More of what the #Musk/Trump administration is doing to hurt people in #NorthCarolina
Canceling a program that paid for fresh food directly from farmers to go to food banks in our state. Good for everyone...
https://www.bpr.org/2025-03-14/usda-cancels-federal-funding-north-carolina-food-banks
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (which has supported many libraries and library projects, including one of mine in 2017-2018) is one of the agencies that Trump has now decreed "shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law". Here's the full order, which also targets 6 other agencies: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/ #uspol #libraries
Major trade battle looming between Australia and the United States with potential to severely damage, if not destroy, the relationship.
Trump administration reportedly has sights set on the country's vaunted Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that delivers affordable medicines to tens of millions of Australians.
A story at the #Asheville #Citizen-Times about my representative's townhall meeting on Thursday night.
Trump calls for jailing his perceived opponents in Justice Department speech
If it is not clear by now that this evil megalomaniac is out for dictatorship, no-one can help the US any more...
Trump will never leave voluntarily, so much is clear.
I wonder if now is the time for the progressive Democrats to create a viable new party. It feels to me like if Bernie rallied the troops and brought everyone under one roof, the people would vote for them.
Diefenbaker was a prime minister who knew how to stand up to the U.S.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bob-plamondon-diefenbaker-was-a-prime-minister-who-knew-how-to-stand-up-to-the-u-s
The article focuses on the personal dislike of #JohnDiefenbaker and #JohnFKennedy, rather than on substantive issues like the Bomarc missiles. ( https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bomarc-missile-crisis )
A pertinent question:
Would you rather have NASA or SpaceX?
Trashed trash.
Used Tesla's flooding US second hand car market, becoming number one EV available with average price drop from $US70k in 2022 to $US30k today, $US10k less than any other brand.
https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-owners-selling-cars-elon-musk-2044017
Tesla Owners Are Rushing to Sell Their Cars - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-owners-selling-cars-elon-musk-2044017
Rather they should consider not voting for these assholes anymore...
Fuck around, find out...
Primary every Democrat
It’s time Democrats listen to us, and we’re going to have to do it the hard way.
My name is Meredith Shiner, and I am not (yet) a candidate for Senate. But I am inviting you to join me in a massive, diffuse, and fledgling national campaign to make our government, should it continue to exist, better by primarying every Democrat. Because if they want to keep these jobs, then they should have to fight us for them. They should learn to fight for something.
#Democrats #uspol
https://newrepublic.com/article/190922/primary-every-democrat-trump-durbin
"What is the administration so frightened of? It couldn’t have been what is actually happening on campus, where the Jewish students who were demonstrating for #MahmoudKhalil said prayers and sang songs in Hebrew."
The Law Is Not Always to Be Trusted
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-law-is-not-always-to-be-trusted/
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #USpol #USpolitics #PalestineSolidarity #ColumbiaU #StudentProtests #ICEdetention @palestine
#ecologia #cambioclimatico #ecodiuku #video #sharpiegate #agenda2025 #uspol #ciencia
Vídeo en castellano de Ecodiuku hablando de los despidos de la agencia de meteorología de Estados Unidos y sus consecuencias.
DUI hire Pete can’t rehire the 16 provisional employees they unlawfully fired as the court requires them to because the mighty US military can’t handle making them new badges.
China, russia and Iran could not be reached for comment but I’m sure are quaking in their boots.
Badges, we don’t need no stinkin’ badges.
via @emptywheel
Dutch scientists get the McCarthyist email from US government, and are advised NOT to respond.
Trying to Zoom/Email to USGS colleagues one says:
“The censorship is insane. It’s like you’re communicating with Soviet scientists. I’ve never seen anything like it with international colleagues.”
QT @ryanjess77 but also interesting for Anglophones.
Fuck them. Giving their lifes for their country is the utter sacrifice and this is the reward? Can it get worse? A shame!
This country is being dismantled in no time and no one puts a stop to this madness… #usa #uspol https://mastodon.world/@davidho/114165560420754196
I am not surprised Trump doesn't know what the word 'sarcastic' means.
:Trump2:Trump says he was being a 'bit sarcastic' when he promised to end Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours | AP News #USPol .
https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-ukraine-war-solved-f51b96e4e690341caee65358bcbab1fa
Populism and Personality Cults are destroying America and putting the World in peril.
#trumpers are infected with it.
#berniebros are infected with it.
#Putin is very happy.
We're fvcked.
“Australia must double down on getting a seat at the table to access the world’s largest research fund, Horizon Europe”
Via @johnquiggin , reporting on Australian universities realising that research cooperation with the USA will soon be dead.
