#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
August 30, 2017 – After Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, Donald Trump visited Corpus Christi and told a small crowd the recovery from the hurricane’s devastation would be “better than ever before.”
His proposed budget slashed FEMA programs aimed at helping Americans get back on their feet after natural disasters.
#TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #AmericanFascistParty #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware) stated, “It is unacceptable that after last year signing a Republican tax bill that gave away tens of billions in corporate tax cuts and added more than $1 trillion to the national debt, President Trump cites the need for government belt-tightening in his decision to slash a planned pay increase.”
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A high profile conservative lawyer (and the ex-husband of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway) is calling Donald Trump’s political strategy what it is: “authoritarianism.”
“We have never seen anything like this in America."
https://trib.al/6bXaMaj
[Sociopath] #StephenMiller, deputy White House chief of staff, said on Friday the #military buildup was aimed to "combat & dismantle drug trafficking organizations, criminal #cartels & these foreign terrorist organizations in our hemisphere."
But it is unclear exactly how the US military presence would disrupt the drug trade.
A: Because the press is largely composed of cowardly losers
#Illinois Restores Protections For Press Targeted With Frivolous Lawsuits https://thedissenter.org/illinois-restores-protections-for-press-targeted-with-frivolous-lawsuits/
Judge blocks expedited deportation of migrants without due process https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/30/federal-judge-blocks-expedited-removal-immigrants/7251756561179/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
T•••• gets rolled by a replacement-level brown person https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/trump-modi-india.html
"Exclusive − Trump doesn't want long-term occupation of American cities, Vance says"
Translation:
"Whoops, this has been a complete clusterfuck. We thought Americans in LA and DC would roll over and die. After all, that's what we would do! How were we to know? 😭 Now the sandwich guy is a national hero and we look dumber than ever."
Pope Leo Will Receive a Pro-LGBTQ+ Catholic Group at the Vatican for the First Time
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-lgbtq-rights-vatican-visit-we-are-church
“More people are being held by the United States in #immigration detention than ever before, with many facilities housing more individuals than they were built to contain,. Reports of mistreatment have been widespread and have included disturbing details of overcrowding, food shortages, lack of adequate medical care, and unsanitary conditions.” https://www.texasobserver.org/dems-congress-ice-detention-oversight-lawsuit/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjyqnndvwjo?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
Can Texas stoop any lower? Maybe they'd like a return to the internment camps for Asian Americans....
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says sending military troops to Chicago would be an "invasion" by Trump administration
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illinois-gov-pritzker-military-national-guard-chicago-invasion-trump/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“[H]ere’s the basic point: Democratic governors should scour every corner of the law to find creative ways to show that in their America, public officials will go to the wall to defend the health and well-being of their constituents from the potential mass illness and death that Trump and Kennedy appear eager to unleash.”
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