The Trump dump

The Trump administration is considering a virtual shutdown of refugee admissions next year — cutting the number to nearly zero — according to three people familiar with the plan. 

The Trump administration  has recently proposed a rule that would enable federal workers to drop union membership at any point after their first year. The policy opens the door for employers to bully workers out of staying in their union, or joining in the first place. The proposed change comes amid a series of moves aimed at hollowing out federal unions.

Good MSNBC footage on relationship between Trump and Epstein

President Trump’s campaign and the RNC have paid more than $600,000 in legal fees to the law firm that represents Hope Hicks/

Mother Jones -   The president’s tweets and comments about Omar speak to more than racism in language; they also reflect the explicit racism of his administration’s overall refugee policy. “The share of admitted refugees who are Muslim has dropped from 48 percent at the end of the Obama administration to 11 percent in recent months,” wrote Mother Jones‘ Noah Lanard in 2018. And this policy has especially affected refugees from Somalia, among the poorest and most desperate countries in Africa. Millions of Somalis have fled a civil war, which ensued after the overthrow of the dictator, Siad Barre in 1991. Others have tried to escape the drought, food shortages, and violence resulting from political instability. As of January 2018, over 870,000 Somalis were registered as refugees in the Horn of Africa and Yemen, while an estimated 2.1 million were displaced within the country itself.