Tuesday, April 29, 2025

An Interesting Conjunction of SocioEconomic & Demographic Developments. Trumpista Power Brokers make their Crackbrained Suggestions for Increasing the Birthrate in the U.S.

1). “Bro-Natalists Are Ruining America: Elon Musk & JD Vance want you to have more babies”, Apr 22, 2025, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/pro-natalism-explainer-bro-natalist >.

2). “Women Are Twice As Likely to Die in Pregnancy in States with Abortion Bans”, Apr 23, 2025, Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/p/women-are-twice-as-likely-to-die >.

3). “The Mystery of the Declining U.S. Birth Rate”, Feb 15, 2022, Melissa Kearney, Phillip Levine & Luke Pardue, Econofact, at < https://econofact.org/the-mystery-of-the-declining-u-s-birth-rate >.A longer more detailed academic version is available at “The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession”, Melissa Kearney, Phillip Levine & Luke Pardue, Journal of Economic Perspective, V 36, No 1, Winter 2022, Pages 151–176, at < https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.36.1.151 >.

4). “The Trump Team Wants to Boost Birth Rates While Poisoning Children: Sure, they’re contemplating a 'baby bonus.' But they’re also cutting funding for children’s health, reversing PFAS and lead pipe rules, eliminating food safety measures, and attacking vaccines. Call it two sides of the eugenicist coin”, Apr 27, 2025, Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, at < https://newrepublic.com/article/194429/trump-vance-birth-rates-lead-milk-measles >

5). “Trump Wants A 'Baby Boom' Yet Plans to Cut Essential Childcare Program Head Start”, Apr 25, 2025, Erin Ryan & Alyssa Mastromonaco discuss the Trump Baby Boom proposals & interview Reshma Saujani, founder of Moms First, HYSTERIA, duration of video 49:21, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P-YsznPwJE&t=498s >.

6). “US birth rates near record low as Trump, Musk talk baby boom”, Apr 23, 2025, Alejandra O’Connell-DomenechThe Hill, at < https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5263801-us-birth-rates-near-record-low-as-trump-musk-talk-baby-boom/ >.

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A trip to Tim Hortons with Prime Minister Mark Carney! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49-XqrqG4vo

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A little Cannuck humor for anyone needing a break from the American horror show.

Trump’s D.C. Prosecutor Threatens Wikipedia’s Tax-Exempt Status

 Trump Threat to tax exempt status of Wikipedia

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

‘The Only Way to Save the Land is to Give It Back’: A Critique of Settler Conservationism

 https://www.therednation.org/the-only-way-to-save-the-land-is-to-give-it-back-a-critique-of-settler-conservationism-2/

https://youtube.com/shorts/36hh__MNJus?si=BghTunwD6jzFE-cc

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Land Grab Universities ~~ Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land grant universities

Land Grab Universities

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(nb note - I have wrestled with the format and it has defeated me - apologies for the mess!)

Trump’s antisemitism chief shares ‘Jew card’ post from white supremacist

https://forward.com/fast-forward/704866/leo-terrell-patrick-casey-antisemitism/

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Waste, Fraud and Abuse - by Musk, Implications of Trump on the Class Struggle and poverty, and the Rise of White Supremacy

 https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=329291&post_id=162188268&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=rovhk&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NjUxMDE4NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTYyMTg4MjY4LCJpYXQiOjE3NDU2NjgwODksImV4cCI6MTc0ODI2MDA4OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTMyOTI5MSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.u4FIITb_v_MyeC4NKTeiGW4pzmC80ORz8j937ryIAVk

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/25/starving-the-poor-to-feed-the-rich/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/25/trump-world-is-a-white-world/

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Friday, April 25, 2025

225 people with cancer and no investigation: A look at where things stand with NC State's Poe Hall

 WTF DOGE???????????

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RFK Jr.’s absurd statistic on the spike in chronic diseases in the U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/25/rfk-jr-chronic-diseases-false/utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F424220f%2F680bb3621e3c794918561e64%2F652a1faccd232837947260e1%2F14%2F56%2F680bb3621e3c794918561e64

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Indigenous Mexicans risk their lives to defend the environment from organized crime and 'insatiable, predatory' transnational corporations

Indigenous Mexicans risk their lives to defend the environment from organized crime and 'insatiable, predatory' transnational corporations

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(apologies from NB for late posting.  I was on the road and didn't have my computer set up til now)

Why 72% of American Jews disapprove of Trump


 

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Hugh McCracken ~~ Music Friday for Class Strugglers

 https://musicaficionado.blog/2018/07/17/the-artistry-of-hugh-mccracken/

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