Trump/Admin Policies

tbergs
tbergs Posts: 10,512
edited September 24 in A Moving Train
More great news about our slide towards normalizing disregard for human rights. New world order for sure. Current administration deciding we're better off aligning with dictatorships across the world.

The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR has learned.

Despite decades of precedent, the reports, which are meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid allocations and security assistance, will no longer call governments out for such things as denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn retaining political prisoners without due process or restrictions on "free and fair elections."

Forcibly returning a refugee or asylum-seeker to a home country where they may face torture or persecution will no longer be highlighted, nor will serious harassment of human rights organizations.


https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts

It's a hopeless situation...
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  • OnWis97
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    You, general you, should be embarrassed by being an American. Be careful travelling abroad.
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  • OnWis97
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    As an American, one of the things I'm thinking of doing in preparation for my next trip abroad (tentative 2026 if the conditions warrant) is load up on Blue Jays, Raptors, and Canadian NHL team gear.
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  • Poncier
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    US will abandon Ukraine peace efforts ‘within days’ if no progress made, Rubio warns | CNN

    Is it Day 1 of Trump's second term yet?
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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,512
    Poncier said:
    US will abandon Ukraine peace efforts ‘within days’ if no progress made, Rubio warns | CNN

    Is it Day 1 of Trump's second term yet?
    Maybe during his 3rd term? By then we should be fully supporting Russia in the war so it will end quickly like he promised.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • mickeyrat
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    “Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic”

    But, of course that happened 😡

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/16/women-and-minorities-fired-nih-board-science/
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    NEW: A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees.

    “This goes against all the normal contracting safeguards,” one expert said.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 43,447
    Now that’s an administration that acts in good faith. Kind of like a lot of other regimes I could name.

    Trump officials blame mistake for setting off confrontation with Harvard

    An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

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  • mickeyrat
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    Trump has reportedly urged Congress to authorize $175 billion for border security, more than 10 times what was spent during his first term.

    Meanwhile, border residents in Texas and Arizona say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and hospital access — aren’t being met.

    Read the full story: https://propub.li/3RrREBs
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  • tbergs
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    Can't even provide adequate security to prevent Noem's purse from being stolen. Pretty pathetic.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kristi-noems-purse-stolen-id-cash-washington-dc-restaurant/
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,704
    tbergs said:
    Can't even provide adequate security to prevent Noem's purse from being stolen. Pretty pathetic.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kristi-noems-purse-stolen-id-cash-washington-dc-restaurant/
    Fake news! No way the culprit was white.
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,919
    She had $3K cash to take her family to Easter dinner and buy gifts? And how in the fuck does she separate herself from her purse enough to get it stolen? Was she at an Old County Buffet or something?
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  • mickeyrat
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    After 14 tornadoes in 2 days Arkansas is asking for federal assistance — but Trump is saying no. https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/04/21/sanders-says-arkansas-in-dire-need-of-federal-assistance-but-trump-says-no
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,919
    mickeyrat said:
    After 14 tornadoes in 2 days Arkansas is asking for federal assistance — but Trump is saying no. https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/04/21/sanders-says-arkansas-in-dire-need-of-federal-assistance-but-trump-says-no
    I'm surprised by that...
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  • mickeyrat
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    JUST IN: A federal judge ordered President Trump's administration to halt its efforts to shut down government-funded radio broadcasts of Voice of America, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks https://reut.rs/3ElE7bP
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,309
    Give it 6 months and this dummy will proclaim he made a mistake voting for trump, but “who could’ve known…?”. 

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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,361
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Give it 6 months and this dummy will proclaim he made a mistake voting for trump, but “who could’ve known…?”. 

    🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽him! 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • mickeyrat
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  • HughFreakingDillon
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    mickeyrat said:

    reminds of me of someone...hmmm...
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  • mickeyrat
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    The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
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