SherBearethAmen, Bernie. 🕯️
The country is indeed in a terrifying and steep decline.
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Egberto WilliesDavos Shock: Mark Carney Urges Nations to Break Free From U.S. Coercion
At Davos, Mark Carney delivers a historic rebuke of Trump’s America, calling on nations to break free from coercion and rebuild multilateral trust.
#CanadaPolitics #Davos #democracy #EconomicCoercion #globalDecoupling #IndependentMedia #MarkCarney #MiddlePowers #Multilateralism #ProgressivePolitics #TrumpForeignPolicy #USDecline #WorldEconomicForum https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oDg
ZephyrXero24 years ago the terrible No Child Left Behind Act was enacted. It along with the rise of anti-intellectualism are a major reason our world looks the way it does today. The dumbing down of our education system has left many struggling to communicate effectively and have poor media literacy as a direct result.
It wasn't alone. There have been a thousand tiny cuts, but NCLB was a pretty deep one.
Dee Lux Fiat#usdecline
Morally absent administration
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.
maniajack
Another dark day
"This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well."
https://www.vox.com/politics/461887/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-air-abc-charlie-kirk-nexstar
Deep Breath; Start Again
Where would we be without the lobbyists!?
"When the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) arrived at the Internal Revenue Service earlier this year, leaders of the group reassured workers that the agency’s free tax filing tool, Direct File, would be spared from cuts. But only a few days after meeting with tax software lobbyists, the beloved tool was placed on the chopping block, multiple sources familiar tell WIRED."
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-direct-file-chopping-block/
“Farmers shipping grain to where people were hungry — that we did these kinds of things is really what made America great.”
Gone now.
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"collateral arrests" is a terrifying term
