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The Human(ity) Toll of Marco Rubio’s Foreign Aid Cuts
On Friday, January 24th, 2025 Marco Rubio (new Secretary of State) issued an order to suspend almost all foreign aid. That didn’t go over well with the rest of the world. So on Tuesday, January 28th, Rubio issued a waiver for “life-saving humanitarian assistance,” to include “core life-saving medicine, medical…
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The OMB Memo from Trump Administration 1.27.2025
January 27, 2025 M-25-13 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget SUBJECT: Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and…
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Democrats need to embrace the reality of basic psychology
As soon as the election results in 2024 started flooding in on that November day I had the same confused feeling that many like-minded privileged voters had……How? Why? Am I dreaming? How? Is this real life? People were walking around in a silent panic – The bleeding heart liberals were…
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The 1% Conundrum of the Big Ts: Trump and Transgender
Did you know that Trump and I could have been besties? I mean, we share a lot of things in common. We have a shared childhood trauma and we have both been strong supporters of the Democratic party, especially supporting Hillary Clinton. We are also both in the top 1%…
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Fight For The Safety Net
Late last night I started to receive texts and emails from co-workers and peer groups saying “They are going after Medicaid”. Of course they are. Shock and Awe and then Repeat. Give me a second while I take my earrings off and roll up my sleeves and put my hair…
At my heart I am a Social Worker, though I am also a business owner and a property owner as well. I love talking about money and leadership and the economy and the free market. There are a lot of things that I am quite conservative about and these views may show up at times in future posts. Though I may align with conservatives on many issues, I bleed electric blue when it comes to hate and oppression and I believe that all humans do. I believe we all have a responsibility to speak out against hate and oppression because: Fighting against hate isn’t a liberal idea, it is a human idea. I believe all humans to be inherently good, though some lose their way and it is our job as fellow humans (and a humane race) to bumper car people back into alignment with hope and all that is good in the world. We nudge them back into alignment with our words and our pleas and our actions. Voting for someone is not a blind agreement or contract of eternal support – it is not an indefinite instruction to look the other way. We all have a call to action to do what is right and speak out against injustice regardless of what political party we claim to be.
Changing systems can be frustrating, confusing and time consuming; Strive to change them anyway.
Fighting against hate isn’t a liberal idea – it is a human idea.
Change It Anyway 