Former Texas lawmaker Scott Turner confirmed to lead HUD
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/turner-confirmation-hud-secretary

* TX House Representatives 2013-17
* HUD executes housing laws, incl. helping low-income people find homes & combating housing discrimination

* Turner a skeptic for gov assistance to alleviate poverty
* welfare: “one of most destructive things for the family” <-- Ch. Koch/libertarian billionaire playbook 101

#USpol #ScottTurner #HUD #BenCarson
#Trump2 #GOP #authoritarianism #Project2025 #BlackConservatism

/1 Black conservative Ben Carson an anti-critical race theory proponent

[2021] Kristi Noem signs "1776 pledge" to ban "anti-American indoctrination" in public schools
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113805209780268350

* Noem & Carson's Fox News op-ed against critical race theory
* recall that ideology posited pre-Civil War slaves benefited f. slavery 🤨

#USpol #GOP #Trump1 #HHS #BenCarson #BlackConservatism #antiCRT #CRT
#Trump2 #fascism #Project2025 #ChristianRight #antiLGBT #KristiNoem
#Christofascism #transgenocide

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* Fred Trump met w. Trump1 admin. officials incl. [transphobe] Ben Carson #BlackConservatism to lobby for children with disabilities
* Donald Trump called Fred back yo the Oval Office, reportedly said “Maybe those kinds of people should just die,” given “the shape they’re in, all the expenses”
* another time: “I don’t know. He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

* reminds us why we need reproductive justice AND disability justice
...