“U.S. Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) endorsed Donald J. Trump for president and we are thrilled with the outcome of the election! We believe President-elect Trump can permanently restore parental rights even beyond his administration by returning control of education completely to the states. He can also protect children from the harmful LGBTQ+ regulations coming from many administrative agencies in the federal government. For all this, we are hopeful, and we are prepared to support President-elect Trump with our policy ideas and our organized advocacy of chapters across the country with like-minded parents, grandparents and concerned citizens.” (11/13/24)
Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“When Donald Trump takes office on January 20th, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and almost as quickly end Israel’s war on its neighbors will be put to the test. The choices he has made for his incoming administration so far, from Marco Rubio as Secretary of State to Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador make for a rogues gallery of saber-rattlers. The only conflict where peace negotiations seem to be on the agenda is Ukraine. In April, both Vice President-elect JD Vance and Senator Marco Rubio voted against a $95 billion military aid bill that included $61 billion for Ukraine.” (11/13/24)
“Hours after Donald Trump was elected president for the second time, Dr. Clayton Alfonso had two messages from patients seeking to replace their IUDs. Over the next few days, three women inquired about getting their tubes tied. All of them said the election was the reason they were making these choices now. Requests for long-term birth control and permanent sterilizations have surged across the nation since the election, doctors told The Associated Press. And companies that sell emergency contraception and abortion pills say they’re seeing significant spikes in requests from people who are stockpiling the medications — one saw a 966% increase in sales of emergency contraception from the week before in the 60 hours after the election.” (11/13/24)
“A scandal of potentially titanic proportions is brewing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Last week, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell fired Marn’i Washington, the official accused of discriminating against Donald Trump-supporting hurricane victims in Florida, casting her as a lone wolf, a bad apple in an orchard full of good ones. Not so fast. On Tuesday, Washington — and another ex-FEMA employee who spoke with The Post — disputed the relatively rosy picture painted by Criswell. According to the recently disgraced Washington, ‘FEMA preaches avoidance’ of potentially contentious situations. And, supposedly, Trump supporters are disproportionately responsible for fomenting such situations. Washington said her team had encountered ‘political hostility’ from those in homes with ‘Trump campaign signage’, but nevertheless insisted that agency guidance is — and her own determination was — about safety, not political targeting.” (11/12/24)
“President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the Pentagon privately lobbied Trump during his first White House term to pardon former members of the U.S. armed forces accused or convicted of war crimes, including a Navy SEAL chief who allegedly gunned down a young girl and elderly man in Iraq. Pete Hegseth is an Army veteran who has used his role as a ‘Fox & Friends’ co-host to praise Trump, make the case for a preemptive strike against North Korea, peddle anti-Muslim bigotry, express support for Israel’s U.S.-backed assault on Gaza, and divulge bizarre details about his lack of personal hygiene.” [editor’s note: As usual, the truth lies somewhere between this progressive rant posing as “news” and the Fox account – SAT] [additional editor’s note: As usual, the truth is almost certainly not a Solomon-like cutting in half of the baby. Hegseth appears to be entirely a turd – TLK] (11/13/24)
“A secluded commune on the North Coast, known locally as ‘Yee Haw,’ has been labeled an ‘urgent health hazard’ by Humboldt County officials after inspectors found alarming sewage issues on the property. Owned by Charles Garth, the property of Yee Haw in Trinidad, California, has housed hundreds of people over the last four decades in homes made of scavenged materials and renovated buses. Residents celebrate Yee Haw as a hub of community and environmental stewardship, and Garth’s supporters paint him as a charitable figure who offers housing amid a statewide crisis. Critics, including some local officials, see him as a negligent landlord whose lack of oversight jeopardizes Yee Haw residents as well as the surrounding community and the environment. In September, Humboldt’s Planning and Building Department gave an overview of nearly 30 years of enforcement actions against Yee Haw.” (11/13/24)
“Wall Street lobbyists made a huge push to block Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) takeover of the top Democratic slot on the Senate Banking Committee, but it did not succeed. Warren will take that position in January. ‘I’ve spent my entire career fighting to make our economy work better for middle-class families — not just for the wealthy and well-connected,’ Warren said in a statement. ‘Decisions made by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs have a powerful impact on Americans’ lives, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to fight for families who most need a government on their side.’ Some big hitters tried to prevent this reality, including one of the chief objects of Senate Banking Committee oversight: Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.” (11/13/24)
“Donald Trump’s commanding victory over Kamala Harris seems to have surprised a lot of people both in the U.S. and around the world. Yet, it’s not surprising that Trump pulled off this victory, especially since polls predicted a tight race. What is surprising though is the scale of his victory. In a deeply divided society with a two-party system, one would have expected that either candidate would have won by a narrow margin. Trump’s victory, which will have a wide-ranging impact on all aspects of U.S. society and will reverberate through the global political economy, represents a genuine political earthquake.” (11/12/24)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Donald Trump has named Republican congressman Mike Waltz as his next national security advisor, a position that was held by ultrahawk John Bolton in the last Trump administration. Like Bolton, Waltz is a warmongering freak. … The mainstream press are calling Waltz a ‘China hawk,’ but from the look of things he’s a war-horny hawk toward all the official enemies of the United States.” [editor’s note: We had hoped a diplomat would have been the SecState choice, but the warhawks prevail again – SAT] [additional editor’s note: Who’s this “we?” Personally, I had zero hope that the leopard would turn out to have changed his spots – TLK] (11/12/24)
“Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history? And yes, in case you think that, as in his novel 1984, published in 1949, a year before his death and just as the Cold War (a term he was the first to use in an essay in October 1945) was getting underway, our world, too, seems to be heading for a nightmarish future, I suspect that — were he capable of returning to this planet of ours — he wouldn’t disagree with you for a moment. Phew! Sorry for such a long, complicated sentence, but little wonder given the way our world is now tying itself in knots.” (11/12/24)
