You cannot ethically write a paragraph that says "Trump claimed Monday that a genocide was taking place in South Africa" without immediately contextualizing it as a damnable, racist lie from a delusional demagogue. And yet WaPo did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/12/afrikaner-refugees-arrive-dulles-trump/
Fareed Zakaria: "#ElonMusk choosing, thru #DOGE, to cut #USAID is a case of the world's richest man being involved in the deaths of the world's worse [off] people."
Bill Gates: "If you show up and say in a few months you can cut $2 trillion out of a $7 trillion budget, you're not going to succeed... He's a genius in some domains but in global health, it hasn't been a focus."
Can we start a pool on what disease(s) he'll pick up there? Hopefully something non-lethal, but extremely painful and long-lasting. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114495800775231103
#Trump has halted virtually all #refugee admissions for people fleeing #famine & #war from places like #Sudan & the Democratic Republic of #Congo. But he has created an expedited path into the country for #Afrikaners, a #white ethnic minority that created & led the brutal #apartheid regime in #SouthAfrica.
The refugee process often takes years. But only 3 months have passed from the time Trump signed an EO establishing refugee status for Afrikaners….
#Protests continue outside the concentration camp where they illegally abducted the mayor of Newark.
Katherine Wells, the public health director in Lubbock, Texas, describes her fight to stop the largest measles outbreak since 2000, despite a chaotic reorganization of federal health agencies.
#HealthScience #Healthcare #National #News #Texas #Cdc #MeaslesOutbreak #MeaslesVaccine #PublicHealth #TexasMeaslesOutbreak
Gov. Abbott supports a bill in Texas that is being hyped as a "furries" bill.
When you read it, it's a draconian ban on a common form of children's play: dressing up.
But really, the goal here is to stoke anti-LGBTQ hysteria.
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/12/texas-wants-to-ban-kids-from-playing-dress-up-yes-really/
FAA CHAOS IN THE SKIES >>> THANKS MAGA CULT VOTERS: #OMG... #Trump Has A Guy Named #SeanDuffy From #Hayward, Wisconsin That Was A Competitive #Lumberjack Athlete And An #MTV #RealityTV Actor And #FoxNews Contributor As #America's Guy In Charge Of The #FAA....
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/nyregion/newark-airport-flight-disruptions-duffy.html
#Trading records examined by NYT show that a flurry of purchases of the $TRUMP token started the day before the coin’s backers disclosed the contest. Information had leaked about the upcoming promotion, allowing certain parties to make early bets that the market price was about to jump, the records suggest.
This Republican administration is attempting to find someone corrupt enough to be their IRS director as there has now been four different tries in four months.
https://wbhm.org/npr-story/trump-is-looking-to-use-the-irs-for-his-own-political-ends-nixon-tried-it-too/
You're going to reap
Just what you sow…
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-voting-parents-betrayed-son-detained-ice-2068435
Martin Diaz came to the U.S. as a toddler, fleeing cartel violence with his family. They had proof of the danger—a letter from a Michoacán official. He married a U.S. citizen & was advancing his visa.
Then ICE showed up at his home in Spokane: no warrant, no ID.
Now Martin’s the one charged—with assaulting them. But the video shows who was really assaulted. This is how ICE operates: lie, escalate, and disappear people.
#Felon47 #PuppyKiller #BrownShirts #ICE #DHS #Liars #Fascist #Nazis
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