Wikipedia spent $50 million on a diversity initiative to make their workplace more diverse. Elon Musk wants people to stop donating to Wikipedia “until they restore balance to their editing authority.”
Ironic, since that’s actually what they are trying to do.
Source: https://www.uniladtech.com/news/elon-musk-people-not-donate-wikipedia-414225-20241226
“The transition team is preparing a list of countries to which migrants might be deported when their home countries refuse to accept them, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
“The countries include but may not be limited to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama, and Grenada, the sources said.
“The plans could mean that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of migrants would be permanently displaced in countries where they do not know any of the people or the language and have no connection to the culture.”
Of all the insane picks Trump has made, this one has the greatest possibility of seriously hurting the American people, and right away, not just in the long term.
RFK Jr. has been nominated to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. That would mean he would oversee HHS, the CDC, the NIH, the FDA, and more.
Why is this a problem? Because RFK Jr. is totally unqualified, believes vaccines are dangerous and ineffective, and he has spread plenty of DEBUNKED conspiracy theories about vaccines and medicine in general. He is anti-science and anti-vax. He directly contradicts the science-based research of most scientists and medical experts. He said that chemicals in the water were turning children gay! 
And he claimed that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jewish and Chinese people! 
He has already said he wants to fire 600 people in the National Institutes of Health. Regarding the CDC, Trump was bad enough, undermining their research and preventing them from saying what needed to be said. RFK Jr. would ruin the CDC.
“The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.”
RFK Jr. stands OPPOSITE this mission!
Here are a few quotes from people who understand:
“Robert F Kennedy Jr is a clear and present danger to the nation’s health. He shouldn’t be allowed in the building at the department of health and human services (HHS), let alone be placed in charge of the nation’s public health agency.”
“Donald Trump’s bungling of public health policy during the Covid pandemic cost hundreds of thousands of lives. By appointing Kennedy as his secretary of HHS, Trump is courting another, policy-driven public health catastrophe.”
“He’s a vaccine denier and a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. He will destroy our public health infrastructure and our vaccine distribution systems. This is going to cost lives.”
“It is hard to overstate what a terrible decision this is. RFK Jr has no medical training. He is a hardcore anti-vaccine and misinformation peddler. The last time he meddled in a state’s medical affairs (Samoa), 83 children died of measles.”
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/trump-administration-rfk-criticisms
Russia is seeing a return to informer-based prosecution, where people denounce other people for dissenting thoughts. These “snitchings” that inform on others to law enforcement for statements against the war in Ukraine or other “political crimes” are landing people in penal colonies for years!
The way Trump fawns over Putin and wants to be like him, and the way he has said he will crack down on his political opponents, there is a very real possibility that this could happen in the United States.
CNN has reported that Trump is going to make Stephen Miller his head of policy. This is the same guy who tweeted “Yes. We started a new denaturalization project under Trump. In 2025, expect it to be turbocharged.”
“Denaturalization” means taking away the citizenship from naturalized CITIZENS. So if you don’t look like him, you could very well be getting your naturalized citizenship revoked. Then deported.
This is a guy who attended a white supremacists event in February 2022. He has already become known for advocating limiting citizenship of LEGAL immigrants and also has “made a name for himself for his vicious anti-immigrant policies, which include proposals to build mass deportation camps and deploy the military and the national guard to seal the border, promising a forthcoming reality of ‘large-scale raids’ and ‘throughput facilities.'”
Source: https://newrepublic.com/post/188254/trump-white-nationalist-stephen-miller-second-term-policy
If you voted for him, you supported what he stands for.
It’s not just about hoping he lowers your costs or ends abortion or puts Republicans back in power. You can’t say your one pet issue stands alone and everything else doesn’t matter.
He has repeatedly and loudly promoted and encouraged the following:
Whether you voted for him because you want cheaper goods or you think he represents your Christian values (even though he doesn’t seem to have any understanding of them and definitely lives his life in direct opposition to them), if you voted for him, then you also supported all the ideas listed above.
He stands for all those things and wants all those things.
And you voted for him.
This cartoon was from 1949:
Source: https://www.dc.com/blog/2017/08/25/superman-a-classic-message-restored
“Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for helping start that nation’s war with Russia, a comment that further suggests Trump is likely to radically shift U.S. policy toward Russia if he wins the Nov. 5 election.”
How did the war start? By Russia invading? Yup! That’s Ukraine’s fault, that Russia insists on stealing the land around it!
Just imagine how our international relationships would change, not just with Ukraine, but across the world, if he were to be reelected!
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-blames-ukraines-zelenskiy-starting-war-with-russia-2024-10-17
There has been talk lately about the Alien Enemies Act. Specifically by Trump and in regard to immigrants.
The Brennan Center has a high rating for factual reporting and they break down the history and use of this Alien Enemies Act in the article linked below this excerpt from the Brennan Center’s “The Briefing” email.
In 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. These laws criminalized dissent, abused civil liberties, and violated the Constitution. They are among the most notorious laws in history. One is still on the books, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
The law has only been used three times: During the War of 1812. During World War I. And most notoriously, to imprison tens of thousands of innocent noncitizens of Japanese, German, and Italian descent in internment camps during World War II.
Thomas Jefferson decried the Alien and Sedition Acts as part of a “reign of witches.” Recently, Donald Trump called the last of these laws something else. Let’s call it Project 1798.
This past weekend, Trump pledged to launch “Operation Aurora,” a plan to deploy the military on U.S. soil to seize, detain, and deport immigrants he deems dangerous. “Can you imagine? Those were the old days when they had tough politicians, have to go back that long,” he told a rally on Saturday. “Think of that, 1798. Oh, it’s a powerful act. You couldn’t pass something like that today.”
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/alien-enemies-act-explained
