I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

You think we weren’t prepared for the last pandemic ….

When you strip away humanity

"Cruz inserted language into the reconciliation bill that eliminates a $150m fund to 'accelerate advances & improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, and dissemination of info to the public' around weather forecasting."

Emmy-winning Austin, TX based TV meteorologist on Facebook:

Nasa astronaut on ISS, caught this sprite over Mexico and the US this morning. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers

Trump: "We're delivering no tax on Social Security." (This was not in the bill that was approved by Congress today.)

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

In a million years I never imagined that the USA would be against science, scientists, research and education.

Not only have we lost years of progress, but our standing in the world.

And for what? Seriously, why?

Can you EVEN IMAGINE if Michelle Obama, in her quest to make our kids healthier, cited studies that DON'T FUCKING EXIST?!

Imagine how massive the tax breaks for billionaires must be when cutting $700B from Medicaid, $500B from Medicare, and $300B in food assistance STILL leaves a $4T deficit.

The White House just dropped an executive order significantly shaking up operations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the government’s nuclear safety regulator widely regarded as the “gold standard” for global nuclear power safety operations.

I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

3/28 ~ Fortune Teller

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’"

- 1984, George Orwell

Matthew Huttle, a J6er who was pardoned by Trump has been shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy in Indiana. Huttle had multiple previous convictions including in 2011, a class D felony for beating his three year old son so badly the child could not sit for a week. wtop.com/national/202...

The United States has oligarchs now.
Not merely rich people with more personal influence on politics than poorer people have, but a few extremely rich people closely connected to the national leader who act in government-like roles despite never being elected or nominated to any official position.