Summary
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a memo prioritizing federal funding for communities with marriage and birth rates above the national average.
The directive, which applies to grants, loans, and contracts, also prioritizes projects benefiting families with young children.
A congressional aide criticized the policy, saying, “Considering fertility rates when prioritizing federal grants? We obviously have no idea what the full impact of that will be… It’s absolutely creepy. It’s a little ‘Chinese government.’”
The memo also blocks mask mandates and requires compliance with immigration enforcement.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993
50 States, 50 Protests, 1day
Feb 5 @ your downtown.
Pass the word!
I get it’s still more popular than Fedi apps but using Facebook kind of feels like we’re asking the King permission to revolt.
Meta can suck all the ass, but you have to admit that abandoning it entirely will just enforce the echo chamber. I think we should at least try to continue the fight inside. I almost never use it, and have disabled all the settings and tracking that allow it to make the most money off of me.
I feel like there’s at least some importance to meeting people where they are.
I just feel like hosting the info on Facebook is a bad move. Sure, pass notes about unionizing at work but don’t have a meeting at the loading dock.
I feel like I gotta make a new account and nuke my old one if I want to do this at all. I have been thinking about this too.
For all those asking, the Facebook link didn’t even work for me, so I just searched and there looks to be an active r/50501 group.
It doesn’t seem like an organized thing, just be at your state capital. Here’s a few posters from the reddit:
why the hell do they plan these during the week, DURING the work day?? Saturday would be too convenient??
I’m not sure if the work distribution is part of the point or not. The protests would have to be huge though for that to make a dent I’d think though.
Part of what these protests are against is the removal of protections for employees, so having people risk employment during this time does seem a bit problematic.
I really don’t know what we’re supposed to do anymore, especially living in a time with surveillance everywhere. I’m just volunteering in my community and letting people know I’m on their side should they need me.
I had the same thought. States are huge, too, so state capitols are going to be a healthy drive for a lot of folks. Short notice, far off location (I mean, take Cali; San Francisco and LA are NOT close to Sac), and middle of the workday/school day timing. If you were planning a fake protest to show how little enthusiasm there is to push back against Trump, it’d be hard to do better than this.
Is there a non-Meta link for that?
That looks important. Too bad I can’t read or upvote it because it’s a link to a fascist platform.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fdot-memo-funds-communities-marriage-birth-rates_n_679bf8d8e4b0e1faebeef9c8