Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University - The Conversation
Stephan:
Project 2025. This is what the TCP Republican Party and criminal Trump seek to do to American society, including eliminating true democracy in the country. We stand at a precipice, and a large percentage of Americans bow down to Trump’s goals. We have a two party system, you and everyone you know must vote only for Democrats or you will elect a christofascist.
Current polling separates Biden and Trump by just 2%. Credit: Andy Manis / AAP
In April 2022, conservative American think tank the Heritage Foundation, working with a broad coalition of 50 conservative organisations, launched Project 2025: a plan for the next conservative president of the United State
The Project’s flagship publication, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, outlines in plain language and in granular detail, over 900-plus pages, what a second Trump administration (if it occurs) might look like. I’ve read it all, so you don’t have to.
The Mandate’s veneer of exhausting technocratic detail, focused mostly on the federal bureaucracy, sits easily alongside a Trumpian project of revenge and retribution. It is the substance behind the showmanship of the Trump rallies.
Developing transition plans for a presidential candidate is normal practice in the US. What is not normal about Project 2025, with its intertwined domestic and international agenda, are the plans themselves. Those for climate and the global environment, defence and security, the global economic system and the institutions of American democracy more broadly aim for nothing less than […]
If you have watched my latest SR podcast you know why people will violate all the principles they claim to base their morality on when they are told to do so by an authority who does not so much lead them as personify them. But I confess I never thought it would come to this. Trumpers wearing diapers and being proud to defecate and pee in their pants. His submissive followers do whatever they can to prove their submission to him.
Criminal Trump speaks during a rally aboard the Battleship USS Iowa in San Pedro. Credit: Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com
A recent viral story about Donald Trump’s supporters wearing diapers to rallies was confirmed by a fact-checker, prompting social media to explode.
Earlier this month, photos of purported Trump fans wearing “real men wear diapers” merchandise spread online. But many wrote the phenomenon off as staged, or even a result of an artificial intelligence program.
According to Snopes, however, that really happened.
“We noticed that the photographs that circulated all came from Dispatches from Trumpland, so we contacted the writers of the blog to ask for more details about the rallies. The writer replied that the photographs posted on April 11 had been taken at rallies in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Detroit. He added that he took the photographs in the April 24 post himself, in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania,” the report states. “He also shared an article from the Greensboro News & Record, published March […]
If you vote for Trump or any of the cretins who serve him in Congress or State legislatures you will be voting for all efforts to end the carbon era to end and preparations for what climate change is doing to stop. In the years to come your children and their children will hate you for destroying their wellbeing.
Criminal Trump . Credit: Myles Cullen / Official White House
Donald Trump is promising CEOs of oil and gas conglomerates he will dismantle the climate protections President Joe Biden has installed, and he will green light their policy wishlists including gutting support for electric vehicles if they donate $1 billion for his presidential campaign, according to reporting from Politico and The Washington Post.
“You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House,” reports The Post, describing Trump’s conversation “with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month.”
“At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation,” The Post added. “Giving $1 billion would be a ‘deal,’ Trump said, because of the taxation […]
We are heading, as this article describes, for a further degradation of America’s public education system. Why? Because the Republicans in Congress will not extend funding that began with the Covid pandemic. America is becoming the most poorly educated nation amongst the other developed nations in the world; the least literate, and the least capable in mathematics. Those are the facts. (Search the SR archive for the data upon which this statement is based, or watch my podcast on this subject.)
In this June 2022 photo, student backpacks hang on the backs of classroom chairs at a school in New York. Credit: Michael Loccisano / Getty
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Schools across the country are announcing teacher and staff layoffs as districts brace for the end of a pandemic aid package that delivered the largest one-time federal investment in K-12 education.
The funds must be used by the end of September, creating a sharp funding cliff as schools also struggle with widespread enrollment declines and inflation.
Many districts have warned of layoffs as the current school year comes to a close and next year’s budgets are planned. The local headlines about teachers likely won’t help Americans who remain stubbornly pessimistic about the economy feel any better, adding to the challenge President Joe Biden faces to show voters how things are better than they were four years ago.
In Missoula, Montana, for example, the public school district is considering cutting 33 teaching positions and 13 administrative positions, including its special education director and fine arts […]
This article is the first I have seen that really climbs into the IVF procedure in the United States which, as it describes is very different than in other nations. Why? Because in the U.S. you can gender select, something you cannot do in other nations. And, because we don’t have healthcare focused on wellbeing, having an illness profit system, IVF is increasing a profit scheme. As I read this report what came up in my mind, was the history-changing cultural mistake the Chinese made by limiting families to one child, and then overwhelming having families choose boys. China now has a population skewed to males. The percentage of females is 49.02 percent compared to 50.98 percent males, which is 28 million more males than females. There are a lot of men in China who will never marry, and it has affected the culture. In America IVF is being used to go the other way, to choose girls. The trend is growing, and it will be interesting to see how it develops, but it is unlikely to have a positive effect.
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Amy Yin always envisioned having at least two daughters. She spent her 20s working as an engineer and founding a startup in San Francisco. When she wasn’t working, vacationing with friends, and spoiling her cats, Amy dedicated herself to helping other women take charge and launch high-powered careers. Now 32, she’s bringing that same energy to her family planning. She has frozen her eggs and, when she’s ready, will undergo IVF so that she can select the sex of her future children. “I think I’ll raise really powerful women who are going to be rock-star leaders,” Amy told me, without hesitation.
In vitro fertilization is invasive, grueling, and expensive. One round costs an average of $20,000. Only 15 states require that insurance plans offer any kind of coverage for it—and even then, the coverage is usually minimal. The treatment is often a last resort for those who are eager to be parents but who face one roadblock or another when it comes to conceiving; some couples are struggling with […]
