Amanda McMillan
@amandamac919.bsky.social
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The Social Security Administration announced new measures that will require millions of Americans who file for benefits by phone to verify their identity using an online system or provide documentation in person at a field office.
Social Security to require millions to make claims in person rather than by phone
The change is expected to create new hardships as Trump and Musk push massive cuts to the agency that serves elderly and disabled Americans.
wapo.st
March 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Social Security Administration announced new measures that will require millions of Americans who file for benefits by phone to verify their identity using an online system or provide documentation in person at a field office.
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(All to pay for tax breaks for the rich)
March 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
(All to pay for tax breaks for the rich)
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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When your president is also a car salesman.
Trump Shills Musk's Tesla Cars Outside White House, Buys One
When your president is also a car salesman.
www.huffpost.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
When your president is also a car salesman.
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Exclusive: The National Institutes of Health will cancel or cut back dozens of grants for research on why some people are reluctant to be vaccinated and how to increase acceptance of vaccines, according to an internal email obtained by The Washington Post on Monday.
NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake
The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Exclusive: The National Institutes of Health will cancel or cut back dozens of grants for research on why some people are reluctant to be vaccinated and how to increase acceptance of vaccines, according to an internal email obtained by The Washington Post on Monday.
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Because of historic investments in foundational research, we have effective treatments for lethal conditions today. A retrenchment of American science could mean that people will suffer from the many illnesses for which we currently have little to offer.
Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science
Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.
www.newyorker.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Because of historic investments in foundational research, we have effective treatments for lethal conditions today. A retrenchment of American science could mean that people will suffer from the many illnesses for which we currently have little to offer.
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Because of historic investments in foundational research, we have effective treatments for lethal conditions today. A retrenchment of American science could mean that people will suffer from the many illnesses for which we currently have little to offer.
Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science
Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.
www.newyorker.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Because of historic investments in foundational research, we have effective treatments for lethal conditions today. A retrenchment of American science could mean that people will suffer from the many illnesses for which we currently have little to offer.
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Yesterday proved why North Carolina needs an Attorney General who can challenge unlawful executive orders.
We won an injunction against an order that would have cut hundreds of millions in research funding from our public universities and research institutions.
We won an injunction against an order that would have cut hundreds of millions in research funding from our public universities and research institutions.
March 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Yesterday proved why North Carolina needs an Attorney General who can challenge unlawful executive orders.
We won an injunction against an order that would have cut hundreds of millions in research funding from our public universities and research institutions.
We won an injunction against an order that would have cut hundreds of millions in research funding from our public universities and research institutions.
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The new show “Paradise” involves climate disaster, nuclear war, and perhaps most acutely, the insurgency of the billionaire class in politics. “The rapacity of Elon Musk . . . is a clear inspiration for the drama,” Doreen St. Félix writes.
“Paradise” Is Manna for the Moment
The clanking didacticism of Dan Fogelman’s new Hulu series, which involves climate disaster, nuclear war, and the insurgency of the billionaire class in politics, is deeply satisfying.
www.newyorker.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The new show “Paradise” involves climate disaster, nuclear war, and perhaps most acutely, the insurgency of the billionaire class in politics. “The rapacity of Elon Musk . . . is a clear inspiration for the drama,” Doreen St. Félix writes.
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Congressional Republicans, egged on by Elon Musk and other top allies of President Trump, are escalating calls to remove federal judges who stand in the way of administration efforts to overhaul the government.
Musk and Republican Lawmakers Pressure Judges with Impeachment Threats
Democrats say the calls to remove judges who block Trump administration initiatives amount to intimidation. Some senior Republicans were also skeptical of the effort.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Congressional Republicans, egged on by Elon Musk and other top allies of President Trump, are escalating calls to remove federal judges who stand in the way of administration efforts to overhaul the government.
My dad—a retired general with 30+ years of service—was in the VA hospice last year as he neared the end of his life. Having been bounced around by an inadequate senior care system comprising privately run rehabs, he landed at the VA broken and exhausted. We all felt broken and exhausted.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins took to social media to tout sweeping cuts to contracts that he said would save the department nearly $2 billion.
But the 875 contracts on the chopping block help cover medical services, fund cancer programs and provide burial services to veterans.
But the 875 contracts on the chopping block help cover medical services, fund cancer programs and provide burial services to veterans.
DOGE to cancel government contracts that help veterans, records show
Records show among the 875 contracts were arrangements to help medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors and provide burial services to veterans.
wapo.st
February 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My dad—a retired general with 30+ years of service—was in the VA hospice last year as he neared the end of his life. Having been bounced around by an inadequate senior care system comprising privately run rehabs, he landed at the VA broken and exhausted. We all felt broken and exhausted.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins took to social media to tout sweeping cuts to contracts that he said would save the department nearly $2 billion.
But the 875 contracts on the chopping block help cover medical services, fund cancer programs and provide burial services to veterans.
But the 875 contracts on the chopping block help cover medical services, fund cancer programs and provide burial services to veterans.
DOGE to cancel government contracts that help veterans, records show
Records show among the 875 contracts were arrangements to help medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors and provide burial services to veterans.
wapo.st
February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins took to social media to tout sweeping cuts to contracts that he said would save the department nearly $2 billion.
But the 875 contracts on the chopping block help cover medical services, fund cancer programs and provide burial services to veterans.
But the 875 contracts on the chopping block help cover medical services, fund cancer programs and provide burial services to veterans.
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Researchers say the Trump administration's plan to slash payments for indirect costs will hamper new medical science. One example? A lab studying respiratory viruses faces losing half its staff.
Medical research labs brace for possible funding cuts that could disrupt their work
Researchers say the Trump administration's plan to slash payments for indirect costs will hamper new medical science. One example? A lab studying respiratory viruses faces losing half its staff.
www.npr.org
February 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Researchers say the Trump administration's plan to slash payments for indirect costs will hamper new medical science. One example? A lab studying respiratory viruses faces losing half its staff.
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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
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NEW resources on our website: Flyer Template (Canva) • Marching 101 • Know Your Rights • Find a Protest • Host a Protest • Digital Safety • Virtual Actions
Head to www.FiftyFifty.one to join the movement!
#50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social
Head to www.FiftyFifty.one to join the movement!
#50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
NEW resources on our website: Flyer Template (Canva) • Marching 101 • Know Your Rights • Find a Protest • Host a Protest • Digital Safety • Virtual Actions
Head to www.FiftyFifty.one to join the movement!
#50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social
Head to www.FiftyFifty.one to join the movement!
#50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social
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Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
MILWAUKEE—Growing more despondent as each turn brought them no closer to a conclusion, an exhausted group of friends was reportedly coming to the realization Friday that they had been playing the boar...
theonion.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
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Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.
After landing his dream job as a park ranger, he’s ‘heartbroken’ to be let go in federal cuts | CNN
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despit...
www.cnn.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.
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The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.
apnews.com/article/blac...
apnews.com/article/blac...
NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
apnews.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.
apnews.com/article/blac...
apnews.com/article/blac...
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A critical point.
February 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A critical point.
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The fun thing about America having centuries of unbroken institutional legitimacy is that the President can publicly say "I am doing a coup, illegally, in order to break the law for my own benefit" and 95% of people on both sides will say, "Oh no, he's not, that'd be crazy."
February 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The fun thing about America having centuries of unbroken institutional legitimacy is that the President can publicly say "I am doing a coup, illegally, in order to break the law for my own benefit" and 95% of people on both sides will say, "Oh no, he's not, that'd be crazy."
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"I've spent over five decades as a scientist in academia and the federal government," Harold Varmus, the former director of the N.I.H., writes in a guest essay. "Never before have I seen my profession so politicized as it is now under the Trump administration."
Opinion | American Science is Under Attack
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"I've spent over five decades as a scientist in academia and the federal government," Harold Varmus, the former director of the N.I.H., writes in a guest essay. "Never before have I seen my profession so politicized as it is now under the Trump administration."
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Breaking News: A federal judge temporarily blocked the National Institutes of Health from enacting President Trump’s cuts to research funding in 22 states.
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funding
A coalition of 22 attorneys general sued the federal government, claiming that the $4 billion in cuts would “grind to a halt” studies on cancer, heart disease and other conditions.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Breaking News: A federal judge temporarily blocked the National Institutes of Health from enacting President Trump’s cuts to research funding in 22 states.
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