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Watching Berkeley public comments on the proposed Hopkins St bike lane is torture for anyone in favor of good governance, safe streets, climate, or even making literally even one hard choice without stalling indefinitely.

We need to talk about Trump’s threat to defund universities unless they arrest and expel protesters. We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now.

Trump says federal funding to universities will depend on expelling and arresting protesters.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

whitehouse.gov