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Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following: $510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research $82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated) $61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated) $240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated) $659 million - Community building grants $47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated) $449 million - Economic development grants for communities $1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA) $993 million - Scientific research and technology standards $150 million - Support for American exports and trade $2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs $8.5 billion - Funding for public schools $1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated) $2.7 billion - College access and higher education support $15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects $1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated) $1.1 billion - Scientific research funding $386 million - Environmental cleanup programs $150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research $4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated) $768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance $819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children $775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated) $5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention $5 billion - Medical research (NIH) $129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research $356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response $1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants $707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure $52 million - Airport and transportation security $40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats $53 million - Funding for homeland security operations $3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated) $1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated) $393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness $529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated) $489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities $50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated) $60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws $58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated) $45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated) $1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety $20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated) $1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated) $395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated) $234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs $101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws $46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad $2 billion - International humanitarian aid $1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated) $4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs $2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships $642 million - International economic and treasury programs $315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad $486 million - Grants for public transit projects $4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure $372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities $145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure $204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities $1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement $100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated) $1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection $2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds $90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated) $3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research $297 million - NASA technology innovation programs $1.1 billion - International Space Station operations $143 million - STEM education programs $309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs $170 million - Small Business Administration operations $158 million - Loans for small businesses

Do you remember him? The hero, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya a historic legend shaped by days and defining moments. They besieged him, injured him, chased him, and threatened him. They killed his son a piece of his heart to force the evacuation of Kamal Adwan Hospital. He buried his son in the hospital courtyard, refused to abandon his patients, and returned to continue his professional and national duty. He even refused to leave Gaza, despite the fact that he and his family hold another nationality. He stood firm with a resilience that even mountains cannot match. A kind heart. An icon of steadfastness and morality. They arrested him and tortured him after his voice grew hoarse from pleading with a deaf world until the very last moment. Today, his family says: “We are terrified,” fearing his physical liquidation under the prisoner execution law approved by the Israeli Knesset. Free Hossam Abu Safiya.

Everytime I see new images of our Earth I keep thinking of this soviet anti-war poster by Boris Rogachevsky that says "There's no other home!" I think it's really sweet

This is called a swing voter. I think successful political parties should try to court them.

It was never yours, thieves.

“Because what has capitalism resolved? It has solved no problems. It has looted the world.” Fidel Castro giving an interview, 1991.

How about additional aid for Cuba - where people are dying from an illegal blockade by another imperialist superpower?

@binarybits @TaylorLorenz Sure, let’s say that the land temp claims are inconclusive at best. Data centers are still using INSANE amounts of energy and water which is only ramping up environmental crises. csps-efpc.gc.ca/tools/articles…

@medras_hawk @TaylorLorenz blog.andymasley.com/p/data-centers…

I think some currents of contemporary left-wing thought are best understood as secular people craving the shared sense of moral purity we traditionally got from religion. Most recent example: taboos against AI use.

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and accomplished literally nothing for anyone but yourself

@binarybits @TaylorLorenz so you’re obtuse cnn.com/2026/03/30/cli…

@medras_hawk @TaylorLorenz Data centers are just giant rooms with computers in them! They don't poison anyone.

the shit israelis do is so incomprehensibly evil that you have no idea how to tell other people about it without sounding insane

We’re not doing this. We’re not going to allow them to rewrite history of the president who propped up, defended and oversaw Israel committing genocide of the Palestinian ppl for over a year and half. Absolutely the fuck not. Fuck this genocidal war criminal.

A 38-year-old pregnant mother of two was killed alongside 17 other women in a U.S.-Israeli strike on a residential building in Tehran, IRNA reports. The victims were all members of volunteer relief groups that support civilians after airstrikes across the capital.

Iran is doing more to dismantle capitalism than the entire left of the western world combined.

🗣️ Newly freed Palestinian detainee says prisoners unaware of Israel’s new execution law A released Palestinian detainee said prisoners had “no knowledge” of Israel’s new law which mandates the death penalty (by hanging) for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks against Israelis. He describes a total blackout inside prisons. Thousands of men, women, and children are likely unaware.

Hiding someone based on their religion?

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