Monday, April 14, 2025

Karmelo Anthony Home!

Karmelo Anthony is home. The danger is still there. His family and attorney gotten death threats.

Texas teen is out after posting a hefty bail. He is on house arrest and many people are coming to his defense.

However, the white extremists are out too. They are calling for racial warfare.

These are the same people who cheered George Zimmerman, Kyle Rittenhouse, Daniel Penny, Daniel Perry and Darren Wilson.

They are fucking ridiculous.

Yet, these extremists made the case about race. The same folks who complain about DEI and innocence until proven guilty have already condemned, shamed and demanded Democrats react to this incident.

Conservatives demand Black Lives Matter, Rev. Al Sharpton, former president Barack Obama, former vice president Kamala Harris and the NAACP react to every fucking criminal act done by a Black person.

The teen is accused of murdering another teen after a physical altercation. It is national news and another racial situation the far right is exploiting.

In order to take the country away from President Donald J. Trump's colossal fuck ups, the far right needs to keep their racially angry base riled up going into 2026.

Due process is thrown out when it's a Black teen, a Black man, a Muslim, a Palestinian or a Latino.

If it's a white man, they are assumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

If they're guilty, the far right will deny it. They will claim that the George Soros appointed district attorney was bought and paid for.

The $1 million bond has been reduced for the 17-year-old student charged with murder in the stabbing of another student at a Texas high school track meet.

White people do not see this as a threat.

Karmelo Anthony, a student at Frisco Centennial High School, was detained following the deadly stabbing, which occurred at a Frisco Independent School District stadium on April 2 during a track and field championship involving multiple schools in the district.

Austin Metcalf, 17, an 11th grader at Frisco Memorial High School, died after police said another student stabbed him during an altercation in the bleachers at the meet.

Anthony was initially held on $1 million bond. During a hearing on Monday, a Collin County judge set his bond at $250,000, online court records show.

Should he post bond, he has been ordered to be on house arrest, be supervised by a parent or designated adult at all times and have no contact with Metcalf's family, according to court records. He also needs prior court approval to leave the house and must check in with the court bailiff weekly until the case is indicted into a different court, the court records show.

Judge Angela Tucker said she considered several factors in setting the new bond amount, including Anthony's age, lack of past criminal history and close ties to the community, Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA reported.

The racial extremists are swamping his social media with hate.

Members of both teens' families attended the hearing, according to WFAA.

Anthony is newly represented by Dallas defense attorney Mike Howard, who asked for $150,000 bond, according to WFAA. The prosecution argued the Anthony family was able to pay the $1 million bond through funds raised through the platform GiveSendGo, according to WFAA. The fundraiser had more than $416,000 in donations as of Monday afternoon. Anthony's father told the court the family doesn't have access to those funds yet, WFAA reported.

ABC News has reached out to Howard for comment.

The Dallas-based social justice organization Next Generation Action Network, which is advocating for Anthony, said the reduced bond "gives Karmelo and his family a much-needed window of relief and a chance to prepare for the road ahead."

"The Next Generation Action Network is currently working with the Anthony family to get the bond processed and will keep the community updated regarding his release," the organization said in a statement on X.

The stabbing occurred under the Memorial High School tent in the stadium bleachers at approximately 10 a.m. on April 2, according to the arrest report.

Responding officers said they spoke to multiple witnesses, including one who reported the altercation began after Metcalf told Anthony to move out from under their team's tent, according to the arrest report.

The witness reported that Anthony allegedly reached inside his bag and said, "Touch me and see what happens," according to the arrest report.

Metcalf grabbed Anthony to move him, according to a witness, and Anthony allegedly pulled out what the witness described as a black knife and "stabbed Austin once in the chest and then ran away," the arrest report stated.

Anthony allegedly confessed to the killing and officers say he told them he was protecting himself, according to the arrest report.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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Vance Fumbles The College Football Championship Trophy!

It takes a fool.

Vice President JD Vance resides in Cincinnati and Washington, DC. 

He is the 50th Vice President of the United States.

As an Ohioan, he was proud of the College Football Playoff Championship winners the Ohio State Buckeyes. They clinched the win against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. 

Ohio State coach Ryan Day and his team celebrate with the 45th/47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

As the team was gathering for their historical photo with the president and vice president, Vance appeared to grab the trophy and it collapse upon him holding it.

The Michigan Wolverines probably enjoyed this moment of zen.

After laudatory speeches by Trump, Day and Vance on the South Lawn, the vice president — an Ohio State graduate — tried to hoist aloft the trophy.

He didn’t count on the trophy’s golden top being designed to separate from its black base. After some struggling, the vice president lost his grip on the two pieces. OSU running back TreVeyon Henderson, standing behind Vance, grabbed the football-shaped top of the trophy. But the base fell to the ground, forcing Vance to grasp around as it rolled a short distance.

Some of the players around the vice president winced. The United States Marine Corps Band, which performs at presidential events, had to compete with audible gasps from the players and crowd as it played “We Are the Champions.”

Henderson and Day helped Vance reassemble the trophy, and the vice president later held just the top, cradling it in his arms while the players around him chuckled.

As pictures and videos of Vance’s fumble rocketed across the internet, the vice president tried to explain away the gaffe with self-deprecation: “I didn’t want anyone after Ohio State to get the trophy so I decided to break it,” he wrote on X.

Trump credited the Ohio State team with winning the 2024 college football championship despite “adversity,” including the team’s upset loss to unranked Michigan 13-10 at home in November.

Trump said he hesitated to mention OSU’s fourth consecutive defeat to “the team up north — we won’t talk about it.”

Before fumbling the trophy, Vance also used part of his speech to mention the Buckeyes’ biggest rival — singling out an audience member in a Michigan hat.

“I don’t know who let the guy over in the corner here, in a Michigan hat, into this celebration,” Vance said. “But I’m about to tell the Secret Service, ‘You’ve got a dangerous weapon, sir.’”

Calling that one of the many chaotic things the Trump administration done so far.

Why ain't the junk food media challenging the cognitively of the vice president or president?

Wondering why the so called FBA aren't holding Vance accountable like they did former vice president Kamala Harris?

Harris is Black and Vance is white. They know they ain't getting shit from him or Trump.

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Bypass!

Keep calling the people who voted for you paid protesters.

Y'all voted for this.

Republicans are concerned that President Donald J. Trump has went too far. They are concerned that the "flood the zone" is going to cost them big time.

Yet, the Democrats think they have an opportunity to retake the House.

They better tone down the ambitions. The ambitions are not looking good.

Republicans still have an advantage despite their policies being a pile of crap.

Democrats are still trying to figure out how to build back what they've lost. 

If the Democrats abandon Israel, they may have a small window of support from the voters who opposed them in 2024.

The people who voted for these idiots are upset. So now they are avoiding the town halls and public events. They fear the so called paid protesters and George Soros backed groups infiltrating. Every dumb ass excuse to not being held accountable.

Members of Congress are back in their districts for a two-week recess, potentially bracing for more anger from constituents.

But voters in Republican districts might not have much of a chance to question their representatives.

Weeks after Rep. Richard Hudson, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, advised Republican members of Congress not to hold in-person town halls, it appears that most of them are heeding his advice.

According to press releases and publicly posted event notices, the majority of town halls and town hall-style events taking place over the congressional recess will be hosted by Democrats.

The few Republicans who have publicly advised that they’ll be holding town halls include Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Byron Donalds of Florida. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who just launched his 45th annual 99-county tour of Iowa, will also be holding a public town hall in his state.

Greene and Donalds, who is running for governor in Florida, each restricted registration for their upcoming town halls to residents of their respective districts.

The move comes after several of their colleagues have faced public ire at town halls in recent months over the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce and a House Republican budget blueprint that could lead to Medicaid cuts.

Since the last recess, Republican members of the House and Senate voted on a new blueprint that directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid, to identify over $800 billion in spending cuts in areas of their jurisdiction.

Before Hudson’s March directive to avoid in-person town halls, videos of several Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., facing angry constituents at local events went viral.

And after Hudson’s advice went public, Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., dealt with angry constituents inside and outside of his town hall event in western North Carolina last month, and Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., was jeered and booed at a town hall she hosted for constituents.

It's all white. It's all white.

A source close to Hudson told NBC News that the NRCC chairman has not mentioned anything about town halls to GOP lawmakers since his advice in March.

Over a dozen Democratic lawmakers are still planning to hold their own events in their districts this month, but they’ve also had frustrated attendees at town halls, particularly after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., last month led Democrats to support a President Donald Trump-backed bill to fund the government.

The anger Democrats are facing at in-person events from members of their own party tracks with national polling numbers that say rank-and-file Democrats are seeking a stronger reaction to Trump from their elected leaders. A March NBC News poll found that nearly two-thirds — 65% — of the party’s voters want congressional Democrats to stick to their positions even if that risks sacrificing bipartisan progress with the president.

Still, the party is doubling down on a strategy to host a series of what it has dubbed “People’s Town Halls” in districts represented by Republicans.

Keep on showboating. Democrats need to get a little more progressive. Bernie and AOC may be the last thing left of a completely broken party.

Over the upcoming two-week recess, Democrats plan to hold town halls in Arizona’s 6th District, which is represented by GOP Rep. Juan Ciscomani; Pennsylvania’s 8th District, which is represented by Rep. Rob Bresnahan; Colorado’s 8th District, which is represented by GOP Rep. Gabe Evans; North Carolina’s 9th District, which is represented by Hudson; and Missouri’s 2nd District, which is represented by GOP Rep. Ann Wagner.

In a statement announcing the upcoming town halls, which follow an original slate of town hall events Democrats hosted in GOP-held districts last month, Rep. Suzan DelBene, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Republicans’ constituents are “sick and tired of being ignored by House Republicans who refuse to do their jobs.”

She added that “vulnerable Republicans continue to run scared because they’re voting to raise costs, gut Medicaid, and threaten working families livelihoods.”

In a separate series of town halls that began a few weeks ago — dubbed the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., drew crowds of tens of thousands of people as they denounced Trump, congressional Republicans and congressional Democrats, whom Ocasio-Cortez urged to “fight harder.”

They held a rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, which Sanders’ communications director Anna Bahr said drew 36,000 people and was the senator’s largest ever.

Sanders said the administration “is moving us rapidly toward an authoritarian form of society — and Mr. Trump, we ain’t going there.”

Their tour will continue over this recess with planned stops in California, Utah, Idaho and Montana.

A spokesperson for the NRCC, House Republicans’ campaign arm, told NBC News in a statement, “In a desperate attempt to distract voters from the chaos in their own party, Democrats are resorting to political theater that panders to the far-left radicals instead of addressing the concerns of everyday voters who have already rejected their out-of-touch agenda.”

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Blue Origin Successful!

The flight was a success. The rich and elite women flew in space.

The elitists in space.

If you're rich, you can actually be an astronaut. 

Blue Origin NS-31 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission, operated by Blue Origin, launched on April 14, 2025 at 8:30 CDT (9:30 AM EDT or 13:30 UTC) . The spaceflight included the first all-female crew since Valentina Tereshkova's solo 1963 flight on Vostok 6.

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Lauren Sanchez, the fiancé of billionaire elitist Jeff Bezos flew with Gayle King and Katy Perry. 

While Americans are working paycheck to paycheck, the all female crew of Blue Origin successfully launched a mission. 

It was the latest wave in space tourism, where more of the rich and famous than ever before — or lucky and well-connected — can enter the zero-gravity realm traditionally dominated by professional astronauts.

The New Shepard rocket blasted off on the quick up-and-down trip from West Texas. The fringes of space beckoned some 65 miles (105 kilometers) up, promising a few precious minutes of weightlessness.

Sanchez, a helicopter pilot and former TV journalist, invited the others along for the 10-minute, fully automated flight, packing on the star power with singer-songwriter Perry and “CBS Mornings” co-host King.

Also sharing the ride were film producer Kerianne Flynn; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA engineer who started her own companies to promote science education; and Amanda Nguyen, a scientist who studied planets around other stars and now advocates for survivors of sexual violence.

Blue Origin declined to say how much the flight cost or who paid what. The trip came two months before Sanchez and Bezos marry in Venice.

It was the 11th human spaceflight for the Washington state-based company, founded by Bezos in 2000 after making a fortune with Amazon. Bezos strapped in for Blue Origin’s first space tourist flight in 2021 and accompanied the latest crew to the pad.

The celebrity launch was the nation’s first spaceflight where women filled each seat. The only other all-female crew in 64 years of human spaceflight was back in 1963. That’s when Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova launched by herself, becoming the first woman in space. Tereshkova spent three days off the planet.

Even after the latest launch, women represent barely 15% of the more than 700 people who have traveled into space. Sanchez said she deliberately chose women to launch with her, each of them eager to inspire both the young and old to dream big, and even commissioned special flight suits.

“It’s an important moment for the future of commercial space travel and for humanity in general and for women all around,” Perry told The Associated Press last week.

The launch brought out VIPs to West Texas including Oprah Winfrey, Kris Jenner and other members of the Kardashian family, and several women who previously have flown on private flights. Winfrey, a close friend of King, wiped away tears when the capsule reached space and the passengers were heard marveling at the moon and shouting with joy.

As the women were buckling up after a few minutes of weightlessness, Perry sang a few lines of “What a Wonderful World,” King said in a post-launch televised interview.

Bezos opened the capsule’s hatch minutes after touchdown, embracing Sanchez, the first one out. As they emerged, Perry and King kneeled and kissed the ground. “Oh my God, that was amazing,” said King, who considers herself an anxious airplane flyer.

This wasn’t the first Blue Origin launch with marquee names.

“Star Trek” actor William Shatner caught a lift to space with Blue Origin in 2021 at age 90, soon after Bezos’ inaugural trip. He was followed by former New York Giants defensive end and TV host Michael Strahan and Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, for whom the rocket is named. Two aviation pioneers who missed out on space when they were younger — Wally Funk and Ed Dwight — also rocketed away at ages 82 and 90, respectively.

Most of Blue Origin’s passengers — 58 counting the latest launch — have been business or science types, TV hosts or YouTubers. Ticket prices are not disclosed.

The Russian Space Agency also has launched its share of space tourists, beginning with a California financier in 2001. Two decades later, a Russian actress filmed aboard the International Space Station.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX also sells multi-day trips to private customers. SpaceX’s first client to fly, billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman already has launched twice and performed the first private spacewalk. He’s now set to become NASA’s next administrator if confirmed by the Senate.

Chinese-born bitcoin investor Chun Wang just returned from the first spaceflight to carry people over the north and south poles. Wang picked up the whole SpaceX tab for himself and three polar explorers for an undisclosed sum.

“In this exciting new era of commercial spaceflight, the dream of becoming an astronaut is no longer limited to a select few,” Wang said via X last week.

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Sunday, April 13, 2025

Arson At Pennsylvania Governor's Mansion!

Shapiro woke up to a fire.

The price of supporting Zionism, unpopular policies and upsetting the status quo.

Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro and his family escape a fire that set on the state residence in Harrisburg. President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Sen. David McCormick (R-PA), the U.S. Representatives and state leaders were notified. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, FBI director Kash Patel and the Pennsylvania state authorities will investigate.

Shapiro was not hurt.

Of course, they will blame one of the entities usually coming [from the far right] opinion box:

  1. Antifa 
  2. Pro Palestinian protesters 
  3. False flag
  4. Black Lives Matter 
  5. Shapiro or his family members
The blame from the left opinion box:

  1. Donald J. Trump
  2. Conservative extremism
  3. Mossad
  4. Shapiro or his family members
Shapiro and his family were evacuated overnight from the official governor’s residence after someone set fire to the building, police said Sunday.

No one was injured and the fire was extinguished, according to authorities.

The fire broke out overnight on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which Shapiro and his family had celebrated at the governor’s official residence in the state capital of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania State Police said in a statement that, while the investigation was ongoing, they were “prepared to say at this time that this was an act of arson.”

State police gave no other details about the cause of the fire at the riverfront mansion but said it caused a “significant amount of damage” to a portion of the residence. Shapiro and his family had been in a different part of the residence, police said.

A section of the governor’s mansion in Pennsylvania was damaged by fire.

In a statement, Shapiro, viewed as a potential White House contender for the Democratic Party in 2028, said he and his family woke up at about 2 a.m. to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after the fire broke out.

The Harrisburg Bureau of Fire was called to the residence and, while they worked to put out the fire, police evacuated Shapiro and his family from the residence safely, Shapiro said.

“Thank God no one was injured and the fire was extinguished,” Shapiro said in a statement.

On Sunday, fire damage was visible on the residence’s south side, primarily to a large room often used for entertaining crowds and art displays. There was still a police presence early Sunday afternoon as yellow tape cordoned off an alleyway and an officer led a dog outside a iron security fence.

Shapiro splits his time between the mansion that has housed governors since it was built in the 1960s and a home in Abington, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) east. He posted a picture on social media Saturday of the family’s Passover Seder table at the residence.

State police are leading the investigation. The agency offered a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

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Vacations Are Going To Be A Thing Of The Past!

Trump's bullshit has American tourism down.

The Trump Administration is now requiring international travelers to register within 30 days or face penalties, imprisonment, deportation and permanent banishment.

Foreign nationals often come to the United States to see our attractions.

With President Donald J. Trump's tariffs, his deportation of individuals, his insults on foreign leaders and the endless chaos, many will avoid the U.S.

The United States is ranked No. 3 in most hated nations. Israel and Russia are No. 1 and No. 2, respectively.

For foreign nationals planning a trip to the U.S. for 30 days or more, a new rule requires registration with the U.S. government. This registration process involves creating an online account with USCIS, submitting a form, and obtaining proof of registration. Failure to comply with this rule could result in penalties and fines. 

So if you're an entertainer, athlete or intelligual from another country, better register.

Canadians who often travel to the United States for education, employment, vacations and business will avoid it. It could put a dent in our economy.

Also if you're a trucker from Canada, the restrictions may hurt our businesses.

The Associated Press details the impact of the Trump travel restrictions. 

Many countries are going to start denying Americans entry because of this.

Of course, Israelis are likely exempted from this travel restriction.

Olja Ivanic looked forward to welcoming some cousins from Sweden to her Denver home in June. Ivanic and the four travelers were planning to go hiking in Colorado and then visit Los Angeles and San Francisco.

But then Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a February meeting at the White House. Ivanic’s four relatives immediately canceled their scheduled trip and decided to vacation in Europe instead.

“The way (Trump) treated a democratic president that’s in a war was beyond comprehensible to them,” said Ivanic, who is the U.S. CEO of Austria-based health startup Longevity Labs.

The U.S. tourism industry expected 2025 to be another good year in terms of foreign travelers. The number of international visitors to the United States jumped in 2024, and some forecasts predicted arrivals from abroad this year would reach pre-COVID levels.

But three months into the year, international arrivals are plummeting. Angered by Trumps’ tariffs and rhetoric, and alarmed by reports of tourists being arrested at the border, some citizens of other countries are staying away from the U.S. and choosing to travel elsewhere.

The federal government’s National Travel and Tourism Office released preliminary figures Tuesday showing visits to the U.S. from overseas fell 11.6% in March compared to the same month last year. The figures did not include arrivals from Canada, which is scheduled to report tourism data later this week, or land crossings from Mexico. But air travel from Mexico dropped 23%.

For the January-March period, 7.1 million visitors entered the U.S. from overseas, 3.3% fewer than during the first three months of 2024.

The travel forecasting company Tourism Economics, which as recently as December anticipated the U.S. would have nearly 9% more international arrivals this year, revised its annual outlook last week to predict a 9.4% decline.

Tourism Economics expects some of the steepest declines will be from Canada, where Trump’s repeated suggestion that the country should become the 51st state and tariffs on close trading partners have angered residents. Canada was the largest source of visitors to the U.S. in 2024, with more than 20.2 million, according to U.S. government data.

Flight Centre Travel Group Canada, a travel booking site, said leisure bookings to U.S. destinations were down 40% in March compared to the same month a year ago. Air Canada has reduced its schedule of spring flights to Florida, Las Vegas and Arizona due to lack of demand.

The National Travel and Tourism Office gave a rosier forecast last month for international travel to the U.S. Based on 2024 travel patterns, the office said it expected arrivals to increase 6.5% to 77.1 million this year and surpass 2019 levels in 2026.

But Tourism Economics said the impact of the less favorable view of the U.S. from abroad could be severe enough that international visits won’t surpass pre-pandemic levels until 2029.

“The survey data is all indicating a significant mix of cancellations and a massive drop in intent to travel,” Tourism Economics President Adam Sacks said.

Ian Urquhart, a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, was supposed to go to Las Vegas for five days in June and see Coldplay in concert. He canceled the trip to protest Trump’s “incredibly disparaging tone” toward Canada even though it meant losing a $500 deposit on the vacation package.

His oldest daughter similarly nixed a planned May trip to Sedona, Arizona, while his brother-in-law decided not to go on his usual weeklong golf trip to Scottsdale, Arizona, according to Urquhart.

“None of us jumped for joy when we made those decisions, but it seemed to be one of the few ways we could signal how we felt about the bullying that has been directed towards Canada by your president,” Urquhart said.

For Pepa Cuevas and her husband, who live in Madrid, Trump’s election in November was a turning point. The couple had planned to spend a month skiing in Colorado over the winter holidays. They went to Japan instead.

“Trump’s victory left us, especially me, very shocked,” Cuevas said. “For the moment, we have lost the desire to return. I don’t know what will happen in the future, but for the moment we are still shocked, and it doesn’t look like this is going to be resolved.”

According to the government data released Tuesday, international arrivals from China were down nearly 1%. Leisure trips by Chinese citizens to places like Disneyland, Hawaii and New York are decreasing dramatically and likely won’t pick up again until Trump has left office, said Wolfgang Georg Arlt, the CEO of the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute. He dubs it the “Trump Slump.”

That slump has financial consequences. Tourism Economics expects U.S. spending by international visitors to drop by $9 billion this year.

Marco Jahn is the president and CEO of New World Travel, a California company that works with overseas tour operators on vacation packages and activity planning. It arranges the hotels and rental cars for a family that wants to take a driving tour of U.S. national parks, for example.

Jahn said bookings have dropped between 20% and 50%, depending on the source market, over the last eight to 10 weeks. He notes particular declines from Scandinavia, where Trump’s repeated threat to take control of Greenland, a self-governing territory of NATO ally Denmark, has antagonized citizens.

“The U.S. is not perceived as a welcoming destination,” Jahn said.

Beyond, a revenue management platform for vacation rental owners, said Canadian searches for short-term rentals in the U.S. plunged 44% after Feb. 1, when Trump first announced a since-paused 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico. Florida, Texas and New York were among the hardest-hit markets, Beyond said.

American Ring Travel, a tour operator based in California, offers carbon-neutral bus tours of the U.S. that often attract eco-conscious travelers from Europe, said Richard Groesz, the company’s director of contracting. But bookings from Germany flattened starting in January after Elon Musk threw his support behind a far-right political party in that country’s federal election, Groesz said.

There are other issues impacting foreign visits. The U.S. has been the top destination by country for Japanese tourists for years, but data compiled by JTB Tourism Research & Consulting showed South Korea topped the U.S. in January.

The weak yen – not Trump – is likely the biggest factor dampening the attraction of the U.S., said Takaaki Mitamura, a spokesperson for Tokyo-based travel agent Veltra Corp. Travelers are picking destinations where the currency effect isn’t as big, like South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia, he said.

Haruka Atomiya, a Tokyo resident, visits Los Angeles at least once a year. Last year, she brought her young children for the first time and did a lot of research to find affordable places to stay. The exchange rate made some hotels double or triple the price she paid in the past.

Atomiya, who went to college in Vermont, has always loved the diversity and the freedom in the U.S. She said she doesn’t understand why Americans elected Trump, but doesn’t plan to stop visiting unless she senses any physical danger.

“If America changes in a way that’s clearly visible, that’s a reality, too, and I will likely keep visiting,” she said. “What will happen to America after Trump intrigues me.”

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Saturday, April 12, 2025

Trump Will Defy SCOTUS Ruling On Kilmer Abrego Garcia!

He did nothing wrong, but Trump and his minions deported him.

This week, the unpopular U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision.

In an unanimous 9-0 vote, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration's illegal removal of a protected status.

Y'all voted for this.

Donald J. Trump won 49% of the Hispanic vote. Wondering how many of those living in Texas, California, North Carolina, Florida and Georgia feel now that his policies are affecting their lives?

Anyway, in the decision, the Trump administration illegally deported a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison. The Trump administration made a mistake and said basically they are not responsible for returning the man back to the United States.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen who resided in Maryland, United States who was taken into custody on March 12, 2025, and on March 15, deported due to what the Trump administration called "an administrative error" and imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a Salvadoran maximum security prison. This was despite him having both a U.S. immigration judge's order protecting him from removal to El Salvador since 2019 and a wife and five-year-old child who are both American citizens.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis at a hearing Friday afternoon scolded the Justice Department for demanding more time to update the court on next steps after the department attempted to impose delays on the case.

The White House earlier Friday tempered expectations about the lengths it would go to in order to bring back Abrego Garcia.

“The Supreme Court made their ruling last night very clear that it’s the administration’s responsibility to facilitate the return, not to effectuate the return,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

Garcia states that the Barrio 18 gang tried to extort his mother's business for money and threatened that if she did not pay the money they would make her sons join their gang instead. As a result, at the age of 16, Abrego Garcia fled El Salvador and illegally entered the United States in 2011. According to his lawyers, Abrego Garcia has previously testified about the Barrio 18 gang's attempts to recruit him in El Salvador.

Kristi Noem once again trying cosplay tough gal.

In 2016, Abrego Garcia met Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, who would later become his wife.

In March 2019, Prince George's County, Maryland police arrested Abrego Garcia with three other men in a Home Depot parking lot where they were seeking work as day laborers. One of the men claimed Abrego Garcia was a "gang member," but The Atlantic reports that according to court filings, he offered no proof and police said they did not believe him. He was never charged with a crime in connection to his arrest.

Police handed custody of Abrego Garcia over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation proceedings. In those proceedings, the government claimed that he was a member of the MS-13 criminal gang because "he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie" and a confidential informant claimed that he was active with an MS-13 group based in New York. An immigration judge determined that the informant's claim was sufficient evidence for denying Abrego Garcia’s bond request, and another judge upheld that ruling, saying the claim that Abrego Garcia was in MS-13 for purposes of the bond determination was not clearly wrong. Abrego Garcia has consistently denied any connection to MS-13.

The Trump administration will bring Abrego Garcia back but will delay it indefinitely.

While awaiting resolution to his deportation proceedings, Abrego Garcia married his girlfriend in June 2019, and they had a child together later that year. His wife also had two children from an earlier relationship, and all three children have special needs. Abrego Garcia and his family live in Maryland.

In 2019, with his lawyer, Abrego Garcia fought allegations against him in deportation proceedings in court and applied for asylum. His request for asylum was denied, as one must submit an asylum application within a year of arriving in the U.S. However, the judge granted him "withholding of removal" status that would block his deportation to El Salvador due to the threat that gangs would pose to him, finding that "he was more likely than not to be harmed if he was returned to El Salvador." He was granted a work permit the same year. He has lived and worked legally in Maryland since.

According to his attorney, after Abrego Garcia's release from detention in 2019 until he was taken into custody in March 2025, his only encounters with law enforcement were his annual required check-ins with ICE.

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