ToastedRavioli
Born to Squint, Forced to See ⚜️
Not to mention infeasible for people already struggling to afford food and other basic necessities. Which means they will struggle to afford the dental care from not being able to afford privatized fluoride.
Its all a trap to push people in poverty into deeper states of vulnerability, eventually prison, and therefore free labor for the state
A group of Yale University classmates of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged him in a letter to reconsider his role “in facilitating the Trump administration’s intended transformation” of the U.S. “into an authoritarian state.”
As of Friday, 140 members of the Yale Class of 1984 signed the online letter to Bessent, a member of that class.
It argues that “so many” of the actions of President Donald Trump and his second administration are unconstitutional and undermine the principles of democracy.
The signatories include lawyers, CEOs, journalists, playwrights, a pastor, college professors, a farmer, and social workers.
The letter to Bessent says that he, as a Political Science major at Yale, knows “that the three branches of the U.S. government are meant to act as equal partners, providing checks and balances on each other to prevent the kind of power grab the executive branch is currently perpetrating.”
The missive then ticks off a list of examples of what it says are the Trump administration’s efforts “to usurp the power vested in the judicial and legislative branches … for their own personal aggrandizement, wealth, and power.”
Walmart and Target have given factories the go-ahead to resume production, though the companies haven’t resumed inspections prior to shipping. This would seem to indicate that the retailers are refilling the order pipeline following reports of their visits to the White House, and Trump’s public statements after that the China tariffs would be coming down. But there was uncertainty over whether Trump would carve out tariff exceptions just for the mega-retailers, or whether reductions would apply to all importers.
Now I see why Bezos is bending the knee. Dont want to get caught out with the rest of American small businesses when the axe comes down