#EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

March 28, 2017 – Donald Trump sought to slash $18 billion of federal funding from support for mental health, foreign aid, public housing, and other categories of discretionary funding.

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March 28, 2018 – The EPA sent an internal memo to staff describing a list of “approved talking points” downplaying the certainty of climate change.

These included statements like, "While there has been extensive research and a host of published reports on climate change, clear gaps remain in our understanding of the role of human activity and what we can do about it.”

#SevenYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

March 26, 2018 – The Census Bureau announced it would include a question regarding citizenship status on the 2020 U.S. Census. The question hasn’t been on the census since 1950.

Critics of the move explained the question would discourage undocumented immigrants from responding to the census, and thereby skew the population data significantly.

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March 26, 2020 – Although health experts around the world have been warning about a pandemic for years, Trump claimed that the coronavirus crisis caught the U.S. by surprise.

“This was something that nobody has ever thought could happen to this country,” he said. “Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened.”

#SixYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

March 21, 2019 – In addition to Ivanka Trump using a personal account for government-related emails, a lawyer for her husband, Jared Kushner, said the senior adviser to the president used private communications to discuss official matters.

When running for president, Trump said the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server was “bigger than Watergate.”

#resist #resistance #ResistTyranny #ResistTrump #resistfascism #protest #protests

https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/c/hands-off/event/create/

Interview: "How the Media Walked us into Autocracy"

"The American corporate coup d'état is almost complete as the first weeks of the Trump administration exemplify.

“The sign of a decaying democracy is that when the forces of plutocracy, oligarchy, multinational corporations increase their power in all sectors of our society, the resistance gets weaker.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-media-walked-us-into-autocracy

#Trump #Autocracy #USPol #ResistFascism #Oligarchy .

Here are a couple upcoming protests:

1) Stand Up For Science:
Location: California State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA
Address: 1305 10th St, Sacramento, CA 95814
When: Friday, March 7th, 12 PM-4PM
Other Information: Event will be taking place on the West side of the Capitol building.
https://standupforscience2025.org/sacramento-ca/

2) International Women's Day
When: Saturday, March 8th
Where: Find an event near you on the website:
https://action.womensmarch.com/calendars/international-women-s-day-unite-resist?page=1

#EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

March 3, 2017 – In 2016, Jeff Sessions used Trump campaign funds for plane travel in order to meet Russian diplomats.

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March 3, 2017 – The Trump administration proposed significant budget cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Among the largest funding reductions were for the NOAA’s programs monitoring climate change’s progression.

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March 1, 2017 – The Justice Department reported: Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Trump took office.

Sessions did not mention the meetings during his confirmation hearings. Moreover, Sessions had claimed under oath that he was unaware of any contacts between Trump surrogates and Russia.

#EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

February 26, 2017 – The Trump Organization claimed it had made good on its promise to donate all profits earned from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury.

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Analysis: "This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk"

"Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics."

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/17/elon-musk-trump-government-tesla-spacex/

#Tesla #Musk #USPol #USDems #StopElonMusk #GumUpTheWorks #ResistFascism .

The DUI-hire defense secretary justified the firings of top judge advocate generals; they’re telling us that the US military will be given illegal orders, including, perhaps, to fire on US citizens.

Hegseth: Trump Will Install New Military Attorneys Who Won’t Be ‘Roadblocks to Anything’
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/hegseth-military-lawyers-firings-roadblocks-1235276960/

Pitt is private, of course, but this is a good moment to urge your state’s governor and legislators to aggressively increase support for your state’s public universities. Even if they can’t make up the lost funding, they could mitigate some of the damage.

#DefendResearch #ResistFascism https://mastodon.social/@ChristosArgyrop/114048929447207996

Interview: "Federal workers are staging mass protests to Save Our Services"

“They’re trying to immiserate the working class, & they’re doing it through the federal workforce.

"It’s about gutting the services that create a safety net... because the more miserable we are, the easier it is for them to exploit us.

“The whole public sphere is at stake.”

~Chris Dols

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/20/doge_federal_workers_protest_usda

#USPol #SaveOurServices #Trump #Musk #Oligarchy #GeneralStrikeNow #ResistFascism .

Analysis: "This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk"

"Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics."

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/17/elon-musk-trump-government-tesla-spacex/

#Tesla #Musk #USPol #USDems #StopElonMusk #GumUpTheWorks #ResistFascism .