Such a mess for public health and the environment: “To be clear, science *is* real, and MAHA is not the answer. But ideological inconsistencies, and gaps between rhetoric and action, leave spaces that conspiracy theorists are all too happy to fill.”

#Politics #USPolitics #MAHA #NIMBYism #PublicHealth #Environmentalism #RFKJrAntiScience #ConspiracyTheories #ElectionsMatter #DemocracyMatters #FightTrumpism #MedicareForAll

https://truthout.org/articles/heres-how-the-right-is-packaging-its-conspiracies-in-environmentalism/

“The administration’s attempt to ignore the laws the Constitution charges it with executing amounts to an attack on the right of the American people to establish the rules under which we live.”

#Politics #USPolitics #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism #USConstitutionalOrder #FightTrumpism #DemocracyVsOligarchy #DemocracyUnderThreat #DemocratsFightBack #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyVsDictatorship #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-19-2025

“President Trump called for impeaching a federal judge who issued a temporary order against an administration deportation plan, drawing a rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts for violating American legal practice dating from the founding.”

#Politics #USPolitics #USConstitutionalOrder #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism #FightTrumpism #TrumpVengeanceMachine

Chief Justice Roberts issues rare public statement criticizing Trump’s call to impeach judges - The WSJ https://apple.news/AUrJbGnxoQIm24vwyhzEysg

“It’s unclear just how effective the global boycott of American products and culture will be, but it no doubt indicates the world is fed up with Trump’s [sic] and his reckless pursuit of chaos.”

#Politics #USPolitics #BoycottAmerica #BoycottMusk #DemocracyVsOligarchy #FightTrumpism #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism #RecessionPossibility #AmericaFirstPolicyCriticized #WorkingClassPolitics

https://newrepublic.com/post/192658/donald-trump-global-boycott-us-goods

“U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has ordered officials to stop action on all Biden-era discretionary grants to build bike lanes and other ‘green infrastructure’ so the agency can review the project for possible removal.” 🤬

#Politics #USPolitics #USDOT #BikeInfrastructure #GreenInfrastructure #BikeLanes #MobilityOptions #UrbanSustainability #UrbanResilience #UrbanPlanning #GreenNewDeal #BipartisanInfrastructureAct #FightTrumpism #NotMeUs

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/03/12/breaking-u-s-dot-orders-review-of-all-grants-related-to-green-infrastructure-bikes

“The order will affect the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the United States Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency.” 🤬

#Politics #USPolitics #DemocracyVsOligarchy #FightTrumpism

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-doge-voice-of-america-voa-kari-lake/

“Without the luxury of Republicans falling apart, Democrats in the Senate need to decide whether to prevent a dangerous and harmful budget that shrinks the power of Congress in the government. Since operating on principle goes against their ‘adults in the room’ mindset, they are wavering on what to do. But it should be an open-and-shut case.”

#Politics #USPolitics #PowerOfThePurse #USCongress #DemocratsFightBack #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism #FightTrumpism

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-11-senate-democrats-block-republican-spending-bill-or-dissolve-congress/

“This is the paradox at the heart of the situation the party finds itself in: Democrats want the high voter turnout, committed pavement-pounding, and grassroots energy of an excited base but seem to resent that they should have to do anything to get it.” 😕

#Politics #USPolitics #DemocraticBaseAwakened #DemocratsFearTheirBase #FightTrumpism #PrimaryCentrists #DemocratsFightBack #DemocracyMatters #ElectionsMatter #DemocraticBase #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/democratic-party-trump-resistance-leadership/

Some of this feels a bit ageist, but if they’re not willing to to fight for their constituents, then they need to go, whoever they are: “Democratic officials have taken their base for granted for far too long. ... And even if primary challenges don’t succeed, they are still worth doing to put some fear into electeds, and force them to stand up to Trump.”

#Politics #USPolitics #FightTrumpism #PrimaryCentrists #WeThePeople #MuskCoup #TrumpRegime

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-02-27-these-ten-democrats-need-to-be-primaried/