This is a nightmare. The 5th Circuit looks poised to destroy all or most of the ACA—stripping healthcare from millions—on the basis of an absurd legal theory that is impossible to explain with a straight face.
Alex Acosta, the now-former Labor Secretary, is a despicable person unworthy of the time it takes to type this post. However, it's important we know the harmful actions he began so we can try to correct them when sanity is restored to our federal government someday.
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BE SMART ABOUT is an important series highlighting examples of those in power (or in danger of acquiring power) who you need to stay informed about so you can share this knowledge and together we can Be Smart and Actively Dissent.
Today we discuss Paul Watkins, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office of Innovation, a new department created by White House Chief of Staff and right-wing ideologue Mick Mulvaney.
"The cruelty is the point." We are concentrating people who are different than us in camps and denying them services. You've likely seen in the past few days that our own government is arguing "we" should not have to provide hygiene products like soap or toothbrushes to impoverished, desperate children. This too:
Republicans are pro-life until you're born. Then, go f--- yourself basically.
Trump is steadily rolling back Obama-era nondiscrimination policies across the entire federal government — including health care, housing and the military.
President Obama banned adoption and foster-care agencies from receiving federal funding if they refused to work with same-sex couples. Religious organizations have consistently bristled at that policy, arguing that they're being forced to contradict their beliefs.
A secret trove of documents were revealed Thursday showing that the Trump administration added a citizenship question to the 2020 census as part of a right-wing plan to change how voting districts are drawn in the United States—a plan hatched to benefit “non-Hispanic whites.”
A major Republican redistricting strategist played a role in the Trump administration's push to get a citizenship question on forms for the 2020 census.
Trump’s administration will propose a rule that would allow homeless shelters to deny transgender people equal access. This combined with allowing denial of healthcare services to transgender individuals, which we will be adding to the Smart Dissent database next week, mean that Trump and Republicans have UNDONE EVERY TRANSGENDER PROTECTION PUT IN PLACE BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ADMIN.
At the Smart Dissent Education page linked here, we have written over and over and over about the heinous efforts of the worthless Betsy DeVos to destroy our education system. Instead of drastically needed help for our schools and students, DeVos repeatedly inflict more harm in new ways.
Judges have rebuffed the education secretary’s attempts to pause or change a range of Obama-era policies.
Stephen Miller is likely the most effective Trump-associated criminal. He is a true believer in his mission to make America a white-only country. He is silently causing endless destruction through measures fall under the White House control apparently and we hear nothing about.
Florida Republicans are cruising quickly in a devilish attempt to sabotage Amendment 4, a ballot initiative that restored voting rights to about 1.4 million former felons. The GOP is now pushing through a bill that would disenfranchise roughly 1.1 million of them.
In November, a supermajority of Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to former felons who’ve completed their sentences.