Photo of protester in Boston holding a sign that says “STOP STORROWING DEMOCRACY”
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Photo of protester in Boston holding a sign that says “STOP STORROWING DEMOCRACY”
IYKYK #HandsOff #Boston
Nearly all the nominees for health agencies have engaged in spreading COVID disinformation & conspiracy theories over the last 5 years. I can't emphasize enough how dangerous it will be if they are confirmed. Motivated by revenge, they will try to dismantle all critical public health infrastructure.
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner
You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer?
She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Would love to be added. Current Wellesley Research Librarian and Class of 83, with a brief stint somewhere in the middle as a Wellesley German Instructor. :) Thank you!
President Trump has threatened to cut off more AID to South Africa unless they stop “treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY”. Fair to guess that he is not worried about the treatment of poor black South Africans here. Also fair to assume this is all Elon.
I mean, what did USAID ever do to Elon Musk???
Oh.
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If your Senator's voicemail is full, you can send a free fax to them using faxzero.com/fax_senate.php I c&p'd key points from @indivisible.org toolkit into a single page doc to send if that helps anybody. Just hit FILE > Make a Copy > Edit the Intro > Download > PDF. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry.
You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
J.D. Vance uses DEI to cover for a potentially white male pilot being at fault: "When you don't have the best standards in who you're hiring, it means, on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there."
We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.
I think the great political emotion of this age is the sense of defenselessness. It helped Trump win. And now the response to Trump by Democrats is spreading that emotion. Get. It. Together.
Here’s the money line in the acting AG’s letter firing the prosecutors who worked on the Trump case. Leadership does not trust you in “implementing the president’s agenda.” DOJ supports and defends the Constitution, not the president’s agenda.
The White House didn't say "stop teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen when you do US history." The White House said "stop doing DEI and wokeness," and the military interpreted it as "stop saying the Tuskegee Airmen were heroes, and maybe stop teaching about them altogether."
Yeah, that's bad.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is a longtime friend of RFK, Jr. and reportedly has not yet committed to voting against him.
Personal friendship are not relevant to whether a nut job like RFK, Jr. is qualified.
Call Whitehouse: 202-224-2921
Or message: whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/email-sheldon
NEW: The immunity decision does not mean that Trump can do anything now.
Tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-scotus...
This. “The anger we feel can be harnessed and it is earned, but anger burns fast and it can consume us.”
The Trump administration warned federal employees of “adverse consequences” for not reporting colleagues resisting orders to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, giving a 10-day deadline to report via a special email account.
The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring.
NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
"The appointment of a US health secretary with anti-vaccine views could cause deaths and have profound consequences around the world, global health experts fear."
No kidding.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...