MAGA Thinks Like Children Do #psychology #politics #lucasbean #trump

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MSfGvfga-eU

 

Trump dramatically cuts size of two national monuments held sacred by tribes

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah will lose ‘close to a million and a half acres each’ and open land to developers and oil industry…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/trump-cuts-national-monuments-utah

 

Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing

Even in the Israeli media the proposal invited incredulity, with a column in the left-leaning Haaretz describing it as "a Trumpian get-rich-quick scheme reliant on war crimes, AI and tourism"…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/leaked-gaza-riviera-plan-dismissed-as-insane-attempt-to-cover-ethnic-cleansing

 

Meet the out-of-state investors funding a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxP34ORMiZU

 

Arab states reject Trump plan for Gaza, Egypt foreign minister tells Rubio | Reuters

Any suggestion that Palestinians leave Gaza, which they want as part of an independent state, has been anathema to the Palestinian leadership for generations and neighbouring Arab states have rejected it since the Gaza war began in 2023. 

Egypt's foreign ministry said on Monday that the international community should unify behind Palestinians to right "historic injustice" and restore their "legitimate and inalienable rights."…

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/arab-states-reject-trump-plan-gaza-egypt-foreign-minister-tells-rubio-2025-02-10/

 

‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico City

About 21,000 people use the 15 utopias each day. The hope is that by transforming the lives of strategic populations, particularly women who are the backbone of communities, the changes will ripple out across neighbourhoods. 

James Anderson, head of government innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies, which supports the project, says: "The utopias are not only extraordinary in their scale and breadth, they flip on its head this idea that poor people don't deserve excellent services."…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/27/mexico-city-utopias-project-mayor

 

Billion-dollar weather disasters are soaring again this year. Here’s why. - The Washington Post

Eleven disasters — mostly severe thunderstorm outbreaks — have produced a price tag over $25 billion in the United States, second most on record to date...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/06/11/weather-disasters-tornadoes-storms-billion-dollar/

Opinion | Kushner’s Gaza remarks are a dark signal for Trump’s second-term policy - The Washington Post

In a Feb. 15 interview at Harvard University, videos of which have recently emerged, Kushner said several striking things about the Israel-Gaza crisis. "Gaza's waterfront property could be very valuable," he said, lamenting that Palestinians had diverted resources away from economic development and toward weapons and tunnels. "It's a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but from Israel's perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/22/kushner-trump-israel-gaza-policy/

Robert Iger Wasn't Bluffing, Disney Cancels Lake Nona Town Center Amid Feud with DeSantis

Now Disney is cancelling plans to build a massive nearly $1 billion office complex in Orlando, costing the state more than 2,000 six-figure jobs...

https://www.mediaite.com/news/disney-ceo-wasnt-bluffing-robert-iger-cancels-plans-for-1-billion-office-complex-in-orlando/

EPA Fails to Regulate Chemicals That Disrupt Sexual Development

…Studies of various phthalates have shown them to cause birth defects, fertility problems in people who can become pregnant, miscarriage, testicular cancer, kidney cancer, and liver cancer. Exposure to the chemicals in the womb or early childhood has also been linked to learning, attention, and behavior problems, lower IQ, memory problems, and autism, rates of which have recently reached record highs…

https://theintercept.com/2021/12/07/epa-dinp-phthalates-child-sexual-development-cancer-birth-defects/

Eating our lunch: Biden points to China in development push - ABC News

...China under Xi has "an overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world," Biden said before launching his proposal last week. "That's not going to happen on my watch because the United States are going to continue to grow and expand."...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/eating-lunch-biden-points-china-development-push-76892469