#federal government policies

[cavenewstimes]

A Critical Examination of President Trump's Executive Orders on Gender and Diversity

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed executive orders that have sparked significant controversy and concern. These orders define gender strictly as “male and female,” based on reproductive capabilities, and aim to end Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs within the federal government. AP News Understanding the Executive Orders The executive orders issued by President…

[ihavedonenothingright]

Honestly getting really fucking pissed at all the people saying "Know someone who's queer or trans? No you don't!" I am not letting this idiocy force me back into the closet. I am not making any of this easy for them. I think everyone should do what they need to in order to protect themselves, and if you feel you need to go back into the closet then I will not judge you, but for the love of god stop telling people they should!!! We don't survive this by fading away into obscurity; if we want any chance at salvaging our rights, we need to be loud. Have you guys forgotten how we got this far in the first place? Hell, we made strides even during the first Trump administration! For fuck's sake, people.

Do what you personally need to in order to remain safe. Do NOT advocate for a country-wide move back into the closet. There are a lot of people who cannot follow you back in there, and they need your help and support. How is the married gay couple supposed to go back into the closet? The trans person who doesn't pass, but has multiple surgeries and all of their documentation changed? Those of us who have spent years in longterm battles with our local administrations to get our correct names, gender markers, and titles recorded? Not only is this "advice" infuriating, it is useless for nearly everyone. You're advocating for the least vulnerable in our community to abandoned solidarity with the most vulnerable, and that will make it so much harder to rebuild when this nightmare is over.

[tmcphotoblog]

[sybbi]

"If enough of us vote third party for president, we could actually GET somewhere with our policy goals!"

Baby girl you can't even get a majority of third party/independents in a single state legislature. In the past 30 years there have been seven independent/third party state governors, and of those, only three were genuinely independent. The rest either got elected as a R/D and switched mid-term when they alienated themselves from their state party, got elected as I and then switched to R/D during their terms (with some of them having served the R/D parties before), or served as proxy candidates with heavy backing and support from one of the major two parties. Even VERMONT, a relative stronghold for independent/third party candidates -- the place that brought you Bernie Sanders -- doesn't have a majority of third party candidates. And when I call them a stronghold, I mean they are the only state (I know of) that consistently elects (less than a handful of) Independent candidates to the state legislature; the place is still dominated by Ds and Rs.

"The highest power in the land can't actually be voted on so there's no reason to vote for the democrats"

Hey princess here are some high school civics question for you: How are Supreme Court judges nominated? :) By what process are they appointed? Who starts that process? :) Why is the Supreme Court considered reflective of who has won the presidency? :)

[aworldofyou]

Performative activism. Loathe it so much. Because people always claim valuing and respecting and wanting to hear indigenous voices until we actually speak and want to discuss them then there’s not a single rats ass given.

[ovisiphorus]

If you can’t be arsed to vote, stay home. Do not come. Do not come.

If you want to vote, PLEASE be responsible and 1) learn how our government works!!!! So many leftists online do not know!!! and 2) work with what we are have. Most importantly 3) chuds alone should not be the only ones with total freedom to exercise their power at the ballot box and believing otherwise is stupid in my opinion and counter-productive.

[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the U.S. Senate

Improve disabled American's financial stability with S.4102 - SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

In the words of David Goldfarb on behalf of the Arc of the United States, "…we enthusiastically endorse S. 4102, the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act, which would raise the amount of savings a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipient can keep for the first time in over thirty years. The mission of the Arc is to promote and protect the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and actively support their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

"SSI provides an extremely modest cash benefit, a maximum of $841 a month in 2022, for certain individuals with disabilities and older adults. In March 2022, nearly 7.6 million people: 4.3 million working-age individuals with disabilities; 1 million children with disabilities; and 2.3 million older adults relied on the program.

"Many individuals with IDD rely on the SSI program. In 2017, SSA estimated that approximately 19% of working-age SSI recipients possessed an intellectual disability. For many people with IDD, SSI is their only source of income without which they could become institutionalized or homeless.

"Unfortunately, the benefit’s low, outdated resource limit of $2,000 for individuals/$3,000 for couples does not allow people to save for emergencies, such as a leaky roof, car repair, or other unexpected expense. To make matters worse, the $2,000 limit does not adjust for inflation every year, and it has remained the same since 1989.

"The SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act would significantly improve the lives of SSI recipients, including people with IDD, by raising the asset limit to $10,000 per individual/$20,000 per couple. The legislation also adjusts that number for inflation every year, a critical element in 2 today’s inflationary environment. This will allow SSI beneficiaries to use their own savings to address needed emergencies when they arise.

"Thank you again for this critical legislation."

Truly his letter is phenomenal and applicable to many American citizens. I hope you too appreciate his mastery of diction, his compassion for his fellow American, and the truth in his words.

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[asgardian--angels]

keeping honeybee hives as a way to ‘save the bees’ is the equivalent of claiming factory farmed chickens are somehow stopping greater prairie chickens from going extinct lmao

[pussyslaycatboy]

im so fucking sick of trans people suddenly becoming the #1 scapegoat for conservatives everywhere. i hate how my existence has suddenly become political, just because i want to exist peacefully. im so tired of it, i hate it so so much. im trying to be optimistic on the subject, and go "yeah! trans rights are improving!" but it feels like every step we take forward we lose out footing and slide backwards. id literally rather everyone went back to not knowing what a trans person is than having this bright ass spotlight on us. i hate it. i fucking hate it so much.

[t-jfh]

Australia gains reprieve on threat to Great Barrier Reef World Heritage status.

By Mike Foley

The Age - August 1, 2023

Great Barrier Reef escapes 'in danger' recommendation ahead of UNESCO World Heritage decision

By the Specialist Reporting Team's Leonie Thorne, Penny Timms, Emilia Terzon and Evan Young

ABC News - 1 August 2023

Great Barrier Reef's first mass bleaching during La Niña season halts coral recovery.

AAP Australian Associated Press

ABC News - 9 August 2023

YouTube video >> Recovery has paused on the Great Barrier Reef - Marine Scientist Dr. Mike Emslie: AIMS (Australian Institute of Marine Science) annual summary update for 2023 [9 August 2023 / 3mins.+44secs.]:

Dr Mike Emslie says the Great Barrier Reef's recovery has paused.

Climate Change is the greatest threat to the Reef

In-water monitoring hard coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef remains at similar levels to that recorded in 2022, with small decreases in the Northern, Central and Southern regions.

AIMS' Annual Summary Report on Coral Reef Condition for 2022/23 (published 9th August 2023) found that while some reefs continued to recover, their increased hard coral cover was offset by coral loss on other reefs.

Most reefs underwent little change in coral cover.

The pauses in recovery in the Northern and Central regions were due in part to the 2022 mass coral bleaching event. Low numbers of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish and a cyclone in January 2022 also contributed to coral loss in the Northern region.

Continued crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks and coral disease kept coral cover similar to last year's levels in the Southern region, with bleaching playing less of a role.

Read the report: https://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/gbr-condition-summary-2022-23

More about the AIMS Long-Term Monitoring Program: https://www.aims.gov.au/research-topics/monitoring-and-discovery/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/long-term-monitoring-program

YouTube video >> Monitoring the Great Barrier Reef - AIMS Coral Reef Ecologist Kate Osborne [25 July 2022 / 3mins.+52secs.]:

Monitoring the Great Barrier Reef

Not only is the Great Barrier Reef big, it is also diverse and dynamic.

For more than 35 years, the Australian Institute of Marine Science's Long-Term Monitoring Program (LTMP) has been dedicated to measuring its coral reef habitats to understand how surveyed reefs are responding to disturbances, such as severe cyclones, outbreaks of coral eating starfish and coral bleaching.

The LTMP provides an invaluable record of change on coral communities across the Great Barrier Reef.

To learn more, visit: https://www.aims.gov.au/research-topics/monitoring-and-discovery/monitoring-great-barrier-reef

[littlemissmanga]

IT IS MARGINAL!! We have a marginal tax system.

I am so sick of seeing this taken out of context.

In a system like ours, even if you go up to the next tax bracket, That Higher Rate Does Not Apply To All Your Income.

It ONLY applies to the portion that falls into that highest bracket.

The rest is taxed at its correct bracket accordingly. (Don't believe me? Here's taxes for dummies.)

Say you make $1 million and one dollar in income this year. You're winning capitalism. Congrats. But here comes the Democratic party raising taxes. You'd have to give half of your fortune in taxes, right?

Wrong!!

ONLY THE SINGLE DOLLAR OVER $1 MIL WOULD BE TAXED AT 45%. The rest would fall into the lower bracket until the previous cut off. And then lower than that would be taxed at the previous, and so on.

So next time someone wants to fearmonger you about the evils of raising taxes and they don't mention anything about the marginal system, just know ...

Either they don't know how a marginal system works, in which case, why are you listening to them? They don't understand the basic facts.

Or they want you to worry about a problem that literally only impacts the top 3% MAX who have an army of accountants helping them navigate tax season so you'd vote against your own interests.

And let me be clear - it is in your interest to vote to raise the highest tax bracket. Again, this only affects income over $1 million. That redistribution of wealth is NECESSARY for our economy (main street, that is).

It isn't robbing from Paul to feed Peter.

This is an essential process that forces capital that otherwise would be horded by the few BACK into the economy in real ways that impact millions of Americans. It's literally asking people like Elon Musk or Nancy Pelosi or Billy Joel to not buy another house and instead give SOME of that money to Uncle Sam so we can fund social programs or Biden's infrastructure projects (which are expected to connect us better and create a ton of jobs).

Remember, the Roman Empire failed when emperors stopped taxing the wealthy (re: the Senate) to keep them happy. But less money meant the Empire couldn't pay the legionnaires (army) or for free bread, which was a right to every Roman citizen to receive. Eventually, lack of funds and greed from the wealthy meant the crumbling of the Empire's very foundations. Weakened from within, Rome couldn't hold off attacks from without.

Now think about how many social programs currently at risk because they're too expensive and wonder how we got here.

(Hint: When the US middle class was at its healthiest/most robust, under BOTH Democratic and Republican presidents between 1944-1964, the top tax rate was over 74%.)

[socialistexan]

To reiterate:

Trump's transphobic Executive Orders regarding healthcare and Federal documents are currently unenforceable and are not current actionable policy of the Federal government.

Do not despair.

Do not panic.

And most importantly: do not comply in advance.

Staying alive is a radical act as a trans person in Trump's America.

[erdkuttam]

US Treasury Takes Urgent Measures to Prevent Debt Ceiling Breach in 2025

As the US Treasury faces growing pressure in 2025, officials are preparing to implement a series of emergency measures to prevent the United States from breaching its debt ceiling. The debt limit has long been a contentious issue in American politics, but its significance has reached new heights as the nation’s fiscal challenges continue to mount. With concerns over the nation’s financial…

[alyfoxxxen]

One big obstacle for Republicans’ “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill | Vox

[firstoccupier]

Timeline of Jimmy Carter's Presidency (1977 - 1981)

1977 January 20: Inauguration of Jimmy Carter as the 39th President. He emphasizes transparency, human rights, and energy conservation. March 2: Creation of the Department of Energy and the Department of Education to streamline governmental operations and focus on key national issues. April 18: The first extensive reorganization of the federal government in decades, aiming for efficiency and…

[directsellingnow]

गोवा सरकार द्वारा डायरेक्ट सेलिंग इंडस्ट्री में मॉनिटरिंग पॉलिसी पर चर्चा हेतु बैठक का आयोजन

Network Marketing Breaking News: गोवा राज्य सरकार के उपभोक्ता मामले विभाग (Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs) ने देश की विभिन्न डायरेक्ट सेलिंग एसोसिएशंस (Direct Selling Associations) के साथ एक महत्वपूर्ण बैठक आयोजित की, जिस दौरान उपभोक्ता मामले विभाग के डायरेक्टर Shri Jayant G. Tari के साथ महत्वपूर्ण चर्चा हुई। विदित हो कि यह बैठक राज्य में डायरेक्ट सेलिंग हेतु मॉनिटरिंग पॉलिसी…