April the Lilac Librarian
@lilacslibrarian.bsky.social
(she/her) Lover of lilacs, cats, books, and equity.
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🍂 💸 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Projections for Administration's Recent Bill
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Large Cuts to Medicaid & Food Stamp Program (SNAP)
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Large Cuts to Medicaid & Food Stamp Program (SNAP)
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out
Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut
Kicks 10 million off health insurance
Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut
Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut
Kicks 10 million off health insurance
Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut
Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
July 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🍂 💸 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Projections for Administration's Recent Bill
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Large Cuts to Medicaid & Food Stamp Program (SNAP)
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Large Cuts to Medicaid & Food Stamp Program (SNAP)
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RFK, the U.S. health secretary chose to “retire” all members of a committee that makes significant decisions about who receives immunizations, including the vaccines for children
What could go possibly go wrong
This is just insane, people, children, will suffer
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
What could go possibly go wrong
This is just insane, people, children, will suffer
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
RFK, the U.S. health secretary chose to “retire” all members of a committee that makes significant decisions about who receives immunizations, including the vaccines for children
What could go possibly go wrong
This is just insane, people, children, will suffer
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
What could go possibly go wrong
This is just insane, people, children, will suffer
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www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Light blue text around an image of Pluto on a black background which reads:
“There was no autism diagnosed before 1930.” Pluto wasn’t discovered until 1930, but I’m pretty sure it was there the whole fucking time.
“There was no autism diagnosed before 1930.” Pluto wasn’t discovered until 1930, but I’m pretty sure it was there the whole fucking time.
April 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Light blue text around an image of Pluto on a black background which reads:
“There was no autism diagnosed before 1930.” Pluto wasn’t discovered until 1930, but I’m pretty sure it was there the whole fucking time.
“There was no autism diagnosed before 1930.” Pluto wasn’t discovered until 1930, but I’m pretty sure it was there the whole fucking time.
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Some things you should know better than to do in 2025:
- reference having a spirit animal/inner Black woman! 🤡
- embody the role of devil's advocate as the devil needs no further advocacy whatsoever
- act like COVID ever ended
- be a Zionist! 🍉
- reference love languages
What else would folx add? 👀
- reference having a spirit animal/inner Black woman! 🤡
- embody the role of devil's advocate as the devil needs no further advocacy whatsoever
- act like COVID ever ended
- be a Zionist! 🍉
- reference love languages
What else would folx add? 👀
April 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Some things you should know better than to do in 2025:
- reference having a spirit animal/inner Black woman! 🤡
- embody the role of devil's advocate as the devil needs no further advocacy whatsoever
- act like COVID ever ended
- be a Zionist! 🍉
- reference love languages
What else would folx add? 👀
- reference having a spirit animal/inner Black woman! 🤡
- embody the role of devil's advocate as the devil needs no further advocacy whatsoever
- act like COVID ever ended
- be a Zionist! 🍉
- reference love languages
What else would folx add? 👀
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Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, the university president announced www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
April 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, the university president announced www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Here we go, the Trump admin has unlawfully frozen $2 billion in multi year grants and contracts to Harvard.
It's time for Harvard to bring a suit and stop this extortion racket for good.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
It's time for Harvard to bring a suit and stop this extortion racket for good.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Trump administration freezes $2 billion after Harvard rejects demands
The administration's demands included auditing viewpoints of the student body to address antisemitism at the expense of federal funding.
www.nbcnews.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Here we go, the Trump admin has unlawfully frozen $2 billion in multi year grants and contracts to Harvard.
It's time for Harvard to bring a suit and stop this extortion racket for good.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
It's time for Harvard to bring a suit and stop this extortion racket for good.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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BREAKING: U.S. Sees 2.793 Million COVID-19 Cases in a Week as COVID-19 Transmission Surges to 40.7%
Currently 1 in 120 Americans Infected.
Currently 1 in 120 Americans Infected.
April 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
BREAKING: U.S. Sees 2.793 Million COVID-19 Cases in a Week as COVID-19 Transmission Surges to 40.7%
Currently 1 in 120 Americans Infected.
Currently 1 in 120 Americans Infected.
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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
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They’re not just going after criminals. They’re taking away legal ways to enter the U.S. and kicking out people who entered “the right way.” Let’s call it what it is: this is about kicking out all immigrants who aren’t white.
Migrants who entered U.S. via Biden-era CBP One app stripped of legal status, told to leave "immediately"
Migrants who came to the U.S. via a Biden-era online appointment app have been told to leave "immediately" in a message from the Department of Homeland Security.
www.cbsnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’re not just going after criminals. They’re taking away legal ways to enter the U.S. and kicking out people who entered “the right way.” Let’s call it what it is: this is about kicking out all immigrants who aren’t white.
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Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back
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WHO estimates that six in 100 people, including children, with COVID-19 will develop Long COVID. In the U.S., one study estimates that 11 million people live with Long COVID. Symptoms can vary from mild to devastating and can persist for months or years. There's no cure.
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
Post COVID-19 condition (long COVID)
WHO fact sheet on post COVID-19 condition (long COVID), including key facts, scope of the problem, symptoms, treatment, self-care and prevention.
www.who.int
April 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
WHO estimates that six in 100 people, including children, with COVID-19 will develop Long COVID. In the U.S., one study estimates that 11 million people live with Long COVID. Symptoms can vary from mild to devastating and can persist for months or years. There's no cure.
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
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This is being systematically under-reported. Say it with us!
April 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is being systematically under-reported. Say it with us!
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
April 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
“DURING COVID IS RIGHT NOW!” Y’all I’m begging you to stop acting like Covid was a “one and done” thing that we are done with. Mask up.
This week my doctor dismissed my concerns about getting Covid again, saying, “well, it’s nothing to worry about. It’s not like you can get LONGER Covid” and, I dunno, with all the attacks on science from the government and coordinated astroturfing campaigns, that honestly broke something inside me.
Please stop saying "During COVID." People are still dying from this virus. People are still becoming disabled from it and contracting Long COVID. People are still not able to access the world and healthcare safely because of this virus. During COVID is right now.
April 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“DURING COVID IS RIGHT NOW!” Y’all I’m begging you to stop acting like Covid was a “one and done” thing that we are done with. Mask up.
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Worth the read.
Trump, Musk prove their folly by targeting libraries with spending cuts | Opinion
We citizens will soon realize the tragic human cost of President Trump's lawless drive for “government efficiency.”
www.dispatch.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Worth the read.
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MORE: Libraries in several states have received letters which claim to cancel federal IMLS grants.
Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
April 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
MORE: Libraries in several states have received letters which claim to cancel federal IMLS grants.
Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
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Maybe you didn't know that Black clergy launched a 40-day boycott of Target (corresponding with Lent, but heck, this Jew can count to 40 with the best of 'em!).
Or maybe you did - maybe you even started! But you forgot.
IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO GET [BACK] ON BOARD ⬇️
Or maybe you did - maybe you even started! But you forgot.
IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO GET [BACK] ON BOARD ⬇️
Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.
Target can't get its footing after its DEI program demise and a 40-day boycott against the retailer. Foot traffic at stores is down for the eighth consecutive week
For the week that began March 17, foot traffic fell 5.7% YoY for Target, according to data from Placer.ai.
fortune.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Maybe you didn't know that Black clergy launched a 40-day boycott of Target (corresponding with Lent, but heck, this Jew can count to 40 with the best of 'em!).
Or maybe you did - maybe you even started! But you forgot.
IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO GET [BACK] ON BOARD ⬇️
Or maybe you did - maybe you even started! But you forgot.
IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO GET [BACK] ON BOARD ⬇️
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Wrote about the Trump administration’s attacks on federal funding for libraries
“Make no mistake about it, the elimination of funding for libraries is a political assault on First Amendment rights, access to information, and the freedom to read,” one librarian said www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...
“Make no mistake about it, the elimination of funding for libraries is a political assault on First Amendment rights, access to information, and the freedom to read,” one librarian said www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...
Librarians Are Mad As Hell At The Trump Administration. They Think You Should Be, Too.
"The public needs to wake up before our libraries are gone," one "livid" librarian said.
www.huffpost.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Wrote about the Trump administration’s attacks on federal funding for libraries
“Make no mistake about it, the elimination of funding for libraries is a political assault on First Amendment rights, access to information, and the freedom to read,” one librarian said www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...
“Make no mistake about it, the elimination of funding for libraries is a political assault on First Amendment rights, access to information, and the freedom to read,” one librarian said www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...
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There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
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.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
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JUST IN: 470 Measles cases in Texas and New Mexico.
We’re not dealing with isolated events anymore.
This is regional surge.
A vaccine-preventable disease is exploding across two states while public health agencies offer press quotes instead of emergency declarations.
We’re not dealing with isolated events anymore.
This is regional surge.
A vaccine-preventable disease is exploding across two states while public health agencies offer press quotes instead of emergency declarations.
April 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
JUST IN: 470 Measles cases in Texas and New Mexico.
We’re not dealing with isolated events anymore.
This is regional surge.
A vaccine-preventable disease is exploding across two states while public health agencies offer press quotes instead of emergency declarations.
We’re not dealing with isolated events anymore.
This is regional surge.
A vaccine-preventable disease is exploding across two states while public health agencies offer press quotes instead of emergency declarations.
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7% of US adults have witnessed a mass shooting and 2% of adults have been injured in one
That's...that's a lot
www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
That's...that's a lot
www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
1 out of every 15 American adults have been at a mass shooting, according to University of Colorado study
A new study from the University of Colorado Boulder shows that 1 in 15 US adults have been on the scene of a mass shooting.
www.cbsnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
7% of US adults have witnessed a mass shooting and 2% of adults have been injured in one
That's...that's a lot
www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
That's...that's a lot
www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...