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#dftba This tracker is for all the legal challenges to all of Trumps actions, including USAID.
www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
It’s the glee for me. They’re gleeful while they cheer on people who are actively sawing off the branch we’re all standing on. 🤦🏻♀️💔
It turns out entrusting our democracy to a bunch of white Christian nationalists who only see government as a means to enrich themselves and punish their enemies is a really bad idea, actually.
Regardless of what you think about CFPB, it was created by an act of Congress (the Dodd-Frank Act). If Congress wants to amend or abolish it, that's the legislative branch's prerogative. It is not Elon Musk's prerogative.
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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
Of course they did.
Same.
Acres and acres of chamomile.
Sometimes, in order to make sense of the chaos going on in the world, it’s important to bake a batch of emotional support cinnamon rolls.
I wrote a book that helps kids understand the faith fueled activism of the black church. I think the ideas there are particularly relevant in this moment.
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
👏🏻👏🏻 I love to cook that way. It’s adventurous.
Yep, the Mercy Seat.
Tomorrow is my day off, and my college freshman is also coming home tomorrow for the weekend. Yay for something good to look forward to!
Truly. I’m a native Texan living in TN for years now and I stay incredulous watching it all.
Stop. Saying. Telling. The. Truth. Doesn’t. Matter.
It matters.
Saying it doesn’t matter because it won’t change things is just enabling utilitarianism wrapped up in pseudorighteousness.
Tell the truth.
Scream it into the void.
Truth has value in itself. Or it’s not truth.
I want TN Republicans to stop being embarrassing and horrible so badly, but they just can’t/won’t.
If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
Oh no.
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You will hear many calls for unity.
Philippians 2 tells us how true unity happens: by all parties giving up selfish ambition and putting each others' interests before their own. By mutual submission.
If someone calls for you to unify with them but is not willing to do this, is it unity they want?
Today I went to Pilates class, drank coffee, helped my kids, and taught my ballet classes. Later, I loaded my college freshman’s car with a few grocery staples and sent him back to school with hugs/kisses. Now I’m watching football next to my husband. Sleep well, friends. Fresh mercies tomorrow.
The January 19th, 2025 Sunday Scaries are on an unhinged level.
I’m pretty sure I have to teach my ballet classes tomorrow afternoon, so I think I’ll spend tomorrow morning drinking coffee, listening to beautiful music, and planning fun choreography for children.
