Brooks Fuentes
@brooksfountains.bsky.social
Breast Cancer survivor, community weaver, nonprofit collaborator, bi-cultural bb born in Mexico, nature is my happy place
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Since it looks like Trump is actually planning to sign an order to dismantle the Department of Education TODAY, this thread has my full illustrated explainer on what the department does (and doesn't) do. With alt text! 1/4
March 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Since it looks like Trump is actually planning to sign an order to dismantle the Department of Education TODAY, this thread has my full illustrated explainer on what the department does (and doesn't) do. With alt text! 1/4
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Big Tech has lived by, “Move Fast and Break Things.” So they destroyed everything quickly and now we are here.
No more.
Indigenous practices have always shown us that the way is to Move Slow and Repair Things. Plant, grow, replenish, reparations, regenerate.
No more.
Indigenous practices have always shown us that the way is to Move Slow and Repair Things. Plant, grow, replenish, reparations, regenerate.
February 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Big Tech has lived by, “Move Fast and Break Things.” So they destroyed everything quickly and now we are here.
No more.
Indigenous practices have always shown us that the way is to Move Slow and Repair Things. Plant, grow, replenish, reparations, regenerate.
No more.
Indigenous practices have always shown us that the way is to Move Slow and Repair Things. Plant, grow, replenish, reparations, regenerate.
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If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.
February 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.
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They are gutting NIH like a fish. www.splinter.com/the-unhinged...
The Unhinged Axe Falls on the National Cancer Institute and the Rest of NIH
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
They are gutting NIH like a fish. www.splinter.com/the-unhinged...
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The Louisiana health department revealed it will “no longer promote mass vaccination” in a memo issued the same day of RFK Jr's swearing-in.
Louisiana Makes Wild Move on Mass Vaccination
The memo was issued the same day RFK Jr., a documented vaccine pessimist, was sworn in as the nation’s new health secretary.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Louisiana health department revealed it will “no longer promote mass vaccination” in a memo issued the same day of RFK Jr's swearing-in.
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How did a drug rooted, like many, in seed money from the U.S. government — that is, American taxpayers — and spurred by the grassroots fundraising of desperate parents, end up with a $2 million per dose price tag?
Your weekend longread:
Your weekend longread:
What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices…
propub.li
February 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
How did a drug rooted, like many, in seed money from the U.S. government — that is, American taxpayers — and spurred by the grassroots fundraising of desperate parents, end up with a $2 million per dose price tag?
Your weekend longread:
Your weekend longread:
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New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
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🧵 What is Elon really doing?
One interesting thing to think about is that there has never been a way to access all the huge troves of data across the US government as a whole. Besides the computing challenge, it’s also been questionable given our basic values to create what would essentially be a Department of Information.
a man in a blue shirt says information is power in black letters
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says information is power in black letters
media.tenor.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🧵 What is Elon really doing?
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The federal funding freeze will be catastrophic for everyone.
There are immediate and long-term impacts across housing, healthcare, employment, education, retail, food, public services, and more.
Tell your elected official to fight the freeze immediately.
bit.ly/TELLthem
There are immediate and long-term impacts across housing, healthcare, employment, education, retail, food, public services, and more.
Tell your elected official to fight the freeze immediately.
bit.ly/TELLthem
January 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The federal funding freeze will be catastrophic for everyone.
There are immediate and long-term impacts across housing, healthcare, employment, education, retail, food, public services, and more.
Tell your elected official to fight the freeze immediately.
bit.ly/TELLthem
There are immediate and long-term impacts across housing, healthcare, employment, education, retail, food, public services, and more.
Tell your elected official to fight the freeze immediately.
bit.ly/TELLthem