Dire Reality

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"In 1941 Irving Berlin wrote this song as a protest piece against Hitler. It was a song to give people hope..."

Written almost a century ago yet seems so relevant today!

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Yes indeed! Love this!

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Let them eat SUVs: Trump White House orders fleet of luxury cars as Americans struggle

Americans are facing a deepening affordability crisis but at least Trump and co have ... 250 new Cadillac Escalades

“We ordered 250 Escalades. That’s how we look sharp in those cavalcades, you know,” Trump said

UnFUCKingbelievable!

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Breaking news: Officials admit to canceling grants to states that did not vote for Trump

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

- Alex Kent/The New York Times; Fri, 24 Jul 2026 2:56:26 PM

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House Republicans stack State Department funding bill with anti-LGBTQ+ provisions - LGBTQ Nation

The administration's anti-LGBTQ+ crusade is alive and well in U.S. foreign policy.

“It’s beyond shameful that the Republican majority has again tainted this vitally important bill with these poison pill riders.” - Rep Mark Takano

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And today, July 24, 2026, the NY Times reports "Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S. The United States has now recorded more cases of measles in 2026 than in any other year since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, a grim sign the U.S. may enter a new era with the disease."

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Trump says he will dismantle the ICC ‘brick by brick’. It could be his most chilling move of all | Steve Bloomfield

The US is aligning itself with dictators and autocrats to prevent those accused of genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes from ever facin

...genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes from ever facing justice

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Obscene!

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Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran was three weeks into a tourist visa when ICE pulled his car over in Florida. And he was two days away from getting on a plane back to his family. His wife found out from the news. This is the third ICE-related death in a single week. A man in Maine with a valid work permit and Social Security number. A father of three in Houston who owned a small business. Now a tourist with a plane ticket in his pocket. These are not immigration statistics. These are people who had lives, families, and plans — until they crossed paths with ICE. http://news.usaunify.org/TTf9gV

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What a horror! And these fucking repuklicans in the senate and congress still do nothing to reel in this monster-in-chief who should have been impeached long ago. Shame!

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‘He’s forcing higher bills’: Trump spends billions to kill clean energy and keep coal alive

Critics accuse president of ‘fattening the wallets of his cronies’ as working Americans face higher energy rates

"The Trump administration has directly spent $2.7bn of taxpayer money on its crusade against wind power while pouring $1.125bn into boosting coal"

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Nor morals or ethics!

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Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction | Simon Tisdall

As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire,

"Feckless and clueless, Donald Trump... has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire...

Like Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers back in 1776, we, the people of the world, hold these truths to be self-evident: far from making America great again, Trump makes it smaller, meaner, unhappier, more divided, isolated and unloved. Urgently needed now: a 2026 declaration of independence from Trump."

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His sole priority is himself. Those who think otherwise are fools.

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Ex-wife says ICE agent who killed man in Maine had racist beliefs, violent tendencies

Ashley Brouillette has identified her ex-husband, David Brouillette, as the officer who fatally shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddef

ICE Agent Defended Shooting of Immigrant in Maine, Ex-Wife Says

"There was an incident where we had been fighting, and I walked away and I got in the shower, and he comes in with a gun and pointed at me and tells me that he's going to blow my brains all over the bathtub," she told NPR.

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And Switzerland is running panels between train tracks. It’s this kind of outside of the box thinking that will help make fossil fuels obsolete. Here in America? We’re literally paying to kill wind projects and still promoting coal…

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Imagine that! Had we began addressing climate change when it first came to light, we might be fairly well set by now. In 1978, then President Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House. His successor, Reagan, the patron saint of the repukelican party, on his first days as president said 'take down those ugly things' and had them removed. Enough said!

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The Revolution is here. It's getting bigger.

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Spoken like a true patriot!

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That would be justice!