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It's okay for #MAGA #Insurrectionists to storm the Capitol building, but watch out for those dangerous 80-year-old veterans using walkers! WTF!

87-year-old Gainesville #veteran arrested at U.S. Capitol during #protest

Police arrested roughly 60 protesters outside the US Capitol on Friday night.

By Ryan Wyatt Turbeville
Published: Jun. 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WCJB) - "An elderly man from Gainesville was one of dozens of veterans arrested outside the U.S. Capitol Building as they protested against President Donald Trump’s military parade scheduled for Saturday.

"U.S. Capitol Police confirm #JohnSpitzberg, 87, of Gainesville, was arrested for crossing a police line during a demonstration on Friday.

"Officers say around 75 veterans were protesting peacefully outside the U.S. Supreme Court building. Later, a group of about 60 left and officers began establishing a perimeter.

"That’s when officers say the group pushed down a bike rack, crossed the police line, and moved toward the Rotunda steps. Officers blocked them and began making arrests.

"Video of the incident shows officers arresting an elderly veteran using a walker with wheels and a chair. The man appears to be Spitzberg.

"Police say all 60 individuals will be charged with unlawful demonstration and crossing a police line. Some will also face additional charges of assault on a police officer and resisting arrest."

wcjb.com/2025/06/14/87-year-ol

WCJB · 87-year-old Gainesville veteran arrested at U.S. Capitol during protestBy Ryan Turbeville

#LaborDay: Children at Work

"Muckraking journalists and photographers were some of the most helpful in exposing the conditions in which children worked. Among the most famous was #LewisHine, photographer for the National #ChildLabor Committee."

September 3, 2018 by Jessie Kratz,

"Today’s post comes from Megan Huang, an intern in the National Archives History Office.

"The Federal holiday Labor Day honors the American worker. When considering the accomplishments and contributions of the our workers throughout history, one category—the child laborer—doesn’t always come to mind. However, child labor was a significant part of the American labor story."

Read more [CW - contains graphic descriptions of work-related accidents]:
prologue.blogs.archives.gov/20

Archived version ['cuz, in case it disappears]:
archive.ph/TroFn/

Pieces of History · Labor Day: Children at WorkToday’s post comes from Megan Huang, an intern in the National Archives History Office. The Federal holiday Labor Day honors the American worker. When considering the accomplishments and contributi…

#Trump’s #BigBill Would Let Him Expand His #LosAngeles #ImmigrationCrackdown ‘Everywhere’

“If it works out well in L.A., expect it everywhere,” a Trump official says of the admin’s plans for #militarized #ICERaids around the country

By Andrew Perez, Asawin Suebsaeng
June 12, 2025

"Donald Trump’s '#BigBeautifulBill' wouldn’t just force millions of #poor people off their #HealthInsurance and #FoodAssistance to help pay for more #TaxCuts for the rich.

"The Trump #TaxBill would steer tens of billions of dollars to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for #detention capacity, employee bonuses, and to hire new agents. It would supercharge ICE’s ability to conduct raids, and allow the administration to expand the campaign of terror it’s waging on immigrants in Los Angeles to blue cities around the country.

"ICE’s aggressive worksite raids and courthouse arrests throughout the Los Angeles area have, of course, inspired a wave of protests — giving the president an excuse to send the U.S. military to a Democratic city, something he’s long fantasized about, while inspiring demonstrations across the country.

" 'This bill would give Donald Trump the ability to do what he’s doing [in California] on a scale we really haven’t seen before,' says #DavidBier, the director of immigration studies at the #CatoInstitute, a libertarian think tank. 'He will be able to replicate this militarized approach to Los Angeles across maybe dozens of American cities.'

"For Trump and key officials, including immigration-crackdown policy architect #StephenMiller, this is exactly the point, with Los Angeles currently being used as an autocratic staging area. They want to replicate this militarized, ramped-up blitz of ICE raids, backed by the U.S. armed forces, in several other Democratic strongholds — particularly if larger-scale protests spread to other cities.

"As Rolling Stone previously reported, the president and his senior officials have already mapped out near-term plans for how to further ratchet up the already tense blitz of ICE operations, especially in the coming days in Los Angeles, where the federal agents are now being protected by Trump’s literal troop deployment to the city, against the wishes of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

"Sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone that senior Trump administration officials are closely monitoring the situation in L.A. as a test case for what they want to do soon in places such as #Chicago, #philadelphia #BostonMA, or the #WashingtonDC, area."

Read more:
rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Archived version:
archive.ph/SgWWL

#BigUglyBill #USSenate #USPol #Authoritarianism #protestors #SilencingDissent #USPol #NoKings #Protest #Solidarity #Immigrants #MassDeportation #EndICE #StopICE #Project2025 #MAGA #ThisIsFascism
#USConstitution #DueProcess #FirstAid #JustFollowingOrders #NationalGuard #Resistance #FashPatel #TrumpIsANazi #StephenMillerIsANazi #ResistICE #FuckICE #KillThePoor #EatTheRich #NoTaxBreaksForTheRich

Rolling Stone · Trump’s Big Bill Would Let Him Expand His L.A. Immigration Crackdown ‘Everywhere’By Andrew Perez

'Under Cover of Night,' #GOP Unveils Plan to Kick Over 8 Million Off Medicaid

"This bill confirms what we've been saying all along: #Trump and #Republicans have been lying when they claim they aren't going to cut #Medicaid and take away people's #healthcare."

Jake Johnson
May 12, 2025

"House Republicans late Sunday unveiled legislation that analysts said would rip Medicaid coverage from millions of low-income Americans—including children and people with disabilities—to help fund #TaxBreaks that would disproportionately benefit the #wealthy."

commondreams.org/news/republic

Common Dreams · 'Under Cover of Night,' GOP Unveils Plan to Kick Over 8 Million Off Medicaid | Common DreamsHouse Republicans late Sunday unveiled legislation that analysts said would rip Medicaid coverage from millions of low-income Americans.

So, this probably explains why the @fdarecall_bot stopped working... #FoodSafety just flew out the window!!! Thanks #Trump & #DOGE! Keeping us safe...NOT!

A deadly #EColi outbreak hit 15 states, but the #FDA chose not to publicize it

The outbreak linked to #RomaineLettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.

April 17, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT / Updated April 17, 2025, 2:01 PM EDT
By Suzy Khimm

"An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old Missouri woman who fell ill after attending a funeral lunch. One person died.

"But chances are you haven’t heard about it.

"The Food and Drug Administration indicated in February that it had closed the investigation without publicly detailing what had happened — or which companies were responsible for growing and processing the contaminated #lettuce."

Read more:
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli

NBC News · A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to make the details publicBy Suzy Khimm

A list of the #SocialSecurity offices across the US expected to close this year

By MEG KINNARD
Updated 12:59 PM EDT, March 19, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — "Dozens of Social Security Administration [#SSA] offices across the country are slated to close this year due to actions taken by #ElonMusk’s Department of Government Efficiency as part of the #Trump administration’s unprecedented effort to shrink the size of government.

"#DOGE has published a list of nearly 800 federal real estate leases that it is seeking to cancel. The Associated Press has obtained an internal planning document from the General Services Administration, which manages federal real estate, which shows when nearly two-thirds of those cancellations are expected to go into effect.

"The offices are closing despite a new requirement that tighter identity-proofing measures be put in place to prevent fraud and abuse. These steps will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with agency employees over the phone.

"The AP also obtained more information about each lease on DOGE’s list through other publicly available datasets, including their addresses, the dates the leases had started and were originally expected to expire, and the landlords who own the properties."

Read more (includes a list of offices that will be closing):
apnews.com/article/social-secu
#ResistDOGE #TakeToTheStreets #KillThePoor #USPol #KillTheElderly #HungerGames #Authoritarianism #Oligarchy #DisabilityRights #ElderRights #TakeCareOfThePoor #SocialSecurityPayments #SocialSecurityAdministration

#Trump Admin Threatens to Stop #SocialSecurity If #DOGE Can’t Have #PersonalData

Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data

by Andrew Perez, March 21, 2025

"Donald Trump’s interim Social Security chief suggested Thursday night he will effectively turn off the agency that manages the essential safety net program for seniors and the disabled, if Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can’t access the non-anonymized sensitive personal information and data of hundreds of millions of Americans, based on a judge’s order.

"'My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates,' said #LeeDudek, acting Social Security Administration (#SSA) commissioner, arguing the order was too broad, according to Bloomberg News. 'As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems,' he said, adding: 'Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency.'

"Dudek’s threat to block SSA employees from using the agency’s IT systems — a move that could halt #SocialSecurityPayments — came in response to a judge’s temporary restraining order in a case brought by the #AFLCIO #LaborUnion. The order bars Social Security Administration officials from allowing DOGE, including Musk, and the SSA’s DOGE team to access personally identifiable information. It also directs Musk and DOGE to delete from their possession all non-anonymized personal data, and bars them from having access to SSA computers or code.

"Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote that the SSA had likely violated administrative and privacy laws when it gave DOGE 'unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers’ license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses.'

"She added that the 'defendants, with so-called experts on the DOGE Team, never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government.'"

Read more:
rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Archived version:
archive.ph/vvgMF
#ResistDOGE #TakeToTheStreets #KillThePoor #USPol #KillTheElderly #HungerGames #Authoritarianism #Oligarchy #DisabilityRights #ElderRights #TakeCareOfThePoor

Rolling Stone · Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal DataBy Andrew Perez

#Trump #EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from #Roundup

The corporation behind Roundup #herbicide has paid out nearly $11 billion in lawsuits. Now it's backing an EPA rule that would stop the bleeding.

by Schuyler Mitchell, March 21 2025

"Last August, 11 industry-friendly red states, led by Nebraska and Iowa, submitted a 436-page petition asking the agency to amend its labeling rules under the Federal #Insecticide, #Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act, or #FIFRA. The proposed rule change would explicitly prohibit states from labeling #pesticides and #herbicides with warnings about cancer, #BirthDefects, and reproductive harm if those notices contradict the EPA’s risk assessment.

"The states made clear that their ultimate goal is to thwart future lawsuits against pesticide manufacturers. Their petition argued that recent court rulings have created a 'gap in FIFRA’s regulatory framework' that the proposed rule change would plug.

"In January, in a move initiated by the Biden administration, the EPA took a first step of accepting public comment on the rule-making petition, with a deadline of March 24 — though this step is exploratory and does not mean a new rule will be issued. Still, the EPA’s decision could have disastrous consequences if Donald Trump’s second administration is as friendly to the #ChemicalIndustry as it was in his first.

"'It’s telling of the lengths that pesticide manufacturers will go to make sure that nothing interferes with their profit margins,' said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity. 'There’s a reality that the industry itself generates much of the data, and they say it’s safe, and then EPA approves that determination.”

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/03/21/tr

Archived version:
archive.ph/VsfWE

Link for public comment:
regulations.gov/docket/EPA-HQ-
#KillThePoor #Ecocide #GlyphosateKills #MonsantoKills #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #Pollution #RunOff #Cancer #EnvironmentalPollution #USPol #BigChemical #BigAg #RoundupReady #Microbiota #BeeKilling #BayerKills #CenterForBiologicalDiversity

The Intercept · Trump EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from RoundupBy Schuyler Mitchell

#USTaxpayer Dollars spent on what?!!

#KristiNoem Says $200 Million #DHS Ad Campaign Thanking #Trump Was His Idea

Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary said he instructed her to make ads that “thank me for closing the border”

By Andrew Perez, Asawin Suebsaeng
February 21, 2025

"The ad campaign amounts to an extremely expensive taxpayer-funded propaganda blitz to scare off #migrants and to flatter Trump on television. On Friday, Trump’s DHS secretary entertained the #CPAC high-roller audience with her account of how Trump orchestrated the whole thing."

Original article:
rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Archived version:
archive.ph/wYe1Y
#KingTrump #KillThePoor #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Tyranny #USPol #NoMoreKings! #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity

Kristi Noem stands in front of President Donald Trump during the signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act on Jan. 29, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
Rolling Stone · Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His IdeaBy Andrew Perez

EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the #SocialSecurityAdministration

by Judd Legum, Mar 17, 2025

"An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause significant processing delays, and prevent many Americans from applying for or receiving benefits."

popular.info/p/exclusive-memo-
#USPol #BadDOGE #SSA #SocialSecurity #KillThePoor

Popular Information · EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security AdministrationBy Judd Legum

Not just #Maine -- all of #NewEngland is being targeted! And don't get me started about #ProBirth types! They don't give a SHIT about feeding children after they are born!!!

New England schools and food programs take ‘devastating’ hit after #USDAFundingCuts

The more than $1 billion in federal funding helped #schools, #ChildCare programs, and #FoodPantries in 40 states to buy produce and other items from local farmers.

By Amanda Gokee and John Hilliard Globe Staff, Updated March 12, 2025, 3:03 p.m.

"In October, the USDA announced $1.7 billion for states and #tribal governments to purchase #locally and #regionally produced foods for #EmergencyFoodAssistance, including free meals for schools and child-care programs.

"That funding included $1.2 billion to support local food purchases with schools, child-care facilities, food banks, and other institutions, according to the USDA. School meal programs would get $500 million to make food purchases, and states, territories, and #TribalNations would receive another $500 million. Child-care facilities were supposed to get $200 million, the USDA said.

"The money earmarked for food banks, schools, and child-care facilities was meant to help them meet the needs of their recipients and help ensure they had access to healthy foods, according to the USDA at the time."

Original article:
bostonglobe.com/2025/03/12/met

Archived version:
archive.ph/AvN3n#selection-248
#USPol #FundingCuts #BadDOGE #Hunger #HungerGames #KillThePoor

The Boston Globe · USDA cuts ‘devastating’ for New England schools, food programsBy Amanda Gokee, John Hilliard
Replied in thread

@iBlame SHIT! It looks like that passed.

Kentucky #CrimeBill to become law after lawmakers vote to override Beshear veto

Marcus Green Apr 12, 2024

"Perhaps most controversially, the measure dubbed the “#SaferKentuckyAct” creates criminal penalties for street camping and makes repeat camping in public areas, such as beneath overpasses, a misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail."

wdrb.com/in-depth/kentucky-cri
#KillThePoor #Unhoused #Homeless

NOT JUST MAINE! #USDA ending local purchasing programs for #Maine #FoodBanks and #schools

#MainePublic | By Nicole Ogrysko
Published March 12, 2025

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ending two national programs that help food banks and schools in Maine — and around the country — purchase produce from local farmers.

"USDA told Maine officials and partners late last week that it has terminated the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program. It helped #GoodShepherd Food Bank buy produce from about 100 Maine farmers, which is then distributed to local food banks around the state.

"'That program is incredibly important to the state of Maine, both in food today — food that we source and distribute today — and in food tomorrow, which is the economic viability for those 100 #farmers and for our partner agencies to experience fresh, nutritious produce," said Good Shepherd President Heather Paquette.

"At the same time, Paquette said the food bank recently learned that USDA will stop delivering about 1 million pounds of food through the Emergency Food Assistance Program to Maine. Those deliveries are on hold for Good Shepherd — and food banks around the country — through at least June.

"Paquette said the USDA delivery represented about 20% of food that Good Shepherd moves around the state.

"The cuts — both to government food deliveries and to funds that Good Shepherd used to buy local produce — are concerning, Paquette said, because more Mainers are experiencing #FoodInsecurity.

"Our need is up every year," she said. 'This year we distributed 10% more food cases than we distributed the year before that, and that year was 10% over the [prior] year. So we're experiencing double-digit need increase in the state of Maine.'

"A spokesperson for the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry said the state received about $1.3 million for the Local Food Purchase Assistance program.

"USDA has also terminated the Local Food for Schools program, which provided more than $720,000 last year to Maine schools. Schools used those funds to buy food directly from local farmers to serve in their cafeterias.

"The program provided a big boost to the state's farmers, because more than 100,000 students eat at Maine schools every day, said Anna Korsen of the food security non-profit Full Plates Full Potential.

"'That has a huge impact on local economies, on #SmallFarms, and it's just better for kids," she said. 'The food's healthier, they're getting fresh, local foods in the school cafeteria.'

"A spokesperson for Maine's Department of Education said the state was expected to receive nearly $2.8 million for the Local #FoodForSchools program over the next three years. The funding was supposed to be disbursed later this spring.

"Maine still has a statewide local food purchasing program for schools. But Korsen said the federal program provided more purchasing power for Maine schools. In 2023 before Maine received federal #LFS funding, schools in the Pine Tree State spent just more than $168,000 on local food, Korsen said.

"These USDA programmatic cuts are separate from those that the department is making at the University of Maine System [which were just reversed]. And unlike those impacting UMaine, the termination of USDA's local purchasing programs affects food banks and schools around the country."

mainepublic.org/business-and-e
#KillThePoor #USPol #MadKingTrump #RESIST! #FoodIsLife #WorkingPoor #SNAP #SaveTheFarms

WMEH · USDA ending local purchasing programs for Maine food banks and schoolsBy Nicole Ogrysko

#UK: Chancellor set to cut #welfare spending by billions

Faisal Islam, March 5, 2025

"Steve Wright, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said any welfare cuts 'would be an outrageous attack on the poorest and most vulnerable'."

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lpjq
#UKPol #EatTheRich #HungerGames #KillThePoor

BBC NewsTreasury earmarks billions in spending cuts ahead of Spring StatementCuts to areas including welfare will be put to the official forecaster ahead of the Spring Statement.

#Eugenics anyone?!! So much for so-called #AmericanExceptionalism! smh

'We're not prepared': States brace for #Trump's plans to dismantle the Education Department [#DepartmentOfEducation]

Trump has said he wants to leave school policy to the states, but state officials and lawmakers aren’t clear on what that would look like.

February 27, 2025, By Adam Edelman and Tyler Kingkade

Excerpt: "The largest questions revolve around who would pick up many of the agency’s most crucial responsibilities — among them, the disbursement and oversight of funding for schools with extra needs, including schools with large populations of impoverished students or schools with children with disabilities."

nbcnews.com/politics/trump-adm
#USPol #KillThePoor #Genocide #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism

NBC News · 'We're not prepared': States brace for Trump's plans to dismantle the Education Department By Adam Edelman