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This is telling: People I spoke to are talking about CDC in the past tense.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say
"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.
www.statnews.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is telling: People I spoke to are talking about CDC in the past tense.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...
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Coming up on Friday at 1 pm ET, a free webinar on How to Build a Community of Changemakers (Even If You Feel Alone).
A recording will be made available to everyone who registers at the link.
Hope you'll join us.
gaia-leadership-project.kit.com/changemaker
A recording will be made available to everyone who registers at the link.
Hope you'll join us.
gaia-leadership-project.kit.com/changemaker
How to Build a Community of Changemakers (Even If You Feel Alone)
gaia-leadership-project.kit.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Coming up on Friday at 1 pm ET, a free webinar on How to Build a Community of Changemakers (Even If You Feel Alone).
A recording will be made available to everyone who registers at the link.
Hope you'll join us.
gaia-leadership-project.kit.com/changemaker
A recording will be made available to everyone who registers at the link.
Hope you'll join us.
gaia-leadership-project.kit.com/changemaker
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Trump closing Social Security field offices in:
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Montana
N. Carolina
N. Dakota
Nevada
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Texas
West Virginia
Wyoming
Mississippi, NC hardest hit. Full list here:
apnews.com/article/soci...
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Montana
N. Carolina
N. Dakota
Nevada
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Texas
West Virginia
Wyoming
Mississippi, NC hardest hit. Full list here:
apnews.com/article/soci...
A list of the Social Security offices across the US expected to close this year
Twenty-six Social Security Administration offices across the country are expected to close this year, due to actions taken by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
apnews.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Trump closing Social Security field offices in:
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Montana
N. Carolina
N. Dakota
Nevada
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Texas
West Virginia
Wyoming
Mississippi, NC hardest hit. Full list here:
apnews.com/article/soci...
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Montana
N. Carolina
N. Dakota
Nevada
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Texas
West Virginia
Wyoming
Mississippi, NC hardest hit. Full list here:
apnews.com/article/soci...
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💥 BREAKING: Walt Disney Company shareholders voted today 99-1 percent to reject an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal, requesting that the company sever its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign and HRC's Corporate Equality Index. Disney Board recommended shareholders vote against the proposal.
March 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
💥 BREAKING: Walt Disney Company shareholders voted today 99-1 percent to reject an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal, requesting that the company sever its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign and HRC's Corporate Equality Index. Disney Board recommended shareholders vote against the proposal.
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Elon Musk has already poured $12+ million into an effort to shift control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to right-wing judicial activists.
This is an unprecedented effort to seize control of a powerful state court. And it won’t be the last.
Here’s the full story:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This is an unprecedented effort to seize control of a powerful state court. And it won’t be the last.
Here’s the full story:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Has Become All About Elon Musk
The richest man in the world is the biggest spender on behalf of a right-wing effort to take control of a state Supreme Court.
www.thenation.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Elon Musk has already poured $12+ million into an effort to shift control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to right-wing judicial activists.
This is an unprecedented effort to seize control of a powerful state court. And it won’t be the last.
Here’s the full story:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This is an unprecedented effort to seize control of a powerful state court. And it won’t be the last.
Here’s the full story:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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I'm trying to imagine a world where far right figures like Bill Cooper or G. Gordon Liddy would be ok with the president invoking an act that allowed warrantless police entry to anyone's house for the thinnest possible reason.
Will any "conservative" stand up to this violation of civil liberty?
Will any "conservative" stand up to this violation of civil liberty?
NEW: According to the @nytimes.com, the Trump administration is planning to argue that its invocation of the Alien Enemies Act allows it to enter the homes of any person who they believe are subject to the declaration WITHOUT A WARRANT. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
March 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'm trying to imagine a world where far right figures like Bill Cooper or G. Gordon Liddy would be ok with the president invoking an act that allowed warrantless police entry to anyone's house for the thinnest possible reason.
Will any "conservative" stand up to this violation of civil liberty?
Will any "conservative" stand up to this violation of civil liberty?
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What’s actually happening is a pattern of very bad, even dangerous, courtroom conduct by Trump lawyers, I guess thinking that being MAGA entitles them to special rules and privileges — but not so. Here are examples.
March 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What’s actually happening is a pattern of very bad, even dangerous, courtroom conduct by Trump lawyers, I guess thinking that being MAGA entitles them to special rules and privileges — but not so. Here are examples.
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"If Lutnick's Democratic predecessor, Gina Raimondo, took such a step -- urging Americans to buy stock in a company led by Joe Biden’s top campaign contributor -- it seems likely that more than a few congressional Republicans would call for her resignation..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Why is Trump’s Commerce secretary urging the public to buy Tesla stock?
Howard Lutnick told a national television audience to buy a specific stock tied to the sitting president’s top campaign donor.
www.msnbc.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"If Lutnick's Democratic predecessor, Gina Raimondo, took such a step -- urging Americans to buy stock in a company led by Joe Biden’s top campaign contributor -- it seems likely that more than a few congressional Republicans would call for her resignation..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Elon Musk, Amy Gleason, and DOGE employees from access to Social Security Administration systems containing personally identifiable information, orders them also to delete any previously obtained non-anonymized SSA information.
March 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Elon Musk, Amy Gleason, and DOGE employees from access to Social Security Administration systems containing personally identifiable information, orders them also to delete any previously obtained non-anonymized SSA information.
Read this!
“They took my shoes and pulled out my shoelaces.
'What are you doing? What is happening?’ I asked.
'You are being detained.’
'I don’t understand. What does that mean? For how long?’
'I don’t know.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
'What are you doing? What is happening?’ I asked.
'You are being detained.’
'I don’t understand. What does that mean? For how long?’
'I don’t know.’”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Read this!
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In Michigan, 2.8 million people on Medicaid are at risk of losing their health care under the Republican budget proposal, including 300,000 people with disabilities and 168,000 seniors.
Whitmer, Dingell sound alarm about potential Medicaid cuts, what it means for Michigan
“Too many people do not understand what the impact will be on our children, our seniors, our people with disabilities if they cut Medicaid,” said Dingell, D-Ann Arbor.
www.mlive.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
In Michigan, 2.8 million people on Medicaid are at risk of losing their health care under the Republican budget proposal, including 300,000 people with disabilities and 168,000 seniors.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration programs protect the Great Lakes, a natural treasure that provides drinking water to millions of Americans.
The firing of staff puts these programs at risk. My colleagues and I are working to get answers.
The firing of staff puts these programs at risk. My colleagues and I are working to get answers.
March 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration programs protect the Great Lakes, a natural treasure that provides drinking water to millions of Americans.
The firing of staff puts these programs at risk. My colleagues and I are working to get answers.
The firing of staff puts these programs at risk. My colleagues and I are working to get answers.
Countries around the world are rapidly adding solar and wind capacity, now cheaper and more reliable than ever, a new analysis shared with The New York Times shows. Here's a country-by-country snapshot of existing clean-energy capacity on land, and where there’s room to grow.
Here’s What the Rise of Clean Energy Looks Like From Space
New data from a constellation of satellites 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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The federal health department escalated the Trump administration’s campaign against transgender protections, releasing public guidance that asserts a person’s sex is “unchangeable” and launching a website that promotes orders aimed at transgender people.
RFK Jr. targets transgender protections in one of first moves at HHS
New Department of Health and Human Services guidance asserts a person’s sex is “unchangeable.”
www.washingtonpost.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The federal health department escalated the Trump administration’s campaign against transgender protections, releasing public guidance that asserts a person’s sex is “unchangeable” and launching a website that promotes orders aimed at transgender people.
This is great advice and strategy!
February 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This is great advice and strategy!
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Hey, guess what has suddenly disappeared from the HHS website?
Any mention of this $306M investment in pandemic flu preparedness that was approved in the last days of the Biden administration.
Not DEI. Not USAID. Our surveillance & response program around H5N1.
Any mention of this $306M investment in pandemic flu preparedness that was approved in the last days of the Biden administration.
Not DEI. Not USAID. Our surveillance & response program around H5N1.
Biden administration allocates $306m in its final days for bird flu response
‘Critical’ funding comes as H5N1 outbreak intensifies and will go toward developing a response to the virus
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Hey, guess what has suddenly disappeared from the HHS website?
Any mention of this $306M investment in pandemic flu preparedness that was approved in the last days of the Biden administration.
Not DEI. Not USAID. Our surveillance & response program around H5N1.
Any mention of this $306M investment in pandemic flu preparedness that was approved in the last days of the Biden administration.
Not DEI. Not USAID. Our surveillance & response program around H5N1.
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“Legal experts say granting Musk and his team access to such sensitive government data potentially contravenes multiple federal statutes, including the Privacy Act of 1974, the FISMA and the CFAA, as well as strict taxpayer privacy provisions under the Internal Revenue Code”
time.com/7212753/trum...
time.com/7212753/trum...
Is Trump Breaking Federal Laws? We Asked Legal Experts
Is Trump Breaking Federal Laws? We Asked Legal Experts
time.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
“Legal experts say granting Musk and his team access to such sensitive government data potentially contravenes multiple federal statutes, including the Privacy Act of 1974, the FISMA and the CFAA, as well as strict taxpayer privacy provisions under the Internal Revenue Code”
time.com/7212753/trum...
time.com/7212753/trum...
Yes!!
There is still beauty in this world
Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:
February 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Yes!!
Wow!!!
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Wow!!!
Playing nice is a over rated reaction to evil!
Fight fire with 🔥
It's time for the gloves to come off!
Fight fire with 🔥
It's time for the gloves to come off!
www.rawstory.com/stop-playing...
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!
'Stop playing nice!' AOC mad at Dem colleagues refusing to 'block everything' in Congress
Hours after Democratic lawmakers warned that billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of federal agencies is "what the beginning of dictatorship looks like," expressed outrage at being barred from entering th...
www.rawstory.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Playing nice is a over rated reaction to evil!
Fight fire with 🔥
It's time for the gloves to come off!
Fight fire with 🔥
It's time for the gloves to come off!
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We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
February 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!