Dr. Ruth Chung Wei

Trump Bows to Putin’s Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions

“Nobody’s better at deal making - nobody!” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

Congress Agrees to Claw Back Foreign Aid and Public Broadcast Funds

Did Congress just gift Donald Trump the power of line item veto? 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

I hope low income MAGA voters are paying attention. Tax refund checks will be much smaller or nil under this new tax plan. www.instagram.com/reel/DJwppjE...

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship (Gift Article) Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a crime.

They won’t stop until all dissent is silenced. We mustn’t let them silence us. Now is the time to support legal battles for our freedom of speech. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

OMG. Linda Linda Linda 🤦🏻‍♀️ Are we serving steaksauce with our computer skills? We know all the cabinet members were the least qualified to do their jobs but seriously?!? 😱 www.facebook.com/100014047860...

‘We’re Playing With Fire’: The Risks of Trump’s Tariffs on China The Opinions · Episode

Even economists in favor of tariffs to some extent say this was the stupidest way to implement them. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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How Would We Build Homes Without Immigrant Labor and Foreign Materials? (Gift Article) Take a line-by-line look at the estimated costs of building this four-bedroom home in Phoenix, Ariz., under President Trump’s agenda.

So much for building more affordable housing! The cost of building and repairs will all rise because of the tariffs and labor shortages. Increased housing costs will hurt working people the most. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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U.S. Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at Guantánamo - Listen on NYT Audio 6 min listen - The disclosure of the tab so far came after five senators visited the offshore operation, which they condemned as a waste of resources.

$1M spent per detainee for a few months. That’s doge efficiency for ya! Meanwhile, EVERY time the Felon visits his own golf courses, $3.4M our taxpayer dollars is spent on security, much of it going to his own pockets. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...

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On Saturday, April 5, we're joining thousands of people in a nationwide day of action to say: Hands off our Social Security. Hands off our public schools. Hands off our Medicare. Hands off our jobs.

Find a #HandsOff event near you & join the fight to #ProtectOurKids: www.mobilize.us/handsoff

UPDATE: School shooting database axed in Trump downsizing The latest education news updates from EdSource.

So if the government stops counting the number of domestic terrorism incidents and school shootings, the administration can say we have fewer shootings (or make up whatever fictional number they want) and claim we are safer now? "Nothing to see here, folks!"

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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article) Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

The unmarked cars, the men in masks, being whisked away to an unknown location, no due process—all of it is being done to shut us up. The number of deportations has not gone up. It’s the spectacle and who is being targeted that have changed.
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Opinion | Trump Is Taking the Law Into His Own Hands (Gift Article) About that rule of law …

Our democracy and rule of law are in serious danger. If any courts are defunded or judges impeached by Congress because they rule against the Felon’s admin, we all need to hit the streets.
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Opinion | Trump’s Environmental Agenda Is Actually Toxic (Gift Article) Trump says one thing about toxins and does another.

They might as well rebrand as MASA - Make America Sh*tty Again. We really are living in an Orwellian dystopia. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation (Gift Article) Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.

Not an arrestable offense when white neonazis (the source of the most national security threats) marched in the streets saying “Jews will not replace us!” But participating in peaceful protest on campus is? The first amendment is dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

Live Updates: Chief Justice Allows U.S. to Continue Freeze on Foreign Aid Payments

How is this not illegal breach of contract if the work has already been completed?! SCOTUS caved. There go the courts. Our checks and balances have crumbled. We are officially now a monarchy. 😳

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The Washington Post’s Strategy Is to Do Whatever Jeff Bezos Wants The venerable paper has officially become the Amazon CEO’s plaything.

Is this not censorship of opinions? 🤦🏻‍♀️ not free press. I have divested from Amazon and am going to do my darndest to not enrich the Bozo further. It will be a hard habit to break and I will end up paying higher prices for things. But that’s the price of a free conscience. nymag.com/intelligence...

The House Wants to Pass Trump’s Agenda in One Big Bill. Here’s What’s in It. (Gift Article) The G.O.P. bill would extend tax cuts and almost certainly make big reductions to programs serving the poor. Passing it may be hard, though.

I hope all the low income MAGA voters are paying attention - soon they will lose their SNAP food stamps, school meals, Medicaid benefits. All so high income folks can hoard more wealth. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Trump Officials Release Water That Experts Say Will Serve Little Use (Gift Article) Local officials and experts said the water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began sending downstream on Friday could have been helpful to farmers later this year. President Trump, in an apparent refer...

This is so painful when fresh water supplies are being wasted for a PR stunt. Will folks in the red areas of the Central Valley see through the utter stupidity of this pretender and use their common sense to vote out MAGA politicians in the midterms? Unlikely. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...

Military helicopters are crashing to planes and there are no adults in the building. 🤬 #feloninchief

Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics (Gift Article) There were no Situation Room meetings and no quiet calls to de-escalate a dispute with an ally. Just threats, counterthreats, surrender and an indication of the president’s approach to Greenland and P...

The felon not only took us back 60 years to pre-EOCC regs, he’s taking us back to US expansion era of the early 1900s. Taking his cues from Putin & PRC, I suppose. 🤦🏻‍♀️😡
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Just finished “reading” (Audible) Murakami’s latest novel (expanded on a novella he wrote 40 years earlier) and am enthralled by his work. The simplicity of his style belies the complexity of his ideas. I’ve only read one other (1Q84). Gonna have to start an author study. #bookrec #murakami