WBUR reports that our dictator-kleptocrat government plans to deport a person the FBI was going to use to testify against the MS-13 gang in the US:
In November 2022, a man in El Salvador believed he had few options: be snatched off the street by police or testify against Massachusetts members of MS-13, the criminal organization responsible for countless murders and other violent crimes in the U.S. and Central America.The profound moral rot in Trump and MAGA elites is stunning. Also, this is a lesson to anyone thinking about cooperating with the dictator-kleptocrat US government. Presumably Trump is now protecting MS-13 in the US because they bought enough $TRUMP meme coin. Trump and MAGA elites corruption is off the charts.
But both happened. After nine months in Salvadoran prisons, the man only known as John Doe in court documents came to the United States as a material witness for a racketeering case in exchange, as he understood it, for refuge in the U.S.
He's now locked up in a facility here. A material witness often has testimony crucial to a case, and can be detained to protect them or prevent them from fleeing.
In the midst of the MS-13 case, the U.S. government revealed his identity in evidence and has been attempting to deport him.
In January, Doe filed a habeas corpus petition in Massachusetts federal court in his ongoing fight with the U.S. government to remain here as an asylum seeker.
Exposed as a snitch, Doe stated in the petition that he faces a death sentence if he returns.
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Some projections about djt's proposed tax changes for 2026. The bottom line: Very rich people (top 5%) get rewarded, everyone else gets a kick in the groin.
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A NYT article discusses the massive djt bill the Senate is now trying to get passed.
As expected, rich and powerful people and businesses get a lot of wealth. The rest of us get a kick in the groin. Here are some of the groin kicks we get:
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Another NYT article comments on Senate Republicans killing off solar and wind power efforts in the US:
Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry.
The tax provision, tucked inside the 940-page bill that the Senate made public just after midnight on Friday, stunned observers.
“This is how you kill an industry,” said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, a nonpartisan group of business leaders and investors. “And at a time when electricity prices and demand are soaring.”
The bill would rapidly phase out existing federal tax subsidies for wind and solar power by 2027. Doing so, many companies say, could derail hundreds of projects under development and could jeopardize billions of dollars in manufacturing facilities that had been planned around the country with the subsidies in mind.
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That is how democracy dies and what the wreckage looks like. Expect a heck of a lot more in coming months.