May 19, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
People reports: In a career move that has set the Croisette abuzz, Harry Melling, 36, widely remembered as the petulant Dudley Dursley from the iconic Harry Potter film series, has emerged as the unexpected talk of the Cannes Film Festival. The 36-year-old actor is starring in the audacious new X-rated film Pillion, which didn’t just premiere but exploded onto the …
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May 19, 2025 Immigration, Trump Administration
NewsNation reports: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has conducted its first charter flight for migrants who agreed to “self-deport” after starting a program to give those voluntarily leaving the country a $1,000 stipend. The flight took 64 citizens of Colombia and Honduras to their home country. “This was a voluntary charter flight, not an ICE enforcement operation,” DHS said …
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May 19, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
“I think that if you take a look, it’s the same doctor that said that Joe was cognitively fine. There are things going on that the public wasn’t informed of. And I think somebody’s gonna have to speak to his doctor if it’s the same, or even if it’s two separate doctors. Why wasn’t the cognitive ability– why wasn’t that …
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May 19, 2025 Politics, Republicans
The Heartland Signal reports: Despite Missouri voters overwhelmingly approving a ballot measure guaranteeing paid sick leave and minimum wage increases last November, the state Republican Party passed a law repealing the provision just days after it went into effect. Last November, 1,693,064 voters, or 57.57%, approved Proposition A, and its passage was upheld in the state Supreme Court last month. …
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May 19, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists
The Washington Post reports: Their news site had just exposed details of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s alleged deals with the country’s gangs. Now the three journalists were faced with a choice they had long dreaded. El Faro — Spanish for lighthouse — is the premier independent investigative news outlet in El Salvador. The staff had received word that Bukele’s increasingly …
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May 19, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
“We stood over it and I said, I think it’s some kind of political message and she said, ’86’ when I was a server — she did a lot of working in restaurants meant to remove an item from the menu when you ran out of ingredients. And I said, well, to me, as a kid, it always meant to …
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May 19, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
ABC News reports: It’s crunch time in the House, where the next 48 hours will test Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership like never before as he scrambles to secure the needed votes to pass a megabill aimed at advancing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. And now the president is set to attend the House GOP conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning, …
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May 19, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Washington Post reports: The gala dinner at the Trump National Golf Club on Thursday will link the president to an unusual collection of deep-pocketed crypto players from around the world, some of whom have told The Washington Post they hope to influence his views on how their industry is regulated or otherwise capitalize on the presidential access. The identities …
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May 19, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
The Hill reports: At least 50 Venezuelan men who were sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration had immigrated to the U.S. legally, a review by the Libertarian Cato Institute found. The Monday report reviewed data for just a fraction of the men sent to the prison for whom immigration records are available. “The government calls them …
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May 19, 2025 Sports, Trump Administration
Yahoo Sports reports: NASCAR is undeniably one of the top sports when it comes to patriotism and honoring the nation’s military. The biggest Cup Series event that recognizes the military services each season is the Coca-Cola 600 around Memorial Day. On Friday, Charlotte Motor Speedway made what appeared to be an announcement that aligned with the sport’s mission when it …
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