And I’m proud to be an American Where at least I know I’m free
The green pouch mounted on the plainclothes agent’s chest (above) is not but resembles a Claymore antipersonnel mine. Those very helpfully say FRONT TOWARD ENEMY. His pouch (and ICE tactical vests) might as well carry that instruction too. By their actions ye shall know them.
Heather Cox Richardson notes in her letter that while Republicans are working desperately to tag Democrats for the government shutdown, they are holding millions of food-insecure Americans hostage. Maybe Trump is taking tips from Bibi Netanyahu. Welcome to Gaza West where hunger is again a weapon.
HCR writes:
It appears the administration is using those Americans who depend on food assistance as pawns to put more pressure on Democrats to cave to Trump’s will. Today, Annie Karni of the New York Times reported that Trump has joked, “I’m the speaker and the president,” and Trump ally Steven Bannon calls Congress “the state Duma,” a reference to Russia’s rubber-stamp assembly.
Republicans believe Democrats will “give up their demand for the extension of the premium tax credit to stop dramatic hikes in the cost of healthcare premiums will cave when America falls into a hunger crisis.”
HCR delves into the history of the U.S. food assistance program now called SNAP as November 1 approaches with no resolution to the shutdown. NBC News reports that state leaders are recommending that SNAP recipients turn to food banks, “But food banks say it will be impossible to fill the gap.” (Send your local food bank a donation if you can.)
HCR again:
Not only will the loss of SNAP create more hunger in the richest country on earth, it will also rip a hole in local economies just as people’s health insurance premiums skyrocket.
And yet, at the same time the Department of Agriculture says it cannot spend its $6 billion in reserves to address the $8 billion needed for SNAP in November, the administration easily found $20 billion to prop up right-wing Trump ally Javier Milei in Argentina.
What are we doing here?
What “we” are doing is fighting a civil war without pitched gun battles. Anyone non-MAGA is an enemy to the budding Donald Trump dictatorship. Even Americans caught up in his personality cult are colateral damage if Trump deems their sacrifice useful. That’s just as Republicans do with voting restrictions that harm their own voters.
Anyone who looks sideways at what immigration enforcers are doing (violently) is subject to arrest, like the night manager of Chicago’s Laugh Factory. The Tribe offers a lengthy description of what took place leading up to and after the video below. Nate Griffin has since been released on bond.
Few shots are being fired, but the government is taking prisoners.
Between Trump going 9/11 on the White House, Republicans using food as a weapon, and ICE terrorizing American cities, how many of Trump’s supprters are singing Lee Greenwood’s anthem now?
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Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?
No King’s One Million Rising movement
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Indivisible: A Guide to Democracy on the Brink
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Chop Wood, Carry Water
Thirty lonely but beautiful actions
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