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GigiLeigh

(170 posts)
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 09:00 PM Tuesday

100 Days: Zero Empathy -News from Underground

Today marks 100 days of the second Trump administration and the overall theme has been a total lack of empathy. We have seen human-rights violated, innocent people deported without due process, programs meant to keep people alive—cut, and judges arrested. The measures that President Trump has signed off on have waged an attack on the poor and vulnerable as Republicans look to pass tax cuts which will further enrich America’s most wealthy with access to the Oval Office.

Emboldened even more-so than in his first term, Trump has displayed a cruelty and indifference to vulnerable populations like never before. Through 140-plus executive orders, Trump and members of the administration have a weaponized the government against people seeking asylum, members of the LGBTQ+ population, perceived political enemies, and the judiciary alike.

Elon Musk & his DOGE crew cut foreign aid to millions of people as a means of cutting the agencies which regulate his companies. Countries all across the world relied on the funding and programs of USAID to medicate and feed people. Tens of thousands could die without access to HIV/AIDS treatment, malaria medication, and vaccines. We are willing to bet that they didn’t take into account the migration crisis that this will create across the globe due to a lack of resources, furthering the immigration problem that President Trump promised to solve.

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Much more at link

https://open.substack.com/pub/newsfromunderground/p/100-days-zero-empathy

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