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You can call this hyperbolic if you like, but they disappeared a student organiser with a green card and told him it would be revoked. We all know where this is going.

Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants and Contracts to Columbia Univeristy The White House blamed the university’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment during protests last year over the war in Gaza.

Wow, nice job, tRump. I'm sure those Jewish students you're supposedly "protecting" won't benefit from that $400 million you're cutting at all.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...

Well, then JK, I love you. I absolutely adore you. Will that keep your toxic, hateful rhetoric a hundred miles away from me?

Trump’s DOJ Erases Report On Violence Against Native American Women

Yes, because obviously we don't want to talk about dead brown women and children.
The report is actually still there, but you have to search for it directly, we wouldn't want to make it easy to find it.

www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

(Report here, it's worth reading: www.doi.gov/media/docume...)

FYI, I'm now referring to the current POTUS as Mx. Krump.

We're all non-binary now, and the "T" and first two "K's" are silent.

It's started.
www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

Two days for a country to go back 200 years. I guess time travel is real.

A note that I have been absent and may continue to be absent from social media due to illness and my father's death.

Keep fighting the good fight.

without frequently thinking of my skin color, I am never asked to be a token or example or to speak for my race.

And in general, when I look at people in history, most of them look like me. 4/4

treated fairly by bankers, realtors, businesses or the IRS, not to mention the criminal justice system, most doctors, medications and medical trials are well represented by my race, if something is flesh, skin or nude colored, it will generally match my race, I can generally live my life 3/4

the President of my country is almost always my skin color, as area majority of actors, models and musicians, my supervisors are also generally my skin color, most food in the grocery store is designed for me, most salons are used to working with my hair texture, I can expect to generally be 2/4

Examples: I can still walk into a 7-11 without being watched by the clerk, feel nervous but not afraid for my life when pulled over by cops, being greeted and not ignored or watched suspiciously by store staff, except most makeup or clothes to be designed in ways flattering to my skin color, 1/4

42% of cancer patients lose their life savings within two years. We need Medicare for all.

Picture of iron lung polio patients with text stating we don't have polio. because our grandparents decided we shouldn't.

to take care of other humans as they also take care of me. Thank goodness Elon wasn't a member of that apocryphal tribe whose member had a broken femur. He would've left that man to the Smilodons and civilization would never have existed! 9/9

schools will be future construction workers and nurses and doctors that will build and work at the nursing home I end up at when I'M older. We contribute to society, and society takes care of us. That's how civilization works. I'm a humanist and my moral compass says I have an obligation 8/9

roads and emergency services to salaries for astronauts to go to space. I've never been to space, but I'm happy to contribute to Curiosity roving around Mars. I don't have children in school, but I'm happy to contribute to school construction and teachers, because guess what, the kids in those 7/9

schools and foster care for children, Social Security for the disabled, the VA for veterans, TANF and HUD for the poor and homeless. Elon complains that kids now have to take care of their own parents and those who don't have kids. Well, guess what, Elon? We also pay taxes for everything from 6/9

Locke, Rousseau & others, the idea of a social contract is at the heart of our government. We pay taxes, obey laws, and contribute to society as our obligation to our government, and in return that society, through the government, has obligations to us. Including nursing homes for the elderly, 5/9

also care for children, disabled individuals, veterans, the poor, the homeless, and others who bring value to society (Stephen Hawking, for example?) but need financial and social assistance to do so. And guess what? Somebody DOES. It's called the government, and to butcher the ideas of Hobbes, 4/9

Of course, it's unlikely Margaret Mead actually said this. It's a nice story though, and more importantly, it demonstrates the idea that caring for all in a society is what *creates* a society. Musk notes that *somebody* has to care of older people. He's right, somebody should. Somebody should 3/9

with a healed broken femur, demonstrating that individuals in that tribe of Homo Sapiens cared for the man despite his injury. That care of injured, elderly or infirm individuals is said to be the first sign of civilization: helping others is the cornerstone of how we start a society. 2/9

Elon Musk stating it's anti-human to not have children because someone has to take care of older people.

This is an older post, but I still feel it's necessary to respond to it, because Elon's position hasn't changed. Margaret Mead once said a broken femur was the first sign of civilization. She was referring to an archeological site where the skeleton of an early Homo Sapiens man was found 1/9

America's 12 richest men now worth a combined $2 trillion Their net worth is less than $2 trillion short of the wealth of the bottom half of the U.S.

The combined net worth of America's twelve wealthiest people just passed $2 TRILLION.

12 people. $2 trillion.

The bottom half of America collectively holds $3.5 trillion.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

SSI and Medicare are my only financial resources as well. It's a very scary time.

Yeah, but I didn't vote for him and I'm still getting screwed. And I have too much empathy and understanding of the power of propaganda to feel any schadenfreude for those who'll lose benefits.

So, the very same Republicans who said they blocked the release of the House ethics report on Matt Gaetz because he is no longer an elected official, are vowing to further investigate Hunter Biden, who is not now, and has never been, an elected official?

Do I have that about right?

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