Carly Champagne
@drchampagne.bsky.social
👩🏻🎓 Educational psychology PhD
🏢 Former HHS policy specialist courtesy of D0G3
🎹 Singer/songwriter
🏢 Former HHS policy specialist courtesy of D0G3
🎹 Singer/songwriter
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Republicans’ Plan:
Step One: Fire thousands of workers who manage our public lands
Step Two: Say these lands aren’t being managed and need to be transferred to states
Step Three: Sell the lands off to the highest bidder
www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...
Step One: Fire thousands of workers who manage our public lands
Step Two: Say these lands aren’t being managed and need to be transferred to states
Step Three: Sell the lands off to the highest bidder
www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...
Feds Fire 4,400+ Public-Land Employees, Including Forest Service Workers, National Park Staff
Massive layoffs at the Department of the Interior included thousands of U.S. Forest Service and National Park employees.
www.outdoorlife.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Republicans’ Plan:
Step One: Fire thousands of workers who manage our public lands
Step Two: Say these lands aren’t being managed and need to be transferred to states
Step Three: Sell the lands off to the highest bidder
www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...
Step One: Fire thousands of workers who manage our public lands
Step Two: Say these lands aren’t being managed and need to be transferred to states
Step Three: Sell the lands off to the highest bidder
www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...
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Trans rep Brianna Titone is running for statewide office in Colorado!
I know her personally and know she would be incredible at the job of State Treasurer. Go give her some support.
I know her personally and know she would be incredible at the job of State Treasurer. Go give her some support.
💥 History in the making: I’m running for CO State Treasurer! If elected, I’ll be the first openly transgender person elected to statewide executive office in the nation.
🔗 DONATE: secure.actblue.com/donate/brian...
🔗 Learn more & get involved: www.briannaforco.com
🔗 DONATE: secure.actblue.com/donate/brian...
🔗 Learn more & get involved: www.briannaforco.com
I just gave to Brianna Titone!
Show your support with a contribution.
secure.actblue.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Trans rep Brianna Titone is running for statewide office in Colorado!
I know her personally and know she would be incredible at the job of State Treasurer. Go give her some support.
I know her personally and know she would be incredible at the job of State Treasurer. Go give her some support.
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Breaking: A federal judge sides with Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota and has just blocked Trump's anti-trans EO banning care under the age of 19 via a TRO.
This is the second federal judge in a row to conclude that the President's EO is likely unconstitutional.
This is the second federal judge in a row to conclude that the President's EO is likely unconstitutional.
February 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Breaking: A federal judge sides with Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota and has just blocked Trump's anti-trans EO banning care under the age of 19 via a TRO.
This is the second federal judge in a row to conclude that the President's EO is likely unconstitutional.
This is the second federal judge in a row to conclude that the President's EO is likely unconstitutional.
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Sonya Massey was shot and killed in her home by an Illinois sheriff’s deputy in 2024 after she called 911 for help. On Wednesday, on what would have been Massey’s 37th birthday, her family announced a $10 million wrongful death settlement with the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office.
Family of a Woman Killed in Her Home by a Sheriff’s Deputy Wins $10M Settlement
“My heart is heavy today. This is my daughter’s birthday,” said Sonya Massey’s father in a press conference Wednesday.
buff.ly
February 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Sonya Massey was shot and killed in her home by an Illinois sheriff’s deputy in 2024 after she called 911 for help. On Wednesday, on what would have been Massey’s 37th birthday, her family announced a $10 million wrongful death settlement with the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office.
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Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽
February 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽
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Parents living on the Northern Ute reservation are coaching their children to memorize their tribal ID numbers in case they are stopped by immigration officers. Many say they are scared to leave reservation lands — and even their homes.
Ute parents coach kids to memorize tribal ID and phone numbers, fearing ICE sweeps near reservation
Heightened immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump’s administration has sent a wave of anxiety over the Ute Indian Tribe and others across the country, where Indigenous citizens fear they could be profiled.
www.sltrib.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Parents living on the Northern Ute reservation are coaching their children to memorize their tribal ID numbers in case they are stopped by immigration officers. Many say they are scared to leave reservation lands — and even their homes.
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Please consider sharing.
February 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Please consider sharing.
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DOGE and and Trump have gone after and weakened or even halted enforcement at least 11 federal agencies which have been investigating Musk's companies.
The agencies have at least 32 continuing investigations, pending complaints, or enforcement actions into Musk’s six companies.
The agencies have at least 32 continuing investigations, pending complaints, or enforcement actions into Musk’s six companies.
Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
DOGE and and Trump have gone after and weakened or even halted enforcement at least 11 federal agencies which have been investigating Musk's companies.
The agencies have at least 32 continuing investigations, pending complaints, or enforcement actions into Musk’s six companies.
The agencies have at least 32 continuing investigations, pending complaints, or enforcement actions into Musk’s six companies.
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That so-called hotline Nancy Mace claimed to set up to encourage victims to come forward?
Nobody actually answers—and leading domestic violence advocates in Mace’s home state say they don’t want victims to call. @juliannemcshane.bsky.social has the scoop:
Nobody actually answers—and leading domestic violence advocates in Mace’s home state say they don’t want victims to call. @juliannemcshane.bsky.social has the scoop:
Please don't use Nancy Mace's so-called victim hotline, advocates say
No one picks up. That's not a hotline—it's Nancy's answering machine.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
That so-called hotline Nancy Mace claimed to set up to encourage victims to come forward?
Nobody actually answers—and leading domestic violence advocates in Mace’s home state say they don’t want victims to call. @juliannemcshane.bsky.social has the scoop:
Nobody actually answers—and leading domestic violence advocates in Mace’s home state say they don’t want victims to call. @juliannemcshane.bsky.social has the scoop:
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‘It’s demoralizing’: Trump’s climate funding freeze has left tribes and community groups in limbo.
Despite court orders to release federal grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.
grist.org/politics/its...
#Climate
Despite court orders to release federal grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.
grist.org/politics/its...
#Climate
‘It’s demoralizing’: Trump’s climate funding freeze has left tribes and community groups in limbo
Despite court orders to release grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.
grist.org
February 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
‘It’s demoralizing’: Trump’s climate funding freeze has left tribes and community groups in limbo.
Despite court orders to release federal grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.
grist.org/politics/its...
#Climate
Despite court orders to release federal grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.
grist.org/politics/its...
#Climate
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NEWS: Eight fired inspectors general are suing to get their jobs back, saying Trump's terminations were illegal.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
February 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
NEWS: Eight fired inspectors general are suing to get their jobs back, saying Trump's terminations were illegal.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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NEW: Despite having one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country, Indiana Republicans advanced a bill to end a nearly 20-year-long law and ban student ID cards as an acceptable form of voter ID.
Senate Republicans advance bill to ban use of student IDs when voting
Students at public colleges and universities in Indiana have been allowed to use their IDs when casting a ballot for about two decades.
mirrorindy.org
February 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
NEW: Despite having one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the country, Indiana Republicans advanced a bill to end a nearly 20-year-long law and ban student ID cards as an acceptable form of voter ID.
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The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox
February 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox
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Update: 15 confirmed cases. Health officials are racing to offer vaccines to unvaccinated children, they're operating a mobile unit to screen for cases, pre-treating exposed infants. Schools & hospitals are on alert.
Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.
Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.
🚨Measles mounts in an undervaccinated Texas county. Hospitalizations & 9 cases. Many more expected.
This may be the first big outbreak of 2025 but probably not the last, with vaccine misinformation espoused at the highest levels of government.
My latest:
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
This may be the first big outbreak of 2025 but probably not the last, with vaccine misinformation espoused at the highest levels of government.
My latest:
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Measles Outbreak Mounts Among Children in One of Texas’ Least Vaccinated Counties - KFF Health News
With hospitalizations and at least a dozen cases, health officials race to contain a growing outbreak in a community with low vaccination.
kffhealthnews.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Update: 15 confirmed cases. Health officials are racing to offer vaccines to unvaccinated children, they're operating a mobile unit to screen for cases, pre-treating exposed infants. Schools & hospitals are on alert.
Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.
Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.
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The Center for Journalism & Democracy that I founded at Howard U is launching its "Truth Over Power" training and speaker series. Up first, hands-on digital security training for journalists. Journalists: This free training will help you protect yourself & sources. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Center for Journalism & Democracy that I founded at Howard U is launching its "Truth Over Power" training and speaker series. Up first, hands-on digital security training for journalists. Journalists: This free training will help you protect yourself & sources. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I'm not sure how to explain how financially devastating this will be for universities. This is, literally, catastrophic for universities and for science in the United States.
⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I'm not sure how to explain how financially devastating this will be for universities. This is, literally, catastrophic for universities and for science in the United States.
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Surprisingly, we find ourselves thanking a Trump appointee—so thank you, Judge. Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia announced after a hearing that he would issue a temporary restraining order to halt the imminent administrative leave of 2,200 USAID employees.
February 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Surprisingly, we find ourselves thanking a Trump appointee—so thank you, Judge. Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia announced after a hearing that he would issue a temporary restraining order to halt the imminent administrative leave of 2,200 USAID employees.
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Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
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They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.
February 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.
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Exxon is quietly planning a new $8.6 billion plastics plant in Texas.
Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Texas #Plastic #Exxon #Pollution
Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Texas #Plastic #Exxon #Pollution
Exxon is quietly planning a new $8.6 billion plastics plant in Texas
Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.
grist.org
February 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Exxon is quietly planning a new $8.6 billion plastics plant in Texas.
Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Texas #Plastic #Exxon #Pollution
Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Texas #Plastic #Exxon #Pollution
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maga is literally a resegregation movement
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
maga is literally a resegregation movement
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New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."
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"Musk isn't going to obey the law, so who cares."
"The Supreme Court will just throw out the case, so who cares."
"Republicans aren't going to let us have elections, so who cares."
I'm blocking these people on sight now.
Doomerist defeatism isn't helping anyone here. Log off and touch grass.
"The Supreme Court will just throw out the case, so who cares."
"Republicans aren't going to let us have elections, so who cares."
I'm blocking these people on sight now.
Doomerist defeatism isn't helping anyone here. Log off and touch grass.
February 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Musk isn't going to obey the law, so who cares."
"The Supreme Court will just throw out the case, so who cares."
"Republicans aren't going to let us have elections, so who cares."
I'm blocking these people on sight now.
Doomerist defeatism isn't helping anyone here. Log off and touch grass.
"The Supreme Court will just throw out the case, so who cares."
"Republicans aren't going to let us have elections, so who cares."
I'm blocking these people on sight now.
Doomerist defeatism isn't helping anyone here. Log off and touch grass.