Under @POTUS budget, virtually all fed funding to #NYPD eradicated. Entire counterterrorism apparatus in nation's top terror target hobbled. pic.twitter.com/Vetyv1aZrH— Commissioner O'Neill (@NYPDONeill) March 16, 2017
I know you're gonna fire whoever did this, @McDonaldsCorp, but really you should be giving them a raise. pic.twitter.com/wXoTiXU3U4— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) March 16, 2017
On Thursday, the Trump administration released a preliminary 2018 budget proposal, which details many of the changes the president wants to make to the federal government’s spending. The proposal covers only discretionary, not mandatory, spending.
To pay for an increase in defense spending, a down payment on the border wall and school voucher programs, among other things, funding was cut from the discretionary budgets of other executive departments and agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and the Agriculture Department took the hardest hits. The proposal also eliminates funding for these 19 agencies.
As Trump nominates his fifth Goldman Sachs official, let us take a moment to remember the wrongest take of 2016: pic.twitter.com/B2Lmjhe9iN— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) March 15, 2017
NEW: Keep. Eye. On. Ball. FBI's Comey will go public Weds. on Trump/Russia. Remember: it is ALL Trump/Russia pic.twitter.com/QllSjszS1E— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 15, 2017
The task is to empathize with the very real class pain of working class white folks, beaten up by global capitalism, while NOT pandering to their racialized sense of specialness, and actively confronting and condemning their bullshit diagnosis for that pain. But it MUST be reciprocal. If working class white folks want sympathy for their very real struggles they MUST empathize with folks of color who have always struggled under white supremacy. And if they are not willing to do this, I believe in steamrolling them, without sentimentality. I do not believe POC owe white people ANYTHING, including sympathy, until and unless those white folks are prepared to relinquish their/our addiction to white normativity and relative privilege. And to disagree with this is to prioritize the needs and concerns of white people, which is to reinforce white supremacy by definition...I will have none of it...white working class folks have benefitted more from white supremacy than POC have benefited from the class system, so the former must make the first move in terms of empathy and outreach...not the other way around...Visit TimWise.org
