LA public schools will protect students and families at graduations from Ice ‘Perimeters of safety around graduation sites’ aim to prevent any immigration enforcement action
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley introduces bill to raise federal minimum wage to $15 per hour It's an unusual move for a Republican, as the party has successfully thwarted previous attempts by Democrats to increase the nationwide wage floor.
I love this paragraph because that's also a way of describing reckless tariffs imposed by a president with no authority to impose them: "Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said he opposes Hawley’s measure, expressing the longstanding GOP stance that minimum wage hikes distort markets and make it harder for employers to hire."
Fetterman Calls California Protests ‘Anarchy’ as He Criticizes Democrats The Pennsylvania senator warned that his party would lose “the moral high ground” if it did not go further in condemning acts of destruction or violence, which local officials said were under control.
Anti-ICE protests held coast to coast after L.A. unrest as national movement grows Activists plan more events Tuesday in New York, Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta.
In a longer, attached statement, [Representative Mark] Green wrote: "It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up.
"As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package."
White House proposes axing 988 suicide hotline services for LGBTQ youth The specialized suicide-prevention counseling service for LGBTQ youths and young adults received more than 1.3 million contacts since the program’s start in 2022, advocates said.
Where the hell did the AP get the doofus that wrote this shit? “A less flattering side of Los Angeles.” Apparently it’s not flattering to fight off fascists tooth and nail? We should roll over and just let these secret police kidnappings happen, that’d be much more flattering, right? https://apnews.com/...
I know they’ve shown repeatedly that they’ll support their own faces being eaten But are his supporters really going to be happy with FEMA shutting down? It seems like the red states rely on it just as much much or more than the blue states
The money's coming "from the president's office" in the future so the begging from governors has to be made direct and they have to butter him up beforehand so he doesn't withhold out of spite
they're going to kiss his ass, and unless he can use you for something, he'll deny it anyway. his petty ass can't even pretend to be nice without getting something out of it
also Reuters did an annoying thing and paywalled me from reading more but I thought I saw disney is finally getting off their asses and suing some AI companies
it's also really rich of dog killer barbie to claim they want to foster unity and mutual aid between the states as an excuse for the federal government to be lazy and do nothing to help citizens when they've been sowing division between states on the basis of how their citizens vote
At this point I genuinely think Trump supporters don't care how badly they're affected by anything, as long as someone they don't like is hurt. There's nothing to their belief system but malice for the sake of malice.
about mayor Ortiz Jones too, her opponent tried to claim she's just adding the Ortiz name for "points with the Latino community" and she's not actually Latino
... i thought Phillippines was on the Portuguese side of the world divide? am i misremembering history? or did Spain occupy them later? my world history knowledge having holes... cannot abide...
Yup! this is one of the reasons that you see a lot of Hispanic sounding names among the Filipino community. I remember my brother had a Filipino American classmate whose last name was de los Reyes
like there is a dearth of Asian history college courses compared to say, Western history or Latin American history, but if you shop around you might find something that is accessible to you
yep my community college offered asian art history and I loved that class to bits though I didn't peek into the other aspects of history, I'll have to give it another look
RE: Portugal, you might be thinking about Ferdinand Magellan, who is Portuguese but led a Spanish expedition that eventually ended up in the Philippines where he ended up getting his ass killed in a battle against a local chief and his warriors
(also on a side note, China's also had a big presence in the Philippines since about the 1500s-1600s if I'm remembering it correctly and those of Chinese descent tend to be fairly well represented in the country's elite due to their merchant history)
and in general I would venture to guess that many if not most Filipino languages today incorporate a shitton of Spanish loanwords (in my mind the most prominent of this is numbers since that's an everyday thing)
/o/ I have no experience with Chavacano personally, FYI, I'm really only familiar with Cebuano/Bisaya (because that's what both my parents speak at home) and Tagalog (which is the basis of the "Pilipino" official national language)
(and incidentally I believe there is a Thing back home where the number of Cebuano speakers matches or exceeds the number of Tagalog speakers so there's been some push to add Cebuano to the official languages list or something along those lines)
SORRY TANGENT but I usually have no useful commentary on these current event plurks so rofl just wanted to run my mouth a little now that I actually had something I could talk with some authority about
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: ha! I was wondering which got their dumb ass killed by that Chad chief, glad to know it was a Portuguese guy (don't come at me I am Portuguese)
although for the record I think technically it wasn't like Lapulapu had an Ultimate Battle of Ultimate Destiny with Magellan, I think Magellan got shot by Lapulapu's warriors and then he died at some point after
and on that note how can I possibly not link this short musical history lesson (sung by a very well-known Filipino musician; at least back in the day, idk what his reach is now) https://www.youtube.com/...
I got to tell my stepdad "yeah spain colonized the philippines a long time ago and occupied them for a couple hundred so spanish is in their languages and their names even if they're asian" because he seemed confused by mayor ortiz jones
also I get the impression that most people don't really know or understand that the Philippines was also an American colony for like 50 years after Spain so :')
occasionally I have that struggle with being portuguese but fortunately I've settled on Latin Adjacent But Not Latino Or Hispanic Don't Believe Your PNW White Neighbor
Uhhhh vaguely I understand that the Americans helped the Philippines kick Spain out in like the 1890s but then turned around and were like "actually we've decided we wanna hang out here now "
and yeah, relatively recent! my mom was born in 1950 and she's talked before about how she really wasn't taught about Filipino history in schools, it was American
(and on the topic of what history is being taught in Filipino schools I have heard recent reports that apparently no one is talking about the Marcos regime in the 70s/thereabouts so there's been this huge revisionist surge which likely had a huge impact on his son being elected as the current president of the country)
I mean this is why we say the arc of history bends toward justice, because on a long timescale people broadly tend to go "huh that thing that was done before was actually really fucked up, we shouldn't be okay with that" a lot more than they go "hey we should be more self-interested and violently domineering"
‘Perimeters of safety around graduation sites’ aim to prevent any immigration enforcement action
It's an unusual move for a Republican, as the party has successfully thwarted previous attempts by Democrats to increase the nationwide wage floor.
The Pennsylvania senator warned that his party would lose “the moral high ground” if it did not go further in condemning acts of destruction or violence, which local officials said were under control.
Activists plan more events Tuesday in New York, Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta.
In a longer, attached statement, [Representative Mark] Green wrote: "It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up."As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package."Fetterman spotted with Bannon at DC MAGA hangout: ReportABC News won’t renew Terry Moran contract after Trump, Miller ‘hater’ social media post
The specialized suicide-prevention counseling service for LGBTQ youths and young adults received more than 1.3 million contacts since the program’s start in 2022, advocates said.
Help ICE or lose your job, Florida attorney general tells Broward sheriffNew Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted following ICE protestThe three counts, which allege McIver forcibly interfered with law enforcement officials, come with a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison.Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHSA contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.Smithsonian to Conduct Wide Content Review Requested by Trumphttps://www.cnn.com/...
Police block protesters from closing in on federal building in downtown ManhattanAlabama sheriff arrested for hiring uncertified officers, including one accused of violenceHungarians declare resistance to Orbán’s government with a large protestpile bikes in front of a driveway? send in special response teams, stat!!!!
lmao took you a while, fuckasses
her response? "I'm Filipino and you're racist"
Spain occupied the Philippines beginning in 1565https://www.youtube.com/...
"but we don't wan--"
"[bald eagle screech]"