Therefore, no DEI.

Roberts and Trump both can't be right . . . . . .

Both articles have their merits. The NYT article has this sentence:

Some leaders fear the Supreme Court’s recent blow to the Voting Rights Act may further diminish political support for the majority-Black region.
“We cannot return to a time when the basic needs of these communities were ignored,” said Representative Terri Sewell, who represents the region in Congress and had championed the 2023 federal agreement.“

Trump’s 2026 budget, signed into law last week, will also have devastating impact on the Black belt communities, where 28% rely on Medicaid, compared with 23% statewide. Hunger rates are also likely to rise given that one in four Alabamians receive Snap benefits, which Trump’s new budget also slashes. The state will have to come up with an additional $120m – a 30% increase – to continue providing food assistance for more than 700,000 people, half of whom are children.
Trump won Alabama with 65% of the votes in 2024, but 68% of Lowndes county voted for Kamala Harris.
Alabama’s Black belt counties are among the poorest in the US, and in Lowndes county the median income is just $35,000 a year – 57% below the national average, according to the US census. Installing a new septic system is beyond the means of most of those who desperately need one.
The heavy, nonabsorbent clay soil synonymous with the region makes it extremely difficult to install and operate conventional septic tanks, which cost between $10,000 and $15,000, instead requiring custom-engineered systems that can be as expensive as $50,000.

Auburn, design some cheaper solutions, or do some custom engineering.
Bama, we know you don’t give a damn, but $12 M for football coach and $7 M for assistant football coaches and $7 M for basketball coach — this U - Knight - ed Staits has got it sum priorities man.

Karma is, y’all always gonna have brutal past hanging off you like old dirty clothes, cuz too many of you still want to shut these people up.

Dumb decisions, if this county gets plumbed, property values go up and eventually you get a new tax base; and health care costs (not that ‘care’ gets delivered reliably, but still) can go down.

Racists

Serious question. If these measures are framed as counters to poverty (which just happens by sheer coincidence to affect more POC), wouldn't that bypass the DEI objections?

Anything that takes money from their pocket.

(Please bear in mind that the rich think every single cent should be theirs, and in fact some of them have already tried to take control of as. much of it as possible. But, thanks to our desire to desperately try and fix the broken system with the broken system....)

but the liquid needs to go into a leach field which will be pretty expensive to create and maintain. Usually a leach field will be rejected if the soil is not permeable. A septic tank will fill up with liquid in 2 weeks, then what?

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph our small borough outlawed septic tanks 60 years ago when we created a sanitary sewer system. I may be the only resident who has a septic tank in my borough. The borough made a deal with me, I pay for a septic tank but the liquid runs into a holding tank where I have a pump that pumps the liquid into the borough's sewer line. I still pay a full sewage bill. I just replaced my pump the day before Easter.

WTF????????? A septic system is DEI????????????? What a fucking moron. It's public health.

send it to Mar-a-Lardo.

I'm thinking no. No; we're worse, folks, we're worse.

Are we supposed to treat them like actual humans? C'mon, man, don't be ridiculous!

Denying them basic sanitation that's been cheaply available for decades. What the hell is wrong with us as a country?

... as though he was wearing his imperial wizard robes in public. He is grotesquely unfit for office, as are all the sycophants that kiss his fat, pimply ass every hour of the day.