NPR informed its employee union that its contract requiring 30% of external candidates be from underrepresented groups is no longer in effect following new guidance from the Trump administration's EEOC. This makes NPR the latest media company to adjust its diversity policies in recent weeks.

Contact your Senators and demand that they vote NO on Trump’s budget. The switchboard for the Senate is (202) 224-3121. The damage that will result from Trump’s disastrous budget will Republicans and Democrats alike. But Trump doesn't care.
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Trump cut funding and fired staff at the National Suicide Prevention Hotline (aka, 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline). His assault on mental health programs is a death sentence for people in crisis.
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In a Silicon Valley-style purge, Elon Musk declared that all federal employees must send a weekly email detailing their accomplishments—or be considered resigned. Will Congressional Republicans act before irreversible damage is done? Unlikely.
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Trump’s claim that “he who saves his country, violates no law” echoes mass murderer Anders Breivik. Breivik, an avowed neo-nazi, killed 69 at a Norwegian summer camp in 2011. Attribution to Napoleon is dubious at best, but from Hitler to Putin, it has been used as a pretext for authoritarianism.

Musk's dodgy website hacked within hours of going on line. The DOGE website claims that it is "an official website of the United States government." It's hosted on a private, unsecured server and all of the data on the server is compromised. China and Russia dancing in the street.

Employees helming the U.S. nuclear stockpile were among those terminated by Elon Musk. The terminations represent 10% of the National Nuclear Security Administration workforce. The nation and the world need to know that U.S. nuclear secrets are robustly safeguarded.

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McConnell voted against Tulsi Gabbard saying she has “a history of alarming lapses in judgement.” Being a Trump apologist, McConnell somehow didn't see that one coming. Susan Collins of Maine folded and voted for Gabbard. Collins may have said something about "she learned her lesson."

I think what Musk's son said to Trump was "you're not the President of me" then picked his nose and wiped it on the Resolute Desk to show he meant it.

Astronomer Vera Rubin was an outspoken advocate for women in science. But her online biography on the website for the federally funded observatory that bears her name removed references to current inequalities and the removing barriers for women in science.

During his confirmation hearing RFK, Jr said “[Medicaid] premiums are too high. The deductibles are too high." A Medicaid recipeint pay no premiums or deductibles because, well, they're quite poor. 75%of people on Medicaid are in rural areas, children, have disbilities, or are seniors.

After Trump’s inauguration, the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, warned that he lacked the qualities needed to be a great president. They highlighted five key reasons Trump is unfit to govern—and why a second term could be even more disastrous.
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