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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

The cruelty is the point.

The Trump administration will withhold funds from the United Nations agency focused on reproductive and maternal health care for a third consecutive year.... the decision will hurt vulnerable women and children, undermine US interests and is not based on evidence.

Withholding funds for reproductive and maternal health care from UNFPA for a third consecutive year will hurt vulnerable women and children.


Monday, August 19, 2019

Yes, you read that headline correctly.  Trump and EPA head Andrew Wheeler are lifting safeguards that protect communities from toxic coal ash pollution and letting corporate polluters threaten access to clean air and water.

The Trump administration on Wednesday [7/31/19] proposed scrapping restrictions on arsenic-laden waste from coal-fired power plants. 


Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Meanwhile as Trump fills the news with none stop corruption and hate, Republican policies are leading to the shuttering of rural hospitals across the United States. And if the Republican lawsuit to kill the ACA succeeds, the wave will become a deadly tsunami.

More than half of all rural hospitals in Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia and Oklahoma lost money from 2011 through 2017. 


Tuesday, August 6, 2019

DON'T LOOK AWAY.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union told a federal judge Tuesday [July 30, 2019] that the Trump administration has taken nearly 1,000 migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border since the judge ordered the United States government to curtail the practice more than a year ago.  


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