Arresting an author for fictional stories doesn’t protect children. Real victims need real support, not a distraction from serious child abuse investigations. #childabuse #resources #priorities https://people.com/author-facing-child-abuse-material-charges-pedophilia-claims-book-daddys-little-toy-report-11701982

Sean Gardner Turner: "I don't want Canada or Greenland.
I want PBS, Social Security, and The Smithsonian." #priorities #politics

That's right everyone, gather around for a big award ceremony. I'm sure the entire Imperial fleet isn't headed this way or anything. #FridayThrillerClub #Priorities

Honest criticism of Donald Trump, @flexghost, should be encouraged. You are helping Trump when you verbally attack someone who is criticizing Trump. Trump does not need your help. 2/2
#politics #EyesOnThePrize #priorities

"Senate Republicans vote to let banks gouge customers with higher overdraft fees":
https://www.alternet.org/senate-republicans-overdraft-fees/#
"Overdrafts disproportionately impacts low-income Americans, and can cost them more than $400 per year." If they do not vote for Democrats then they deserve to pay more.
#VoteYourInterests #banking #fairness #priorities #politics

Mallory McMorrow, candidate for the U.S. Senate said: “We are all a lot more powerful than Donald Trump wants us to be. We have to show people that there’s a future—one worth fighting for. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are systematically tearing down the government and our institutions, and we have to fight for a future that recognizes the status quo wasn’t working for everyone, but that doesn’t mean we burn it all down. We build it back up in a way that supports all of us.” #politics #priorities

Sen. Jon Ossoff: "Pres. Trump is so consumed by his efforts to secure revenge, crush his enemies, and conquer Greenland that he’s doing nothing for the people who elected him. His entire domestic agenda is tax breaks for the wealthy, rounding up immigrants, revenge, and centralizing as much power as he can in the presidency."
#values #priorities #mismanagement #politics

Kyle Griffin: "RFK Jr.'s Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues." #values #priorities #mismanagement #politics

Wajahat Ali: "MAGA still doesn't understand that Trump and his billionaire friends are dismantling the government, and all the services they rely on, just so the rich can get richer and save money through tax cuts. MAGA is about to find out."
#values #priorities #mismanagement #politics

Rep. Susie Lee, about a lawsuit in her state: "A judge just ordered Elon Musk’s #DOGE to rehire with back pay the 13 workers they illegally fired from Lake Mead — people who keep us safe. In other words, because of Musk, taxpayers paid people to not work for weeks. That’s not government efficiency, it’s government chaos."
#values #priorities #Trump #mismanagement #politics

Jesse Lee: "Meals on Wheels has to be gutted because food for disabled seniors is too wasteful, but there is plenty of money for Trump’s #January6th mob of police attackers (who Trump wants our government to pay)."
#injustice #crime #hunger #ElderAbuse #priorities #politics

"Food banks across the country — already facing huge cuts to locally grown food assistance — learned this week that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling $500 million in expected food deliveries, further disrupting help at a time when need continues to rise": https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/21/food-banks-funding-cuts-usda-trump/ #Trump #priorities #IncreaseHunger #ToPayFor #MoreTaxCutsForBillionaires #HarmingFarmers #politics

Paul Rudnick: "Cuts are needed, but everything Trump and Musk are slashing is something they disdain and have no experience with: veterans' lives, Social Security, women's health, education, etc. What they love is being increased: tax cuts for billionaires." #politics #greed #priorities

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Trump "cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks."
Jesse Lee wrote that this is "about 1/1,000,000th of the cost of Trump’s tax cut bill": https://www.wunc.org/news/2025-03-14/usda-cancels-federal-funding-north-carolina-food-banks #priorities #politics #hunger

Bill McKay: "The New York Times estimates that these are the costs
of one year without #USAID which Trump ended:
1,650,000 deaths from AIDS,
550,000 deaths from lack of food aid,
500,000 deaths from lack of vaccines,
310,000 deaths from tuberculosis, and
290,000 deaths from malaria."
#priorities #greed #healthcare #politics #health