Trump's Second Term

[Blue Mountain]

US Embassy in Dakar has refused to issue entry visa to six members of the Senegalese Football Federation.

May 7: The United States embassy in Dakar has refused entry visas to six members of the Senegalese Football Federation, blocking their travel for organizational duties linked to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

US Embassy in Dakar Denies Visas to Senegalese FA Officials Ahead of 2026 World Cup

The United States Embassy in Dakar has refused entry visas to six members of the Senegalese Football Federation, blocking their travel

www.moroccoworldnews.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

Federal officers and agents might arrest people at the FIFA World Cup

May 13: Federal officers and agents who arrest immigrants as part of their work with ICE may be at FIFA World Cup matches, according to two Department of Homeland Security officials.

ICE may be at World Cup matches in U.S.

The agency is offering its personnel to local police departments and federal agencies to provide extra security around the perimeters of games, officials told NBC News.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

Republican governors in the States are rebranding Pride month

June 5: Some Republican governors are rebranding June with conservative alternatives to Pride, including "Nuclear Family Month" (Tennessee), "Strong Families Month" (Alabama) which inclues a proclamation that fathers are "the head of the household" and "Fidelity Month" (Utah, Arkansas).

Some Republican governors are rebranding June with conservative alternatives to Pride

June is Pride Month across the U.S. But in some Republican-controlled states it's now officially Fidelity, Nuclear Family or Strong Families Month.

apnews.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

Many Iranian and African journalists wanting to cover the World Cup have been denied visas.

June 6: The International Sports Press Association (AIPS) has written to FIFA claiming that “many” Iranian and African journalists have been denied the necessary visas to cover the World Cup in the United States.

Iranian and African journalists denied necessary World Cup visas, sports press association says [New York Times]

 

[Blue Mountain]

Iran accuses US of denying visas to integral members of its national football team.

June 7: Iran has accused the US of denying visas to "integral" members of its national football team's backroom staff, hours after Washington confirmed Iranian players had been given permission to travel to the upcoming World Cup.

Iran says staff blocked from entering US after players given World Cup visas

Iranian officials say technical staff have been denied visas, hours after the US said players could enter the country.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Norman Alexander]

And this is how this World Cup is going to be remembered throughout history: Not for the games but for the childish, racist, fascist behaviour of the Trump administration.

Seriously, the World Cup organisers should now be rescheduling all the USA games to Canada and Mexico ASAP. There are certainly enough resources to put them on there. They can cite "national security concerns in the USA" or whatever. Just cut the stupid bastards out of the event altogether.

 

[Trebuchet]

And this is how this World Cup is going to be remembered throughout history: Not for the games but for the childish, racist, fascist behaviour of the Trump administration.

Seriously, the World Cup organisers should now be rescheduling all the USA games to Canada and Mexico ASAP. There are certainly enough resources to put them on there. They can cite "national security concerns in the USA" or whatever. Just cut the stupid bastards out of the event altogether.

The "World Cup Organizers" would be FIFA, a thoroughly corrupt organization that awarded Trump a "Peace Prize".

 

[Susheel]

I do understand where you come from.

But non-white people can be right wing too1

Preeti Patel, Suella Breverman, Kash Patel, Vivek Ramaswamy...I will give Sunak a pass because he is probably more a conservative than a raving bigot.

 

[steenkh]

I like the way he's thrown in "of consequence" now. He used to say no other country did it, but someone must finally have gotten through.

It makes sense. The only country of consequence is the U.S.

 

[Helen]

Not a cult

Rep. Haridopolos: "I credit the president. He held firm and made sure we have peace in our time."

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I think Haridopolos must have meant "peace for our time"...

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump announces he is opening up 3 Marine National Monuments to commercial fishing, jeopardizing protected marine ecosystems.

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[Jack by the hedge]

The "World Cup Organizers" would be FIFA, a thoroughly corrupt organization that awarded Trump a "Peace Prize".

Sure. But the World Cup is their gravy train and they want to protect it. Bribing Trump with baubles and praise was supposed to smooth the way, but now he's messing the party up by refusing to let some people come.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Just wait for the Olympics!

 

[malbui]

Sure. But the World Cup is their gravy train and they want to protect it. Bribing Trump with baubles and praise was supposed to smooth the way, but now he's messing the party up by refusing to let some people come.

As an outsider hoping for the WC to be a debacle, it's quite amusing watching two of the most corrupt men in history publicly trying to out-corrupt each other.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

I'm not a MAGA and I wouldn't want to support their racism, but......

Kemi Badenoch - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think Bad Enough is the first person I've come across who would cheer her own insertion into a gas chamber, she's so thick.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

I do understand where you come from.

But non-white people can be right wing too1

I used to do clinics for asylum seekers, I vividly remember one interpreter ( a communist who had been imprisoned and tortured* prior to escaping to and getting asylum in the UK), saying to me after a review. "He was never a member of the party, he never was under threat, he destroys the asylum system for those who need it" I was really struck by the anger from someone who needed asylum, towards someone who they felt was exploiting the system.

*I only know this second hand from her friends who told me about her arrest and torture..

I think the worst thing is that she wants you to think she's not Nigerian. She wants you to think she's as white as Farage and as English as an Anglo-Saxon.

 

[Darat]

Here we go again!

Trump claims deal to end Iran war near as Tehran says 'nothing' finalised

Iran says reports of a deal are "speculative" after the US president says a "great settlement" to end the conflict has been reached.

www.bbc.com

Is it Friday again and the markets closing for the weekend....

 

[Andy_Ross]

I think the worst thing is that she wants you to think she's not Nigerian. She wants you to think she's as white as Farage and as English as an Anglo-Saxon.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I think the worst thing is that she wants you to think she's not Nigerian. She wants you to think she's as white as Farage and as English as an Anglo-Saxon.

And don't forget, she's working class too because she once had a Saturday job in McDonalds.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

Burgum on wind turbines: We have a report from Hegseth that it’s a national security threat. You could launch an attack on the US in with a bunch of drones coming through a wind tower field, it would undetectable until it was came through because the radar interference

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Are there whiskey bottle rings on the report? Swastika doodles?