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  1. wing2000

    Trump Cut BRIC While Rural Communities Face Greater Risks

    As the tragic events in Texas demonstrate, rurul counties often do not recieve the funds needed to implement preventative measures to protect human life. Kerr County Texas had previously applied for FEMA funds were denied, with Texas deciding to direct those funds to larger urban areas such...
  2. wing2000

    Trump announces 50 percent tariff on Brazil, citing Bolsonaro trial

    “The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his Term, including by the United States, is an international disgrace,” Trump wrote Wednesday in a letter to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. “This Trial should not...
  3. wing2000

    Senator Thom Tillis: The Big Beautiful Bill breaks Trump's Promise

    ....to the 600k+ Medicaid recipients in North Carolina
  4. wing2000

    Trump Bars Entry from 12 Countries

    ...and restricts entry from other countries. The ban, which goes into effect on Monday, bars travel to the United States by citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Mr. Trump also imposed...
  5. wing2000

    Large-Scale Ukrainian Attack Targets Air Bases Deep inside Russia

    Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that Ukrainian drones had attacked airfields in five regions stretching across five time zones. Several aircraft caught fire in the regions of Murmansk, near the border with Norway, and Irkutsk, in eastern Siberia, the ministry said in a statement. ...
  6. wing2000

    The Make Autorail Great Again Act

    A congressmen from Florida(?) introduces a bill to rename Washington D.C.'s Metro system.... ...act would withhold federal funding to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, known as WMATA, until it rebrands as the Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access, or WMAGA — a...
  7. wing2000

    Trump Blinked

    The "Art of the Deal" President strikes again: The Trump administration announced a sweeping 90-day de-escalation of the trade war, with both sides agreeing to lower tariffs and another round of negotiations. The announcement was full of vague promises of resumed trade — and no clear wins for...
  8. wing2000

    Trump's "200 Trade Deals"

    Thread to track the "200 Trade Deals" President Trump claimed in his interview with Time Magazine on April 22, 2025: https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/ Your trade adviser, Peter Navarro, says 90 deals in 90 days is possible. We're now 13 days into the point from...
  9. wing2000

    The Fertilization President

    Last month on National Women's Day, President Trump declared himself to be the "fertilization president". Here are a few proposals being discussed: - reserve 30 percent of scholarships for the Fulbright program, the prestigious, government-backed international fellowship, for applicants who...
  10. wing2000

    Travel in El Salvador is now "safer" than travel in Spain, France, UK, Costa Rica....according to the US Dept of State

    As Bloomberg reported: [via MSNBC] https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/el-salvador-travel-advisory-united-states-rcna200483 Level 1. April 8, 2025 Country Summary: Exercise normal precautions in El Salvador. Gang activity has decreased over the last three years. This has caused a drop...
  11. wing2000

    Trump, Hegseth promise record $1 trillion Pentagon budget

    President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged a first ever $1 trillion defense budget proposal on Monday, a record sum for the military. Hegseth went further in an X post on Monday evening, saying Trump “is rebuilding our military — and FAST.” “COMING SOON: the first...
  12. wing2000

    Trump's Culture War Targets America's Museums

    The Administration is targeting the Smithsonian museums. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing Vice President JD Vance to eliminate "divisive race-centered ideology" from Smithsonian museums, educational and research centers, and the National Zoo. "Once widely...
  13. wing2000

    Voters in 8 Western states oppose Trump cuts to federal public lands agencies

    Broad bi-partisan opposition to recent cuts in staffing in agencies that manage our public lands in the West: "Why it matters: The bipartisan Conservation in the West survey, released Wednesday, is the first to measure the region's reaction to the Trump administration's move days earlier to cut...
  14. wing2000

    Kash Patel Accused of Covertly Orchestrating FBI Purge As a Private Citizen

    The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday accused Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee for F.B.I. director, of improperly directing a wave of firings at the bureau before being confirmed. In a letter to the Justice Department’s inspector general, Senator Richard J. Durbin...
  15. wing2000

    Trump Offers Federal Workers the Option to Resign

    The Trump administration on Tuesday offered roughly two million federal workers the option to resign but be paid through the end of September, in an effort to drastically reduce the size of the federal work force and push out people who do not support President Trump’s political agenda. In an...
  16. wing2000

    US initiates a Trade War with Colombia Over Deportation

    The United States and Colombia, long close partners in anti-narcotics efforts, clashed Sunday over the deportation of migrants and imposed tariffs on each other’s goods in a show of what countries could face if they intervene in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Trump...
  17. wing2000

    Nov 2024: Illegal Border Crossings Drop 78% - Year over Year

    Will Trump declare a national "emergency" at the border? “The border that the incoming administration is inheriting is a border at which the number of encounters is well below the number of encounters in 2019,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during an interview Wednesday...
  18. wing2000

    Questions for Pete Hegseth's Confirmation Hearing

    In preparation for next week's Senate confirmation hearings, Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a 33 page letter to Pete Hegseth on Monday, requesting that he address the following quetions: 1. If confirmed as Secretary of Defense, what is your strategy to address the significant management...
  19. wing2000

    Russian Air Defense Missile Likely Downed a Civilian Airliner

    Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer 190 was en route from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it was diverted for reasons still unclear and crashed while making an attempt to land in Aktau in Kazakhstan after flying east across the Caspian...
  20. wing2000

    Trump Proposes a 25% Tariff on Canadian and Mexican Imports - on "Day One"

    "President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he will issue executive orders imposing new tariffs on all imported goods from China, Mexico and Canada, the nation’s three largest trading partners, as one of his first acts on Inauguration Day. Trump said the tariffs of 25 percent on Mexican and...
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