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Watch “Amazon Tipping Point,” the Third-Place Winner of the 2025 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest: bit.ly/45rcAz2
August 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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blueskyoldschool.bsky.social
Ain't No Mountain High Enough (1967)
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
April 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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jaylyall.bsky.social
Trump Administration Irate at Harvard, Plans to Pull Additional $1 Billion in Funding for Health Research

Trump apparently thought Harvard would cave and also believed that its demands would be kept confidential
Exclusive | Trump Administration Irate at Harvard, Plans to Pull Additional $1 Billion in Funding
The university publicized a government demand letter that asked for federal oversight of the campus.
www.wsj.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Justice Alito's dissent (joined by Justice Thomas) from Saturday's 1 AM SCOTUS order forbidding removal of the Venezuelan plaintiffs assumes there was no real emergency. Is that naive, disingenuous, or callous? On the blog, I explain where the dissent goes wrong. 👇
www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/04/is-a...
Is the Alito/Thomas Dissent From the 1 AM Order Naive, Disingenuous, or Callous?
Just before 1 AM on the morning of Saturday, April 19, the Supreme Court issued an order directing the U.S. government not to remove (i.e.,...
www.dorfonlaw.org
April 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
An Associated Press reporter was was blocked from an Oval Office event today because the publication "did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America."
AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
www.ap.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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crockett.house.gov
Here's what NO ONE asked for: turning the IRS into ICE.

Maybe that’s the plan—make the IRS too busy trying to deport folks so they can’t go after billionaire tax cheats like Trump.

Elites don't care who gets hurt as long as they can steal from the rest of us. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Dept. of Homeland Security wants IRS to help with immigration enforcement
The request marks the Trump administration’s latest effort to devote more federal resources to fulfill his campaign pledge to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.

Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
SUBJECT: Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs 'The American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar. In Fiscal Year 2024. of the nearly $10 trillion that the Federal Government spent, more than $3 trillion was Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans. Career and political appointees in the Executive Branch have a duty to align Federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through Presidential priorities. Financial assistance should be dedicated to advancing Administration priorities, focusing taxpayer dollars to advance a stronger and safer America, eliminating the financial burden of inflation for citizens, unleashing American energy and manufacturing, ending wokeness" and the weaponization of government, promoting efficiency in government, and Making America Healthy Again. The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve. This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's policies and requirements. For example, during the initial days of his Administration, President Donald J Trump issued a series of executive orders to protect the American people and safeguard valuable taxpayer resources, including Protecting the American People Against Invasion (Jan. 20, 2025). Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid (Jan 20, 2025), Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements (Jan. 20, 2025). Unleashing American Energy (Jan. 20. 2025). Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (Jan. 20. ent these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all jal assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that any of the President's executive orders. In the interian, to the extent applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency nay be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial surice tot foreign nongovernmental organizations, DEL woke gender ideology, and the pause will provide the Administration time to review agency programs of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the he temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00 rehensive analysis. Federal agencies must immediately deadlines for assistance programs arising while the les must report this information to OMB along with an directs Federal agencies to pause all activities associated conducting merit review panels No later than Febrar - 10. 2025, agencies shail submit to OMB detailed information on any programs projects or activities subject to this pause. Each agency must pause. (i) issuance of disbursement of Federal funds under all open awards, and (il) other relevant has reviewed provided guidance to your agency with respect to the information act recordin grant and ptions allowing Federal agencies to issue new awards or take other case basis. To the extent required by law, Federal agencies may continue nistrative actions. such as closeout of Federal awards (2 CFR 200.344), or expressly required by law
January 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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shg29.bsky.social
With the incoming Trump administration preparing to push through deep cuts to #Medicaid, it's worth remembering that California's Medi-Cal program receives nearly 2/3 of all federal funds that flow through the #CABudget. Cuts would have devastating consequences for Californians. #HealthPolicy
November 25, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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Honored to build #power to #ReimagineCalWORKs with @seiuca.bsky.social #WCLP #ParentVoices #CCWRO #EPIC #CWDA
November 22, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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spinellicross.bsky.social
people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
November 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM