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RonSupportsYou
2025-11-29

In one of the examples described here, "The Department of Homeland Security informed a Santa Rosa-based nonprofit that it should end all of its work funded by the grant — helping legal immigrants navigate the complex pathway to American citizenship — by the end of the day, because it no longer aligned with the department’s priorities. More than $300,000 in remaining funding was terminated":
sfchronicle.com/politics/artic

RonSupportsYou
2025-11-19

"A task force formed by Pres. Trump to consider changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has recommended that it should not be abolished ... a position that conflicts with Mr. Trump’s earlier assertion that the agency should go away”:
nytimes.com/2025/11/19/climate

RonSupportsYou
2025-10-28

Joyce Vance: "Last week, Donald Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House, scarring The People’s House. The East Wing was the location where people from all over the world entered for public tours of the White House. Donald Trump has put an end to that. All tours have been suspended indefinitely. Americans need food on their tables and affordable medical care. Instead, they will get a gilded ballroom for the ultra-wealthy."
copy: @renewedresistance

RonSupportsYou
2025-10-24

Sen. Rand Paul said: "China is not buying any of our soybeans this year. The tariff war with China has led to this. And Republican senators don't have the guts to say this because it's their president. And frankly they are afraid. They are afraid that he will do to them what he's trying to do to me. That's too bad. It'd be easier if there were other people willing to stand up and oppose bad policy."

RonSupportsYou
2025-09-15

Stuart Stevens: "I someone wants to make the case that Donald Trump is not systematically attacking every element of successful American civil society, have at it. I’d like to hear your argument. The 'why' doesn’t really matter. It’s what he and the Republican Party are doing that matters."

RonSupportsYou
2025-09-13

Jesse Lee: "It’s kind of absurd to talk about solutions for political violence while Trump is arbitrarily choosing which 'Democrat-run city' he is going to deploy the military into against their will."

RonSupportsYou
2025-08-30

"The Trump administration clearly embraced the strategic cultivation of uncertainty and ignorance ... It is turning away from the government’s responsibilities as a steward of information by minimizing, cherry-picking, misusing, and sometimes even destroying data":
nytimes.com/2025/08/29/opinion

RonSupportsYou
2025-08-22

The Supreme Court's majority has "effectively greenlighted Pres. Trump’s explosive and law-busting agenda ... Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is being accused of betraying the very legal edifice he is supposed to protect":
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int
Recent Supreme Court decisions "have the potential to cause untold suffering to millions of people targeted by Trump."
copy: @renewedresistance

RonSupportsYou
2025-07-12

"Trump cuts questioned as role of in Texas highlights agency’s importance in natural disaster response":
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

RonSupportsYou
2025-07-12

"Millions Will Die Unless Money is Replaced":
outsidethebeltway.com/millions

RonSupportsYou
2025-07-10

A "Supreme Court decision paves the way for the Department of Transportation to terminate the 700 workers it had sought to let go in February — but problems with air traffic control this year, including a midair collision between a helicopter and a passenger jet that killed 67 people near Washington, could affect the calculus." Here is how different federal agencies will be affected:
politico.com/news/2025/07/09/f

RonSupportsYou
2025-07-08

It takes a special type of MAGA stupidity to see the loss of life from recent flooding in Texas and then to reject the good idea of rehiring federal workers to increase the effectiveness of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Weather Service.

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-07-03

A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

   Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
   Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1838-01-27), “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions,” Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7732…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #abrahamlincolnquotes #ambition #autocrat #demagogue #despot #destructiveness #menace #teardown #tyrant

RonSupportsYou
2025-06-24

"The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency who’s gone by the name 'Big Balls' online, has resigned":
wired.com/story/big-balls-cori

RonSupportsYou
2025-06-24

"The Waste Musk (and Trump) Created": In a warehouse in Africa "are boxes piled high with millions of doses of medicines donated pharmaceutical companies for a program. Yet the medications are gathering dust, and some are approaching their expiration dates and may have to be destroyed, at immense expense ... Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off":
nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion

RonSupportsYou
2025-05-22

David Bier, about Trump's attacks on Harvard University: "This will cause damage to America's reputation that will take a generation to recover from. America's universities are the best in the world, in large part because it can get the best talent in the world. This is lawless, malevolent, and self-sabotage."

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦dbcurren.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-05-20

“One thing stands out amid all the #chaos, #corruption and #disorder: the wanton #destructiveness of the #Trump #presidency.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...

Opinion | The President Will D...

RonSupportsYou
2025-05-19

"Donald Trump’s bid to gut the top US consumer watchdog* has left the agency unable to protect consumers amid mounting fears of recession":
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m
* The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

RonSupportsYou
2025-05-18

"While the United States saved modest sums by allowing little girls to starve, it escalated the Biden bombing campaign in Yemen, striking targets almost every day" and accomplishing nothing:
nytimes.com/2025/05/17/opinion

RonSupportsYou
2025-05-16

"Two weather service offices were enduring critically reduced staffing levels after meteorologists were fired" by . They stopped "producing daily weather forecasts and warnings for life-threatening weather events such as flash floods, wildfires and blizzards." Instead of this, Trump will have more money for tax cuts for billionaires:
sfchronicle.com/weather/articl
“Lives can be lost due to degraded services.”

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