Trump ran as an economic populist, but based on his Goldman Sachs cabinet that was obviously a lie.
This lie will become increasingly appearant to all except the most tribal of the true believers, which will leave Trump with only one card to play: cultural war.
You'd think, if Americans could unite on one thing, it would be defending the principles of our constitution.
People would like to think that the constitution stands solid and strong as 'a government of laws, not of men' that the most powerful individuals are subject to, to limit their abuse of power.
Why the Trump administration expects freebies for themselves but warns their staff about travel expenses.
A personal story when I was a senior researcher for a well-known global medical equipment company.
One quarter of a century. Twenty-five years ago today. That's when I began my transition.
It also would have been my father's 68th birthday, had he not died a third of a year before his 60th and about a year after my mother. Them dying, as well as their parents, was intimately involved with me waiting until I was 44. Wouldn't want to embarrass the family.
I also waited until I had earned tenure. It seemed prudent.
Tom Price is no stranger to politics. This means he is a money-grubbing, hypocritical bastard
Please consult my latest essay for some back ground:
https://caucus99percent.com/content/tom-price-not-right
And in today's news:
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman
It's not your usual celebratory event. My daughter's boyfriend, who is in the National Guard (in large part to fund his education), is being deployed to Ukraine. Why? Because we're all supposed to fear Russia.
Two transgender women, Carol Ann Beal of northwest Iowa and EerieAnna Good of the Quad Cities along with the ACLU of Iowa have challenged the Iowa Medicaid ban on coverage for transition-related medical services as being a violation of equal protection under the law "as promised by the Iowa state constitution and the Iowa Civil Rights Act."
