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One link is what @Taoboi posted above about university loans frozen. Here's another: Medicaid portals nationwide are down https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/trump-federal-funding-freeze-medicaid Also funding frozen for Headstart and community health programs! https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicaid-head-start-health-centers-trump-funding-freeze/ From the above CBS article, questions about whether or not there'd be funding for Meals-on-Wheels or school lunch programs. (not known yet). This MORNING (January 28) Attorney General Letitia James said Head Start funding was frozen in Michigan, access to child development block grants was cut off in Maryland and at least 20 states have been unable to access Medicaid reimbursement systems, including New York. UPDATE 4:00pm EST, January 28 from Headstart itself: Its funds are NOT frozen: https://nhsa.org/press_release/federal-grant-freeze-puts-head-start-children-and-families-at-risk-nationwide/ Update again: 6:07pm EST, January 28, A federal judge, Loren L. AliKhan, has temporarily stayed the freeze (stopped the freezing?) https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pause-federal-grants-aid-f9948b9996c0ca971f0065fac85737ce

Thanks, @Vee Nancy Pinkerton was my Dorian! I watched OLTL mostly up until late August 1975, when I left home for college. I have no memory of that Vance Jeffries character. None whatsoever. So I was a freshman in college when those Nov. 1975 scenes aired. The only thing I remember of Autumn 1975 on television was watching the debut of Saturday Night Live on the dormitory common room TV.

^ I assume you meant "Does Kristen think her mother is dead?" (not Ava). Yes it was established decades ago that Rachel Blake died in the tunnels in Paris.

I don't have time to post the link because I'm on my way to an appointment. To sum it up: Funding has been FROZEN for federal programs and grants. A lot of these things affect CHILDREN. As has been said: They may be pro-birth, but they repeatedly demonstrate they are not pro-life.

But they actually believe that diversity destroys society. They're not rational. I mean obviously, diversity strengthens society, but they think the opposite.

^ tried to screencap that Greg Meng posted in the comments section

Members of the Navajo Nation (tribe) taken in immigration raids https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2025/01/24/navajo-nation-leaders-address-reports-of-ice-detaining-tribal-citizens/77911978007/ Acting Navajo Nation Deputy Attorney General Kris Beecher recommended that tribal members carry their Certificate of Indian Blood along with other forms of identification. State Sen. Theresa Hatathlie informed the council about a Navajo citizen who was detained for nine hours, underscoring the urgent need for emergency protocols. She emphasized that many tribal members face challenges with documentation. She said despite having Certificates of Indian Blood and state-issued IDs, several individuals have been detained or questioned by ICE agents who fail to recognize these documents as valid proof of citizenship, according to the Navajo Nation Council's news release. "I agree with having your CIB on your phone. That's not a bad idea. These are good things to have with you," he [Beecher] said. The Navajo identification card was launched under the leadership of the late former Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, who collaborated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Of the approximately 400,000 enrolled Navajo members, only 8,000 tribal identification cards have been issued since their introduction in 2012. Concerns for unsheltered tribal members in urban areas In a statement from Navajo President Buu Nygren on Wednesday night, he said his office had fielded concerns and unconfirmed reports that urban Diné relatives were being questioned and detained by immigration officials. (Diné is the Navajo name for themselves) For their safety, he urged Navajo tribal members to be aware of their surroundings and carry valid forms of identification, such as a Certificate of Indian Birth or state-issued driver’s license.

Trump seizes wartime powers in battle for more fossil fuels via Bloomberg's "investing/commodities" section: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/commodities/2025/01/26/trump-seizes-wartime-powers-in-battle-for-more-fossil-fuels/ archived (non paywall) copy of same Bloomberg article via Hartford Courant https://archive.is/ (This article was written from a business point of view, -- not written from an environmental point of view). Trump is using some obscure wartime powers clauses, in order to force immediate permits for drilling for oil and natural gas, with a big F* you to mother nature. Most of the Bloomberg article quotes industry execs who think this is great. However the Bloomberg article does have this one quote: “They are definitely reaching deep to utilize pretty specific exceptions,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “This executive order is a death warrant for polar bears, lesser prairie chickens, whooping cranes and so many more species on the brink of extinction.”| About Mr. Greenwald: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/about/staff/

why even post that?

January 2025: Trump freezes funding for EV (electronic vehicle) charging stations in Illinois https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/trump-executive-order-energy-illinois/ (Putting this in the Climate thread because seems to fit best here)

Stephanie Sloane interviews Wally Kurth about Leslie Charleson https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/24684/general-hospital-wally-kurth-leslie-charlson-monica-quartermaine/

I agree that Lower Decks was great and Section 31 was ... a choice? Section 31 dialogue writing made Bold&Beautiful look intelligent. Michelle Yeoh elevates everything she does, but wow this was a pretty bad script. I am missing SNW, I hope they soon announce the first airdate of the coming season.

Statement from United Farm Workers "We are in scary times with immigration sweeps, executive orders & farmworkers laboring in thick wildfire smoke. We're scrambling to do everything at once & our resources are stretched thin." Full statement at this link: https://act.seiu.org/a/scarytimes (They appeal for donations; but even if you are disinterested in donating, I found it interesting to read all the things they are dealing with right now)

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Oh well here, I found something from a legal scholar regarding Trump's order and the Fourteenth Amendment the US Constitution passed in 1868. The professor mentions that this came from the 1860s when the Republicans were the party of Lincoln, and supported the end of slavery. (how that party has changed). by Evan Bernick ‪@evanbernick.bsky.social‬ Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition ‪Evan Bernick bluesky from January 21 https://bsky.app/profile/evanbernick.bsky.social/post/3lgb35gaw322l The same professor has lots of details on his bluesky about the Constitution and Native American rights and citizenship. Too much for me to quote here.

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Clarification: This post is my personal speculation about the MOTIVES of one of the executive orders. What is behind this? The whole "birthright" executive order is Trump wanting to rescind the right of children born in the USA to be US citizens, if their parents weren't citizens (big oversimplification of what the order says, but I'm not posting about the details here). The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that if you were born in the USA, you're a citizen (and it says a lot more than that). This has been in place since 1868. YES 1868. So people are saying the executive order is unconstitutional and cannot be implemented, because it violates the Fourteenth Amendment. However, my point is this: The original focus of the Fourteenth Amendment was to give citizenship to newly-freed enslaved persons. From the details within the amendment -- laws regarding the birthrights of children of immigrants came to be. In my personal opinion (SPECULATION ONLY), I think this is intended as a psychological attack on the Fourteenth Amendment, (with some fanatics wanting to overturn the Fourteenth Amendment, and others trying to undermine its influence). I speculate that the whole faction behind this nonsense ultimately wants to undo Reconstruction. I mean they can't legally, but they certainly want to undermine it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution There are also clauses in the Fourteen Amendment regarding indigenous tribes, and that's very complicated because some members of some Tribes regarded themselves as citizens of their own tribal nation and didn't want to lose that, and there are tons of essays and discussions that are beyond my skill to understand in full. But I think the gist of it is that Native Americans are citizens of the USA because they were born here (well obviously since it was their land first, but anyhow). Legally they can be citizens if they want, but there are all sorts of tribal treaty issues that make the clauses in the Amendment difficult to understand. I'm not even going to pretend that I follow all the legal nuances on that. So first of all, (my speculation), I think the Project 2025 people want to unfree slaves, and uncitizen Native Americans, AND deny citizenship to immigrants. They can't do all that, but they want to. Perhaps their next goal (they wish! ) ... would be to deny women the right to vote? I mean ... it's all part of the same pattern. But that's not in the Fourteenth Amendment, so different topic.

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Hegseth also has horrid beliefs: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/trump-pete-hegseth-extremism In a series of newly unearthed podcasts, Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, appears to endorse the theocratic and authoritarian doctrine of “sphere sovereignty”, a worldview derived from the extremist beliefs of Christian reconstructionism (CR) and espoused by churches aligned with far-right Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson. In the recordings, Hegseth rails against “cultural Marxism”, feminism, “critical race theory”, and even democracy itself, which he says “our founders blatantly rejected as being completely dangerous”. For much of the over five hours of recordings, which were published over February and March 2024, Hegseth also castigates public schools, which he characterizes as implementing an “egalitarian, dystopian LGBT nightmare”, and which the podcast host Joshua Haymes describes as “one of Satan’s greatest tools for excising Christ from not just our classrooms but our country”. Elsewhere in the recordings, Hegseth expresses agreement with the principle of sphere sovereignty, which, in CR doctrine, envisions a subordination of “civil government” to Old Testament law, capital punishment for infringements of that law such as homosexuality, and rigidly patriarchal families and churches. (that's just part of the article)

The original Rachel Blake seemed like a decent person who had suffered a lot, and Marlena tried to help her. Kristen and Peter Blake were sociopaths who considered killing their mother Rachel Blake because she was in the way of their plans, but they were interrupted and didn't follow through.

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This is all intentionally designed to be triggering. It's very difficult for me to stay aware of what's happening, and yet not be overwhelmed with how terrifying it all is. I mean, if you're *not* terrified, you're not paying attention. This stuff is real. But if you *are* terrified, then it's easy to become frozen in fear. And they want us to freeze up, curl up, and die, that's their goal. So yeah. It's absolutely vital to attend to one's own mental, emotional, and physical health. Turn off the news when needed. Find something uplifting or silly when needed. Cuddle with your dog or cat, or visit a friend who has a dog or cat.