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Everyone was pissed that I used AI last time so I took a minute to put this together in powerpoint.


Originally Posted By u/Minimum_Passing_Slut At 2025-05-19 11:13:39 PM | Source


 

Video Here’s an r/50501 post with the full 7-minute video (includes the YouTube link): We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion

Marci Shore: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/marci-shore

Timothy Snyder: https://timothysnyder.org/

Jason Stanley: https://torontolife.com/city/philosopher-and-professor-jason-stanley-decision-to-leave-the-us-trump/.


Originally Posted By u/biospheric At 2025-05-19 11:11:17 PM | Source


 

Originally Posted By u/unclesantana At 2025-05-19 10:26:40 PM | Source


 

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:

  • Closure of the U.S. Department of Education
  • 25% expansion of logging in national forests, bypassing environmental reviews and fast-tracking timber production
  • Rollbacks on clean energy incentives, cutting tax credits for EVs and renewables, gutting key climate provisions
  • More public lands opened up for drilling, mining, and logging, with royalty breaks for fossil fuel companies
  • Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, ending U.S. participation in global climate efforts
  • Executive Order 14215, forcing independent federal agencies to follow White House legal interpretations and centralizing authority under the presidency
  • Pension changes for federal workers hired before 2014, cutting take-home pay by raising required contributions, reducing future payouts, and eliminating early retirement supplements
  • REINS Act-style regulation repeal, where major federal rules expire unless Congress re-approves them every 5 years allowing Trump to quietly erase protections without rewriting laws
  • Expanded executive control over agency budgets, allowing the White House to move federal funds internally without explicit congressional approval
  • Restoration of impoundment powers, giving Trump the ability to block or delay spending already passed by Congress reviving powers stripped after Watergate
  • Creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), placing White House–aligned teams inside every federal agency with access to internal systems and influence over hiring and daily operations
  • Sharp cuts in regulatory enforcement, with agencies like the EPA, CFPB, and Labor and Transportation Departments halting enforcement of key safety, environmental, and anti-discrimination rules
  • Trump’s personal control over economic policy, strengthening his power to direct tariffs, pressure private companies, and dictate pricing with little resistance treating the U.S. economy like his own business

This bill isn’t just “big.” It’s a roadmap for dismantling oversight, hollowing out federal protections, and handing Trump sweeping, unchecked control. Read the fine print.


Originally Posted By u/liss614 At 2025-05-19 09:34:20 PM | Source


 

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This would be absolutely amazing. We all know how much Trump loves attention and stealing his spotlight would be sooooooo satisfying.


Originally Posted By u/FeistyAlgae At 2025-05-19 08:09:47 PM | Source


 

I hope this post is okay here. The current administration wants to change the Endangered Species Act. Today is the last day to leave a comment disagreeing with the attempted weakening of the Endangered Species Act. It will have long term negative effects if it goes through. Please take five minutes to leave a thoughtful comment and let them know what you think. The ability to leave comments closes today, Monday 19th, at 11:59PM eastern time

This change aims to redefine what “harming” an endangered species means. The proposed new definition says removing habitat is no longer considered “harmful” to a species. Which means companies will be able to increase the damage they cause without consequences


Originally Posted By u/GoodUniqueName At 2025-05-19 08:29:09 PM | Source


 

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Originally Posted By u/edinburghiloveyou44 At 2025-05-19 06:53:33 PM | Source


 

Originally Posted By u/serious_bullet5 At 2025-05-19 06:44:10 PM | Source


 

This is a continuation from my last post about the college students who got ICE to back off by forming a blockade and NON-VIOLENTLY pushing them back.

I'm not here to change anyone's mind about the non-violent route, but (and I'm sorry, I know you don't want to hear this) even within the non-violent route, WE AREN'T DOING ENOUGH!

We aren't going to stop them with just protests! We need to be loud, resilient, and most of all disruptive! We need to band together when we see them doing this stuff and get in their way! We don't have to throw punches, but pulling down a fake ICE thugs mask is still something! In South Korea, they didn't push the fascists out with signs, they did it by being disruptive and showing they weren't going to comply! That's exactly what we need to do!

We out number them! When we resist, the regime crumbles, because they need us to comply! They're bullies who get their power from us being afraid, but when we stand up, they have nothing!

I know some of you are afraid of being arrested, and I can't guarantee that won't happen, but:

  1. the regime will probably just let the non-POCs go. White people are their target demographic! Whenever the police do show up to protests they just pick the POCs out of the crowd!

  2. if we band together and resist, they can't go after all of us!

  3. under a criminal regime, the rules don't mean shit! They're imaginary! They stopped meaning anything when a man who started an insurrection was allowed to become president!

We're at a pivotal moment here, fighting not just for our lives but for the soul of the nation, and I don't know if we have much time left. You don't have to get violent, but I'm begging you to get mad, get your boots on, and actually fight back!


Originally Posted By u/Accomplished_Star_30 At 2025-05-19 05:43:33 PM | Source


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