Continued thread
The Guardian offers a collage of photos from the anti-Trump rallies that took place worldwide today.
Our rally was cancelled due to the dangerous weather anticipated in central Arkansas. Winds of nearly 80mph came through, toppling trees, and there's flash flooding all over the area. We've been without power much of the day, along with many thousands of others, and had limbs fall from a large maple in front of our house.
#Trump #tariffs #oligarchy #power #corruption #resistance #HandsOff
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![Heather Cox Richardson Destruction of U.S. Democracy 4/3/2025
CDC, arts etc
On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services slashed jobs and programs in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), even as measles continues to spread and two Louisiana infants have died of whooping cough. Today, news broke that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is implementing a hiring freeze even as flash floods and tornadoes just today have killed at least seven people in the Midwest to the mid-South.
The plan, as Vice President ].D. Vance explained in a 2021 interview, is to destroy the current government, business, educational, cultural, and scientific pillars of the United States in order to replace them with a new system, although there is tension between the Project 2025 wing of MAGA and the technocrats’ wing over whether that new system will be a theocracy or a technocracy. In either case, it will be an authoritarian government in which power and money concentrate in a very few hands.](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/280/358/106/630/787/original/0e024f2b22bacff3.jpeg "Heather Cox Richardson Destruction of U.S. Democracy 4/3/2025
CDC, arts etc
On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services slashed jobs and programs in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), even as measles continues to spread and two Louisiana infants have died of whooping cough. Today, news broke that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is implementing a hiring freeze even as flash floods and tornadoes just today have killed at least seven people in the Midwest to the mid-South.
The plan, as Vice President ].D. Vance explained in a 2021 interview, is to destroy the current government, business, educational, cultural, and scientific pillars of the United States in order to replace them with a new system, although there is tension between the Project 2025 wing of MAGA and the technocrats’ wing over whether that new system will be a theocracy or a technocracy. In either case, it will be an authoritarian government in which power and money concentrate in a very few hands.")
