Diane Christopherson
@revdrdi.bsky.social
This Halloween, please consider offering food in addition to sweet treats to your trick or treaters. There's a house in my neighborhood that gives out canned food and every kid talks about it. It is THE house to hit.
#halloween #snap #foodinsecurity
#halloween #snap #foodinsecurity
October 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
Tell Costco: Don't Cave to Extremists—Dispense Mifepristone Now!
Costco has announced that its pharmacies will NOT dispense mifepristone—a safe, FDA-approved abortion pill used in the majority of abortions nationwide. This dangerous decision is a concession to anti...
sign.moveon.org
September 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
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The Department of Energy is quietly slashing disability rights
The Department of Energy is quietly slashing disability rights
"If we don't put a line in the sand here, other agencies will try and do the same.”
www.motherjones.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The Department of Energy is quietly slashing disability rights
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Fossil fuels get something like 20B in direct subsidies and 950B in untaxed externalities.
The tax credits to zero emissions tech payback 3-4 to 1, only considering climate impacts and not the health costs.
impactlab.org/news-insight....
The tax credits to zero emissions tech payback 3-4 to 1, only considering climate impacts and not the health costs.
impactlab.org/news-insight....
June 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Fossil fuels get something like 20B in direct subsidies and 950B in untaxed externalities.
The tax credits to zero emissions tech payback 3-4 to 1, only considering climate impacts and not the health costs.
impactlab.org/news-insight....
The tax credits to zero emissions tech payback 3-4 to 1, only considering climate impacts and not the health costs.
impactlab.org/news-insight....
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"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.'
But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women."
www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women."
www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change
A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.
www.npr.org
June 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.'
But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women."
www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women."
www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
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"Mobilizing military forces into cities is going to be seen as an overreach, and it's going to be now met with peaceful, boisterous moms, dads, grandmas. kids and their dogs and families showing up, saying, 'we're not going to put up with this authoritarianism..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Planned ‘No Kings’ protests grow in number after LA militarization: What organizers expect
'The numbers have skyrocketed': protest organizers expect massive crowds nationwide on June 14, including up to 250,000 in Los Angeles.
www.usatoday.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"Mobilizing military forces into cities is going to be seen as an overreach, and it's going to be now met with peaceful, boisterous moms, dads, grandmas. kids and their dogs and families showing up, saying, 'we're not going to put up with this authoritarianism..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Noem’s Goons crossed the reddest of red lines by attacking and handcuffing a U.S. Senator. In times past Senators of both parties would have rallied behind their fellow Senator and called Noem and her henchmen into the Senate to demand their resignations. MAGA Senators will do nothing.
#ProudBlue
#ProudBlue
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
June 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Noem’s Goons crossed the reddest of red lines by attacking and handcuffing a U.S. Senator. In times past Senators of both parties would have rallied behind their fellow Senator and called Noem and her henchmen into the Senate to demand their resignations. MAGA Senators will do nothing.
#ProudBlue
#ProudBlue
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LGBTQ people and allies use art and prayer to remember the 49 martyrs killed in the massacre at the Pulse gay bar on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Jesus is pictured as one of the shooting victims in “Pulse Christ” by liturgical artist James Day. qspirit.net/orlando-mart...
Orlando martyrs: Pulse gay nightclub massacre recalled in art and prayer
LGBTQ people and allies use art and prayer to remember the 49 martyrs killed in the massacre at the Pulse gay bar on June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida.
qspirit.net
June 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
LGBTQ people and allies use art and prayer to remember the 49 martyrs killed in the massacre at the Pulse gay bar on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Jesus is pictured as one of the shooting victims in “Pulse Christ” by liturgical artist James Day. qspirit.net/orlando-mart...
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The most inspiring chapters in our nation's history came when Americans faced down some of our country's darkest demons.
Those moments, like our own, were difficult to live through but also brought the chance to bring out the best in us, with enduring consequences.
Those moments, like our own, were difficult to live through but also brought the chance to bring out the best in us, with enduring consequences.
June 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The most inspiring chapters in our nation's history came when Americans faced down some of our country's darkest demons.
Those moments, like our own, were difficult to live through but also brought the chance to bring out the best in us, with enduring consequences.
Those moments, like our own, were difficult to live through but also brought the chance to bring out the best in us, with enduring consequences.
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The entire board tasked with overseeing the State Department's Fulbright Program has resigned — claiming political interference from the Trump admin.
The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement
Effective immediately, members of the Congressionally mandated Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board voted overwhelmingly to resign from the board, rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we beli...
substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The entire board tasked with overseeing the State Department's Fulbright Program has resigned — claiming political interference from the Trump admin.
The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Bipartisan House Members Urge Secretary Rubio to Save Program Tracking Kidnapped Ukrainian Children
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Bipartisan House Members Urge Secretary Rubio to Save Program Tracking Kidnapped Ukrainian Children
Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), an active member of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, led a bipartisan group of colleagues in urging State Secretary Marco Rubio to...
doggett.house.gov
June 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Bipartisan House Members Urge Secretary Rubio to Save Program Tracking Kidnapped Ukrainian Children
doggett.house.gov/media/press-...
doggett.house.gov/media/press-...
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It should be a priority for these guys to be informed somehow that ICE gets hotel rooms.
Where are the Marines going to bunk?
Where are the Marines going to bunk?
EXCLUSIVE:
CA National Guard troops sent by Trump to LA amid immigration protests are sleeping on concrete floors. No fed funding for food, water, fuel, equipment or lodging.
Source: “Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight”
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
CA National Guard troops sent by Trump to LA amid immigration protests are sleeping on concrete floors. No fed funding for food, water, fuel, equipment or lodging.
Source: “Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight”
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
‘Wildly underprepared’: National Guard troops seen sleeping on floors in exclusive photos
State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.
www.sfchronicle.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It should be a priority for these guys to be informed somehow that ICE gets hotel rooms.
Where are the Marines going to bunk?
Where are the Marines going to bunk?
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Peaceful protest is the bedrock of our movement.
Thousands demonstrated exactly that – coming together to demand the release of David Huerta and to call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
Thousands demonstrated exactly that – coming together to demand the release of David Huerta and to call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
June 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Peaceful protest is the bedrock of our movement.
Thousands demonstrated exactly that – coming together to demand the release of David Huerta and to call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
Thousands demonstrated exactly that – coming together to demand the release of David Huerta and to call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
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This isn’t even remotely legal what he is doing.
June 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This isn’t even remotely legal what he is doing.
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Desperately starving people do not queue in orderly lines. It is utterly ridiculous to set up the area around the distribution site as a combat zone between 6 PM and 6 AM so if anybody shows up early they get murdered. This is a shooting gallery. This doesn't comply with any of the best practices.
June 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Desperately starving people do not queue in orderly lines. It is utterly ridiculous to set up the area around the distribution site as a combat zone between 6 PM and 6 AM so if anybody shows up early they get murdered. This is a shooting gallery. This doesn't comply with any of the best practices.
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June 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.
June 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.
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Pam Bondi is making a lot of claims about Garcia that he isn't being charged with.
If he smuggled weapons and drugs, why isn't that charged? if he solicited explicit child videos - why isn't that charged either?
If he smuggled weapons and drugs, why isn't that charged? if he solicited explicit child videos - why isn't that charged either?
June 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Pam Bondi is making a lot of claims about Garcia that he isn't being charged with.
If he smuggled weapons and drugs, why isn't that charged? if he solicited explicit child videos - why isn't that charged either?
If he smuggled weapons and drugs, why isn't that charged? if he solicited explicit child videos - why isn't that charged either?
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"If we sit with this list a little longer, though, with attention to the history of the world we share, we can see a different unifying logic. All of these countries are in the global south, their citizens are racialized as Black or brown and Muslim. Most have high poverty rates."
What unites countries under Trump’s travel ban is American imperialism | Heba Gowayed
US’s cruel escalation of policy puts misplaced target on vulnerable nations such as Afghanistan and Sudan
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"If we sit with this list a little longer, though, with attention to the history of the world we share, we can see a different unifying logic. All of these countries are in the global south, their citizens are racialized as Black or brown and Muslim. Most have high poverty rates."
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Law Professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social catches DOJ in a contradiction in the Abrego Garcia case. A major one.
Bondi DOJ has a problem.
On left:
DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas
On right:
DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"
On left:
DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas
On right:
DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"
June 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Law Professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social catches DOJ in a contradiction in the Abrego Garcia case. A major one.
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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
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This updates and confirms previous analyses by Adam on the distribution of probationary cuts. DOGE was broadly a downsizing project, but a highly ideological one.
9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies.
They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.
They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.
June 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This updates and confirms previous analyses by Adam on the distribution of probationary cuts. DOGE was broadly a downsizing project, but a highly ideological one.
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What?!
"Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation."
"Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation."
reuters.com
www.reuters.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
What?!
"Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation."
"Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation."