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Trump just reposted a tweet calling Alex Pretti a "domestic terrorist"

It'll be the biggest protest in American history because people are going to make it the biggest protest in American history. Nokings.org has all the info you need for 3/28, and more ICE watch trainings coming next week!

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

Fully MAGA-fied Christianity Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.

“Trump and the MAGA movement capitalized on, and then amplified, the problems facing Christian communities, but they did not create them,” Peter Wehner argues:

Trump’s trade war won’t just cripple domestic markets—it will slow global gross domestic product growth to its lowest point in 17 years.

https://trib.al/ZoUo6ID

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E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

The EPA plans to eliminate Energy Star, the popular energy efficiency certification for dishwashers, refrigerators, dryers and other home appliances, according to agency documents and a recording of an internal meeting.

As Trump Targets Researchers, Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists The continent’s leaders are hoping to benefit as the Trump administration cuts support for research and threatens universities such as Harvard and Columbia with the freezing of federal funds.

As the U.S. government slashes support to research institutions and threatens universities like Harvard and Columbia with the freezing of federal funds, European leaders hope to benefit from what they are calling a U.S. "error" and a "gigantic miscalculation."

This is what not giving up looks like.

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

Holy shit.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has halted the awarding of previously approved proposals to ensure compliance with presidential directives following the arrival of DOGE at the science funding agency.

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

US judge blocks Trump's freeze on climate, infrastructure grants A U.S. judge blocked President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday from freezing billions of dollars in grants Congress authorized under climate investment and infrastructure laws of his Democratic predecessor, former President Joe Biden.

A US judge blocked President Donald Trump's administration from freezing billions of dollars in grants Congress authorized under climate investment and infrastructure laws of his Democratic predecessor, former President Joe Biden reut.rs/4iBoxqF

I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period

NEWS: Hong Kong has suspended postal service for all goods being sent to the United States, saying the U.S is "unreasonable, bullying, and imposing tariffs abusively."

Investor who predicted the 2008 financial crisis says he's 'worried about something worse than a recession' Ray Dalio, the founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, said he is "worried about something worse than a recession" if President Donald Trump does not properly handle tariffs and other econom...

It's going to be his financial Covid. Only totally self-inflected and it will take longer to recover from.

The United States is "definitely on a path towards full-on state repression". Fiona Hill, senior director for European and Russian affairs on the US National Security Council during the first Trump pr... TikTok video by Channel 4 News

We are on the path to full-on state repression - Fiona Hill
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjReM63K/

The CDC has literally been gutted today.

There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.

Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.

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The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

Trump administration says it wants to fight fentanyl, but it’s slashing budget to fight opioid overdoses If SAMHSA’s footprint shrinks, will the agency and the country be prepared to respond to a new behavioral health crisis altogether?

www.statnews.com/2025/03/27/s...

The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, the path to a science career for students and researchers just got a whole lot harder.

This is what breaks my heart. These young people who are so eager and full of promise and who are the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, scientists inventors, teachers. #Trump and #Musk have destroyed it all. www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.

With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

While Supreme Court's John Roberts and Donald Trump often converge on legal goals, sharp divergences are emerging, a constitutional law expert says, and through the president's executive orders flurry, he's 'proceeding as if legal constraints don't matter' reut.rs/4c8wX7j

What is a phrase you never hear about fossil fuels?

"As demand soars and prices keep falling..."

#battchat

One more reason storage is the fossil fuel killer.

Quote of the day: "I don't care what the judges think." #Homan #Dictator #Facism #Resistance

Trump dismantles Voice of America with executive order More than 1,300 staff placed on administrative leave as White House accuses VOA of being anti-Trump, "radical" and "leftist".

VOA (Voice of America) was set up during WWII to counter Nazi propaganda and is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Trump is closing it down accusing it of being ‘anti-Trump’ and ‘radical’.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...