#reconciliationbill — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/people/185234/ Thune, Trump, Senate conservatives reach deal to set aside budget, SAVE America Act impasse #BudgetResolution #JohnThune #MikeLee #PresidentTrump #ReconciliationBill #RonJohnson #SAVEAmerica #Senate #SenateMajorityLeader #SenateRepublicans
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https://www.europesays.com/people/180005/ GOP infighting erupts as Thune warns of legislative ‘trainwreck’ #BudgetResolution #ContinuingResolution #GOP #JohnThune #ReconciliationBill #RepublicanColleagues #SusanCollins #WhiteHouse
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https://www.europesays.com/people/162336/ Can Republicans require voter ID, proof of citizenship through reconciliation? #AdditionalFunding #align='center #BudgetBlueprint #BudgetReconciliation #citizenship #Congress #Enforcement #HouseRepublicans #HouseSpeakerMikeJohnson #MikeJohnson #PresidentDonaldTrump #proof #ProofOfCitizenship #reconciliation #ReconciliationBill #Republicans #SaveAmericaAct #Senate #Source=''][/related]onWednesday #StockTradingBan #vote #VoterID
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https://www.europesays.com/people/153732/ House GOP fast-tracks reconciliation 3.0 with farm aid, Save America Act #Budget #Congress #DonaldTrump #E15 #Elections #FarmBill #FarmEconomy #GTThompson #HouseSpeakerMikeJohnson #Immigration #Iran #JDVance #MikeJohnson #Politics #ReconciliationBill #WhiteHouse
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https://www.europesays.com/people/152520/ Thune’s Senate Warning & The Israel Aid Divide #BudgetCommittee #HakeemJeffries #HouseBudgetCommittee #Israel #JohnThune #LindseyGraham #ReconciliationBill #RonJohnson #Sen #SenateBudgetCommittee #SenateMajorityLeader #ThomasMassie
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https://www.europesays.com/people/152031/ Mike Johnson Pushes Reconciliation Bill to Fund Defense, Agriculture #AgriculturalFunding #FarmAid #MikeJohnson #Politics #Reconciliation30 #ReconciliationBill #SaveAmericaAct
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Defense Funding in Jeopardy as Reconciliation Bill Fades
Defense funding is in limbo after Senate leaders, including Appropriations Chairman Susan Collins and Senator Mitch McConnell, effectively ruled out a third reconciliation bill, dashing Pentagon hopes for a boost in next year's budget. This development puts crucial defense funding in jeopardy.
#DefenseFunding #NationalSecurity #GovernmentPolicy #Pentagon #ReconciliationBill
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https://www.europesays.com/people/100974/ House passes agriculture and FDA appropriations bill #AppropriationsBill #AppropriationsBills #FoodAndDrugAdministration #house #HouseAppropriationsCommittee #MikeJohnson #ReconciliationBill #RuralDevelopment
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Trump Administration Halts $1.8 Billion Fund Amid Republican Oversight Concerns
📰 Original title: Republicans aren't done with Trump's slush fund even as admin surrenders: DC insider
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Trump Administration Halts $1.8 Billion Fund Amid Republican Oversight Concerns
📰 Original title: Republicans aren't done with Trump's slush fund even as admin surrenders: DC insider
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/trump-administration-halts-1-8-billion-fund-amid-republican-oversight-concerns.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Trump Administration Halts $1.8 Billion Fund Amid Republican Oversight Concerns
📰 Original title: Republicans aren't done with Trump's slush fund even as admin surrenders: DC insider
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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https://www.europesays.com/people/95508/ Chuck Schumer Hatches Plot To Tank Weaponization Fund #ChuckSchumer #ReconciliationBill #Republicans #SenateDemocrats #SenateMinorityLeader #SenateRepublicans #SlushFund
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Pentagon Explores Foreign Shipbuilding Amid US Capacity Constraints
The Pentagon is eyeing a game-changing strategy: tapping into foreign shipbuilding capacity to bolster its own fleet, with a whopping $1.85 billion request to explore building US Navy ships in Japan or South Korea. This bold move could be a major shake-up in the making.
#UsNavy #ForeignShipbuilding #ShipbuildingCapacity #Pentagon #ReconciliationBill
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Army's Munitions, Industrial Plans Hinge on Reconciliation Bill
The Army's ambitious plans for munitions and industrial upgrades are hanging in the balance, awaiting crucial support from the reconciliation bill to accelerate progress. Without it, the pace of modernization and vital factory upgrades may stall, warns Maj. Gen. Rebecca McElwain, the Army's budget…
#DefenseBudget #ReconciliationBill #MunitionsProcurement #IndustrialModernization #DepartmentOfDefense
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https://www.europesays.com/people/81158/ Senate Ditches D.C. For Memorial Day Without Passing $72B Border Funding Bill #BrianFitzpatrick #CustomsAndBorderProtection #ImmigrationEnforcement #JohnThune #PresidentDonaldTrump #ReconciliationBill #RepublicanLawmakers #SenateMajorityLeader #SenateRepublicans #SenatorThune #TheSenate
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https://www.europesays.com/people/78174/ Trump pressures Senate majority leader to fire parliamentarian #DonaldTrump #JohnThune #MacDonough #NOTUS #PrivateConversations #ReconciliationBill #RepublicanBudgetBill #SenateMajorityLeader #SenateParliamentarian #SenateRepublicans #WhiteHouse
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CW: ICE / immigration enforcement
Republicans released a reconciliation bill with ~$70 billion for ICE and CBP and $1 billion for a White House ballroom renovation, with no cost-of-living relief. Call Republican members to oppose it, email Democrats to fight it, and join a phonebank targeting red-district voters. #ICE #ReconciliationBill #Congress #Indivisible
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CW: ICE / immigration enforcement
Republicans released a reconciliation bill with ~$70 billion for ICE and CBP and $1 billion for a White House ballroom renovation, with no cost-of-living relief. Call Republican members to oppose it, email Democrats to fight it, and join a phonebank targeting red-district voters. #ICE #ReconciliationBill #Congress #Indivisible
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CW: ICE / immigration enforcement
Republicans released a reconciliation bill with ~$70 billion for ICE and CBP and $1 billion for a White House ballroom renovation, with no cost-of-living relief. Call Republican members to oppose it, email Democrats to fight it, and join a phonebank targeting red-district voters. #ICE #ReconciliationBill #Congress #Indivisible
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CW: ICE / immigration enforcement
Republicans released a reconciliation bill with ~$70 billion for ICE and CBP and $1 billion for a White House ballroom renovation, with no cost-of-living relief. Call Republican members to oppose it, email Democrats to fight it, and join a phonebank targeting red-district voters. #ICE #ReconciliationBill #Congress #Indivisible
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https://www.europesays.com/people/49217/ Senate GOP pushes back on Trump ballroom amid affordability worries #GOP #JohnThune #LindseyGraham #PresidentTrump #ReconciliationBill #SenateRepublicans #TaxpayerMoney #WhiteHouse #WhiteHouseBallroom
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https://www.europesays.com/people/47238/ This week on The Hill: Lawmakers head into ‘hell week’ with FISA and reconciliation 2.0 #FISA #house #HouseFreedomCaucus #HouseRepublicans #HouseRulesCommittee #JohnThune #KingCharlesIII #MikeJohnson #RalphNorman #ReconciliationBill #Republicans #Section702OfFISA
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https://www.europesays.com/people/46221/ This week on The Hill: Lawmakers head into ‘hell week’ with FISA and reconciliation 2.0 #FISA #house #HouseFreedomCaucus #HouseRepublicans #HouseRulesCommittee #JohnThune #KingCharlesIII #MikeJohnson #RalphNorman #ReconciliationBill #Republicans #Section702OfFISA
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https://www.europesays.com/people/38342/ Trump Rallies GOP Unity As Senate Moves On High-Stakes Border Funding Bill #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #JohnThune #PresidentDonaldTrump #ReconciliationBill #Senate #SenateDemocrats #SenateMajorityLeader #SenatorLindseyGraham #USBorderPatrol
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https://www.europesays.com/people/36939/ House GOP resists passing Senate DHS bill until after ‘skinny’ ICE, Border Patrol funding #BorderPatrol #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DHSBill #HouseRepublicans #JohnThune #MikeJohnson #ReconciliationBill #SenateBill #SteveScalise #TheSenate #WhiteHouse
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Graham Weighs Defense Spending in Reconciliation Bill
Senator Lindsey Graham is walking a tightrope on defense spending, resisting pressure from defense hawks to expand a reconciliation bill while trying to keep costs in check. He's aiming for a lean and focused measure, but will it be enough to satisfy lawmakers on both sides?
#DefenseSpending #ReconciliationBill #NationalSecurity #GovernmentBudgeting #Senate
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https://www.europesays.com/people/27584/ Senate moves forward with plan to fund ICE, Border Patrol for 3 years #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #JohnBarrasso #JohnThune #LindseyGraham #PresidentDonaldTrump #ReconciliationBill #SenateMajorityLeader #TheSenate
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https://www.europesays.com/people/16693/ Trump Rejects John Thune’s DHS Funding Proposal To End Shutdown: Report #democrats #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #GOPSenators #JohnThune #PartialGovernmentShutdown #PunchbowlNews #ReconciliationBill #SenateMajorityLeader #SenateRepublicans
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https://www.europesays.com/people/15037/ Republicans Face Internal Revolt Over Their Own Plan to End Shutdown #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #HouseFreedomCaucus #MikeJohnson #PresidentTrump #ReconciliationBill #Republicans #SpeakerMikeJohnson
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https://www.europesays.com/people/11281/ Trump Killed TSA Funding Deal in Fiery Private Exchange With John Thune: Report #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #DonaldTrump #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #JohnThune #PunchbowlNews #ReconciliationBill #SenateMajorityLeader #SenateRepublicans #TSA
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https://www.europesays.com/people/5500/ House Republicans seek to fund ICE before passing Senate DHS bill, complicating plan to end shutdown #BorderPatrol #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #GOP #GOPLeaders #house #HouseFreedomCaucus #HouseRepublicans #ImmigrationEnforcement #JohnThune #MikeJohnson #ReconciliationBill #Senate #SenateBill
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Medical Debt Expected to Grow as Premiums Rise and Trump Slashes Regulations
The Trump administration has gutted rules and programs meant to protect people from ever-increasing health care costs.
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Medical Debt Expected to Grow as Premiums Rise and Trump Slashes Regulations
The Trump administration has gutted rules and programs meant to protect people from ever-increasing health care costs.
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Hunger Threatens to Plague “Golden Years” of Older Americans Due to Trump’s Cuts
Malnutrition and food insecurity are set to soar among vulnerable older populations due to aid cuts in Trump’s budget.
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Trump’s Tax Law Seeks to Override Rules Protecting Children in Immigration Jail
Tucked into the legislation are provisions that pave the way for migrant children to face longer periods in detention.
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Trump Is Trying to Dismantle Public Health — and Replace It With a Police State
From the streets to town halls and the courts, it’s a race now. The Trump administration is fighting to remain a step ahead of the growing popular backlash to its draconian cuts to social programs that millions of Americans depend on — at least until the administration operationalizes enough of the police state it’s practicing on immigrants to put down any such objection.
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
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Sanders: Members of Congress Who Voted for “Big Beautiful Bill” Must Be Ousted
Democrats must make the bill “the defining issue of the 2026 campaign,” Sanders said.
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Weekly output: Android and Wear OS updates, Gmail’s Manage Subscriptions tool, Grok coming to Teslas, clean-energy rebates and tax credits
This week saw the return of one of Washington’s most treasured rites of summer: the free outdoor concerts at Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown. Unfortunately, I let myself get spooked by the weather forecast for Monday’s show and then had a schedule conflict for Thursday’s show–and now I see that the forecast calls for rain tomorrow evening.
7/9/2025: Google Unpacks Another Round of AI Features, Starting With Gemini On Wear OS, PCMag
SamsI contributed a tiny bit of PCMag’s coverage of Samsung’s latest Unpacked product-announcement event with this writeup of some new features Google announced for some of Samsung’s new hardware.
7/9/2025: Gmail’s New ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Feature Is Here, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough, PCMag
If I had written about this new Gmail feature only from Google’s announcement of it, this might have been a much more positive piece. But what they rolled out doesn’t come close to helping Gmail users cope with their overflowing inboxes.
7/10/2025: After Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Teslas, the Jokes Drive Themselves, PCMag
Writing this short post took longer than I expected because it represented my belated introduction to the content-embedding feature in PCMag’s CMS.
7/11/2025: Interested in Clean-Energy Tax Credits? The Clock Is Ticking Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, PCMag
Researching this piece felt like doing my taxes, with the added annoyance factor of my knowing that we were never eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives anyway.
#android #cleanEnergy #ElonMusk #gmail #greenEnergy #Grok #heatPump #InflationReductionAct #IRA #ManageSubscriptions #OneBigBeautifulBill #reconciliationBill #Samsung #SamsungUnpacked #Tesla #WearOS
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Weekly output: Android and Wear OS updates, Gmail’s Manage Subscriptions tool, Grok coming to Teslas, clean-energy rebates and tax credits
This week saw the return of one of Washington’s most treasured rites of summer: the free outdoor concerts at Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown. Unfortunately, I let myself get spooked by the weather forecast for Monday’s show and then had a schedule conflict for Thursday’s show–and now I see that the forecast calls for rain tomorrow evening.
7/9/2025: Google Unpacks Another Round of AI Features, Starting With Gemini On Wear OS, PCMag
SamsI contributed a tiny bit of PCMag’s coverage of Samsung’s latest Unpacked product-announcement event with this writeup of some new features Google announced for some of Samsung’s new hardware.
7/9/2025: Gmail’s New ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Feature Is Here, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough, PCMag
If I had written about this new Gmail feature only from Google’s announcement of it, this might have been a much more positive piece. But what they rolled out doesn’t come close to helping Gmail users cope with their overflowing inboxes.
7/10/2025: After Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Teslas, the Jokes Drive Themselves, PCMag
Writing this short post took longer than I expected because it represented my belated introduction to the content-embedding feature in PCMag’s CMS.
7/11/2025: Interested in Clean-Energy Tax Credits? The Clock Is Ticking Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, PCMag
Researching this piece felt like doing my taxes, with the added annoyance factor of my knowing that we were never eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives anyway.
#android #cleanEnergy #ElonMusk #gmail #greenEnergy #Grok #heatPump #InflationReductionAct #IRA #ManageSubscriptions #OneBigBeautifulBill #reconciliationBill #Samsung #SamsungUnpacked #Tesla #WearOS
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Weekly output: Android and Wear OS updates, Gmail’s Manage Subscriptions tool, Grok coming to Teslas, clean-energy rebates and tax credits
This week saw the return of one of Washington’s most treasured rites of summer: the free outdoor concerts at Fort Reno Park in Tenleytown. Unfortunately, I let myself get spooked by the weather forecast for Monday’s show and then had a schedule conflict for Thursday’s show–and now I see that the forecast calls for rain tomorrow evening.
7/9/2025: Google Unpacks Another Round of AI Features, Starting With Gemini On Wear OS, PCMag
SamsI contributed a tiny bit of PCMag’s coverage of Samsung’s latest Unpacked product-announcement event with this writeup of some new features Google announced for some of Samsung’s new hardware.
7/9/2025: Gmail’s New ‘Manage Subscriptions’ Feature Is Here, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough, PCMag
If I had written about this new Gmail feature only from Google’s announcement of it, this might have been a much more positive piece. But what they rolled out doesn’t come close to helping Gmail users cope with their overflowing inboxes.
7/10/2025: After Elon Musk Says Grok Is Coming to Teslas, the Jokes Drive Themselves, PCMag
Writing this short post took longer than I expected because it represented my belated introduction to the content-embedding feature in PCMag’s CMS.
7/11/2025: Interested in Clean-Energy Tax Credits? The Clock Is Ticking Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’, PCMag
Researching this piece felt like doing my taxes, with the added annoyance factor of my knowing that we were never eligible for some of the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives anyway.
#android #cleanEnergy #ElonMusk #gmail #greenEnergy #Grok #heatPump #InflationReductionAct #IRA #ManageSubscriptions #OneBigBeautifulBill #reconciliationBill #Samsung #SamsungUnpacked #Tesla #WearOS
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The US Public Loves the National Park Service. Trump Is Destroying It Anyway.
Trump is pushing for cuts that could require 350 of the 433 sites run by the National Park Service to shut down.
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Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.
Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.
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Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.
Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.
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Walz and Johnson Make #MisleadingClaims About Bill’s Impact on #SNAP
#Republican and #Democratic leaders have either downplayed or overstated the estimated impact of the House #reconciliationbill on the #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram, formerly known as #foodstamps.
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Walz and Johnson Make #MisleadingClaims About Bill’s Impact on #SNAP
#Republican and #Democratic leaders have either downplayed or overstated the estimated impact of the House #reconciliationbill on the #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram, formerly known as #foodstamps.
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Walz and Johnson Make #MisleadingClaims About Bill’s Impact on #SNAP
#Republican and #Democratic leaders have either downplayed or overstated the estimated impact of the House #reconciliationbill on the #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram, formerly known as #foodstamps.
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This week's Skinny timed out with the end of the month, and a season change on my website; needless to say I'm a little exhausted. I'm fond of this one tho, there's several pieces I wrote this week that when cleaned up clearly could have been full essays. Not that I had the time to source them, but some of this was pretty good for a social media blog for sure.
This week we're talking about how the budget bill fuels the fascist anti-trans pogrom, the multiple purposes of the surveillance panopticon, ICE agents setting traps for migrants at courthouses nationwide, and the banality of the open white nationalism the regime engages in daily. Oh, and Senate Democrats could stop the GOP homicidal class war Billionaire Bill in its tracks; do they want to? Check out this week's Skinny for more:
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/31/the-skinny-banality-of-evil-in-trumps-america/2/
The Skinny: Banality of Evil in Trump’s America
"Which brings us to the vague wording, and potentially broad applications of this ideological screening. As we’ve learned to watch for from studying the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther, and the Trump administration’s clear adherence to its doctrines, there is nothing in any of the administration’s orders targeting dissidents that essentializes being pro-Palestine, or anti-genocide. The regime has already asserted the power to define anything as terrorism, or material support, and even casual criticism as being a threat to US national security, so why would they stop at anti-genocide protestors or foreign students at all for that matter? A vast digital panopticon relying on “AI-processing” technology to sort through every aspect of a targeted individual or group’s lives can and almost certainly will be repurposed to identify and surveil the regime’s political and ideological opposition in broader American society until such a time as a ghoul like Marco Rubio, or Pam Bondi finds a way to declare that their constitutional rights too, are null and void."
#Fascism #USPol #ReconciliationBill #TransRights #Trump #GOP #ICE #MarcoRubio #StudentVisas #WhiteNationalism #TheSkinny #Newsletter
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This week's Skinny timed out with the end of the month, and a season change on my website; needless to say I'm a little exhausted. I'm fond of this one tho, there's several pieces I wrote this week that when cleaned up clearly could have been full essays. Not that I had the time to source them, but some of this was pretty good for a social media blog for sure.
This week we're talking about how the budget bill fuels the fascist anti-trans pogrom, the multiple purposes of the surveillance panopticon, ICE agents setting traps for migrants at courthouses nationwide, and the banality of the open white nationalism the regime engages in daily. Oh, and Senate Democrats could stop the GOP homicidal class war Billionaire Bill in its tracks; do they want to? Check out this week's Skinny for more:
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/31/the-skinny-banality-of-evil-in-trumps-america/2/
The Skinny: Banality of Evil in Trump’s America
"Which brings us to the vague wording, and potentially broad applications of this ideological screening. As we’ve learned to watch for from studying the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther, and the Trump administration’s clear adherence to its doctrines, there is nothing in any of the administration’s orders targeting dissidents that essentializes being pro-Palestine, or anti-genocide. The regime has already asserted the power to define anything as terrorism, or material support, and even casual criticism as being a threat to US national security, so why would they stop at anti-genocide protestors or foreign students at all for that matter? A vast digital panopticon relying on “AI-processing” technology to sort through every aspect of a targeted individual or group’s lives can and almost certainly will be repurposed to identify and surveil the regime’s political and ideological opposition in broader American society until such a time as a ghoul like Marco Rubio, or Pam Bondi finds a way to declare that their constitutional rights too, are null and void."
#Fascism #USPol #ReconciliationBill #TransRights #Trump #GOP #ICE #MarcoRubio #StudentVisas #WhiteNationalism #TheSkinny #Newsletter
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Unfortunately we still haven't run out of terrible things to talk about in the Republican Party's homicidal class war budget, the Billionaire's Murder Bill if you will, while it percolates in the GOP-controlled US Senate. I'm a little late to the party, but I'd like to talk a bit about the bill's proposed changes to immigration policy and funding, because I think it exposes how the absurdly-named "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is as much a vehicle to prosecute a white nationalist policy agenda, as it is a piece of budget legislation that openly robs the American labor class on behalf of uber-wealthy oligarchs.
Using this May 17th, 2025 article from The Guardian, I want to focus in on two key areas of discussion here: funding, and ethno-nationalist policy. For clarity's sake however, I'm going to look at them in the opposite order they're presented in the article, starting with funding.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/us-house-republicans-fees-immigrants
US House Republicans propose fees on immigrants to fund Trump’s crackdown
"More than $50bn is allocated in the legislation to construct a wall along the border with Mexico, as well as fortifications elsewhere. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) will receive $45bn for detention facilities, $14bn for its deportation operations and billions of dollars more to hire 10,000 new agents by 2029."
This is the most straightforward part of the bill's odious support for Trump's fascist mass deportation scheme, and since it actually deals with allocating funds, this is the part you're supposed to put in a budget reconciliation bill. Frankly speaking however there is nothing appropriate about spending $50B on a border wall we know won't "work" to keep out migrants and as recently as five years ago at least one side of the US political establishment recognized would be a grotesque monument to American nativism; a formerly partisan principle that tragically seems to have fallen by the wayside in the Democratic Party's desperate quest to court suburban cracker voters in the lead up to an election they'd go on to lose anyway. Given that Trump is already using ICE as his white nationalist Gestapo, does anyone who isn't a raging nazi think it's a good idea to let DHS hire 10,000 more ICE goons? Whose interests does it actually serve to hand $45B to private prison contractors, and budget another $14B for fascist mass deportations? Please keep in mind here that you can't divorce these expenditures from the massive cuts to social safety net programs specifically targeting the American labor class; in addition to murdering people for bonus billionaire yacht money, the GOP is saying that your kids should go hungry and poor people should hop in the woodchipper so Trump can build his absurd and racist border wall.
As disgusting as all of that is however, the real kicker here is the way the proposed budget bill works to create a de facto, albeit loose, white nationalist ban on immigration, through the application of unprecedented fees for sponsors of would be immigrants, including asylum seekers.
"Heidi Altman, vice-president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center, said the new fees appeared targeted at the sorts of immigrants that the Trump administration has prioritized keeping out, such as asylum seekers, who arrived in large numbers during Joe Biden’s term.
“It’s part of the administration’s assault on humanitarian protections for immigrant communities,” Altman said. “This is an entire new way of thinking about fees as a penalty, essentially, for an immigrant status.”
Under the bill, immigrants would have to pay $1,000 to apply for asylum, $100 to keep an application active each year as it makes it through the overburdened immigration system, and $550 for a work permit. People requesting humanitarian parole to enter the United States would have to pay $1,000, and abused or neglected children who qualify for a program called Special Immigrant Juvenile Status would have to pay $500. Immigration cases can take a long time to resolve in court, but if a defendant asks a judge for a continuance, they would have to pay $100 each time.
These fees do not exist under current law, and the bill specifies they cannot be waived in almost all circumstances."
Look folks, the "both sides" muppets in our discreetly white supremacist media aren't going to grapple with what this bill does because they're terrified of being sued by the Klepto Kaiser, but this is pretty obviously some cracker nazi shit. By putting un-waivable and arduous fees on even asylum processes, the regime is actively working to screen out migrants from poorer, browner countries in the global South in a way that won't immediately be flagged as illegal ethno-nationalist bullshit in the larger discourse; because newsflash, America is kinda racist. Practically speaking however, this is an attempt to enshrine Trump's project to whiten America into law, by abusing the budget reconciliation process.
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Unfortunately we still haven't run out of terrible things to talk about in the Republican Party's homicidal class war budget, the Billionaire's Murder Bill if you will, while it percolates in the GOP-controlled US Senate. I'm a little late to the party, but I'd like to talk a bit about the bill's proposed changes to immigration policy and funding, because I think it exposes how the absurdly-named "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is as much a vehicle to prosecute a white nationalist policy agenda, as it is a piece of budget legislation that openly robs the American labor class on behalf of uber-wealthy oligarchs.
Using this May 17th, 2025 article from The Guardian, I want to focus in on two key areas of discussion here: funding, and ethno-nationalist policy. For clarity's sake however, I'm going to look at them in the opposite order they're presented in the article, starting with funding.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/us-house-republicans-fees-immigrants
US House Republicans propose fees on immigrants to fund Trump’s crackdown
"More than $50bn is allocated in the legislation to construct a wall along the border with Mexico, as well as fortifications elsewhere. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) will receive $45bn for detention facilities, $14bn for its deportation operations and billions of dollars more to hire 10,000 new agents by 2029."
This is the most straightforward part of the bill's odious support for Trump's fascist mass deportation scheme, and since it actually deals with allocating funds, this is the part you're supposed to put in a budget reconciliation bill. Frankly speaking however there is nothing appropriate about spending $50B on a border wall we know won't "work" to keep out migrants and as recently as five years ago at least one side of the US political establishment recognized would be a grotesque monument to American nativism; a formerly partisan principle that tragically seems to have fallen by the wayside in the Democratic Party's desperate quest to court suburban cracker voters in the lead up to an election they'd go on to lose anyway. Given that Trump is already using ICE as his white nationalist Gestapo, does anyone who isn't a raging nazi think it's a good idea to let DHS hire 10,000 more ICE goons? Whose interests does it actually serve to hand $45B to private prison contractors, and budget another $14B for fascist mass deportations? Please keep in mind here that you can't divorce these expenditures from the massive cuts to social safety net programs specifically targeting the American labor class; in addition to murdering people for bonus billionaire yacht money, the GOP is saying that your kids should go hungry and poor people should hop in the woodchipper so Trump can build his absurd and racist border wall.
As disgusting as all of that is however, the real kicker here is the way the proposed budget bill works to create a de facto, albeit loose, white nationalist ban on immigration, through the application of unprecedented fees for sponsors of would be immigrants, including asylum seekers.
"Heidi Altman, vice-president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center, said the new fees appeared targeted at the sorts of immigrants that the Trump administration has prioritized keeping out, such as asylum seekers, who arrived in large numbers during Joe Biden’s term.
“It’s part of the administration’s assault on humanitarian protections for immigrant communities,” Altman said. “This is an entire new way of thinking about fees as a penalty, essentially, for an immigrant status.”
Under the bill, immigrants would have to pay $1,000 to apply for asylum, $100 to keep an application active each year as it makes it through the overburdened immigration system, and $550 for a work permit. People requesting humanitarian parole to enter the United States would have to pay $1,000, and abused or neglected children who qualify for a program called Special Immigrant Juvenile Status would have to pay $500. Immigration cases can take a long time to resolve in court, but if a defendant asks a judge for a continuance, they would have to pay $100 each time.
These fees do not exist under current law, and the bill specifies they cannot be waived in almost all circumstances."
Look folks, the "both sides" muppets in our discreetly white supremacist media aren't going to grapple with what this bill does because they're terrified of being sued by the Klepto Kaiser, but this is pretty obviously some cracker nazi shit. By putting un-waivable and arduous fees on even asylum processes, the regime is actively working to screen out migrants from poorer, browner countries in the global South in a way that won't immediately be flagged as illegal ethno-nationalist bullshit in the larger discourse; because newsflash, America is kinda racist. Practically speaking however, this is an attempt to enshrine Trump's project to whiten America into law, by abusing the budget reconciliation process.
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I hate to keep harping on the same point, but it's almost as if the fascist GOP knows they're probably not going to be able to pass very much legislation before the midterms, so they're determined to squeeze every ounce of authoritarianism and legalized political persecution they can into what is ostensibly, a reconciliation budget bill. Take for example this recent Intercept report revealing that hidden deep inside the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is a provision that would drastically increase criminal penalties for whistleblowers who leak unauthorized disclosures of tax records, and those who “print or publish in any manner” leaked tax return information.
ttps://theintercept.com/2025/05/21/big-beautiful-bill-republican-tax-return-leaks/
Why Does GOP Budget Bill Focus on Punishing People Who Leak Tax Returns?
"As the Trump administration vows to crack down on leakers, Republicans in Congress want to hand the Justice Department even more power to punish one extremely specific type of leak: unauthorized disclosures of tax records, which in recent years have exposed the creative accounting of the Trump family and wealthy allies like Elon Musk.
A provision tucked near the end of the GOP’s massive budget bill — at page 1,081 of the 1,082-page text circulated late Sunday — would double the maximum prison sentence for leaking tax returns to 10 years and increase possible fines from $5,000 to $250,000 per violation.
Boosting penalties for leakers may seem an odd fit for a budget bill, much like the “nonprofit killer” provision that was recently nixed without explanation. Because of their tenuous relationship to fiscal matters, the provisions potentially aren’t allowed under the rules for Congress’s budget reconciliation process."
Obviously this is nowhere near as serious an issue as banning Medicaid coverage for gender affirming care, or carving a trillion dollars out of Medicaid and SNAP programs that keep labor class Americans alive, so you can give billionaire broligarchs like Peter Thiel more spare yacht money; there is however a lot of weird and repressive bullshit going on here. Most importantly, the proposed penalties for publishing leaked tax information is a clear attempt to suppress journalists and free speech rights in general; it almost certainly isn't constitutionally legal, although the jury is very much still out on how much that actually matters in Trump's brave new fascist America.
The other half of this story then is the reality that this provision is all part of a longstanding Republican grievance over Trump's leaked tax returns, and the maximum five year sentence given to the man who leaked them, Charles Littlejohn. You can check out the linked story for more details, but I would still advise against assuming this is purely just a genuflection to Swine Emperor Trump's bruised ego and vengeance complex. The reality is that what the fascist GOP is proposing here amounts to increased targeting of a form of modern whistleblowers, who are only denied that designation because they're targeting the secrets of a wealthy ruling class who employ their considerably financial power to dictate the political possibilities in our society. As climate crisis transforms into climate catastrophe, billionaires buy more Pig Empire governments, and undisclosed wealthy funders pay to disseminate anti-protest, fascist, and even eliminationist propaganda in our discourse, Charles Littlejohn will not be the last whistleblower exposing the tax records of our ruling classes; and the Republican Party clearly means to discourage that behavior with provisions like this one slipped into the reconciliation budget.
#Budget #USPol #GOP #RepublicanParty #BillionaireBill #Trump #Fascism #TaxReturns #Whistleblowers #ReconciliationBill #Media #FreeSpeech #1stAmendment #ClassWar #Billionaires
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I hate to keep harping on the same point, but it's almost as if the fascist GOP knows they're probably not going to be able to pass very much legislation before the midterms, so they're determined to squeeze every ounce of authoritarianism and legalized political persecution they can into what is ostensibly, a reconciliation budget bill. Take for example this recent Intercept report revealing that hidden deep inside the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is a provision that would drastically increase criminal penalties for whistleblowers who leak unauthorized disclosures of tax records, and those who “print or publish in any manner” leaked tax return information.
ttps://theintercept.com/2025/05/21/big-beautiful-bill-republican-tax-return-leaks/
Why Does GOP Budget Bill Focus on Punishing People Who Leak Tax Returns?
"As the Trump administration vows to crack down on leakers, Republicans in Congress want to hand the Justice Department even more power to punish one extremely specific type of leak: unauthorized disclosures of tax records, which in recent years have exposed the creative accounting of the Trump family and wealthy allies like Elon Musk.
A provision tucked near the end of the GOP’s massive budget bill — at page 1,081 of the 1,082-page text circulated late Sunday — would double the maximum prison sentence for leaking tax returns to 10 years and increase possible fines from $5,000 to $250,000 per violation.
Boosting penalties for leakers may seem an odd fit for a budget bill, much like the “nonprofit killer” provision that was recently nixed without explanation. Because of their tenuous relationship to fiscal matters, the provisions potentially aren’t allowed under the rules for Congress’s budget reconciliation process."
Obviously this is nowhere near as serious an issue as banning Medicaid coverage for gender affirming care, or carving a trillion dollars out of Medicaid and SNAP programs that keep labor class Americans alive, so you can give billionaire broligarchs like Peter Thiel more spare yacht money; there is however a lot of weird and repressive bullshit going on here. Most importantly, the proposed penalties for publishing leaked tax information is a clear attempt to suppress journalists and free speech rights in general; it almost certainly isn't constitutionally legal, although the jury is very much still out on how much that actually matters in Trump's brave new fascist America.
The other half of this story then is the reality that this provision is all part of a longstanding Republican grievance over Trump's leaked tax returns, and the maximum five year sentence given to the man who leaked them, Charles Littlejohn. You can check out the linked story for more details, but I would still advise against assuming this is purely just a genuflection to Swine Emperor Trump's bruised ego and vengeance complex. The reality is that what the fascist GOP is proposing here amounts to increased targeting of a form of modern whistleblowers, who are only denied that designation because they're targeting the secrets of a wealthy ruling class who employ their considerably financial power to dictate the political possibilities in our society. As climate crisis transforms into climate catastrophe, billionaires buy more Pig Empire governments, and undisclosed wealthy funders pay to disseminate anti-protest, fascist, and even eliminationist propaganda in our discourse, Charles Littlejohn will not be the last whistleblower exposing the tax records of our ruling classes; and the Republican Party clearly means to discourage that behavior with provisions like this one slipped into the reconciliation budget.
#Budget #USPol #GOP #RepublicanParty #BillionaireBill #Trump #Fascism #TaxReturns #Whistleblowers #ReconciliationBill #Media #FreeSpeech #1stAmendment #ClassWar #Billionaires
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I know some of you folks struggle with the massive amount of reading it takes to really get a handle on the GOP's class war reconciliation budget, so today I'd like to mix in this eighteen minute video by Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report that covers a couple of the topics we've been discussing in this thread, and includes analysis of some (horrible) aspects of this bill I haven't even had time to touch on yet.
Mike opens up with a discussion about why House Republicans don't want to talk about their sociopathic theft and murder bill that enriches billionaires at the cost of labor class American lives, and some of the ways they're working to obfuscate the truth and discredit accurate analysis of what the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" actually does; including obtaining injunctions against Democrat-funded billboards warning people that the GOP would gut Medicaid funding, on the grounds that the accusations were "false" - which is funny not only because the GOP just advanced a bill that guts Medicaid funding exactly like the Democrat billboards said they would, but also because I don't recall any injunctions ever being awarded to stop the GOP from lying to the public on billboards.
This then transitions into a surprisingly thorough overview of what the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" does; including tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by slashing funding for Medicaid, SNAP, climate crisis mitigation, and student loan reductions. As clips provided by Figueredo demonstrate this is going to harm Americans in all sorts of ways that aren't being discussed very much right now in our political discourse, including forcing the closure of rural hospitals, reducing Veterans services, defunding disability support, driving up unemployment, and of course the elimination of gender affirming care, including life-saving HRT, for hundreds of thousands of Americans. Finally as in my analysis, Mike brings the whole story home by focusing on why this bill will literally destroy America, and represents an active class war against labor class people, on behalf of the very richest members of our ruling class.
It's a slick little presentation, and watching it is worth your time.
The Humanist Report: Republicans DESPERATE to Hide How They Just Voted to Destroy Their OWN Constituents' Lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv7Imk4rbN0
"House Republicans just passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which transfers wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest. After getting what they wanted, they’re not too happy about people asking them about their deceit. For example, multi-millionaire Republican Virginia Foxx condemned the “extreme” language used to describe their disastrous bill, while other millionaire Republicans like Marianette Miller-Meeks ran away from advocates when she was asked about the bill. In this video we’ll look at the pathetic response from the GOP and talk about the most harmful elements of the bill."
#USPol #ReconciliationBill #MikeFigueredo #TheHumanistReport #Video #GOP #ClassWar #TransRights #Medicaid #Snap #Capitalism
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I know some of you folks struggle with the massive amount of reading it takes to really get a handle on the GOP's class war reconciliation budget, so today I'd like to mix in this eighteen minute video by Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report that covers a couple of the topics we've been discussing in this thread, and includes analysis of some (horrible) aspects of this bill I haven't even had time to touch on yet.
Mike opens up with a discussion about why House Republicans don't want to talk about their sociopathic theft and murder bill that enriches billionaires at the cost of labor class American lives, and some of the ways they're working to obfuscate the truth and discredit accurate analysis of what the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" actually does; including obtaining injunctions against Democrat-funded billboards warning people that the GOP would gut Medicaid funding, on the grounds that the accusations were "false" - which is funny not only because the GOP just advanced a bill that guts Medicaid funding exactly like the Democrat billboards said they would, but also because I don't recall any injunctions ever being awarded to stop the GOP from lying to the public on billboards.
This then transitions into a surprisingly thorough overview of what the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" does; including tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by slashing funding for Medicaid, SNAP, climate crisis mitigation, and student loan reductions. As clips provided by Figueredo demonstrate this is going to harm Americans in all sorts of ways that aren't being discussed very much right now in our political discourse, including forcing the closure of rural hospitals, reducing Veterans services, defunding disability support, driving up unemployment, and of course the elimination of gender affirming care, including life-saving HRT, for hundreds of thousands of Americans. Finally as in my analysis, Mike brings the whole story home by focusing on why this bill will literally destroy America, and represents an active class war against labor class people, on behalf of the very richest members of our ruling class.
It's a slick little presentation, and watching it is worth your time.
The Humanist Report: Republicans DESPERATE to Hide How They Just Voted to Destroy Their OWN Constituents' Lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv7Imk4rbN0
"House Republicans just passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which transfers wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest. After getting what they wanted, they’re not too happy about people asking them about their deceit. For example, multi-millionaire Republican Virginia Foxx condemned the “extreme” language used to describe their disastrous bill, while other millionaire Republicans like Marianette Miller-Meeks ran away from advocates when she was asked about the bill. In this video we’ll look at the pathetic response from the GOP and talk about the most harmful elements of the bill."
#USPol #ReconciliationBill #MikeFigueredo #TheHumanistReport #Video #GOP #ClassWar #TransRights #Medicaid #Snap #Capitalism
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When examining the GOP's homicidal class war budget reconciliation bill, I think it's crucial to also look at why this horrible Frankenstein's monster that now exceeds a thousand pages, is being stitched together in secret and released under the cover of darkness. The fact is Republican strategists know that voting to rob and murder labor class Americans to empower and enrich billionaire broligarch nazis, while legally enshrining a fascist administrative order over US life to defend these changes, is not going to be popular with the American people once they figure out what this bullshit mega-bill actually does. Furthermore, given that there's absolutely nothing subtle about the ways the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" transforms our society at a pen stroke, it is impossible for GOP politicians to lie and deflect their way through discussions about the bill; so they'd simply prefer you didn't know about all the awful shit inside it.
Fortunately however there are a lot of groups forensically dissecting the GOP's budget reconciliation bill, which may well be the worst piece of legislation I've ever seen the US House actually pass. Take for example recent analysis by Public Citizen showing that by forgoing the proposed increases to US military spending and ballooning funding for the Trump regime's objectively illegal and unconstitutional mass deportation program, the government could keep literally millions of labor class Americans (already being ground up by capitalism) from losing healthcare and food assistance through Medicaid and SNAP.
GOP Bill’s Militarized Funding Boost Could Instead Keep Millions on Medicaid
"According to a report released Thursday by Public Citizen, the reconciliation bill proposes a boost of over $163 billion to militarized spending, including funds for the Pentagon and for the Department of Homeland Security’s mass deportation campaign. This would bring the Pentagon’s yearly budget to over $1 trillion and triple the budget for mass immigration detention, the report says.
Further, this funding boost alone could more than fund Medicaid for nearly 14 million people at risk of losing their health care coverage under the reconciliation bill, as well as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, for 11 million who may lose food assistance under the bill.
Shifting funding away from these lifesaving programs and instead allocating it to militarization is effectively “trading life for death,” the report says.
“This reconciliation package is a direct redistribution of resources from struggling Americans to the Pentagon and militarization,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, report co-author and Program Director at the National Priorities Project, in a statement. “Protecting families from losing health care and going hungry is as simple as rejecting new spending on dangerous and unnecessary weapons and indiscriminate mass deportations.”
The purpose of producing reports like this one is to demonstrate that the Regime is actively choosing to prioritize militarization, violence, and white supremacy over the healthcare and food security of labor class Americans; if somehow massive tax cuts that benefit only the top 10% of Americans, and primarily enrich the literal top 1% of earners in the country, while stacking almost another four trillion (with a t) dollars onto the debt, didn't make the point abundantly clear - this should. Naturally, this kind of analysis is rarely going to be featured in corporate media which largely supports a trillion dollar pentagon budget, and funding for militarized policing (of a particular flavor), so it behooves Americans who're aware of this objectively fascist bullshit to share this information widely; hence, this post.
If we step back to examine the broader picture here however, it's difficult to ignore the message this entire bill sends about what these nazi sociopaths want for our collective future. This is a bill that signs the death certificate for thousands, if not millions of labor class Americans, in order to enrich and empower a ruling class that bought itself a fascist government to prosecute the final stages of a real-as-fuck Pig Empire class war; while actively funding and drastically increasing the Trump regime's ability to prosecute that homicidal agenda by force, both within and beyond American borders. As the planet turns to ash, our civil rights are eroded across the entire Pig Empire, and fascist movements identify an ever-expanding circle of "others" who must be targeted for elimination, passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is an open signal by the ruling fascist party in America that they are preparing to wage, and win, that war immediately; and if the dystopian future they clearly envision for us is any indication, these nazis are playing for keeps.
#Fascism #Trump #Imperialism #ReconciliationBill #BillionaireBill #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #Migrants #MassDeportation #WhiteNationalism #Pentagon
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When examining the GOP's homicidal class war budget reconciliation bill, I think it's crucial to also look at why this horrible Frankenstein's monster that now exceeds a thousand pages, is being stitched together in secret and released under the cover of darkness. The fact is Republican strategists know that voting to rob and murder labor class Americans to empower and enrich billionaire broligarch nazis, while legally enshrining a fascist administrative order over US life to defend these changes, is not going to be popular with the American people once they figure out what this bullshit mega-bill actually does. Furthermore, given that there's absolutely nothing subtle about the ways the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" transforms our society at a pen stroke, it is impossible for GOP politicians to lie and deflect their way through discussions about the bill; so they'd simply prefer you didn't know about all the awful shit inside it.
Fortunately however there are a lot of groups forensically dissecting the GOP's budget reconciliation bill, which may well be the worst piece of legislation I've ever seen the US House actually pass. Take for example recent analysis by Public Citizen showing that by forgoing the proposed increases to US military spending and ballooning funding for the Trump regime's objectively illegal and unconstitutional mass deportation program, the government could keep literally millions of labor class Americans (already being ground up by capitalism) from losing healthcare and food assistance through Medicaid and SNAP.
GOP Bill’s Militarized Funding Boost Could Instead Keep Millions on Medicaid
"According to a report released Thursday by Public Citizen, the reconciliation bill proposes a boost of over $163 billion to militarized spending, including funds for the Pentagon and for the Department of Homeland Security’s mass deportation campaign. This would bring the Pentagon’s yearly budget to over $1 trillion and triple the budget for mass immigration detention, the report says.
Further, this funding boost alone could more than fund Medicaid for nearly 14 million people at risk of losing their health care coverage under the reconciliation bill, as well as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, for 11 million who may lose food assistance under the bill.
Shifting funding away from these lifesaving programs and instead allocating it to militarization is effectively “trading life for death,” the report says.
“This reconciliation package is a direct redistribution of resources from struggling Americans to the Pentagon and militarization,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, report co-author and Program Director at the National Priorities Project, in a statement. “Protecting families from losing health care and going hungry is as simple as rejecting new spending on dangerous and unnecessary weapons and indiscriminate mass deportations.”
The purpose of producing reports like this one is to demonstrate that the Regime is actively choosing to prioritize militarization, violence, and white supremacy over the healthcare and food security of labor class Americans; if somehow massive tax cuts that benefit only the top 10% of Americans, and primarily enrich the literal top 1% of earners in the country, while stacking almost another four trillion (with a t) dollars onto the debt, didn't make the point abundantly clear - this should. Naturally, this kind of analysis is rarely going to be featured in corporate media which largely supports a trillion dollar pentagon budget, and funding for militarized policing (of a particular flavor), so it behooves Americans who're aware of this objectively fascist bullshit to share this information widely; hence, this post.
If we step back to examine the broader picture here however, it's difficult to ignore the message this entire bill sends about what these nazi sociopaths want for our collective future. This is a bill that signs the death certificate for thousands, if not millions of labor class Americans, in order to enrich and empower a ruling class that bought itself a fascist government to prosecute the final stages of a real-as-fuck Pig Empire class war; while actively funding and drastically increasing the Trump regime's ability to prosecute that homicidal agenda by force, both within and beyond American borders. As the planet turns to ash, our civil rights are eroded across the entire Pig Empire, and fascist movements identify an ever-expanding circle of "others" who must be targeted for elimination, passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is an open signal by the ruling fascist party in America that they are preparing to wage, and win, that war immediately; and if the dystopian future they clearly envision for us is any indication, these nazis are playing for keeps.
#Fascism #Trump #Imperialism #ReconciliationBill #BillionaireBill #ClassWar #Theft #Murder #Migrants #MassDeportation #WhiteNationalism #Pentagon
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As more information leaks out about how objectively horrifying the Big Billionaire Bill the GOP is ramming into law and hoping nobody notices it will kill their own voters actually is, it's becoming clear that the Act is also a way to prosecute the Trump regime's eliminationist agenda at the same time. We've already uncovered a GOP plot to defang judicial oversight over Trump's illegal and unconstitutional mass deportation campaign, and now observers have exposed another last minute change that would deny gender affirming care to, and likely cause the forced detransition of, hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/big-beautiful-bill-trans-medicaid-healthcare-minors-adults/
Republicans Launch Midnight Attack on Health Care Access for Trans Americans
"Late Wednesday, Congressional Republicans amended the bill to prohibit the use of Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care, potentially ripping healthcare access away from hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans.
An earlier version of the legislation targeted Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care for minors. In a midnight-hour maneuver, Republicans removed the word “minors” from that provision, prohibiting the use of Medicaid funding for “gender-transition procedures” for children as well as adults.
The legislation broadly defines “gender-transition procedures” as everything from surgery to hormone therapy. It needs only a simple majority to pass the Senate.
Experts on transgender health care said that if this provision advances, it could make an already-dire landscape for transgender care significantly worse. They described devastating consequences for the hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans who rely on Medicaid that will be further compounded by the roughly $700 billion in cuts to the health program in the GOP bill."
For the past three years, and in response to a dangerous shift in rhetoric and tactics by the fascist Pig Empire right, I've been trying to explain to cis het people that Trump and the GOP's anti-trans policies are unquestionably part of a larger anti-trans pogrom designed to eliminate or otherwise end by any means possible, the existence of trans people in America. The accuracy of that analysis was demonstrated on day 1 of Downmarket Mussolini's second term as President when Der Leader issued an executive order declaring there were only two legally recognized "biological sexes" in America; thereby decreeing that trans people effectively don't exist. This should have been a massive wake up call for cis people who don't want tens of thousands of dead trans people, particularly trans women, on their hands, because historically when a state says that you do not exist, it's because they mean to make it so.
Unfortunately, this warning, which was also supported by multiple leaked GOP and far right strategy sessions in which elected Republican politicians and think tank minions openly admitted their ultimate goal is ending trans care in American entirely, and Donald Trump's repeated public campaign promises to do the same, has largely gone unheeded; particularly by a Democrat establishment much more interested in blaming Harris's 2024 US election loss on her utterly nonexistent defense of trans rights. Well folks, we're here in the exact place I always told you would be arrive at, and my only question is "what now, wise centrists?"
The fact is this article doesn't even come close to properly articulating what a horrifying development this is for both trans people, and anyone who doesn't want to live under a fascist dictatorship where a reality TV show nazi President gets to decide who has a right to merely exist. The Republican Party knows full well that the US Constitution and international human rights law will make it extremely difficult to just round up trans people in concentration camps to force detransition them and start murdering folks, so they've settled on a subtler but no less homicidal strategy. The fascist right is thus working to eliminate gender affirming care for trans people entirely, while threatening anyone who employs or financially supports trans people to drive us out of the work force. These guys know all about the mental health problems and suicide rate increases brought on by untreated gender dysphoria, community isolation, and poverty; in fact, they're counting on it to allow them to wipe out trans people without getting any blood directly on their hands as they let "nature take its course."
Of course, I expect this warning to once again fall on the deaf ears of Very Serious People TM in the American liberal establishment, where transphobia runs almost as rampant as it does inside GOP war rooms. Who cares if labor class trans people die without gender affirming care when the point here is to signal to suburban white crackers who will never vote for you that you're just as anti-trans as the Pork Reich, right?
#Fascism #Trump #GOP #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #Medicaid #GenderAffirmingCare #Budget #ReconciliationBill
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As more information leaks out about how objectively horrifying the Big Billionaire Bill the GOP is ramming into law and hoping nobody notices it will kill their own voters actually is, it's becoming clear that the Act is also a way to prosecute the Trump regime's eliminationist agenda at the same time. We've already uncovered a GOP plot to defang judicial oversight over Trump's illegal and unconstitutional mass deportation campaign, and now observers have exposed another last minute change that would deny gender affirming care to, and likely cause the forced detransition of, hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/big-beautiful-bill-trans-medicaid-healthcare-minors-adults/
Republicans Launch Midnight Attack on Health Care Access for Trans Americans
"Late Wednesday, Congressional Republicans amended the bill to prohibit the use of Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care, potentially ripping healthcare access away from hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans.
An earlier version of the legislation targeted Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care for minors. In a midnight-hour maneuver, Republicans removed the word “minors” from that provision, prohibiting the use of Medicaid funding for “gender-transition procedures” for children as well as adults.
The legislation broadly defines “gender-transition procedures” as everything from surgery to hormone therapy. It needs only a simple majority to pass the Senate.
Experts on transgender health care said that if this provision advances, it could make an already-dire landscape for transgender care significantly worse. They described devastating consequences for the hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans who rely on Medicaid that will be further compounded by the roughly $700 billion in cuts to the health program in the GOP bill."
For the past three years, and in response to a dangerous shift in rhetoric and tactics by the fascist Pig Empire right, I've been trying to explain to cis het people that Trump and the GOP's anti-trans policies are unquestionably part of a larger anti-trans pogrom designed to eliminate or otherwise end by any means possible, the existence of trans people in America. The accuracy of that analysis was demonstrated on day 1 of Downmarket Mussolini's second term as President when Der Leader issued an executive order declaring there were only two legally recognized "biological sexes" in America; thereby decreeing that trans people effectively don't exist. This should have been a massive wake up call for cis people who don't want tens of thousands of dead trans people, particularly trans women, on their hands, because historically when a state says that you do not exist, it's because they mean to make it so.
Unfortunately, this warning, which was also supported by multiple leaked GOP and far right strategy sessions in which elected Republican politicians and think tank minions openly admitted their ultimate goal is ending trans care in American entirely, and Donald Trump's repeated public campaign promises to do the same, has largely gone unheeded; particularly by a Democrat establishment much more interested in blaming Harris's 2024 US election loss on her utterly nonexistent defense of trans rights. Well folks, we're here in the exact place I always told you would be arrive at, and my only question is "what now, wise centrists?"
The fact is this article doesn't even come close to properly articulating what a horrifying development this is for both trans people, and anyone who doesn't want to live under a fascist dictatorship where a reality TV show nazi President gets to decide who has a right to merely exist. The Republican Party knows full well that the US Constitution and international human rights law will make it extremely difficult to just round up trans people in concentration camps to force detransition them and start murdering folks, so they've settled on a subtler but no less homicidal strategy. The fascist right is thus working to eliminate gender affirming care for trans people entirely, while threatening anyone who employs or financially supports trans people to drive us out of the work force. These guys know all about the mental health problems and suicide rate increases brought on by untreated gender dysphoria, community isolation, and poverty; in fact, they're counting on it to allow them to wipe out trans people without getting any blood directly on their hands as they let "nature take its course."
Of course, I expect this warning to once again fall on the deaf ears of Very Serious People TM in the American liberal establishment, where transphobia runs almost as rampant as it does inside GOP war rooms. Who cares if labor class trans people die without gender affirming care when the point here is to signal to suburban white crackers who will never vote for you that you're just as anti-trans as the Pork Reich, right?
#Fascism #Trump #GOP #AntiTransPogrom #TransRights #Medicaid #GenderAffirmingCare #Budget #ReconciliationBill
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Under the cover of darkness House Republicans slipped a provision into their budget bill that would, at least temporarily, allow Donald Trump to be the dictator of his wildest dreams.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/22/nina-bytes-reconciliation-and-a-us-enabling-act/
Nina-Bytes: Reconciliation and a US Enabling Act
"In the past I’ve written about the many ways we can observe the Trump administration trying to create a patchwork “Enabling Act” out of emergency powers, novel interpretations of decades-old legislation, and even the resurrection of rarely-invoked war powers to fight a wholly fictitious “invasion” by gangs. With the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in his pocket, the Swine Emperor might finally have the vehicle he needs to fully transform America into a fascist dictatorship. The plain truth here is that the Republican politicians who voted to ram this bill though Congress last night were already would-be thieves and murderers; this provision now makes them the willing architects of Trump’s Pork Reich."
#Fascism #Trump #Courts #PoliceState #GOP #ReconciliationBill #USConsitution #USPol #MikeJohnson #Dictatorship #EnablingAct #SCOTUS #Contempt #RepublicanParty
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Under the cover of darkness House Republicans slipped a provision into their budget bill that would, at least temporarily, allow Donald Trump to be the dictator of his wildest dreams.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/22/nina-bytes-reconciliation-and-a-us-enabling-act/
Nina-Bytes: Reconciliation and a US Enabling Act
"In the past I’ve written about the many ways we can observe the Trump administration trying to create a patchwork “Enabling Act” out of emergency powers, novel interpretations of decades-old legislation, and even the resurrection of rarely-invoked war powers to fight a wholly fictitious “invasion” by gangs. With the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in his pocket, the Swine Emperor might finally have the vehicle he needs to fully transform America into a fascist dictatorship. The plain truth here is that the Republican politicians who voted to ram this bill though Congress last night were already would-be thieves and murderers; this provision now makes them the willing architects of Trump’s Pork Reich."
#Fascism #Trump #Courts #PoliceState #GOP #ReconciliationBill #USConsitution #USPol #MikeJohnson #Dictatorship #EnablingAct #SCOTUS #Contempt #RepublicanParty