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Let’s Share Real World Consequences – For Ourselves and For People and Organizations We Know Personally

by WaterGirl|  February 17, 20259:54 am| 112 Comments

This post is in: Real World Consequences, Trump-Musk

The inauguration was exactly 4 weeks ago.

Let’s use the this thread to share real world consequences of this administration’s actions.

Consequences to our own BJ peeps.  Consequences to friends and family.   Consequences to organizations we are part of.

Let’s document the personal consequences, 4 weeks in.

I’ll start.  One of my nonprofit clients had a $50,000 contract cancelled last week – with work already in progress and expenses incurred.  That’s not just money lost, that $50k that can’t be used to pay the salary of one employee.

Not an open thread.

Update: I hope that those of you on social media will share a link to this post.  Let’s make it easier for everyone to understand the impact this is having on real people, even if they are not yet experiencing the impact personally.  I believe this will all trickle down to every single non-rich person in the country.

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