KC
@kcouncilor.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ dad | cartoonist | communication professor in CT 📓 | author of Between You and Me: Transitional Comics
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The headlines on Trump’s HHS review are getting better at least, acknowledging its major problems.
May 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The headlines on Trump’s HHS review are getting better at least, acknowledging its major problems.
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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So now they are arresting people accused of no crimes who are lawful residents of the United States.
Wow.
Wow.
This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
March 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
So now they are arresting people accused of no crimes who are lawful residents of the United States.
Wow.
Wow.
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So yeah I just watched this 8 times
WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
February 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
So yeah I just watched this 8 times
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You know this is 100% going to happen…
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
You know this is 100% going to happen…
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The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.
I just covered this for @thetransmitter.bsky.social — will keep following! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...
Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
www.thetransmitter.org
February 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.
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He's a puppet who comes out for shows when needed by the overlords who are working in the shadows writing executive orders for him to sign, taking apart the government, and setting up ways to target the people they hate. All they need to do to make him perform is feed him praise and tasty lies.
According to the trump Golf Tracker website, out of 29 days in office so far, trump has spent 7 of them golfing -- that's 24.14% ALREADY.
What a fucking freeloader.
What a fucking freeloader.
February 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
He's a puppet who comes out for shows when needed by the overlords who are working in the shadows writing executive orders for him to sign, taking apart the government, and setting up ways to target the people they hate. All they need to do to make him perform is feed him praise and tasty lies.
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People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity
February 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity
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The Chiefs have totally collapsed. Karma is real.
February 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The Chiefs have totally collapsed. Karma is real.
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The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying.
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February 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying.
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“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”
Everybody should read this. Talk about coups and the like is not helping, and in fact may give Trump what he wants. What does help is when you laugh at the foolishness of this strategy. He's setting himself up for a reckoning when things fall apart.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him (Gift Article)
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”
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The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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January 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order:
"It does nothing"
"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"
Will not comply.
"It does nothing"
"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"
Will not comply.
January 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order:
"It does nothing"
"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"
Will not comply.
"It does nothing"
"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"
Will not comply.
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“Everyone I know in public health and science more broadly is freaking out right now.”
Datasets are disappearing off of the CDC website (and we're hearing rumors that there will likely be more by the end of the day)
by @theresagaff.bsky.social at @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
Datasets are disappearing off of the CDC website (and we're hearing rumors that there will likely be more by the end of the day)
by @theresagaff.bsky.social at @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
CDC removes data on sexual orientation, gender identity from website
Data from an expansive federal survey on youth behavioral habits, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, have been removed from the website of the CDC.
www.statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“Everyone I know in public health and science more broadly is freaking out right now.”
Datasets are disappearing off of the CDC website (and we're hearing rumors that there will likely be more by the end of the day)
by @theresagaff.bsky.social at @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
Datasets are disappearing off of the CDC website (and we're hearing rumors that there will likely be more by the end of the day)
by @theresagaff.bsky.social at @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
I drew this back in 2023, not knowing how bad things would get #trans #comics #protecttranskids therumpus.net/2024/06/06/a...
A Dad in the World - The Rumpus
I always knew I wanted to be a parent, but I didn't know I'd be a dad specifically.
therumpus.net
January 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I drew this back in 2023, not knowing how bad things would get #trans #comics #protecttranskids therumpus.net/2024/06/06/a...
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1. School systems across the United States are declaring they will not comply with Trump's anti-trans executive order.
MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
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MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
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School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order
On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in schools will not be followed.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
1. School systems across the United States are declaring they will not comply with Trump's anti-trans executive order.
MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
Subscribe to support my journalism.
MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.
Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Thanks, @noethematt.bsky.social (#graphicmedicine librarian extraordinaire)!
"“Instead of keeping it as a private shame, I could write it. I could draw that as a comic, and really tell the story, get it outside of myself,” Councilor said."
#GraphicMedicine
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#GraphicMedicine
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Graphic novels do more than just entertain, cartoonists say. They help form emotional connections
Reading comics can be therapeutic. “You have this emotional connection and impact that you may not get with a traditional novel," a Connecticut librarian says. "You're literally seeing the emotion dep...
www.ctpublic.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thanks, @noethematt.bsky.social (#graphicmedicine librarian extraordinaire)!
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As someone who teaches health policy to nursing students, I like to create mock-ups of hypothetical advocacy tools to demonstrate how nurses can use their expertise to affect change in ways that transcend partisan politics and protect ALL the patients and families they serve.
January 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As someone who teaches health policy to nursing students, I like to create mock-ups of hypothetical advocacy tools to demonstrate how nurses can use their expertise to affect change in ways that transcend partisan politics and protect ALL the patients and families they serve.