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Gail Orr's avatar

I just wanted to explain why I keep referring to Project 2026, even though it's called Project 2025. The authors of this remind me of Hitlers "Mein Kampf". A manifesto or belief that will keep on updating to the next year. If anyone believes that these zealots are satisfied with what they have, I believe it will cause us to be caught off guard by their treacherous behavior and our right to vote. Never has it been so important to show our innate belief in this country. I believe in the Constitution of the United States. I believe that even with a Supreme Court that ignores the very core of this document, who ignore gifting as a right and do not answer to anyone, at least while this Congress is in session, we will make them responsible for their actions. November 2025 will be every person's opportunity to right a wrong.

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Mary Mann's avatar

Thank you Jennifer for your great reporting! This is very frightening!!

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MPT's avatar
5dEdited

Thank you for that excellent report. trump,musk adn republican's death by a 1000 service cuts. I am sure one reason why response has been so poor is that kristi noem can't decide which cosplay costume or relex to wear at each disaster site. maga and its monstrous cult leader do not care how many innocent people die, how many firefighters go hungry, or if Grand Canyon became a large landfill. When the dumbest of the dumb elect the dumbest of the dumb, there will be only dumb and dumber outcomes.

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A. Hofferkamp's avatar

Trump wants the public land to burn so he can sell it to his buddies. Then they can pave it or make it into golf courses. The fire will just be taking care of demolition costs. He figures it's a win, win for him.

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thomas winn's avatar

The enemy of Constitutional Democracy is not only trump, but all his admin plus if you voted for trump you picked the wrong side. If the appointees of trump are going to give the courts the finger- The American people should use political violence, if they use it on you -you use it on them and I dont care what agency sends out its shock troops- Its the only way.

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Maxine Hunter's avatar

What is even worse concerning all of these fires to date, most of us have not seen them on the news. Something is sure wrong with that. And something quite sick with Trump administration. Thanks for this very good article, Jennifer.

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Meg Daley Olmert WE/US's avatar

When Howard Stern asked Cheeto if he had seen the Paris Hilton sex tape (after Cheeto had drooled about her), he said, “Yeah, Melania showed it to me.”

Good old Melania!

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Meg Daley Olmert WE/US's avatar

NERO/MAO/HITLER. The Trump Trifuckta!

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

Was Melania Cheeto Involved With the Epstein Ring?

There are at least 2 photos of the 2 swinger couples together in public during Cheeto’s bad boy years….Melania and Cheeto along with Epstein and Maxwell Cheeto started dating Melania in 1998 This is 2 years after Maria Farmer had come forward to file a complaint with local and then FBI authorities about what Epstein and Maxwell were up to with their international sex trafficking ring It’s now public knowledge that Epstein said the Melania and Cheeto first had intercourse on Epstein’s plane and then in 2005 Melania married Cheeto but Epstein and Maxwell were not on the invitation list Was Cheeto trying to divest himself to Epstein’s friendship?

In 2006 the FBI contacted Maria Farmer and she divulged all her details of her relationship with Epstein and Maxwell In 2006 Epstein got a plea deal with Florida authorities and then continued on with his pedophilia journey with schoolgirls(not young women)

An interview with the Daily Beast(https://bit.ly/46px65j) Michael Wolff(author of 4 books on Cheeto) states that Maxwell’s shot across the bow with her release of the birthday wishes from Cheeto to Epstein, Blanche’s interview with Maxwell is to find out what she will divulge and what can be done to shut her up For Cheeto and Melania Cheeto a lot is riding on this settlement

And what does Baron Cheeto think about his momma’s past sordid group she hung out with including his lecherous father?

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Dennis L. Green's avatar

The media is unusually silent in covering the fires. Have they become that commonplace that the disaster porn appeal is gone?

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Figment Of Imagination's avatar

“Sure looks like the biggest disaster of all is the Trump Administration itself.”

This is the most accurate statement of them all.

Cut all funding for the executive branch. Stop funding all the golf trips.

Natural resources and beauty can’t come back just because the administration changes. It needs to be stopped now before it’s completely destroyed. 😢

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Diane Lee's avatar

Great article. Thank you so much for the in depth information. We're really at a critical level in staffing vacancies, very disconcerting. It's going to cost a lot of lives and money in the long run. 😞

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Lynda's avatar

I AM AN 83 YEAR OLD NEW YORKER. I AM SO FRIGHTENED BY THE RISE OF FASCISM AND AND ANTISEMITISM.

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Gail Orr's avatar

The states that need the most help are states that elected Trump to save them from the democrats and Biden. I still have not heard a word about Texas and how they will find a way to recover from the flooding. Where are their Senators and Congressmen? Where is the outrage and support for their constituents? The same is true of the states with fires. As long as I can remember, firefighters were always working together, communities all around the burning areas fed and provided a place to rest. All you had to do was look at Trump’s last term and Project 2026 to know that Trump is the destroyer of cities and states. It’s so obvious that Trump is too ignorant to understand the consequences of his actions. And the designers of Project 2026 can get him to sign anything into law. People need to come together to fight for what we have lost. To replace Congressmen and the Senate with men and women who will work together to restore and replace the laws that have been ignored and abandoned by the Republican Congress. November cannot get here fast enough.

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Deborah J.'s avatar

Remember what republicans and MAGA have done to our country, NEVER forget. NEVER!

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Charles Cooper's avatar

I certainly won't!

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Bill Erickson's avatar

I retired from the Federal government a looong time ago, but during my career I had close contact with our natural resource agencies' particularly NIFC. Next to out military veterans, these folks deserve accolades for their heroism. One of the toughest jobs a person can have is that of a firefighter fighting fires in our natural environment. Forest (and range) fires create their own very unpredictable weather - just ask a pilot who has to dump fire retardant on a big fire which creates monstrous updrafts and wind (and they do this in some of the most rugged terrain in our nation). OR a firefighter on the ground who has to constantly be alert to wind change which can reverse the direction of the fire right into them.

These are true hard working PATRIOTS who deserve better than an administration sitting in an air conditioned office and drastically cutting the funds necessary to protect our most valuable resources. These "stuffed shirt" idiots have no idea of the real danger of fires, floods, tornados and hurricanes. PLEASE, PLEASE Congress make sure adequate funds are appropriated for the natural resource agencies (and FEMA) to take care of our great natural resources.

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Charles Cooper's avatar

Any funds appropriated by Congress for FEMA are in danger of being redirected towards building concentration camps for immigrants and other related cruelties towards the undocumented and even legal residents of this once great nation by the Trump administration. They've already done it. Who's to stop them from doing it again?

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