@mamayea.bsky.social
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Trump & Noem continuing to screw over NC.
September 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Trump & Noem continuing to screw over NC.
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trump falsely claimed throughout his campaign that biden's fema couldn't afford to help north carolina hurricane victims because the money was spent on immigration
The DHS Secretary says Florida will receive funds from FEMA to build immigration prisons.
Depraved af.
Depraved af.
June 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
trump falsely claimed throughout his campaign that biden's fema couldn't afford to help north carolina hurricane victims because the money was spent on immigration
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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I dug into Trump's budget over the weekend and here are 3 things you might not see in the news that I think are really important to know about.
June 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I dug into Trump's budget over the weekend and here are 3 things you might not see in the news that I think are really important to know about.
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Tired: Disaster relief from FEMA
Wired: Tax cuts for billionaires
Wired: Tax cuts for billionaires
May 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Tired: Disaster relief from FEMA
Wired: Tax cuts for billionaires
Wired: Tax cuts for billionaires
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Republicans are negotiating a massive legislative package to realize President Trump’s domestic agenda.
To help offset the impact on the federal deficit, they plan to make hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid.
Here's what to know ⤵️
To help offset the impact on the federal deficit, they plan to make hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid.
Here's what to know ⤵️
How Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Cost 8 Million People Health Coverage
Republicans in Congress are negotiating a massive legislative package to realize President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda, and it won’t come cheap. Legislation advanced by House Republicans would cut taxes by almost $4.5 trillion over a decade and add hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending for defense, border wall construction, immigrant detention centers and other administration priorities.
bloom.bg
May 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Republicans are negotiating a massive legislative package to realize President Trump’s domestic agenda.
To help offset the impact on the federal deficit, they plan to make hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid.
Here's what to know ⤵️
To help offset the impact on the federal deficit, they plan to make hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid.
Here's what to know ⤵️
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Oh.
JUST IN: NPR has learned that rules must now be vetted by the White House and that the administration is drafting an executive order that could loosen radiation limits.
By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social
By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social
Trump tightens control of independent agency overseeing nuclear safety
NPR has learned that rules must now be vetted by the White House and that the administration is drafting an executive order that could loosen radiation limits.
www.npr.org
May 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Oh.
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The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Instead of making them pay it, Trump is going to cut environmental, health research, and education funding to cover it.
This is what a corrupt oligarchy looks like.
Instead of making them pay it, Trump is going to cut environmental, health research, and education funding to cover it.
This is what a corrupt oligarchy looks like.
May 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Instead of making them pay it, Trump is going to cut environmental, health research, and education funding to cover it.
This is what a corrupt oligarchy looks like.
Instead of making them pay it, Trump is going to cut environmental, health research, and education funding to cover it.
This is what a corrupt oligarchy looks like.
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The Trump administration is already the most corrupt in American history. By far.
This is just icing on the cake.
This is just icing on the cake.
🚨BREAKING: Trump's IRS nominee Billy Long just had his personal debt paid off by donors whose firms have business before the tax agency he’d lead, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
If confirmed, Long would be able to do favors for the donors. www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...
If confirmed, Long would be able to do favors for the donors. www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...
Trump IRS Pick Was Just Enriched By Tax Schemers
New documents show Billy Long’s $130,000 personal debt was suddenly paid off by donors at firms policed by the tax agency he’d lead.
www.levernews.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The Trump administration is already the most corrupt in American history. By far.
This is just icing on the cake.
This is just icing on the cake.
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'Doug the Diva'...
Demanding freshly-baked cookies.
Ordering political appointees to serve food.
Using U.S. Parks Police helicopters for transportation.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum sure is good at wasting our tax dollars.
GIFT ARTICLE to read/share.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Demanding freshly-baked cookies.
Ordering political appointees to serve food.
Using U.S. Parks Police helicopters for transportation.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum sure is good at wasting our tax dollars.
GIFT ARTICLE to read/share.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Cabinet Secretary Who Wants His Cookies Freshly Baked
The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.
www.theatlantic.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
'Doug the Diva'...
Demanding freshly-baked cookies.
Ordering political appointees to serve food.
Using U.S. Parks Police helicopters for transportation.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum sure is good at wasting our tax dollars.
GIFT ARTICLE to read/share.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Demanding freshly-baked cookies.
Ordering political appointees to serve food.
Using U.S. Parks Police helicopters for transportation.
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum sure is good at wasting our tax dollars.
GIFT ARTICLE to read/share.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
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They're going to kill Libby and all your other library book reading apps, programs funded by Congress which the administration (and certainly not Elon or his teen Nazi psychopath goons) has no power to shut down.
Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action
Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action
March 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
They're going to kill Libby and all your other library book reading apps, programs funded by Congress which the administration (and certainly not Elon or his teen Nazi psychopath goons) has no power to shut down.
Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action
Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action
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In case you doubted that he’s a russian asset, know that VOA was instrumental in keeping the hope of freedoms alive in the Soviet Union and is hated with a passion by putin for exactly that. This is no accident.
JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.
'Bloody Saturday' at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks
Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.
www.npr.org
March 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
In case you doubted that he’s a russian asset, know that VOA was instrumental in keeping the hope of freedoms alive in the Soviet Union and is hated with a passion by putin for exactly that. This is no accident.
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Trump is STILL - RIGHT NOW - tweeting about Tesla. He's spent more time protecting the richest man in the world's profits than he has protecting healthcare, education, jobs, or veterans in the last 6 weeks as president.
March 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Trump is STILL - RIGHT NOW - tweeting about Tesla. He's spent more time protecting the richest man in the world's profits than he has protecting healthcare, education, jobs, or veterans in the last 6 weeks as president.
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Trump is bulldozing the Education Department, which helps homeless and disabled kids gain access to school, while he does a car commercial at the White House for the richest man in the world.
Robber barons are waging class warfare on the rest of us.
Robber barons are waging class warfare on the rest of us.
March 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Trump is bulldozing the Education Department, which helps homeless and disabled kids gain access to school, while he does a car commercial at the White House for the richest man in the world.
Robber barons are waging class warfare on the rest of us.
Robber barons are waging class warfare on the rest of us.
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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The same Republicans who have refused to do anything about school shootings, let hungry kids starve, rolled back child labor laws & defunded childhood cancer research are now using a single young boy as prop.
If they truly cared about him they wouldn’t be gutting the programs designed to help him.
If they truly cared about him they wouldn’t be gutting the programs designed to help him.
March 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The same Republicans who have refused to do anything about school shootings, let hungry kids starve, rolled back child labor laws & defunded childhood cancer research are now using a single young boy as prop.
If they truly cared about him they wouldn’t be gutting the programs designed to help him.
If they truly cared about him they wouldn’t be gutting the programs designed to help him.
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This is one of the most insane things particularly from MAGA-pilled capitalists in either Silicon Valley or Wall Street. What other economy do you actually want?
March 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is one of the most insane things particularly from MAGA-pilled capitalists in either Silicon Valley or Wall Street. What other economy do you actually want?
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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
February 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
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Excellent post
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Excellent post
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These 44 Republicans voted against forest management wildfire prevention in December.
44 Republicans Voted Against Forest Management Wildfire Prevention in December
The funds allow states like California to create barriers to stop the spread of fires
meidasnews.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
These 44 Republicans voted against forest management wildfire prevention in December.
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
January 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
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The President's action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Los Angeles County. Individuals and business owners who sustained losses in the designated areas can begin applying for assistance by registering online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov yubanet.com/california/p...
President Biden Approves Major Disaster Declaration for California
WASHINGTON — FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of California to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by wildfires and straight-line winds from Jan....
yubanet.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The President's action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Los Angeles County. Individuals and business owners who sustained losses in the designated areas can begin applying for assistance by registering online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov yubanet.com/california/p...
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