Cyd Haug-West
@cydhw.bsky.social
Flaming liberal vegan transgender cat dad. Married, COVID-cautious, bipolar, pushing 60.
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FDA wants to limit access to the COVID vaccine. Speak up.
May 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
FDA wants to limit access to the COVID vaccine. Speak up.
When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI programs? sign.moveon.org/petitions/ta...
Reinstate Target's DEI Programs NOW!
When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI prog...
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February 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI programs? sign.moveon.org/petitions/ta...
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This is all of Medicaid, by the way. This means people will die. It means disabled kids like my son will lose our extra medical coverage and our waiver funds that help pay for his care.
This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine.
An absolutely hate-filled group of people
This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine.
An absolutely hate-filled group of people
BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.
February 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is all of Medicaid, by the way. This means people will die. It means disabled kids like my son will lose our extra medical coverage and our waiver funds that help pay for his care.
This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine.
An absolutely hate-filled group of people
This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine.
An absolutely hate-filled group of people
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Remember that a mask does more than protect against covid.
A well fitted respirator will also keep you safe from flu, measles, TB and other airborne viruses. It will keep those around you safe if you’re sick.
It’s an easy way to demonstrate community care and solidarity.
A well fitted respirator will also keep you safe from flu, measles, TB and other airborne viruses. It will keep those around you safe if you’re sick.
It’s an easy way to demonstrate community care and solidarity.
February 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Remember that a mask does more than protect against covid.
A well fitted respirator will also keep you safe from flu, measles, TB and other airborne viruses. It will keep those around you safe if you’re sick.
It’s an easy way to demonstrate community care and solidarity.
A well fitted respirator will also keep you safe from flu, measles, TB and other airborne viruses. It will keep those around you safe if you’re sick.
It’s an easy way to demonstrate community care and solidarity.
"I am not leaving my patients": What it's like to treat trans kids under Trump www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"I am not leaving my patients": What it's like to treat trans kids under Trump
A Nebraska doctor on Trump's new barriers—and old lies—around gender-affirming care.
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February 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"I am not leaving my patients": What it's like to treat trans kids under Trump www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I understand it took Hitler 53 days to dismantle a democracy. What is happening within the US government should be alarming to everyone inside and outside the United States. Calling this a kakistocracy may turn out to be an understatement.
February 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I understand it took Hitler 53 days to dismantle a democracy. What is happening within the US government should be alarming to everyone inside and outside the United States. Calling this a kakistocracy may turn out to be an understatement.
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This is an absolute disaster.
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is an absolute disaster.
This is absolutely terrifying. www.reuters.com/world/uk/mus...
Musk's team given access to U.S. government payment system, New York Times says
A Treasury official tried to stop the move, and has since retired, the Times reported.
www.reuters.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is absolutely terrifying. www.reuters.com/world/uk/mus...
Wrist reminders today. I won't be erased.
February 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Wrist reminders today. I won't be erased.
Musk is leading a coup.
This story is bananas.
"A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20 ... They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency's headquarters, which contains the director's office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort."
"A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20 ... They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency's headquarters, which contains the director's office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort."
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Musk is leading a coup.
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According to leaked emails, CDC staff have been ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5pm today.
January 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
According to leaked emails, CDC staff have been ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5pm today.
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Dear Mitch McConnell,
I want you to know, before you shuffle off this mortal coil, that you are the single person who bears the most blame for the ongoing destruction of the United States Government. You knew better. You did it anyway.
I want you to know, before you shuffle off this mortal coil, that you are the single person who bears the most blame for the ongoing destruction of the United States Government. You knew better. You did it anyway.
January 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Dear Mitch McConnell,
I want you to know, before you shuffle off this mortal coil, that you are the single person who bears the most blame for the ongoing destruction of the United States Government. You knew better. You did it anyway.
I want you to know, before you shuffle off this mortal coil, that you are the single person who bears the most blame for the ongoing destruction of the United States Government. You knew better. You did it anyway.
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NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world.
The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world.
The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
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Simply put: we need y'all to get fucking angry. We need y'all to be pissed. We need y'all to reflect what we're feeling right now. We need to know that you feel our collective pulse.
At bare minimum--the very bare minimum--we need y'all to show some goddamn fire.
At bare minimum--the very bare minimum--we need y'all to show some goddamn fire.
February 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Simply put: we need y'all to get fucking angry. We need y'all to be pissed. We need y'all to reflect what we're feeling right now. We need to know that you feel our collective pulse.
At bare minimum--the very bare minimum--we need y'all to show some goddamn fire.
At bare minimum--the very bare minimum--we need y'all to show some goddamn fire.
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It's not that rhetoric isn't useful. It's that not only is there an absence of a plan to combat what we're seeing, but on top of that, the rhetoric from many Democratic lawmakers feels detached. The messaging is ludicrously subdued. Unhelpfully formal. There is a massive failure in reading the room.
February 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
It's not that rhetoric isn't useful. It's that not only is there an absence of a plan to combat what we're seeing, but on top of that, the rhetoric from many Democratic lawmakers feels detached. The messaging is ludicrously subdued. Unhelpfully formal. There is a massive failure in reading the room.
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Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
February 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
An important idea for dealing with Trump, from north of the border
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An important idea for dealing with Trump, from north of the border
Friends,
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February 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
An important idea for dealing with Trump, from north of the border
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"Sir, the House Democratic Caucus is failing to meet this moment. By a lot. There were ten weeks between Election Day and Inauguration, and it’s not as though y’all didn’t know in advance the rough sketch for what’s occurred over the past eight days."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/leader-jef...
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Leader Jeffries: God Gave Us Free Will -- Use It
We have enough prayers. We need action.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"Sir, the House Democratic Caucus is failing to meet this moment. By a lot. There were ten weeks between Election Day and Inauguration, and it’s not as though y’all didn’t know in advance the rough sketch for what’s occurred over the past eight days."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/leader-jef...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/leader-jef...
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Read, share, act.
January 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Read, share, act.
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Trump is essentially carrying out an illegal shutdown of the federal government, putting tens of millions of American lives at risk.
Dems in Congress: this is a very easy call. Announce an immediate boycott of all nominations and legislation until federal funding is restored.
Dems in Congress: this is a very easy call. Announce an immediate boycott of all nominations and legislation until federal funding is restored.
January 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Trump is essentially carrying out an illegal shutdown of the federal government, putting tens of millions of American lives at risk.
Dems in Congress: this is a very easy call. Announce an immediate boycott of all nominations and legislation until federal funding is restored.
Dems in Congress: this is a very easy call. Announce an immediate boycott of all nominations and legislation until federal funding is restored.
Clearly illegal
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Clearly illegal
This isn't about cutting the size of government. It's about further concentrating power in Trump's hands.
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January 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Clearly illegal
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