Rhetoric from the Make America Healthy Again movement discounts the government’s responsibility for helping people with chronic illness and disabilities — in particular, autism, this writer notes. “As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of an autistic child, in the language of #MAHA I hear a disregard for the humanity of people with disabilities and a shift from supporting them to blaming them for their needs.”

https://medium.com/wise-well/maha-blames-the-ill-and-disabled-for-their-plights-37ae739dd6ff

#health #healthcare #politics

NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers.

But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.

#news #trump #FederalReserve#LisaCook#Government#Politics

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=9-04

"The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed," writes Garrett Graff for his Doomsday Scenario newsletter. He chronicles why he feels that today, August 25, 2025, is a date to remember. "Everything else from here on out is just a matter of degree and wondering how bad it will get and how far it will go," he writes. "Do we end up 'merely' like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an 'American Reich'? So far, after years of studying World War II, I fear that America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015."

https://flip.it/h-2n7N

#TrumpAdministration#USPolitics#Politics#USNews#Fascism#Authoritarianism#History#News

Christian Nationalist provocateur Sean Feucht kicked of a multi-state "Revive in 25" tour in Seattle over the weekend at Gasworks Park. Counter-protesters showed up to push back against his trans-phobic proselytizing. The group had initially planned to hold the event in Capitol Hill, but after speaking with the city changed venues and dropped plans to march through the city's gay neighborhood. Earlier this summer, Feucht's events in Capitol Hill and downtown ended with police arresting counter-protesters. But this weekend, the police held back and any confrontations that happened were peaceful. A few people were baptized at the end of the event. Feucht announced that his group had been invited by the Trump administration to hold an event on the Mall in DC.

#photojournalism #seattle #photography #politics #protest #pnw

Rhetoric from the Make America Healthy Again movement discounts the government’s responsibility for helping people with chronic illness and disabilities — in particular, autism, this writer notes. “As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of an autistic child, in the language of #MAHA I hear a disregard for the humanity of people with disabilities and a shift from supporting them to blaming them for their needs.”

https://medium.com/wise-well/maha-blames-the-ill-and-disabled-for-their-plights-37ae739dd6ff

#health #healthcare #politics

It is non-stop gaslighting by every member of the regime, hoping their low-information and low critical-thinking base with lap it all up, while they destroy hundreds of years of progress so that a few oligarchs can make a few more bucks.

This is from the Secretary of Energy Wright -
#Politics#Energy#Solar#DOE
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NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers.

But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.

#news #trump #FederalReserve#LisaCook#Government#Politics

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=9-04