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Kentucky is among the ‘most federally dependent states.’ How will Trump cuts affect it?
www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article302508724.html#storylink=cpy
Kentucky among the ‘most federally dependent states.’ How will Trump cuts affect it?
An analysis found for every $1 residents paid in taxes they got back more than $3 in federal funding.
www.kentucky.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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"Barr also has been invited to a community town hall Saturday at downtown Lexington’s Kentucky Theater to answer questions about DOGE and other parts of Trump’s agenda.

Barr said he will hold a virtual town hall instead..."

www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
March 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Screenshot of Reddit post from r/fednews by user risk troll: DOGE is at the Institue of Museum and Library Services right now, AM 03/20, to shut down the agency The Institute of Museum and Library Services is being raided by DOGE and the new Acting Director (also somehow DepSec of Labor) Keith Sonderling with the express intent to shut it down. Sonderling was sworn-in in the lobby of the office building (955 L'Enfant Plaza) and they are proceeding with quickly and quietly dismantling the agency. There is no major reporting on the death of IMLS. There are Deparment of Homeland Security personnel present to bully a bunch of civil servants who administer grants to museums and libraries. IMLS offices are on the 4th floor of 955 L'Enfant. There is no media present to document this efficiency saving of .004% of the federal budget. Every library system in the country receives these grants. Museums in every state depend on them. Every penny disbursed is American tax dollars back in American communities. This is one of the 7 federal agencies offered up as a needless sacrificial lamb in the catastrophic resolution and last week's EO.
March 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence.

I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/
February 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM