2022) only won by +5%, and Tillis (2020) by +1.8% in much tougher years for Democrats than a hypothetical +15 (or more) shifted 2026. 

Heck, Iowa might even be competitive (Joni Ernst won by +6.59% in 2020.)

And of course Maine is likely to be competitive regardless, Susan Collins won by +8.59% (2020) but that was pre-Dobbs and again, 2020 was a very close election. She'll have to be more of a maverick in her actions (rather than just words) if she wants to keep this seat in that sort of environment. 

If things stay as they are I think a 260D+ HoR, and tied or 51D Senate are good possibilities in 2026. 

Edit: Just for context the HoR vote was +2.8% R in 2024. With a 15% shift, we'd expect something like + 12.2% D in 2026. The last big blow-out election was 2008, during the Great Recession reaction, with Democrats winning 257 HoR seats and +10.6% more votes than Republicans. 

Thank God for Wisconsin not being bought off by Apartheid Wade.

It’s too bad Florida didn’t come through. But even there, Randy Fine won by 8 points in a district Trump won by 30 points.

Good to see Elon Musk suffer yet another L. He won't notice the money lost but it will definitely hurt his fragile ego, I think Elon is even more disliked than both JD and Trump at this stage, I don't even believe most Republicans when they say they like him, I think they just pretend to like him because he is on their side for now, but he's a blatant Nazi, a complete weirdo and desperate loser, there is nothing appealing about him aside from his money, dude gets ratioed on his own damn platform by brand accounts.

But the Trump admin has already tried a bunch of illegal shit lately so I'd expect them to start trying illegal shit in elections come the midterms so even though the pendulum is swinging back to Democrats, I would stay cautious, Elon will (if he is smart) simply try to buy off elections privately instead of jumping around like a fucking moron and openly showing his support for certain candidates, but then again, this loser is so starved for attention that I don't know if it's physically possible for him to do that.

He definitely will come up with some weird idea to buy into the votes of people. Maybe everyone who will take a picture of himself proving to vote for Republicans will get a 100 Dollar McDonald's voucher or something like that..damn now everyone knows how to win elections^^

U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The messages delivered by Washington in recent weeks come as the EU takes steps to boost Europe's weapons industry, while potentially limiting purchases of certain types of U.S. arms.

According to two of the sources, Rubio said any exclusion of U.S. companies from European tenders would be seen negatively by Washington, which those two sources interpreted as a reference to the proposed EU rules. One northern European diplomat, who was not part of the Baltic meeting, said they had also been recently told by U.S. officials that any exclusion from EU weapons procurements would be seen as inappropriate.

US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally | Reuters

America: "EUROPE IS A FREELOADER. WE'RE NOT GOING TO HELP THEM ANYMORE. FUCK EUROPE. THE UNGRATEFUL BASTARDS. WHAT HAVE THEY EVER DONE FOR US? WE'RE CUTTING OFF AID TO UKRAINE (A EUROPEAN COUNTRY) BECAUSE THEIR LEADER DIDN'T WEAR A SUIT. WE'RE GOING TO THREATEN DENMARK AND GREENLAND WITH MILITARY FORCE. GET YOUR OWN MILITARY"

Europe: Alright. We'll invest even more into our own militaries then like America does, thus investing more into NATO.

America: "NOOOOOO. YOU CAN'T DO THAT. HOW DARE YOU DO THAT. YOU MUST BUY AMERICAN. EUROPE IS SO MEAN! STOP!"

"A democratic senator has broken a record with a 25-hour long anti-Trump speech:

no one has been able to summarize Trump's mistakes so succinctly"

True...