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Misleading. Biased. Exposed.
These three words perfectly describe the White House’s web page about supposed media offenders.
It is incredibly troubling and frustrating that our own White House is intentionally misleading its own citizens and the world by posting this complete nonsense on a web server using our bandwidth for which we are all paying.
On the flip side, I think I would be honored to be included on Trump’s hall of shame if I were a media professional.
A government’s most important job is to meet its promises to its citizens. For 1/8th of our neighbors, our government has failed to complete that job to make sure families had food on their tables.
It is unacceptable that the Trump administration had to be reprimanded by the courts to do the obvious thing to make sure 40 million people had food to eat. It is also unacceptable that our representatives cannot do the obvious, humane things to open our government.
It’s well past time to get back to work.
SNAP benefits will restart, but will be half the normal payment and delayed
The dismantling of the White House East Wing by the Trump administration this past week was very disturbing to many Americans. This is especially true because Trump himself mislead all of us by initially saying the White House would not be impacted by the massive ballroom he is hellbent on building. Seeing the remnants of the demolition after the fact has been shocking and surprisingly more personal than I could have imagined. Why is this administration destroying our house?
Trump’s transformation of the White House does have historical precedent and comparisons to other fascist regimes throughout history. One example that comes to mind is Mussolini’s transformation of Rome during his regime. If you have not visited or seen pictures of the EUR neighborhood outside of central Rome, please take a moment and take a look. You will immediately see a cold, brutal, and intimidating style. The train station in Milan is another great example. You would expect a city to want to welcome visitors at their grand train station, but the Milan train station is designed to make you feel small, unimportant, and certainly not very welcome.
I interpret Trump’s transformation of the Rose Garden to be very similar to Mussolini’s EUR neighborhood. The Rose Garden was a beautiful, natural space that welcomed guests and served previous administrations for decades. Now, it is a stark, cold, lifeless concrete space like so many hotels and resorts around the world.
Trump says the new ballroom with be beautiful and follow the architectural designs of the existing White House buildings. Unfortunately, he and his administration have done very little to gain the trust of the country that they are actually telling the truth. I get the sense that when history looks back on these White House modifications by Trump, historians will be comparing them to Mussolini’s impact on Rome and the rest of Italy during his reign.
Considering the weather, the No Kings turnout in St. Louis was incredible! The rain did mess up my Resistance theme because I could not show off my May the 4th Estate Be with You shirt.
Let’s double the number of marchers at the next No Kings event!
The American Association of School Librarians national conference just so happened to be in St. Louis this week so it is needless to say that this librarian and her sign were very popular at the No Kings march.
The Saint Louis area really showed up and showed out for multiple No Kings events yesterday. Look at the size of the crowd downtown, and this was during a thunderstorm and steady rain throughout the march!
Pay attention to what is happening in Chicago. This is real. It’s not some TV show. These are real people and real lives being impacted by this lawless and careless government.
Read this Chicago Tribune article very carefully.
With the support of the government of Texas, Texas military units are invading Illinois not in support of Illinois but against the Illinois government’s wishes.
Think about that for a minute.
The sovereignty of one of our United States is being violated by another state against its will. Every citizen in every state in this country should be rightfully terrified by this, and if they’re not, they slept through their US and world history classes in school.
The war between the states has been sparked. Let us all do what we can to prevent this spark from growing into a fire.
Hey ICE! Take your masks off, you cowards!
Let’s see if Trump is a quick learner. Everyone knows that you don’t mess with Chicago, and I’m afraid this really isn’t going to go well.