President Trump's tariffs have not only triggered trade wars, they're also leading to a "Boycott USA" global consumer backlash against U.S. goods.

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

February 21, 2025

Suggestions for a stronger United States:
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15. Don’t try to eliminate a whole category of people with an executive order. It leads to discrimination, harassment, and violence.

Suggestions for a stronger United States:
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14. Don’t allow an unelected, unappointed, temporary government employee/advisor with unlimited finances to threaten members of Congress with funding a primary candidate against them if they don’t agree with everything the administration says.

Suggestions for a stronger United States:
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13. Don’t strip away temporary protection status from people who came here legally to flee from a tyrant who will likely imprison and/or kill them when they arrive.

Suggestions for a stronger United States:
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11. Don’t give our most sensitive data to programmers who work for a guy who has a conflicts of interest and open investigations against him with the agencies he wants to gut.
12. If you do this anyway, go through proper channels (CONGRESS).

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10. Don’t give important jobs to unqualified people like white supremacist weekend news anchors or people who think they have brain worms.

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6. Don’t suggest ethnic cleansing so you can have a nice piece of land.
7. Don’t give important jobs to people who love and emulate our enemies.
8. Don’t deny essential medical care to members of the military.
9. Don’t fire civil servants.

Suggestions for a stronger United States:

5. Don’t abruptly stop promised, allocated aid because :
-it kills people
-it leaves a gap in aid that may be filled by a bad actor (China), thus weakening the humanitarian efforts we provide to encourage goodwill
-it’s illegal

Suggestions for a stronger United States:
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1. Don’t break promises made to our closest allies.
2. Don’t threaten the sovereignty of our allies.
3. Don’t enact extreme tariffs on our allies.
4. Don’t hand over an ally we’ve promised to protect to an enemy of our country.

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

Game theory is cool.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAow...

I’m here but I’m easily distracted and I have too many social media accounts to keep up with. Who’s here with me? What’s going on? I’m just floating in a sea of posts.

“Do not obey in advance.”
-Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny

Handsome boy.

First Black Friday shopping trip in many years! So thankful for the opportunity to spend time with my mom doing things we used to do. Big thanks to my husband Daniel for the idea! 💜💡

PS: Ollie’s has even better deals than usual today.