"Congressional Republicans are again being advised against holding in-person town halls after several instances of lawmakers being berated by attendees went viral."
If the Trump-Musk agenda is so popular, why are Republicans hiding from their constituents?
Keep fighting. Keep calling. Keep showing up. Keep causing good trouble.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/asia/trump-usaid-vietnam-agent-orange.html
“As many as three million Vietnamese have been affected by Agent Orange, including more than 150,000 children born with serious developmental problems.
Addressing the painful legacy of the chemical’s wartime use as a defoliant, along with other issues tied to American military involvement in Vietnam, has offered the U.S. a chance to fuse past and present, soft power and hard power, in the service of courting a rising regional power.
That’s now halted. Bulldozers that were cleaning up contamination at a former American air base in southern Vietnam — which both countries might eventually want to use — have gone silent. Around 1,000 mine-removal workers in central Vietnam have been sent home.
And with the suspension of aid for Agent Orange victims, along with efforts to find and identify Vietnam’s missing war dead, Mr. Trump has essentially stalled 30 years of progress in bringing together former enemies, including two militaries still feeling out whether to trust one another.”
https://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/wc-distracts-himself-and-maybe-you/
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https://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/what-fascist-governments-do-censorship/
“One of the most common tools a #fascist #government uses to assert and maintain its control is to #censor #news and reports with which it disagrees, or which contradict its claims.”
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161
Please make it stop
🤨Raffensperger Asks Federal Government for Help Suppressing Voters -
NEW: #Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) urges new AG #PamBondi to drop the DOJ’s lawsuit against the state’s voter suppression law, S.B. 202, which limits mail-in voting, shortens election timelines and prohibits line warming. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/raffensperger-asks-federal-government-for-help-suppressing-voters/
6 February 1942 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Levie Swart, was born in Amsterdam.
In August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and, after selection, murdered in a gas chamber. His elder sister, Frouwke was killed with him.
ADDED: I was being sarcastic here, people.
On I-5 on our way back and forth to Canada/California, signs everywhere blaming Newsom for no water. Wonder if they’ll figure this out.
Via Acyn:
Lieu: #Trump then ordered the Army Corps of Engineers release over 2 billion gallons of water that almost flooded farmland.. this water was saved for the farmers for summer when they need it. So Trump wasted all this water that isn’t even reaching Southern #California for a PR stunt
Laffy
Auschwitz Memorial