The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children.
The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war.
Priorities.
So far we’ve heard 12 different primary reasons for the war, 7 different main objectives, and 5 different exit strategies.
We're two months into this election year, and Trump has already killed 150 people and launched strikes against 44 boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, deposed the Venezuelan leader, menaced Greenland, occupied Minneapolis, mused about regime change in Cuba and Mexico, proposed canceling US elections, and launched a war of choice against Iran over the opposition of the vast majority of our country.
When the walls close in, authoritarians lash out.
Tweet from Sky Marchini: “‘I’.” Below is Acyn’s tweet quoting Stephen Miller on CNN: “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice, sleepy southern town, is anyone going to riot?” Screenshot shows Miller speaking on the right and the interviewer on the left, with the headline: “Illinois & Chicago sue Trump over Natl Guard deployment.”
That’s quite a telling statement, Stephen Miller. I guess you’re calling all the shots now?
Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt
Universal basic income creates a larger base of customers. Increasing supply makes no sense without sufficient demand. UBI improves the expression of demand by making sure more people have discretionary income to spend. And tax wealth. That money isn't buying shit. It's just buying bragging rights.
Prison without due process is a concentration camp
Trump is building concentration camps in America, and the press hasn't caught on. So allow me: AMERICA IS BUILDING CONCENTRATION CAMPS TO GO WITH ITS SECRET POLICE.
Trump and his supporters are waging war on innocent Americans. Never forget and never forgive the people who voted for this.
Alligator Auschwitz indeed.
Rant redacted. This is so fucking obscene.
The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion."
But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
Image text reads: look at the resources they're willing to commit to terrorize people but not feed or house people
Me too. You guys would have really liked each other. 💚
At the heart of things, there is no Them.”
This is time for Eagle and Condor to fly together again. The people of Condor come from the South. Like the 17th century English, few would choose to leave their ancestral homes if not driven out by the consequences of the huge, historic Lie of borders.
When you lose that, you’re left with much smaller selves, and just remnants of your original stories and ceremonies, increasingly diminished and deformed by the thousands of years of war.)
When you lose those connections, you lose your awareness that you have a Sacred self, that all living things have a Sacred self.
They had long since lost their connections to their own ancient songs, stories and — I think most important — ceremonies. Losing those connections is the inevitable consequence of invasion, occupation and war, as well demonstrated by the experience of the First Peoples of this continent.
That war included, as do contemporary wars, ownership of the other thing that can never be owned: one’s relationship with Spirit, with Creator.)
(Many who came in the 1600s left England specifically to escape the bloody English civil war, a bit of history I was unaware of until some learning demanded by ancestor work.
When the English came to these shores, they came out from under about 3,000 years of wave after wave of invasion, occupation, and war.
It’s all been one war, all these thousands of years, fought over owning what that could never be owned in the first place.
And every nonindigenous culture’s economy for all these thousands of years since that radical inversion of our understanding of our relationship to the Earth is based on land ownership, and every war has been based on who owns what land.
I think that’s an astoundingly important piece of information: that must have been the beginning of the notion than land — Earth — can be *owned.* We can’t own Earth any more than we can own our breath or our mothers — that’s a given in all indigenous cultures.
One of the things Don Alejandro, chief of the Mayan Council of Elders, said 11 years ago when he spoke in the Washington area is that where we are as a planet was pretty much set in stone way, way back in time when mankind came up with the notion of borders.
I believe the central answer to that question is found in the inevitable evolution of a system that makes people forget how beautiful and precious they are.
A reliable suggestion: when you feel economic kinds of grief, look up, not down — it’s not the people who are equally or more poor than you who are the source of that grief. The next tough step is asking how on Earth those who are the source could cause such grief to their own brothers and sisters.
Also be aware that the same structural forces responsible for the pain more and more people feel here are precisely the same forces that deliver precisely the same pain all around the world.
