Name a fascist dictator whose agenda entailed limiting the size, cost, and power of government

Media adopting "forcibly displacing Palestinians from Gaza" as their most acceptably negative take on the current discussion. I lived and worked at the American Embassy in Amman for almost a decade. Totally immersed in Jordanian society, politics, internal and external affairs, USAID projects, Military Assistance Program and billions in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grants and expenditures. I spent more time with Jordanian business, political and military leaders - and with my Jordanian neighbors - than I did with Americans. So here's the truth: Gazans and other West Bankers have been begging and pleading for sanctuary in Jordan and Egypt for decades. The leaders, political class and influential business sector families, tribes and luminaries won't allow it, despite the fact that most of them are of Palestinian origin. They frame their reasoning for denying Palestinians refuge around two issues - 1) Arafat's PLO's attempt to establish a state-within-a-state after allowed in by King Hussein, culminating in the Black September "civil war" battles in 1970/71, and 2) the notion that Palestinians must remain in the territories to keep it from Israeli control and keep the two-state fantasy alive. Basically, the miserable lives of the Palestinians are an essential component in attracting worldwide sympathy, attention and activism against Israeli and American hegemony in the region. Both of those arguments are cover for the core truth, which is that Jordanians don't want them in Jordan because - as demonstrated by King Abdullah's "Jordan First" campaign initiated in the early 2000's - they view West bankers as we do illegal immigrants, but these particular immigrants are different in that they come with generational bones to pick with their East banker relatives. Jordan First means just that - the Palestinians aren't Jordanians and King Abdullah's got his own problems to deal with. So spare us the "forcibly displaced" construct - it should be patently obvious to anyone with eyes that the Gazans have nothing to go home to. It'd be like putting a wall around the Pacific Palisades, dumping all of the families back into their burned out neighborhoods and wishing them luck. Residents who make the understandable decision that relocation is their only hope are not being "forcibly displaced" - they're being granted refuge from an existence they rightly view as unsustainable. Finally, as I've note a number of times on this platform - we've been providing Jordan and Egypt foreign assistance funding at the top-five level for decades. Billions upon billions that have been used to prop up their failing economies and fund their otherwise-decrepit armed forces. Asking Jordan and Egypt to partner in solving the issue initiated by the Hamas attack on October 7th and culminating in the destruction of Gaza as they knew it is - whether one finds hardball diplomacy distasteful or "bullying" - the natural progression that comes with a necessarily transactional foreign aid program. Our invaluable financial support is - in its most basic form - an insurance policy that guarantees reciprocation in the event we deem it necessary to exact concessions from those for whom we are the indispensable benefactor. That's how it works. While it can certainly be articulated in more diplomatic language, that's how this works. Trump knows this, and he knows that Jordan and Egypt will have to decide whether their monarchy/regime can weather the storm of economic strain or collapse absent the annual $1.4 billion infusion courtesy of the US government. They can't. They'll work something out.

Hearing reports that Musk’s cronies are targeting NOAA — infiltrating key systems & locking out career employees. NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research & more. Their critical work saves lives. My team and I are looking into this & we will not stand for it.

Not for nothing but VP Kamala Harris pushed for a ceasefire & called for a two-state solution repeatedly on the campaign. She also warned us this would happen. Yet, people decided to stay home. Elections have big consequences.