Notices by RonSupportsYou (ronsupportsyou@mastodon.social), page 2

Rep. Brendan Boyle: "Republicans always say America can't afford child care or affordable housing. But they always find the cash for whatever Trump wants — like the #IranWar or a vanity ballroom. Let's call this Republican spending package what it is: The Billion Dollar Ballroom Act."
#WastefulSpending #FraudWasteAndAbuse #corruption #politics copy: @renewedresistance

"X Purges Charlie Sykes’s Account After Article Critical of Elon Musk":
https://www.mediaite.com/media/x-purges-charlie-sykes-account-after-article-critical-of-elon-musk/ #Twitter

Donald Trump views victory differently than normal people view it,
as you can see in this #PoliticalCartoon by Bill Bramhall:

"Kamala Harris wants the Democratic National Committee to release its assessment of why and how she lost to President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. DNC Chairman Ken Martin announced in December 2025 that he would not release the committee’s autopsy of the Democrats’ 2024 election loss, making a widely unpopular move to backtrack from his initial commitment to release the report to the public":
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/4559189/kamala-harris-backs-calls-dnc-release-2024-election-autopsy/
#KeepingPromises #ReleaseTheAutopsy #politics #DNC

Steve Rattner: "Trump's net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. The Trump Administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history."
#corruption #Trump #crypto #politics

Stacey Abrams wrote: "The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. Full stop. With this decision by the Supreme Court, it’s open season — once again — on Black and brown voters at the ballot box. The Supreme Court has all but killed the law that helped kill Jim Crow."
#racism #extremism #politics #VotingRights copy: @renewedresistance #SCOTUS

"Ukraine has largely stabilized the frontline in eastern #Ukraine, deepened its coalition, isolated #Russia diplomatically and developed an indigenous arms industry that makes it less dependent on external support. Ukraine has fought Russia to a stalemate, revolutionizing land warfare in the process. It has become an indispensable security partner in the western alliance, including in the war against Iran":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/opinion/zelensky-ukraine-trump-nato-leader.html
#military #politics

John Pavlovitz: "If they are calling for ballrooms and not gun control, they are telling you what they value, and it isn't human."
#politics #security #priorities

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired Jacqueline Smith, the ombudsman for Stars and Stripes newspaper, "the one person charged by Congress with protecting Stars and Stripes’ editorial independence." It looks like Hegseth preferred censorship and propaganda instead of honest reporting of the news:
https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html
copy: @renewedresistance #media #politics

"What’s Wrong With the Southern Poverty Law Center indictment" by Joyce Vance:
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wrong-with-the-splc-indictment
#lawfare #racism #injustice copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, with the approval of Pres. Donald Trump, ended vaccine mandates for the United States military. James Palmer wrote in in Foreign Policy magazine that his decision is a disaster for military readiness, and he gave Pete Hegseth the new title of Secretary of Pestilence.
#Hegseth #FindingNewWaysToDestroyOurMilitary #healthcare #politics

Justin Wolfers wrote: "Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward":
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/business/video/warsh-hearing-fed-chair-warren-election-digvid #ethics #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116405392476087175

"As the Trump era winds down, the country may relearn something that never should have been forgotten. Institutions need to be reformed, not destroyed; governing well requires skill and careful attention to detail rather than leaders acting on impulse and ignorance; and character and mental stability matter perhaps most of all."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/opinion/trump-iran-psychotic-state-institutions.html
copy: @renewedresistance #politics

"Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kurt-vonnegut-xavier-letter_n_4964532 #advice copy: @renewedresistance

Here are wise words from Richard Angwin:

"The war with Iran has offered a remarkably revealing snapshot of how the Trump administration really operates — inside the West Wing, across Washington and around the world":
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/04/12/trump-iran-war-global-politics-00867100
#IranWar copy: @renewedresistance #politics #OperationEpicFailure
"The war will backfire on Trump’s anti-renewable energy agenda by convincing other countries that they need to transition even faster away from oil and gas."

Trump took a risk by sending Vice Pres. JD Vance to Hungary to campaign as hard as he could for Orban. Now that Orban lost in a big way, Trump looks more than ever like a loser. Trump looks like someone out of touch with reality.
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-2026-election-high-voter-turnout-viktor-orban-peter-magyar/
#politics copy: @renewedresistance #Hungary #AVeryBadGuyLost

In response to Trump's threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight," Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez wrote: "This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat."
copy: @renewedresistance #politics

"Pope Leo implores world leaders in first Easter address: 'Choose peace’.":
https://www.politico.eu/article/choose-peace-pope-leo-world-leaders-easter-address/
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #religion #IranWar #values #HumanRights

Sen. Martin Heinrich: "Gas over $4/gallon. Electricity bills up by 13%. The President's response? Pushing the largest military spending request in history, paid for by slashing programs that help working families."
#priorities #values #politics