"The first step is to try to peer through the blizzard and see what’s going on, understanding how it will affect the world’s most powerful democracy and, therefore, the rest of us.

For what we are witnessing is an assertion of raw power and an attempt to exercise it without limit."

#Trump #ShockandAwe #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy
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"The picture is clear: the most powerful office in the world is becoming the court of an emperor, untrammelled by alliances, the constitution or the law. The task is to see it."

#Trump #ShockandAwe #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy
/3

“Trump has undertaken to dismantle the postwar democratic government at home, too. He has stopped the funding for repairing roads, bridges, airports, and ports that passed Congress in a bipartisan vote in 2022, as well as taken away funding for new solar manufacturing plants and other new systems to address climate change."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #ShockandAwe #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy #infrastructure #ClimateChange
/4

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-24-2025

"He has frozen all travel and communications at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. ‘We’ve never seen anything like this,’ one researcher told Dan Diamond, Lena H. Sun, Carolyn Y. Johnson, and Mark Johnson of the Washington Post. ‘This is like a meteor just crashed into all of our cancer centers and research areas.’”

#Trump #ShockandAwe #fascism #healthcare #HHS #CDC #NIH #cancer
/5

"The Trump Administration has put virtually all federally funded health science research on hold for no apparent reason this week, imposing wholesale restrictions on the National Institutes of Health, America’s top research agency, including 'the abrupt cancellation of meetings such as grant review panels. Officials have also ordered a communications pause, a freeze on hiring, and an indefinite ban on travel.'”

~ Doktor Zoom

#Trump #healthcare #HHS #CDC #NIH #cancer
/6

https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-shuts-down-all-science-until

"The [FDA] agency has removed pages which provide guidance to medical researchers on conducting medical trials with representative numbers of men and women and ethnic and/or racial minority groups. I think most people know this: but this isn’t a matter of symbolic diversity. Many medications and/or diseases or conditions present differently in men and woman and in people with different genetic backgrounds."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #healthcare #FDA #research
/7

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/medical-trial-guidance-scrubbed

"Yesterday I sat down with one of America’s leading immigration lawyers and policy experts, David Leopold (bio), an old friend from decades of fighting the immigration wars. ... I asked David to explain to the Hopium community what he thinks Trump is actually doing right now across the US, who is really being targeted."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #FoodSupply #agriculture #economy
/8

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/hopium-weekend-david-leopold-on-trumps

"The answer, so far, is that Trump is working to remove millions of non-criminal migrants, including many who came to the US legally and are not today undocumented or out of status. The 'targeting criminals first' is a poll tested lie to obscure the real goal of these operations"

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #FoodSupply #agriculture #economy
/9

(continued from /9) "which is to reduce the overall immigrant population in the US, legal and undocumented, regardless of the economic impact of taking millions of workers out of an economy already at full employment. We talked about how prices will rise now for groceries, health care, child care, construction, restaurants and hotels;"

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #FoodSupply #agriculture #economy
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