The cutting of foreign aid funding from the Trump administration caused the shutdown of the cleanup of Agent Orange in Biên Hòa, Việt Nam. As rainy season approaching, the dangerous dioxin could seep into the soil and poison the food and water of the people living nearby the Biên Hòa air base.

During the Việt Nam war, the U.S. military sprayed more than 10 million gallons of Agent Orange across vast swaths of the country. The chemical, mixture of two herbicides and contained dioxin, has caused cancers, illnesses, and birth defects.

Donald Trump and Marco Rubio don’t care about the world and they definitely don’t give a fuck about the victims of Orange Agent.

Tesla’s stock dropped half of its value and continued to dip. Let’s keep Tesla’s price going down. Let’s keep up the protests peacefully. Let’s keep hitting Musk back where he hurts the most. Sorry, Tesla. Don’t blame the people. Blame your fucking lame-ass CEO.

Trump gutted defending-democracy media including Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Removing pro-democracy media is an authoritarian move. Eventually he will silence any American citizen criticizing him.

Our democracy is in grave danger. The Democrat party is no longer capable of defending our democracy. In fact, the Democrat leaders, starting with Chuck Schumer, have already caved into Trump.

The Republican party is dead. The Democrat party is too damn weak. The Supreme Court is under his control. The people must speak out and stand up to defend our democracy.

Trump has always wanted to dismantle our fair elections even though he had won a landslide in 2024.

He installed election deniers throughout his regime to remove the guardrails protecting voting and voters. He fired Ellen Weintraub, Chairman of the FEC. He wants to take control of the US Postal Service so he can ban mailing ballots. He fired hundreds of agents in the CISA, which monitored foreign interference in our elections.

With the help of Republicans in Congress, he wants the pass the SAVE Act, which requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. A passport or a birth certificate with a matching legal name is required to vote. An estimate of 69 million women with their married name does not match their birth certificate; therefore, they can’t vote without a passport.

As Trump removes every safety measure, no one will be able to secure and defend our election results. That’s how democracy dies.

Yesterday afternoon, the weather was beautiful. As I was walking out of the library during my lunch break, an Asian girl stopped me. She asked me, “Did you vote for Trump?” That was a bold question to ask a stranger. I wanted to say, “Fuck no,” but I replied, “Hell no” instead.

She showed me the back of her binder and explained that she was getting signatures to get a Democrat candidate on the ballot for General Assembly. After I added my signature, I asked her, “What motivate you to do this?” She answered, “Democracy.” I thanked her for doing what she did and I encouraged her to fight for our democracy. Many Asians worried about their pocketbooks that they didn’t care about democracy. She nodded and also choked up.

We thanked each other and parted way.

Bret Stephens opines in the New York Times:

Democracy may die in darkness. It may die in despotism. Under Trump, it’s just as liable to die in dumbness.

Let’s smartened up and defend our democracy.

Michael Patrick Lynch writes for Psychology Today:

Democracy depends on citizens being informed. People need accurate information about climate change, for example, in order to know how to survive its effects. They need to know which country invaded Ukraine in order to figure out which side to support and why. And they need to know what The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is really doing in order to know whether to be frightened by its actions.

That much is obvious. Democracy suffers whenever a government actively deceives its citizens or just prevents them from having access to accurate information.

Unfortunately the Orange Toad flooded the US with lies after lies.

I don’t own a Tesla. I am not in the market to look for a new car. If I were, I wouldn’t even consider Tesla. Fuck its CEO.

Trump goes after universities. He cuts federal funding on grants, contracts, and researches. Across universities, PhD students have been cut. He hates the highly educated and loves the “poorly educated.” Of course he loved the poorly educated because he fooled them to vote for him. The highly educated saw right through his lies, incompetencies, and stupidities. We understood the danger he posed to our democracy.

I am down with boycotting Target for 40 days starting today. Anything I need from Target I can get at Costco. Fuck Target!