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What a fucking asshole.
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In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
“… Since the hotline’s launch in 2022, callers have been able to speak with counselors trained to work with specific at-risk populations, including LGBTQ youth, who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers.The service for LGBTQ youth has received 1.3 million calls, texts, or chats since 2022. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
… The leaked budget proposes further sweeping cuts to HHS, including a 40 percent budget cut to the National Institutes of Health; elimination of funding for Head Start, the early childhood education program for low-income families; and a 44 percent funding cut to the Centers for Disease Control, including all the agency’s chronic disease programs.…”
StrangePackage
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Let's bully children and minorities, said no good person, ever.
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I'm not talking about just Trump. I'm talking about Republicans in general.
Obviously, there are actual conspiracy theories, but there is also assumptions of intent.
You and I know that, but did he and the other J6 riders believe they were trying to write a horribly unconstitutional wrong?
I don't mean just Trump., There are lots of Republicans and Democrats that read intention into the actions of the opposing party.
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“… In plain view of the authorities, the founders of Colossus Bets, a British bookmaker, worked with a struggling American start-up called Lottery.com and two other firms to buy virtually every combination of possible numbers and ensure a win that April.
But they could only do so because lottery officials looked the other way when it came to potential violations of lottery rules and expedited the delivery of dozens of new lottery terminals to print out tens of millions of paper tickets.
They hit the jackpot, $95 million, after purchasing nearly 26 million tickets for $1 each.
The state lottery commission presented it as a win-win: The bettors in Europe ensured every ticket would be sold, a boon worth tens of millions of dollars to the state’s public schools, which get a cut of the proceeds.
But some elected officials see the lottery scheme differently, as an international conspiracy with the collusion of state officials. …”
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Protesters removed from GOP Rep. Byron Donalds' chaotic town hall
A town hall hosted by Rep. Byron Donalds, a Florida Republican, was repeatedly interrupted by protesters.
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“… A town hall hosted by Rep. Byron Donalds turned chaotic Tuesday, with audience members repeatedly interrupting the Florida Republican, leading authorities to remove two people — the latest raucous town hall dominated by protests against President Trump's administration.
Donalds, a three-term congressman running in next year's Florida gubernatorial race, was asked a litany of often-testy questions, several of which focused on billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Audience members booed or cheered — and, in some cases, angrily left early — throughout the almost two-hour event at Estero High School in southwest Florida. Donalds occasionally verbally sparred with the protesters.…”
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Protesters removed from GOP Rep. Byron Donalds' chaotic town hall
A town hall hosted by Rep. Byron Donalds, a Florida Republican, was repeatedly interrupted by protesters.
“… A town hall hosted by Rep. Byron Donalds turned chaotic Tuesday, with audience members repeatedly interrupting the Florida Republican, leading authorities to remove two people — the latest raucous town hall dominated by protests against President Trump's administration.
Donalds, a three-term congressman running in next year's Florida gubernatorial race, was asked a litany of often-testy questions, several of which focused on billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Audience members booed or cheered — and, in some cases, angrily left early — throughout the almost two-hour event at Estero High School in southwest Florida. Donalds occasionally verbally sparred with the protesters.…”
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Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for ‘anti-Christian bias’
New taskforce demands names in rooting out ‘policies, procedures … or understandings hostile to Christian views’
Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for ‘anti-Christian bias’
New taskforce demands names in rooting out ‘policies, procedures … or understandings hostile to Christian views’
“… The VA secretary, Doug Collins, in an internal email seen by the Guardian, said the department had launched a taskforce to review the Biden administration’s “treatment of Christians”.
“The VA Task Force now requests all VA employees to submit any instance of anti-Christian discrimination to Anti-ChristianBiasReporting.@va.gov,” the email reads. “Submissions should include sufficient identifiers such as names, dates, and locations.”
The email states that the department will review “all instances of anti-Christian bias” but that it is specifically seeking instances including “any informal policies, procedures, or unofficially understandings hostile to Christian views”.
In addition, the department is seeking “any adverse responses to requests for religious exemptions under the previous vaccine mandates” and “any retaliatory actions taken or threatened in response to abstaining from certain procedures or treatments (for example: abortion or hormone therapy)”. …”
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lol, now this guy thinks that a senator expressing her opinion on what the Fed should do with rates is equivalent to a president wanting to control interest rates.
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Or the poster is credulous enough to believe the Administration’s attempt to rewrite history and claim all Trump did was make his policy opinion known to the public and the Fed, which is not unheard of even for a POTUS.
Except what Trump did was type out a post openly stating that “Powell’s termination can’t come fast enough” — on the heels of innumerable firings of government officials even when he lacks authority to do so under applicable statutes.
But credit to the president’s propagandists, this is a clever deflection that both claims that Democrats are just hypocrites — catnip for political outrage and engagement on both sides of the aisle — but more importantly reframe history of something that just happened to pretend Trump’s behavior was anodyne.
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“… Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he was "taking a crucial step toward keeping the president's promise to liberate American speech" by ending his department's misbegotten crusade against online "disinformation." This was a welcome development, since that amorphous mission had become an excuse for suppressing constitutionally protected speech.
Still, Rubio's ringing defense of First Amendment rights is hard to reconcile with his determination to expel foreign students, including legal permanent residents, whose opinions he unilaterally deems contrary to U.S. foreign policy interests. Although Rubio and Trump seem to think the First Amendment applies only to American citizens, the U.S. Supreme Court disagrees.
Another Trump appointee, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, likewise pays lip service to free speech while working to undermine it. Carr, like Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, seems bent on overriding the editorial choices of social media companies in the name of fairness and balance—a form of meddling that the Supreme Court has recognized as a threat to First Amendment rights.
Carr also aspires to police journalism, including the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which he thinks is a legitimate subject of regulatory review.
… It is hard to overstate the threat that carving out a "fake news" exception to the First Amendment would pose to freedom of the press. If Trump had his way, journalists would be exposed to daunting legal expenses and potentially ruinous civil liability whenever their reporting was arguably misleading or inaccurate.
… Trump likewise engaged in viewpoint discrimination, which is presumptively unconstitutional, when he issued executive orders targeting law firms that have represented clients or causes he does not like. Lawyers at those firms, he decreed, would lose their security clearances, government contracts, and access to federal buildings.
Trump also has targeted leading American universities, which he portrays as hotbeds of antisemitism and ideological indoctrination. While conservatives may be sympathetic to that critique, schools like Harvard plausibly argue that Trump's attempts to impose his preferred reforms by threatening to withhold federal funding amount to "unconstitutional conditions," requiring the surrender of First Amendment rights in exchange for a government benefit.
… Rubio avers that Trump is determined to oppose "the weaponization of America's own government to silence, censor, and suppress the free speech of ordinary Americans." Yet that seems like an apt description of the president's multifaceted crusade against speech that offends him.“