As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week.
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529. Moved to end visas of roughly 130,000 spouses and children of H-4 visas
530. Following a trend from #377 and #498, ended a rule that would have prevented media companies from owning both the television and newspapers in a given market, paving the way for further media consolidation
531. Following up from #57, the FCC voted to kick people off their low income broadband plans by scaling back the Lifeline program dramatically
532. Following up from #231, ordered mass deportation of 59,000 Haitians living in the United States
533. Following up from #295, began process to fully repeal the visa program for immigrants coming to the US to start businesses
534. Following up from #246, moved to permanently dismantle Obama era Neutrality Rules
535. Overruled a recommendation by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Committee that found New Jersey had exceeded its harvest limits on flounders. This is not only promotes over fishing, it also undermines the authority of a well established institution that had been helping states on the Atlantic coast coordinate their resource use for 75 years.
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Due to thanksgiving, the weekly update is coming early this week, with a truncated list of items. For this reason, and perhaps because of the holiday, the list is relatively short this week, but there are still plenty of big items. The Administration took a big moves against the internet and media this week, The FCC started moving forwards with it’s plans to fully end net neutrality, while at the same time ending various rules to prevent media consolidation and help poor people get access to broadband. Trump also kicked nearly 60,000 Haitian refugees out of he country.
Also, here’s an interesting piece of trivia: pretty much every turkey you’re going to eat this thanksgiving is going to be a Spanish Black. The Spanish Black is a strain of Turkey originally found in Mexico that was brought back to Spain, and after several centuries of selective breeding became the standard for both the industry and Thanksgiving.
So, there you have it, the centerpiece of the quintessential American holiday is, in fact, a Hispanic immigrant. So if your Trumpster relatives start complaining about immigrants or something, you can threaten to throw out the Turkey like Paulie from the Rocky movies when he was still an abusive drunk.
As always, I don’t expect to catch everything, so let me know if there’s anything you think I’ve missed. The full omnibus is being maintained here.