@friznitz5.bsky.social
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
These ppl are beyond worthless. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Lawmakers reach deal to end government shutdown: Live updates
A test vote on Sunday marked a turning point in the monthlong stalemate.
www.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
These ppl are beyond worthless. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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This is it. It's one thing to ask us to sacrifice for the greater good. To sacrifice to help those of us with less. But you asked us to sacrifice and then settled for... nothing. Just pain. Fuck you people. This isn't a fucking game. You don't stand for anything. You don't deserve to have a job.
Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is it. It's one thing to ask us to sacrifice for the greater good. To sacrifice to help those of us with less. But you asked us to sacrifice and then settled for... nothing. Just pain. Fuck you people. This isn't a fucking game. You don't stand for anything. You don't deserve to have a job.
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The proposal by Bhattacharya to use data from Indian Health Services to study autism is outrageous and should be fought tooth and nail.
I have had the honor of working with Tribes on research projects. The steps for approval are many and lengthy, as they should be for this vulnerable population.
I have had the honor of working with Tribes on research projects. The steps for approval are many and lengthy, as they should be for this vulnerable population.
April 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The proposal by Bhattacharya to use data from Indian Health Services to study autism is outrageous and should be fought tooth and nail.
I have had the honor of working with Tribes on research projects. The steps for approval are many and lengthy, as they should be for this vulnerable population.
I have had the honor of working with Tribes on research projects. The steps for approval are many and lengthy, as they should be for this vulnerable population.
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“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
www.freep.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”
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Y’all know what to do
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Y’all know what to do
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I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?
April 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?
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The ability of people to access federal programs should not be a function of whether federal administrators personally like or dislike a state's governor. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...
Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback
Acting commissioner Leland Dudek called Maine Gov. Janet Mills a “petulant child” for defying Donald Trump.
www.huffpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The ability of people to access federal programs should not be a function of whether federal administrators personally like or dislike a state's governor. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...
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A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York.
But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.
But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.
Mom, 3 kids detained in ‘horrifying’ ICE probe in Northern NY
The family has been transferred out of New York state.
www.syracuse.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York.
But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.
But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.
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Exactly zero people in the military want this. Summer is annual training season for the National Guard and Reserve units. It's PCS season for active duty. The 14th is usually a day off for the Army. No one wants to cancel their training schedule in order to practice Drill and Ceremony. ZERO PEOPLE.
“.. According to a D.C. source with knowledge of the plan that’s still being developed, Trump has commandeered Saturday, June 14 — the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army and, as it happens, Trump’s 79th birthday — for his military parade.”
@wcp.bsky.social
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7618...
@wcp.bsky.social
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7618...
April 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Exactly zero people in the military want this. Summer is annual training season for the National Guard and Reserve units. It's PCS season for active duty. The 14th is usually a day off for the Army. No one wants to cancel their training schedule in order to practice Drill and Ceremony. ZERO PEOPLE.
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Encouraging news I would've missed if it weren't for Liz's weekly update: "The Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution proposing a Mutual Defense Compact in which members of the Big Ten conference will pool funding and legal, policy, and communications capacity and expertise."
More of this!
More of this!
I flew home from #SciTalk25 last night, so this week’s Meeting the Moment debrief was written at altitude, while I watched lightning pulse in thunderclouds.
What’s happening in science & higher ed: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Thread to come after some much needed coffee and hiking.
What’s happening in science & higher ed: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Thread to come after some much needed coffee and hiking.
April 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Encouraging news I would've missed if it weren't for Liz's weekly update: "The Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution proposing a Mutual Defense Compact in which members of the Big Ten conference will pool funding and legal, policy, and communications capacity and expertise."
More of this!
More of this!
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Absolutely incredible photo choice here. A+
April 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Absolutely incredible photo choice here. A+
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I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
Every accusation is an admission. Every. Single. Time.
Bombshell in North Carolina: the state's GOP-dominated Court of Appeals just sided with the GOP candidate in last year's supreme court race.
Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.
Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.
April 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every accusation is an admission. Every. Single. Time.
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I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
Her Fetus Has No Heartbeat—They Still Won't Give Her An Abortion
South Carolina's ban is torturing a 31-year-old mom *right now*
jessica.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
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Hahahaha go fuck yourself Elon
April 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Hahahaha go fuck yourself Elon
Roast this fucking grifter shithead.
So @garrettshanley.bsky.social, the Univ of Florida student journalist who broke the Ben Sasse scandal wide open, has another banger today about Florida's surgeon general, who has almost nothing to show for his six-figure, second job as a tenured prof at UF
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
April 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Roast this fucking grifter shithead.
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they are not just ending careers with these layoffs, the functional result is going cauterize entire career *paths.* you cannot possibly overstate the damage these layoffs are doing to the ability for anyone to have a career of "being a scientist" in this country.
April 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
they are not just ending careers with these layoffs, the functional result is going cauterize entire career *paths.* you cannot possibly overstate the damage these layoffs are doing to the ability for anyone to have a career of "being a scientist" in this country.
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Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
April 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
@vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov let’s go. Time to flush these fetid turds. Need to see ppl in handcuffs.
NEW: DOGE is trying to gift itself a building worth $500 million, court filings show. It's the culmination of a dramatic battle between DOGE and the United States Institute of Peace, a Congressionally funded think tank. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
@vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov let’s go. Time to flush these fetid turds. Need to see ppl in handcuffs.
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To state this plainly: DOGE forced out the directors and staff of a nonexecutive agency, installed one of its own GSA staffers as president, and that person is now attempting to hand the institute’s $500 million headquarters over to the agency he came from, at zero cost.
April 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
To state this plainly: DOGE forced out the directors and staff of a nonexecutive agency, installed one of its own GSA staffers as president, and that person is now attempting to hand the institute’s $500 million headquarters over to the agency he came from, at zero cost.
Farcical bullshit
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Internal fallout at HHS delays 10,000 firings
At the center of the controversy, officials tell POLITICO, is the HHS DOGE lead’s secretive approach and his attempts to shield one agency he has ties to from the reduction in force process.
www.politico.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Farcical bullshit
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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He is wrong. He has a worm in his brain and it is constantly arguing for more worms. Be normal for once!
March 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
He is wrong. He has a worm in his brain and it is constantly arguing for more worms. Be normal for once!