Ep. 5: Trade Wars, Missouri Abortion Updates, & Freedom

Horrific plane/helicopter crash

• Trumps disgusting claims of DEI as a CAUSE drew broad reaction, because it’s just demonstrably false but it’s a disgusting devaluing of the lives lost
• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/trump-plane-crash-dei-press-conference-biden-faa-washington-dc-rcna190020

Trumps Trade War - Buckle Up

• Good time to fill a freezer, or buy one if you don’t have one
• Trump imposes new tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China
• https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/g-s1-46010/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-and-china-imports
• https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-slaps-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-risking-higher-prices-us-consu-rcna190185
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Fired chief of federal consumer watchdog

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5254186/cfpb-consumer-financial-protection-cfpb-trump-chopra

Chaos with student loans

Most of you listening probably don’t need me to even say it, but it is all, across the board, the Project 2025 playbook.

Now we see if the folks who wanted Trump back enjoy the impact. Because it will continue and will only get worse.

Find your people. Start small. Build up locally. You can’t change reality overnight.

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Missouri Abortion Updates

Mo Amendment 3 passed - where are we now?

Statute: https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=188.017

December court ruling: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/missouri-judge-rules-states-abortion-ban-is-unenforceable-after-constitutional-amendment

The follow up:

https://missouriindependent.com/2025/02/01/missouri-planned-parenthood-abortion-access-jackson-county/

Mo GOP still scheming to undue voters will: https://missouriindependent.com/2024/12/20/missouri-republicans-restrict-abortion-amendment-3/

Good thought to share

https://missouriindependent.com/2025/01/27/a-wicked-reckoning-in-missouri-progressive-politics/

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