Be Smart. Stay Informed. Actively Dissent.
If you read the headline of this post or saw the coverage last week and instinctively had a confused look on your face and said "what?" out loud to yourself, you are not alone. Nothing should surprise us anymore with this administration and their accomplices, but they keep trying. If only we could joke at the abject absurdity of this, but the directive detailed below is anything but a laughing matter as our country takes enormous steps backwards from our quest to be a more perfect Union.
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While almost immediately under investigration upon taking office, Trump and team have sought to quickly inflict as much pain as possible upon our nation with varying levels of success. Our Resistance will play a significant role in how far they get in their agenda. After failing to take away healthcare from millions of Americans, the Bannon-led White House has turned back to his dream agenda: white supremacy.
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BE SMART ABOUT is our unfortunate series highlighting people in power or important topics you need to stay informed about so you can share this knowledge and together we can Be Smart and Actively Dissent. Today we discuss the Office of the Inspector General. You will not find this information on cable news and rarely in print media. Inspector Generals play a crucial role in our government and society and have enormous significance to our nation yet they are under attack without any outcry.
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Supporting U.S. businesses and American-made products is usually a well-meaning and reasonable thing to do.
Trump is preparing an executive order to require all U.S. food aid to foreign nations be shipped on American ships, Reuters reported [in late June].
There are cases when it's not feasible as there aren't American products or services available.
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In three tweets last week, Trump sought to restrict transgender troops from serving in the military claiming it was due to costs rather than bigotry. These tweets do not equal policy change.