ICE plans to conduct raids in 5 major cities, Florida officials turn over foster kids to ICE, protests grow across the country as Texas prepares the National Guard, and Elon Musk regrets his tweets
Having worked in social services all of my life, here in the UK, we would NEVER just hand over children to immigration. Especially when Immigration hide their identities, wear masks, use force and drag people off to Guantanamo Bay etc.
It is horrific enough that ICE are separating children from their parents in the most brutal of ways.
USA please fight this fascism with all your might. We look on from across the pond and we are horrified. Utterly horrified. (I have family in Texas and I am so frightened for them.)🏴
We are doing what we can. At this point, we have very few options - we have no one, from the standpoint of government safeguards that are supposed to keep this from happening. We have some sensible governors. We have some amazing, heroic judges. We have private citizens. That's it.
We are trying! I hope that the majority of the military realize they don't have to listen to him bc it violates their oath to the constitution to uphold, fight, & protect it. They don't make an oath to the president.
Please don't say She was speaking out against ICE, those are grounds for her being court martialed. Try to stick with she was reaffirming her OATH as a soldier.
That’s amazing there as a woman on Substack that is in the National Guards and said they are for the oath of the constitution and they needed to remember that. IT’S OUR COUNTRY NOT tRUMPS THAT’S REMEMBER THAT!!!!
isn't that one of Dan Bongos pet conspiracy theories? this would be a good time to spam him demanding he stop the child/sex trafficking within the deep state that he now runs or whatever TF they say (since he's already pissed off the wackos over epstein) just tag him all over the place and make him and state sponsored child trafficking trend
They're getting us normalized to that behavior. I lived in Portland, OR before Mt St Helens blew. Constant warnings, everyone gets used to it and goes about their daily routine until one day it blows up.
… T admin scooped people off streets during BLM protests in Portland too… uninformed, masked, unmarked vans. Remember that? We are being gradually desensitized to horror
Every word that comes out of Trumps mouth is a freaking lie! Before ICE came into the city, it was a normal day people were going about their daily routines, when all these unmarked vehicles rolled in and military suited fully masked up GESTAPO jumped out of their vehicles ARMED to the T! started kidnapping anyone they came across, not asking for ID and not identifying themselves. No one knows for sure who they are, they could be anyone. That is when the community started coming out trying to stop them from taking out neighbors! Trump said if he hadn’t sent the NG in the city would have burnt down! He is so full of shit! The fires did not begin til after the NG began shooting at random people just standing around or walking by! He is a DANGEROUS and EVIL man! Now he wants to go after poor foster children! If that is not evil I don’t know what is! Men like him are sick in the dome and he really needs a check up from the neck up for real
We are horrified as well. We are fighting back. Stand strong 💪. Revolution 2025 against Trump Fascist Regime & all who attend him. GOP MAGA especially.
Scotland is strongly opposed to any visit from Taco to the UK. We are all doing what we can. We are boycotting U. S. goods. We are working around Taco not with him. We are utterly against fascism and we are calling out Trump and his administration as fascist. Keep fighting fascism.
Looking at it from another angle, at least he gets to keep some control over the Guard by being the one who signed the Order. And by initiating the event, he can limit the time they will be on call up. (No, I'm not real fond of him either, but sometimes there is an upside to being proactive.
Abbott is a facist before it became fashionable. Your point is valid but I won’t give him any benefit of the doubt. Always assume his motives are facist
Completely unnecessary to call up the Guard. These MAGATS live in fear of POC, who keep our economy from collapsing. Paranoia will destroy ya and it will be the real reason for this country's downfall. When did U.S. citizens become so afraid of others? Pathetic!
When will someone point out that Trump himself has referred to "paid agitators" in the crowds? He's admitting that those rioters dressed in black with masks are not part of the peaceful protest but are there to cause trouble and get attention away from the peaceful and on to the violence. So who would be paying those "paid agitators"? The guy who wants to justify sending in the troops? And he's even admitted it. Even if they are not all plants by this regime to stir up violence, it's a very good chance that they are MAGA vigilantes and J6 and Proud Boy types that want to make the peaceful protesters look bad. Let's magnify that message please!
Oh I totally agree!!! From the live streams I’ve seen they were dancing and eating and just chanting! The few things that have happened was definitely done by agitators and no one will ever convince me otherwise!
No ma'am. This is exactly what they want. For us to start down the rabbit 🐇 hole of what ifs. We can not let our minds drift that far. I know they love to gaslight, and deceive. They are evil. But we definitely must NOT stop protesting. If we do the USA 🇺🇸 is gone forever. We're already in the first stages of fascism in this country by this republican corrupt regime. We now have to fight tooth and nail to get them removed. So, protests it is! Full stop, period. No going back. Power to we the people. We got the numbers on our side. 🗽🇺🇸💙
Use/share this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to your own reps, as well as those in other states on a specific committee important to a topic you’re sharing. Use your voice and make some “good trouble.”
It always amazes me when people jump to name calling. Did you even look at my spreadsheet? Did you think about how many hours I put into it in order to create a resource that helps others find it easier to speak up at a large volume? Or did you just get hung up on one word you didn’t like? We have a different opinion, and that’s ok. You protest how you’d like. I am a teacher, a mom of 2 young kids, and I will choose to protest peacefully as long as I can because I have countless kids who need me.
Ttto, you can have a difference of opinion with someone. That's what this is. This isn't a human rights violation to want to protest nonviolently, so this is not a moment where it is appropriate to automatically write off the humanity of another. I'm going to call you in and tell you that the way you are speaking to this person is rude and will not make progress or sway people to your views. You know nothing about this person, certainly not enough to call them a "mediocre fake ally" or a "fucking clown". Alienating potential future comrades ultimately hurts your cause.
ttto, yours is the kind of language that incites violence, causes cars to be on fire, and leads to military presence. Go somewhere else with your bs you loser.
Also, all items for normal peoples well being is being pushed to the states. So if you are in a red state, either you will lose your benefits, or your taxes are going way up!
That's a particular county. Don't like it? Go to the courthouse and tell them you disagree with their assessment. We just got ours. They've gone up every year. We've also been homeowners since '82. This is nothing new. They went up when we lived in TN, too.
Wasn't an assumption. And it wasn't personalized to one person. I made a generalized statement. Ever been near a rally that got out of hand? Not pleasant experience.
I just watched a young woman get shot ( on purpose) in LA while she was trying to get home to her apartment last night. She was approaching what look like officers in uniform. She had her hands up and she stood asking how she could get home to her apartment that she lives there and they shot her in the stomach point blank with a rubber bullet. Search Malynda Hale on Instagram. You can see it she posted it today. I am shaking. I am terrified to go out of my house now and just go to the store for basic needs. I’m probably safe or I thought I would be, but this woman was an obvious white woman. Has nothing to do with race right now and everything to do with control. We’re being terrorized in our own communities.. be safe 🙏🏻
I watched the footage of the Australian journalist getting shot w rubber billets. She was plenty far away w her back to cops. Obviously a reporter. Cop took careful aim at her and fired deliberately. That’s bs!
Because they are racists that have been held down as a threat to our own democracy for a long time. Now, their ideology is allowed to be seen and it will get worse.
The book of revelations says in Revelation 13:16-17
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or ON THEIR FOREHEADS, and that no one may buy or sell except the one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Well that mark on the forehead is the MAGA mark. These extremists, dressed in ICE, FBI, Military, etc clothing all wear the mark. The reason they are only deploying 2,000 or so of various units is because they were hand picked by those in power to break the law. It’s clearer everyday, to me anyway, that the 3rd antichrist is here in our country and no one is safe regardless how much we may think one is.
I wonder the same. Are their wives and children really as vile as them or are they being punished into submission. Maybe they live in worse fear than we do.
This debacle is being orchestrated by the Nazi "Goebbels" Miller and Puppy Killer Kristi No-nothing Noem. Anyone who can hurt a helpless animal can do the same to a helpless human being. I hate this entire, cruel regime.
Phasing out FEMA is being done so Dictator Donny can decide which states get federal funding for disasters based on his personal biases. Ignoring blue states, he wants to punish because they didn't vote for him. He is a dick and always will be a dick because he is soulless.
Newsom has put the idea forward. As Californians know, disaster is a yearly occurrence with drought and wildfires. Without a FEMA, communities will be responsible for recovering as they’re being affected. Newsom should do a set aside to cover the costs the state will have to take on. It’s not clear how CA would withhold the federal money as most of the tax money from CA residents and businesses goes directly to the feds. So at the moment, it’s just an idea but probably worth exploring.
Here, in Western North Carolina, we are already being punished for being a liberal area and helping elect a Democrat governor - we are not getting the rest of the assistance to rebuild after Helene.
This will only get worse as Dictator Donny decides, state by state or even locality by locality, who receives his money. Yes, he sees it as his money to disburse, as federal funding for emergency relief. It could be an interesting hurricane season given the staffing cuts to FEMA and Dictator Donny having the final decision on where emergency funding is spent.
Why would anyone want to travel to the U.S. given all that is going on? For that matter, why are investors still buying U.S. stocks and bonds? With all this chaos, I should think they'd stay away.
Because that was one of their campaign promises - mass deportations. And MAGAts gleefully supported that. So, it doesn't matter to them, how or where they deport people - as long as they cross that off their disgusting Project 2025 list.
According to Heather Cox Richardson there’s a difference between deportation and rendition. Deportation is sending a person back to their native country. Rendition is sending them to a foreign country where they have no connection or family, to a place like Cecil or Sudan. What regime is doing is rendition, which is cruel and unusual punishment, against 4 th amendment.
U can watch her on you tube… “ why we protest” she explains it .. very good piece!
Oh I see, Trump’s plan is to leave Americans stranded in rubble while he protects billionaire tax cuts. FEMA? Gone. Medicaid? Cut. Food stamps? Slashed. And now he wants states to somehow magically afford billion dollar disasters alone? This isn’t leadership, it’s a death sentence for anyone not living in a freaking mansion!! 😡
Don't forget the $45 MILLION DOLLAR PARADE he's putting on for HIS birthday! And the $137 MILLION it's gonna cost to send the national guard and marines into US cities! Meanwhile, they found no waste, fraud, and abuse in government agencies. It was all a lie to cut the knees out from under government services to give the uber rich a tax cut. WAKE UP AMERICANS!
I'd like to know who's getting that money because when the military he sent are just sleeping on the ground because they have to arrange for their own hotels,they aren't getting cared for. I hope all military remembers, once he's done using you, you will be fully cut off from any benefits that you previously were entitled to. Ask some of the vets now about their benefits, some of which he's already terminated.
The problem is there was no coordination for housing and feeding the troops that were called up. Apparently, ICE dropped the ball. Although not the greatest, it appears that sleeping bags weren't even issued. Sure hope they got MREs.
I met an Iraq/Afghanistan vet who has multiple physical issues from exposure to burn pits, in addition to PTSD, and some of his medical claims approved under Biden were rescinded by Trump! His buddies too.
Exactly he's trying to kill off the poor and make America white and rich only. That will be a small country and without the poor and middle class paying taxes because they are gone then what happens?
Unfortunately yes. This is almost parallel to things that happened back when the Nazi’s rose to power. ICE is like our version of their Gestapo. /general
Having worked in social services all of my life, here in the UK, we would NEVER just hand over children to immigration. Especially when Immigration hide their identities, wear masks, use force and drag people off to Guantanamo Bay etc.
It is horrific enough that ICE are separating children from their parents in the most brutal of ways.
USA please fight this fascism with all your might. We look on from across the pond and we are horrified. Utterly horrified. (I have family in Texas and I am so frightened for them.)🏴
We are doing what we can. At this point, we have very few options - we have no one, from the standpoint of government safeguards that are supposed to keep this from happening. We have some sensible governors. We have some amazing, heroic judges. We have private citizens. That's it.
Well, we have Pete Hegseth. Maybe he will leak some more details over Signal.
😂😂😂
Hahaha! 😂😂😂
Taking these kids from foster care physically and mentally makes me sick.
It does me, too 😪
We are trying! I hope that the majority of the military realize they don't have to listen to him bc it violates their oath to the constitution to uphold, fight, & protect it. They don't make an oath to the president.
Just saw a video of a female soldier dressed in full military gear protesting against ICE. That's a good start! We need more like her!
Please don't say She was speaking out against ICE, those are grounds for her being court martialed. Try to stick with she was reaffirming her OATH as a soldier.
She is risking court martial. One brave lady!
I feel like it always starts with Women!
Of course!!!! IWOMEN WILL STAND STRONG AND WE NEED TO ALL OF USE TO STOP THE DICTATOR AND HIS MINIONS.
That’s amazing there as a woman on Substack that is in the National Guards and said they are for the oath of the constitution and they needed to remember that. IT’S OUR COUNTRY NOT tRUMPS THAT’S REMEMBER THAT!!!!
💯💪 Yes! 🙏
I lost hope for our military after seeing the spectacle at Ft. Bragg. Wonder how much orange Kool-aid they were given?
apparently the 82nd airborne is kind of known for that vibe. also he culled the audience for friendlies only
Very sad. Those guys need to remember their army unit's history. Now they are pro-fascist? Unbelievable!
Tbf that's here in NC and it's so heavy maga here it's not funny. My county voted over 50% for the "proud black Nazi" 🤦🏻♀️😒😡
I will never understand those people nor forgive them.
These children will certainly be trafficked to the highest bidders. Because they're orphans, what family is going to fight for them or protect them.
isn't that one of Dan Bongos pet conspiracy theories? this would be a good time to spam him demanding he stop the child/sex trafficking within the deep state that he now runs or whatever TF they say (since he's already pissed off the wackos over epstein) just tag him all over the place and make him and state sponsored child trafficking trend
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
They're getting us normalized to that behavior. I lived in Portland, OR before Mt St Helens blew. Constant warnings, everyone gets used to it and goes about their daily routine until one day it blows up.
… T admin scooped people off streets during BLM protests in Portland too… uninformed, masked, unmarked vans. Remember that? We are being gradually desensitized to horror
We The People must not allow ourselves to be desensitized. Stay mad and fight!
✊🤜
Every word that comes out of Trumps mouth is a freaking lie! Before ICE came into the city, it was a normal day people were going about their daily routines, when all these unmarked vehicles rolled in and military suited fully masked up GESTAPO jumped out of their vehicles ARMED to the T! started kidnapping anyone they came across, not asking for ID and not identifying themselves. No one knows for sure who they are, they could be anyone. That is when the community started coming out trying to stop them from taking out neighbors! Trump said if he hadn’t sent the NG in the city would have burnt down! He is so full of shit! The fires did not begin til after the NG began shooting at random people just standing around or walking by! He is a DANGEROUS and EVIL man! Now he wants to go after poor foster children! If that is not evil I don’t know what is! Men like him are sick in the dome and he really needs a check up from the neck up for real
I agree! That is exactly how it happened. ICE and military GO HOME! We don"t need you in L.A. OR California!
We are horrified as well. We are fighting back. Stand strong 💪. Revolution 2025 against Trump Fascist Regime & all who attend him. GOP MAGA especially.
CONGRESS AND THE SENATE NEED TO BE FIRED AND REPLACED ASAP
You mean the REPUBLICANS. THEY are the ones who are allowing the Felon in Chief to do what he is doing! 🤬😡
Welcome to 1930s Germany.
We are trying but need the world to stand up to Trump and with us.
Scotland is strongly opposed to any visit from Taco to the UK. We are all doing what we can. We are boycotting U. S. goods. We are working around Taco not with him. We are utterly against fascism and we are calling out Trump and his administration as fascist. Keep fighting fascism.
As a Texan, Abbot is a bootlicker. Of course he wants to let the National Guard on citizens.
Ron DeSantis is in the same league as Abbot. I figured they would do everything they can to “help “ the regime.😞
Those two are in a neck to neck race as to which is the most horrific. Abbott may have the slightest of edges
Dallas resident here. What is happening steels me to protest on Saturday. Not looking for trouble but this CANNOT stand!
Abbott is a horrible person. VOTE HIM OUT
Invoke DEI dismissal, take his chair away and see how well he does
I agree
Unfortunately Texas never seems to learn.
Arlington TX here….Abbott is a waste of fucking skin. I hate it here.
I agree. His deployment of TX National Guard came as no surprise.
I cannot believe Texas went from Ann Richards to Greg Abbott! SMH !!!
Hot Wheels is a traitor (from a Texan transplant)
Please stay safe
That is a very kind descriptor. There are so many others you could have used. Your restraint is admirable.
Looking at it from another angle, at least he gets to keep some control over the Guard by being the one who signed the Order. And by initiating the event, he can limit the time they will be on call up. (No, I'm not real fond of him either, but sometimes there is an upside to being proactive.
Abbott is a facist before it became fashionable. Your point is valid but I won’t give him any benefit of the doubt. Always assume his motives are facist
I didn't think of thar, good point but Taco has him wrapped around his little fingers so he'll do what he says. Fuck hot wheels.
Completely unnecessary to call up the Guard. These MAGATS live in fear of POC, who keep our economy from collapsing. Paranoia will destroy ya and it will be the real reason for this country's downfall. When did U.S. citizens become so afraid of others? Pathetic!
When will someone point out that Trump himself has referred to "paid agitators" in the crowds? He's admitting that those rioters dressed in black with masks are not part of the peaceful protest but are there to cause trouble and get attention away from the peaceful and on to the violence. So who would be paying those "paid agitators"? The guy who wants to justify sending in the troops? And he's even admitted it. Even if they are not all plants by this regime to stir up violence, it's a very good chance that they are MAGA vigilantes and J6 and Proud Boy types that want to make the peaceful protesters look bad. Let's magnify that message please!
Oh I totally agree!!! From the live streams I’ve seen they were dancing and eating and just chanting! The few things that have happened was definitely done by agitators and no one will ever convince me otherwise!
You have a point there. Trump projects onto others. Trump or someone else may be doing a false flag operation.
Wouldn’t be the first time this tactic has been used to defame peaceful protests. Put nothing past these criminals.
Just speculating here--but maybe ICE plants? Are these masked agitators getting arrested, or do they somehow just slip away?
No ma'am. This is exactly what they want. For us to start down the rabbit 🐇 hole of what ifs. We can not let our minds drift that far. I know they love to gaslight, and deceive. They are evil. But we definitely must NOT stop protesting. If we do the USA 🇺🇸 is gone forever. We're already in the first stages of fascism in this country by this republican corrupt regime. We now have to fight tooth and nail to get them removed. So, protests it is! Full stop, period. No going back. Power to we the people. We got the numbers on our side. 🗽🇺🇸💙
In the Union orgnaizing days of the 30s, during general strikes, such outside agitators were given their "lumps and bumps." We must do likewise.
100 percent correct! The FOTUS always tells on himself.
This has to stop.
Call. Write. Email. Protest peacefully. Unrelentingly.
Use/share this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to your own reps, as well as those in other states on a specific committee important to a topic you’re sharing. Use your voice and make some “good trouble.”
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lYafj0P-6owAJcH-5_xcpcRvMUZI7rkBPW-Ma9e7hw/edit?usp=drivesdk
Thank you for this!
You’re welcome! Thanks for speaking up right now!
This is an incredible list! Thank you! Saved your spreadsheet and will get busy contacting more people!
You’re welcome!! Thank you for speaking up right now! ❤️🩹🤍💙
“Protest peacefully!” Says the mediocore fake ally
Fuck you. We didnt stop hitler with peace, you fucking clowns.
It always amazes me when people jump to name calling. Did you even look at my spreadsheet? Did you think about how many hours I put into it in order to create a resource that helps others find it easier to speak up at a large volume? Or did you just get hung up on one word you didn’t like? We have a different opinion, and that’s ok. You protest how you’d like. I am a teacher, a mom of 2 young kids, and I will choose to protest peacefully as long as I can because I have countless kids who need me.
Ttto, you can have a difference of opinion with someone. That's what this is. This isn't a human rights violation to want to protest nonviolently, so this is not a moment where it is appropriate to automatically write off the humanity of another. I'm going to call you in and tell you that the way you are speaking to this person is rude and will not make progress or sway people to your views. You know nothing about this person, certainly not enough to call them a "mediocre fake ally" or a "fucking clown". Alienating potential future comrades ultimately hurts your cause.
Thank you Em. Very much.
Too late to say "chill", so I'll say "think like a politician." Then you can rationally rant all you want!
I'm not sure what your point is. Could you please elaborate?
ICE uses violence. Trump is an evil violent man. We can't win by using violence.
ttto, yours is the kind of language that incites violence, causes cars to be on fire, and leads to military presence. Go somewhere else with your bs you loser.
It's a big fuck you to the poorest red states that without blue money will just wither and die. Congrats you got what you paid for
Also, all items for normal peoples well being is being pushed to the states. So if you are in a red state, either you will lose your benefits, or your taxes are going way up!
Maybe both.
My family and my babies are stuck in a red state 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Illinois, anyone? Property taxes have skyrocketed.
That's a particular county. Don't like it? Go to the courthouse and tell them you disagree with their assessment. We just got ours. They've gone up every year. We've also been homeowners since '82. This is nothing new. They went up when we lived in TN, too.
Property taxes go to city services, schools and utilities such as water. None of your prop taxes goes to the Feds.
Amen brother!
Nah ... They'll get Repubs in Congress to float something their way ... there is no downside to being mean and stupid in the USA.
But if states have to pay for part of Medicaid (in republicans plan) the states either raise taxes or cut the service.
Denver CO is also protesting ICE.
Hopefully every city stands up to them. That way they run out of resources to show off with and we can win this.
June 14th. It's not that far away. Find a rally, but don't do anything stupid, please.
Why would you assume that she will do something "stupid?" 🙄😒
Wasn't an assumption. And it wasn't personalized to one person. I made a generalized statement. Ever been near a rally that got out of hand? Not pleasant experience.
With dark money 💰 🤑 billionaires funding them, these demons will never run out of money! 🤬🤬🤬😤
Atl showed up last night. Fl seems like child trafficking.
Always has been involved in it. It's just in plain sight now.
my sister and I said the same thing.
I just watched a young woman get shot ( on purpose) in LA while she was trying to get home to her apartment last night. She was approaching what look like officers in uniform. She had her hands up and she stood asking how she could get home to her apartment that she lives there and they shot her in the stomach point blank with a rubber bullet. Search Malynda Hale on Instagram. You can see it she posted it today. I am shaking. I am terrified to go out of my house now and just go to the store for basic needs. I’m probably safe or I thought I would be, but this woman was an obvious white woman. Has nothing to do with race right now and everything to do with control. We’re being terrorized in our own communities.. be safe 🙏🏻
I watched the footage of the Australian journalist getting shot w rubber billets. She was plenty far away w her back to cops. Obviously a reporter. Cop took careful aim at her and fired deliberately. That’s bs!
Shits gona get bad. People gona get tired of getting shot
This is not right!! Those kids! Those ice people have no heart.. how can they face their own families and kids?
Because they are racists that have been held down as a threat to our own democracy for a long time. Now, their ideology is allowed to be seen and it will get worse.
The book of revelations says in Revelation 13:16-17
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or ON THEIR FOREHEADS, and that no one may buy or sell except the one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
Well that mark on the forehead is the MAGA mark. These extremists, dressed in ICE, FBI, Military, etc clothing all wear the mark. The reason they are only deploying 2,000 or so of various units is because they were hand picked by those in power to break the law. It’s clearer everyday, to me anyway, that the 3rd antichrist is here in our country and no one is safe regardless how much we may think one is.
You got it right.
I wonder the same. Are their wives and children really as vile as them or are they being punished into submission. Maybe they live in worse fear than we do.
Miller's wife is an abomination, not sure about the others.
Millers wife left him with the kids 6 months ago. Hence Musks post about taking his wife.
Whaaaat??
Yep! Goebbels Miller's wife took off with Musk the Rat.
I agree I could never do that i would've resigned the minute it started.
But ICE has quotas, likely given by Stephen Miller, so they are motivated to pick on the most vulnerable just to make quotas.
This debacle is being orchestrated by the Nazi "Goebbels" Miller and Puppy Killer Kristi No-nothing Noem. Anyone who can hurt a helpless animal can do the same to a helpless human being. I hate this entire, cruel regime.
Phasing out FEMA is being done so Dictator Donny can decide which states get federal funding for disasters based on his personal biases. Ignoring blue states, he wants to punish because they didn't vote for him. He is a dick and always will be a dick because he is soulless.
Blue states should just deduct their disaster relief funds from their federal tax payments.
I think Gov Newsom has already suggested withholding CA taxes from the Feds and has his people looking into it as I type. I fully support my Governor!
Newsom has put the idea forward. As Californians know, disaster is a yearly occurrence with drought and wildfires. Without a FEMA, communities will be responsible for recovering as they’re being affected. Newsom should do a set aside to cover the costs the state will have to take on. It’s not clear how CA would withhold the federal money as most of the tax money from CA residents and businesses goes directly to the feds. So at the moment, it’s just an idea but probably worth exploring.
Agree. I believe there is a general fund for emergencies? Californians will pull together like we always do.
Here, in Western North Carolina, we are already being punished for being a liberal area and helping elect a Democrat governor - we are not getting the rest of the assistance to rebuild after Helene.
He turned down gov of Arkansas and she’s a big MAGA
This will only get worse as Dictator Donny decides, state by state or even locality by locality, who receives his money. Yes, he sees it as his money to disburse, as federal funding for emergency relief. It could be an interesting hurricane season given the staffing cuts to FEMA and Dictator Donny having the final decision on where emergency funding is spent.
And forget the budget Congress is now so focused on. Only bills that will get paid are to Republican billionaires and their pet companies.
Yeah, and then you will owe him a favor which he will never stop collecting.
Why would anyone want to travel to the U.S. given all that is going on? For that matter, why are investors still buying U.S. stocks and bonds? With all this chaos, I should think they'd stay away.
Pretty soon the United States will be on the "No Flight List" for other countrues!!
If you are protesting, you might want to consider lining your midriff with magazines...just for added protection.
This is out of control. Why the fuck are they sending undocumented people to Kosovo wtf!!
Because that was one of their campaign promises - mass deportations. And MAGAts gleefully supported that. So, it doesn't matter to them, how or where they deport people - as long as they cross that off their disgusting Project 2025 list.
According to Heather Cox Richardson there’s a difference between deportation and rendition. Deportation is sending a person back to their native country. Rendition is sending them to a foreign country where they have no connection or family, to a place like Cecil or Sudan. What regime is doing is rendition, which is cruel and unusual punishment, against 4 th amendment.
U can watch her on you tube… “ why we protest” she explains it .. very good piece!
Im guessing he's getting a good deal from them.
Oh I see, Trump’s plan is to leave Americans stranded in rubble while he protects billionaire tax cuts. FEMA? Gone. Medicaid? Cut. Food stamps? Slashed. And now he wants states to somehow magically afford billion dollar disasters alone? This isn’t leadership, it’s a death sentence for anyone not living in a freaking mansion!! 😡
Don't forget the $45 MILLION DOLLAR PARADE he's putting on for HIS birthday! And the $137 MILLION it's gonna cost to send the national guard and marines into US cities! Meanwhile, they found no waste, fraud, and abuse in government agencies. It was all a lie to cut the knees out from under government services to give the uber rich a tax cut. WAKE UP AMERICANS!
I'd like to know who's getting that money because when the military he sent are just sleeping on the ground because they have to arrange for their own hotels,they aren't getting cared for. I hope all military remembers, once he's done using you, you will be fully cut off from any benefits that you previously were entitled to. Ask some of the vets now about their benefits, some of which he's already terminated.
The problem is there was no coordination for housing and feeding the troops that were called up. Apparently, ICE dropped the ball. Although not the greatest, it appears that sleeping bags weren't even issued. Sure hope they got MREs.
No coordination w local authorities either. Lapd ended up having to go protect guard!
All about tv and theater. What do u expect from a failed tv personality and a weekend fox host?
I met an Iraq/Afghanistan vet who has multiple physical issues from exposure to burn pits, in addition to PTSD, and some of his medical claims approved under Biden were rescinded by Trump! His buddies too.
Exactly he's trying to kill off the poor and make America white and rich only. That will be a small country and without the poor and middle class paying taxes because they are gone then what happens?
An use AI for the menial tasks like checkout, waitresses, delivery.
Good luck w that. Who’s gonna wash their clothes and dishes ??
Is this country turning into Nazi Germany I mean really papers showing citizenship on you at all times.....Geeze
Unfortunately yes. This is almost parallel to things that happened back when the Nazi’s rose to power. ICE is like our version of their Gestapo. /general
Yes
Good luck red states who need FEMA most.
Yep 3 more hurricane seasons to go and they cant even track them anymore good luck with no or little advance notice.
When the Floridian meteorologist is speaking up about it on live TV, you know they’re screwed. :(
Gutting FEMA means he’ll have more innocent lives on his hand than he already does.