#SchoolVounchers passed the #txlege last night / this morning -__- This is gonna hit rural areas harder and faster than it does suburban and urban areas. The domino effect is exactly what these ghouls want, eventually siphoning off *all* public monies for education into private hands.

#txpol #texas #CharterSchools #privatization #education #PrivateSchools #grifters

There is a book or dissertation to be found comparing notes between the Alberta and Québec healthcare privatization scandals and how it’s destroying working- and middle-class people, even abled people.

https://www.readtheorchard.org/p/the-real-cause-of-the-alberta-corruptcare #Alberta #Quebec #HealthCare #Canada #Privatization #Corruption

The WH said CN is facing up to a 245% tariff on imports to the US as a result of its retaliatory actions.

Trump launched an investigation into the nat sec risks posed by US reliance on imported processed critical minerals & their derivative products.

Cutting off Chinese imports🚨complicates American supply chains,⬆️costs & forcing bus' to source from elsewhere. Consumers face⬆️prices.

Trump is intentionally wrecking the fed govt/economy for #privatization.
#USPol #Tariffs https://www.newsweek.com/china-245-trump-tariff-2060295

Details and background on the scandle around #Alberta's moves to increase private medical care in the province.

"While AHS typically pays $4,044 per hip, $4,036 per knee and $4,833 per shoulder surgery, Alberta Surgical Group charged $8,303 per hip, $8,510 per knee and $11,243 per shoulder surgery prior to contract renewal negotiations, according to document."

#medmastodon #health #doctors #Privatization @medmastodon https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/04/15/Real-Cause-Alberta-CorruptCare-Scandal/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

#usa : #prisoner / #starvation / #humanrights / #privatization

„Why are people, arrested during mental-health crises, dying from lack of food and water?“

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/21/starved-in-jail

"The president wants to balance US trade deficits? He can’t do it w/o this industry he hates.

Trump says he wants to reduce our trade deficit. Yet he’s destroying one of our winningest exports: higher education.

Colleges & universities are among US's most competitive INTL exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the US sold more EDU svcs to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas & coal combined."

#Privatization #Coup #Republicans #Visas #Resist #April19 #USPol https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/15/trump-higher-education-colleges-trade-war/

🚨EU EXPECTS US TARIFFS TO REMAIN AS TALKS MAKE LITTLE PROGRESS

Equity markets are being way too complacent if you ask me."
-S Hakimian

"MSM is missing the point, Trump, with the aid of Congressional Republicans, is intentionally tanking the economy for #privatization.

"Trump, Xi "don't have any plans" to speak amid tariff standoff."

"Japan PM cautions against major concessions in US trade talks."

#Tariffs #Trumpcession
#Resist #April19 #USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jamieson-greer-trump-xi-tariff-standoff/
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5247771-japan-trade-talks-us/

"Staffed by just 100 fed workers, the CDFI Fund is one of the best deals in govt -funds local financial institutions that have financed 1000s of small businesses & 45K housing units. Many rural. But it's on the chopping block."
-S Mitchell

Pass it on:🚨#Trump & his GOP allies are destroying the US government, alliances, the economy, trade, businesses, jobs, lives, livelihoods, communities... for #privatization.

#Trumpcession #Tariffs #DOGE #Musk #Republicans #Coup #USPol https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/trump-order-on-cdfi-fund-puts-small-businesses-and-affordable-housing-at-risk