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“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.”
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The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance
Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.
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April 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.”
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We’ve talked about this before, but we wanted to expand on it a little more. Late last week, Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) effectively took control of the Department of the Interior without a single Senate confirmation, public hearing, or vote.
April 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We’ve talked about this before, but we wanted to expand on it a little more. Late last week, Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) effectively took control of the Department of the Interior without a single Senate confirmation, public hearing, or vote.
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“No fresh fruit has entered Gaza in over a month. Our last protein ingredients have already been cooked.”
In Gaza, World Central Kitchen @wck.org is among the last organizations still able to cook meals. The IDF has shut all crossings to shipments, including humanitarian relief. We are now nearing the end of our supplies—and the limits of what’s possible.
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GAZA UPDATE | WCK among last organizations still cooking
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April 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
“No fresh fruit has entered Gaza in over a month. Our last protein ingredients have already been cooked.”
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RFK Jr’s HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth. It receives on average 2,100 contacts a day. This is metaphorically telling LGBTQ youth they can go kill themselves. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
RFK Jr’s HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth. It receives on average 2,100 contacts a day. This is metaphorically telling LGBTQ youth they can go kill themselves. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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'Those include an article about Holocaust survivor Kitty Saks, which remembers the Holocaust as “the state-sponsored, systemic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry”; an article about Holocaust Remembrance Week; and an article titled “A Cadet’s Perspective: Holocaust Days of Remembrance.”'
The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.
Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention | CNN Politics
Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the ...
www.cnn.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'Those include an article about Holocaust survivor Kitty Saks, which remembers the Holocaust as “the state-sponsored, systemic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry”; an article about Holocaust Remembrance Week; and an article titled “A Cadet’s Perspective: Holocaust Days of Remembrance.”'
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get in losers we're doing chicken eugenics www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article)
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
get in losers we're doing chicken eugenics www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
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March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Feel like any headline that leaves out that Canadians need to SUBMIT TO BEING FINGERPRINTED is being derelict.
For anyone else digging into what this headline actually means, here's the story.
tl;dr Canadians staying longer than 30 days in the US will need to register with the govt starting April 11.
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tl;dr Canadians staying longer than 30 days in the US will need to register with the govt starting April 11.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
Canadians in US for over 30 days will be required to register with government
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March 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Feel like any headline that leaves out that Canadians need to SUBMIT TO BEING FINGERPRINTED is being derelict.
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🚨 After promising to lower costs, the Administration is proposing to raise the cost of health care by:
- Eliminating $0 premium plans from the Affordable Care Act marketplace
- Making it harder to enroll and re-enroll in coverage
- Creating more bureaucracy
- Eliminating $0 premium plans from the Affordable Care Act marketplace
- Making it harder to enroll and re-enroll in coverage
- Creating more bureaucracy
March 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
🚨 After promising to lower costs, the Administration is proposing to raise the cost of health care by:
- Eliminating $0 premium plans from the Affordable Care Act marketplace
- Making it harder to enroll and re-enroll in coverage
- Creating more bureaucracy
- Eliminating $0 premium plans from the Affordable Care Act marketplace
- Making it harder to enroll and re-enroll in coverage
- Creating more bureaucracy
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Quick check to see who our allies are now: if 9/11 happened today, who would actually help us find who did it? Canada? No. The EU? No. We are alone except for Israel and maybe Russia, which is too preoccupied to help, and whose “help” would be bad. We are so incredibly unsafe and effectively fucked.
March 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Quick check to see who our allies are now: if 9/11 happened today, who would actually help us find who did it? Canada? No. The EU? No. We are alone except for Israel and maybe Russia, which is too preoccupied to help, and whose “help” would be bad. We are so incredibly unsafe and effectively fucked.
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So why did so many executives at Fortune 500 companies vote for him and donate to his campaign?
They saw him do stupid protectionism in his first term, and could easily see that the responsible economic leaders who kept up some guardrails wouldn't be a part of the administration this time.
Whoops.
They saw him do stupid protectionism in his first term, and could easily see that the responsible economic leaders who kept up some guardrails wouldn't be a part of the administration this time.
Whoops.
Doug Ford: "It's not even the Republicans I speak to. Behind closed doors, all of them are saying, 'This is crazy, what's he doing.' CEOs of the largest Fortune 500 companies are telling him, 'This does not work. Protectionism doesn't work.'"
March 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So why did so many executives at Fortune 500 companies vote for him and donate to his campaign?
They saw him do stupid protectionism in his first term, and could easily see that the responsible economic leaders who kept up some guardrails wouldn't be a part of the administration this time.
Whoops.
They saw him do stupid protectionism in his first term, and could easily see that the responsible economic leaders who kept up some guardrails wouldn't be a part of the administration this time.
Whoops.
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76 House Dems joined Republicans in voting to repeal a Biden rule requiring cryptocurrency brokers to adhere to the same tax reporting rules as stock brokers.
A yes vote is a pro-fraud, pro-tax-evasion vote here.
A yes vote is a pro-fraud, pro-tax-evasion vote here.
March 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
76 House Dems joined Republicans in voting to repeal a Biden rule requiring cryptocurrency brokers to adhere to the same tax reporting rules as stock brokers.
A yes vote is a pro-fraud, pro-tax-evasion vote here.
A yes vote is a pro-fraud, pro-tax-evasion vote here.
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"the State Department plans to use the technology to help review the social-media posts of tens of thousands of student-visa holders so that the department may revoke visas held by students who appear to support designated terror groups, according to Axios."
DOGE’s Plans to Replace Humans With AI Are Already Under Way
The civil service is being turned over to machines.
www.theatlantic.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"the State Department plans to use the technology to help review the social-media posts of tens of thousands of student-visa holders so that the department may revoke visas held by students who appear to support designated terror groups, according to Axios."
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“The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff.”
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.
That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.
The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
March 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff.”
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A former Education Department staffer said the entire Office for Civil Rights teams in Philly, Chicago, SF, Cleveland, Boston and NY were let go. That represents half of regional civil rights offices.
Via @kalynbelsha.bsky.social and @ericameltzer.bsky.social
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/11/e...
Via @kalynbelsha.bsky.social and @ericameltzer.bsky.social
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/11/e...
Linda McMahon didn’t need a Trump executive order to make big Education Department layoffs
The layoffs, combined with recent staff buyouts, mean that the number of Education Department staff has dropped by nearly 50% in the last two weeks. President Donald Trump has expressed a desire to cl...
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March 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A former Education Department staffer said the entire Office for Civil Rights teams in Philly, Chicago, SF, Cleveland, Boston and NY were let go. That represents half of regional civil rights offices.
Via @kalynbelsha.bsky.social and @ericameltzer.bsky.social
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/11/e...
Via @kalynbelsha.bsky.social and @ericameltzer.bsky.social
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/11/e...
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“Johns Hopkins has bet very heavily on a century and a quarter of partnership with the federal government. If the federal government decides it doesn’t want to know things anymore, that would be bad for Johns Hopkins and devastating for Maryland.”
The largest private employer in Baltimore just lost $800 million in federal contracts and grants. This recession is going to be a doozy.
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
“Johns Hopkins has bet very heavily on a century and a quarter of partnership with the federal government. If the federal government decides it doesn’t want to know things anymore, that would be bad for Johns Hopkins and devastating for Maryland.”
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This congressionally-mandated institution is how we know about the state of education in America. Literally turning off the lights.
I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.
March 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This congressionally-mandated institution is how we know about the state of education in America. Literally turning off the lights.
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1. EXCLUSIVE
The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them
As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles
It is an unethical and likely illegal practice
The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them
As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles
It is an unethical and likely illegal practice
Veterans Administration therapists forced to provide mental health counseling in open cubicles
As part of the Trump administration's frenzied push to end remote work arrangements for federal government workers, the Veterans Administration (VA) is forcing therapists to provide mental health coun...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
1. EXCLUSIVE
The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them
As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles
It is an unethical and likely illegal practice
The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them
As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles
It is an unethical and likely illegal practice
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oh wow a Democrat who knows how to message succinctly and effectively what's happening here why do I smell toast
March 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
oh wow a Democrat who knows how to message succinctly and effectively what's happening here why do I smell toast
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Thread on Oregon Senator Wyden's event that he held in lieu of attending Trump's insult comedy improv reunion tour at the site of his attempted 2021 coup. Sen. Wyden is very good at his job.
Wyden’s “over my dead body” attitude toward the privatization of social security on the senate finance committee is bracing, but I also think he just made a really impactful smart point about how Medicaid cuts mean nursing homes will close in Oregon. that might be a useful data point for some folks
March 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Thread on Oregon Senator Wyden's event that he held in lieu of attending Trump's insult comedy improv reunion tour at the site of his attempted 2021 coup. Sen. Wyden is very good at his job.