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The Trump Crackdown Begins
 Donald Trump's new Muslim ban has finally arrived. The President issued his latest attempt to stop immigration from six majority-Muslim nations to the United States Monday, one month after the original version was blocked by a federal court. The ban goes into effect on March 16. It also leaves in place a 120 day-long freeze of the federal refugee program. The new ban allows current visa holders into the country, no longer includes Iraq, does away with an indefinite restriction on Syrian refugees settling in the US, and scraps a provision that would have given priority to refugees who belong to religious minorities (AKA Christians). And unlike the earlier version of the Muslim ban, it explicitly excludes green card holders. According to the Trump administration, all these changes make the new ban stronger in court - and keep us safe - all at the same time. Others aren't so certain. -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm... GOP Leadership Doubles Down on "DumpsterCare" (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
The Big Picture: GOP Leadership Doubles Down on "DumpsterCare"
Big Picture Interview: Here's Why DumpsterCare Is very Bad
- David Dayen, The Nation/The Intercept/Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud 
Big Picture Panel: Trump's Travel Ban Is Challenged
- Travis Korson, Madison Strategies
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute
Big Picture Fact: We Can Now Seal the Planet w/Plastic |
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour Two: How Would America Change if the Koch Brothers Had Their Way? - Charles Sauer, The Market Institute
Quote: " The man who is born stingy can be taught to give liberally-with his hands; but not with his heart. The man born kind and compassionate can have that disposition crushed down out of sight by embittering experience; but if it were an organ the postmortem would find it in his corpse." - Mark Twain. |
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