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Philly Folly

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Working hard at making good trouble. I used to be terrified of what would happen in 2025 but now I’m horrified.

  1. For those who think tariffs will help manufacturing here in the USA, your “Made in USA” fridge isn’t carved out of bald eagle feathers.

    The parts come from all over the world & tariffs make those parts cost more.

    So you’re paying extra for the privilege of thinking you’re sticking it to China.

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  2. ‘Defend your culture.’

    ICE sure sounds like it’s borrowing from Replacement Theory as a recruitment tool. Who exactly are they hoping will apply — white nationalists?

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  3. Can you imagine what the MAGA Republicans would have said if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris had asked the Army Corps of Engineers to raise the water level of the Ohio River to improve the boating conditions for their birthday family outing?

    And why aren't the MSM hypocrites calling him out on this?

    Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

    JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip

    Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

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  4. When Trump was reelected, I knew it would be a death knell for millions around the world, because he and his administration would devastate what is left of public health, and especially global public health initiatives. Some of this will happen through attacks on vaccination, but also like this.

    A decision by the US government to incinerate more than $9.7m (£7.3m) of contraceptives is projected to result in 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions in five African countries.

More than three-quarters of the contraceptives (77%) were destined for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Mali, according to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), an NGO global healthcare provider and advocate of sexual and reproductive rights.

The contraceptives, many of which will not expire until 2027-29, had already been manufactured, packaged and ready for distribution. IPPF offered to take them for redistribution at no cost to the US taxpayer, but the offer was declined.

Their destruction will deny more than 1.4 million women and girls in the five countries access to lifesaving care, IPPF said.
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