I'm working at a tax office temporarily. I cannot believe the number of people who actually think that Mango Mussolini is going to making tips and Social Security untaxable is CRAZY! I've even had people ask if it has started yet.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s focus on vitamin A use to combat a growing measles outbreak in Texas is raising concerns among public health experts, who fear he is sending the wrong message about preventing the highly contagious disease and distracting from the importance of vaccination.
Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement, joined with former Polish political prisoners to send an impassioned letter to President Trump voicing "horror and disgust" at his scolding of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last week.
Trump: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!...”
The move targets some of the United States’ top exports to China, including soybeans, meat and grains.
It was retaliation for Trump’s announcement that he would increase tariffs on Chinese products by an additional 10 percentage points, bringing the total tax on some Chinese products to 45 percent.
China imposed tariffs of up to 15 percent on a raft of U.S. farm products on Tuesday and blacklisted more than 20 U.S. companies, marking a major escalation in a brewing trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
Presumably, this government by Truth Social posts will define exactly what an “illegal protest” is, and that definition will not be so broad that it encroaches on free speech guarantees we’ve enjoyed for two centuries.
David Fotouhi's confirmation hearing is tomorrow - the man who could by #2 at EPA and recently tried to overturn the agency's ban on asbestos.
Stay tuned...
www.propublica.org/article/davi...
COLLINS: Who do you blame for the war?
CHIP ROY: It began on Joe Biden's watch
COLLINS: Wait, you blame Joe Biden for the war?
ROY: This all started under Joe Biden
COLLINS: Putin started this war
Just a firehose of lies. Trump did nothing while Putin sat on a massive swath of Ukraine. Biden oversaw the largest U.S. oil exports in history. The war was started by Putin and he is the enemy. Just like the Republicans who have now dismantled our government.
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Donald, what, you had to bring a guy from the Russian state media in to watch you try and beat up Zelenskyy—and you thought that would make you look good? It made you look like the crook you are. Zelenskyy is a man that you will never be; he’s a genuine hero.
Trump’s White House gave a press pool pass to Jessica Reed Kraus, a pro-Trump reporter who wore a “FREE GHISLAINE” Maxwell shirt, advocating for the convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate currently serving 20 years for child sex trafficking to be freed.
Elon Musk, Trump’s guy raiding government agencies, welcomed his Twitter platform’s “most entertaining timeline 😂” and posted a trending topic screenshot that included Kanye West, others.
Kanye, who had posted about Hitler and Nazis, then posted, “I am racist” and announced a new swastika shirt.
#Palestine: Our latest report, “Inflicting harm and denying care”, contains testimony from medical personnel in the #WestBank who have been tied up, shot at, and harassed by Israeli forces while trying to perform their lifesaving duties.
www.msf.org/%E2%80%9Cinf...
I love this. This should be the symbol of the new rebel coalition.
#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social
They’ve defamed us, they’ve doxxed us, they’ve sued us and they’ve threatened our lives but we are not backing down. We will NEVER back down. They are scared of us and the power of this community. www.meidasplus.com/p/trumpers-a...
"Nobody voted for Elon Musk. And nobody wants airplanes to fall out of the sky. But after Musk pushed out the head of the FAA and Donald Trump gutted the agency’s safety board, and Musk attempted to push air traffic controllers to quit, the worst domestic airline disaster since 2001 occurred."
JUST IN: Advocates for immigrants have filed a new lawsuit arguing that Trump's EO describing an "invasion" violates federal immigration law by denying effectively erasing asylum process.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May be something to learn from this-
Step 1 - set free militants loyal to you
Step 2 - demonize marginalized segments of society
Step 3 - purge civil servants and oversight <—— you are here
Step 4 - claim authority to rule by decree
Step 5 - fascism
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
Most immigrants Trump targets have been here 10+ years, paying taxes, raising families, contributing to our communities.
Mass deportation would devastate our economy and tear apart the social fabric of America.
https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/
Black text on white background. It reads: With you, for you. WHO remains committed to health for all.
#HealthForAll
For everyone. Everywhere.
The Constitution is clear: If you are born in the U.S., you are a U.S. citizen.
The Reagan-appointed judge affirmed what we already knew that President Trump’s executive order was "blatantly unconstitutional.”
apnews.com/article/birt...
From the UK
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My husband would have to drive 25 min each way to pick me up.
I have an interview tomorrow for another position that would be a 15 minute WALK from my house but it's not guaranteed.
What would you do?
#unemployed #jobsearch #advice #careeradvice
Help! I've been out of work for months. I have a job offer right now which is awesome, BUT the job is a 25 minute commute. I don't currently have a license or car. It would be a $25 Lyft ride to work then my husband would have to drive 25 minutes
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I've been searching for a job since August. I've been working on education and child care for most of my life but need a change because of chronic back pain issues. Does anyone here have advice for an over 40 #jobseeker? #unemployed #careeradvice
