Joni Zimmerman

Trump and DOGE want to slash the FDIC's workforce by 20%, leaving fewer watchdogs on the beat to police Wall Street misconduct.

Remember: the FDIC was created during the Depression to protect people's deposit accounts.

Gutting it could lead to another financial meltdown.

At least 140,000 children and 67,000
adults have died as a result of Musk, the orange, and Rubio terminating USAID support to healthcare and food aid. The lag effects of HIV/AIDs, TB and malnutrition will soon start increasing the toll more rapidly.

Despite Proven Fraud, Trump to Boost Payments to Privatized Medicare Advantage by $25 Billion “Privatized Medicare plans are denying patients the care they need, while defrauding the government of billions a year,” said one advocacy group. “Donald Trump is giving them even more taxpayer money.” By Jake Johnson | – ( Commondreams.org ) – The federal agency now headed by former television host Mehmet Oz announced Monday that it […]

Despite Proven Fraud, Trump to Boost Payments to Privatized Medicare Advantage by $25 Billion

Let's fight for this, way past time.

The $400,000,000 Trump is withholding from Columbia University is no arbitrary amount. It was the amount Donald wanted Columbia to pay him for land he owned. They refused. And Donald was furious. That was 25 years ago. And petty Donald has not forgotten.

YouTube video by Robert Reich How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich

The economy is showing severe warning signs after Trump's first month in office. This shouldn't be surprising. He doesn't understand the economy and tanked pretty much every business he ever touched. youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?...

IT IS TIME FOR @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social AND @schumer.senate.gov TO STEP DOWN FROM THEIR POSITIONS. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS 50 YEARS PAST DUE FOR A NEW DIRECTION!

"Older Ukrainians, who grew up in the Soviet Union, have recognised in this situation the US that was depicted by Soviet propaganda cartoons as a nation of greedy, irresponsible, grab-what-you-can capitalists, who spat on complex problems and had eyes only for dollar superprofits."

A humiliation at the White House and what does it tell us? Trump would make a colony of my country | Andrey Kurkov A cold reality hit us in Washington. Zelenskyy was being forced to buy hope of survival by people who have no care for our freedom, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov

Trump has shown his true ugliness to the world.
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Ukraine ‘gambling with world war three’, Trump tells Zelenskyy in fiery meeting Meeting between US president and Ukrainian leader degenerated into shouting match before being cut short

Wow! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s Plan to Make America Healthy Again? Continued Exposure to Lead in Water. No one knows how many lead pipes funnel tainted water into schools and daycares, but the GOP is derailing remediation.

The Trump administration is threatening to end key measures that attempt to reduce people’s exposure to lead.

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It may only take 3.5% of the population to topple a dictator – with civil resistance | Erica Chenoweth The United States has a rich history with effective uses of nonviolent resistance. It’s time to become familiar with it

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#civildisobedience #sustainedmassprotest

This is the kind of TRUTH that really lights MY ASS ON FIRE!

CAN SOMEONE PUT THIS IN A CONSTITUTIONAL / LEGAL PERSPECTIVE WITH AN ENVIRONMENT VOID OF ANY CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT AND A SOUTH AFRICAN IMMIGRANT WITH CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AT EVERY TURN?

Let's not call it "political activism"! Call it what it is - unauthorized illegal takeover and destruction of US government!

If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.

How the Muskrat is messing with your social security, your religion, and everything else He and his goons must be stopped

I can think of at least eight federal laws that have been broken by Musk and his goons over the last few days, and at least two provisions of the U.S. Constitution.

They must be stopped.

Some thoughts: robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-mu...

Experts Say a Coup Is Underway as Musk Seizes Control of Government Agencies The unelected billionaire has captured vast portions of the federal government, warns strategist Waleed Shahid.

The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department was pushed out after refusing to hand Musk’s team the keys to the government’s entire payment system and the $6 trillion in payments the system processes annually, including Social Security checks, tax refunds and Medicare benefits.

Fire Weather The wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire.

Fire Weather open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

🚨 Breaking: International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant