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Debasing Trump Country

TR__p show he has no regard for his supporters . . . Since 2015 and across 170 disasters, the median average assistance amount per approved application from FEMA’s IHP is $4,995. On average, approximately 39 percent of applicants are determined to be eligible for Individuals and Households Program (IHP). FEMA programs can be a lifeline. […]

Trump’s USAID closure a ‘travesty’ 

SUMMARY: Barack Obama and George W. Bush have criticized the closure of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), as a study warned it could result in “a staggering number” of avoidable deaths—more than 14 million over five years. The former U.S. presidents made rare public criticisms of the Trump administration as they took part […]

Your tax dollars at work

ICE’s new funding level is larger than the combined budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, Bureau of Prisons, and U.S. Marshals Service. Who are these people? “ICE was generally known as a place made up of people who couldn’t get jobs at the more established and reputable federal policing agencies — so, FBI, U.S. Marshals, […]

Trump just made US energy more expensive and dirtier

For eight years, we had rooftop solar. We wouldn’t have done it except that because of state law, Ameren paid half the cost. We also got a 30% tax rebate on the difference. Since we moved, there are too many trees around our house for rooftop solar, but there are more solar panels in our […]

Who Do You Trust?

I do not trust anything that appears on Fox News or comes out of our President’s mouth. I make it a point to stay off of social media and only view You Tube for classic music performances and some comedy so those are not sources of misinformation. While newspaper articles will contain all sorts of […]

Hey, it was “Just a Mistake” . . . We thought He was Someone Else!

This is a recorded piece. The link is below. I think you may be able to hear Joyce Vance and Adam Klasfeld discuss the judge’s questioning the government on what they are holding Abrego Garcia’. Throw on top of that El Salvador stating they had no power to hold 200 people in prison there. Our […]

Why I stopped reading the NYT

I’ve been a bit baffled recently by comments by friends expressing anxiety about NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Yeah, I ignore the right-wing wind machine over at Fox. But since I stopped reading the gray lady, I missed the propaganda and misdirection she’s been pumping out. “The Times has it out for Zohran Mamdani. The […]

Some thoughts on “socialism,” history and the triumph of propaganda

The words “socialism” and “Marxism” have long been synonymous with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. Oddly, because neither country was socialist or Marxist. Lenin and the Bolsheviks (bolshevik means “majoritarian,” even though it was a minority party, a triumph of propaganda) crushed Marxist/socialist worker-led organizations after the 1917 Revolution (really a […]

The Courts

Talking about courts today. If you have ever gone to a Federal Court, it is a matter of just the facts people. Don’t look for sympathy because it is not there if you get this far in the first place. You can have the best of the best in attorneys. Judges will listen and maybe […]