A catastrophe is unfolding at the top US health agency — and it will put American lives at risk - Vox
04.04.2025 22:10
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
A catastrophe is unfolding at the top US health agency — and it will put American lives at risk - Vox
Data visualization titled "Complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Come From Across the Country." Below, a representation of a U.S. map, but each of the 50 states is represented as a single green square labeled with the state's abbreviation. A key to the top left shows a gradient that goes from white to light green to dark green, with white representing 5 complaints per 1,000 residents and dark green representing >50 complaints per 1,000 residents.
No matter which state you live in, Trump’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau affects your ability to be protected from scams.
We want to understand the fallout that comes with gutting the government’s consumer watchdog. Here’s how you can help us report: propub.li/43EycsC
SCOOP: YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy. "YouTube quietly removing ‘gender identity and expression’ from its list of protected groups is a major radical shift away from best practices in the field of trust and safety."
Called it.
🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.
She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
‼️The CDC lost 3,200 essential staff members—nearly 25% of its workforce—right as measles outbreaks spread across multiple states and flu season intensifies.
"Disease detectives" who track outbreaks before they become epidemics are among those affected.
Via @jordanami.bsky.social @ Arizona State
Chart of GDP changes due to new US tariffs with retaliation by other countries. US at the top of the list with a 1.45% reduction, equal to -438 billion dollars, or $4,487 dollars per household
A quick analysis of the effects of Trump’s tariffs shows that, if other nations make them reciprocal, the United States will reduce its own GDP by over $400 billion dollars – more than 80% of the global reduction in economic output
(from our sister site @aunz.theconversation.com)
buff.ly/WL1r3HR
The US is undergoing the worst self-inflicted destruction of health, education, and knowledge creation infrastructure since the great leap forward. We will all be substantially less educated, poorer, and sicker while millions will die from completely preventable causes. It's civilizational suicide.
Montana's anti-trans bathroom ban is BLOCKED by the courts.
The judge finds that the ban was "motivated by animus" and that it showed no evidence that it protects safety and privacy.
"You have to throw trans people under the bus to win elections as a Democrat, trans political ads work, the public is reacting to trans people poorly"
Meanwhile in Wisconsin after tens of millions in anti-trans ads against WI-SC candidate who did not flinch:
No, the Democratic Party isn't losing because it's Too Woke:
Firing the teams that help the public access government records?
So much for "radical transparency"! Thanks, Bobby!
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Trans women athletes on feminising hormone therapy are women in both physiological and performance terms.
Trans women, ride a bike, swim a lap, kick a ball & run around a track like a girl!
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.
This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
Raskin: Would it be problem for it to be standard practice to conduct sensitive foreign policy on a signal chat group? It just came out that Waltz’s team set up 20 signal group chats for crises across the world… I’m sure this will raise the question on whether he should continue in that position
Big day for duty free shops
The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.
the constitution says you must be 35 to be eligible to serve as president. now, let’s say a presidential nominee was born on february 29, 1972, a leap year. and let’s say they were running in 2024. now, technically, they would only be 13. you could say they were ineligible. but that’s stupid! (1)
And it happens again!
SEVERAL Republicans cross the aisle, vote against a bill that would remove trans kids from their parents.
They do so even after another Republican threatens them with primaries.
29 Republicans flip this time!
Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor.
The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes!
This is the power of representation.
it frustrates me to no end that bottom surgery is "mutilation" but circumcision and forced assignment followed by erasure of intersex people are both "totally fine" 🙄
When someone says Trans isn't in nature
Clownfish: Start life as male, then change into female
Kobudai: Start life as female, then change into male
Moray eels: Start as jet black, then turn electric blue, and finally bright yellow and female
Mangrove killifish: Hermaphrodites that self-fertilize.
Agreed with Gillian here.
If you called your Senator (or didn't) to tell them to vote against a trans sports ban, it's important that you also call them and thank them for their vote.
NO Democrat broke on this.
myreps.datamade.us
It's a worldwide coup.
Patriarchy begets transphobia as the final gambit of misogyny because it cannot abide the insult of an opportunity for manhood being rejected and it cannot allow womanhood to be something one can escape from.
Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.
We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
