Beth DaPonte
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Beth DaPonte
@b-daponte.bsky.social
Evaluation expert, consultant, mother, wifey, aunt, sister, with a fetish for pianos and old houses.
Trump has delegated authority to Musk to demand that nurses for the Veterans Administration justify their jobs. Actions like this put all current and future care for veterans at risk.
#veterans #VA #Musk
February 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Infectious Disease>Public Health

Removing Health Data From Government Websites Puts Patients at Risk, Experts Warn.

— Getting rid of the data "doesn't eliminate the diseases themselves or the risks they pose"

by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today

www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Removing Health Data From Government Websites Puts Patients at Risk, Experts Warn
Getting rid of the data 'doesn't eliminate the diseases themselves or the risks they pose'
www.medpagetoday.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This is the best, succinct piece that I've seen on the contemporary role of the philanthropic sector.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
Opinion | The Impossible Math of Philanthropy (Gift Article)
There’s a reason so many seemingly well-funded causes fail to move the needle.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The more Musk is demonized for DOGE, the less attention and rhetoric is spent on the true culprits- Trump and the Republican party. Put the blame where the accountability is.
February 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Muskrat has taken to suing companies for not advertising on Twitter. The shakedowns continue.
www.npr.org/2025/02/01/n...
Elon Musk's X sues Lego, Nestlé and more brands, accusing them of advertising boycott
The new defendants added into the legal filing included Lego, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Pinterest and Shell International.
www.npr.org
February 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hero alert! Inspector General Phyllis Fong was standing up for accountability at the USDA and for that, was escorted out of her workplace. #phyllisfong
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
Exclusive: USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House
Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Reposted by Beth DaPonte
House Republicans are headed to Miami for their annual policy retreat.

Our expert Noah Daponte-Smith says the goal is to forge a consensus among the Republican factions – with the complication that Johnson basically can't lose any GOP votes.

@gzeromedia.com
Republicans’ beachside budget battles
House Republicans are snowbirding from Washington, DC, to Florida’s Miami area this week for their annual policy retreat where they have to figure out how to fund a laundry list of legislative promise...
www.gzeromedia.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM