30.11.2024, 11:39
Afiq Washington Wrap
A crowdfunded campaign to fly a giant Trump Baby balloon over London during President Trump s visit next month has smashed its fundraising target, collecting more than $16,000for the planned protest. But there s one pro stanley website blem: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said no.The dia stanley cup per-clad Trump Baby stands nearly 20 feet high, sports the president s signature blond hair, and holds a cellphone in his very small hands. Donald Trump is a big, angry baby with a fragile ego and tiny hands, the group behind the effort wrote on their Crowdfunder page. Moral outrage is water off a duck s back to Trump. But he really seems to hate it when people make fun of him. So when stanley kubek Trump visits the UK on Friday the 13th of July this year, we want to make sure he knows that all of Britain is looking down on him and laughing at him. Khan, however, has not given the group permission to fly the balloon at London s Parliament Square because, the activists say, the Trump Baby does not qualify as a protest. They are insisting that the only form of protest that is legally allowable on their land is a gathering of people, with banners and placards, they write. We have asked the Mayor to let us fly him over Parliament when Trump visits Britain on 13th July. But officials at City Hall have told us that TrumpBaby is not a protest. Apparently, he is art. Here he is, all 6m of him:2/n pic.twitter/0NIOUAMugkmdash; Leo Murray @criso Nqys Biden signs debt ceiling bill that pulls U.S. back from brink of unprecedented default
Updated at 3:08 a.m. Eastern. WASHINGTON - District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray and several council members have been released from jail seven hours after they were arrested during a sit-in protesting restrictions placed upon the district as part of the federal budget deal.Gray and others sat down and blocked the street in front of a Senate office building Monday. They chanted and shouted, Hey, hey, no, no, those D.C. riders have got to go. About 30 people were arrested. Six council members were arrested including Chairman Kwame Brown. We needed to make a statement, Gray said after his release. He said protesters shoelaces, ties and belts were removed while they were in jail. He said the district restrictions that were part of the budget deal reached Friday were completely unacceptable. Congress oversees D.C. s budget and laws and can pull funding for programs it doesn t like during the budgeting process. City officials say Washington was used as a pawn last week s budget b stanley cup argaining, with new restrictions part of the price of a deal. Under the stanley quencher budget agreement reached Friday, the details of which are still uncertain, the city will likely be unable to spend city dollars on abortions for low income women. It may also be banned from spending city money on needle exchange programs believed vital to curbing the spread of HIV stanley us in the city, where the disease is considered an epidemic. Also back, a school voucher program favored b
A crowdfunded campaign to fly a giant Trump Baby balloon over London during President Trump s visit next month has smashed its fundraising target, collecting more than $16,000for the planned protest. But there s one pro stanley website blem: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said no.The dia stanley cup per-clad Trump Baby stands nearly 20 feet high, sports the president s signature blond hair, and holds a cellphone in his very small hands. Donald Trump is a big, angry baby with a fragile ego and tiny hands, the group behind the effort wrote on their Crowdfunder page. Moral outrage is water off a duck s back to Trump. But he really seems to hate it when people make fun of him. So when stanley kubek Trump visits the UK on Friday the 13th of July this year, we want to make sure he knows that all of Britain is looking down on him and laughing at him. Khan, however, has not given the group permission to fly the balloon at London s Parliament Square because, the activists say, the Trump Baby does not qualify as a protest. They are insisting that the only form of protest that is legally allowable on their land is a gathering of people, with banners and placards, they write. We have asked the Mayor to let us fly him over Parliament when Trump visits Britain on 13th July. But officials at City Hall have told us that TrumpBaby is not a protest. Apparently, he is art. Here he is, all 6m of him:2/n pic.twitter/0NIOUAMugkmdash; Leo Murray @criso Nqys Biden signs debt ceiling bill that pulls U.S. back from brink of unprecedented default
Updated at 3:08 a.m. Eastern. WASHINGTON - District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray and several council members have been released from jail seven hours after they were arrested during a sit-in protesting restrictions placed upon the district as part of the federal budget deal.Gray and others sat down and blocked the street in front of a Senate office building Monday. They chanted and shouted, Hey, hey, no, no, those D.C. riders have got to go. About 30 people were arrested. Six council members were arrested including Chairman Kwame Brown. We needed to make a statement, Gray said after his release. He said protesters shoelaces, ties and belts were removed while they were in jail. He said the district restrictions that were part of the budget deal reached Friday were completely unacceptable. Congress oversees D.C. s budget and laws and can pull funding for programs it doesn t like during the budgeting process. City officials say Washington was used as a pawn last week s budget b stanley cup argaining, with new restrictions part of the price of a deal. Under the stanley quencher budget agreement reached Friday, the details of which are still uncertain, the city will likely be unable to spend city dollars on abortions for low income women. It may also be banned from spending city money on needle exchange programs believed vital to curbing the spread of HIV stanley us in the city, where the disease is considered an epidemic. Also back, a school voucher program favored b