“Not being able to help people, especially when that’s in your heart, when what you want to do is serve—it kills you,” Lee Pool, the chief of the volunteer fire department in Hunt, Texas, told Rachel Monroe, who spent the past week reporting on the aftermath of the region’s deadly disaster. Pool described his harrowing experience on the night of the floods, when he got stuck while driving after the town’s major highway turned to a swift-moving river and his radio was alive with more sounds of distress than he’d ever heard. “I mean, it’s just constant,” he said. “Just, help, help, help, help.
Merrill, Wisconsin:
And we need training in Molotov timer-set cocktails, too.
Yep:
This is not a country of revolutionaries, so fuck off Thomas Paine:
The BBB legislation imposes deep cuts to Medicaid and new work requirements — changes that threaten to strip essential medical care from the very people who need it most.
Medicaid plays an outsized role in serving the disabled population. Over 41 percent of working-age (those ages 18 to 64) US adults with disabilities rely on Medicaid for their health coverage, compared to just 13.2 percent of those without disabilities. The share of disabled working-age adults enrolled in Medicaid is even higher in some parts of the country (Figure 1); 58.2 percent of working-age disabled adults in Puerto Rico rely on Medicaid, as do 46.3 percent in New Mexico and 43.8 percent in Massachusetts.
Get to work, COPD fucker. Get out of that fucking wheelchair, you slacker:
Disabled people are disproportionately represented among those who use Medicaid. Among working-age adults, 28 percent of Medicaid enrollees report at least one type of disability, compared to just 7.7 percent of those who do not use Medicaid. The trend is also not confined to states that declined to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (Figure 2). Disabled people who benefited from such Medicaid expansions face additional uncertainty in the wake of the cuts to federal funding. Several states that expanded coverage have so-called “trigger laws,” which require them to revisit or terminate their expansions if federal support falls below certain thresholds. If that happens, thousands of disabled adults in those states could lose coverage almost overnight, with no clear alternatives.
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Listen to Kelly and I go over this fucking American Bilking and Milking and Menacing Trump and Company, and all the fucking Republicans who were popping champagne corks over the pain they set upon their fellow Americans:
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is Filled With Hundreds of Billions in Waste Brett Heinz
Lobbyists are working overtime to fill the bill with giveaways to their clients, adding hundreds of billions in waste that will significantly increase the national debt over the next 10 years. Many of the bill’s corporate subsidies are disguised as tax cuts, a common tactic Congress uses to hide how much money it spends.
For instance, hidden on page 916 of the bill is a subsidy for the indoor tanning industry that will cost $365 million. A few pages later, a new benefit gives the entertainment industry $153 million to buy recording equipment. Even deeper in the bill, a new tax break for firearm silencers will cost $1.4 billion.
Unnecessary provisions that further complicate the tax code are everywhere: a $58 billion subsidy for auto loans, a $20 billion subsidy for private schools, and a $5 billion extension for flawed “opportunity zones” that only benefit real estate investors. These are just the tip of the iceberg.
Most significantly, the proposal would shovel an additional $150 billion into the government’s single largest source of wasteful spending: the Pentagon, which recently failed its seventh audit in a row.
The proposal for a “Golden Dome” missile shield alone will squander at least $25 billion on a program that will almost certainlynot work. Another $2.5 billion would go to the controversial Sentinel missile program, which is currently 81 percent over-budget. Meanwhile, the $13-16 billion meant for “expediting innovation” is filled with earmarks for Congress’ “pet projects.”
The Pentagon is already one of the most over-funded institutions on the planet. It doesn’t need a chance to waste more of our money. The plan to spend another $62 billion on “border security” schemes is similarly concerning.
Gandhi put it concisely when he declared, decades ago: “The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.”
They — champagne poppers, politicians, CEOs and the rich — need to die, die slow deaths, but quick ones wouldn’t be so bad, but alas, we can’t say that shit on Community Radio, and alas, we can’t have a call to action, and we can’t direct people to organizations like Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front to learn how to make, err, bombs.
[The uploading of this work does not constitute an endorsement of any kind of violence. The purpose of the uploading of this work is to aid legitimate academic research and law enforcement agencies. The author of The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell, admitted in an interview that he compiled most of his work from existing US Army manuals widely available to the public. This book has been created in the United States during a time of social and political turmoil and should be studied in that context.]
William Powell, ‘Anarchist Cookbook’ Writer, Dies at 66 — 2017!
1. Gaza genocide. Trump has perpetuated Joe Biden’s complicity with Israel in its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Like his predecessor, he has continued to furnish the IDF with bombs, missiles and high-powered rifles. He has ignored or dismissed evidence that those U.S. arms have contributed to the massive destruction of buildings and more than 50,000 civilian deaths (mostly women and children).
2. Arrests, detentions and deportations. Over the past few months, we have witnessed video coverage of ICE’s often violent seizures of immigrants, including international students whose only “crime” was to assert Palestinian rights in campus protests or publications. In early March, masked ICE agents forcibly seized Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil and drove him away in an unmarked car. We later learned that he was and still is imprisoned in Louisiana.
3. Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” (BBB). This eleven-hundred-page budget creates an economic time bomb by greatly expanding the federal deficit, increasing interest on the debt, and downgrading the US. credit rating.
In his 2024 history, The World After Gaza, Indian scholar Pankaj Mishra expresses a dark reality. “After witnessing savage mass murder over several months…millions now feel less at home in the world.” Yet again referring to Gaza, the author finds some hope in the courage and personal sacrifices of campus protesters who refuse “complicity with corrupted institutions.”
What does 97 dead in school shootings, DAILY, look like?
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: (2012): 27 fatalities.
Uvalde school shooting: (2022): 21 fatalities.
Parkland school shooting: (2018): 17 fatalities.
the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, where 32 people were killed.
Israel killed at least 82 Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, including at least 9 aid-seekers. Also among the dead were 10 children (see below) and a Palestinian journalist.
In addition, Israel killed 3 Palestinians in the West Bank.
Imagine if the U$A DAILY, had 10 kiddos shot and murdered DAILY near medical facilities?
Shooting Texans waiting for food?
Shoot them while delivering water?
All those corporations throwing in for Tex-ass:
Stepping up for Texas: How businesses are aiding flood relief efforts
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