Hey, don’t believe this bullshit up top…as I have seen many a cartoon or meme these past couple of days. The Trump assholes know exactly what they are doing!
I think those last few cartoons are rather on point.
Yet another person goes missing:
Y’all stay safe. And watch your backs!
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please read this post by Joyce Vance:
We’re having more demonstrations down here. They just keep popping up all over the country. So far, there have been no problems with law enforcement but that seems to be because it’s all home grown Americans and white people are the ones showing up. That’s probably best for now. White people are all he care’s about. Black People have down their share of the work and it’s our turn. Don’t want him to start going off on Black Lives Matter. Also, it’s best if those of us at Universities, along with our students, demonstrate for every one too. It’s a hard realization to come to, but given what’s going on it’s time for White People to put their bodies on the line. It will be interesting to see if they start going after us too. From the looks of the polls and from what’s being reported,Republicans are protesting too.
I just keep wondering what happens when he declares yet another state of emergency and tries to use the Military on every one.
I’m just worried sick about the country. He’s really got the role of a Mad King down pat.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-economy-set-lose-billions-100000258.html
“The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk elevated.
Arrivals of non-citizens to the US by plane dropped almost 10% in March from a year earlier, according to data published Monday by the International Trade Administration. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates in a worst-case scenario, the hit this year from reduced travel and boycotts could total 0.3% of gross domestic product, which would amount to almost $90 billion.”
well, there goes the budget for this state.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
A whistleblower’s disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
“In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
The small, independent federal agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices. It stores reams of potentially sensitive data, from confidential information about employees who want to form unions to proprietary business information.
The DOGE employees, who are effectively led by White House adviser and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk, appeared to have their sights set on accessing the NLRB’s internal systems. They’ve said their unit’s overall mission is to review agency data for compliance with the new administration’s policies and to cut costs and maximize efficiency.
But according to an official whistleblower disclosure shared with Congress and other federal overseers that was obtained by NPR, subsequent interviews with the whistleblower and records of internal communications, technical staff members were alarmed about what DOGE engineers did when they were granted access, particularly when those staffers noticed a spike in data leaving the agency. It’s possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets — data that four labor law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB and that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending.
Meanwhile, according to the disclosure and records of internal communications, members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.”