It’s not the Big Beautiful Bill. It’s not even the Big Bad Bill.
It’s the MAGA Murder Bill.

SB 37 one step closer to law: Political appointees would have more control over Texas universities’ courses and hiring under bill OK’d by House www.texastribune.org/2025/05/24/t... via @texastribune.org

Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

An insightful and important read

"Antisemitism in the Oval Office: A confrontation seen with a historian's eye"
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They're using fear to bully you into compliance.

Fear of losing your job, your savings, your Medicare/medicaid, your rights, your freedom.

They're using fear to bully our allies, to break our alliances and promises.

What do they have to fear?

Nothing so far.

That needs to change.

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.

Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:

🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the minerals that fuel our world

youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.

Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:

🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in Central America

youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:

🏈Bought 66,000 metric tons of crops from American farmers and shipped them overseas to feed 8 million people on the brink of famine youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
#saveforeignaid

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful.

Here’s how we
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.

Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

If you have never been to the Texas Book Festival, mark your calendars for Nov 2025. A top two Austin cultural event, holding its own compared to many other book festivals. Significant Latinx author attendance & some bilingual sessions. Typically, glorious weather.

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