Indianapolis lost federal matching funds for replanting trees in the city because of the word “diversity” in biodiversity.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2025/02/26/feds-pull-tree-planting-grant-from-keep-indianapolis-beautiful/80473693007/
@MalcolmNance No surprise there.
BREAKING: #MAGA Republican Senator Josh Hawley says that he will vote for #Trump’s “#beautiful” bill despite his loud opposition about the bill kicking working class #Americans off #Medicaid. No spine. No courage to do what is right. Just talk.
Racist Trump and his racist thugs can't reach their quota, so...
"ICE detentions of non-criminal immigrants spike; about 8% have violent convictions, analysis of new data shows" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-detentions-non-criminal-immigrants-violent-crime-convictions-analysis/
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:10ec30dd-6c3d-4273-9d01-1d8fce5d09c3
Senate GOP tax bill includes largest cut to U.S. safety net in decades
The legislation would enact historic, possibly unprecedented, reductions in Medicaid and food stamps spending.
Yesterday at 12:35 p.m. EDT
By Jeff Stein
Iran bans Elon Musk's Starlink and threatens users with flogging or jail
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Iran threatens to flog Elon Mu...
#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
June 30, 2020 – Fireworks at Mount Rushmore were banned a decade ago over fears of wildfires, but the Trump administration announced that he would host a Fourth of July fireworks celebration at the park. South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, who organized the event with Trump and the Department of Interior, said, “we will not be social distancing.”
#ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #NoFascism #USPol
Trump raises supply management objections in comment about trade standoff with Canada
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/38d5ba8051c994b77f97d647f27ca48950d7cfbf7a89e783bc47d6604eac36ee/YOHR3AI3LJBCZBMAE7MPQ2D3MY/
First on the list should be #MelaniaTrump and Elon Musk. Let’s call the DOJ and voice our opinions! #uspol #uspolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/trump-birthright-citizenship-naturalized-citizens
The Trump administration has codified its efforts to strip some Americans of their US citizenship
in a recently published justice department memo that directs attorneys to prioritize
🔥denaturalization for naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes.
The memo, published on 11 June, calls on attorneys in the department to institute civil proceedings to
🆘 revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either “illegally procured” naturalization or procured naturalization by “concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation”.
At the center of the move are the estimated 25 million US citizens who immigrated to the country after being born abroad, according to data from 2023
– and it lists 10 different priority categories for denaturalization.
❌According to the memo, those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases.
💥And the government has a lighter burden of proof in civil cases than they do in criminal ones.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/trump-birthright-citizenship-naturalized-citizens?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Senate excludes trillions in debt to make Trump’s tax bill seem cheaper
Senate Republicans slapped a price tag on their tax package that is nearly 90 percent lower than the version that recently passed the House.
They didn’t bring the price down by changing the policies in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Instead, the Senate changed the way they did the math.
Senate Republicans are using a new method to estimate the costs of their tax package that ignores the price of continuing any tax policy in effect when the bill is passed.
That method of accounting, called the “current policy” baseline, lets the Senate advertise President Donald Trump’s tax package at one-tenth of its impact on the nation’s finances as estimated by Congress’s usual way of counting costs.
If the costs were estimated in the traditional way, the Senate’s proposed tax package would add
💥$4.2 trillion 💥to the national debt, according to preliminary estimates from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/28/senate-big-beautiful-bill-cost-trump/
NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
#govkristinoem #SouthDakota #GOPDogKiller #KristiNoem #USPol #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
How does removing health care make US great? It is an attack on the poor by elites who don’t care.
Musk said empathy was a weakness and not helping those in need demonstrates how morally corrupt the size has become.
Trump’s BIG BAD BILL: “Largest transfer of wealth to the rich in American history.
- Largest cut to Medicaid in American history.
- Largest cut to food assistance in American history.
- Electricity costs could go up by 30%.
- Millions of jobs could disappear.
- $4 trillion will be added to the debt.
This is one of the most destructive bills in US history.”— Newsom #press
#Via Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
June 29, 2025, 1:34 PM
"Whoa! Alligator Alcatraz is going to be complete by Tuesday and open for operation on Wednesday.
Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast?
Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.
BTW— don’t miss this point. Alligator Alcatraz is being built on sacred Native land."
GHF discloses 12 American workers murdered by #Hamas, others tortured in #Gaza https://www.democraticunderground.com/1134144073
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