John Elwood

Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

170,000 vulnerable Americans about to be kicked out of their homes. Just another day in Trumpland.
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Maybe the billionaire dictator’s legal demand that he is allowed to starve 42 million hungry Americans will finally arouse us from slumber.

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Letter to a Climate Veteran on the Eve of the Global Summit in Brazil …To Lowell Bliss, director of the Christian Climate Observers Program

"Could it be that this crisis invites us to reimagine our faith, toward one not wed to dreams of triumph and happy endings, but, like the Christ, faithfully and resolutely drinks the cup of the experience of God’s beloved world—the world to which we belong?"

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The stench of authoritarianism This is what you see on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC

Not since Stalin...

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Trump has defied a court order and sending troops to Portland based on Fox News disinformation. Now is the time for everyone to take a stand.

NO KINGS protests everywhere on 10/18. Please find one near you in this link.
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The sleeping giant is awakening After a week of authoritarian excess, the nation is turning on Trump

Is this just wishful optimism, or is America—finally—waking up?

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The Reichstag Is Burning How an aspirational dictatorship makes use of a horrible murder

I never before thought that it was dangerous to speak truth in my country. Those days are gone. Will we ever get them back?

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A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!

Maybe we just keep our heads down and say nothing. Stay out of trouble. Love the mild weather? Me too! Genocide? Fascism? I don't know anything about those words out of history books. But the Bake-Off is back! And such lovely weather!

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Talking About Genocide What happens when victims become perpetrators?

It's getting harder to stand by in silence.

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The Atlantic has looked closely at what the MAGA president is doing to American science & tech leadership, It's scary.

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Here's Trump's new BLS data guy, right there storming the Capitol. Welcome to Trumpland.

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

Every empire eventually collapses. Only a few do so because of the madness of their ruler. Welcome to Trumpland. It's ironic that its dictator popularized the term "sh!th0le country," isn't it?

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Epilogue: The MAGA Assault on a Livable World Where can we search for hope now?

I plant my hope here, dear friends: Love will count, no matter what, even on the last day of the world. I will not always live up to that hope. But, I believe, you will help me.

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This is my 6th in a 6-part series covering the MAGA assault on our world. This one—Hobbling the Protectors—looks at the Trump program of mass firings, draconian budget cuts, rescinded health standards, and lawsuits—leaving the public defenseless against polluters.
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Silencing the Science Research warns the public. So shut it down cold. (#5 of 6 posts on the Trump ecological wreckage)

Friends, I've been alarmed at the steamroller that has shut down American science funding and silenced its dissemination. I've done my best to make it clear and short, but sadly, not-so-sweet. Please take a look. Thank you.
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Trump’s Attack on Clean Energy How the MAGA budget subsidizes pollution and strangles fast-growing American clean energy (#4 of 6 posts on the MAGA ecological wreckage)

My series on the MAGA assault on our planetary home continues. We turn here to the strangulation of clean energy in America.
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We own a collective sadness this July 4th:

Well, We’re All Going to Die. (Whoopee!) There’s a more honest name for the horrific “Big, Beautiful” thing

What day is this? Independence Day? Or the day after we lost our last shreds of decency? I thought this might be the day to remember what our country just did. Please, take a moment to read.

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I'm sorry Bryan, but the rich need more money My personal story of Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse

2 months ago, I wrote about my homeless friend, “Bryan,” naming him among what I thought would be 8.6 million Americans thrown off Medicaid. I had no idea he would be among 14 million souls left to suffer and die.

This is July 3, 2025. 7/3/25. Remember this day.

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Trump’s America Walks Away—Again The Paris Agreement was imperfect. Now it’s moribund

The MAGA abandonment of a world facing climate crisis may be its most lasting crime.

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Will You Survive Trump’s Environmental Blitzkrieg? A six-post series explaining what MAGA is doing to your planet. #1: The “Emergency”

You don't want to read all Trump's orders and actions to vandalize the Earth. I've done it for you! Here's the first of six short posts laying it out there clearly.
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Trump's pardons, demanding nothing but loyalty to him, taught me something important about my inherited religion.

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Trump’s EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits More than 200 health experts say regulatory proposals will lead to biggest increase in pollution in decades

“Everyone will be affected by his actions, but the most vulnerable among us, our kids and grandkids, will suffer the most.” Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
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A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee:

Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS

Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection

Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids

Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit

Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax

If you don’t like the science, fire the scientists.

NO KINGS Newark · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

Please don’t sit this one out. We have no king, but we must deal with this fascist dictator. I’ll be in Newark, but there’s one near you

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American Idiot(s) There is an explanation to the madness we are witnessing — and, once again, the conscience of the country, the Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, tells us exactly what we don’t want to hear.

To understand what we’re watching every day…

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Opinion | The Alarming Part of the Musk-Trump Dispute

The cult of personality now rules American capitalism. Stalin, Kim, Putin—and now Trump.

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So good. So good.

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Democratic Wins Media on Substack BREAKING: Adam Schiff just read Trump's EPA director a full list of his agency's failures to his face and left him completely speechless. This is absolutely incredible.

Trump and Zeldin are cutting EPA’s budget by more than half. Your cancer, your loss of climate hope, your children’s lives—those are the price to pay for the polluters’ profits. So sorry.

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