Susan Schneider

Fomenting Antisemitism Not Combating It

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Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.

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Holocaust book, Maya Angelou's autobiography among nearly 400 items pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge A book on the Holocaust and Maya Angelou's autobiography were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's library this week.

The attack on free speech and history continues. From CBS News: "Holocaust book, Maya Angelou's autobiography among nearly 400 items pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge" www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-pur...

The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a 'death sentence' The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them stru...

The AP Reports that the US is ending support to the World Food Program; "The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a ‘death sentence’" apnews.com/article/usai...

Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison

The Imperialism Has no Clothes JD Vance in Greenland

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From Envisioning the American Dream, by Sally Edelstein

Fed prosecutors, IGs, and other govt employees show great courage by speaking out and resigning rather than going along w/actions they know are wrong. Why is courage so lacking among the Republicans in Congress? Trump is acting like Putin’s puppet and they don’t seem to care. Is there ANY red line?

How Vladimir Putin plans to play Donald Trump — The Economist The Russian president thinks he is a better poker player

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Opinion | How Trump’s federal funding pause hurts American farmers and drives up grocery prices How the administration's funding freeze threatens the infrastructure that keeps rural communities — and everyday America — running.

Excellent analysis from Farmers Union president, Rob Larew; we may be approaching a farm/rural financial crisis with significant repurcussions www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.

Thank you, Chancellor Scholz. I do not understand what defect there must be in the soul of someone who could visit the Nazi death camp at Dachau one day and then promote the party that trivializes the Holocaust the next day
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Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

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Inside a Chaotic U.S. Deportation Flight to Brazil

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Mexico is the “largest single source of U.S. horticultural imports,” supplying 63% of our vegetable imports and 47% of fruit and nut imports. (USDA). Importers pay tariffs, passing the cost onto consumers. We can expect prices for these healthy foods to go up as a direct result of Trump’s tariffs.

Opinion | If Kennedy Is Blind to Science, Why Entrust Him With Our Health? When we face some risk of a bird flu pandemic, do we want to entrust our health to a man who has fought lifesaving vaccines?

If Kennedy Is Blind to Science, Why Entrust Him With Our Health? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

What the Trump Administration is doing to our gov’t workers is horrible. Demeaning and belittling emails, thinly disguised threats, and efforts to coerce them to resign. We need these workers’ expertise, and I appreciate their service.

"Despicable": Buttigieg fires back at Trump criticisms after deadly plane crash "As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying," Buttigieg said.

Thank you to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for issuing a forceful reply to the inappropriate, inaccurate, and completely unsubstantiated comments that President Trump made in his remarks about the DCA plane crash. www.axios.com/2025/01/30/p...

Reuters on use of military planes to deport migrants: US military deportation flight likely cost more than first class.
So much for using taxpayer funds wisely

The IG's are not taking this lying down. IG are rule enforcers and watchdogs. They have put down a marker: static.politico.com/b3/3e/5baf92...

Trump received less than half the popular vote, 49.8%. Harris received 48.3%, others 1.7%. Trump’s actual support is reduced because only 63.9% of eligible voters cast a ballot. So only 31.8% of eligible voters voted for Trump. And some regret their vote. There is no mandate for his radical agenda

Of, For, and By the Billionaires Musk and Silicon Valley moguls gain unprecedented power

"Our task to recapture democracy begins in earnest today." Inspiring message from Jen Rubin:
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Fact check: Trump makes false claims about his 2024 victory, the 2020 election, immigration and more at DC rally | CNN Politics At the dawn of a new Trump era, the same old Trump lies.

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