Dr. Tam

March 21, 2025 These days, I keep coming back to the quotation recorded by journalist Ron Suskind in a New York Times Magazine article in 2004.

March 21, 2025

March 7, 2025 Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Today’s post by this great American historian is an account of the battle in the 1960s against the suppression of black votes and how it is being fought again today. Very powerful

Trump property purge to include national park visitor centers, museums The Trump administration is trying to cancel leases for 34 National Park Service buildings, which an advocate says will endanger artifacts.

www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

Trump property purge to include national park visitor centers, museums

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Appreciate your work, your expertise! Is there nothing that can be done to stop the madness? Panels -we have moved so far past their efficacy. Impeachment? Ty for sharing ideas and “doing”in the middle of our crisis - as we Americans cling to the the fraying hemline of Democracy.

So much winning

Bansky

Trump’s presidency isn’t just a disaster—it’s a deliberate act of destruction against American democracy and global stability. His cabinet is a rotating cast of unqualified loyalists, his diplomacy is a joke, and his governance is dictated by personal vendettas and unchecked narcissism.

Well done!

Truth

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

The issue may be in no small part that he aspires to become one …. and there’s the rub.

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

Medicaid covers...

-40% of births nationwide
-50% of kids with special needs
-72 million people in total

Remember this as Republicans move to gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans. 

"Party of family values."

If only Rubio would listen to Rubio 🙁

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGtcq5W...

Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

If you only watch one video today, let it be this one.

And since Little Marco doesn’t want us to remember this, please repost it so others can see what a raging hypocrite he is.

@calltoactivism.bsky.social

UN human rights chief ‘deeply worried by fundamental shift’ in US Volker Türk alarmed at growing power of ‘unelected tech oligarchs’ and warns gender equality is being rolled back The UN human rights chief has warned of a “fundamental shift” in the US and sounded the alarm over the growing power of “unelected tech…

UN human rights chief ‘deeply worried by fundamental shift’ in US

Yep. Also depends on who is wearing “it” <insert here image of Musk in oval office most recently and at his first cabinet meeting at the WH>

I was reminded of this today and it’s worthy of a post. (Don’t be muzzled ! )

When asked how fascism starts, Bertrand Russell replied: "First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent."

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

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February 16, 2025 The sixty-first Munich Security Conference, the world’s leading forum for talking about international security policy, took place from February 14 to February 16 this year.

February 16, 2025

Trump has fired people who process prescriptions by mail. So if you’re a veteran, order your meds earlier than you normally would. They could take a while.

My guess is that Oklahoma will be the next state after NM affected by the Texas measles outbreak. There is the geographical proximity, and there is also the fact that in 2024, only 89% of OK kindergartners were vaccinated with MMR. www.cdc.gov/schoolvaxvie...

In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Dismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy Department The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.

New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter

The Sassoon Letter to Pam Bondi is the Kind of Courage we Need We found an unlikely FBI hero in Brian Driscoll, now we have Danielle Sassoon at the Department of Justice

Still thinking about the Sassoon letter. www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sassoo...

February 14, 2025 On this day, I always like to tell the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s terrible 1884 Valentine’s Day and how it led to the Progressive Era, but things are happening too fast these days to leave a gap in...

February 14, 2025