lauren k
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NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block.

The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.

A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.

Again, this isn't about efficiency.
February 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.
February 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
February 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Just released memorandum from OPM:

Federal facilities will now have a bathroom ban for transgender people.

It will go into effect on the 31st.

It also has a slew of effects and puts into place the 1st anti-trans EO policies for every agency.

This will have a ton of impacts very quickly.
January 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Here is something you can do right now
January 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Almost 20 years ago, a doctor on TV was asked, "Isn't 12 a little early for a kid to be deciding to transition?" And her response was, "It's old enough for them to decide that it's not worth living anymore if they can't."

That was the only argument I ever needed to hear about gender affirming care.
January 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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1. Yesterday, Trump's executive order crossed a new line.

No longer are the NYT Op-eds, thin veneers of pseudoscience, and false claims about trans people needed to justify discrimination.

We enter an era where our humanity itself is officially questioned.

Subscribe to support my journalism.
The Chilling Line Trump Just Crossed On Transgender People
With the latest trans military executive order, the administration has given up all pretense of "evidence-based care," and has moved to the kind of dehumanization meant to justify atrocity.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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NEWS: Many of the violent January 6th insurrectionists that Trump pardoned are eyeing running for office, Politico reports. We need January 7th Democrats who can run for office and beat them. Join our cause. www.welcomestack.org/p/insurrecti...
Insurrectionists Plot Runs For Office
We need a pro-democracy countermobilization
www.welcomestack.org
January 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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What the fuck is this? AI qualifying as a prescriber?
January 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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It’s almost as if we all told them this would happen and they just didn’t fucking care.
Or something.
January 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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I appear on @CNN often. And if saying this means my days at CNN are over, then fuck it. CNN, removing @Acosta.bsky.social from his am show is cowardly bullshit. Acosta is an independent, unafraid host. To demote him to appease the crybaby in the White House is pathetic. Shame on u CNN. Don’t do it.
January 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Free speech absolutists
January 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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January 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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This is how you do it...
January 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Best thing our allies can remember: if you stand up to Trump you intimidate him and he will back down. If you crawl to him (like his sycophantic politicians) he will not respect you and will eventually throw you under the bus.
January 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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trump revoking desegregation in federal contracting
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
January 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Remember: The GOP uses dangerous smears against trans people, immigrants, and people of color to deflect attention from the near record share of the nation’s income and wealth now going to the richest Americans.

Don't let them get away with it.
January 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Do not obey in advance.
Do not obey in advance.
Hydrate.
Do not obey in advance.
Do not obey in advance.
Medicate.
Do not obey in advance.
January 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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This by the way is how you immediately counter message illegal and unconstitutional acts by a domestic enemy in residence.
Trump’s proposal to strip birthright citizenship from those born in this nation is unconstitutional.

In Illinois, we follow the law.

This is only the start of attempts to undermine the rule of law, and Illinoisans can count on me to stand against unconstitutional actions.
January 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Here's how to cover things that are illegal:

(i) this is illegal
(ii) they say it's legal
(iii) It's not

Truth sandwich, extra mustard
Breaking news: The U.S. government will no longer recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to immigrants who lack legal status, one of 10 immigration-related executive orders President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign Monday, an incoming administration official told reporters.
Trump executive order will attempt to end birthright citizenship
The incoming president plans to take at least 10 actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM