Trump is preventing departments from talking with everyone, in luring members of congress, which is crazy considering that is where congress gets their information to make decisions. Is that what Trudeau did as well, effectively breaking the function of government? This is exactly was authoritarians do.
I think this is an important difference. The Harper muzzling was just to the media. I believe they could still publish their work in scientific journals. Harper did cancel the long form census which was brutal from a data point of view.
But restricting law makers access to data of what's going on ends any hope of effective legislation.
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Just days after The National Park Service (NPS) was forced to shut down its Twitter activity over two retweets the Department of the Interior deemed inconsistent with the agency’s mission, the Twitter account for Badlands National Park in South Dakota seems to have gone rogue, tweeting numerous scientific facts about climate change that have since been deleted.
The first tweet about climate science came at 11:40 a.m. local time Tuesday. It said: “The pre-industrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million (ppm). As of December 2016, 404.93 ppm.”
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President Trump is expected to take on immigration Wednesday with executive orders aimed at building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border and banning refugees from Muslim nations, according to reports.
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Trump is also expected to move forward soon with plans to curb funding to so-called sanctuary cities that don’t arrest or detain immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
In a sad way, it's impressive how quickly he's moving forward with all the horrible things he said he'd do.
This thread moves so fast, I feel like I'm missing info because I end up skimming. Can you do me a little favour and bullet all the horrible things you're talking about?
This thread moves so fast, I feel like I'm missing info because I end up skimming. Can you do me a little favour and bullet all the horrible things you're talking about?
Repealing ACA
Restricting abortion
Building a wall
Persecution of muslims
All moved/moving incrementally forward, and it's only been a week.
Those are the ones I can think of at least.
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This thread moves so fast, I feel like I'm missing info because I end up skimming. Can you do me a little favour and bullet all the horrible things you're talking about?
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In a sad way, it's impressive how quickly he's moving forward with all the horrible things he said he'd do.
He is doing what he said he'd do, which is a surprise.
I still don't believe he gives a flying eff about abortion or "the wall" (he loves cheap labour, after all) but here they are.
There are going to be some seriously pissed-off Americans when they realize the billionaire real estate hustler they voted for is going to screw them and will have a smile on his face as he does it.
He is doing what he said he'd do, which is a surprise.
I still don't believe he gives a flying eff about abortion or "the wall" (he loves cheap labour, after all) but here they are.
There are going to be some seriously pissed-off Americans when they realize the billionaire real estate hustler they voted for is going to screw them and will have a smile on his face as he does it.
These executive orders are over-reaching. If you review Obama's executive orders the majority of them were designed to improve the human condition. So far Trump's have been ideological horse####.
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