📻💸 This is how authoritarians punish.
This is also how authoritarian regimes fund their activities.
Trump’s team is gutting health, housing, education, and science. Not to save money, but because courts will not let them completely erase these programs established by the co-equal legislative branch.
And you can be certain that the Trump administration is quite clear on who gets punished and who gets protected. Immigrants are stripped of visas for minor infractions. Capitol rioters get payouts. State workers are threatened with arrest for following the governor’s guidance. A gang suspect is deported before trial to avoid due process. Loyalty, not law, is the standard.
Even U.S. propaganda is under siege. Radio Free Europe lost its funding. R.E.M. reissued their 1981 debut of the same title in protest, reminding the world why the service mattered in the first place.
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