Guaranteed: John Carney Will Screw Up Policy For The Homeless Whether He Intends To Or Not:
A chaotic scene unfolded during a sunny Wednesday afternoon at Christina Park as Wilmington officials attempted to carry out a plan to move residents of a city-sanctioned homeless encampment out of their personal tents and into government-issued ones.
The effort drew protests from housing advocates and resistance from some residents, who feared the changes could threaten their property and disrupt the community.
The morning began calmly enough at the Eastside park as city workers prepared to place wooden pallets onto squares painted on the park’s grassy field, marking newly designated tent spots. Previously, residents of the encampment had chosen their own spaces, spreading throughout the park with tents, sofas, generators, and grills.
As the crews set up, several housing advocates also congregated, and could be seen speaking with encampment residents, city officials and police.
The mood was initially lighthearted but grew tense as the day progressed, with many advocates saying they became frustrated with city decisions to abruptly decrease the size of each tent plot, and to restrict the amount of belongings that residents could keep outside the tents.
Also inflaming tensions was a rumor that spread during the day that a city official said police would arrest anyone who refused to move into the new tents.
“They are threatening arrest,” housing advocate Shyanne Miller said through a megaphone as protesters gathered. “We are not having it.”
Eventually, several of the advocates began to demonstrate against the city’s actions. Some even placed themselves behind a forklift to prevent work crews from setting up pallets on which the new tents would be placed.
Throughout the day, officials from Mayor John Carney’s office sought to defend their decision to move the encampment residents, stating that it was done out of concern for the park’s appearance, as well as to make it easier for paramedic crews to respond to emergencies in the community.
Asked if residents who didn’t move into the new tents would be arrested, Carney’s chief of staff, Cerron Cade, said that those who refuse to move to city-provided tents would have to leave the encampment entirely.
“We have to have some rules. And if folks don’t want to follow the rules, there’s no doors to the park. They can leave,” Cade said.
Yo, Cerron, is there a ‘No Shoplifting’ rule? The worst people carrying out a terrible policy with no input from the people affected by the policy. What did you expect from somebody as tone-deaf as John Carney?
ICE Strong-Arms Delaware Department Of Labor:
Delaware’s top federal judge grilled attorneys from the state Department of Labor as they argued against complying with federal immigration officials’ efforts to obtain information about businesses suspected of employing undocumented employees.
Delaware District Court Chief Judge Colm Connolly interrogated Jennifer-Kate Aaronson, an attorney with the Delaware Department of Labor, during a lengthy Wednesday morning hearing, in which he questioned the legal basis of Aaronson’s argument for not complying with an administrative subpoena from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Aaronson contended on Wednesday the subpoena is “overly burdensome,” and complying with it would hinder the normal operations of the state DOL. Disclosing the information, she added, would damage the trust between employers and the department.
Providing the information to ICE also would jeopardize the State Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, which is funded by employer contributions and provides unemployment benefits to eligible workers who are unemployed through no fault of their own, she said.
Aaronson also argued that the DOL did not have to provide the information to ICE because the request fell under an exception in federal regulation law.
The subpoena, which originated from “hotline tips” that ICE received, sought employees’ names, addresses, wages and Social Security numbers from 15 Delaware businesses, according to court records. ICE’s subpoena efforts align with the Trump administration’s broader strategy of using federal and state agency data to bolster its promised immigration enforcement push.
Trump Flaps Yap On TV, Says Nothing. As a result, oil prices rise, stocks tank. Guess he just did it for the attention:
Oil prices surged and stock markets sank on Thursday, hours after President Trump declared in a national television address that the U.S. military campaign against Iran would escalate and failed to offer a clear exit strategy, though he insisted the war was an overwhelming success.
On Wednesday night, in his first prime-time address from the White House since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, Mr. Trump vowed to hit Iran “extremely hard” and threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” He repeated his threats to hit Iranian infrastructure, including electrical plants, unless a deal was struck.
Investors hoping for clearer signals of a de-escalation appeared disappointed. The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, jumped more than 7 percent in early trading on Thursday, the steepest daily rise in three weeks. Stock markets around the world fell, with indexes in Asia, where countries import vast quantities of oil and gas from the Middle East, hit particularly hard.
Stating the obvious, you just know that Trump insiders were clued into what he would say, and profited accordingly. I thought it was notable that Trump didn’t even mention the Artemis launch. a rare feel-good moment.
Looks Like Birthright Citizenship Is Here To Stay. Raising the question–why did the Supreme Court even agree to hear the case?:
As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments today about birthright citizenship, Donald Trump was watching from the courtroom—an apparent first for a sitting president. He listened silently as the justices pelted skeptical questions at Solicitor General John Sauer, who tried to defend a Trump executive order purporting to deny citizenship to the U.S.-born children of certain immigrants. Not long into arguments by Cecillia Wang, the ACLU lawyer representing Trump’s challengers, the president got up and left.
The odd scene reflected the administration’s approach to the matter of birthright citizenship: Simply declare you are right, and then ignore arguments to the contrary. Yet if Trump intended his presence to pressure the justices into siding with him, he failed. Most of the justices, even among the conservative supermajority, seemed inclined to strike down his policy. Still, the fact that this case got as far as it did—and that the justices had to consider it seriously enough to spend their time rebuking it—is itself a scandal.
The case, Trump v. Barbara, turns on the Trump administration’s argument that the Fourteenth Amendment does not actually mean what its text states and what nearly everyone has agreed it says for more than 150 years. Ratified after the Civil War, the amendment establishes that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” It repudiated the Supreme Court’s notorious 1857 ruling in Dred Scott, which barred Black people from citizenship and created a permanent underclass of people without access to the same rights offered to other Americans. In 1898, the Supreme Court established clearly in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections extended to babies born in the United States to parents of noncitizens.
This egalitarian guarantee was, however, unsatisfactory to Trump. On the first day of his second term in office, he released an executive order attempting to restrict citizenship to children of parents who are either U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (that is, green-card holders). The fact that this flatly contradicted the Fourteenth Amendment seemed not to bother the new administration. The policy would have created an enormous administrative headache—maternity wards, after all, are not set up to establish the immigration status of expectant parents—but it was immediately halted by a wave of legal challenges.
Corporate ‘Dem’ Think-Tanks View An ‘Influencer’ As Great Threat. Betcha Chris Coons agrees:
If you only got your news from the Democratic Party’s corporate wing, you’d be excused for thinking that not much of consequence was happening in the world. Centrist groups like Third Way and pro-Netanyahu organizations like the Anti-Defamation League don’t seem to be fretting about the escalating war in the Middle East, the Trump regime’s insider trading, or Republicans’ plans for another reconciliation package that would drastically cut health care spending to fund the war (while also suppressing the vote). In their circles, there’s a different catastrophe that the Democratic Party should be prioritizing right now: left-wing influencer Hasan Piker’s efforts to rally in support of progressive Democratic candidates.
You can read how the Third Way propagandists excerpted from his comments to paint him as an anti-semite. I have few hard and fast rules. Here’s one:
If The Third Way is for it, I’m against it.
What do you want to talk about ?