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L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week.
R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday.
Putin’s stooge.
R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday.
Putin’s stooge.
April 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week.
R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday.
Putin’s stooge.
R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday.
Putin’s stooge.
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“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."
This is a rather telling statement. Nearly a third of women in Louisiana are Black. www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...
Maternal death rate isn't as bad if you don't count Black women, GOP senator says
Louisiana's Bill Cassidy said the state's maternal death rate isn't so high if you "correct our population for race," Politico reported.
www.businessinsider.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."
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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
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It was never meant to be "left up to the states". It was always about restricting the lives of people with uteruses to make their own healthcare decisions and to have access to medically necessary reproductive healthcare.
New bill seeks nationwide abortion ban, with help from 13 Texas lawmakers
Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson is a co-sponsor of the legislation, which is a revival of the Life at Conception Act.
www.lonestarlive.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It was never meant to be "left up to the states". It was always about restricting the lives of people with uteruses to make their own healthcare decisions and to have access to medically necessary reproductive healthcare.
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Suicide prevention saves lives. This is abhorrent.
February 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Suicide prevention saves lives. This is abhorrent.
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Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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It is our honor to serve you. America, you broke through— the media is finally picking up on what’s happening. We love you!! 🦬 💚 🇺🇸
February 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
It is our honor to serve you. America, you broke through— the media is finally picking up on what’s happening. We love you!! 🦬 💚 🇺🇸
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Trumps first Administration implemented the DEI policy for the FAA that allows people with disabilities to be integrated into air traffic control positions (they are required to demonstrate the same aptitude as other controllers, fyi). Circa April 2019.
January 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Trumps first Administration implemented the DEI policy for the FAA that allows people with disabilities to be integrated into air traffic control positions (they are required to demonstrate the same aptitude as other controllers, fyi). Circa April 2019.
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Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
January 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
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This has promise to change surgery. We haven’t had a new class of painkillers for acute pain for decades. And 15,000 people died of prescription opioid overdoses in 2022.
But will be interested in hearing from anyone with real world experience. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/30/b...
But will be interested in hearing from anyone with real world experience. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/30/b...
FDA approves Journavx, new non-opioid painkiller from Vertex: ‘An important public health milestone’ - The Boston Globe
The drug could become an alternative to the opioids that stoked an epidemic of dependency and overdoses.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This has promise to change surgery. We haven’t had a new class of painkillers for acute pain for decades. And 15,000 people died of prescription opioid overdoses in 2022.
But will be interested in hearing from anyone with real world experience. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/30/b...
But will be interested in hearing from anyone with real world experience. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/30/b...
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My @newyorker.com piece on the ongoing, likely unconstitutional funding freeze at USAID now imperiling millions: “This is not a pause. It is a destruction.”
USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Behind the Chaotic Attempt to Freeze Federal Assistance
The potential for devastation is made plain by another order, concerning the crucial work of U.S.A.I.D.
www.newyorker.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My @newyorker.com piece on the ongoing, likely unconstitutional funding freeze at USAID now imperiling millions: “This is not a pause. It is a destruction.”
USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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CDC staff have been forced to remove dozens of chronic health applications and to change open data sets that contain gender.
These are YOUR data and YOUR tools.
Be angry. Be LOUD.
These are YOUR data and YOUR tools.
Be angry. Be LOUD.
January 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
CDC staff have been forced to remove dozens of chronic health applications and to change open data sets that contain gender.
These are YOUR data and YOUR tools.
Be angry. Be LOUD.
These are YOUR data and YOUR tools.
Be angry. Be LOUD.
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Since TFG is obsessing about pronouns, here's a refresher. Most people use pronouns. Knowing what pronouns someone uses is helpful and using pronouns is treating people with respect. Why is this so hard? Please consider adding your pronouns to your email signature and social media profiles. Thx!
Pronouns.org Resources on Personal Pronouns
Pronouns Matter Learn More
pronouns.org
January 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Since TFG is obsessing about pronouns, here's a refresher. Most people use pronouns. Knowing what pronouns someone uses is helpful and using pronouns is treating people with respect. Why is this so hard? Please consider adding your pronouns to your email signature and social media profiles. Thx!
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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
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This is unacceptable! Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, reporting that Navajo citizens in Arizona and New Mexico have faced “negative, sometimes traumatizing experiences” with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants after Trump’s recent immigration orders.
January 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is unacceptable! Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, reporting that Navajo citizens in Arizona and New Mexico have faced “negative, sometimes traumatizing experiences” with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants after Trump’s recent immigration orders.
This man is standing up in the EU to speak truth to power. Why are so many caving in to this? youtu.be/pEPE1o_i4mQ?...
‘Stand Up to Trump’: Aodhán Ó Ríordáin’s Powerful Call to Action!
YouTube video by EU Debates | eudebates.tv
youtu.be
January 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This man is standing up in the EU to speak truth to power. Why are so many caving in to this? youtu.be/pEPE1o_i4mQ?...
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This is absolutely chilling.
He truly is a sociopath.
He truly is a sociopath.
January 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is absolutely chilling.
He truly is a sociopath.
He truly is a sociopath.
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Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map - and why the Department of Interior just said yes: https://buff.ly/3EcGwFi (Innisfree McKinnon, University of Wisconsin-Stout) #geography #cartography 🗃️
Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.
buff.ly
January 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map - and why the Department of Interior just said yes: https://buff.ly/3EcGwFi (Innisfree McKinnon, University of Wisconsin-Stout) #geography #cartography 🗃️
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“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.”
@jamesfolta.com makes the case for reading George Orwell on the anniversary of his death.
@jamesfolta.com makes the case for reading George Orwell on the anniversary of his death.
Now might be a good time to re-read George Orwell.
“Is it or is it not fascism” is a debate we’re going to be having a lot in the next few years, I’m afraid. And while there is perhaps an intellectual rigor to sussing out an answer, there are also …
buff.ly
January 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Freezing passport applications and seizing application documents is straight up fascist behavior. Trans Americans are being terrorized since day 1. Why???? Seems like picking a tiny minority to persecute is straight from the Nazi playbook.
January 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Freezing passport applications and seizing application documents is straight up fascist behavior. Trans Americans are being terrorized since day 1. Why???? Seems like picking a tiny minority to persecute is straight from the Nazi playbook.
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Updated list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans
Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans
January 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Updated list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans
Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans