The World Cup has many people of the world see the diversity and the beauty of America. Also, they have traveled into Mexico and Canada who are nations with a rich, strong cultural heritage too. Many people, who have come to America, have visited American cities for the first time in their lives. Many fans from other nations wants restaurants to pay their workers a living wage. Also, the FIFA World Cup has increased tourism and businesses in the city of Philadelphia. Soccer is the most popular sport on Earth. We Americans call the sport soccer, and people globally call the sport football. Many international fans have gone to American hotels, restaurants, and in rural towns too to eat BBQ, use ranch, enjoy, eat fish, and buy for other items. You have Scottish people singing in Miami too. International fans take the sport of soccer very seriously. This is similar to how us American fans take the sports of American football, baseball, basketball, hockey, track and field, etc. very seriously. World Cup fans have certainly enjoyed their vacations in tons of places in America, Mexico, and Canada. Providentially, this has come near the Fourth of July on the 250th anniversary of the birth of our nation of the United States of America. You have Japanese soccer fans celebrating in Dallas, Texas. There were over 20,000 Danish soccer fans walking in the streets of Kansas City. The lesson here is that we have many things in common among our diversity as human beings. America has tons of problems and imperfections, but America has tons of righteous people who are fighting the good fight too.
Some good news is that the federal judge struck down key parts of the Trump administration plan to restrict mail-in voting. The judge said that the Constitution doesn't grant the executive branch special powers to regulate elections. The Postal Office has no power to regulate in terms of completely restricting mail-in voting too. Trump wants states to send him voter rolls, especially from more progressive states. This is totally fascist and hypocrisy. Trump and the MAGA movement claim to oppose big government, but they want to expand the executive branch of the federal government to be massively involved in elections which has no constitutional basis. Trump wants the SAVE Act to be passed in believing that anyone voting must prove citizenship to vote along with other voting suppression policies. Also, many MAGA people (who claim to be Christian) are hypocrites to claim to promote moral values but they support Trump (when Trump has been a racist, made sexist remarks, made xenophobic remarks, impeached twice, adjudicated as a sexual abuser, an accused adulterer, threatened genocide against Iran, blasphemously depicted himself as Jesus Christ, made perverted comments about his own daughter, and is a habitual liar). Therefore, our eyes must be on the prize.
Like usual, 6 members of the Supreme Court sided with Trump on two major immigration cases. The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled to end the humanitarian safeguards under the Temporary Protected Status program. The TPS dealt with legal residents of America, and that new decision from the Supreme Court will harm the lives of Haitians and Syrians. Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion curbed the power of the courts to review government decisions to terminate protections under the TPS program. That majority in the Court said that Haitians and Syrians aren't entitled to orders keeping their protections in place while their litigation proceeds. This also means that thousands of Haitians and Syrians could lose their legal status and work authorization. Racist and xenophobic comments have been made by Donald Trump and Trump's immigration policies have been supported by former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Alito and 5 other justices made the falsehood that their majority decision is race-neutral when the Trump administration has made overtly racist statements. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson and Kagan said that many Haitians and Syrians risk their lives. Another Supreme Court case in a 6-3 decision sided with Trump to turn away asylum seekers if they're still on the Mexican side of the U.S./Mexico border. The majority claims that this decision is following federal law, and the minority decision says that this decision will cause the executive branch to close the door on all people escaping persecution (and America must follow its treaty obligations to people fleeing persecution).
The primary elections took place in Maryland, New York, South Carolina, and Utah. The midterm elections in November 2026 are coming up, and people are ready. Afro-Latina Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated the candidate Rep. Adriano Espaillat in a Democratic primary. The primary has been tough, and many people want something done in dealing with housing affordability. There is the controversy of many racists disrespecting Chevalier by using the term "Haitians" in a racist fashion (like Rusking Pimentel, who is an Espaillat senior adviser saying that Chevalier wants to replace Dominican New Yorkers with Muslims and Haitians. A spokesperson for the Espaillat campaign said that Pimentel's comments are condemned by Espaillat), using Islamophobic smears, and making other anti-black statements. Chevalier has defended her Dominican roots and promotes a multiracial and working-class coalition. Brad Lander defeated Dan Goldman. Both candidates defeated on the issue of Israel as Lander wants restrictions on military aid to Israel while condemning anti-Semitism. Both men are Jewish Americans. Claire Valdez defeated Antonio Reynoso. The Democrats are in a crossroads where issues of Palestine, democratic socialism, and other social issues are on the forefront. We know where the MAGA movement stands on these issues. The important question is whether Democrats will have a united front to defeat MAGA or will they divide to ruin their chances. Time will tell. We can agree to disagree on many issues, but some issues are non-negotiable (like condemning racism, opposing ICE, supporting universal health care, opposing imperialism, believing in investments in medicine, and condemning xenophobia).
Trump recently canceled signing a major housing bill, because he is petty and he wants the bigoted, anti-voting SAVE Act to be passed by Congress. The housing legislation is a rare bipartisan bill that seeks to deal with the housing affordability crisis. Trump said the lie that the affordability issue is a hoax. The reality is that millions of Americans are struggling to own a home, and some are forced to either live in a rent housing situation or make other arrangements. Trump refuses to sign the bill until Congress passes the SAVE American Act (which will overhaul elections in all 50 states and add new proof of citizenship and voter ID requirements). Also, activists believe that the bill may harm the voting rights of wives who have changed their names. Of course, pro-Trump sycophant House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana defended the President's decision. Trump's poll numbers are in record lows in about 30 percent. Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylore Greene said that they are leaving the Republican Party because of the policies of Trump, especially involving the unjust Iranian war. Elizabeth Warren told the truth that Trump doesn't care about the interests of the Americans involving housing, and Trump said that inflation is good. That tells me about the extremism of Donald Trump in plain view.
By Timothy
