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Meanwhile, while #texas counts the dead... #uspol #trump

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When Donald Trump heard about the devastation and death caused by flash flooding in Texas, he personally directed FEMA to send every available federal resource to support state and local rescue efforts. Just kidding, he did this:

Photograph of Donald Trump, in a red hat, cheerfully golfing.

George R. Ferguson ✌️ boosted:

#Politics #ICE #Law ##LawEnforcement #Military #Wall #FBI #AFT #USMarshalls #BureaukfPrisons #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 7/6/25
LARGEST ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN U.S. HISTORY
Trump brownshirts

George R. Ferguson ✌️ boosted:

Come on #NYT! "Some experts"? Of course the lack of qualified staff exacerbated by Trump's anti-science crusade contributed to this disaster. Stop pussyfooting around the facts here. #MAGA stupidity cost lives!

#texas #floods #climate

Push message from New York Times that says "some experts question whether" vacancies for key roles at US national weather service hurt coordination with emergency officials.

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American farmers warn that, due to the scarcity of harvesters — almost all of whom are foreign migrants — U.S. citizens will soon face shortages of goods in stores and soaring prices. However, this dilemma can be readily remedied #USA #migrants #food (...)

George R. Ferguson ✌️ boosted:

New in PN: We've reached the indicting the opposition stage of fascism

"The charges against McIver are thin, to say the least. And none of this can be separated from the intensifying chaos around us, as ICE thugs rampage in the streets and Republicans target Democratic politicians." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mciver-habba-grand-jury-indictment-ice

George R. Ferguson ✌️ boosted:

Totally normal, totally non-fascist country.

#USPol #politics

Screenshot of CNN video posted 2025-016-13 "We will kill you"

George R. Ferguson ✌️ boosted:

From all that I hear, read, and see, the only deals that Trump has been able to close since inauguration have been those where others have held the victims down so Trump can pay somebody to pummel the victim while Trump watches.
#maga #trump #trade #economy #politics

Four panel image from left to right, top to bottom: Trump at poker table says "all in"; China's Xi says "call"; Trump rubs head with worried expression; Trump says "I fold".

George R. Ferguson ✌️ boosted:

#politics #women #maine #alt #trump #governormills #resist #womensrights
Heather Cox Richardson Maine and Strong Women 3/22/2025

Heather Cox Richardson Maine and Strong Women 3/22/2025
Mills [Governor of Maine] ....Trump seems to be trying to make his fight with her personal. So long as she is willing to kowtow to him, the “case” can be “settled.” Exactly what she is supposed to be apologizing to him for is unclear, T's political stances have dlso belied his claim to protect women. He has worked to deny women & girls access to health care, including the right not to die needlessly from a miscarriage. He has undermined women'’s right to control their own bodies & defunded or stopped the programs that protect their right to be safe from domestic violence & sexual assault.Mills stands in dramatic contrast to Trump. Her career has focused on helping women & girls to overcome domestic violence, the threat of sexual assault, and inequities in the workplace. As a district attorney—the first woman elected as a DA in New England—she grew frustrated with the ways in which the criminal justice system failed victims of domestic violence. She co-founded the Mdine Women'’s Lobby to advocate for battered and abused women, which then led to her election to the Maine legislature and from there to state attorney general and then to the governorship.While Trump’s demand that Mills make a “full throated apology” to him is in keeping with his habitual attempts to dominate women, Mills follows in a tradition of women from Maine who stood up for the principles of American democracy against bullies who would destroy it.

George R. Ferguson ✌️ boosted:

@ScienceScholar
It is ONLY b/c nearly every man, woman & child over the last 60 years has been vaccinated for #Measels that this outbreak in #Texas isn't spreading like wildfire and making the #Covid #Pandemic look like the flu.

And now we have an administration that has been stoking #antivaxer idiocy that is going to have catastrophic effects decades down the road. #DisasterPresidency #LordHelpUs